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My Name is Karan Johar and I dont make bad movies.

Maybe its high time Karan Johar went out on National Television and said that.

There is a moment in the movie where Rizwan Khan (Shah Rukh Khan) is narrating about the moment when he was first told that he suffered from Asperger Syndrome. He casually says:

I didnt know that my entire life could have been summed up in two words “Asperger Syndrome”

That moment is so quick and the narration is so subtly simple that the pain of Rizwan echoed thru the mind. There is another moment in the movie where young Rizwan(immaculately portrayed by Tanay Chheda) looks at his brother crying in the arms of his mother and says “At-least he can cry”.

Its moments like those that are the heart and soul of My Name is Khan.
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Boasting of powerful star cast of Aamir Khan. Kareena Kapoor, R. Madhavan, Sharman Joshi and Boman Irani; and directed by the unfailing Rajkumar Hirani from the Munnabhai fame, 3 Idiots in many ways was one of the most expected movies of the year. The movie not only stood up to expectations but went on to blow away every single box office record there was.

3 Idiots is the story about 3 aspiring engineering students, their college life, their goals and also an commentary on the perceived idea of how education must be done. Based on a book, Five Point Someone by Chetan Bhagat, the movie combines rib tickling comedy with heart warming emotion to get the message to its audience.
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Maybe I should have written this post immediately after watching Avatar. It has been a few days since I watched Avatar, but I think that actually helps coz the whole experience had its time to sink in.

If you are reading this wondering – Should I watch Avatar?
The answer is an emphatic – Yes, but only in 3D.

Avatar isnt just any ordinary movie, with it taking 14 years to make, it is nothing short of an extaordinary experience. The visuals and effects simply take your breath away. While too much effort is put into the effects, they seemed to have over looked more than a few basic requirements.
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With a spectacular cast, that constitutes John Malkovich, George Clooney & Brad Pitt, Burn After Reading is a satire about the nuances of the world of spying… but wait a second its not about the spies themselves but the people that work somewhere around them…

Osbourne Cox, a Balkan expert, is fired at the CIA, so he begins a memoir. His wife wants a divorce and expects her lover, Harry, a philandering State Department marshal, to leave his wife. A diskette falls out of a gym bag at a Georgetown fitness center. Two employees there try to turn it into cash: Linda, who wants money for elective surgery, and Chad, an amiable goof. Information on the disc leads them to Osbourne who rejects their sales pitch; then they visit the Russian embassy. To sweeten the pot, they decide they need more of Osbourne’s secrets. Meanwhile, Linda’s boss likes her, and Harry’s wife leaves for a book tour. All roads lead to Osbourne’s house. (Plot from IMDB)

BAR is easily one of the most hilarious movies I have seen in a while. The plot is so complex and brilliant, the characters are seriously screwed up and funny & the situations are unexpected and well written. This movie was nowhere I expected it to be and still worked very well.

The icing of the movie has to be its actors. In a stand out performance it has to be Brad Pitt who plays a dumb gym instructor. His reference of the memoirs as “shit” is beyond hilarious. George Clooney is amazing(as usual) as the suave State Department marshal and slowly comes to his own in the movie. And finally, John Malkovich, brilliant as usual… A tad bit of the same old same old but still, none can play it like him.

Two thumbs up to this Coen Brothers movie. Considering they wrote movies like No Country for Old Men, The Ladykillers, O Brother, Where Art Thou? & Fargo, do you even need a reason to check out this movie?

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Harry Potter and his friends are back in this the sixth edition of the series. The young heroes from Hogwarts are out to stop the evil forces of Lord Voldemort as he slowly increases his grip on the Wizard world. In the movie version of the Penultimate book of the now legendary seven book series, Harry Potter is put face to face with the origins and younger years of Tom Riddle and for the first watches as his deepest fears come true…

Its never fair to compare the movie to the book it was based on, but the Half blood prince succeeds where many others have failed in the past. In the 150 odd minutes of its running the director, David Yates and screenwriter Steve Kloves managed to capture the essence of the 400 page book, which was easily my most favorite of the series. Along the way they took the liberty to introduce comic sequences and short cuts in the original story to fit the movie within the limits of a movie.
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