Movies

Ajab Prem Ki Ghazab Kahani – Ki Ajeeb-o-Gareeb Movie Review…

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ajab prem ki ghazab kahani
[rating: 3.5]

What can you expect from a movie that within the first 10 seconds of starting has a statue telling a story. The word you are searching for is “silliness”.

Ajab Prem Ki Ghazab Kahani is director Rajkumar Santoshi‘s attempt to bring back the Andaz Apna Apna experience and boy is it hilarious(the lame but still good kind). The movie is packed with slapstick, physical and sometimes the humor of the highest quality. In all the silliness and clichéd storyline involving very funny characters, the movie is a true entertainer but only if you enjoy this sort of entertainment :)

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Burn After Reading – Movie Review

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[rating:4.5/5] 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 … Read more

Whats the best movie that practically nobody else has ever heard of?

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When pramodbiligiri sent me this link, I was pretty thrilled with a new list of movies to watch. I decided to save a bookmark of the page on Del.icio.us and that bookmark got picked up by my Friends feed page. I received a couple of comments for the link and got thinking that maybe its … Read more

Harry Potter And The Half Blood Prince – Movie Review

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Harry Potter And the Half Blood Prince
[rating:4.5/5]

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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New York – Movie Review…

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New York 2009
[rating:4]

New York is the story of three friends whose lives are changed by the events of 9/11. Director Kabir Khan makes an honest attempt at telling the story of two Muslims entangled in all the injustice that followed the events on that fateful day. He succeeds in making a movie that is not just engaging right thru but since its based on a genuinely different story, gets the message home.

This movie for me is a good example of how a different story should be handled for the Indian audience. The movie seems similar to Khuda Kay Liye but its not fair to compare the two movies. KKL was written for a global audience but NY was intended mostly for the Indian public.

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