Film Review : Tere Mere Phere

You do come across films that tortures you completely. It happens, you cant do anything about it. Just forget it like a bad dream applies to them.

Its a story of a young couple who fights a lot, who had a love marriage, who have forgotten that they thought they were made for each other, even had a compatability test done. How due to their fight, another person, Jai(Vinay Pathak) suffers, who travels along with the couple Rahul(Jagrat Desai) and Pooja(Sasha Goradia), a journey he would never like to again have in his life.

The opening credits are nice, little funny. But when the 1st scene starts, aeroplane fight sequence, and the more it builds.. the more you get the idea, what is in store for next 2 hrs. A silly, stupid and a very loud comedy, with lots of high octance shouts and fights. You just sit on your seat, to wait for that one nicest moment that would come somewhere in the film. It does actually come, like the scene where Rahul's father tells his mom about a old girl. Or the marriage scene, where the parents behave in a mad way. And the younger brother of rahul, who gives some respite with his funny dialogues.

Poor direction, at places you feel you would had directed the scene much better than he did. If all the stupid things were not enough, then we see a twist in final 30 mins, which further increases the headache. A sigh of relief comes when the film finally ends.

Performance wise,

Jagrat Desai is quite impressive. Sasha Goradia is nice, looks good.  Vinay Pathak is fine, though I wonder why he did this film. He must have this film in his list of  'Why I did this film'. Riya Sen was over the top in village girl character. Sushmita Mukherjee was very good as mother of Rahul. Darshan Jariwala was good in a very small role.


Overall, Tere Mere Phere has nothing that you would remember, except for one thing.. Why I decided to watch this film.


Verdict : Avoidable

Film Review : Saheb Biwi Aur Gangster

There have been many films made on betrayal, and the thing about these films is how you build the story. Either you directly show who is what, and then let audience think how everything will unfold or you keep suspense as to what characters actually desire. It was the latter in case of this film. And hence it meant, great performances along with a good screenplay. The film does succeed in the end, to quite a extent.

The story is of Babloo(Randeep Hooda) who has come to Saheb's(Jimmy Shergill) place to spy for Gainda Singh(Vipin Sharma). But when he meets Begum(Mahie Gill), his intentions start to change. Saheb is very strict against those who aren't loyal to him. While Begum has a mental problem, so what would Babloo choose to go for, the choice remains in his hands.

The 1st half snails on at a very slow pace. The powerful performances and the fact that you still dont exactly know where the film is leading to, keeps you interested. The 2nd half pretty much lifts up the pace of the film, with lots more action.

There is a sequence where you can actually predict the film, but the further twists changes your mind. Editing could had been better. Also, songs pretty much ruin the narrative. Specially the Shreya and Jimmy song. Chu chu and I love to love you were the best used songs in the film. The beats of 'I love to love you' are excellent, could had been made more dramatic, feel tigmanshu missed out on it.

Dialogues also are the plus point of the film. My fav ' Jo bhi karna tameez se karna, yahan batmeezi bhi tameez se ki jaati hai'. The writing of the film was pretty good.

The best moments of the film ---
• Babloo meeting Begum for first time in her room
• Saheb in Minister's office where Gainda Singh is already present.
• Chu Chu song, the way they capture  shots of Begum in it.
• I love to love you sequence.
• The climax scene


Performances wise,

Jimmy Shergill is excellent as Saheb. He rarely dissappoints you, perfectly moulds into the character.

Mahie Gill is back to her best, after a not so convincing performance in her last film 'Not a love story'. Here, she has a tough role to play too, but she does it so brilliantly. And also looking so hot.

Randeep Hooda is very good. He is slowly moving in right direction, good films and good performances.

Vipin Sharma, remember the father of Ishaan in Taare Zameen Par. Amazing talent this guy is, he repeates his act of yeh saali zindagi of a gangster, though this time a major one. And he does exceptionally well in the role. Though, he should make sure not to get typecast in gangster roles repeatedly.

Deepraj Rana and Deepal Shaw were good in their supporting roles.


Overall, Saheb Biwi aur Gangster despite a slow 1st half, is a good watch for the performances of all the 3 main characters, and the certain twists in 2nd half.


Verdict : Nice 

Film Review : Force

My expectations for this film kept minimising with every new trailer. The music was good though. And I ended up liking the film which isn't as well made as Nishikant Kamat's debut film 'Mumbai Meri Jaan'.

I haven't seen the tamil version i.e 'Kaakha Kaakha', though I had some idea of the plot. The story is of a Narcotics officer whose work involves lot of life danger, and therefore ACP Yashvardhan(John abraham) feels he is the bravest officer with no one around him to become his weakness, until he meets Maya(Genelia D'Souza). He couldn't stop falling in love with her.. On one side is Vishnu(Vidyut Jamwal) who wants to see pain in eyes of Yash as his brother was killed by him. Now, Yash has a tough job to catch Vishnu before he does anything to Maya. 

There is a feel of Ghajini kind of story at places. Though the treatment aint like that. The editing is very good, for instance, the scene where the narcotics team dealing with drug deals at various locations at different times, yet at same time in screenplay running parallely.

Action scenes are very well done, its somewhat hatke, if not totally like the bike scene or the climax fight. 

The problem with Force is that it fails to keep you fully engaged plus the punchlines are very ordinary. Its two plots running at same time, one is narcotics officers against the drug dealers, and other is the officers's personal life. At places, the screenplay overdoes going from romantic to action to romantic to action. 

Main Chali is beautifully used to introduce Maya in the film. Khawabon Khawabon is terribly choreographed, good example of how you can destroy a nice song.

The best moments of the film ---
• Maya's introduction scene, specially the car scene with kids.
• Yash with Maya during their journey.
• Vishnu's 1st attack
• Yash chasing Vishnu
• Vishnu's gift to Yash
• Yash revenge

Performances wise,

John Abraham is actually good in romantic scenes as well as action scenes. But quite rigid during delivering the punchlines(even though they weren't good either). Also, at places he was expressionless. Not a convincing performance.

Genelia D'Souza was superb. Her best performance after Jaane tu ya Jaane na. She is a actress who would deliver in good content roles, simple looking, cute. Thats why, I didnt like the glam look given to her in Khawabon khawabon track. The expression on her face when she takes flower from a kid while in car, and lots of kids come with flowers, was unforgettable. So natural!

Vidyut Jamwal was very good in his debut. Very confident, though at times, he was repeating his postures in his entry scenes. His looks also reminds of neil nitin mukesh and shiney ahuja combination. But, I feel he has the talent to get more roles in future.

Anaitha Nair is wasted, hardly any role. Sandhya Mridul despite small role, shines in her every scene.

Mounish Behl and Raj Babbar were fine.


Overall, Force despite its flaws.. was a good watch.


Verdict : Nice

Film Review : Mausam

It was a film whose theatrical trailer impressed me the most, one of best trailers I saw this year. With very good music, the expectations were high, talent like Pankaj Kapur at direction for 1st time. You couldn't fail, but you did!

The story is of a couple who go through various seperations, not due to family opposition but the events that happen at wrong times, forcing them to change priority. A love story that doesn't change even with passage of many years, having seen lots of downs in their lives.

When you have to showcase love from a particular year to some 10-12 yrs later. Then, you have to divide your screenplay accordingly. Remember, Zindagi na milegi dobara ? How they covered 3 events, with other sub-plots combining to form a meaningful and entertaining screenplay. That's what was missing in Mausam. The screenplay, as well as writing were really bad. Pankaj Kapur stretches the village part beyond limits, though let me admit, that was indeed the best part too of the film. But, it removes that connectivity required for rest portion of film. Just when village part ends, there is a sense of slowness in screenplay. And it very much stays like that throughout after that.

Also, one can easily argue.. how can the couple not inform each other before leaving, even if the situation was above their love. Quite immature lovers!

There was a sense of 'I desperately want this film to work big time' in the kind of writing, and as a result, the writing went from good to nice to bad to extremly poor as the film goes on. The climax tells it all... Extremely melodramatic to accept.

Editing wasn't good, Cinematography was very good, some beautiful shot scenes without a doubt.

Rabba and Saj dhaj ke make the most impact out of all the songs, and yea special mention to sonu shreya song not in album which was very artistically used in the film, one of my fav scene from the film.

My fav moments from the film

• The car stunt scene
• The feeling Harry gets when he watches sonam pass through his house.
• The sonu-shreya romantic song, where the couple talks by writing on paper and then putting it into glass of water.
• Rajjo sending mithai to harry coming to his house at night.
• Harry running from one station back to old, since train is 1 hr late.. just to catch Aayat whom he has been searching since long time.


Performances wise,

Shahid Kapur is extremely good in the innocent image of village boy in early part of film. The air pilot image at places dont go too good at him. Infact, in the scene where he portrays his anger to his sister on phone about the fight going on.. it just doesn't come out naturally.  He excels in post air pilot story very well.

Sonam Kapoor continues her routine, only looks and some expressions in few scenes for a change. But once she tries to deliver a dialogue, you just have to feel for the poor girl who has still not learnt how to act.

Supriya Pathak, I am a big fan of hers.. but in this film she was just about nice. Nothing much to offer in her role, except for a worried bua of Aayat throughout the story.

Anupam Kher has a very small and insignificant role to say in the film ..

Aditi Sharma(if she was rajjo) was very good. Her love for Harry was so easily visible in her eyes in every scene..


Overall.. Mausam dissappoints big time. 1st 30 mins are worth a watch, after that you are just waiting for this love story to end.


Verdict : Poor

Film Review : Mere Brother Ki Dulhan

The trailers of the film were not appealing, but the music was. The story resembled Sorry Bhai, but only to a small extent.. The question was Will two not so good actors Imran and Katrina would manage to keep you interested in the film throughout, with Ali Zafar not having a bigger role. The answer, you will get at the end of the review ... 

Film's opening sequence though begins on interesting note with Padosan's song in background over the good locales, but as the scene develops, you get the feeling of 'How overdone its in terms of direction'. Thats the feeling I get at various places in the film. 

What keeps you hold on to the film is the good laughing moments that keep coming at pretty much right time, along with the awesome music the film has. 

The script could had been better, I was looking for lots more twists. It was heading in a straight direction from interval onwards which was a big dissappointment. Editing was fine. Dialogues were uneven, some good while some poor ones.. Ali Abbhas Zafar needs to work a lot on his direction skills, I aint impressed with his debut effort. He surely tackled the romantic scenes very well, but the drama which is the main part of film is where he lacked the most. 

The songs are very well placed, my fav is ishq risk.. very beautiful (though Imran hams in it). Choomantar and Dhunki are good too while Do dhaari talwaar was the surprise package of the film, liked it a lot. 

The best moments of the film ---

• Imran's starting two attempts of finding the girl. 
• The scooter scene involving Imran and Katrina. 
• The rapidfire scene between Ali and Katrina
• Choomantar and intial sequence of Ishk risk. 
• Do Dhaari Talwaar, amazing energy.
• The badminton scene between Tara and Imran, and the next scene involving dialogues between Imran and Ali.

Performances wise, 

Imran Khan was over-acting in pretty much most part of the film, he was good at some places though. But some other actor instead of him could had made the film more likeable for sure. 

Katrina Kaif, if her bad hindi dialogue delivery is kept aside.. then she was really good in the entire film. She reminded me a lot of her character in 'Ajab prem ki gazab kahani'. Pretty, cute, hot and talkative. 

Ali Zafar was very good. At places he did falter, but I would consider that as director not able to get the best out of him from the scene. Specially love the scene where he is shocked to see Imran and Tara playing badminton.

Great to see amazing actors Kanwaljeet Singh and Parikshat Sahni in a film again.. I specially love Kanwaljeet sir's acting a lot. He should get more roles in hindi films.

Tara D'Souza was nice, reminded of Gisselle in 'I Hate Luv Storys', though much better than her.

Mohammed Zeeshan Ayyub was awesome. Remember. 'Manish' of No one Killed Jessica. He has got lots of talent, looking forward to see him act in future projects too. Though, only character roles would suit him...


Overall, Mere Brother Ki Dulhan was a decent watch. Thanks to all the small good moments of laughter coming in short intervals regularly...


Verdict : Above Average

Agneepath.. kar Shapath.

Agneepath, one of my most favourite films ever. Amitabh Bachchan, Danny, Mithun with awesome performances and a brilliant screenplay with a background score that fitted the whole theme of the film.

I hate remakes, Don the clear example of it. But, I do watch them, and in case of Agneepath I see lots of changes, plot and soul is same.. master dinnanath dies, vijay seeks revenge from kaancha as he grows up. But no mithun's character, romantic angle of vijay gets more emphasis. I get that kind of feel that this time, its not really copied remake..

Though I have to admit it, I still want to see the dialogues of Vijay in the new agneepath to be assured of the changes. Also, I am hoping most of the dialougees used in film are fresh, ofcourse 'kar shapath, latpath, agneepath agneepath' couldnt had been left out, and as hrithik said in interview 'Its gonna be used at a very perfect place in the film'.

What I loved about the trailer -

The eye expressions of both Vijay and Kaancha, the background score of fast aarti mixed with action sequences. The angry look Hrithik has in entire trailer, the running sequence(I love these ones). The sizzling romantic scenes between Hrithik and Priyanka. Lastly, the only dialogue from main lead 'Vijay Dinnanath Chauhan ko marna padega'.

In short, the Agneepath trailer lives upto the hype created. The minuses I would say are eunuchs used, always dont like to see them in a intense film. Also, its taking time to like the new villaineous look of Kaancha, not sure if it was really essential to go for a bald look, shakaal types. Could had thought of some other look. But, maybe, just being optimistic, while watching the film, I may like it more. And the small vijay's dialogue delivery was not that good as original agneepath one.

That makes me wonder, how much comparison is gonna take place between both the films. As long as the words said by everyone associated with Agneepath that its just a adapated version, and a new take on the film, not a remake. I would say I have a chance of loving this film...

Also, I feel even if the film doesnt live upto the expectations, it wont turn out to be Karan Johar ki agneepath like Ram gopal verma ki aag. I saw some of these jokes floating on twitter. Reason I feel it wont happen is that the characterisation would be right here, and more chances are the performances would be good too. Only screenplay would be the decisive factor!

The next trailer comes with ra one film which surely will have more dialogues, and more insight as to how much different this one is from original agneepath...

Agneepath Trailer - Youtube Link

Yash~

Murder 2

When Delhi Belly Songs came, they were so fantastic that I couldnt resist listening them in a non stop loop. But little did I knew, that Murder 2 songs are arriving in 2 days.. and the moment they came, I have not felt like listening Delhi Belly songs anymore.

That should directly mean, Murder 2 songs are better than Delhi Belly. Nope! Delhi Belly is way above it. But it proves one thing for me, I am inclined more towards romantic/emotional albums than path-breaking or new theme music. Its just 3 songs in Murder2, 1 romantic, 1 romantic/emotional mix and 1 message/encouragement kind.. that have me totally hooked to the album. Though I wish, the rest 2 songs were also good. How could Bhatt camp not identify how weak those 2 songs were, aneways.. better enjoy those 3 songs than crib on the 2 bad ones ;) ..

My fav lines from the 3 songs .. .

Phir Mohabbat (Mohd Irfan, Arijit and Saim) - Composed by Mithoon

Hmm .. Dil

sambhal jaa zara.. phir mohabbat karne chala hai tu..

Dil ..

yahin ruk jaa zara .. phir mohabbat karne chala hai tu..

kuch bhi nahi jab darmiyaan ..

phir kyun hai dil tere khawaab bunta

chaha ki de tujhko bhula

par yeh bhi mumkin ho na saka

kya hai yeh maamla

jaanu na .. main jaanu na..

Aye khuda (Mithoon, Kshitj Tarey and Saim) - Composed by Mithoon

Aye khuda .. gir gaya

gir gaya ..

Main jo tujhse door hua

lut gaya ..

Samandar sa beh kar tu chalta hi gaya

teri marzi poori ki .. tune har dafaa

tu hi tera mujrim bandheya

Aisa koi manzar tu dikhla de

mujhe koi shaksh se milwa de

aise koi dil se tu sunwa de

ke zakhm koi usse na mila ...

Haal e Dil (Harshit Saxena) - Composed by Harshit Saxena

Tere sang jo pal bitaata

waqt se main woh maang laata

yaad karke muskuraata .. haan

- Yash