The Amazing Spiderman [Views]

Directed by Marc Webb
Imdb link -> http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0948470/

Peter Parker : I have got to stop him, because I created him.
Gwen  Stacy : That's not your job .. 
Peter Parker : Maybe it is.. 

For me, this super-hero is first of a kind.. because I haven't seen any of the previous spiderman movies. As always, I wanted a super-hero film to be full of action, stunts and heroics. But, this film focussed a lot on relationship of Peter Parker (Andrew Garfield) and Gwen Stacey (Emma Stone). Also, the nerdy aspect of Peter, and the realisation of the powers he has just got. Inspite of that, I liked the film quite much.

Because its 1st film in the franchise, I can expect next one to be more pacy. The build up of character's has already happened in this part.

Background score by James Horner was superb. Dialogues were nice, though I felt the famous dialogue 'With great powers comes great responsibility' could had been retained. They instead, used it in a different way when Uncle Ben (Martin Sheen) gives the advice to Parker.

Screenplay was touch slow, but as I said the kind of narrative Marc Webb wanted.. it was always gonna be that way. Still, the 2nd half does have a better pace.

Andrew Garfield, I felt was very good especially in the part where he realised that he has just got some power, and the fear of controlling that power in me was so brilliantly enacted by him. Also, the nerdy romantic talks, like the 1st conversation in class with Gwen, or the asking for date, or when he wants to tell her something but isn't able to tell. That last one was one of my fav scene from the movie.

Emma Stone is my new crush, loved her looks as well as her acting. She has nice comic timing too.

Rhys Ifans (Dr.Connors/Lizard) was the perfect villian, the 1st scene with Parker and then the converting into a lizard sequence was very good.

Irffan Khan was good, much better than Anil Kapoor did in MI4. Though, the point remains the same, Indian actors aren't going to get meaningful roles in a English film. As seen in this film, his role is very much edited out, there was meant to be a scene where Lizard attacks him too, but no where in the movie (Unless its to come in 2nd part, which I doubt). Still, he gets one key sequence in the movie that eventually leads to twist in the narrative. Though, his accent was little bit irritating, but acting was as always spot on.

Martin Sheen's comic was very good, and so were his advices to Parker. Denis Leary scene with Parker was good one.


Waiting for 2nd part of 'The Amazing Spiderman', hoping it would be more on to the battle between Spiderman and the evil, and less on Parker and Gwen.

Movie Analysis : Teri Meri Kahaani

Directed by Kunal Kohli
Imdb link -> http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2354407/

deewane hai aapke iss baat se inkaar nahi, 
kaise kahein ki humhe aapse pyar nahi.. 
kuch toh kasoor hai aapki adaayo ka, 
akele hum gunehgaar nahi.

When you are showing 3 love stories set in different times, you need to construct a screenplay so as you don't drag any love story too much, and yet you let the audience connect to each one of them. In Teri Meri Kahaani, no story gets dragged, almost all get equal amount of screen time.. but in an attempt to over-commercialize the narration, the film ends up way below the mark.

Shahid Kapur plays 3 characters - Govind, Krish and Javed while Priyanka Chopra plays - Rukhsar, Radha and Aradhana. The times are divided into Lahore (1910), Bombay (1960) and London (2012).

My fav was Bombay and to certain extent London. There is a good dose of lovable sequences in both these stories. The set constructed for Bombay part, makes it look so beautiful.. plus the charlie chaplin type walking style humour was nice. The first conversation between Govind and Rukhsar is well written. Special mention to the costumes of Priyanka and Prachi Desai (guest appearance).. pink saree of priyanka and the indian outfit on prachi looks so beautiful. Also, the whistle tune of 'Yeh hai bombay meri jaan', is rightly placed. One irritating thing Kunal Kohli did was, those 'woh mile', 'woh phir mile', 'uff', etc etc.. that wasn't needed. 'Jab se Mere Dil ko Uff' choreography was so average, its my fav song from album.

The London part brings today's youth, and the social networking into limelight aptly, especially twitter that is mainly in focus. The revenge between Krish and ex-gf Meera (Neha Sharma, guest appearance) looks unreal to me. Also, the split between Krish and Radha wasn't too convincing. Special mention to that Don dialogue, and the drunk sequence of Krish with his friends and a random girl at bar.

Lahore part was the one I disliked the most, there is over-dose of shayaris. And the character of Javed is too filmy to make me like it. How silly was the picturisation of 'Humse pyar kar le tu' song! Even its choreography was terrible.

Upto interval, I quite liked the film and was wondering this could be a re-watch film. But, the film totally goes downhill in 2nd half, and the climax culminating all 3 parts is rushed creating no impact what so ever. Specially, Javed-Aradhana end is so dramatic.

Kunal Kohli gives touches of his old films 'Hum Tum' and 'Fanaa' in this film, but wish he made a film as good as them instead.

Shahid Kapur acted very well, loved him the most as Govind. Priyanka Chopra looked better, and was much more likeable then her last few films. I liked her in all three roles equally.

Prachi Desai in small guest apperance was good. While I couldn't like Neha Sharma in her guest role.


Overall, Teri Meri Kahani works at places mainly Bombay and London parts. The narration and Lahore part lets the film down.


Verdict : BELOW AVERAGE

Movie Analysis : Rowdy Rathore

Directed by Prabhu Deva
Imdb link -> http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2077833/

Tujhe jab gussa aata hai toh tu chillaata hai, main.. udaata hoon. 

After a long time I have loved a Akshay Kumar film so much.. For a change, not only his performance was good, but the film was a complete entertainer too. Prabhu Deva as a director made best use of Akshay's action abilities, without making him speak comedy lines throughout the film like Nikhil Advani and Vijay Krishan Acharya did and miserably failed.

The plot is very common, its the screenplay, the punchlines and songs that entertains you throughout. There are places where Prabhu does slip off, some scenes get too over-the top. Also, I would had preferred a better villian, it would had been a better match up with Akshay scenes then.

The writing is good, with very good humour in comedy scenes. The background theme is excellent. The action scenes are well filmed, though the final action sequence was a let-down.. could had been more impactful.

Some of the best scenes for me were, 'tape rewind' sequences, 'I am back' filmi style Akshay returning to Devgarh, 'har jagah main dikhunga' sequence, 'Aap khiladi ko bhool gaye' dialogue scene, 'mujhe har waqt darr laga rehta hai' scene.

Songs are perfectly used. Prabhu's cameo dance is always a treat to watch. While Aa re Pritam Pyare is superbly choreographed. And special reference to that dance move on tune of 'Dhadang dhang', when Sonakshi calls Akshay inside her room.

Akshay Kumar is excellent, be it action, comedy, or some of the angry sequences. He should accept such roles more often.

Sonakshi Sinha does well, but one does feel that this was just a extended version of 'Dabangg' role. She displays her dancing skills a lot in the film, specially 'Chail chabeli' and 'Dhadang dhang'.

Ananya Nayak as small girl, was too cute.. specially that food scene where she sits on chair and looks at her father, and the hospital lori scene. Lovely!

Paresh Ganatra, is excellent.. his comic timing is superb. 'gussa nahi aa raha hai mujhko, nahiiiiii'.

Yashpal Sharma was good, rest supporting cast was decent.


Overall, Rowdy Rathore is a total entertainer, a film Akshay Kumar badly needed. Not only for a boxoffice success, but for those people who had been dissappointed by his last few films. He is back.


Verdict : VERY GOOD

The Grey [Views]

Directed by Joe Carnahan
Imdb link -> http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1601913/

Once more into the fray. Into the last good fight I will ever know. Live and die on this day. Live and die on this day. 

When you survive a plane crash, you feel 'I am lucky'. You see only 6 other ppl survive. You decide to take them along to find shelter at a island where there is no scope of help. Just then, enters wild wolves who would not like to see a single human living at their place. And now you wonder, Was I lucky to survive the crash, and face this shit ? Thats what this film deals with, the battles with the wolves, deadly wolves.

Ottway (Liam Neeson) leads the group of survivors, and as is the case.. there are few badasses among them who take time to agree that Ottway knows the right way to tackle wolves, as his job in past has been to kill them. A scene where one survivor challenges Ottway and the wolf takes advantage of the moment to try to kill him. Another one where, that same guy chops the head of wolf off while they are burning it for their food.. to tell the wolves, I am the human, not you. That was some scene, hardly could see it.

I love that background theme that keeps running for Ottway, specially the longish one in the final mins of the film. Also, the flashback sequences, its like whenever he closes his eye, he would see her. Plus, they keep her death a bit of mystery, only revealing a wee bit in the final flashback scene.

Also, special mention to that poem of Ottway's father 'You live or die on this day'.  The sound mixing work was amazing, I could really feel the scare of wolf suddenly, all the time with their voices hearble but they not visible, especially in those night scenes.

[SPOILER]The end of the film is open, you can assume whatever happened in that wolf fight. Its hard to assume that he survived, as even if he killed that one, there were so many other wolves waiting to kill him. Maybe, they just wanted to show, he was a fighter.

Only flaws I may say would be slow narrative in first 20-25 minutes until the wolf scare enters. And, the foolishness of some of the survivors, but then such people do exist,

I love how Ottway keeps going, not giving up at all when the other survivors keep losing hopes. The circumstances could easily shatter anyone, but Ottway doesn't as long as his legs have energy to walk. There's only one time when he feels lost, asking for help from God, and feels dejected.. with the dialogue 'Fine, I will do it myself'. Liam Neeson performance was really good!


Overall, I loved the film. It may not appeal to many, but it does to me. To fight even in the worst of situations is what the film deals with, situations that will test your mental as well as physical strength.

Men in Black 3 [Views]

Directed by Barry Sonnenfeld
Imdb link -> http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1409024/

Agent K : There are things out there you don't need to know about. 
Agent J : That's not the lie you told me when you recruited me!



I had not seen the 1st two parts. So, read the synopsis of them, and went to see this 3rd part of film. I liked the film very much, its very humurous, good screenplay and not too long.

Will Smith as Agent J is too good, makes funny expressions and gets his comic timing completely spot on. Tommy Lee Jones fits as the straight face, means business all the time role. Though, he is more of a supporting character in the film as J gets more screen presence.

Boris the animal was a irritating character in the film, specially that 'kiss' scene or the thing coming out of hand, but for the film it works.. just was hard to see it.

Some very good comic dialogues, love the time jump sequence, and the scenes involving Andy (Bill Hader).

Overall, its a nice fun film. Quite enjoyed it.

Hugo [Views]

Directed by Martin Scorsese
Imdb link -> http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0970179/

A broken machine always makes me a little sad, because it isn't able to do what it was meant to do.. Maybe it's the same with people. If you lose your purpose... it's like you are broken. 

I love Scorsese films usually, and this one has won some oscar awards too. Still, I found this film pretty ordinary, and may not like to watch again even.

I drew lot of comparions with 'Extremely Loud Incredibly Close', both films were adventure and related to small boy trying to find or fix something left over from his dad. The film does have some nice moments, like the flashback sequence where Asa Butterfield shares moments with his Dad, and his discovery, unfinished discovery. Also, Asa's running scene going into that station clock. And the same sequence in the climax. The train dream sequence, and the reality one. And Isabelle (Chloe Grace Moretz) love for adventures, all her scenes with Hugo were lovable.

Where the film fails for me, is the screenplay. Good moments as mentioned do come in the film, but those 'Wow' sequences are almost next to none in the film. I found Chloe really good, that scene where she says 'Adventure? I love adventures'. She gives some nice humour to the film. Also, Asa Butterfield scenes with father of Isabelle (played by Ben Kingsley)  in early part of film were really nice. And special reference to the final part of film, where they show clips of real old films, one of them being 'a train scene shown in theatre for first time' and the audience feeling its real train coming towards them, funny but true incident.

Overall, Hugo doesn't really appeal to me, be it creatively or on the emotions level.

Movie Analysis : Ishaqzaade

Directed by Habib Faisal 

Imdb link -> http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2308773/

'Joya ka Parma, Parma ki Joya' ...

Arjun Kapoor and Parineeti Chopra made this film very much likeable despite the fact that director Habib Faisal didn't live upto the expectations one had with his last film being 'Do Dooni Chaar'. The screenplay and the script were loose, 1st half is tad slow while the Parma and his mom relationship required more footage to really accept the change of heart. Also, the final 15 mins could had been written some different way.. [SPOILER AHEAD] After all, what was the need for Zoya (Parineeti Chopra) to meet his dad on Eid who she knows is after her death too.

Some dialogues are good. Editing is nice. Scenes like 'maafi de de' are over-done. Love the interval sequence, also very good climax with perfect background. 

The songs are excellently used, loved Pareshaan the most, and aafaton ke parindey too. Jhallah was nice, while Chokra hua jawaan was the worst, mainly for the song being bad. 

Parineeti continues her super run from 'Ladies vs Ricky Bahl', in another aggressive talkative role full of abuses. It could be interesting to see her in a non-aggressive role in future. 

Arjun Kapoor looks good, has a great smile, right expressions and dialogue delivery.. could be a actor to look for among the new ones. 

Gauhar Khan looks great in 'Jhallah' track, plays good supporting role. Would like to see her more in films, not limited to just item songs. 

Rest of the cast did a decent work. 

Overall, Ishaqzaade is a nice film, and I can watch it again just for the performances of Arjun-Parineeti and the songs. If the narrative was better, it would had been much better film. 

Verdict : NICE