Teaser : Gunday

Very good teaser. Keeps you wanting for more. Interesting thing to note, they cut the teaser keeping the title of film in mind, introducing both Gunde and not showing Priyanka at all. Though her fans may not like it, I certainly liked the idea. Voiceover of Irrfan Khan made me wonder if he is acting also in the movie or not, didnt see his name in starcast.

I am more keen to see Ranveer Singh in the movie, much prefferred actor among both. Though, director's Mere Brother Ki Dulhan didn't gel that well with me, this film is a different territory, might turn out to be his better work.

Waiting for the main trailer and music of Sohail Sen now..

Movie Analysis : The Birds

Directed by : Alfred Hitchcock
Imdb link -> http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056869/

Very Gripping tale of Birds against Humans. 

Read at your own risk, the post may have some spoilers.



I think after Nolan, its Hitchcock films that I want to cover up watching as soon as I can, his cinema is so inspiring to watch.

The Birds is another of his classic movies that I watched recently again.  Right from the first frame that has birds squawking and cawing, their voice gradually increasing and becoming violent as the credits end, Hitchcock creates the atmosphere leading to thoughts of how birds gonna come into limelight.

One of key element is the long no-dialogue scenes where tension is created, watch the scene where Melanie (Tippi Herden) takes boat to reach Mitch (Rod Taylor) place and give him a surprise bringing the love birds he wanted to buy for his sister. That scene has that feel of something bad gonna happen, and it happens when she returns back, with first attack by bird on her head.

Then, the evergreen classic scene when Melanie waits outside school playground, while birds one by one gather at her backside, using children's singing and developing the scene was masterstroke. Infact in entire movie, there is no background music, which actually makes the effect of birds even double as we sense its somewhere there when the movie begins, and with time its actions increases to a extent of total scare in humans.

Special mention to two scenes used as a metaphor or symbolism, one when Melanie goes outside diner to help people only ending up getting locked inside a phonebooth and not able to come out watching birds attacking outside. Other scene is, Mitch with his family and Melanie stuck in his own house, not able to move out knowing the next attack of birds may happen anytime. Both these scenes show the shift of nature, from birds in cage, now its human in cage with birds causing fear in them.

There are two mysterious characters, Annie (Suzanne Pleshette) who is Mitch's ex-gf, and Lydia (Jessica Tandy), Mitch's mother. The way Annie delivers her dialogues, and how Hitchcock cuts at her extreme close up when Melanie leaves after having first conversation with her.. it brings a certain doubt on her behind attacks. While Lydia has a possessive nature with her son, not wanting to let him go away from her, reason for Annie-Mitch split up and now Melanie feels not at ease meeting her. Although after watching film, its clear both of them had no hand in the birds attack, but the director does use these characters to his advantage pretty well.

Now the answer to, who was behind the birds attack.. was tough to find out for me. I would go with Hitchcock's saying that it was a film telling what you would do when suddenly something against the nature happens, the terror it creates, and how you try to come out of it. Why it happens, is of least importance. This film just tries to show the dominance of birds over humans, which happens rarely in real life.

Mitch-Melanie relation starts off on a fight, and with time they become typical lovers, but how the graph of Melanie-Lydia changes was to watch, specially their last scene while in car.

The diner conversation was very fun-loving, with the hillarious 'end of the world' quotes.

Some bloopers are there, one key one was the blood that looked terribly fake but then its a 60 era movie so probably budget or non-availability could be issue. Then, that scene where children run away from playground, why did they run when the birds didn't attack yet, remember a scene coming later when Mitch-Melanie walk quietly not letting birds do anything. In pre-climax bird attack on Melanie, it was stupid of her to open door and get into without being careful when she knows the birds are willing to enter by any means. Though I can agree to the point here that in fear state of mind, the brain works less for many people.

Among performances, everyone did pretty well, though Tippi has more screen time, her character takes time before you feel sympathy towards her, Jessica and Rod scored much more in their acting.  It was more of a Hitchcock direction dominated movie.


Talking about climax, the original written scene was that Mitch along with her sister, mother and Melanie drive away from home, and in the way they see people lying dead everywhere with birds attack, as they watch birds all over the Golden Gate. They somehow pass through it, but as they accelerate, the birds attack the car from top and behind, though in the end birds stop and they are able to go away. This original climax I feel goes in favour of human characters too much. What Hitchcock kept in movie, was Mitch and everyone slowly getting into car, driving off with birds carefully watching and slowly their wings clawing harder giving a view that they are gonna go after them in a moment or two. So, the fade up gives the feeling that the birds attack didn't stop or wont stop, and Mitch will have to face it again. This climax works much more as it gave weightage to the key character of 'birds', with their terror remains unsolved. Budget problem in my view helped this film get the best possible ending.


The Birds is rightly termed as one of many Hitchcock's classic movies. Watch it if you havent till now, you are more likely to get scared watching it. Very gripping tale of Birds against Humans.

Movie Analysis : Thor : The Dark World

Directed by : Alan Taylor
Imdb link -> http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1981115/

One of the super-heroes that doesn't excite me at all. Average movie. 

I took the risk of going for this movie without watching previous part, and I think it didn't affect me. Though, I had difficulty in understanding the nine rounds (dont remember if it was 9 or 7) portion.

The film however didn't work for me, main reason is I never found Thor as a superhero to look forward to, same goes for Captain America whose films I haven't seen until now. It was infact Loki (Tom Hiddleston) and Darcy (Kat Dennings) who made me enjoy the film much more, sadly they had the shortest role in the movie. I specially loved Darcy's cute way of creating humour, and her dialect  'Were those the car keys'.  While Loki impresses for his deceptive ways, and his last scene.

Chris Hemsworth performance didn't appeal to me, which pretty much sums up why the film was average for me. Though, I did like the finale between Thor and the counterpart.


I would still like to see the 1st part, and other Avenger characters movies.. maybe my views change on this movie. At the moment I can say Thor is very much one time watch.

Movie Analysis : Krrish3

Directed by : Rakesh Roshan
Imdb link -> http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1029231/

Good Superhero movie, but with lots of flaws. Not bad as it looked from trailers. 

Read at your own risk, the post may have some spoilers. 



No, its not bad as I thought it would be from the trailers. But its not great either. In between you can say.

The story is thin, superhero Krrish/Krishna (Hrithik Roshan) saves city from terrors while he keeps losing his jobs.  His dad, Rohit Mehra (Hrithik Roshan) is seen working on a experiment, and making antidote of a virus spreading fast across city. While somewhere in the world, Kaal (Vivek Oberoi) is planning to end the humanity through his virus, and various mutants he creates with his DNA, one of them being Kaya (Kangana Ranaut) who can change avatars like girgit.

Unlike the last movie in franchise, where the major portion of 1st half went in creating comedy across fake ghost, and the romance between Krishna-Priya (Priyanka Chopra). In Krrish3, its the screenplay that surprises you as there is a urgency visible in putting the action in front of us. Only hiccups come in form of songs and the un-neccessary love angle of Kaya-Krishna.

I liked the opening credits, using Amitabh Bachchan's voiceover to narrate how the superhero Krrish was born, showing all past clips from Koi Mil Gaya and Krrish.

The stunts were good, I specially loved aereoplane one, and ofcourse the finale. VFX was good, I loved Kaya and that long tongue one. Rest maanwars hardly had any great personality to like them. That tree sequence though looked very fake to me. Still, kudos for all the effort, small problems are always going to be there with less budget.

Rakesh Roshan as a director does incredibly well to bring his vision on the screen, though the preaching of 'there is a krrish in everyone of us' was highly irritating. He could had done away with this spoon-feeding. Dialogue writing ranges from good to bad to average. Also, the reaction shots of public, be it the post aeroplane scene when they congratulate krrish, or when krrish saves a small kid, or when Kaya saves a kid, it looked exaggerated.

Songs were very average, Rajesh Roshan dissapointed. 'Raghupati Raghav Rajaram' works only for the reason that we get to see Hrithik's great dance moves. 'God allah aur Bhagwan' should had been avoided, and same for 'dil tu hi bata'. Though, I loved Kangana in that black dress during Dil tu hi bata song. If we want to compete with Hollywood (if at all we want to), then songs have to be removed or kept at minimal.. even 3 songs in film are too many.

Special mention to two background themes that caught my attention, one was when Kaal's backstory as child is shown. Other one is when Rohit sacrifices his life for Krishna, and that same theme comes when Krishna beats Kaal terribly to death before the surprise dialogue.

Hrithik Roshan delivers great performance, that head shivering is one thing I want him to stop, he does it too much, same was the case in Agneepath. If I was to chose one, then I would say 'Rohit Mehra', as a dad he was comical, father like and full of emotions. I love the scene where he emotes a father feeling helpless trying to save his son, and then the sacrifice he makes. Actually, I felt bad that this character now may not be there in next part of Krrish franchise.

Priyanka Chopra is okay in most parts, only place she gets some scope is when Kaya changes avatar and becomes Priya. Priyanka gets a negative shade to enact, and she does very well in that.

Kangana Ranaut is superb in her negative turns positive role. She looked glamarous and evil.

Vivek Oberoi does pretty well, though his character lacked that special villain punchline. Like in last part, Naseeruddin would say 'Breaking news'. Infact similar tribute is visible once in film, when Kaal says 'toh dekhte hai kya india ke bhagwan bacha paate hai unhe hamare virus se'. Also, if you carefully notice then Kaal's other fingers were moving too which Vivek shouldn't have allowed to happen. Though this is visible only if you focus too much on that like I did. And why does he need to laugh un-necessarily, we know he plays villain role, some cliches should be done away with.

My main problem though with him was, he didn't get a chance to spread terror, though I loved the 'The Dark Knight Rises' tribute with Kaal beating Krrish almost to death. What I wanted after that was Kaal to make the city full of fear with his actions, and not a dialogue sequence. Reason I say this is, Kaal is shown as one with full of powers to us, so after beating Krrish, spreading terror in city would had made his character look very tough to defeat, and therefore make Krrish more lovable when he does the impossible.


Also, I feel that the mask Krishna wears doesn't make his identity look different. For a person it should be easy to identify that both Krishna and Krrish are same, which makes me wonder if they could had worked harder on the mask during Krrish movie.


Krrish3 may not be that Superhero movie from India that can be put together with famous Hollywood ones, but we are getting there. Its a good movie, that can be actually loved by those who aren't aware of Hollywood superhero movies. I am happy that Krrish3 wasn't a waste of time, especially since it took so long for it to make. Hopefully, Krrish4 would not have any flaws.


Verdict : NICE 

Trailer : Dedh Ishqiya

7 stages of love explained by Khalu with a soothing background, and Babban's comedy touch to it. Loved the trailer

I didn't love Ishqiya, and even unlike others loved only 2 songs. Still, the film had some great moments to remember, specially Arshad-Naseeruddin chemistry, dialogues and the dark humour.

This sequel has all of that visible in its trailer, plus added attraction is Madhuri Dixit. And it looks that writer didn't want Khalu and Babban to love same woman, so there's Huma Quereshi too. I forgot name of that character (at 1:40) who loves to play hide and seek with Khalu-Babban.

Exact story is hard to decipher from the trailer, which is good for me. Probably one of best cut trailers this year, might feature in my top 5.

Another reason that the trailer got my attention was, the 7 stages of love last time I read was in 'Dil Se', one of my most fav film so it directly reminded me of it.


Dilkashin (Attraction)
Unns (Infactuation)
Mohabbat (Love)
Aqeedat (Reverence)
Ibaadat (Worship)
Junoon (Obsession)
Maut (Death) 

Journey of Actors : Shahrukh Khan

Last Updated on : 2nd Nov, 2013

My most loved movies : 
Dil Se > Veer Zaara > Chak de India  > Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge > Kuch Kuch Hota Hai

Disliked movies : 
Chennai Express, Don, Ra.One, Om Shanti Om, Billu

Yet to watch : 
Hey Ram, Paheli, Ashoka the Great, Swades, Devdas, Yes Boss, Chalte Chalte and few more.

Fav songs : 
Zara sa jhoom lun (DDLJ), Ae ajnabee (Dil se), Zara tasveer se tu (Pardes), Jaane kyun (Veer Zaara), Jiya re (Jab Tak Hai Jaan), Humko humhi se chura lo (Mohabbatein)

Best scene : 
Church scene (DDLJ), Madan-Ajay laugh (Baazigar), Arjun truth (Pardes), Rain Sequence (KKHH), 1-2-3 smile eeee (KHNH), Veer Zaara seperation (Veer Zaara), Meghna leaves Amar (Dil Se), Afshaq Miya ke (Kabhi Khushi Kabhi Gham), Samar wants to re-marry Meera (Jab Tak Hai Jaan)

Fav Jodi : 
Kajol in Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge, Kuch Kuch Hota Hai and Kabhi Khushi Kabhi Gham


Shahrukh is a special actor for me mainly for the reason that he started the movie keeda hidden inside me, else who knows today I may not be watching movies at all. He's like that childhood hero everyone has. Ofcourse with time people mature, so I too see all his bad aspects now without ignoring them. He lacks consistency of doing great characters unlike other top actors like Aamir or Manoj or Ranbir these days,  but he knows how to make you fall in love with his character time and again, last time he did it for me was in Jab Tak Hai Jaan.

He has done 60 movies till now, out of which I love his performances in 19 of those movies while I haven't seen 15 of his films yet, might not actually watch most of them as I know they aren't good.  The ratio of films that I love is much more than the ones I hate or dislike.

I don't remember whether I saw Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge first or Kuch Kuch Hota Hai, and which one I loved more. Even now, I find it hard to choose one out of them, somehow both are special for me.

He has played obsessed lover, nice lover, angry lover, romantic lover and sadistic lover. Easily one of best romantic heroes ever, a genre he has made his own.  I love 'Dil Se' most, and his performance was one of the main reason for it, Amar madly in love with Meghna following her everywhere. There's a style he brings in his performances, special mention to the way he delivers his dialogues in 'Don2'.

With Yashji he gave me two films that I love a lot, 'Veer Zaara' and 'Jab Tak Hai Jaan'. As Veer, he played the fallen in love but ready to sacrifice for sake of his love brilliantly. Though he over-acted in some parts of Jab Tak Hai Jaan, I couldn't help myself loving Samar for loving Meera and daring to go against God too.

He's sweet in his earlier movies like 'Kabhi Haan Kabhi Naa', 'Raju Ban Gaya Gentleman' and 'Chamatkar', though I couldn't love him much in them. As a villian, he showed great potential in 'Baazigar' and 'Darr', how he improvises in most of the scenes in Darr is something to see. Anjaam is another of my fav performance in negative role, which many people don't talk of.

In the fantasy romantic genre like 'Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge' that I love a lot, many girls dream of Raj in real life which I doubt they will get, keep trying though. Then, there's 'Kuch Kuch Hota Hai', that famous dialogue 'hum ek baar jeete hai, ek baar marte hai', and my fav one 'pyar dosti hai'. 'Dil Toh Pagal Hai' is probably one of least liked movies for me in this category, but there were many worth watching scenes in the movie and the songs too, the way Shahrukh breaks into the 'mujhko huyi na khabar' song. 'Mohabbatein' worked only for the chemistry he had with Amitabh Bachchan, the war between love and hatred. I actually miss this pair a lot, they were great in 'Kabhi Khushi Kabhi Gham' too, and some nice moments in Kank also, that scene 'beta hass liya karo thora, mar nahi jayoge'. His performance in 'Kal Ho Na Ho' was fantastic, though interestingly its one of his film that I have seen the least for no particular reasons.

'Kabhi Alvida na Kehna', 'Chak de India' and 'My name is Khan' are three of his best off-beat movies. Kank was one of my favs for it explored the theme of love after marriage, a strong subject which most of Indians couldn't accept. The way he played frustrated kinda of a loser character, who finds almost everything irritating since the accident he has, made people hate his character, which was a win for his performance. The other time such hatred comes towards his character was in 'Hum Tumhare Hai Sanam', though that film I don't like much.

 'Chak De India' was and probably will remain best birthday gift ever of my life. A shahrukh film that every non-srk lover appreciated too, was a great sight for me then. Plus, some good memories attached with it. My name is Khan unfortunately reminds me of bad memories, and same for Rab ne Bana di Jodi, still loved how he did the autistic character, and that innocence he shows in  'mandira main waapis kab aayun'.

Its the masala movies where I have found problem with him, be it Om Shanti Om where he completely irritates in 2nd half or the worst film of his life 'Chennai Express' where he over-acted in almost 90% of the movie to which our idiot audience gave thumbs up with the 200 cr record.  Then, there's Billu and Ra.One where I very much disliked him.

I hope he doesn't take any more re-makes like Don, but would love to see him take Don franchise to as far as possible. Also, a darr kinda of negative shade role has been pending since so long. Another thing I would like is to see him do a mature love story now, where he plays his age, and please not a masala movie.

I guess he still has more movies left in his career that will be madly loved by me, hopefully the list in this post will get updated in future. Swades and Devdas are my next to watch films in coming months.

He may not be a perfect actor, but he has that special screen presence whenever you watch him on big screen, you like to just love his character more often than not. If he does more films with the talented directors out of the usual camp he has got, then I am sure the good off-beat films list would increase too. Yes, he does over-acts at times, but he is still very much a lovable actor for me whenever he does good work.

Trailer : Dhoom3

Circus wala sirf aankhon ko nahi, maut ko dhokha dete hai.... Roz. 

Andddd the trailer arrives. Super follow up to the teaser. Brilliantly cut with bgs, action, punchlines and look into all the characters.

Trailer starts with a pleasant surprise, Jackie Shroff, I didn't knew he was part of the movie. The way Aamir describes his profession resembles how Michael Caine described the three parts of magic trick in 'The Prestige'. But the similarity ends right there. I could see 3 background themes used in trailer, one is when Aamir puts that hat on for 1st time during start of trailer, then the famous tune of dhoom franchise coming after Aamir's dialogue 'main ghar aa gaya baba', and lastly the signature tune of Aamir in the movie used in teaser also, coming right at the last. All three works for me. Also, 'Dhoom with me' words used at 1:10 might be the title song this time, in Dhoom2 it was 'Dhoom again'.

Aamir is easily the scene-stealer in the trailer itself, and I bet it would be with film too if its a well-made movie. Love his entry scene that involves Hat. The first scene where he is running over building vertically I am hoping was a magic, and not real stunt that would look very bad otherwise. The big change one can see is that Aamir brings more of acting magic and not as much of style as both John and Hrithik did. That could be a reason why script has him not just a thief but also a clown. And it probably works both in favour of Aamir and the film, allowing the actor to take the centre-stage.. what more you want. I had loved 'A signature' in dhoom2, and happy they have kept something similar and infact added more to it. We have a Joker signature (not really similar to joker of 'the dark knight') and a hindi note 'bank waalo, tumhari aisi ki taisi'.

The use of 'Bandhey hai hum uske' line right at end was a master-stroke, another surprise. I thought it won't be used.

Somehow in Dhoom2 I felt Abhishek looked dis-interested in his character, as if he wasn't willing to catch the thief. Here, in clean shave he is looking better, and probably much more keen, with possibly toughest thief to catch. But, he is saddened with that same cliched line shown in trailer itself 'chor aur police ki sirf dushmani hoti hai'. Come on, bahut sun liya chor police dialogue from him. (He says similar thing to John before 'salaame' and to Hrithik before 'dil laga na' in Dhoom and Dhoom2 respectively) I hope his character is much better written.

Uday has lesser shots, and no dialogues in trailer, expectedly, I hope screenplay and editing takes care of his role, no over-dose of his comedy please.

Katrina Kaif looks smashing hot, and what exact role she has is a question, is she working for Abhishek to catch Aamir (which I hope she isn't doing) or she is with Aamir only from start. Love that shot where she is dancing and puts her leg onto Aamir's shoulder, while Aamir looks at her without giving any emotion towards her.

Some great punchlines used too. Stunts I hope aren't limited to only bikes. Hope there is good mixture of magic and stunts.

They have shown the climax scene shot in trailer, I would so love if they have a major twist in the end. For a change, let the villian run away. John died in 1st one, Hrithik stopped stealing in 2nd one, here it has to be something different.

Vijay Krishna Acharya gave me terrible headache with Tashan, so that fear will surely be there. If the screenplay is pacy, and connectable drama, this movie won't fail.

At the moment it looks like the year is ending on a bright side with a Aamir Khan performance to look forward to, plus his pairing with Katrina.

Bring on the music first.