Movie Analysis : Club 60

Directed by : Sanjay Tripathi
Imdb link -> http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2361148/

Raghuveer Yadav steals the show, good performance from Farooque Sheikh too. 

The concept of the film is 'how do you see the glass - half full or half empty'.

Dr. Tariq Sheikh (Farooque Sheikh) and Saira Sheikh (Sarika) are doctors by profession, and have moved in Mumbai. One day they get news of their son's death who lives abroad, and it completely shakes them off. Saira is much more stronger to move on but Tariq isn't. In his 60's, Tariq starts to live in his son's memories, having no relation with the world. Saira is worried about his mental state, and therefore takes psychiatrist help. Tariq's life changes when he meets one of his flatmate  Manubhai (Raghuveer Yadav), who despite being above 60 lives life like a 20 something guy.

The film's pace is very slow in the beginning, its Manubhai character's entry that lifts the movie from a total emo mode to fun mode. The way Manubhai dresses up, flirts with half aged or same aged girls, jokes around, drinks and basically does everything that he feels is good to enjoy life. At times, his character irritates, like Tariq feels. But slowly, you understand Manubhai's style of living is anytime better than what Tariq has made himself gone into.

Love the scene where Manubhai comes over Tariq's place to celebrate his dead son's birthday. Also, the scene where Saira asks psychiatrist that did she love her son less than his father as she has overcome the sadness but her husband hasn't. That was a very well written scene.

Its only at right end, we get to know the story of Manubhai, which for me is narrated weakly. Jay (Satish Shah) story is also nicely used, without trying to over-show the differences between father-son due to rich family he got married to. Sinha (Vineet Kumar) and D.S Dhillon (Sharat Saxena) have good roles too, specially Dhillon who in one funny scene gets stuck in a hotel with the girl he comes with running away with his clothes too. Ali (Tinu Anand) story deals with son gone abroad and having no time for him. Though, his farting was touch irritating in the movie.

The ending is very emotional, maybe real but its hard to see a character like that whom you had loved throughout.

I didn't knew this would be Farooque Sheikh's last movie, his performance was very good as a lonely father who had forgotten that he has a life to live.

Sarika does very well in her part of Tariq's wife. But its Raghuveer Yadav who takes away the limelight with his great performance, he's a live wire throughout the movie, full of energy and helping, naughty friend who loves flirting.



Club 60 is a well made light hearted movie that shows various relationships past 60 age, and how maturely they tackle it.


Verdict : VERY GOOD

Movie Analysis : R.Rajkumar

Directed by : Prabhu Deva
Imdb link -> http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2369154/

Yeh film sehat ke liye bahut haani-karak hain. 

Labelled as Prabhu Deva's first non-south remake movie, the movie fails to make any mark on me.

The plot of a hero Romeo Rajkumar (Shahid Kapur) working for a gunda Shivraj (Sonu Sood) who controls major portion of the village, falls in love with Chanda (Sonakshi) who is bateeji of Manik Parmar (Ashish Vidyarthi). Manik is a rival to Shivraj, and Romeo helps Shivraj demolish his status over the village. What happens post that, is any intelligent movie goer guess.

No solid story is further saddenned with poor dialogues, there is a scene when Shivraj tells how he will have honeymoon with Chanda, and few mins later Chanda tells how she will have honeymoon with Romeo. There are some more of such disgusting scenes present in the name of masala movie. Then, there is overdose of maar dhaar action, watching Romeo beat 50 guys alone once is acceptable, but 2-3 times in movie was trying to do way too much, specially when the hero isn't known for action sequences.

Few punchlines work, though Romeo wierdly says the main line 'silent hoja, warna main violent ho jayunga'. Shivraj has his main line 'hum sehat ke liye bahut haanikarak hain'. There's one hong kong sequence which is shot typically south manner, Prabhu Deva's touch.

Leave aside 2-3 scenes that entertains, and the songs 'Gandi Baat', 'Saree ke Fall sa', and 'Mat Maari', there is nothing that makes you appreciate what you are watching. Choreography of Gandi Baat is awesome, specially the steps which Prabhu and Shahid do together. Same goes for Saree ke fall sa, that has typical mavaali mad steps along with that background violin person making appearance.

Performances wise, only Sonu Sood to some extent does well. Shahid never looks like enacting Romeo, the character was not made for him, all the time it appears like he is trying hard to say the dialogues like Romeo should do. Sonakshi came straight out of Rowdy Rathore sets and continued her role, someone needs to tell her to give up her stubborn attitude of doing only masala movies (she is heroine in next Prabhu deva film too), she is going no where like this.


R.Rajkumar is complete waste of time if you aren't a Shahid die hard fan. Another masala movie this year goes into my disliked list.


Verdict : POOR

Movie Analysis : Frozen

Directed by : Chris Buck, Jennifer Lee
Imdb link -> http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2294629/

Elsa, Anna and Olaf make this animated movie enjoyable. 

Animation movies for me can't be just about story, the characters should look innovative and adorable. Elsa (Idina Menzel), Anna (Kristen Bell) and Olaf (Josh Gad) are the ones that made me enjoy the movie.

The plot revolves around Elsa's childhood powers of converting anything that she touches into ice. She and her parents feel that her powers are only going to get dangerous with time, therefore they advice her to stay away from meeting anyone including her sister Anna. Time passby, and Elsa's powers comes into notice of everyone including Anna at a occasion. Anna realises why Elsa kept running away from her. But Elsa has dissappeared before making the town's summer into terrible winter full of snow which is only getting deeper. Anna has to find Elsa, bring her back and also the summer back in the town.

Narration follows singing style ala Les Miserables, and I didn't had good memories of that, reason being the genre doesn't attract me. But, good thing here was that there were equal amount of dialogue sequences, its not a total song narrated movie.

Anna was the pick of the characters, her hyper mood, the way she walks to a store, or the feeling of love. Elsa looks so beautiful when she runs away, and creates things on the way including a palace for herself.  Olaf in his small little role gives lots of laughs.

It was only the male/side characters that didn't impress me much, as well as the villain that didn't really look natural when the twist comes. The climax was very good one, liked how they created drama over whose love will make a character recover.


Frozen is a good enough animated movie, though it doesn't enter my favourite section.

Movie Analysis : Bullet Raja

Directed by : Tigmanshu Dhulia
Imdb link -> http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2551378/

Tigmanshu fails for a change, below average movie. 

Raja Mishra (Saif Ali Khan) and Rudra (Jimmy Sheirgill) gets involved into gangster world which they try to run away from but can't.  They start working for politician Ram Babu (Raj Babbar), and get famous as Raja-Rudra. But the world they have created for themselves, is full of danger and betrayal for power.

Easily Tigmanshu's weakest movie I have seen till now. The songs already had developed a bad vibe in me towards the movie. What works against him this time is lack of proper story or a good enough screenplay. Imagine a movie that has a title song with opening credits and is followed by a forgettable item song (both audio and visuals wise). Raja-Rudra are presented in Sholay's Jai-Veeru avatar, but its such a quick tribute that I felt not as bad as when Jai died in Sholay. Having said that Saif-Jimmy sequences were easily best moments of movie.

Other good thing was the dialogue writing, many dialogues had a fresh feel, sadly same cant be said about movie.

Songs come into narration as if a particular scene was created just to make them fit in, specially Tamanche pe disco and Savera.

There is definately good dose of style, but it fails to distract from all the weaknesses of the movie. Sonakshi is almost in a supporting cameo role, wonder if she did the movie only to be part of Tigmanshu cinema or pairing with Saif as her role has nothing to offer.

Saif Ali Khan hams at places specially when he isnt with Jimmy. Jimmy Shergill was easily the best performer, how well he gets his expressions, notice the small nuances he brings into his character.

Gulshan Grover and Raj Babbar are decent in their supporting roles.


Bullet Raja has very little to love about, only Saif-Jimmy friendship and climax works.


Verdict : BELOW AVERAGE

Movie Analysis : Last Vegas

Directed by : Jon Turteltaub
Imdb link -> http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1204975/

Good entertainer with funny adult moments in plenty. 

Billy (Michael Douglas) who is way past 60 finally decides to marry his girlfriend who is almost half his age. He calls his childhood friends, Paddy (Robert De Niro),  Archie (Morgan Freeman),  and Sam (Kevan Kline). They decide for a bachelor party, and revisit their old days together having fun at a much older age. Also, the friendship between Paddy and Billy gets attention that has not been on track since death of Paddy's wife.

I quite enjoyed the movie, lots of good adult dialogues, scenes and humurous moments between all 4 friends when they meet. After 50 some years tag was hilarious. Diana (Mary Steenburgen) character was well inserted into narrative, if only Billy didn't overdo the sacrifice part.

Except for Michael Douglas, all get equal share of fun scenes. The bed rotate, jumping from ground floor window, judging girls in bikini (the guy part in end spoiled it though), the death joke over phone, and entire Diana part was lovely.


Not as entertaining as The Heat was, still Last Vegas was worth a watch.

Movie Analysis : Singh Saab The Great

Directed by : Anil Sharma
Imdb link -> http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2437954/

Very much forgettable Sunny Deol movie. 

Singh Saab (Sunny Deol) formerly known as Saranjeet Singh who was a collector once, now deals with corruption and removing wrong people across various places. He isn't interested in taking revenge from Bhoodev Singh (Prakash Raj), because his friend turned police officer advices him to bring a change in society and not go after revenge. But, destiny brings Singh Saab against Bhoodev, its about how he would control his anger against the loss of his wife Minni (Urvashi Rautela).

When I came out of theatre, or even after death of Minni.. I kept wondering why did they presented their romantic part as a girl all the time trying to seduce her guy, specially when both are married. I was very dissappointed with how they tackled the romantic part.

Anil Sharma failed to create a drama out of Singh Saab's personal life tragedy, only two scenes I could say were well directed, one the entire wedding to hospital sequence, and other where Singh Saab reacts to Bhoodev's tactics in similar manner.

The songs have punjabi flavour, my personal fav is the title track, Sonu Nigam has sung it very well. The alcohol song is good too.

With a Sunny Deol movie, you expect not over the top action, but extremely over the top action, there's a scene where he removes bushes from the trees, in another scene he rotates a car with his hand in anger. Also, we see him delivering some heavy punchlines, though sad part was that most of them didn't come out natural.

There was Amrita Rao playing journalist, who at places kept jumping into a U.P dialect, wonder why such inconsistency.  Urvashi Rautela looks very glamarous, can't judge her acting as her written character hardly impressed me, only that last hospital scene was worth it.

Also, there was way too much repitition of the words written in the last letter by Minni.

Prakash Raj continues the same villaneious acts with comedy touch, they are likeable but not lovable now due to the monotous feel. The entire supporting cast is almost wasted with nothing worth remembering acts.


Singh Saab The Great has some good moments from Sunny Deol, but weak direction and poor romantic story makes this a very much forgettable movie.


Verdict : BELOW AVERAGE

Movie Analysis : Gori Tere Pyaar Mein

Directed by : Punit Malhotra
Imdb link -> http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2275794/

Rom-com that aint romantic nor does it entertain.

There's a tamil guy, Sriram (Imran Khan) who takes time to realize that he can't let Dia (Kareena Kapoor) slip away whom he loves. Somewhat similar to I Hate Luv Storys, that part. Vasudha (Shraddha Kapoor) helps him realize that he still loves Dia, or perhaps only loved her. Problem though for us the viewers is, we never see that love towards her except maybe Dil Duffer track. Only thing we see is the differences he and Dia have towards each other.

The whole 1st half goes in Sriram-Vasudha marriage track, while the flashbacks is used to establish how Sriram-Dia met and why they split up. I loved the 1st sequence where Sriram prefers non-veg over veg and Dia forces him to adopt crab. Or when Dia lectures him to be part of system or not complain. Some good funny moments are created also with Sriram and his dad not on same level of communication.

But, 2nd half where Sriram goes to a village to get Dia back, takes the film to a very low. There's over the top dialogues, acting, songs and to certain extent silly drama created. Not to forget, we are never properly invested into the love of the pair, plus I felt showing the differences first and how they met with love developing later, didn't help either.

Chingam Chabake and Tooh are very well choregraphed, though the former song is poorly forced into the narrative. Dil Duffer is the best track, and has some well shot romantic scenes.

Performances wise, Kareena Kapoor is good, though in the socialist and village parts she came out more as a character trying to preach. Imran Khan was actually likeable, he does over-act in some parts but still not a bad performance at all.

Vineet Singh is decent in small cameo. Anupam Kher is good. Shraddha Kapoor looks very glamarous, and enacts her supporting part very well. Esha Gupta looks sizzling in the item song.


Gori Tere Pyaar Mein has nothing new to offer, a rom-com that works in bits and pieces. It aint romantic enough, nor does it entertain fully.


Verdict : BELOW AVERAGE