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Monday, January 19, 2009


Slumdog Millionaire : Awesome!




Awesome!
Just Awesome!
Slumdog Millionaire is a movie that goes right into the absolute must watch category. Now am not telling you this, just because it won a few international awards or anything. This movie is something that you cannot afford to miss. This movie is based on a novel Q&A written by Vikas Swarup and it quite simply justifies the fact that movies could be as good as the books. Directed by British director Danny Boyle, and Co-Directed by Loveleen Tandon, Slumdog Millionaire is the final product which couldn't be made better. This movie is so flawless that you will be absolutely spellbound once you're done watching it. The script is something that is written with caution and attention to detail, writer Simon Beaufoy has done an exceptional job with screenplay of the movie.

Slumdog Millionaire's protagonist Jamal Malik who's on the verge of winning the indian version of "Who wants to be a Millionaire", is arrested and interrogated suspecting him of Cheating. Now the movie starts off with Jamal Malik being questioned by the police. As he goes on to clear his fairness regarding every question that he had answered in the reality show is something to watch out for. Frankly, I don't want to reveal anything else in the movie. Its better you watch it for yourself. The movie revolves around Jamal Malik and his elder brother Salim Malik, and the things they go through to reach to the situation they're in, is something again to be given to the writer. Jamal Malik played by Ayush Mahesh Khedekar, Tanay Hemant Cheda and Dev Patel as Youngest Jamal, Young Jamal and 20-yr Jamal respectively. The youngest Jamal being the most impressive and loved of the three. The casting is again so good, that every actor fits into in perfectly. The roles of Latika and Salim are so well written that the actors do a complete justice to the characters. The camera work is the other thing which needs to be keenly observed. Slumdog Millionaire simply scores in every department that you can think of.

How can i forget Mr.Rahman? He's the other person who adds in that soul to the movie. He's created a beautiful album with tracks that could be liked by all age groups. Latika's theme, Jai ho and O..Saya being most catchy ones.

Slumdog Millionaire is something that shouldn't be missed whatsoever.
I confess on watching the movie after downloading it from the Internet. But after watching it i realized that the effort the people behind movie is something that needs to be appreciated. So am planning to watch it again in the theatre once its released. And i would strongly suggest you all to go watch Slumdog Millionaire in the theatre only. Such movies needs to be supported and appreciated.And as far as the few things that's being criticized about SM and Danny Boyle is the fact that they depict Mumbai as a large slum and nothing else. I totally agree with them showing a little too much about Mumbai that's not completely true. But yet again, Mira Nair did the same in 1988 with Salaam Bombay. Movies on such subject needs to be shot in the right way. So as far as the pleasing the western audience by Danny Boyle goes, thats not completely true!

I simply give it a 10 on 10.

And ten thumbs up for Danny Boyle's Slumdog Millionaire.

"MUST WATCH"


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Saturday, January 17, 2009


Chandni Chowk to China : Disappointing



The curtains finally rose on the all hyped Chandni Chowk to China which released yesterday the 16Th January worldwide. CC2C is an movie with an sincere and desperate attempt to tickle the funny bone, but... it fails miserably. This movie Directed by Nikhil Advani goes impactless on the audience like his previous directorial venture Salaam-E-Ishq in 2005. Now at that point you can actually feel a lot better after watching Salaam-E-Ishq because of its music unlike CC2C whose music is pretty much ordinary.
CC2C's protagonist Siddhu(Akshaye Kumar) is a petty vegetable cutter at a food stall at Chandni Chowk owned by Dada(Mithun Chakraborthy) who's more like a father figure to Siddhu, who was brought up by him after being abondoned as a baby . Siddhu is innocent yet dumb,desperate to earn money and become rich, attempts some really weird things right from buying Lottery Tickets to seeking the help of astrologers and Palm readers to try change his luck. Fortunately or Unfortunately for him, he's recognized as an reincarnated Chinese warrior and taken to China to fight for the people against Hojo (Gordon Liu). And how circumstances lead to one another transforming him into a figher is something to watch out for. In this very country he comes across the twin sisters Sakhi and Suzy(Both played by Deepika Padukone) who have their own story recipe to be added into the already screwed up CC2C story dish.


2009 for Bollywood has definitely started off on a real bad note with CC2C totally disappointing the audience and not even living up to half the level of its expectations. CC2C is clearly dumb, illogical and funny is parts. What were the Sippy's Production House thinking when he approved of such a crap script from Nikhil Advani. After this movie, it really makes you wonder on the fact - did Nikhil Advani actually make KHNH. To top off such a bad movie is that "Warner Bros" are the distributors for this movie, that too first time in Bollywood. Don't think they'll come back again. For once, The promos of CC2C are far better than the full length movie. Music of the movie again going unnoticed and has a reason for it. Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy, extremely disappointing music which is not even close to Rock On!!.

But you cannot really take this off from Akshaye Kumar, he's extremely hilarious but only in parts. And watching only these parts of the movie, you actually feel like sitting through the complete movie. Deepika Padukone does justice to her role completely,acting out well both as Sakhi and Suzy. What can an actor or an actress probably do.. when the script itself is filled with such flaws. Can't believe Shriram Raghavan has written the screenplay of CC2C after the movie like Jhonny Gaddar which was an absolute perfection in the screenplay section.

I heard Akshaye Kumar saying in one of his interview's- "Leave your brains at home when you come watch CC2C". After watching CC2C, i seriously wished "I should have left everything at home before watching, or even probably stayed back at home totally".

I'll go with 4 out of 10 for Nikhil Advani's CC2C.
Ten Thumbs down for all the unnecessary hype.

You can let go this movie for the weekend.


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