Film: Agent Vinod

Director: Sriram Raghavan
Cast: Saif Ali Khan, Kareena Kapoor, Adil Hussain
Rating: **

“Sharaabi hai, laundibaaz hai. Ek gandi aadat aur hai. Imaandaar hai.” These lines played out in one of theAgent Vinod promos, with shots of Saif Ali Khan beating up goons, serenading women, the works. It’s a different story when you watch the film. Our man rarely ever reaches for the bottle, and is never in bed with a lady. Not a hint of badass-ness, no wile. Heck, even the line’s not about him. Such a Hindi fillum hero he is. Noble and boring.

Agent Vinod is Sriram Raghavan’s ode to the spy genre, his continued love affair with ‘70’s Hindi cinema, and a genuine attempt at entertaining in a sensible manner. But it just doesn’t work. It’s not campy enough to be fun, not intelligent enough to be taken seriously, and not entertaining enough to override the first two points. It has flashes of brilliance, yes. Raghavan had the right idea, it seems, and a great choice for the lead role in Saif Ali Khan. But somewhere, there seemes to have been a slip between the script and the film.

Agent Vinod plays out like a contemporary Bond movie - the action kickstarts in Afghanistan where AV (Saif) is held captive, and then traverses 9 to 10 countries, Russia, Morrocco, Latvia, Pakistan and England among them. Funnily, for a spy who’s supposed to be good at his job, AV has a penchant for getting caught (he escapes every time, of course). Agent Rajan was the one who rescued him in Afghanistan; when Rajan is killed while on a mission in Russia, Agent Vinod is sent to finish the assignment. His only clue - number 242.

Bond-meets-Bourne-meets-TinTin is how Saif Ali Khan described Agent Vinod in his interviews in the lead-up to the film’s release (he left out the fourth more obvious element - ‘Bollywood’). The result is a hard-to-digest mishmash. Raghavan seems to have wanted to make a wholesome, massy entertainer while keeping his sensibilities intact, and it’s in balancing that combination that the film falls apart.

Kareena Kapoor’s character, for instance, seems to have been inserted in the drama only to ensure that the romance box is ticked. She’s an agent too, yet she does little than cower behind Vinod as he fights off the bad guys. Like Vinod, she’s boring, and far from the femme fatale you want her to be.

Unwanted scenes (between the lead pair) and unwarranted songs add to the film’s already lazily unfurling narrative. For a thriller that talks of nuclear explosions and a plot that zips from one country to another, the film moves at a staggeringly sluggish pace, and is only intermittently gripping.

Agent Vinod had massive potential though. Some dialogues sparkle, and the film is slicker than most Bollywood films that claim to be stylish action thrillers (think Don, Dhoom, Players, etc). Saif seems to be the best choice to play the smooth-talking spy - he’s charming in his demeanour, has the physicality required for the role, and oozes style and chutzpah - and he does remarkably well.

The supporting cast is interesting too. Ram Kapoor is good as a drug lord and arms dealer, while Prem Chopra is suitably corny. Adil Hussain, who was seen in a short but impressive role as Vidya Balan’s husband inIshqiya, gets the meatiest role among the villains, and is aptly evil. Dhritiman Chatterjee is superbly cast. BP Singh, the creator of the long-running CID series, is cast as AV’s boss and the head of the Research and Analysis Wing (RAW), in what seems to be one of Raghavan’s many tributes (hat tips to films ranging from The Five Man Army and North By Northwest to Amar Akbar Anthony and, of course, Deepak Bahry’s Agent Vinod).

Sriram Raghavan’s Agent Vinod is brilliant in bits, and incredibly asinine in others. It’s probably the most inconsistently good film I’ve watched lately, and a massive letdown. Which is a pity. It could have made for a rare, looked-forward-to franchise.

SOURCE : DNA (Aniruddha Guha)

Valentine's Night





Direction: Kirshan-Baadal


Cast: Payal Rohatgi, Sangram Singh, Rahul Singh, Manisha Pradhan, Neha Thakur, Rakhi Sawant


My Rating :  *1/2




Movie Review: Nights are sexier than days. The dark lets the devil out of our hearts. Strange things happen and not always for the best. A long night of unending drama has been the subject of several Bollywood flicks - the absorbing Is Raat Ki Subah Nahi and the foul-mouthed Ek Chalis Ki Last Local, to name just two. Like them, Valentine's Night is also a-night-out-on-the-streets movie. But the similarity pretty much ends there - and the reason isn't just because the action takes place in Delhi, unlike the other two. 
Written and co-directed by former Tehelka journalist Kumar Baadal, the movie is an exploration of five young, wannabe cools - all nursing a farm-fresh broken heart - in times of social networking. They all slap their partners with alacrity and abandon as a sort of return gift before heading for splitsville. Unwilling to wallow in sorrow, they connect online and decide to spend the night partying in a hired limousine. The boys booze and sing "classics" such as Life mein itna virus hai, daaru saala anti-virus hai. 
But soon the movie becomes like its protagonists who look all dressed up and have nowhere really to go. There's plenty of chatter. And the only guys who find the conversation funny are the characters themselves who often burst into hysterical laughter. Midway, the movie changes tracks. New characters crop up along with fresh sub-plots. The gang of five is sucked into Jat politics, a prostitution racket and drugs. Finally, the movie devolves into a shoddy murder mystery. 

But there's little that grabs attention. The dialogues are occasionally sharp. And at least two characters - the Bihari studying fashion design who keeps ripping off money from his father and gets guilt pangs and the girl from North-East who tries a 'sting' operation on a lascivious landlord - had interesting possibilities that go largely unfulfilled. As for Payal Rohatgi, if long legs could emote, this is an award-winning performance. 

Released with an "adult's only" certificate, Valentine's Night ends up like one of those car drivers in the movie who doesn't know where to go and keeps circling the streets of Delhi.


SOURCE : TIMES OF INDIA


My View : Want to waste time go and watch this crap..


Look out : For nothing ..

Ek Main Aur Ekk Tu: Movie Review

Review Source :TIMES OF INDIA

Director: Shakun Batra
Cast: Kareena Kapoor, Imran Khan

My Rating: *  * 1/2   

Story by	Ayesha Devitre Shakun Batra

Ek Main Aur Ekk Tu is a rom-com about two diagonally opposite individuals. The boy leads a bland and boring life. The girl is blabbermouth and full of life. Their paths cross. And as expected, opposites attract. So what's new?

Rahul (Imran Khan) could never come out of the shadow of his parents who tried molding him in their customized templates. A random encounter with Riana (Kareena Kapoor) leads to a few drinks and they wake up next morning to realize they got married in their drunken stupor. Annulling their accidental wedlock would take a few days.

Meanwhile Riana loses her rented apartment and checks-in with Rahul. The uptight Rahul loosens up in Riana's company and starts 'living life'. Cupid strikes Rahul over a Kuch Kuch Hota Hai song. Further they fly to India where Riana expectedly introduces Rahul to her extended joint family - the only variation being they are Christian folks over the perpetual Punjabi prototypes. What follows includes misunderstandings, separations and reunions...

Let the accidental marriage idea not mislead you. Ek Main Aur Ekk Tu is nowhere in the zone of Hollywood flicks like What Happens in Vegas (2008) or The Proposal (2009). The accidental marriage theme is employed more as a gimmick and doesn't contribute anything to the story. In fact the makers take the convenient route and entirely do away with the actual marriage scene from the narrative. Also the lead pair chooses to stay together and is never compelled by any legal obligations.

The writing by Ayesha Devitre and SHAKUN BATRA is a case of too much screenplay without much story. The overall tone of the film is refreshingly lighthearted and the chemistry between Kareena and Imran is conversational over corporeal. But somewhere the story seems too shallow after a point with no tangible plot-point conflicts and the screenplay tries to fill that void with birthday parties, New Year celebrations, school revisits and such similar elements that remain external to the central plot.

Nevertheless you find solace in the film's subdued sense of humour and subtle temperament. The subtlety is not per se but largely because the story is devoid of any theatrical twists. And the residual dramatic sequences are handled with utmost sensitivity by director Shakun Batra, like Imran's climactic outburst at the dinner table. The dialogues comprise more of carefree and casual conversations over dramatically designed punches and go smoothly with the natural flow of scenes. There's an intentional aberration in the end to set the film in a league of its own but could disappoint the ones viewing the film as a Valentine special.

KAREENA KAPOOR is beautiful in both her looks and acts. Despite playing the chirpy-outgoing girl, she never goes overboard and is absolutely adorable. Playing the high-strung guy with deadpan expressions comes naturally to IMRAN KHAN. He comes up with a fairly decent act. Their chemistry is informal and affable. Ratna Pathak Shah as the elite fashion-fanatic mother is too good. Boman Irani as the business-minded father is restrained in his role. SONIA MEHR (after some disastrous films) comes across as desirable in her one-scene cameo. Ram Kapoor gets no scope. The actor playing Kareena's father is funny and a fresh deviation from the regular father figures of Bollywood.

My View : JUST time pass , somewhat similar to What Happens In Vegas and The Proposal 

Look out for : Kareena Kapoor bindass performance .. only  

hope u 'll enjoy..  

Source : TIMES OF INDIA 

Budget	39 crore (US$8.58 million)

Box office	28.25 crore (US$6.22 million)

TILL NOW !!!

Will Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance relight your fire?

So i think you all are ready to watch GHOST RIDER :2 ...

i think this is going to be the one of the disastereous movie of this year ..

After watching 1st part of the movie we all are desperately waitin for the 

continuation of the movie , and this time Ghost Rider doesn't want us to wait anymore he want us to view and judge him whether he is somewhat the new improved RIDER or the same , so we all gonna decide this RIDER on this next friday...

Ghost Rider 1 :

Directed by the genius behind 'Grumpy old men.

Ghost Rider 2 :

Directed by the genius's behind 'Crank'.

From this we can conclude that this movie is going to be full hi fi action pack movie..

This movie got the same RIDER-NICHOLAS CAGE... but this time he got red flame face..

i am desperately waitin to see this red flamed face RIDER..

and i think so as you are.. ::

see some comparison from 1st with the new one.. realisng this february ..in just few days.. 

LOOK::::

Ghost Rider

2007: It's a skull with some fire coming out of it. Which would admittedly be quite scary if you weren't expecting it, but it's not exactly up there with cinema's scariest creations, is it? And what's with all the pointing? You're a flame-headed biker from hell, Ghost Rider, not Alan flipping sugar..

2012: This is much better. Ghost Rider's jacket is now burnt and blistered, his skull is distressed and, best of all, he now grabs people and shouts at them instead of just pointing.

I WANT to see this FLAMING PEEEEE... this is the funny pee..

2012: Ghost Rider, for no immediately obvious reason, turns his back to the audience and starts urinating fire all over the place. I'm going to start queuing to see this now.

WAIT AND WATCH THE RIDER this FEBRUARY near your theatres.. :)

GO AND WITNESS THE RED FACED MONSTER THIS FEB...

AGNEEPATH must watch !!!

Movie Title – Agneepath

Star Cast – Hrithik Roshan, Sanjay Dutt,Priyanka chopra,  Rishi Kapoor

Director – Karan Malhotra

Producer – Karan Johar

Music Director – Ajay Gogavale, Atul Gogavale

Genre – Action Drama

Film Critic: Goher Iqbal Punn

REVIEW:

Remakes of the brand movies, though the trend has been dolled up since the outset, has now turned a formulaic fashion in the Hindi film industry. And it is often witnessed that the majority of the remakes of the classics and the blockbusters have turned successful at the box office. Nonetheless there are notions which go against the remakes. The question is … if the remakes do well and get popular among the audiences and most importantly if they try to be different or slightly different injecting the dose of contemporary elements, then there is no harm at all to churn out them for the entertainment of the movie lovers who always seek something catchy and worthwhile to watch.

Often the stars, who are roped into the remakes, are found saying that there is no comparison with the original character. Well, to some extent or as far as their acting is concerned, their claim seems to be okay. But the fact remains that you cannot change the audiences’ minds who have already watched the original brand. So when they hit the theater’s space, they carry along the flashes of those characters along. Result: the comparisons happen! Thus it becomes the stars’ responsibility to satisfy the viewers and help them forget the comparisons with their extra dose of well-delivered performance.

Karam Johar’s Agneepath is the remake of the 90s hit with the same titled in which Amitabh Bachchan had played the main character of Vijay Dinanath Chauhan. The film brought National Award for Mr. Bachchan in return to his classy performance in the movie. The film was produced by Karan’s father Yash Johar. Twenty two years later, the son took the command to remake father’s hit with the debutante director Karan Malhotra, who makes the current Agneepath as per the taste of the today’s audience to dish out to the viewers to get entertained with. Malhotra puts new additions to the script to make it slightly different from the original like he introduced the new negative character of Rauf Lala (Rishi Kapoor). But the main plot is same – the revenge saga.

Debutante Karan’s execution further makes the product contemporary for the audiences who view it as if they are watching a new flick. That’s the beauty and the skill of the director. Hrithik Roshan slips into the strapping character of Vijay Dinanath Chauhan played by the legendary Amitabh Bachchan twenty two years back. The all time favorite dialogue ‘Naam Vijay Chauhan…Baap Ka Naam Dinanath Chauhan’ is the one that had made the flick to super heights in 90s and the same dialogue is going to do something super lucrative for Karan Johar’s product.

Karan Malhotra’s Agneepath has all – action, vengeance, drama, emotions and entertainment. You are rest assured to enjoy the ride with one package that is what the first time director confers his viewers with.  Karan shows his class on the celluloid. Since the director knew that the viewers would make the comparisons, he gave the fresh touch to each character in style and other things. He proves that he is a great storyteller. From his job of direction, it cannot be figured out that he is a debutante in the field.

Agneepath talks about a tiny village called Mandwa where the principled father Dinnaanth (Chetan Pandit) teaches his son Vijay Dinnanath Chauhan (Hrithik Roshan) all about the fire (Agneepath). The happy life of the Dinnanath family gets ruined and Vijay is smashed when the drug dealer of the area Kancha (Sanjay Dutt) murders Vijay’s father. His mother (Zarina Wahab) is pregnant. Vijay and his mother leave the place and arrives in Mumbai where he bumps into the gang lord Rauf Lala (Rishi Kapoor). Rauf becomes the Godfather of the little Vijay Chauhan. Here starts his journey of revenge, which he has in his heart for Kancha, and in the process he gets the supporting hand of his love interest Kali (Priyanka Chopra). Vijay moors the belts to head to Mandwa fifteen years later to seek vengeance.

Agneepath’s power lies in the mastery skill of the director and the script writers they do not let the film loss its flavor. There is hardly any moment where the movie falls flat or runs short of content. The sequences between Vijay and Kancha are what simply capture the whole attention of the viewers. The drama in the movie, where many first time directors even the established directors shake, is well handled by Karan Malhotra.

Karan Malhotra has done his job with finesse and class. He surely has a good scope in the days to come and many big budgeted films will wait him for sure. Even Karan Johar will certainly offer him many projects to do. The action sequences by Abbas Ali Mogul need and deserve special applauds. The viewers who love action movies will find this product superb to satisfy their thirst. The audiences simply enjoy every sequence and every scene was entertained with big noise. The action sequence in the finale loots the viewers’ hearts.

Ajay-Atul’s music is splendid though there is hardly any song which turned chartbuster except Chikni Chameli but they all are listenable and mellifluous. Chikini Chameli, which is picturised on Katrina Kaif, has been doing supremely on all channels. The item song has surely added many sparkles to film’s worth. Katrina looks damn sexy and gorgeous in the song. It was created for the movie’s hype and it did wonders. The background score has also been done by the duo Ajay-Atul and it is superb. Screenplay by Ila Bedi Datta and Karan Malhotra is a masterpiece carries no flaws at all. Dialogues by Piyush Mishra are splendid. Cinematography done by Kiran Deohans and Ravi K. Chandran is a class in itself.

Hrithik Roshan has done wonderful job with the iconic character of Vijay Dinnanath Chauhan with such brilliance that the viewer claps with praise. He does full justice to Amitabh’s character. Sanjay Dutt as Kancha is magnificent. His negative role surpasses his previous negative roles he did in Khal Nayak and Vaastav. He allures the hearts and souls. Hrithik Roshan and Sanjay Dutt will surely be nominated for Best Actor and Best Villain’s categories in the awards functions to come. And Karan Johar’s movie too will find its space in the nomination of Best Movie.  Rishi Kapoor impresses with his role. He has done the role, which he has never attempted in his career. Priyanka Chopra is great to watch. Zarina Wahab is good. Rest of the cast too is brilliant.

Final Verdict by the Critic:

Agneepath is sure to be a big hit. The film will witness bigger collections at the box office with magnificent direction, powerful script and brilliant performances.  A MUST WATCH!

RATING : ****

SO, in single line i can say that movie is awsum...its going to be good for children nd family viewing.. enjoy with your family..

keep enjoying.. :)