Saturday, June 25, 2011

WEEKLY MOVIE GUIDE (what to watch and what to miss in Cinema)


DOUBLE DHAMAAL
Genre                  Comedy
Release Date       24th June
Director               Indra Kumar
Duration              140 minutes
Cast                    Sanjay Dutt,Arshad Warsi,Ashish Chaudhary,Riteish Deshmukh,Jaaved Jaffery,Mallika Sherawat,Kangana Ranaut,Satish Kaushik
Pluses                  Post interval and climax sequences are hillarious,Arshad and Kangana shine
Minuses               poor gags,cheap at places(Inder Kumar loves this way-remember 'Ishq','Raja' in 90's)
Verdict                2/5 (watch it if you love comedies anyway otherwise better watch prequel again)

CARS 2
Genre                  Animation
Release Date       24th June
Director               John Lasseter and Brad Lewis
Duration              113 minutes
Cast                    Voice over by Owen Wilson,Larry The Cable Guy,Michael Caine,John Turturro
Pluses                  amazing thrills in race sequences,crisp editing,state of art animation
Minuses               there is no 'heart' in story(a rare in Pixar films),a bit repetitive in places
Verdict                3.5/5 (watch it for pulsating thrills)

Sunday, June 19, 2011

WEEKLY MOVIE GUIDE (what to watch and what to miss in Cinema)


BHEJA FRY 2
Genre                  Comedy
Release Date       17th June
Director               Sagar Bellary
Duration              120 minutes
Cast                    Vinay Pathak,Minishaa Lamba,Kay Kay Menon,Suresh Menon,Amole Gupte
Pluses                  Vinay delivers a fantastic performance,Kay Kay is good 
Minuses               doesn't live up to the expectation, repetitive jokes,patchy direction
Verdict                2.5/5 (watch it if you are big Vinay Pathak fan)

ALWAYS KABHI KABHI
Genre                  Romance/Drama
Release Date       17th June
Director               Roshan Abbas
Duration              127 minutes
Cast                    Ali Fazal,Zoa Morani,Satyajit Dubey,Giselle Monteiro
Pluses                  Zoa Morani and Ali excels,SRK's guest appearance enlighten the proceeding in the end
Minuses               bad writing,amateur direction,music sucks
Verdict                2/5 (watch it if you love those typical High school films )

BHINDI BAZAAR INC.
Genre                  Thriller
Release Date       17th June
Director               Ankush Bhatt
Duration              117 minutes
Cast                    Prashant Narayan,Pawan Mehrotra,Kay Kay Menon,Deepti Naval,Shilpa Shukla,Gautam
Pluses                  Prashant,Pawan and Kay Kay are good as always,impressive dialogues
Minuses               writing is overdone especially at the end,item song is bore
Verdict                2.5/5 (watch it if you are not fed up with dark gangster films which keep trying too hard)

BIN BULAYE BARAATI
Genre                  Comedy
Release Date       17th June
Director               Chandrakant Singh
Duration              133 minutes
Cast                    Aftab Shivdasani,Priyanka Kothari,Rajpal Yadav,Johny Lever,Gulshan Grover
Pluses                  hardcore masala entertainment
Minuses               bad direction,worse editing,poor story
Verdict                2/5 (watch it if you love those masala comedies from 70's)

CYCLE KICK
Genre                  Drama/Sports
Release Date       17th June
Director               Shashi Silgudia
Duration              86 minutes
Cast                    Tom Alter,Girija Oak,Ishita Sharma,Gurmeet Chaudhary,Dwiz Yadav
Pluses                  inspiring performances from the cast,tight direction
Minuses               script is too similar to 'Iqbal',love track is total waste
Verdict                3/5 (watch it if you love honest and offbeat cinema)

GREEN LANTERN
Genre                  Adventure/Action
Release Date       17th June
Director               Martin Campbell
Duration              114 minutes
Cast                    Ryan Reynolds,Blake Lively,Peter Sarsgaard
Pluses                  few exciting VFX here and there
Minuses               too simplistic writing,age old stunts,boring climax
Verdict                1/5 (watch it if your video game player  is not working at home)