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

BODYGUARD

Genre                    Drama

Release Date         31st August

Director                Siddique

Duration                134 minutes

Cast                     Salman Khan,Kareena Kapoor,Raj Babbar

Pluses                   Couple of songs have melody,dialogues are aptly written,Kareena excels in emotional scenes

Minuses               Everything else from direction to writing to childish action sequences-its complete let down and boring

Verdict                 2/5 (watch it if you are NOT Salman fan as it is as boring as it gets)

Box Office Prediction       It should collect as much as 'Dabbang' collected as opening itself is record breaking but reports are not that encouraging so will end up in the zone of 140 to 150 crore nett
THAT GIRL IN YELLOW BOOTS

Genre                   Drama

Release Date        31st August

Director               Anurag Kashyap

Duration               90 minutes

Cast                     Kalki Koechin,Naseerudin Shah,Prashant Prakash

Pluses                 Gripping plot,stylised editing and treatment,interesting characters,all the actors excel but Kalki is too good

Minuses               Slow paced in second half,Anurag fails to justice the storytelling in climax,quite repetitive style of direction from Anurag

Verdict                 3/5 (watch it to blown away by Kalki's performance but don't expect much from Anurag)

Box Office Prediction       Poor decision by producer Anurag as he releases such a small performance oriented film with juggernaut 'Bodyguard',at max it will collect 1.5 crore nett
BOL

Genre                   Drama

Release Date        31st August

Director               Shoaib Mansoor

Duration               120 minutes

Cast                     Atif Aslam,Humaima Maliik,Iman Ali,Manzar Shehbai,Mahira Khan

Pluses                  Contemporary social plot,intense performances,Humamima is extraordinary,climax is effective

Minuses               10 minutes too long,too slow in the beginning

Verdict                 3.5/5 (watch it to experience a very rare effective thought provoking cinema from Pakistan)

Box Office Prediction       In India,film can not cross 1 crore nett as 'Bodygurad' is sweeping the box office like anything
SHABRI

Genre                   Crime-Drama

Release Date        26th August

Director                Lalit Marathe

Duration               98 minutes

Cast                     Isha Koppikar,Manish Wadhawan,Zakir Hussain,Pradeep Rawat

Pluses                   Isha acts well,Zakir is as good as always,storyline is fresh,action is fast paced

Minuses                Typical RGV treatment,too dark and too shallow characters,boring after first hour

Verdict                  2/5 (watch it to believe how many similar  flop films a production house can deliver)

Box Office Prediction        No publicity plus limited release means hardly business of 25 lakh nett
YEH DOORIYAN

Genre                   Drama

Release Date        26th August

Director               Deepshikha Nagpal

Duration               110 minutes

Cast                     Deepshikha Nagpal,Chitrashi Rawat,Kaishav Arora,Delnaz

Pluses                  Good locales

Minuses               Everuything else

Verdict                 0.5/5 (watch it to restore your faith in bollywood that it will keep making outdated third grade cinema no matter what)

Box Office Prediction       Crossing business of 75 lakh nett will be an achievement
CHITKABREY:SHADES OF GREY

Genre                   Drama

Release Date        26th August

Director               Suneet Arora

Duration               120 minutes

Cast                     Ravi Kissen,Khusboo Gupta,Rahul Singh

Pluses                  Idea was not bad

Minuses               Everything else from intentions to execution to performances are bad,too vulgar

Verdict                 0/5 (watch it and you will be ashamed)

Box Office Prediction       Business will be less than 15 lakh nett
CONAN THE BARBARIAN

Genre                   Adventure

Release Date        26th August

Director                Marcus Nispel

Duration               113 minutes

Cast                     Jason Momoa,Ron Perlman,Rose McGowan,Stephen Lang

Pluses                   Nothing except few effects here and there

Minuses                Boring treatment,predictable climax,uninspired performances

Verdict                  0.5/5 (watch it for utter waste of time,better watch original one starring Arnold)

Box Office Prediction       To touch business of 35 lakh nett will be good enough