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

SPEEDY SINGH

Genre                    Sports/Drama

Release Date         23rd September

Director                Robert Lieberman

Duration                95 minutes

Cast                      Vinay Virmani,Camilla Belle,Anupam Kher,Russell Peters

Pluses                   Decent concept

Minuses                Everything else is bad and cliche

Verdict                 0.5/5 (watch it if you still think that Akshay Kumar has left with any sense)

Box Office Prediction       5 crore nett will be tough!

JOHNNY ENGLISH REBORN

Genre                    Comedy

Release Date         23rd September

Director                Oliver Parker

Duration                101 minutes

Cast                      Rowan Atkinson,Gillian Anderson,Rosamund Pike,Dominic West,Daniel Kaluuya

Pluses                   Hilarious concept,better than prequel,good laughs at places

Minuses                Nothing new in terms of treatment,performances are letdown

Verdict                 1.5/5 (watch it if you love James Bond films-it really makes good fun out of those flicks)

Box Office Prediction       It should collect 10 crore nett

ZOOKEEPER

Genre                    Comedy

Release Date         23rd September

Director                Frank Coraci

Duration                102 minutes

Cast                      Kevin James,Rosario Dawson,Leslie Bibb,Voiceover-Sylvester Stallone,Adam Sandler

Pluses                   Nothing

Minuses                Idiotic concept,pathetic treatment,awful performances

Verdict                 0./5 (watch it if you got too many 'Anacin' to consume)

Box Office Prediction       Around 2 crore nett 

MAUSAM

Genre                    Romance/Drama

Release Date         23rd September

Director                Pankaj Kapur

Duration                150 minutes

Cast                      Shahid Kapoor,SonamKapoor,Anupam Kher

Pluses                   Beautiful locales shot well,Shahid is good and Sonam tries her best but looks out of place in 2nd half,music is apt

Minuses                Pathetic climax,big loopholes in script,too long(at least 30 minutes),lack originality

Verdict                 2/5 (watch it if you love old style typical romance on screen)

Box Office Prediction       It should collect 50 crore nett lifetime

WEEKLY MOVIE GUIDE (what to watch and what to miss in Cinema) Part 1-Hindi Releases

NOT A  LOVE STORY

Genre                   Crime/Drama
Release Date        19th August

Director                Ram Gopal Verma
Duration               100 minutes

Cast                     Deepak Dobariyal,Mahie Gill,Darshan Jariwala

Pluses                  Great idea,amazing performances from Mahie and Deepak

Minuses               direction is repetitive,background score sucks,contrived cilmax

Verdict                2.5/5 (watch it to get usual dose of RGV brand of crime drama but with little better content this time and you can't miss 'on the face voyeurism and sexual exploitation by camera' even in most cruel sequences)

Box Office Prediction       Due to real life incident and few controversies attached to it,this should get the decent opening and should end up in the bracket of 5 to 10 crore nett

SAHI DHANDHE GALAT BANDE

Genre                   Drama/Social

Release Date        19th August

Director                Pravin Dabas
Duration               120 minutes
Cast                     Pravin Dabas,Ashish Nayyar,Vansh Bharadwaj,Kuldip Ruhil,Sharat Saxena 
Pluses                  Socially relevant plot,interesting idea,decent performances from almost everyone 

Minuses               Amateur direction,pathetic climax

Verdict                3/5 (watch it to witness the rise of social ideas in bollywood)

Box Office Prediction       Relatively unknown star cast plus minimal publicity and you can't have even a decent movie collecting good on ticket window-not more than 3 crore nett

CHATUR SINGH TWO STAR

Genre                   Drama/Comedy

Release Date        19th August

Director                Ajay Chandok

Duration               110 minutes

Cast                     Sanjay Dutt,Ameesha Patel,Anupam Kher,Satish Kaushik

Pluses                   Nothing except Dutt trie his best to act

Minuses                Everything

Verdict                 0.5/5 (watch it to believe the most bizarre climax and still we have such a cinema alive,sadly)

Box Office Prediction       Do i need to say anything more-below 3 crore nett