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DESI BOYZ      (promising debutant director)

Genre                  Comedy/Drama

Release Date       25th November

Director               Rohit Dhawan

Duration              120 minutes

Cast                    Akshay Kumar,John Abraham,Deepika Padukone,Chitraganda Singh,Sanjay Dutt (cameo)      

Pluses                 Akshay is back with good comic timing,Deepika and Chitrangada looks good,Chitraganda's role as teacher is hilarious and sensuous,2nd half is full of laughter,Chart buster songs

Minuses              John is clueless,editing is uneven,1st half is boring,stale plot

Verdict               2.5/5 (watch it for light hearted comedy with smart one liners and good music)
Box Office Predictions 30 cr first weekend and 70 cr lifetime nett collections-above average!

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LOVE BREAK UPS ZINDAGI   (bad wine in used bottle)

Genre                    Drama/Romance

Release Date         7th October

Director                Sahil Sangha

Duration                160 minutes

Cast                     Zayed Khan,Dia Mirza,Cyrus Shaukar,Tisca Chopra

Pluses                   couple of good songs('Rab Rakha' and 'Mai Se Meena'),aesthetically shot,guest appearance by SRK,Shabana Azmi,Boman Irani,Riteish Deshmukh

Minuses                too cliche dialogues and story line highly 'inspired' from 2nd half of 'Kuch Kuch Hota Hai',too long to tolerate

Verdict                 1.5/5 (watch it if you like mindless unoriginal so called 'multiplex' films) 

Box Office Prediction       Maximum it will collect 5 to 7 crore nett

SOUNDTRACK (good copy and paste!)

Genre                    Drama

Release Date         7th October

Director                Neerav Ghosh

Duration                132 minutes

Cast                     Rajeev Khandelwal,Mrinalini Sharma,Soha Ali Khan,Mohan Kapoor

Pluses                   Impactful treatment,good performances from lead cast (Rajeev is fab once again and Soha is good)

Minuses                Bad music is even worse for a film based on music,script is completely lifted from award winning film 'It's All Gone Pete Tong'

Verdict                 2/5 (watch it if you missed the original one) 

Box Office Prediction       It will not collect more than 4 crore nett as no box office appeal of star cast plus serious art house theme

RASCALS           (too cliche)

Genre                    Comedy

Release Date         6th October

Director                David Dhawan

Duration                125 minutes

Cast                     Sanjay Dutt,Ajay Devgn,Kangana Ranaut,Lisa Haydon

Pluses                   Two average songs(title and 'Shake It Saiyaan'), hilarious(by Sanjay Chel) dialogues,Kangana looks good,acts good

Minuses                Sanjay and Ajay are uninspired,direction is pathetic,too similar to 'Deewana Mastana'

Verdict                 2/5 (watch it if you love boring and repetitive comedy) 

Box Office Prediction       Sadly it will collect about 45 crore nett at least due to Dusshera and lack of any big competition  next 2 weeks

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THE DIRTY PICTURE  Vidya Balan,Emraan Hashmi,Tushaar Kapoor,Naseerudin Shah

Pluses          Directed by Milan Lutharia,this one is based on south film industry's sex siren Silk Smita's real life,plot is fresh and has potential,Vidya is bound to deliever a massive performance after 'NOKJ' and 'Ishqiya',Emraan looks dashing too in an impressive role,right combination of sex and sensational plot is set to fire at box office

Minuses        Hardly any except music is not chartbuster

BO Nos.       Film's budget is 20 crore and this is a sure winner with potential of 45 crore nett

ROCKSTAR   Ranbir Kapoor,Nargis Fakiri

Pluses              Rahman's music is high point of this flick,Ranbir's big release after a gap of almost a year and half,new face Nargis has craze among younsters,Imtiaz's next venture after double success of 'Jab We Met' and 'Love Aaj Kal'

Minuses          First promo looked quite long and tepid

BO Nos.        This 60 crore venture likely to run in losses as more than 55 crore nett looks tough





DESI BOYZ  Akshay Kumar,John Abraham,Deepika Padukone,Chitraganda Singh

Pluses         David Dhawan's son's dbut venture as director looks good as a package(Good locales and good music)

Minuses        Akshay does not look in his elements,plot looks stale

BO Nos.   This 40 crore flick looks to earn at least 60 crore at box office,average hit






LADIES Vs. RICKY BAHL  Ranveer Singh,Anushka Sharma,Parineeti Chopra

Pluses        Team of 'Band Baaja Baraat' is back-director Manish Sharma,lead pair and writer Habib Faisal,plot is fresh,cast looks rocking too

Minuses         Only problem is fear of being repetetive
BO Nos.        20 crore rom com looks super hit already,at least business of 50 crore is guaranteed

RASCALS    Sanjay Dutt,Ajay Devgn,Kangana Ranaut,Lisa Hayden

Pluses        David Dhawan directed this comedy will be releasing on dusshera and that too without much competition,Ajay is in good form at box office lately and this may help this film

Minuses        Promo looks jaded and plot looks stale plus music is boring

BO Nos.        30 crore film looks bleak but good release date will take it around 50 crore nett

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

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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)