Review:Taare Zameen Par

’Taare Zameen Par” has a simple storyline, but a complex subject. In a country where education is seen as the only definitive means to succeed, having a child who does not do well in school is like being dealt a losing hand of cards in life. The dialogue that encapsulates this is said by the child’s father - Kya main ise zindagibhar khilata rahoonga? (Will I feed him all his life?). This single line holds the weight of the fear that is there in every parent’s heart. In total it was reminiscence of what one typical Indian middle class practice or thinks.

The story is about a dyslexic kid who was misunderstood by everyone including his family, till he finds a teacher who turns his world around.

No half finished romances, no love triangles, no NRIs targeted, no running around trees songs shot in Switzerland. Not that this movie doesn’t have songs, but I found them very relevant, vary from extremely peppy to awesome punk rock but all relevant.

Aamir Khan the Actor: There are very few actors who actors who can truly live their characters. Mr. Khan does this beautifully in all his movies. This movie was also not an exception. This man not only lives and breathes his character but also permeates emotion in his fellow workers.

Darsheel Safary as Ishaan Awasthy: This child is a phenomenal artist. This lad makes you laugh, cry, giggle and wonder that’s not all you can sometimes identify with him at moments when his mother leaves him, when he wanders on the road, thinks of cartoons while studying.

Tisca Chopra as Maa: Tisca Chopra is effortless as the mother – as loving, forever forgiving as they come –torn between her unconditional love for her child and the need to reprimand him. This one time model has given a subtle, understated and applaud-worthy performance.
Script and screenplay Dialogues: This is where the brilliance of this movie lies. Perfectly researched and poignantly presented to the audience with not a single loophole. A warm and sensitive story is told at its own pace. Amol Gupte is exceptional.

Cinematography: It was also marvelous, an example of its perfection was the duration pictured when Ishaan bunked the class and had a Mumbai darshan. It made even ordinary colors very soothing.

Aamir Khan the Director: Everything I will write about AK’s debut as a director will
sound clichéd. The legendary perfectionism he is portrayed to profess was amply
evident in his work. Surely he is one of those directors that the Hindi film
industry needs more of. The minutest details like the kid digging his nose and
the way the symptoms of dyslexia is brought out before the audience without
heavy dialogues, the way the mother wraps a duppatta around her on her
nightgown as she takes her son out to the waiting school bus, the agony the
child is going through… is brilliant. Character like Tiwary sir ,Joy sir, Principal simply were able to describe the perfectionism in the AK’s Vision.

Reasons for just 4 STARS

As nothing can be perfect the same case was applied here.

1) The character played Ishaan’s Papa was not fully justified by the actor. Though by face, hair style he fully fitted in the character but it was just Dynamic vision of AK. He lacked some X factor, that’s not his problem but this role could have been better.

2) The emotions during one segment was bit too long (for title song to the moment he reached the Ishaan’s house) that DRENCHED everybody and actually the whole meeting was way of actual RECAP of FIRST HALF(THE PROBLEM ,THE MOVIE OF WHAT WAS ALL ABOUT) ,but after that flood it became a bit difficult to catch and that diluted the starting of fabulous part of movie to an extent

3) Zabin, though this character required a girl with very light background but she did not do justice with her role which was an important role in the movie.

4) Make up on the AK’s face at times looked off ward

To sum it all up: TZP is a slice of your own life that is served before you.
There are parts in it which anyone will instantly identify with – a naughty
student, a worried sibling, a bully or as the bullied, as the teacher’s
favorite or hated student, as a mother’s pet, as a mother, as a father, as a
teacher, as a human being reaching out to another, as a child with no cares in
the world. This movie makes you sit up and take notice of your life –
what are you doing as a human being? Are we sensitive enough to properly see
another human being or do we just look at them and not see much at all…

Best Moments

1) The way Ishaan says "Bindaas".

2) By Taney to Ram- "Kisse paala pada" and He replies "Apne aap se".

3)By Ram "Paani milega". His eyes were most expressive at that point of time.

4) By Ram "Mujhe pata hai bache ko bukhar hai, par main yeh puch raha hun bukhar ki vajah kya hai".

5) By Ram "Akshar hi samajh main nahin aate honge, zara sochiye, us bache ki self confidence ki toh dhajiya ud jaati hongi".

6) By Ishaan’s father "Kya banega bada hoke, puri zindagi kya main ise khilata rahunga".

7) By Ram "Har bache ki apni khoobi hoti hai, Har bacha ki apni kabiliyat hoti hai, Har bacha apne anusar bhar uthata hai".

8) By Ram "….. lakin aaj suddenly mein tum logon ko ye sab kyun bta rah hoon , tumhe ye dikhane ki duniya mein asie asie Hire peda hue hai jinho ne duniye ka nkasha hi badal diya kyun ki duniya ko apni alag nazar se dekh paye…dimak unke jara hat ke the aas pass waalon ko bardash nahi hua,taklife kadi kardi iske bavjood woh jite aur asie jite ki duniye dekhti rah gai".

9) By Ram "Khayal karte hai aap? Kabhi yeh bola hai...beta tum gir bhi gaye toh kya hua, main hun na tumhe sambhalne ke liye, Achha laga yeh jaan ke khayal karte hai aap".

Review: AAJA NACHLE

After a long time I was seeing a 2 months old movie , well initially for 15 to 20 mins it was bit difficult for me to come out from the perception that was formed after talking with friends. I think one should be very much clear in his mind while he is going for a review of a movie that’s what I learnt from this experience.

Year 2007 is going to be the turning point in the history of the Hindi Film Industry.

Movie like CHAK DE,TAARE ZHAMEEN PE CHINI KUM,NISHABD,…AND OF COURSE AAJA NACH LE and some more which I am not able to recall at the moment .If some body observe carefully,there was a clear change in thinking of directors mind ,producers are now more than ready to put money on a movie that is different form so called romantic or BOLLYWOOD MOVIE. Though in the past we have witnessed many EXPERIMENTS , but they were not that much frequent.

Well as far as movie is concern ,story was bit different from what we had seen MADHURI in her earlier movie.That was the USP of this movie.No romance,no villan and hero ,just a theme .And it was Carried by the cast pretty well. Everybody was justified there role ,Right from that lill Girl to Raghubeer yadav.

Initially Madhuri looked out of form but later on she came back on track, as there was no scope for spectacular performance but she justified with the role.

Kokana Sen was too good, she is living character to character from movie to movie.

Her acting was just too good, same thing was applied for Kunal Kapoor ,both are emerging as a good and responsible actors and its just showing the bench strength of our industry.

But the major draw back was with direction, initially he looked to me as he was not able to control his excitement ,that he was working with madhuri. Initally when ther was scene where madhuri was sitting her parents, was the worst directed par of the movie,at that point it seemed as I was watching a movie directed in 1980’s.

Costume and Make up were another week link in the chain or else I can say they were the weakest.

And our elders use to say that strength of a chain can be determined by the strength of its weakest part.At many points makeup was looking offward .

Costumes just added 10 to 15 of age to both Konkana sen and madhuri .They were not according to the situation nad age of characters specially for both ladies.

Packaging of the movie also was not so appealing so that it can bring people to the theatre.

Last 30mins were too good.the whole play just was good and tried to make the viewer to flow in emotions of the plays….but according to me it was partly successfully accomplished.

Another positive part was its Editing, many parts were edited wisely, It just make the movie to flow .That was the most important part of the movie.

Over all if the above mentioned weak link would have not there , then madhuri’s work would hav also liked by the people.

Well I would like just welcome NANE back in the industry.

Review:WELCOME

"welcome" Was it welcomed by the veiwers? So Rambo what do you think, well for me i am giving it 2.5 stars, overall, and the thing you can look forward is acting of "nana" and anil kapoor and of course "RDX " Feroz Khan. Welcome was the mixture of two tried and tested formula, 1 of 2006 and 1 of 2007,fommer ...comedy with AKKI and PARESH RAWAL later ..duo KAFIEE AND AKKI. Though it has opened very strongly but its just because of expectation ,nothing else.

Director was expecting to make a blast as he was using 2 successful formula, but do you know Rambo ,mixture of 2 sucessfull formula doesnt guarantees you success. As he was using the duo Akki and kaif...he was think that they will repeat history.
In the first half some open loops in the direction was visible,though he able to compansate in the second half upto a limit .Two unstituational songs(1st two) were adding headach to the director, I think now those has gone when movie use to become hit just due its songe,above that 1st song from Himesh was too ugly.
Though the pace of script in first half covered all the flaws,and kept the people binded.
Second half was just paisa wasool,very thing was looking improved,even music looked better.
The main problem was that director was able to exploite the full potential of akki , katrina and paresh rawal.
but NANA and ANIL KAPOOR carried the movie on their own,according to their reputation.Patekars timing of the comedy, expressions were great.one of xample is
“Aajkal biscuit ko bhi samaan se bulana padta hai, Parle G.”
Another weekpoint was many things were kept undescribed like why Ishika"mallika Sherawat" was doing favour of the duo.Incomplete characterizations also become its week link.
Bad Cinematography made it looked like a low budget movie.
Overall Welcome is a good time pass but when it comes whether 200 buck will be worth or not i am afraid to say its better to see it on cd

Review:Dus Kahaniyaan

Another Movie came and gone quietly without bothering the critics and viewers as well  
 
I think its good that Hindi Film industry is at least trying to do some6 out of their tradition. But they are still To become a adult ,at the moment they are just like a child who is try to walk(in a different world to competite with hollywood),so they should no be afraid of falling till their attempt remains genuine. 
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Dus Kahaniyaan was the part of the process, but this time the6 thinking of sanjay gupta was good but attempt wasn't genuine. 
 
Thinking was to do some thing out of tradition. 
 
but attempt was something6 traditional. 
 
"Dus Kahaniyaan" is not a single story a title suggests ,but a collection of stories. 
 
Though On the same line 1 movie came earlier "Salaam-E-Ishq" but the difference is that, that movie tried to handle 6 stories simultaneously6 , but unfortunately director was not able to handle the things upto the mark. 
 
The strength of a link can be determined by the strength of its weakest link. 
 
here the weakest link was its story ,people are not spend the buks just to hear story,nither to see unconcluded stories,first two story were just ridicules ,just incomplete, and complex. 
 
I don’t know what was the need what was the need6 of keeping incomplete story in the movie Hey Rambo again am saying that i not against the concept of the movie but i am disappointed with the way they handdled. The story
 
apart form 2 incomplete story in beginning few were in the middle making the movie week . 
 
and some illogical story like "sex at the beach" which was worth nothing 
 
But the best part of the Movie was the6 way it was communicating with its message ,the ease with which it was telling the NOBLE MESSAGE. i think to explain my point 6i quote 1 of saying of Amir Khan. "Message is good for movie but its should be their till entrainment have upper hand and message is just its part ,but message cann't be THE MOVIE" 
 
“Zahir” was one of them,gave such an important message with an ease. 
 
another was "rice plate" featuring Sabna Azammie and Nasaruddin Shah,I think quality of this part was unquestionable as it featuring one the GUENUNIE actor of the industry the Message of Unity was too good  
 
and last but not the least "Rise And Fall" again feature some genuine actors like Sanjay Dutt and Snil Shetty,it contained such a deeep message that after only some moment Rambo,you will be able to understand the message,that if are dealing with the bad things that rising can be brighter but LOWs are going to hit the part But with its most effect. 
 
so I think The message was being delivered was awesome i am afraid rambo you might not be able see any enthusiastic collection from this movie. 
 
so we can say that attempts like should be encouraged ,at some people are atleast daring to think against the flow stream