Sunday, July 6, 2008

Love Story 2050 Review



It’s a beautiful dream for those who love living in the dreamlands only; but what about the audience who are quite bored with repetitive Bollywoody love stories! Karan Oberoi (Harman Baweja) is the only son of famed businessman Mr. Oberoi (Dalip Tahil). Karan is not happy with his father as because his father is more interested in cars, business and achievement than his only son. Being very lonely and having the thought in mind that his unfortunate accidents would bring no loss to anyone, Karan always prefers to play with danger. In the course of the mundane story, Karan meets Sana (Priyanka Chorpa) and for obvious reasons (love, I mean to say) they decide on getting married. And here comes the twist. Sana meets an accident and she dies leaving Karan all alone.

On the other hand the Love Story has Karan’s uncle, Dr. Yatinder Khanna (Boman Irani), who by profession is a scientist. Dr. Khanna has been working on a time machine for last fifteen years so that he can poke into the future to how the things will change (obviously).

Karan meets Dr. Khanna and recapping Sana’s dream about entering the year 2050, they go to the year 2050 with the time machine. Entering the future Karan comes to know that Sana is now the best rock-star of the world living in Mumbai and is named as Zaisha. Ultimately Karan succeeds in getting his love, Sana alias Zaisha, back to the present with the help of QUTY and BOO, two robotic dolls taking care of Zaisha.

Harry Baweja has beautifully taken care of direction as well as the story but at some places the story becomes little slow. Music and lyrics of the film looks nice but at the same time it appears little difficult to say that songs will look something like that with flying cars in the year 2050. Priyanka has worked well in accordance with her character. Whether Harman’s resemblance with Hrithik is a bane or boon is a quiz immaterial but his impact on the screen is quite impressive. Boman Irani has depicted his character quite well. Archana Puran Singh looks good in her character of Priyanka’s mother.

The first part of the film is based on the love story between Priyanka and Harman and the funny thing is the second part of the film is also based on their love story. The only difference is the second part happens in the year 2050.

Is Kunal Kapoor Sonam's new 'Saawariya'?



Bollywood affairs seem to be the most in thing so why should Sonam Kapoor stay behind, after her heart break with Ranbir Kapoor the young actress has moved on. Sonam who is currently shooting for ‘Dilli 6’ is very pally with director Rakesyh Om Prakash Mehra and he introduced her to his 'Rang De Basanti' star Kunal Kapoor.

Insiders from the sets say Kunal Kapoor frequently visits the sets and shares a special bond with Sonam, the two keep chatting for hours. Stories about their romance stirred up when Kunal started picking up Sonam after her shoots and the two would sneak out for a romantic drive or dinner. Kunal recently broke with actress Dia Mirza and Sonam too is trying to look for love after Ranbir, so the rebound couple has bonded well, so could they be the next Bollywood 'Saawariya' pair.

Tuesday, March 25, 2008

New RACE in bollywood (Movie Review)



‘Race’ is the latest offering of the ace Bollywood director duo Abbas-Mustan, well known for adventure stories such as Humraaz, Khiladi and Baazigar. The pair finally does a movie with Saif Ali khan after a long time gap of 6 years. This fantastic “jodi” has already proved it over the years that nobody can thrash them when it comes to the thriller genre.

Featuring Saif Ali Khan, Akshaye Khanna, Anil Kapoor, Bipasha Basu, Katrina Kaif, Sameera Reddy, the latest thriller ‘Race’ is full of surprising twists and turns, that keep viewers saying ‘oh’ and reanalyzing the whole thing so that bits and pieces of the story fill into form the collage known as ‘Race’.

The story of the film goes like this: The movie revolves around two step brothers Ranbir (Saif Ali Khan) & Rajeev (Akshaye Khanna) owing stud farm in Durban, South Africa. They breed horses on their big ranch house & bet on them. Each one (brothers) have an insurance policy of $100 million to their name. Both of them make plan to kill each other for the money and helping them in their hair brain plans are Sonia (Bipasha Basu) and Sophia (Katrina Kaif).

Sophia is Ranvir’s personal secretary, and she loves her boss. Ranvir is totally ignorant of her emotion and regards her love as her competence. Sonia is an approaching Indian ramp model in Durban.

After the murder, Anil Kapoor (detective RD) and his dim-witted assistant Mini (Sameera Reddy) enter to investigate the mysterious death.

The first half of the movie is spellbinding, when the characters are introduced and their murky sides exposed. This half leaves many open ends that are finally unraveled in the end. The film also takes many snaky turns and passes through many surprising bends, a few of them are rational whereas others are deliberately contrived to surprise the watcher.

Cinematography by Ravi Yadav, editing by Hussain Burmawala’s and dialogues by Anuraag Prapanna, Jitendra Parmar are really fantastic.

Two more driving forces of the movie include Pritam’s music and Allan Amin’s stunts, which really matches the title of the movie. The music is loud and rocking and suits the mood of the film.