Hindi Movie Reviews

Movie Name: Fashion

Director: Madhur Bhandarkar

Starring: Priyanka Chopra, Mugdha Godse, Kangna Ranaut, Arbaaz Khan

Lyrics: Irfan Siddique, Sandeep Nath

Rating: * * * 1/2

If Page 3 from Madhur Bhandarkar was good, Fashion does justice to his reputation for making excellent movies. Meghna Mathur (Priyanka Chopra) wanted to become a model (super-model) and story of a middle class girl becoming a super model is shown nicely in the movie. I think Meghna got it quite easily in the movie, the real life would be more difficult.

Kangana Ranaut looks as ugly as she always looks and manages to put a good act first as an arrogant super model and later as a failed lunatic model. Madhur involves the real news including wardrobe malfunctions and drug abuse (remember Gitanjali?) in the movie and shows the emotional impact the characters have.

It’s hard to understand why all designers in Fashion believed in aadmi hoon aadmi se pyaar karta hoon. Janet Sequeria (Mugdha) is a surprise package but she was not recognizable from her posters.

Movie: Roadside Romeo

Directory: Jugal Hansraj

Starcast: Saif Ali Khan, Kareena Kapoor, Jaaved Jaffrey

Music: Salim Merchant, Sulaiman Merchant; Lyrics: Jaideep Sahni

Rating: * 1/2

India’s first animation film from one of the biggest film houses in association with Disney was being promoted heavily and Saif/Kareen pair’s offscreen pairing was being useful for this promotional campaign. But Jaaved Jaffrey the person with magic voice stole the thunder from the star pair.

Hindi movies always have a different story line from a typical hollywood movie; and audience likes the running around the trees, songs and dance sequences. They have grown up seeing the hindi movie in this format. But the movie makers forgot that the same set of people have been given healthy doses of excellent animation films including Finding Nemo and recently Kung-Fu Panda and Wall-E. Making this film the bollywood way didn’t go well with audience and the movie didn’t do that well on the box office.

A week story line and lack of ‘glamour’ didn’t help the movie either. Saif and Kareena were fine as voice over artists but the sidekicks did better. Jaaved Jaffrey was like the donkey of Shrek (Eddie Murphy) and was a saving grace for the movie. The cat was plain irritating after watching the Shrek cat with Antonio Banderes’ voice.

The animations were good and some parts were done nicely. Puns on Charlie’s angles and other movies were well executed.

Jugal Hansraj should try hard next time.

This is not a movie review. We are wondering where did the planned movie Munna Bhai Chale America go.

You can see the very likable trailer here. We liked the trailer and would definitely like to see the moving come out.