In upcoming movies Kal kissne dekha is supposedly the first movie to be released after the standoff, wherein Vashu Bhagnani is introducing his son Jaccky Bhagnani and Vaishali Desai. Vashu has partnered Big Pictures for this movie. Shreyas Talpade, Neha Dhupia, Riya Sen, Celina Jaitley and Vatsal Seth starrer Paying Guest is a comedy directorial debut of Paritosh painter who has also written the movie; Mukta Arts Entertainment will be producing the movie. Newyork will be the first release for the year 2009 by Yash Raj Production. Directed by Kabir khan Newyork starring John Abraham, Katrina Kaif , Neil Nitin Mukesh and Irffan Kahna is the most awaited movie of the year.The story is about three close friends and their relationship when there beautiful life takes a U-Turn.

Hollywood biggies like Sylvester Stallone, Denise Richards and Beyonce Knowles,  Bebo in bikni and a location of LA, Italy and France has made Kambakkht Ishq most talked about movie in the town. Its an out n out masala entertainer by Sajid Nadiadwala.

The list of movies to be released in the coming months are:

• KAL KISSNE DEKHA  : JUNE 12
• PAYING GUEST            : JUNE 19
• NEWYORK                     : JUNE 26/JULY 03
• KAMBAKKHT ISHQ      :  JULY 03
• AGAYAT                          : JULY 24
• LOVE AAJKAL                : JULY 31
• WANTED – DEAD AND ALIVE  : AUGUST 07

Kaminey & Alladin tentatively on August 14, major biggies like Blue (an under water extravaganza), Mai aur Mrs Khanna, Shortcut,  Jashn, Luck and Agey se rite are in the pipeline. Box office will be buzzing from the back to back releases. Lets see if these movies are able to feed the much starved Hindi movie buffs!

We liked Delhi 6 in parts. The song Masakkali is already on everybody’s lips and Rahman’s music has ensured that Delhi 6 was a most awaited movie. Delhi 6 is a movie set in Old Delhi’s Chandni Chowk area. Roshan comes back from New York to help his ailing grandmother.

Abhishek Bachchan and Sonam Kapoor make a good pair though using Ramleela to communicate multiple messages makes the movie cryptic. Elaborate background for monkeyman story takes focus away from both the central love story and communal tension in Chandni Chowk.

Rakyesh Omprakash Mehra has done a decent job in creating Chandni Chowk environment. Rishi Kapoor is probably the most stylish character in the movie and also has the best dialogues. He is getting better with every new movie.

Best thing about the movie is music by Rahman. Second best is Chandni Chowk and movie would have done really well if it has a decent and consistent story that doesn’t leave audience confused about ‘message from the movie’.

Our advice to readers is to watch the movie but don’t keep your expectations too high.

I heard somewhere that a movie automatically gets 1 extra star for having Irrfan Khan in star cast. This one gets 2 stars for casting him in lead role another two for a good story and Shahrukh’s touching monologue. But my overall rating would be three because editing of the movie is botched at best. Songs are inserted forcefully and except once are totally unrelated to the story.

Irrfan Khan was probably the best choice for Billu, only other actor of current times who could have pulled it off is Manoj Vajpayee.  Lara Dutta has played a villagor wife and children definitely add character to the movie.

Cinematographer gets our thumbs up for all village scenes including riverside scenes. Songs are catchy and have added enough glamour with Priyanka, Kareena and Deepika Padukone. It’s readily understable why these songs feel totally out of place in a village story.

A lot of time is spent in character development of Asrani, Om Puri and other minor characters. The basic plot is rather simple and small so it forces director to spend more time in showing awe for a superstar. It doesn’t go overboard like Slumdog did, but does show the superstart mania that clouds Indian minds.

Director Shashant Shah has done a good job at not making another Anand. The end is different, simple and assumes that audience is intelligent enough to understand what happened. Unlike Rajesh Khanna in Anand or Shahrukh Khan in several moviees there is no melodrama in death.

Kailash Kher has done a good job with Music and has intertwined “Alvida” throughout the movie in seemless manner. Overall a good movie that our readers are adviced to watch.

Is Farhan Akhtar talented or just lucky? I think he is both. He has set new standards as a director, his debut film Rock On was superhit and with Luck By Chance he has established himself as a mature actor in Hindi Film industry.

Zoya Akhtar has managed to get the emotional rollercoaster in the film right. The movie moves at a slow but natural pace and supporting actors have delivered some cool performances.

Rishi Kapoor is likeable in his avatar as a establish movie producer launching his failed actor brother Sanjay Kapoor as a director. I never liked SK as an actor but here he managed to deliver a good performance with his dialogue “Ham bhi actor the.” (very true for him).

At times Luck By Chance looked liked a Madhur Bhandarkar creation showing the bad reality of hindi cinema world. Music was put at the right places and went well with movie’s mood.

Did we see Aamir and Shahrukh in the same movie? Yes, that’s true. They didn’t share the screen but they were both part of the same movie. Hrithik, Dimple Kapadia, Juhy Chawal and Konkona Sen Sharma were good but Farhan and Rishi Kapoor stole the show.

Movie may not be a commercial super-hit or critic’s favorite either but it sure is entertaining and is definitely worth a watch.

Movie Name: Chandni Chowk to China
Director: Nikhil Advani
Starring: Akshay Kumar, Deepika Padukone, Mithun Chakraborty, Ranvir Shorey, Chia Hui Liu
Lyrics: Bohemia, Kailash Kher
Rating: * 1/2

Disappointing is how I would describe Chandni Chowk to China (CC2C). Akshay Kumar was ruling the hearts and had already taken the King title from King Khan but he would want to forget he did this movie as soon as he can.

The plot is built on tip of castle made of cards, it blows away to pieces in the very beginning. When you want to throw someone out of China you throw them from Great Wall of China. That’s a cool concept.

Akshay has tried hard to look comic and manages to pull the trick in some scenes. Ranvir Shorey deliveres a good performance but I definitely thought he could have done much better. Where was his comic timing? Mithun had some good dialogues and was a good supporting actor while Deepika was good in some action sequences. Her James Bond style gadgets were not impressive and final fight paled in front of other stunts in the movie.

Akshay’s training was the high point of film and was definitely well executed with a good mix of comedy and action. I was hoping to see Jackie Chan style fights and found very few scenes of that kind.

I hope this is not where the new king of bollywood starts going downhill. He should try to include Katrina in the cast because she sure has been lucky for him.

1. Singh is Kinng: We have to admit it. No matter it starred Akshay Kumar and Katrina Kaif, the film had less sense than any movie of the year. The script was a well-washed desi version of a stereotypical villager and the storyline had no story whatsoever. Still, it managed to make more than 100 crores at the box office!
2. Sarkar Raj: Add the glamour of the Bachchan family and the controversial name of Ram  Gopal Verma to a film and you have a sure-fire winner – even if the movie is nothing but a bag of dust. Sarkar Raj earned 85% of its invested money in the first week itself in spite of getting mixed reviews and a fluctuating screen presence.
3. Tara Rum Pum: A sadly-distressed Indian remake of the Tom Cruise starring Days of Thunder, Tara Rum Pum had nothing more than a copied story, some vaguely romantic songs and a depressed aura. Still it somehow covered more than just profits at the box office.
4. Saawariya: Talk about hype and over indulgence and Saawariya comes to mind. The film launched Ranbir and Sonam Kapoor but failed to impress the audience with its gloomy and electric blue reels. But because it was a Sanjay Leela Bhansali film (the man who made Black), it could earn at the box office.
5. Jhoom Barabar Jhoom: It is difficult to believe to that the man behind blockbusters such as Saathiya and Bunty aur Bubli could make such a trashy piece. We have Amitabh Bachchan humouring the audience over styled and near-clownish costumes, a senseless storyline and an earner at the Box office. It is time that Bollywood changed the rules of measuring a film’s success.

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.

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 Banderas’s voice.

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

Jugal Hansraj should try hard next time.

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