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.

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.

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

Music Directors: Vishal-Shekhar

Starring: Ranbir Kapoor, Bipasha Basu, Minisha Lamba, Deepika Padukone

Director: Siddharth Anand

This was the second time Ranbir Kapoor starred in an over-hyped movie. A famous song for the movie name 3 hottest bollywood actress and a lot of inspirations from old movies but director Siddharth Anand didn’t do justice to the starcast and marketing budget.

Good and popular movie composed by Vishal Shekhar failed to pull crowds at the box office. A lot of scenes in the movie were inspired. The character Raj (Ranbir) had a lot of similarities with DDLJ’s Raj played by Shahrukh Khan. Europe trip and missing train was a formula that was once hit with Indian audience but filmmakers should know that audience wants to see something new in movies. A scene directly copied from Devil Wears Prada where Ranbir is carrying a wardrobe and a coffee for his boss. It was a girl in the original movie.

Raj’s friend reminded of Jeff from famous British comedy serial Coupling again and again. Same hair style, same outlook towards life (and girls). The movie couldn’t have been more inspired.

Give us something original next time.

Miley is one of the very few singers whose first two albums peaked at #1 on billboards, already famous from TV series Hannah Montana initial sang songs from the TV series but her second album Breakout was unrelated and was a hit.

Did we tell you the topic for the essay? It’s why your kid deserves to get 4 free Miley Cyrus concert tickets. Reminds us of the popular shipwreck game.

Music Directors: Pritam Chakraborty

Starring: Akshay Kumar, Katrina Kaif, Neha Dhupia, Javed Jaffrey, Ranvir Shorey, Om Puri

Director: Anees Bazmee

Entertaining movie with some really interesting action sequences and some very well executed goof-ups. If you are fan of Jackie Chan movies when they show all the action scene goof-ups, this movie is full of them. Akshay Kumar (Happy Singh) is a helpful guy who manages to destroy a lot of things while trying to help others and he does it repeatedly.

Locations in Egypt are used very nicely for some songs and the credit goes to cinematographer. We are very sure that Movie Screensavers and wallpapers for this movie will be very popular.

Kiran Kher has done well with her brief appearance. Katrina looks beautiful and has definitely gained some weight. Let’s not talk about her ability to act or speak in hindi. Once again directors have managed to carve a role for her where she doesn’t have too many dialogues. What you need are Katrina’s Free Screensavers.

Singh Is King could have been better and might disappoint some people who had high expectations but it is definitely worth a watch. Be sure not to apply too much logic and brain while your are watching the movie.

We are biased towards Hard Kaur’s singing and the title track Singh is King is used beautifully as a background score in the movie whenever something ‘fun’ is going to happen. The tempo variant for the song matching tempo of the scene was well executed.

Music Directors: Anu Malik (or Aanuu Malik)

Starring: Mallika Sherawat, Ranvir Shorey, Tinu Anand, Shushmita Mukherjee

Director: Sanchit Khot

Though the debutant director tried very hard it was difficult to understand who was Ugly and who was Pagli in this new movie. The movie was funny in bits and pieces but overall impact was that of a randomly made/edited movie. Ranvir Shorey was good as usual, he was better than Rahul Bose in ‘feeling uncomfortable’ and also in ‘looking like a goof’. The characters Kuhoo and Kabir were not seen on the screen for the first time. The sequences where Kabir heard and read Kuhoo’s scripts were well executed and were outright funny but the director was not able to put the whole movie together.

Ranvir was funny while he drove the bicycle, he was awkward when he danced and Mallika was not bad either. Music of the movie is good and Main Tully Ho Gayi and Shut Up are topping the charts.

It’s an average movie with good leads.

Music Directors: Shankar Ehsaan Loy

Starring: Farhan Akhtar, Arjun Rampal, Purab Kohli

Finally, pure untouched rock music seems to have arrived in Bollywood. The first ever music album of its kind, Rock On has all the ingredients required for a proper rock album and with the current scene in the film industry, these guys seem to have made a good job of it. Heavy distorted riffs, Metal tones, and trashy lyrics, the album has it all. Lets hope that the listeners are awakened to a classic music genre which still eludes India.

Socha Hai, the first track itself starts with a melodious rock tune, drum snares and fills. Farhan Akhtar and gang have sung it will all the energy that is required to perform it.

Pichle Saat dino Mein is a slow rock piece which moves through various grooves. The bass lines behind the main music are noticeable and what again strikes out are the supposedly trashy lyrics which don’t mean a thing but complete the overall effect.

Rock on!! Is the title track and in fact, the best track in the album. It is unique, catchy and filled with leads, fills and guitar interlude along with fast drum beats.

Ye tumhari meri baatein and Phir Dekhiye are two soothing and different tracks.

Zehreelay and Sinbad the Sailor are also nice rock pieces.

Music Director Duo – Vishal – Shekhar

Starring – Ranbir Kapoor, Bipasha Basu, Minnisha Lamba, Deepika Padukone

With the music of Bachna Ae Haseeno out, there are really high expectation from the music directors Vishal Shekhar. Moreover, ever since the first promos of the film were shown on televisoion, the public is wildly anticipating this album to be a chartbuster.

The opening track Khuda Jaane is indeed ear catching especially with the soft, mellow undertones that are so catchy. 

Lucky boy is another typical Yash Raj track with English and hindi blend of lyrics. Quite like Lazy Lamhe or Crazy kiya re. Sunidhi Chauhan sings beautifully for this one.

Following this is a comeback track by Lucky Ali – Aahista Aahista. The man has not lost his touch. Coupled with Shreya’s rocking voice, the track has the hip retro beats of an urban song.

Jogi Mahi completes the VS touch with Sukhwinder Singh coming in. He seems to be there in every album of theirs.

Finally, the classic track Bachna Ae Haseeno pops and to say the least, VS seem to have improvised on it, without degrading the tunes.

This might not be the best music albums but has catchy tunes to boast of.

Directed by : Abbas Tyrewala

Produced by: Aamir Khan

*ing : Imran Khan, Genelia Dsouza, Ratna Pathak, Manjari Phadnis, Anuradha Patel

Music Director: A R Rahman
 

Switch on TV and you see Aamir Khan everywhere, actively promoting his nephew, Imran Khan’s debut venture, Jaane Tu ya Jaane Na. Is the hype and publicity worth the movie? As it is, for the past few years, every film which is associated with Aamir has been a hit, can this one deliver? I should …yes! For the simple reason that the film has sparkling humor, innocent emotions befitting a young college going audience, and an overall light hearted feel. Great performances by both the leads, Imran and Genelia, this film can turn out to be a smooth hit at the box office.

Jaane Tu is essentially the story of two close friends, Jai and Aditi. They are in love but do not know this fact. They have a couple of friends around them (Sandhya, Jignesh) and altogether, these friends try to revive those good old college days. The basic emotion of fun and joy, sorrow and pain are revived to show the audience how the society has moved away from them.

With such a simple story, and absolutely cool music, Jaane Tu will definitely be appreciated by diverse audiences.