U ME AUR HUM – The Movie

“U know something” … The movie is BORING !! That by the way is the most used dialogue in the movie. Whenever the movie makers are hell bend on marketing the movie so much, we should get a clue: That they are hoping the movie to do well due to the marketing rather than the content. Ajay Devgun and Kajol were visible in every channel with their ads, interviews, judging stupid shows and what not. I liked the promos. It gave an impression that it will be another pyar toh hona hi tha. And so did the thousands who flocked the theatre over the weekend.

In the beginning the movie seems to live up to the promos. Catchy dialogues keeps you interested.. You do get to exercise your jaws (for smiling) here and there in some scenes. But then they keep doing that through out the movie. And you start exercising your jaws more (yawning). It’s almost at the interval that this movie is vaguely inspired from 50 First Dates. And your heart sinks. How can you make such a beautiful concept into a dumb movie! Kajol has alzheimer’s in the movie and she starts forgetting things. Easy plot for weaving some romance, high end emotion and sacrifice. But you feel none of it when kajol/ajay depict the characters on the screen.

They depend on sms jokes to keep the movie lively towards the second half! Can it get more boring than that? And your head start aching, because you are watching the characters so closely. Not because the movie is intriguing, but because of the stupid camera work. I don’t know what gave them the idea, but it was really irritating to watch all the scenes so closely. We don’t even get to see them delivering the dialogues. Add to that some stupid graphics, by which they want us to believe that the whole thing was shot in a cruise. And I wont forgive them for making Kajol look bad in the movie !!! Spoiling the nice songs by Vishal, we have to bear with 6 odd people who just cant dance and there they are attempting Salsa. You also get to see Isha sherwani who is there to show off her flexibilities alone and there is Divya dutta who is way too keen to show her cleve off in every scene.

The only entertaining part in the whole movie for me was the small kid who kept entertaining us with dialogues of her own. Ajay Devgun was at his over-acting best when he asks Kajol: “ Tum nahi pehchanti ki mein kaun hun”. After he did that for the third time, the kid would say “Ajay Devgun hai”.

Star of the movie: None

Point Table: 1/5

Reco: Give it a miss.

SHAURYA – The Movie

There are movies where you come out of the hall happy, sad, disgusted, bored or even horrified. But there would be only a few movies you would come out dumb-struck. RDB, Bombay, Kannathil Mutham Ittal, Anbe Sivam to name a few. Shaurya will definitely fall into this list. Apart from the “off-beat” movies that hit the screen, not many movies in India are made which can be categorized as Drama. Very less when compared to Hollywood atleast. And when a movie like Shaurya comes, it is a breath of fresh air for movie lovers.

Shaurya is an army movie. I heard it is an adaptation of the book, “A few good Men”. But I care less. In hindi movies the only army related things shown till now would be how to kill the pakis and how India was done proud. But Shaurya deals with the lives of army personnel. Rahul Bose & Javed Jaffri play the roles of advocates in the Indian Army. Rahul Bose is the guy who does not know what he is doing as a lawyer. And the story revolves around a case where “Javed Khan” is accused of murdering his superior and faces court martial. Both Rahul Bose and JJ play their part to perfection. I was glad to see JJ doing a sensible role after such a long time. Minisha Lamba and the guy who plays “Javed Khan” (I surely will update his name in this space!) play the role aptly. Minisha plays the role of a Journalist who prompts a turn around for Rahul Bose to take the case up seriously. Amrita rao appears in a cameo as well.

If you thought Rahul Bose was playing a great role in the movie, there comes KK. He is there in the movie for only around 20 minutes. And in those 20 mins he gives such a power packed performance that would rank him amongst the best actors in the country. I was in awe of the precision with which he played the role. And in the ending scenes I actually felt as if I am watching a real court martial! KK makes a superb actor like Rahul Bose look mediocre.

The way in which the issues happening in Kashmir is plainly shown, without any filmy stuffs added to it. A strong message in the movie is put across. The scene where the superior kills villagers mercilessly runs a chill down your spine. Just goes on to show a classic movies do not require crappy comedy or cheap publicity or over-marketing or rakhi sawant dance. I hope this movie goes on to be successful in the market which might lead to many more such movies being produced.

Brilliant screenplay and direction by Samar Khan, a relatively new director. Nice cinematography (Srinagar – always looks beautiful!) and a decent music score by Adnan Sami. But the movie is high on performances. I sure will get myself a DVD of the movie!

Star of the movie: KK

Point Table: 4.5/5

Reco: Must Watch

TASHAN – The music

Presenting the hip-hop fakers – Vishal & Shekar.

A dynamic duo they make indeed, with their songs covering all genres of music. Riding on a high from OSO, these guys are getting too “Bollywoodish” for one’s liking. However that doesn’t take away the fact they are amazingly talented.

The album has 5 songs, although it would look like it has 9 songs on the CD cover. 4 of them are intros of their own characters by Akshay, Saif, Kareena and Anil. Thankfully there are no crazy/funky remixes of the songs.

Dil Haara:– After Dard-e-disco it is not surprising that they are sticking to Sukhwinder Singh. But this song is far from it. The starting bit of the song is good. The guitar piece and the howling that you would hear in the trailer is pretty catchy. But the song on a whole is pretty ordinary

Chaliya:- Again a catching intro tune. But the song is too cliché. The song would fall in the “mind blowing mahiya” class! And ofcourse it is sung by Sunidhi Chauhan. With English lyrics “Don’t you look at me like that mahi”. Now why on earth is such a lyrics required. Well, it suits Kareena kapoor I guess!

Dil Dance Maare:- Lets just say it is easily one of the worst song by Vishal n Shekar.

Falak Tak:- Now that is one of the better songs of the album. It gives you a nice hindi film music feelings. The once you would get when u hear those 90’s songs, with Dhols and Tabalas. Udit Narayanan and Mahalaxmi Iyer have done the needful, Mahalaxmi sounding extremely nice.

Tashan Mein:- This would be the best song in the album. It has Vishal-Shekar stamp all over it. Sung by Vishal and a new pro called Sameer, the song is rocking. Especially in the lines “ Apni toh, baat kuch nirali hai. Apna jeena toh jeena.”

Point Table: 2/5

Reco: Don’t bother to buy. Don’t miss Tashan Mein.