If Only

the best romantic movie i've ever seen. films like these dont come everyday.

a man (paul nicholls) wakes up one morning after a bad dream in which his girlfriend (jennifer love hewitt) gets killed. but rather being relieved that it was a dream, he finds the situations during the day to be exactly the same as in the dream. fearing that his girlfriend will eventually die at the end of the day, he tries to make this day (the only day he has with his love) the best day in their life.

the scene at the end where paul gifts jennifer a bracelet (custom-made) which has all the unique features of her is mind blowing. you cant stop tears flowing out of your eyes.

performance - wise, paul and jennifer are excellent. paul portrays his fear, anxiety, acceptance & love whereas jennifer's expressions are very normal and natural as she does not know that she is going to die.

at the end, paul dies by shielding jennifer from a car accident. she realizes in the hospital how paul was trying to let her know how much he loved her.

a once in a lifetime movie for die-hard romantics.

Real Time

what to say about this movie. i simply loved it. both the lead characters have done what they were supposed to do. give a natural performance for the audience to relate to.

jay baruchel who plays the part of a compulsive gambler is at his best. his low self esteem, low confidence, a loser image is portrayed very subtly. he shows his frustration at life being not fair to him (rather comically). most of young people feel that way these days. randy quaid plays the character of the person who has been hired to kill jay to perfection. he gives him one hour to live tolerating his senseless actions and behavior.

in the end, he tries to convince jay how good life is and how one is better off without complaining as the situations of other people is far worse than we can imagine. a tragic end follows where randy kills himself rather than jay stating that he had been suffering from tumour leaving some money behind for jay. a great end to a great piece of art.

the film is very simple, real and true. it doesnt try to do too much and holds its story line. i loved this film for its transparency and flow without being overly complex and sentimental. kudos to the director for pulling off the subject in the best possible manner.

IRON MAN 2 - Review

STARRING:  ROBERT DOWNEY Jr. 

                      GWYNETH PALTROW

                      DON CHEADLE
                     MICKEY ROURKE

                     SCARLETT JOHANSSON

Here comes IRON MAN again, the franchise moves ahead with its usual way with lots of heroic stuff from Iron Man.

After so much heroic stuff in Middle East Tony Stark reveals that he is THE IRON MAN. On the other hand government believes that, the suit it self is a weapon and should be hand over to defense department, but Stark denies.

On the other way an OLD ENEMY all the way from Russia (as genius as Stark) decides to take revenge and makes same model of reactor as Stark did with iron man. He brutally hits Stark with his new reactor. On the other hand business rival of stark ‘Hammer’ takes help of this Russian Man to built better model of Iron Man suit to defeat Stark. But things go wrong and lots of stuff moves along way in the movie which creates LITTLE bit confusion for viewers. But at the end things gets settle down. 

This time the story moves any way without any clear description of characters. Like how Samuel Jackson comes in to picture suddenly? Stark was this time like a man who is going to die and before he die he wants to do so much. Even though these whole stuff, things ware manageable at the end and movie is enjoyable. But the first part was better than this, that’s for sure.

Performances: R.D.Jr was good not the best. Mickey was best as Bad Guy. Apart from these two, others played their part reasonably.

Action sequences at the end were superb. (action sequences saved movie this time)

If Marvel is hoping come up with 3^rd part of this franchise they have to think about strong story line.

Don’t go with to much expectation, you will enjoy it.

I would say ,it is good for weekend.

RATING: 6 OUT 10 (MOSTLY FOR ACTION SEQUENCES)

BADMASH COMPANY – review

To achieve something all you need is a big idea, and here parmeet shethi has got it…

Directed by: Parmeet Shethi

Starring: Shahid Kapoor , Anushka Sharma , Chang , Vir Das and Pavan Malhotra.

Finally after IPL here is the movie with great value of entertainment. Directed By actor turned director Parmmet Shethi who has written the movie also.

The movie evolves around 4 friends who wants make quick money. The time frame of the movie is set in pre-liberalization to post-liberalization (90’s). These four friends has big dreams like every youngster and to achieve those dreams they went for business of their own on slightly different way, Like taking the benefit of loopholes in the system and use of extraordinary mind. DOING ALL THE WRONG THINGS…..RIGHT WAY.

The things gets clicked and their dreams getting bigger. Which on some point of time puts them in to trouble but again the ideas from mind saves them.

The story is heart of the movie which never gets tired or getting slow but keeps on beating. Strong story line with good performances makes things perfect. THE BEST THING OF STORY IS THE WHOLE CONNING STUFF LOOKS BELIEVABLE AND DIGESTABLE. Background score is also good. First time director Permeet Shethi has done wonderful job.

After KAMINEY you will again see fire in the eyes and performance of Shahid Kapoor. Anushka is good with her feminine charm. Chang and Vir are also even partners of this Company.

Those who are fan of OCEAN’S TRIOLOGY will not get disappointed after watching this.( I M ALSO ONE OF THE FAN OF OCEAN’S TRIO)

Worth a viewer’s money…

RATING : 7 OUT OF 10

Once (2007)

what a movie! a very subtle tale showing two main protagonists dealing with their failed love lives as well as trying to make a mark in the world of music. how they start developing feelings for each other but somehow control themselves and go back to their respective partners.

male protagonist is surely gifted in the field of music as you can see him pull off a great performance. the female lead is very good in her character too. the film nicely captures how these two people meet, find common passion for music, get close, record a demo disc to get a record deal & how they part to be with their past partners.

music of course is very good as the male lead performs various tracks on screen. due credit to the director also for extracting great performances and never letting the movie lose its pace or quality.

this film gave me a very nice and satisfying feeling thus being very smooth on your mind and senses.

The Hurt Locker (2009)

well, this movie is definitely worth a watch. based on iraq war, it nicely captures the situations and circumstances a bomb tech deals with. the protagonist (fearless and maverick) displays his affection to his job and how it is the only thing that he loves. he somewhat gets addicted to his job finding adrenaline rush in deadly encounters. some may feel the movie deals with one concept only showing various bomb diffusing situations but the manner in which they are shot is really appreciable. everything seems very authentic and true. the director also provides variety covering situations such as sniper combat, suicide bombers, car bombs & detonators.

apart from very few screen shots where the soldiers deal with their emotional problems, the movie is very rational mostly concentrating on war missions. for me, watching this flick was a nice experience.

PRINCE…. IT’S ‘NO’ SHOW TIME ... REVIEW.

DIRECTED BY : KOOKIE GULATI

When I heard that tips has put Rs.40cr. movie on the shoulders of VIVEK OBEROI , I thought this time vivek would bring something meaningful and good enough. But…aah he did it again; he has proved that HE IS 'NOT' MADE TO DO ‘HEROIC’ STUFF.

Movie is about a super cool thief PRINCE. He does some unbelievable robberies around the world but one day when he wakes up he found that his whole memory has been ERASED. Even if it was not enough he comes in to contact of 3 different girls who calls her selves ‘maya’ his girlfriend. As his memory has been erased he doesn’t know which one is real ‘maya’.

As the movie goes ahead he finds that the coin which he robbed was containing a chip which can erase or change a person’s memory and the chip was used on him by his boss to erase memory. At the end he gets his memory back and villain got killed by him.

Movie is heavily dependent on visual effects and action and that even sometimes looks illogical and indigestible. Apart from this 2 songs are there which on some extent entertains but nothing else.

Performance? Vivek as I said should have left his attitude and over-acting to justify his character…but he didn’t. Three female were simply ok.

There is no reason to watch this. And if you want to see just bring medicine for headache with you.

I hope producers will think before investing in such projects.

RATING: 3.5 OUT OF 10.