Review: SOURCE CODE (2011). . . .Decoded

Directed By: Duncan Jones

Starring: Jack Gyllenhaal , Vera Farminga , Michelle Monaghan

Source Code is Sci-fi action thriller. Capt. Stevens (Jack) is isolated inside a chamber of a program called Source Code which allows him to take someone’s body in to his life’s last 8 minutes. Capt. Stevens was sent on a mission to find the bomb and bomber which exploded a train headed towards Chicago for that he has been transmitted to someone’s body for eight minutes before the explosion happened. It was suspected that the bomber who has exploded the train has planned another blast by nuclear bomb which can destroy the whole Chicago city. So he has to find the bomber and help the program authority to stop next explosion.

What I really like is of course concept of the movie but the climax; it was quick but superb like if you don’t pay attention, you may totally miss what it wanted to convey. Overall a good sci-fi movie for sci-fi fans (which resembles little bit with Minority Report-that is what I think). It would have been great if the story would have elaborated little bit more but no complain from my side.

Jack Gyllenhaal and Vera Farmingo were superb and so was Michelle Monaghan. Its worth a viewers money.

RATING: 7 OUT OF 10

REVIEW: DUM MAARO DUM

Directed By: Rohan Sippy

Goa, as we hear the word, Sun-Sand and Sea with tempted beauty comes in to mind but there is one more thing behind, which is more darker reality of this heaven on earth, Drugs and Mafia running it all over. The movie moves around all these and at the end showcases how it is spread and hard to stop.

Abhishek Bachchan(ACP Kamath) is sent on task to clean-up goa from Drugs. He chooses his own way to do this. Prateik a young kid who wants to fly New York for studies has no money but got easily got trapped by local drug dealer to carry drug fro him for money he offered fro his study. Rana is a musician who lost his love to the drug mafia and when he saw Prateik movie fro same wants to stop and save him. Aditya Pancholi is a local business man and man behind all these drug mafia. Govind Namdev a police man in Kamath’s team for this drug mission. These guys moves story quite well.

Rohan Sippy has made movie quite stylish and tried hard to engage viewer for whole run and he succeeds in this. His execution is very good except a few thing which he needed to workout before but that doesn’t matter here as overall things move smoothly. Music is also good. Dialogues were good specially those of Abhishek.

Talking about performance two performances standout one from Abhishek Bachchan (when ever he plays cop its superb) he plays ACP Kamath with full conviction, job well done after last few bizarre and one from Govind Namdev as Rane. Rana and Prateik were good for their characters but nothing special. Sadly, Bipasha had nothing much to do but she was also ok. Aditya Pancholi made his mark and do satisfy with his performance.

Overall a good movie and worth watching (especially some scenes of police interrogation of abhichek were brilliant).

RATING: 7 OUT OF 10.

REVIEW: SUCKER PUNCH (2011)

DIRECTED BY: ZACK SNYDER

The movie is an Action-Fantasy directed by Zack Snyder (who earlier made '300' and 'WATCHMEN') and consists Female Star cast in lead.

its about a girl who is sent to mental asylum by her stepfather after her mother's death where she will undergo lobotomy in 5days. so she plans to runaway in next 5 days from mental asylum. here she travels in to an imaginary world where she is a dancer of a club and she gets help of fellow dancer girls to escape from the place and for that she and other girls has to perform certain tasks.(Don't get confused with girl's parallel imaginary worlds,just enjoy)

Its a mixture of Dark world with imaginary world around 50's time. the movie is A VISUAL EXTRAVAGANZA with spectacular action sequences with  some very good background music. those who liked 300 and watchmen will sure love it. its a worth watch for those fantastic visuals and beautiful star cast.

RATING: 6.5 OUT OF 10.

Review: 7 Khoon Maaf (Directed By Vishal Bhardvaj)

Directed By: Vishal Bhardvaj

Starring: Priyanka Chopra

It has been always great to experience Vishal Bhardvaj’s cinema and I honestly see him as India’s own Quantine Tarentino. He always brings something new on screen (which most of the filmmaker will avoid to even touch) with excellence. His latest offering 7 Khoon Maaf also follows the path which he started with Makadee. Its based on Ruskin Bond’s short story “SUSSANA’s 7 HUSBANDS”.

The story spans 3 decades from 80’s to present day. A story of Susanna who has lost her parents in her early life and being brought up by her servants and marries to six men who dies one after another. She has 3 honest servants who stays through her for whole life and a boy-Arun( Vivan Shah) of whom she becomes care taker. How these different men comes in to her life, marries her and what makes them being killed is centre idea of the movie.

The subject itself is quite sensitive and was needed to be written and executed perfectly on screen which Vishal Bhardvaj did excellently. Narration through Arun’s(Vivan Shah) character is one of the plus points of movie. Dialogues, especially for narration are very good with blend of poetry. Priyanka Chopra is a scene stealer and gives her best by far. Supportive Cast has done good job specially the Person who plays role of her butler. Vivan Shah as Arun has made a mark successfully on screen. Real surprise was Annu Kapoor (Susanna’s 5^th husband) was superb. Apart from these all the actors who played her husband had very small screen time and where reasonably good. The Climax is quite surprising one (I don’t know how many will digest it) and positive as well.

All in all the hates off to Vishal Bhardvaj and Priyanka Chopra and their efforts. The movie does not appeal to all kinds of audience but its worth watching.

RATINGS: 7 OUT OF 10.

REVIEW: (500)DAYS OF SUMMER

Well this one was surprising for me at least. It’s a romantic movie with a difference. It starts of with an interesting narration about two leading characters ‘the boy and the girl’ and then showcases their 500 days long relationship where the boy who falls for the girl from the day he seen her and she gets in relationship with him casually like ‘no label’ on their relationship. They had everything in relationship as a normal couple has. They enjoyed being together but suddenly she tells him that they should stop seeing each other and the boy couldn’t understand it. Things gets normal with the boy by the end he meets a new boy meets a new girl.

The story looks simple but the narration is different and was told keeping male character on centre stage which makes movie enjoyable. It’s worth watching.

Nominees for the 83rd Academy Awards | Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences

Nominees for the 83rd Academy Awards | Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences

review: PHAS GAYE RE OBAMA

DIRECTED BY: Subhash Kapoor

This week we have a ‘hatke’ movie and seriously if u ask me this is hatke in many ways, the screenplay, the execution and performances all makes it worth watching.

PHAS GAYE RE OBAMA is a story of an NRI (Rajat Kapoor) who is heavily indebted in USA and comes to India to sell his ancestral property to resolve his financial problems but got kidnapped by local small-time kidnappers. Now the smell of the kidnapping reaches to another kidnapper so he forces first one to handover NRI to him and take a lump some amount. As the guy is NRI every one was expecting him to be rich and will get them big ransom but here things are different. Now this NRI who needs money helps these kidnappers and plans a ‘strange con’ where every one gets benefited at the end.

It’s not a regular con which we have seen many a times in movies. Its unique in many ways like the whole script is interwoven around ‘economic turbulence and financial recession’ where from small kidnappers of village to the whole world is facing ‘MANDI’(recession). Kidnappers are not getting full ransom because of ‘mandi’. People are bargaining for ransom because of ‘mandi’ and all this creates strange situations for all characters ,which ultimately creates laughter for us.

Performance wise Rajat kapoor is superb from start to finish. Sanjay Mishra as Bhai-saab and Manu Rishi as Anni were excellent, they boosts movie with their performances. Amol gupte and neha dhupia had small but effective roles which they justified superbly. Director has done great job with story and narration.

All in all a ‘paisa vasool’ light hearted movie. watch it.

RATING: 7.5 OUT OF 10