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

REVIEW: HARRY POTTER and THE DEATHLY HALLOWS – Part 1

Directed by: David Yates

STARRING: Daniel Radcliffe
                     Rupert Grint
                     Emma Watson

Last week the much awaited 1st part of the 7th book in Harry Potter series released claiming ‘the beginning of the END’. It certainly has got matured, not only the lead cast has grown up from 12year old kids to youngsters but the whole franchise in all senses.

Movie starts with tense build around Harry, his friends and the order of phoenix. As Dumbledore told harry to kill Voldemot, he has to find 7 Horcruxes and destroy them; out of which harry destroyed 2. So the order of phoenix takes responsibility to safely move harry to Weasley’s home. During the fight with death eaters Mad-eye and harry’ owl gets killed.

After this Harry, Ron and Hermione starts searching for remaining Horcruxes which leads them to one of the Horcrux which was in the possession of Umbridge and then they successfully gets that from her but could not destroy it as the only way to destroy it was by the sword of Gryffindor which was missing. Harry and Ron find the sword and destroy that Horcrux. On their way they gets to know about the Deathly Hallows ( an Elder wand, a resurrecting stone and an invinsible cloak). Together all these makes some one master of the death. On the other hand Voldemot is gets to know that Dumbledore is the master of that Elder wand and is with him in his tomb. So Voldemot gets that wand from Dumbledore’s tomb and the first part ends here.

During the whole quest you find a lot of ups and downs happening in the movie. Bonding of Harry, Ron and Hermoine gets disturbed at one point of time, death of Harry’s owl and other friends and so much. Movie creates base line for the Finale with ease and we will see the final outcome in later part.

Visuals were spectacular and the whole setup is getting darker. Story moves with ease and been told effectively specially the tale of deathly hallows which told in animated form.

On the whole good performances and worth watch. (And if have not watched earlier movies of the series please watch those first before watching this one other wise you will not get the idea of happenings.)

RATINGS: 7 OUT OF 10

REVIEW: THE SOCIAL NETWORK 2010 (all u want to know about the‘FACEBOOK’)

DIRECTED BY: DAVID FINCHER

STARRING: Jesse Eisenberg as Mark Zuckerberg (founder of FACEBOOK)

The Social Network is Directed by David Fincher who has made some of the very well known and successful movies in past (like the curious case of Benjamin button, the zodiac and my favorite Fight Club). It’s about social networking website FACEBOOK and its founder mark Zuckerberg .A high voltage drama consisting great narration and performances from young cast.

Story starts with Mark creating a website called FACEMASH in one night about attractiveness of female students of Harvard after breaking up with his girlfriend. He was given six month’s academic probation for violation of rules and bringing down Harvard’s network. This attracts the eyes of winklevoss brothers and narendra and offers him to work with him on the website harwardconnect. But mark had some other plans in his mind so he works on another website with his friend Eduardo called thefacebook exclusively for harward students and soon site gains popularity among the students. When Winkelvoss brothers and narendra learns about this, they thinks that he stole their idea and wanted to sue him.

Meanwhile Sean Parker (founder of ‘Napster’) comes to know about this website and in a meeting with mark and Eduardo he tells how to move forward with their website and gets in to the team of facebook when mark bring company to Palo Alto as suggested by parker. From here game of money and betrayal gets deeper which creates so many problems for them.

The beauty of the movie is the way it’s been narrated, the whole story is told in between discussions of the 2 law suits faced by Mark, one from his friend Eduardo and another from Winklevoss brothers and narendra. David Fincher did great job and made it superbly entertaining from start to the end. Jesse Eisenberg played Mark Zuckerberg’s character with utmost sincerity.

All in all full of entertainment and superb drama. Watch it for sure.

RATING: 7.5 FROM 10.