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Review of 'Zindagi Naa Milegi Dobara'

What a visual treat is definitely something you will think after u have seen ZNMD. The movie is definitely a great marketing effort for Spain as a tourism destination and hopefully Spain will get some trialists because of this movie. However for the movie per say one definitely cnt say that 'its a sheer treat to watch'. For the second time post 'Game' Excel Entertainment seems to be losing its grip on content...something which always had been their main forte...For Zoya Akhtar after a good start (with Luck By Chance which was commercially unsuccessful but the movie was not bad)its a very poor succession...one was expecting that she will present something better than her first movie, ZNMD unfortunately is too niche in its subject, its treatment of characters and overall sensibilities....something that will appeal only to the top 1% of movie going audience....to be fair few scenes in the movie are quite emotional or are genuinely funny but problem is they are too few........

Review Chillar Party

Chillar party , took my child with the expectation that she will enjoy the movie and boy first time (unlike my law of averages, where my expectations always go the other way)..this movie was not only entertaining (my benchmark for entertainment is anything that can make a 3yr old laugh, enjoy and concentrate)but also touched an emotional chord too....70% of the movie was pure entertainment with a sweet short story of the friendship of a group of cute little naughty kids all staying in a housing society and 'phatka & bhidu' an orphan boy from the streets who is a car cleaner of the society and his dog....its mostly about the heights to which they go to save the dogs life but the last 10-15 minutes really became so insightful that it not only summarized the 'soul' of the movie but also struck a very strong emotional chord with everybody....the beauty of the movie is its simplicity and yet quite insightful and with a strong social message....the movie according to me s...

Memoirs In March Review (For those interested in Bangla Movies)

Those who love movies which are slow, poetic, less of acting and more of conversation will like memoirs in march...A short story of a mother (Deepti Naval) who comes to Kolkata to take back the belongings of her son but comes across a revelation about her son which she could never imagine....The treatment is very natural the whole story flows thru coversations between characters and that is what makes it an interesting watch....a critically aclaimed movie ...the movie is written and acted by 'rituporno ghosh'.....Deepti naval has been exquisite in her role as a mother....net net a very mature movie by extremely mature actors......

Golkonda High

Golkonda high is a telugu movie made very much on the lines of 'Lagaan'/'Chak De' as the basic idea of the movie revolves around the spirit of winning....however what seperates the movie from the rest is the fact that movie is made on shoe string budget, it does not have any big stars in it, the main stars are the children and the story has a very contemporary message to parents and schools who are madly behind achieving marks....the movie revolves around the story of a school which has been lagging behind in every department and therefore trustees are keen to monetise the school ground by constructing an 'IIT coaching centre'...the principal as a last ditch attempt wants the school to win the 'inter school cricket championship' and strikes a deal that if he wins the tournament then the decison for coaching centre will not be taken....in order to achieve his dream he gets his old student who was the captain of the school cricket team the last time when t...

Delhi Belly

Delhi belly is the story of the progressive, cosmo, journo kinda people living in delhi who mostly speak in english, comes from well to do family but making ends meet on their own etc....quite contrary to the typical associations we have with delhi at least from a language perspective for sure....the movie is almost 80% in english....secondly its not about politics, murder, rape, corruption etc....its a SITCOM against the backdrop of three guys living in delhi.....so in a nutshell the movie definitely takes you by surprise by the plot, execution and dialogues....Its definitely a much better product by 'Abhinay Deo' given his first attempt with game....possibly the gods (read amir khan) had a lot to do with it....the movie revolves around three guys (Imran, Vir & Kunal) living in a really shabby house somewhere in 'old delhi' and how they get caught in a series of events dealing with the search of smuggled diamonds.....the movie is a pure sitcom and sticks being that...