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Aug

Singh is Kinng

   Posted by: Shantanu   in Action, Comedy, Hindi, Miscellaneous

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Singh is Kinng

Language: Hindi

Genre: Comedy, Action

Cast: Akshay Kumar, Katrina Kaif, Om Puri, Kirron Kher, Ranvir Shorey, Javed Jaffri, Neha Dhupia

Reasons to Watch: No exercise of brain required, Akshay Kumar, Ranvir Shorey in a different role, some kinky but funny moments

Reasons not to: Hardly any story line, Om Puri and others wasted, largely unbearable songs.. too many reasons actually

Director: Anees Bazmee

Music: Typical Preetam Stuff, Period. And Snoop Dogg comes in the credits and fails to impress.

Storyline: Happy Singh is a happy go lucky villager who wants to help people but ends up causing a lot of trouble. To do away with him for a while, the villagers send Happy Singh to Australia to bring back Lucky Singh, a don in Australia who is from the same village. Happy is accompanied by his friend Rangeela and by some accident; they end up in Egypt rather than Australia. Here Happy meets Sonia and falls in love at first sight. Somehow Happy manages to reach Australia and ends up replacing Lucky Singh as the new don. Being the nice person that he actually is, Happy begins helping people and thus manages to show light to Lucky Singh and all his accomplices to cause a change of heart. Till something goes wrong again…

Climax Handling: Funny…

Points: Typical run-of-the-mill entertainer, lifted on the shoulders of Akshay Kumar, Katrina looks stunning and that is all that she has to do, Ranvir Shorey does a strangely different role.

Overall Rating: 7/10

Comment: Worth a casual look, go for it with a group of friends and come out laughing(at least smiling..) :D

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3
Aug

The Dark Knight

   Posted by: Shantanu   in Action, Crime, Drama, English, Miscellaneous, Thriller

Language: English

Genre: Comic Adaptation, Action, Drama, Thriller, Crime, Superhero

Cast: Christian Bale, Heath Ledger, Aaron Eckhart, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Gary Oldman, Morgan Freeman

Reasons to Watch: The JOKER, Heath Ledger, Edge-of-the-seat action, brilliant screenplay and amazing mind games, the perfect superhero movie.

Reasons not to: If you are afraid of the dark..! :D

Director: Christopher Nolan

Music: James Newton Howard and Hans Zimmer create a dark and riveting movie score, brooding yet glorious.

Storyline: Under the wings of the savior Batman, the caped crusader of the night and the flirtatious billionaire by the day, Gotham city feels safe. Not until it is haunted by a psychopathic criminal – the Joker – who is almost unnaturally cold, even for a villian, even for a serial killer – his only goal is to prove that his utter belief in violence and disorder is justified, his only fight is to prove to the world that corruption is what wins over ultimately, and all integrity that exists because of reason, can be ripped off to reveal the raw human inside, who only knows itself, and shall only please itself – while the Batman and newly appointed District Attorney Harvey Dent, along with Lt. James Gordon, fight to bring peace upon Gotham. But in this fight against the Joker, Batman must realize that the fight is not between him and joker, but between principle and discord. The Joker has made everything in Gotham dark, turning people against people, transforming Dent – the white night and upholder of justice into Two-face, a disturbed criminal. And thus begins the fight and there is so much to lose.

The Joker: See, I’m not a monster…I’m just ahead of the curve.

The Joker: See, I’m a man of simple tastes. I like dynamite…and gunpowder…and gasoline! Do you know what all of these things have in common? They’re cheap!

The Joker: People will die. Starting tonight. I’m a man of my word.

Climax Handling: Exceptional. To bind the audience in a lengthy movie isn’t easy and Nolan does it with utter ease.

Points: The most chilling villain you’ll ever come across – he is your worst nightmare – and worse – he is utterly believable. Heath Ledger’s swan song makes this movie unforgettable.

Overall Rating: 9.5/10

Comment: Go for it even if you know nothing about Batman. The Joker will make it up to you – Why so serious? :D

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