Language: Hindi
Genre: Drama, Romance
Cast: Shahid Kapoor, Genelia D’ Souza, Mohnish Behl, Parikshit Sahni
Director: Ken Ghosh
Music: Adnan Sami & Pritam
Reasons to watch: Shahid Kapoor has tremendously improved as a dancer. And of course his chiseled abs (for the ladies).
Reasons not to watch: For a movie driven by dance, the music by Adnan Sami and Pritam is [...]
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On January - 28 - 2010
On January - 10 - 2010
Language: Hindi
Genre: Romantic comedy
Cast: Uday Chopra, Priyanka Chopra, Dino Morea, Anupam Kher
Director: Jugal Hansraj
Music: Salim-Sulaiman
Reasons to watch: It is one of the first releases this year. So you will want to watch it.
Reasons not to watch: Story and screenplay by Uday Chopra — KEEP OFF!
Storyline: Abhay Sharma (Uday Chopra) and Alisha Merchant (Priyanka Chopra) study [...]
categories: Hindi, Romantic Comedy
On December - 28 - 2009
The year 2009 was as usual a good mix of box-office disasters and blockbuster hits that sum up the Bollywood releases every year. But what definitely has improved in 2009, is the ‘quality’ of movies that have raised the standards in terms of story-telling and the whole concept of movie-making. The Movie Analyst presents to [...]
On December - 26 - 2009
Language: Hindi
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Cast: Aamir Khan, R. Madhavan, Sharman Joshi, Kareena Kapoor, Boman Irani, Omi Vaidya
Director: Rajkumar Hirani
Music: Shantanu Moitra
Reasons to watch: It is Christmas time and good laughs are guaranteed.
Reasons not to watch: Some scenes drill in the film’s message too often.
Storyline: Rancho (Aamir Khan), as it turns out, can do just about [...]
On December - 19 - 2009
The winning combo of SRK and Karan Johar is back. This time it is ‘My Name is Khan’. This Shahrukh-Kajol starrer has raised expectations after the paltry response SRK’s previous movie Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi received. This 4 minute official trailer takes you for a short ride into the movie with Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy’s BGM blending [...]
On December - 18 - 2009
Language: Hindi
Genre: Comedy
Cast: Ranbir Kapoor, Manish Chaudhary, Gauhar Khan, Naveen Kaushik, Mukesh Bhatt
Director: Shimit Amin
Music: Salim-Sulaiman
Reasons to watch: Films like this are rare and hard to come by.
Reasons not to watch: The first half tests your patience.
Storyline: Harpreet Singh Bedi (Ranbir Kapoor) is a quixotic B.Com graduate with an embarrassing 35% aggregate. In spite of [...]
On December - 13 - 2009
Language: Hindi
Genre: Drama
Cast: Amitabh Bachchan, Abhishek Bachchan, Vidya Balan
Director: R. Balki
Music: Ilayaraja
Reasons to watch: Watch it for the brilliant performances of Amitabh Bachchan and Vidya Balan.
Reasons not to watch: For a simple father-son story (mother-son would be more apt), Balki stretches the movie too far.
Storyline: Simple storyline – Boy loves girl. Girl loves boy. Girl [...]
On August - 19 - 2008
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 [...]
On July - 12 - 2008
Language: Hindi
Genre: Drama, Romance, College
Cast: Imran Khan, Genelia D’Souza
Direction: Abbas Tyrewala
Reasons to watch: MUSIC! JAZZ by A R Rehman. Just mind blowing! Well written dialogues. Meticulous direction and art direction. Aamir Khan Productions, Cute cute cute cute Imran Khan, very cute Genelia.
Reasons not to: Story is quite predictable. And the climax disappoints a lot.
Story: College [...]
On June - 3 - 2008
Language: Hindi
Genre: Mafia, Action, Drama
Cast: Amitabh Bachchan, Abhishek Bachchan, K.K.Menon, Katrina Kaif, Supriya Pathak
Reasons to Watch: Vintage Ram Gopal Verma stuff, stunning performances, a gripping tale quite close to The Godfather. Francis Ford Coppola would have felt proud.!
Reasons not to: If you are too obsessed with The GodFather, Al [...]
