Dosar

A teacher puts a glass of liquor in front of students. She puts a live insect in the glass. The creature struggles for sometime then dies. Teacher asks, “What have we learnt form this?” A student answers," Drinking kills harmful worms present inside our body.” This is an old joke but certainly makes one thing clear that different people look at things differently. Rituparno Ghosh once again proved this point when he thought about 'marital infidelity.'
Dosar is story of a woman (Konkana Sen Sharma) whose husband (Prasenjit Chatterjee) has an extra marital affair. She struggles with this fact all through the movie and at last forgives him. The movie is different as never before a movie has thrown light on this topic in such an objective way. Ghosh delights viewers by his unending zeal to experiment with the story and picturisation. Dosar is a Black and White movie. The director wants filmgoers to explore the shades of gray marital infidelity offers.
At every moment cinematography compliments the film. Aveek Mukhopadhyay should be congratulated for his work. A beautiful story by Sirshendu Mukhopadhyay. The story starts when Prasenjit meets a car accident in which his mistress dies. In the next scene Konkana is shown struggling with 'worry and hatred.' Her character follows the gray shades of the film as on one hand she hates her husband and on the other she supports her brother's relation with a married woman. The movie explores both sides of the coin.
Interpretation of movies or any art form depends on perception. Again, different people see different aspects. And that’s where directors like Rituparno Ghosh score over others. They help you understand the topic better by exposing you to all the aspects of a story. He is master of ‘objective entertainment’ (if a term like this exit).

Darna Jaruri Hai

A story full of strange and frightening things designed to entertain people is a horror story. This is how Oxford dictionary defines the meaning of a horror story. Horror is a feeling of great shock, fear and disgust. But it can still entertain you. In the same way, a story about funny things for the purpose of entertainment is a comedy story. How many people thought that Horror and Comedy could co-exit to entertain? Ramgopal Verma did, not once but twice. Exactly like Darna mana hai, Darna Jaruri hai has a main story which binds 5 stories. Each story directed by a different director. All equally good and entertaining. Ram Gopal Varma, Jijy Phillip, Sajid Khan, J D Chakravarthy, Vivek Shah, Prawal Raman all did a great job. The movie has a warm up story directed by Sajid Khan. Manoj Pawah's story gave the movie a good start. One can not stop laughing when Manoj opens his mouth. Audience will remember his performance for long. The film starts with a school picnic near a jungle. Out of adventure, 5 childern leave the cottage hotel and enter the jungle. They find a deserted house and are forced to stay there due to heavy rains. An old lady invites them inside and then she narrates them 5 fearsome stroies. First story: This is story of a eccentric professor(Amitabh Bachchan) and his student( Riteish Deshmukh) directed by Ram Gopal Varma. Second stroy: Story of a film director (Anil Kapoor) and a girl who takes lift in his car (Mallika Sherawat). This story is directed by Jijy Phillip. Third story : Story of a man (Randeep Hooda) whose car hits a woman on his way to Pune. Next morning he finds himself in police station charged with murder. J D Chakravarthy directed this episode. Fourth story : Story of a couple (Suniel Shetty and Sonali Kulkarni) whose door is knocked by a strange insurance agent ( Rajpal Yadav) directed by Vivek Shah. Sixth story : Story of a man (Arjun Rampal) whose car breaks down and he takes help of a strange couple (Bipasha Basu and Makrand Deshpande). Prawal Raman directed this story. At last if you want to see how ‘Twinkle twinkle little star’ can be used in a horror movie, you need to watch the movie.

Gangster

Gangster is simply a love story but it is not a simple love story. All love stories have some thing different to offer. There is always an element which is not predictable. But a gangster’s love story can be easily predicted. And that’s where directors like Anurag Basu score over others. The moment you are in a position to predict ‘what’s next’ Basu has a surprise for you. His direction exhibits his clear vision and visualization.
Pritam’s music breathes life wherever the movie gets dull. Singer KK and Zubin are as good as they always are. Lyric writers Sayeed Quadri, Mayur, Neelesh Misra have a contribution in the success of songs.
Serial kisser Emraan Hashmi who is playing Akash has again proved lucky for the Bhatt camp. He has matured as an actor. Debutante Kangna Ranaut (Simran) looked good and has acted well. Her dialogue delivery needs some improvement. Shiney who played Daya, the gangster, is the best performer of all. His eyes did most of the dialogue delivery. He has strong facial expressions which is a character trait of all good actors. But he looked weak in scenes where he is crying aloud. Gulshan Grovar looked as ‘Bad’ as he always claims to be. He is a heroic villain.
The film moves around a gangster Daya and his neglected girl friend Simran. Daya’s complex life never allows him to give time to Simran and she finds solace in another relationship with a club singer Akash. Daya is outraged by this betrayal but soon realizes his mistake and tries to quit crime. Climax will take the audience by surprise as they know that Simran made a wrong decision in leaving Daya.
The camera placement is above average and has created magic in some scenes.
The marriage of songs and flashback sequences have added new chapter in the art of story telling. Over all -- an entertaining movie.

Banaras : A mystic love story

The film can be a source of spiritual satisfaction for those who love spirituality and mysticism. At the same time it may be torturous for those who never sailed the boat of spirituality.
The movie takes you on a tour to ‘Varanasi’. It shows the mesmerizing temples endless stairs, mighty ghats and above all religion and mysticism. Background music whispers soothing hymns in your ears.
Cinematographer Nirav Shah has done an excellent job. He has successfully captured the beauty and enigma of the oldest city of India --‘Banaras’.
Pankaj Parashar shoud be praised for showing courage for selecting such a different topic. He has established himself as a film maker with will to experiment and come out with good results.
Music director Himesh Reshammiya made use of the opportunity to come out of his silky voice and unnecessarily romantic tracks. Music is suitable and pleasing.
Great acting performances by Raj Babber and Nasiruddin Shah. Urmila had a strong role and she did that with confidence and courage. She has excelled as an actress.
Ashmit also acted well and did justice to the character of Soham.
Banaras is a story of a Brahmin girl Swetambari (Urmila) who loves a lower caste boy Soham (Ashmit Patel). Her parents are against their relation but they somehow agree to accept Soham as their son-in-law. Soham is murdered just before their marriage and Swatambari takes the path of religion and spirituality. Raj Babber played Swatambari’s father and Nasiruddin Shah played Babaji who is Soham’s spitual guru. Dimple looked fine as Swetambari’s mother
Some scenes like Dimple Kapadia’s realization of her sin had unnecessary drama and extra cinematic effects.
Over all it’s an unconvential movie and has the power to take you to a different world-- which is complete and true –Saral, Sahaj and Samporna.

Rang De Basanti

The movie is for those who can read between the lines and also for those who cannot. Rakyesh Omprakash Mehra understands that the only way to explain the meaning of 'Rang De Basanti' to GeNext is to call it 'RDB'. Mehra knows the trick of the trade. Drawing parallels between past and present is easy but making a film on it is difficult. Mehra did it successfully. The credit also goes to the scriptwriter Kamlesh Pandey as such movie is not possible without an excellent and well thought script. The story starts with a young British woman Sue (Alice Patten) who comes to India to make a documentry on Indian revolutionaries-- Chandrashekhar Azad, Bhagat Singh, Ramprasad Bismil and Ashfaq Ullah Khan. She has an old friend in India, Sonia (Soha Ali Khan) who introduces her to DJ( Aamir Khan), Karan (Sidharth Narayan), Aslam( Kuanal Kapoor) and Sukhi( Sharman Joshi). In the couse of making the documentry a fundamentalist Laxman(Atul Kulkarni) also joins the group.They promise to help Sue in her project.The story moves around this group. It also shows transition in thier lives and thoughts after one of their friend Ft Lt Ajay (R Mahadevan) dies in a Mig 21 crash. Later, they realise that the crash was an outcome of a corrupt defence deal, in which faulty MIG parts were purchased by the Defence Ministry. The youngmen then try to fight the corrupt system.RDB has excellent music and A R Rehman has once again created magic with 'Khalbali' and 'Rang De Basanti.' Above all, it's a thought provoking movie. No one would have imagined that they will see Bhagat Singh in the song. The repeatation of word 'ziddi ..ziddi.. ziddi SSSSS' has the power to make you get up from your chairs and shout ' Inqualab Zindabad'.Running two stories parallel was like looking at the past through present's window. In the last one or two years many patriotic films were released. But this film opens your eyes and help you see how Chandrashekhar Azad, Bhagat Singh, Ashfaqullah Khan and Ramprasad Bismil are still relevant. You may go home with lingering image of R Madhavan who is standing in Jallianwala Bagh at the time of massacre. A bullet hits him and he says with a smile " Sale ne jacket kharab kar di."

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