Aamir Khan thinks Genelia is next Juhi
Our Deshpremi aka Aamir khan seems to be heavily impressed with Genelia, actress apposite to Imran Khan who is Amir Khan’s cousin in their debutant movie Jaane tu Ya Jaane na.
When Aamir was asked what he thinks about Genelia, ever buoyant Aamir khan laughed and said-“ She reminds me of Juhi Chawla in Quamat se Qyamat tak. Jaane tu ya jaane na is a fresh campus, light romatic, breezy movie.
Everyone is only talking about Imraan Khan, my nephew, but when I saw some portions of the film, Genelia strongly reminded me of Juhi Chawla from QSQT. For Juhi too it was not her first film and she had come in two or three films before that but after QSQT released, everyone thought that it was Juhi’s first film.
Similarly Genelia too had done a couple of films before but when people will see her in Jaane Tu… Ya Jaane Na everyone will immediately identify with her character.”
Music Review : Ada…a way of life
Music Album- Ada…a way of life
Artist- A R Rehman
Singer- Rashid Ali, Sonu Nigam, Alka Yagnik, Sunidhi Chauhan, Viviane Chaix, Chitra, Sukhwinder Singh, Naresh Iyer, Udit Narayan, Parul Mishra & Jayachandran
A R Rehman is back with a break and this year he has many releases under his belt. His last music was heard in Jodha- Akbar which was a reasonably hit. Now A R Rehman has issued his own Album – Ada…a way of life. He once again has come up with some melodious and sweet music.
Song Ada (Male version)
Song is sung by a newcomer Rashid Ali whose voice reminds of Rehman himself. Rashid Ali has Sufi touch in his voice and he deoes complete justice with the song. Impressive rhythm with jazz effect. Typical Rehman song which creates its effects slowly slowly and becomes masterpiece.
Hawa Sun Hawa ( Sonu Nigam and Alka Yagnik)
Alka Yagnik’s voice seems fresh in this song unlike her recent compositions. Whenever Sonu says “hawa”, there is hollowness to his voice that makes you feel like a gush of air just passed across you. Beautiful flute interludes. I’ve always felt Sonu’s pronunciations are brilliant. A completely refreshing song. Flute is very sweet in the middle of the song.
Gum Sum (Sonu Nigam and Alka Yagnik)
Extremely talented Sonu sings this ordinary composition brilliantly. His variations are flawless and notes on target. Beautiful beats to give your head a high roll. Ending of the song leaves you surprised with increasing strumming rock effect.
Gulfisha (Sonu Nigam, Sunidhi Chauhan & Vivian Chaix)
The song opens with Vivian’s chanting of what sounds to me like Parseltongue. And Sunidhi is one person who can beautifully carry off a base voice as well as high notes. The way both Sonu & Sunidhi sing the word “Ada” is very flirtatious. Finally, there is an alaap done by Sunidhi which gradates to Vivian’s chanting and closes on a very mysterious note.
Meherbaan (A R Rehmaan)
Arguable the best song of the album. What godly voice A R Rehmaan has with magical effect of his pronounciation. Simply Aswome to hear. A delight for all music lovers. It can’t get better than this.
Tu mera hai (Chitra, Sukhwinder Singh, Naresh Iyer)
This is more of a typical bolllywood song with Chitra singing well. Dark, serious and catchy song which is reasonably ok. Naresh Iyer is good too. This song transform into Gajhal in the last part.
Hai Dard (Udit Narayan)
Use of heavy metal and Arabic interludes in the middle combined with Udit Narayan’s talent has elevated this ordinary sad song to much better and its again a very decent sad song to listen to.
Ishq Ada ( Parul Mishra)
Ishq ada is sung by Parul Mishra which is a newcomer like Rashid. Song is beautifully sang by her as innocence of her voice leaves a soothing effect on audience.
Milo Wahan Wahan (Alka Yagnik, Jayachandran)
This song was made for Alka and she has mastery in this type of songs. A beautiful composition and well sang. Jayachandran is ok with little overstressed pronounciation.
Meherbaan (Instrumental)
Meherbaan is the best song in the album and Rehmaan well realize it so he might have decided to release a Instrumental version of the song. Sanjeev Thomas impresses with his guitar skills.
Though all the songs are beautiful but my favourite song in this Album is Meherbaan by AR Rehman , the song by God himself. A R Rehman is priceless and I would thank him for giving such a beautiful album once again
Movie Preview : Aashayein
Aashayein is another experimental movie from talented young director- Nagesh Kukunoor who ropes in John Abraham, masculine and handsome model turned Bollywood actor for the main lead for the first time.
Aashayein starts with Rahul Singh (John Abraham), a compulsive gambler winning Rs.20 million from a bet. He throws a lavish party to celebrate in which he also proposes Nafisa (Sonal Sehgal). He announces their engagement to all present, then collapses on the floor. In hospital, he learns that he has only 90 days to live. Here story takes philosophical turn as Rahul sets for a journey to live remaining last 90 days of life to the fullest which eventually turns out to be a truth seeking experience. In 90 days as he meets different people, experiences different shades of life – love, hatred, hope, despair, death, light and dark and discovers the truth of life.
Releasing date- June 20, 2008
Language- Hindi
Genre- Drama
Cast & Crew: Cast: John Abraham, Prateeksha Lonkar, Shreyas Talpade, Anaitha Nair
Director: Nagesh Kukunoor
Movie Review : Sarkar Raj (2008)
Ram Gopal Verma had a point to prove in the bollywood after the disastrous sequel of Sholey- RGV Ki Aag and he does it with style by his newly released movie – Sarkar Raj. He is the best in the business when it comes to the movies of duo of politics and crime genre.
With the sequel of earlier box office successful and critically acclaimed Sarkar, he had a bigger task of taking the legend ahead while narrating a new drama; and to a decent degree he succeeds in carrying the legacy forward. While prequel was inspired from Francis Ford Coppola’s classic Godfather 1, sequel draws no inspiration from Godfather 2 and it’s an original script by Ramu himself and Prashant Pandey. The script is tightly held throughout the movie and is almost flawless.
In the sequel, Sarkar aka Subhash Nagre (Amitabh Bachchan) takes a backseat as son Shankar Nagre (Abhishek Bachchan) takes hold of the family empire. An NRI industrialist Anita Ranjan (Aishwarya Rai) approaches the Nagre family with a power plant project to be set in the local lands of Maharashtra under Sarkar’s domain. After initial reluctance, Sarkar gives a go ahead to the venture which soon takes shape of a political conspiracy.
Ramu’s narration of the story has its own style. His stories are strongly bonded with strong characters still characters never supersede the script. Every character neatly performs under the boundaries of the story and superb narration makes a perfectly glued characters and story.In this movie also RGV has kept the theme of the prequel intact with popular “Govinda-Govinda” chanting. In some parts movie takes repetitive tone of its prequel especially in the portrayal of villain characters. Characters are moulded in same set of minds like in the prequel and it quits the freshness of the script.
Ramu adopted new character responsibility when he reversed the roles of Amitabh Bachhan and Abhishek Bachhan in the sequel. While Abhishek Bachhan is side watcher in the first half of the prequel and take the front lead in later half, in sequel Abhishek leads in the first half and Big B takes command in the later half.
Though entire movie is well knit with its marvelous script, what leaves you breathless is the climax of the story when new surprises emerges leaving you amazed with beautiful and logical explanation. Dialogues are meaningful and well though of. Screenplay of the climax is flawless and work of Amitabh Bachhan on the screen pays off well.
From acting’s point of view Aish is better, Govind Namdev, Saiyaji Shinde and Upendra Lamaye typical RGV characters. Amitabh Bachhan is ever evolving and anything is insufficient to describe his acting prowess. But the major attraction of this movie is Abhishek Bachhan’s performance. We have seen the hint of talent he has in his earlier movies – Yuva, Guru and Sarkar. He has grown better and better with every movie and it seems Big B can be proud of the way junior B has commanded in his past movies. This movies marks the new beginning in Abhishek’s career. He is definitely in the race of country’s finest acting talent all time. He is calm, evolving gracious and self confident. He can become true successor of Big B , if continued on this path.
Overall must watch for all who enjoys movies. A masterpiece to watch.
Cast
Cast: Aishwarya Rai, Amitabh Bachchan, Abhishek Bachchan,
Crew
Publicity Designer: Rahul Nanda, Himanshu Nanda
Story Writer: Prashant Pandey
Sound Designer: Debashish Mishra
Director: Ram Gopal Varma
Producer: Pravin Nischol, Z Picture Company, Ram Gopal Varma
Music
Music Director: Bapi – Tutul
Background Sound: Amar Mohile
Music Company: T-Series
Rating – 4.5/5
Movie Review : Aamir (2008)
Aamir is an intriguing tale of politico-conspiracy thriller genre. It’s a debut movie for Rajiv Khandelwal.
It’s a story of a doctor who was living his peaceful and comfortable life in London and all of a sudden he is amidst of enigmatic conspiracy, criminal world and scapegoat of terrorist activities. Aamir Ali who returns from London is surprised to see no one at air port to receive him at the airport from his family. In a dramatic scene, he finds out that his family has been kidnapped by a terrorist group and if he wants to save their life he will have to follow their instruction. Horrified and scared Aamir follow their instruction and thus start his never ending- traumatic journey through narrow , dirty, unknown Mumbai lanes.
Eventually he figures out that he is being involved in a bombing conspiracy. Story also draws inspiration from the theme of Muslim Victimization in the wake of terrorism in the movies of this year like Shaurya, Khuda Ke liye, Black and White, A Hope and Little Sugar. Movie ultimately tries to raise the ubiquitous question – do you choose your destiny or does destiny choose you?
The movie does well in the first half when the story is fast, well bound and well shot with technical excellence. Cameragraphy is good with disturbing camera effects, focus on eyes of Aamir who is running wildly in strange lanes of Mumbai,-horrified, scared and confused. His run scenes are exceptionally well shot and Rajiv’s natural acting is a delight to watch as a common man. The background is well placed with the pace of the movie.
But movie ends rather meekly with some illogical and unsolved questions like why Aamir was chosen for this mission. Its fails in the climax as story becomes loose and untidy.
Movie has its plus points in the acting of Rajiv Khandelwal’s performance as he has played the role of common man. He has shown remarkable talent and we will surely see more of him in coming future.
Despite its all setbacks movie should be applauded for its daring steps and keeping it away from the typical bollywood masala of love angle, item numbers, and songs. Those who like experiments and movies different from Mundane bollywood stuff , are advised to watch the movie.
Casting
Producer : Ronnie Screwvala
Associate Producer : Ram Mirchandani, Alpana Mishra
Co-Producer : Zarina Mehta, Vikas Bahl, Deven Khote, Siddharth Roy Kapur
Creative Producer : Anurag Kashyap
Director : Rajkumar Gupta
Cast : Rajeev Khandelwal
Music Director : Amit Trivedi
Lyricist : Amitabh
Story Writer : Rajkumar Gupta
Dialogue Writer : Rajkumar Gupta
Screenplay Writer : Rajkumar Gupta
Editor : Aarti Bajaj
Production Designer : Wasiq Khan
Playback Singer : Qadir Khan, Murtuza Khan, Amit Trivedi, Neuman Pinto, Shilpa Rao, Amitabh
Movie Preview : Drona
Drona is upcoming movie of Abhishek bachhan and its being dubbed as one of the most important film of Abhishek’s career. Junior Bachhan who is drawing positive feedback from critics for his newly released Sarkar Raj is playing the cameo of Super-Hero in this movie, similar to what Hritik played in Krrish.
Like Hritik’s character in Krrish, Abhishek has super natural power in this movie but the storyline is contrasted to the Pro-Western theme of Krrish.
Drona is the tale of a superhuman who faces extreme trials of legendary mystical labyrinths, evil force, lethal magicians, and deadly curses but still he is determined to carry the legacy of mythological heroes forward.
Universal and ubiquitous theme of good-evil struggle is the main plot of the movie and Abhishek is projected as the super-human guard of the good.
ironically to add to the drama, Abhishek is guarded by Priyanka Chopra who is his bodyguard in this movie, Though its still difficult to fathom why a super hero need a bodyguard (A fresh approach , since we have never seen this concept in super hero movies). Priyanka Chopra has been given special martial art training for this movie. News is hot that the stunt scene performed by Priyanka Chopra will leave viewers breath-less. Movie is claimed to have superior special technical effects than Hritik’s Krrish.
Abhishek bachhan will be seen for the first time as son of Jaya Bachhan in this movie though its not the first movie together for them. They have worked previously in ‘Laaga chunri mein daag’ but Jaya was not mother of Abhishek Bachhan in that movie. Movie is expected to release soon in this month or next.
Casting
Director- Goldie Behl
Cast- Abhishek Bachhan, Priyanka Chopra, Jaya Bachhan, Kay Kay Menon
Screenplay- Goldie Behl, Jaydeep Sarkar
Cinematography- Sameer Arya
Music- Ashu Dhruv
Production House- Rose Movies
Distributor- Eros International
