The recipe for making a good bollywood movie is to take a good non-bollywood movie - extract the concept and put in the normal bollywood masala - emotion, action, drama.
Bingo, thats how we got "U me aur hum" and "Shaurya". Well, but i am not going to talk about shourya here. Shourya was a exact - word to word copy of "A few good men". Whereas "U me aur hum" extracts the concept and weaves a story around it.
If any of you would have seen The Notebook, you would realize the similarity in concept between both of them.
The story is the same - an old man tells a story to a old women. The story is a simple "Boy meet girl" story where boy loves the girl very much and would do anything to stay with her. The girl developes an illness whereby she loses her memory for short spans of time. And since the boy loves the girl very much - he stays with the girl - even when the girl forgets that he is her husband/lover. And the climax tells that the touching story is of these two people.
The notebook was much better. It actually made me cry. And i rarely cry at movies. Whereas U me aur hum was emotional but heavy. It takes you to the brink of emotional overflow (crying) but does not make you cry. Which is why you may feel heavy after the movie. The Notebook on the other hand makes you emotional and then takes you through. It does not stop you from crying.
I am sorry, if this review feels more like a comparison. But i couldn't stop myself from comparing both of them.
The script is good. The acting is superb by both Ajay Devgun and Kajol. There are scenes which would touch you. Cinematography is very good. First half is fun filled. And the second half is the main film - emotional and touching.
Watch it with your spouse, it should make the bonds stronger.
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Sunday, May 04, 2008
Wednesday, September 05, 2007
legends cannot be remade
Yup thats true. You cannot remake legends. The originals are still the best. Why am i saying this? Well, recently i had a chance to watch the recently remade bollywood legend "sholay" - "Ram Gopal Verma ki AAG".
There has been remixes of all types of classic old songs. And remix videos with all "beautiful" gals dancing here and there. And yes upto some extent i tend to like them. But i cant hear them for ever. I can hear those remixes for some time. But the original songs are still the best and can be heard again and again.
There was the remake of the bollywood and amitabh bacchan classic - "DON" starring shah rukh khan. And it was not that good. The remake had one good quality that in the new version of "DON" - bad wins over good as opposed to the original version where good wins over bad. So though the movie was not that good the climax saved the movie and it did make some news. People liked it.
But then, what is wrong with "AAG"? Let me put it this way - it is a terrible mix of old and new. The movie is simply a very bad version for sholay. You cannot replace "Gabbar Singh" with "Babban" or "Thakur" with "mohanlal" or "Veeru" with "Heero" or "Jai" with "Raj" or "Basanti" with "Ghungroo" or "Dhanno" with "Laila". The original characters and their names were the best suited. Babban and mohanlal does not ring at all. Nor could you modernize the dialogues
Orignial - "Kitne Admi the?"
Remake - "Kitne ... Kitne"
It just does not ring. The final fight sequence is also very sick. And the mix of original sound track with modern sound track during the final fight sequence makes things terrible. You cannot remove thakur's fingers instead of his hand. And of course the thakur has to kill gabbar with his special shoes (with nails) rather than kill him with an axe or whatever...
Earlier bollywood movies used to be remakes of origial hollywood movies. Like the recently hit "Partner" was a remake of "Hitch". Though i enjoyed the orignial hollywood movie a lot more than the remake. But it still did make sense for those audience who do not watch or do not understand the hollywood movie/culture/language. But remake of a hindi original does not make sense at all.
It seems that the bollywood directors and producers and script writters have run out of new and fresh ideas and have also run out of more hollywood movies to remake. Though there a lot of hollywood moives which could be remade still... Or maybe, they are just tired of remaking hollywood movies.
Hope that "Victoria No 203" remake is better... Will watch it soon.
There has been remixes of all types of classic old songs. And remix videos with all "beautiful" gals dancing here and there. And yes upto some extent i tend to like them. But i cant hear them for ever. I can hear those remixes for some time. But the original songs are still the best and can be heard again and again.
There was the remake of the bollywood and amitabh bacchan classic - "DON" starring shah rukh khan. And it was not that good. The remake had one good quality that in the new version of "DON" - bad wins over good as opposed to the original version where good wins over bad. So though the movie was not that good the climax saved the movie and it did make some news. People liked it.
But then, what is wrong with "AAG"? Let me put it this way - it is a terrible mix of old and new. The movie is simply a very bad version for sholay. You cannot replace "Gabbar Singh" with "Babban" or "Thakur" with "mohanlal" or "Veeru" with "Heero" or "Jai" with "Raj" or "Basanti" with "Ghungroo" or "Dhanno" with "Laila". The original characters and their names were the best suited. Babban and mohanlal does not ring at all. Nor could you modernize the dialogues
Orignial - "Kitne Admi the?"
Remake - "Kitne ... Kitne"
It just does not ring. The final fight sequence is also very sick. And the mix of original sound track with modern sound track during the final fight sequence makes things terrible. You cannot remove thakur's fingers instead of his hand. And of course the thakur has to kill gabbar with his special shoes (with nails) rather than kill him with an axe or whatever...
Earlier bollywood movies used to be remakes of origial hollywood movies. Like the recently hit "Partner" was a remake of "Hitch". Though i enjoyed the orignial hollywood movie a lot more than the remake. But it still did make sense for those audience who do not watch or do not understand the hollywood movie/culture/language. But remake of a hindi original does not make sense at all.
It seems that the bollywood directors and producers and script writters have run out of new and fresh ideas and have also run out of more hollywood movies to remake. Though there a lot of hollywood moives which could be remade still... Or maybe, they are just tired of remaking hollywood movies.
Hope that "Victoria No 203" remake is better... Will watch it soon.
Sunday, January 14, 2007
guru
Guru, another movie my mani ratnam. Saw it just today. A nice movie. Good direction, good action and a good story.
It is about abhishek - guru, who has dreams to become rich. To become famous, to make something out of his life. And how he does it. All the difficulties he faces. And finally how he builds up his business.
He marries aish just for the sake of money, but later falls in love with her. How he fights the government and still wins the fight.
The movie motivates you, makes you feel that you should also do something with your life.
In terms of acting, abhishek shines. The performance he has given - the power, the personality he has shown makes him glow throughout the moive. Mithunda has played a very descent role.
The movie is worth at least a watch.
Rating: 4/5
It is about abhishek - guru, who has dreams to become rich. To become famous, to make something out of his life. And how he does it. All the difficulties he faces. And finally how he builds up his business.
He marries aish just for the sake of money, but later falls in love with her. How he fights the government and still wins the fight.
The movie motivates you, makes you feel that you should also do something with your life.
In terms of acting, abhishek shines. The performance he has given - the power, the personality he has shown makes him glow throughout the moive. Mithunda has played a very descent role.
The movie is worth at least a watch.
Rating: 4/5
Sunday, February 05, 2006
Rang De Basanti - the next gen patriotism movie
Went 2 see RDB last sunday. 10:30 pm show - the last show at PVR Spice... PVR spice is just walking distance from our rented acco in sector 12 Noida. Sorry for the delay in this post. Shud have posted it last sunday itself. But got stuck up in work sooooo...
The movie is very good. Songs are wonderful.
Movie starts off with sue trying to make a movie of Bhagat singh and legendary patriotics of india. And which is why she comes to india. Where she meets Amir khan and his gang of guys. Gets to interact with them and sees the current scenario of independent india and corruption in india. Gets to see the view of current generation about india. How the current generation tries to move out from india to developed countries. And during the course of acting in the movie, they come to know the sacrifices done for the independence of india. The movie is full of friendly scenes and fun between friends. You keep on smiling and laughing during this part of movie.
The actual movie starts off after about 1:30 hrs or so... When soha's fiancee madhavan is killed in a flight crash and nothing is done by the government. This brings into view the corruption in the country's defence department. Aamir and his friends try to fight it and die for it but are successful in igniting a fire in the current generation to fight the corruption.
This movie actually tries to make a move to change the current system in india. Hope it does make some changes. At least lets start from somewhere. Every begining has an end.
The movie is very good. Songs are wonderful.
Movie starts off with sue trying to make a movie of Bhagat singh and legendary patriotics of india. And which is why she comes to india. Where she meets Amir khan and his gang of guys. Gets to interact with them and sees the current scenario of independent india and corruption in india. Gets to see the view of current generation about india. How the current generation tries to move out from india to developed countries. And during the course of acting in the movie, they come to know the sacrifices done for the independence of india. The movie is full of friendly scenes and fun between friends. You keep on smiling and laughing during this part of movie.
The actual movie starts off after about 1:30 hrs or so... When soha's fiancee madhavan is killed in a flight crash and nothing is done by the government. This brings into view the corruption in the country's defence department. Aamir and his friends try to fight it and die for it but are successful in igniting a fire in the current generation to fight the corruption.
This movie actually tries to make a move to change the current system in india. Hope it does make some changes. At least lets start from somewhere. Every begining has an end.
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