New York

Cast: John Abraham, Katrina Kaif, Neil Nitin Mukesh, Irrfan Khan
Writer: Aditya ChopraCostume Designer: Rocky S.
Director: Kabir Khan




Omar (Neil) is picked up by the FBI and detained for arms found in his owned taxi. Basically it’s a well planned set up by FBI officer Roshan (Irrfan) and his boss to get Omar agreeing on to work as an undercover agent for them and infiltrate the family the life of Samir (John) and Maya (Katrina) who were Omar’s college friends 7-8 years back. Roshan suspects Samir of running a sleeper terrorism cell and he wants to nab him red handed. Omar is left with no option but to comply with Roshan’s orders but he agrees on one condition that the FBI won’t kill Samir if he agrees to surrender. Years back when in college Omar, Maya and Samir were thick buddies and Omar silently loved Maya but when she expressed her love for Samir, Omar had gone away from them. What truth Omar uncovers when he meets Samir and Maya both now a married couple with a small kid Danielle and what it all leads to forms the rest of the film.
New York can easily be considered the best film to come out of the Yash Raj stable after Chak De India. Shot entirely in the US, the film not only is on par with the best of the Hollywood films made in this genre but is a completely different experience which the Bollywood audience is not used to. You are completely hooked from the first scene of the film when Neil is arrested by FBI and the interrogation that follows by Irrfan of Neil’s. The first half is extremely well narrated and keeps you constantly guessing as to what will happen next. The interval point is a shocker and you look forward to an exciting second half. But then the pace of the second half somehow doesn’t match up that of the first half and there are some predictable things in store. But nonetheless it is packed with some really great moments. The whole frisking episode of Katrina Kaif by a cop on the road late at night and the sequences that follow it linger on your mind for long. The climax though a bit word heavy is superbly shot as well. The torture scenes shown immediately post the interval send a shiver down your spine. Pritam’s music is easy on the ears and there are no lip sync songs to hamper the proceedings.
New York scores high in the acting department with each single actor delivering his/her best. John Abraham often termed as an expressionless actor has delivered his career’s finest performance. Katrina Kaif has finally got the meatiest role of her career and she has taken full advantage of it. She is very good in emotional scenes as well. Neil in a difficult part shines. Irrfan Khan never disappoints and here again he is in great form. His scenes with Neil and also his senior officer have turned out well.

Kambakkht Ishq

Story: Kambakkht Ishq explores the relationship between two individuals as different from each other as chalk and cheese. No matter how many times they are pushed together, there are only fireworks...no fire. Viraj Shergill (Akshay Kumar) is a swashbuckling stuntman in Hollywood who lives by the mantra "women are only good for two things... making love & making love". Simrita Rai (Kareena Kapoor) is a firebrand who is more than able to stare down the most arrogant male with her caustic wit and sardonic tongue... her firm belief "there's no such thing as love".

So what happens when the two people who hate each other the most meet at Simrita's best friend Kamini's and Viraj's brother Lucky's wedding? ... a wedding that both Viraj and Simrita are violently opposed to and desperate to stop.

Sparks fly, absurd, hilarious situations until one dramatic twist of fate binds the two together in a manner that they could have never ever even dreamed of in their wildest fantasies. The battle of the sexes on. Who is going to throw the punches and who is going to blow the kisses?



Star Cast: Akshay Kumar, Kareena Kapoor, Sylvester Stallone, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Amrita Arora, Denise Richards

Director: Sabir Khan

HISS

Story: In the movie Mallika Sherawath plays the role of a snake woman, who hunts in cities as a beautiful woman in search of a perfect mate. For this role she had to take in a lot of sacrifices. She had to wear contact lenses which would even cover the white of her eyes. Due to the pain in her eyes she was forced to remove it after every 2 hours or so. She had to wear the snake costume for almost 8 to10 hours continuously. She could not walk in the costume and had to be carried around.

The movie also has Indian actor Irrfan Khan playing a major role of a cop, who was given the assignent to track her down and stop the destruction that she was making in the city.

Star Cast: Irrfan Khan, Mallika Sherawat, Jeff Douchette, Divya Dutta, Raman Trikha

Director: Jennifer Lynch

Kal Kisne Dekha

Story: Nihal Singh from Chandigarh is a seemingly simple yet unconventional boy. He talks too much, questions everything and builds complicated gadgets in his spare time. He has a brilliant mind and an oddball sort of charm. He adores his mother, has dreams of studying in the most elite institute of science and always looks for big ideas in small things. When he is accepted into his dream college in Bombay city, he is over the moon. College is a whole new world, full of color, new people and new challenges to be met. Initially nobody takes him seriously. He is ragged by his seniors, insulted by the girl he likes and so on. Nihal, however, slowly wins them over. The girl Nihal likes is Meesha. She is the spoilt brat of the college. She is proud, rude and rolling in money. And she cannot accept that Nihaal is managing to charm everyone. Including Professor Verma, the warden of the college. Professor Verma is fascinated by Nihal’s unique mind and agrees to become his mentor. Suddenly Nihal’s world is rudely interrupted. Nihal gets visions of Meesha being in danger. He saves her life and his secret is revealed. The media and TV channels are all buzzing with only one news; ‘‘Nihal Singh from Chandigarh can see the future’’. Meesha softens towards him and love blooms. But how long will the peace last? What Nihal doesn’t know is that someone is trying to use his gift against him. In his innocence he is manipulated and his visions become a tool. Will betrayal be his fate...or will Nihal’s brilliant mind recognize the traitor before he destroys everything that Nihal loves...? Kal Kissne Dekha?



Star Cast: Jacky Bhagnani - Nihal Singh Vaishali Desai - Meesha Rishi Kapoor Archana Puran Singh Irfan Khan

Director: Vivek Sharma

99

Story: The film starts with the Mumbai in 1999. Story revolves around two crooks (Kunal Khemu, Cyrus Broacha), who run illegal SIM card “business.” Sachin and Zaramud’s place they steal a posh Mercedes and try to run but end up ramming it into a lamp post. They soon landed in the trouble, when they rob a car and worse, meet with an accident. The car belongs to a gangster -Mahesh Manjrekar-, who asks them to reimburse the amount. To recover his huge loss from them AGM gets the duo working under him. AGM then sends the two to Delhi to recover Rs. 20 lakhs from Rahul Vidyarthi (Boman) who had laid a bet on a India v/s New Zealand match under his syndicate.Soon the movie takes serious turn.
The film is good enough. The film carries the tag line. The film treatment is fresh. You has the content so that you will enjoy it.



Star Cast: Kunal Khemu, Cyrus Broacha, Boman Irani, Soha Ali Khan, Mahesh Manjrekar and Vinod Khanna

Director: Raj Nidimoru and Krishna DK

Rating: ***1/2

8x10 tasveer

Story: According to the story of 8x10 tasveer, Jai (Akshay Kumar) is a Forest Ranger in Canada. Jai is blessed with supernatural powers with which he can look at any photograph and can actually go right into that moment when it was actually clicked. By this he can help others but the process is dangerous to his health and this process can kill him.
He loves his girlfriend (Ayesha Takia) and have a live in relationship with Sheela and staying separately from his parents Jatin (Benjamin Gilani) and Savitri (Sharmila Tagore) because he doesn’t approve of his father’s business dealings.
Once His dad goes on a cruise with his wife and friends, slips and ends up at the bottom of the ocean. His life gets shattered when he comes to know about his father’s death. His mother, father’s business partner cum brother Sunder (Anant Mahadevan), business associate Adit (Rushad Rana) and good friend cum lawyer Anil Sharma (Girish Karnad) were present on the yacht when the accident took place. While Jai too dismisses it as an accident, Habib aka Happi (Javed Jaffery) a whimsical ex-cop meets him and explains the possibility of a murder.
The movie is full of suspense. How one shocking revelation leads to other and what “truth” comes face to face at the pre-climax forms the rest of the film.



Star Cast: Akshay Kumar, Ayesha Takia, Sharmila Tagore, Girish Karnad, Javed Jaffrey, Anant Mahadevan, Rushad Rana and Uttara Baokar;

Director: Nagesh Kukunoor

Straight

Story: The story of straight shows ‘teda meda’ path, but what’s that? In the story there is a successful restaurant in London run by the Indian man Pintu(Vinay Pathak). A well off businessman, Pintu however is a very insecure and under-confident man, who views his own life as a string of tragicomic moments. Pintu wants to to do arrange marriage with Indian girl. when Pinu went to India to have an arranged marriage to a traditional girl who finally dumped him at the altar and eloped with her lover, Pinu is broken and disheartened…traumatized to have been the laughing stock of the evening. All is despair, until Pinu discovers that he may have found the love of his life, but is it Renu ( Gul), the curvy yet wholesome cashier employed in his Indian eatery, or Kamlesh ( Anuj), pronounced without the `h’, crack chef-cum-wannabe-stand-up comedian?
The movie is no laugh riot. It begins well with some intelligently executed sequences but soon settles down to a lazy, relaxed pace as the screenplay wobbles from one character to another. Not only is there a notable absence of some laugh-worthy humour, there’s no attempt on the director’s part to make the characters in the story relatable. The music and the background score are amateurish.
Star Cast: Vinay Pathak, Gul Panag, Anuj Chaudhary, Siddharth Makkar, Ketaki Dave, Rasik Dave ;
Director: Parvati Balagopalan

Gulal

Story: The story of the movie revolves around Dilip Singh (Raj Singh Chaudhary) a member of a royal family, comes to Rajpur to study law. In the college he is soon embroiled into local politics. The local kingpin Dukey Bana (Kay Kay Menon) compels Dilip to contest in the college elections makes him win. Later they plan for a revolution, challenging the democracy. there is a wavering Rajput youngster Rananjay Singh Ransa (Abhimanyu Singh) who hates the past, not sure of the future and can’t cope with the present. There is a manipulator (Aditya Srivastava) who desperately strives to dethrone Dukey and restore the pride of the Bana royalty but becomes the victim of his own viciousness. There are Jadwal (Pankaj Jha), Anuja (Jesse Randhawa), Bhati (Deepak Dobriyal ) and Kiran (Ayesha Mohan) each having an agenda.

Star Cast: Kay Kay, Raja Singh Chaudhary, Abhimanyu Singh, Aditya Srivastava, Piyush Mishra, Deepak Dobriyal, Ayesha Mohan, Jesse Randhawa, Mahie Gill
Director: Anurag Kashyap
Rating: ***

Aloo Chat

In the film “Aloo Chat” aftab shivdasani play the main character role. As the name of the movie reflects, it’s story is also the same means mixing with masala. The life of the aftab become more confusing. He likes a girl(Aamna Shariff) and also want to marry her. But there is a problem because his family don’t want him to marry with the girl of his choice. His family is very orthodox family. They want to choose girl for him of their choice.
Then what is the option for him, when his entire family is against the bride of his choice? What he has to do? he has to replace his family (that is not really possible) or his bride (which he does not want) or make an aloo chaat of his life (if not this, then what else!!). This is main twist in the story. The story is very funny that you entertain it a lot.

Star Cast: Aftab Shivdasani, Aamna Shariff, Linda Arsenio, Kulbhushan Kharbanda, Manoj Pahwa, Dolly Ahluwalia, Meenakshi, Sanjay Mishra, Brijendra Kala, Kailash Soni , Chandan Anand
Director: Robby Grewal
Rating: **

Dhoondte Reh Jaoge

The movie is full of entertainment. you can say it quite funny movie. In the movie the Anand(Kunal Khemu) is a chartered accountant and Raj(Paresh Rawal) is a film producer.
They want to make money. For this they make a huge plan. According to the plan they decide to produce a feature film. Actually they want to make a film so badly so that people would reject it on the first day of its realese. Anand and Raj believe this would give them a foolproof chance to decamp with the remaining huge amount they've raised for the making of this venture. They want to see movie as one of the biggest flop movie but the film turns out to be a huge hit. The result is quite opposite as they want. You can see, how they handle the situation now in the movie.

Star Cast: Soha Ali Khan, Kunal Khemu, Sonu Sood, Paresh Rawal
Director: Umesh Shukla
Rating : *1/2

Aa Dekhe Zara

In the movie Neil Nitin Mukesh plays the character of Ray Acharya. Ray Acharya is a struggler. Suddenly his luck plays an important role and he got a very special camera from his grandfather.This camera has actually some special power in it.After getting this inherited camera he becomes successful.He finds everything which he wants.The camera give him a ray of hope in his life.As the days passes he become more and more happy and he also find a girl Bipasha Basu, who is in the role of Disco Jockey(Simi).Simi is a very sexy lady with a mind of her own.
As the great power takes great responsibility.A twist occurs in the story.with all of his happiness, now his life is also going to face real danger.Now, how he manages this phase of his life.How he handle the dark side of life.You can see this in the story of movie…Aa Dekhe Zara.
Star Cast: Bipasha Basu, Neil Nitin Mukesh, Rahul Dev, Sophie Choudhary
Director: Jehangir Surti
Rating: ***

Jugaad

The story starts with an insight into the demanding life of an advertising agency, led by the successful CEO, Sandip Kapur. Life is the worst, and pushes the desperate CEO direction JUGAADbaazi and all temporary work, a characteristic typical of all the Indians across the nation. Therefore, many new characters as real estate dealers, power brokers, politicians and senior officers come in play. While Kapur makes use of the best connections and fraud, he is not in their attempts to influence the authorities. Finally, he is alone on the road, together with his team.
Manoj Bajpai is a talented actor. He can get better option.In all you can say the movie is not very good.

Star Cast: Manoj Bajpai, Vijay Raaz, Sanjay Mishra, Govind Namdeo, Hrishita Bhatt

Director: R Anand Kumar
Rating: **

The Stoneman Murders

According to the story 'The Stoneman Murders' revolves around the city of Mumbai, where serial killings are taking place at a rapid pace. The serial killer, who has been named 'Stoneman' by the media - due to the way he kills people, has already claimed his fifth victim. Still, the case seems to be of little interest to Mumbai Police force. However, there is one person in, rather out of, the police who deems it to be of great importance - suspended sub-inspector Sanjay Shelar (Kay Kay Menon). To him, the killer presents an opportunity to come back into the police force.
Stoneman is the movie full of suspense and the suspense continues after the end of the movie as well. Kay Kay Menon with his strong, wry unsmiling presence brings grit to the feeble drama. Arbaaz is getting better with every film. Rukhsar was extremely hot with her bare back.

Star Cast: Kay Kay Menon, Arbaaz Khan, Vikram Gokhale, Rukhsar, Virendra Saxena
Director: Manish Gupta
Rating: ***

Delhi-6

American-born Roshan (Abhishek Bachchan), who brings his ailing grandmother back to India. Little does he know that the quick trip will turn into the longest journey of his life - a journey within. The backdrop of the story is the ancient walled city of Delhi, a character in herself. She represents the chaos, religion, beliefs and ethos of the Indian people. The pin code of the city is 110006, and with pride of love they call her Delhi-6.


Star Cast: Abhishek Bachchan, Sonam Kapoor, Om Puri, Atul Kulkarni, Divya Dutta
Director: Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra

Billu Barber

Billu (Irrfan Khan) plays a village barber. His business is running low because he has not been able to upgrade himself according to the changing trends. One fine day, a film unit visits his village to shoot a movie. It stars a superstar (Shahrukh Khan), who was once Billu’s school friend. All at once, Billu’s status in the village changes, and he becomes highly respected. Everyone wants him to meet the superstar. But Billu is unsure, as he feels he cannot compare to the superstar’s status. Besides, he fears that the star may not recognize him. He makes many attempts to meet the star but fails. After all these hardships, he gives up. But people think that he lied about the relationship with the star and start insulting him. His family and children also gets upset.
In the end, for an invited school function, the star reveals his past. He tells the audience that in his school days he had a friend who always stood by him in his hardships. He tells how much the friend helped him by providing food when he was hungry, provided clothes when he did not having any. He tells that the friend gave him the money to join acting by selling his ancestral ear ring and that friend happens to be Billu.
Billoo Barber is a movie produced by Shahrukh Khan. Priyadarshan is the director of Billoo Barber.
Billoo Barber is a remake of Malayalam film Kadha Parayumbol. The movie is also remade in Tamil named Kuselan staring Pasupathy and Rajinikanth in lead role but didn’t perform well on box office.



Star Cast: Shahrukh Khan (Sahir Khan ), Irfan Khan (Billo Barber), Lara Dutta (Billo Barber's wife ), Rajpal Yadav (Jhallan Kumar ), Om Puri (Damchand )
Special Appearance : Kareena Kapoor, Priyanka Chopra, Deepika Padukone

Director: Priyadarshan
Rating: ***

Slumdog Millionaire

According to the story, two cops played by Irrfan Khan and Saurabh Shukla question a young Jamal for cheating in the Indian version of quiz show 'Who wants to be a Millionaire'. They think that a slum dweller cannot answer the quiz. But, Danny takes due note of Jamal's travel from a slum to that of the Rs two million quiz winner! Significantly, Jamal wins even in the wake of the losing his mother and childhood sweetheart Latika during this long journey. He has been optimistic though unlike his brother Salim.
The movie is set in the backdrop of India's most popular metropolis Mumbai. These three protagonists -- Jamal Malik played by Dev Patel, Salim Malik played by Madhur Mittal and Latika played by Frieda Pinto - move their ways. While Jamal, who plunges into no-man's land, grows straight, Salim as Gunmaster trusts only his Colt 45, and joins Mahesh Manjrekar's gang. Latika, an orphan, is no exception; she faces the brothels and lastly a gang. This is another matter that she continues her love for Jamal. Incidentally, Jamal travels a long way from a slum to the glamorous hot seat of the Quiz Show. He faces a problem there too inasmuch as an arrogant quizmaster played by Anil Kapoor wonders how a boy selling tea can know all the answers on `My Show'. Anil doesn't reconcile to the tea seller winning Rs 20 million as prize money. He doesn't trust the `darshan do ghanshyam ' hymn that Jamal believes in.
The movie keeps you hooked from the beginning to the end. There is not a single instance where the story lulls, leaving you room to recline on your seats. And you go with the flow. You pine for the characters and their fates. You smile with them. Dance with them and even weep with them!
Carved beautifully by Danny Boyle and screenplay writer Simon Beaufoy from Vikas Swarup's novel Q & A, the movie is beautiful poem etched in squalor and poverty. It stinks of both joy and stench. Love and sorrow. Hope and deceit.
A R Rahman's hip-hop score meanders blissfully throughout the movie like little Jamal and his brother across the streets. The music blends so seamlessly into the storyline that 'Jai Ho' rings in your mind even hours after watching the movie.



Star Cast: Farhan Anil Kapoor, Irrfan Khan, Dev Patel, Freida Pinto, Madhur Mittal, Imran Hasnee, Mahesh Manjrekar

Director: Danny Boyle
Rating: ****

Luck by chance

The story is about two characters. On one hand there is Sona (Konkona) who comes with loads of dreams to make it big in the film industry and would not hesitate to compromise to any extent to reach her goal and is a rather naïve person in a way. On the other, there is Vikram (Farhan) who lets go of a comfortable lifestyle in Delhi just to pursue his dream but then he is smart enough to know the rules of the game and also to play the right card at the right time. As expected, both Vikram and Sona chance upon each other and love blooms. All this apart, there is the famous producer Rommy Rolly (Rishi) who believes in making movies only with superstars and has his own share of sentiments. Then there is Nina (Dimple), the ravishing beauty of the yesteryears who is keen on making her daughter Nikki (Isha) the queen of today. Rolly begins a flick with Nikki and this also has Zafar Khan (Hrithik), the superstar as the hero. Things take a change when Zafar decides to pull back out of the project leaving Rolly in the lurch. It is here that Rolly decides to break his beliefs and go for a new star cast and Vikram comes into the picture. What happens from there forms the rest of the story.
Musical score by Shankar-Ehasan-Loy isn’t like their previous hit of ‘Rock On’. Only couple of songs does favors to audiences with best presentation. Background score is off mediocre and Carlos Catalan’s cinematography is top-notching with different shades and colors according to situations. Javed Akhtar’s dialogues are spellbinding. Debutant Zoya Akhtar lets us go through an interesting screenplay in the first half. However, she get stuck in moving the script in latter half. Preferably, she could’ve trimmed few portions in the second half. However, an unexpected climax erases the flawed parts from our memories.
As a whole, Luck By is a film worth watching with more enjoyable parts.



Star Cast: Farhan Akhtar, Konkona Sen Sharma, Isha Sharvani, Rishi Kapoor, Dimple Kapadia, Juhi Chawla, Sanjay Kapoor, Aly Khan, Sheeba Chaddha
Director: Zoya Akhtar
Rating: ***

Mere Khwabo Mein Jo Aaye

Sad housewife Maya ( Raima) wants to break free. Boorish husband ( Arbaaz) growls at her, treating her worse than a house-maid. Like all sensible wives, she switches off, retreating into the arms of good-looking fantasy-figure Jai (Randeep). And then, just when Maya's near-forgotten talent as a warbler is about to rescue her, her ogre-ish spouse gets in the way.

Raima is a talented actor, but she should channelize her energies on better scripts and roles. Randeep is unintentionally funny. Arbaaz is wasted. Amongst supporting actors, only Neil Bhoopalam stands out. Ashwini Kalsekar, Anjan Srivastava and Suhasini Mulay are wasted.



Movie Review: Mere Khwabo Mein Jo Aaye;
Star Cast: Arbaaz Khan, Raima Sen, Randeep Hooda and Ashwini Kalsekar; Director: Madhureeta Anand;
Rating: * 1/2

Dev D

Dev Singh(Abhay Deol) is the son of a millionaire who has been packed off to London for being a nuisance in his father's life. While there, he is in touch with his childhood sweetheart Paro, daughter of his father's manager.
How deep the relationship may have been is never exactly known. However it is made evident that Dev is someone who goes for the skin. So when he receives a nude picture of Paro, he drops everything and returns to Chandigarh.
Paro (Mahi Gill) is a fiery and intelligent girl – she has topped all the examinations we are told. So she doesn't mind going up to a local bloke and asking him the keys to his room 'because my Dev is in town'.
On not getting the room, she carries a huge mattress to the middle of a sugarcane field and pinning her man onto it.

Deol is perfectly cast here, and the actor (who conceptualized the film) drips coolth and 'typical Indian' male chauvinism in equal measure. The attitude and arrogance of the spoilt Punjabi lad is brought out with astounding realism, and once again the courageous young actor packs a solid punch.



Movie Review: Dev D;
Star Cast: Abhay Deol, Mahi Gill and introducing Kalki Koechlin;
Director: Anurag Kashyap;
Rating: ***.

Victory

Vijay ( Hurman ), a cricketer from small-town Rajasthan is so good that he should, by rights, have been in the Indian team. But, and this is a story we know well, he doesn't even get a look-in on the Ranji.
`Victory' is about Vijay's rise-fall-rise, the heady feeling of success, and the perils of untrammeled avarice. A greedy agent ( Gulshan) gets his claws into the rising star, who slides down the slippery slope of here-now-gone-the-next-instant-fame, forgetting those who kept him grounded, `deshbhakt' dad ( Anupam), and best bud ( Amrita).
From the many cricketers that make an appearance, its Harbhajan Singh and Brett Lee that make most impact. Navjot Singh Sidhu as a commentator is funny.



Star Cast:Hurman Baweja, Amrita Rao, Anupam Kher, Dalip Tahil, Gulshan Grover
Director: Ajitpal Mangat
Rating: ***

Raaz The Mystery Continues

The Mystery Continues is not a sequel to Raaz. It does not share any common grounds with the latter.
It revolves around a brooding artist Prithvi (Emraan Hashmi) who experiences mysterious and distressing visions about Nandita (Kangana Ranaut) who plays a woman he has never met, while he paints on his canvas. Intrigued by these visions, Prithvi tries to track her down and warns her that these are not merely paintings of her, but accidents that are waiting to happen sometime soon. Initially, Nandita refuses to believe him and dismisses him, taking him to be a stalker. However, the striking resemblance between Prithvi`s paintings and the near-death incidents in her life make her realise that these things are hard to ignore. Then happens a twist, one of Prithvi`s paintings reveals her to be dead and the only way she can change her fate is to unravel this mystery with his help, at the risk of alienating herself from her boyfriend, Yash (Adhyayan Suman). The trouble doesn’t end here as Yash refuses to believe in Prithvi`s forewarnings. It is on Nandita, whether she wants to risk her love or life to unravel this mystery.

Emraan is just perfect for the part and his expressions speak a lot.Kangana enacts her part well and succeeds in getting your sympathy. Adhyayan shows remarkable improvement as an actor from his debut film.



Star Cast: Emraan Hashmi, Kangana Ranaut and Adhyayan Suman;
Director: Mohit Suri;
Rating: ***1/2

Chandni Chowk to China

Chandni Chowk To China, the first ever Bollywood Kungfu comedy takes you on a madcap Journey from the by-lanes of Chandni Chowk in Delhi, to Shanghai, the Great Wall and rural China, marrying in its wake hilarious gags, breathtaking action, spectacular locations, and heart stirring emotions.

A small village in China is terrorized by one cruel gang lord, Hojo (Gordon). Fed up of his tyrannies, the hapless villagers consult an astrologer who tells them that China’s most famous ancient warrior Liu Sheng has re-incarnated and he is the one who will kill Hojo. Two villagers go in the hunt of this re-born Liu Sheng which happens to be one staying in the famous Chandni Chowk of Delhi in India. This bloke Siddhu (Akshay) in real is anything but their warrior they are in the look out for. Working in a paratha shop, as a vegetable cutter, the portly Siddhu is forever chasing dreams of a luxurious life without wanting to do hard work to achieve it. His foster father, Dada (Mithun) is fed up of his lethargic ways and always tries to make him realize his hidden potential. The two Chinese villagers finally find Siddhu and with the help of a fraud Chinese astrologer Chopstick (Ranveer) manage to take him to their village in China. Chopstick too tags along as Siddhu’s translator. During the journey, Siddhu encounters Sakhi (Deepika) a popular model and falls for her instantly but soon his hopes come crashing as he comes across her lethal side of that of a thief. But little does he know that its not Sakhi but her long lost twin Suzie aka Meow Meow (Deepika again) whom he has got confused with. What happens when Siddhu arrives in the remote Chinese village and how Hojo reacts to his arrival and what it leads to forms the rest of the film!
There had been lots of expectations raised from the slick promos of the film but unfortunately, the film doesn’t really end up being the joy ride it promises to be.
Despite a good built up given to Hojo’s Kung Fu expertise and hopes raised about the one on one fight between him and Siddhu, the climax fight ends up being very short and disappointing.
The music of the film appears better when watching the songs onscreen as they have been very lavishly picturised, especially the title track.

Ghazini

How do you count eight packs? The question plagues you when you first come at Aamir Khan in his new movie. His rippling musculature has been all the focus, through the past month, in print, in TV, in hoardings. That, and the buzz cut, with deep scars running through, showing the scalp. This is an Aamir we haven’t seen before—fronting a frame filling physique, flaunting matter over

If you had 15 minutes of memory, what would you cram into that terrifyingly short span? The name of your loved one, your phone number, your home? If you were a regular joe, that’s exactly what you’d do, but if you are Aamir Khan in ‘Ghajini’, you would bulk up your body, tattoo the name of the man you need to kill, and smear your walls with violent graffiti.
Short term memory loss means you forget, everything, within a short span of time. And the moment you get back into the zone, re-building the pieces of your life, the clock starts ticking again, for the next meltdown. It’s a fascinating premise for a movie, and a few years ago, ‘Memento’, made by Christopher Nolan, gave us a unique hero who suffers from short haul amnesia, while he searches for his beloved’s killer.