Hindi Movies

Movie : Chandni Chowk To China
Star Cast:Akshay Kumar, Deepika Padukone, Ranvir Shorey, Mithun Chakravorthy and Gordon Liu
Direction: Nikhil Advani

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!

Cast
Abhishek Bachchan as Roshan
Sonam Kapoor as Bittu
Om Puri as Madangopal
Atul Kulkarni as Gobar
Rishi Kapoor as Ali
Waheeda Rahman as Dadi
Divya Dutta as Jalebi
Tanvi Azmi as Fatima
Deepak Dobriyal as Mamdu
Shefali Shah

Produced by Sanjay Leela Bhansali.

Executive producers, Kuldeep Singh Rathore, Deepak Sharma.

Directed by Sanjay Leela Bhansali.

Associate directors, Shailey M. Sharma, Vibhu Puri, Sangeeta Gala. Screenplay, Prakash Kapadia, Bhansali,

Cast: Ranbir Kapoor, Sonam Kapoor, Rani Mukerji, Salman Khan, Zohra Segal, Begum Para.

Genre
Drama / Historical / War

Producer
Bobby Bedi, Ketan Mehta, Deepa Sahi

Director
Ketan Mehta

Karz Star Cast: Himesh Reshammiya, Urmila Matondkar, Feroz Khan
Director: Satish Kaushik
Music: Himesh Reshammiya

This is Indiana Jones and The Temple Of Dhoom. Creating dhoom in motions of staged frenzy is Himesh Reshammiya without his trademark cap but with so much hair you wonder if it’s there to tear after you go through two-and-a-half hours of drama and hysteria in “Karzzz”.

Many of Urmila’s chic gowns capture her in backless splendour. Whether matching steps with the rock star or pulling out all stops to mow her reborn lover-boy (Dino Morea turns into Himesh after the first 15 minutes) down with her zooming airplane (it was just a car in the original for poor Simi). Urmila is mean and seductive, in kill-kill measures.

Cast: Shah Rukh Khan, Deepika Padukone, Shreyas Talpade, Kiron Kher, Malaika Arora, Javed Shaikh, Arjun Rampal, Zayed Khan, Arbaaz Khan, Dino Morea, Bindu, Satish Shah, Yuvika Chaudary, Shawar Ali, Asawari Joshi Director: Farah Khan

Cast: Hrithik Roshan, Aishwarya Rai, Sonu Sood, Punam S. Sinha, Raza Murad, Kulbhushan Kharbanda, Suhasini Mulay, Ila Arun, Rajesh Vivek, Pramod Moutho, Surendra Pal, Visswa Badola, Pramatesh Mehta, Shaji Choudhary, Manava Naik, Disha Vakani, Abeer Abrar, Indrajit Sarkar, Aman Dhaliwal, Nikitin Dheer; Director: Ashutosh Gowariker
Music: A. R. Rahman

Cast: Shah Rukh Khan, Vidya Malvade and 16 Girls
Director: Shimit Amin

Chak De! India is the basic, every-single-sports-movie story of a disgraced player, here called Kabir Khan, pulling together a team of misfits to do the impossible — here winning the World Championship.

This is also a return to glory for Shah Rukh Khan, the superstar doing excellently as he tackles a cast with (almost) entirely deplorable acting chops and makes you believe. Director Shimit Amin shoves a hockey stick into the actor’s hand, and — fitter than he’s looked in years — Khan flies across cinematic AstroTurf, and shines.

Producer: Aamir Khan
Director: Ashutosh Gowariker
Starring: Aamir Khan, Gracy Singh, Rachel Shelley, Paul Blackthorne, Others
Music: A R Rahman
Lyrics: Javed Akhtar

Oscar-nominierter Vorzeige-Bollywoodfilm mit spannender Handlung und bezaubernder Inszenierung.

Movie Review: Billu Barber
Star Cast: Irrfan Khan, Lara Dutta and Shah Rukh Khan
Director: Priyadarshan
Rating: *** - Touches your heart.

Billu is a story of a down to earth village barber, Billu (Irfaan Khan). A man of principles, he is not willing to give up his values come what may even if it means his children are thrown out of the school or his earnings taking a beating. While his wife (Lara) understands him and stands by him during his tough times, his children forever make fun of him. As Billu is struggling making two ends meet, a film unit visits his village to shoot a movie and with the unit comes superstar Sahir Khan (SRK) Billu’s childhood buddy. When the news comes out about Billu’s childhood connection with Sahir Khan, the villagers make a U-Turn in their behaviour towards Billu. He suddenly starts getting respect from one and all. But at the same time everyone starts coaxing him to meet the superstar, all for their own benefits. But then whenever Billu tries, he fails in his many attempts thanks to Sahir’s Z category security. With this the villagers start getting more restless and an already in trouble Billu has to face their additional wrath. What it all leads to forms rest of the film.

Ghajini; Star Cast
Aamir Khan, introducing Asin, Jiah Ali Khan and Pradeep Rawat
Director: A.R. Murugadoss

Sanjay Singhania (Aamir) after being hit on head suffers from a short term memory loss. He cannot recollect anything beyond 15 minutes. He has various phone numbers and names tattooed on his body all hinting at one thing, seek revenge for the murder of his girlfriend, Kalpana (Asin). The only clue he has is the name that he remembers his dying girlfriend uttered in his ears - Ghajini. What obstacles Sanjay encounters in his hunt for Ghajini forms the rest of the film.

Cast : Dev Patel, Anil Kapoor, Saurabh Shukla, Rajendranath Zutshi, Jeneva Talwar, Freida Pinto, Irrfan Khan, Azharuddin Mohammed Ismail, Ayush Mahesh Khedekar, Sunil Kumar Agrawal, Jira Banjara, Sheikh Wali, Mahesh Manjrekar

Directors : Danny Boyle

Release Date : 5 December 2008

Genre : Crime

Movie Title: Taare Zameen Par

Star Cast: Aamir Khan, Darsheel Safary, and Tisca Chopra

Music Directors: Shankar Mahadevan, Ehsaan Noorani, Loy Mendonca and Shailendra Barve

Producer: Aamir Khan

Story / Writer: Amol Gupte

Director: Aamir Khan

In short, the film is about a boy (played by Darsheel Safary) who has dyslexia and the hardships he goes through because of this disorder. It is commendable that Aamir Khan made a film about a disorder that many people in South Asia do not know about. This film will raise awareness for sure. Acting by Darsheel Safary is excellent. Watching Safary’s escapades in the first half is very entertaining but in the second half the movie loses steam.

The pace of the film is slow, and it drags quite a bit in the second half. Aamir Khan’s character does not make his entry until more than an hour into the film. And what an entry he makes - it seems no film is safe from an absurd bollywood song. In this one we have the teacher (Aamir Khan) dressed up as a clown dancing and singing with the class.

Aamir Khan is good (as always) but maybe a little over the top in the caring department. So much so that he has tears in his eyes throughout the movie. But these tears that stay in the eyes and never come out are mandatory in most Bollywood films it seems.

Considering the story is so simple, it would have been good if they had shortened the film a bit.