I HATE LUV STORY- an enjoyable movie

Cast:Imran Khan - JaySonam Kapoor - SimranSammir Dattani - RajSamir Soni - VeerKavin Dave Khusboo ShroffBruna AbdullahKetki Dave - Simran’s motherAnju Mahendru – Jay’s motherShireesh Sharma Aseem TiwariSpecial Appearance: Aamir Ali & Pooja Ghai

Credits & Crew:Written & Directed by – Punit MalhotraProducer – Hiroo Yash Johar , Karan Johar & Ronnie ScrewvalaDirector of Photography – Ayananka BoseAssociate Producer – Apoorva MehtaMusic – Vishal & ShekharExecutive Producer – Marijke deSouzaLyrics – Anvita Dutt, Kumaar & Vishal DadlaniProduction Designer – Amrita Mahal NakaiFilm Editor – Akiv AliStory, Screenplay & Dialogues – Punit MalhotraSound Design – Ali MerchantCostume Director – Manish MalhotraChoreography – Bosco CaesarBackground Score – Salim SulaimanPublicity Design – Himanshu & Rahul NandaCasting – Shanoo SharmaSecondary Costume Designer - Gopika Malkan

We have a boy who doesn’t believe in love and a girl who only believes in love. ‘I hate luv storys’ is the maxim Jay (Imran Khan) lives by, whose attraction towards girls doesn’t go beyond flirtatious friendships or one night stands. Love, for him, doesn’t exist.

After a series of constant repartees between Jay and Simran, it gives way to a nice friendship, and before she feels it, she is in love with Jay. Our cool dude is in his own world, blissfully unaware of her feelings. So the film is about whether this non believer in love stories will he discover love?The turmoil’s of Jay and Simran’s life, is ironically interweaved with the Luv Story that they are working on…. So it comes till the end whether Jay and Simran will ever find their own Luv Story… Towards the end, the story is simply predictable and here it is that the story adapts to the typical Bollywood ending with the hero rushing bending down on his knees and proposing her with a bouquet of flowers and other goody goody things.

But as an assistant director to a most famous romantic filmmaker of Indian Film Industry, Jay has little option but to live with larger than life, glossy, cinematic love on an everyday basis. Things only get worse when he is made to work under the new production designer on the film… Simran (Sonam Kapoor), with whom he shares the strangest first encounter!Simran loves luv storys; So much so that even her life has begun to resemble one. With her ideal job and the perfect boyfriend, Raj (Sammir Dattani), she lives a blissful, dreamy life; One that is rudely interrupted by Jay’s cynicism.
Simran is happy with her love story with Raj and is just thinks it is just perfect. But the cool dude Jay, is skeptic about Simran’s affair with reminders about her boyfriend Raj’s ‘fugly’ shirts and the sweety-sugary approaches of Raj, which are found only in apna Bollywood films, and of course not, in reality!

I hate Love Story begins well, with very realistic moments about a young guy working in a production house in Mumbai. While the setting in second half shifts to the beautiful country - New Zealand. Lovely scenery of this Kiwi country is beautifully captured by Cinematographer Ayananka Bose. Those tender moments in the romantic New Zealand are awesome. Imran Khan shines in this film and what to mention about the beautiful Sonam Kapoor as the dreamy eyed Simran. Soman has portrayed well the character of a cute gal who can be vulnerable when in love, and icily indifferent when jilted. Samir Soni is brilliant as Veer, the over-expressive Bollywood filmmaker, who constantly weaves the magic of romance on the Indian screen. The handsome Sammir Dattani as Raj is apt in his part of a goody-goody lover who regularly sends white flowers to his girlfriend..I Hate Luv Storys is an enjoyable fare, a typical Mills and Boon type of a story. Go, its worth a watch.

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Raavan- visuals are amazing but the story isn't engaging enough

Cast:Abhishek Bachchan - Beera Munda Aishwarya Rai Bachchan - Ragini Sharma Vikram - Dev Pratap Sharma Govinda - Sanjeevani Nikhil Dwivedi Ravi Kishan Priyamani
Credits :AcharyaCostume Design - SabyasachiChoreography - Ganesh Acharya, Brinda, Shobana, Astad DebooAction - Sham Kaushal, Peter HeinAudiography - Tapas
Excutive Producer - B. Chintu MohapatraCreative Producer - Shaad AliProduction Design - Samir ChandaFilm Editor - Sreekar PrasadDialogues - Vijay Krishna
Music Director - A R Rahman Cinematography - Santosh Sivan, V. ManikandanLyrics - Gulzar
Written by - Renzil D'Silva

Banner :Madras Talkies, Reliance Big

Producer : Mani Ratnam, Sharada Trilok

Screenplay & Direction - Mani Ratnam

Was Raavan just a myth… the line that divides Good from Evil...?Dev Pratap Sharma (Vikram) is a DSP who falls in love with Ragini (Aishwarya Rai Bachchan), a spunky classical dancer. The cop and the dancer girl get married and the DSP is posted in a small town Lal Maati in northern India.Beera (Abhishekh Bachchan), is the law in this a tribal town, who is feared somewhat yet respected and loved by most of the tribals. It is only when the DSP Dev who tries to bring order in this area, and when he metes out inhuman treatment to Beera, it sets a chain of unexpected events which claim lives.

The lines dividing good and evil are blurring fast. What seemed like the hated one turns to love and the good character begins to appear evil.Abhishek Bachchan himself seems confused here, as was the director. Would you expect the audience get convinced of dark sides of an evil character, merely by smearing black make up all over the actor’s face and body. Not only black colour, its ash and muck in several moments. The best performances come from Aishwariya Rai Bachchan and Vikram. Talented actors like Govinda and Ravi Kishan are simply wasted in this story. Is it the same award winning master director who has given us Guru, Bombay, Yuva and Roza? It seems the director was confused himself, since the story is supposed to be about Beera and his tribal community, located in deep forests, who are meted some ruthless killings by the police.

Hurt and enraged, Beera, hits back at the Police force, which results in classes which draw Beera, Ragini and Dev which takes them into the deep, dense jungles. The tension between opposites often seems so electric, that it isolates them from the rest of the world, leaving just the two - all alone...It is during this journey which will test their beliefs and convictions. Dev and Beera must confront their own truth. These dense forests turn into a battleground for the battle between good and the evil, depicting the Ramayana battle.

Most of the times, its just raining and if its not, then the situations are at a waterfall. Also, these tribals of deep jungles, sometimes shown in tattered clothing and but suddenly, for song sequences they appear in ghagras and designer backless cholis with streaked hair! Confusing.

Rating : ***

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Starring: Hrithik Roshan, Barbara Mori, Kangna Ranaut, Kabir Bedi, Nicholas Brown, Anand Tiwari, Yuri Suri
Director: Anurag Basu

Kites is a romantic thriller, a multi-million dollar budget film shot extensively in Las Vegas, Santa Fe, New Mexico. Unlike the usual Bollywood fare, Kites is a story differently told. It is an absorbing story of lovers, from different backgrounds and how their life goes through the ups and downs to finally find peace and solace in life. It has an unconventional story, much unlike the usual Bollywood stuff.

J. orphaned in childhood, has learned to live by his wits and his charming good looks. Loves the good life and is also into a part time business of marrying illegal immigrants for those few dollars more. He is a salsa teacher who makes one wrong move - he falls in love.

Natasha (Barbara Mori) is a beautiful, illegal immigrant in the constant fear of discovery and deportation. She's desperate to make her fortune in the USA any which way; including getting married to a rich man. Then she discovers love and throws caution to the winds.

Natasha comes into J’s life like a bolt of lightning and changes it forever.

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Hrithik Roshan is an enticing combination of star quality, a boy with his chiseled face, fantastic physique, tremendous talent and exceptional dancing skills and a heart throb of the nation.

Barbara Mori is of Uruguayan-Japanese and Mexican heritage. The exotic lady started a career at 18 with television shows in Mexico. Among her films My Brother's Wife is worth a mention.
Kangana Ranaut makes a special appearance as the naive yet willful Gina. Nicholas Brown and Kabir Bedi take their roles to great heights. Anand Tiwari as Jay’s friend and Yuri Suri as the driver are impressive in their cameos.

Raajneeti- It is a bloody war in politics

Genre: Drama Recommended: Parental Guidance Released: 4 June 2010

Cast:
Ajay Devgan
Ranbir Kapoor
Katrina Kaif
Arjun Rampal
Manoj Bajpai
Sarah Thompson
Naseeruddin Shah
Nana Patekar
Darshan Jariwala
Shruti Seth
Nikhila Tirkha, Chetan Pandit, Vinay Apte, Kiran Karmarkar, Dayashankar Pandey, Jahangir Khan, Ravi Khemu
Credits & Crew:
Screenplay: Anjum Rajabali & Prakash Jha
Music: Wayne Sharpe
Director Of Photography: Sachin Krishn
Associate Director: Alankrita Shrivastava
Editor: Santosh Mandal
Art Director: Jayant Deshmukh
Costumes: Priyanka Mundada
Action Director: Sham Kaushal
General Manager, Productions: K. L. Chhabra
Production Controller: Sudhirbhai Mishra
Produced & Directed By Prakash Jha

Raajneeti is a story about Indian politics, the democracy and the general elections. It depicts just a few powerful people control the destiny of millions. Master director Prakash Jha who gave us hard hitting films like Apharan and Gangaajal has now come up with the story of people who understand power - and know how to wield it at will. He skillfully portrays their unstoppable ambition, and their bitter and violent battle to achieve it.
It is a contemporary adaptation of politics of power and deriving its primary plot and central characters from the epic. More somewhat like Shyam Benegal’s Kalyug which had the character of Karna, here we have Sooraj who is trapped terrible dilemma where his loyalty to his friend threatens to destroy his own family. Sooraj (Ajay Devgan) is a leader who rose from the backward classes with anger in his heart and leadership on his mind. And yet, his destiny could never overcome the tragedy of his birth.
Here everything is fine with Prithvi leading the party elections and he is visited by younger brother Samar (Ranbir Kapoor). A top businessman who funds the party elections has a daughter Indu (Katrina Kaif), who falls in love with Samar and wants to settle down with him.
But Prithvi, the heir to a powerful political legacy and impatient to seize the top position. He is a man with a heart of gold but who is all brawn. A man whose uncontrollable passions bring his family to the brink of political extinction.
The desperate Veerendra teams up with Suraj the leader of oppressed classes and how he manipulates him into everything including assassination of the current favourite leader.
So we have Prithvi contesting the elections in the place of his father. His younger brother Samar is a cool and a very calculative younger dude who plays his cards well and the set out to win the election. Nevertheless, this cool dude, a master of the craft of political warfare witnesses later - the bloodiest of final battles in a war alien to his character.
t begins with happy times with the current leader who has a party at his house. But suddenly, he gets a paralytic attack and is forced to appoint another head for the political party. He chooses Prithvi (Arjun Rampal), the eldest son of his younger brother, instead of his own son Veerendra (Manoj Bajpai) and thus the whole game of politics unfolds hereon.
Veerendra is shunted away from the core of the party and he decides to revolt. A man who believes he was born to rule, and who will now stop at absolutely nothing to claw his way back to the top.

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There is also Bhasker Sanyal (Naseeruddin Shah), the fire-brand leftist leader, as feared for his single-handed ability to challenge the most powerful of leaders as he was respected for his political integrity. Until one private mistake of his hurtled him into a self-imposed exile and spawned a secret consequence that shook the destiny of the political future of the state.
And Brij Gopal (Nana Patekar), who shunned every political ambition even as he continued to mentor and guide the younger generation of leaders while the battle got bloodier by the day.
Rajneeti has an amazing screenplay, airtight script and the array of talented actors has worked together to create a delightful film. There is drama, action, romance and even comedy put across with few memorable songs especially the 'More piya’ number which is played twice in the film
Marvelous performance, especially from Ranbir Kapoor who apparently has a tailor stitched role for him and he is so impressive as the innocent young boy who maneuvers through the matter with sly connivance. Ajay Devgan speaks a lot through his eyes and has yet delivered a memorable performance.
Katrina Kaif, Nikhila Trikha and Shruti Sheth are fine, though Nikhila, as the aristocratic lady has a grand screen presence .Nana Patekar and Naseeruddin Shah, the veterans need no praise at all and there is Arjun Rampal the ruggedly handsome guy plays a passionate character and a fuming young man with ease.

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TOH BAAT PAKKI --Not Correct.

Cast: Tabu as Rajeshwari ,Sharman Joshi as Rahul ,Uvika Chaudhary as Nisha, Vatsal Seth as Yuvraaj, Ayub Khan as Vinay, Sharat Saxena, Himani Shivpuri ,Suhasini Mulay, Upasna Singh.

Cast: Singers :Mika Singh Sonu Nigam Javed Ali Shilpa Rao Pritam Chakraborty Rana Mazumder Soham Chakrabarthy Antara Mitra Rahat Fateh Ali Khan.

Lyricst: Sayeed Qadri, Mayur Puri, Shabbir Ahmed

Music Director: Pritam Chakraborty

Producer: Ramesh S. Taurani, Kumar S Taurani

Director: Kedar Shinde

Tabu comes back after a long gap. This reason can be enough to watch Toh Baat Pakki. She’s a fine actor who has proved her determination every time. This time, she chooses for a light-hearted comic role in this film .

Rajeshwari [Tabu], married to Vinay [Ayub Khan], dreams of getting her sister Nisha [Yuvika Choudry] married to the most suitable boy within their Saxena community. Also, Rajeshwari is against the dowry system. Rajeshwari finds a good Saxena boy studying engineering and has prospects of a promising future. Rahul [Sharman Joshi] is a good proposition for her sister and she even gets him to move into her house as a paying guest.

However, when Rajeshwari learns that Rahul is not interested in marriage, she smartly devices a plan to bring her sister and make them get to know each other. She's confident that once he meets Nisha, there is no turning away. They fall in love. Rajeshwari is happy. Marriage is fixed.." TOH BAAT PAKKI".

The story takes twists and turns where Rajeshwari tries to set up Nisha with Yuvraaj. Yuvraaj is also a Saxena. He has a good job and is waiting to move into his house. Rajeshwari can't believe her luck. This is a better prospect.

For instance, the portions depicting Sharman helping Tabu during the marriage celebrations are far from convincing. In fact, the screenplay starts losing its grip from hereon. Even Sharman's attempts to poison Himani Shivpuri and Vatsal Sheth's mind appears childish. Ditto for the abduction drama towards the end. The Sharat Saxena track also looks forced.

Kedarh Shinde's direction holds your attention at a few places only. A lot of present-day directors seem inspired by Hrishikesh Mukherjee and Basu Chatterjee's movies. Tabu is a pleasure to watch. She's natural and it must be said that it gets difficult to move your eyes when she's on screen. Sharman, again, is likable and gets it right. Vatsal does fairly well. Yuvika doesn't get much scope. Ayub Khan is passable. Himani Shivpuri and Suhasini Mulay are as usual. Upasna Singh is loud.

On the whole, Toh Baat Pakki has a few interesting moments, but not enough to keep you hooked. It will have to rely on a strong word of mouth, especially from family audiences, to stay afloat.
Rating: *
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My Name is Khan- Thy name is success

Star Cast:
Shah Rukh Khan, Kajol, Jimmy Shergill, Zarina Wahab, Parveen Dabbas, Arif Zakaria, Navneet Nishan, Sheetal Menon, Tanay Cheda, Arjun Mathur, Sonya Jehan.
Credits:
Lyricist: Niranjan Iyengar
Music Director: Shankar Mahadevan, Ehsaan Noorani, Loy Mendonsa.
Banner: Dharma Productions
Producer: Gauri Khan, Hiroo Johar
Director: Karan Johar

After a gap four years director Karan Johar’s latest film, My Name Is Khan, attempts to make a social statement and succeeds completely.

This movie is a genuine cinematic attempt at erasing the supposed hatred and prejudices against followers of a particular religion post 9/11. After a long time we find some sparks of brilliance, where he displayed with his first movie Kuch Kuch Hota Hai. Finally he came out of family dramas, Kabhi Kushi Kabhi Gham , Kabhi Alvida Na Kahana & made his first grown-up film, and made it well.

Rizwan Khan (Tanay Cheda) is a Muslim child who lives with his mother (Zarina Wahab) in the Borivali section of Mumbai. He suffers from Asperger syndrome, a form of high functioning autism complicating socialization. On growing up, he (Shah Rukh Khan =SRK) moves on to San Francisco to live with his brother and sister-in-law. He meets a Hindu single mother, Mandira (Kajol), falls in love with her. They get married despite protests from his family and start a small business. Happily settled, September 11, 2001 strikes their relationship where Muslims undergo a sea-change.

Rizwan and Mandira face a number of difficulties following which they split. Rizwan is upset about his love leaving him and embarks on a touching and inspiring journey across America.
He later meets Radha (Sheetal Menon), a therapist who helps him in dealing with his situation and his affliction. On his journey to clear his name, he meets President Barack Obama (Christopher B. Duncan).

My Name Is Khan, as name itself suggests the movie revolves around one man Rizwan Khan (SRK) who personally battling with a strange mental disorder but externally fighting against seeing whole of Muslim community with suspect after 9/11. He is a man with mission, a missionary of peace.

Director Karan Johar stays with emotional drama. The movie begins with airport security. Searching Rizwan khan and then moves into flashback. Rizwan Khan moves to San Francisco and lives with his brother (Jimmy Shergill) and sister-in-law (Sonya Jehan). Rizwan, who has Asperger’s syndrome, falls in love with Mandira (Kajol). Despite protests from his brother, they get married and start a small business together. They are happy until 9/11. Rest of the movie revolves around Rizwan Khan & his mission.

This is a movie with a message that tells the world all about loving entire humanity. Shah Rukh Khan has taken the role of an autistic person as a challenge which he delivers brilliantly. He is charismatic and wonderful with such a lovable personality. Undoubtedly he is the soul of the movie. After Fanaa, another great performance from supremely talented actress Kajol. The chemistry between SRK & Kajol is heartwarming. They compliment each other very well and this film only proves it yet again.

The film has some capable supporting cast which leaves a solid impact are Zarina Wahab, Jimmy Shergill, Sonya jehan, Arjun Mathur, and Arif Zakaria. Sugandha Garg is confident. Navneet Nishan & Vinay Pathak supports well in a brief role. Tanay Chheda (as child Rizwan ) and Yuvaan Makaar (Kajol’s son) are excellent.
Music by Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy is good & having a sufi soul with wonderful lyrics by Niranjan Iyengar. Sajda, Noor E Khuda, & Tere Naina are some of the melodious songs. The dialogues are very heart touching and more ever the way Shah Rukh delivers them makes them ever so remember able.
Ravi K Chandran’s cinematography is a visual treat. Writer Shibani Bhatija has tried to experiment too many things. The second part could have been more tightened to match up to the gripping first half. Rizwan Khan does so many things that it is hard to keep up.
Overall, My Name is Khan’ is quite good, but not the master piece of cinema it could have been.This is a impressive
movie with a message and is a must watch.My Name is Khan develops into an epic film. It is not faultless by any stretch, but will have you emoting with cinematic euphoria one minute and pulling out your tissues in desperation the next.
Rating: *****

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CHANCE PE DANCE - Not for dance

Star Cast
Shahid Kapoor...... Sameer Behl
Genelia Dsouza...... Tina
Mohnish Behl...... Rajeev Sharma
Parikshat Sahni...... Sameer's Father
Vikas Bhalla...... Gaurav
Kurush Deboo...... House Owner
Vrajesh Hirjee .............
Satish Shah...... Principle
Zain Khan (child artist)Crew:


Singers: Neeraj Shridhar, Tulsi Kumar, Vishal Dadlani, Soham Chakrabarthy, Shreya Ghoshal, Kunal Ganjawala, Shaan

Lyricist : Kumaar, Irfan Siddique, Amitabh Bhattacharya
Music Director : Pritam Chakraborty, Adnan Sami, Sandeep Shirodkar, Ken Ghosh

Cinematography : Hari Vedanta
Choreography : Bosco Martis, Caesar Gonsalves, Ahmed Khan,
Marty Kundelka

Screenplay: Ken Ghosh, Nupur Ashtana
Producer : Ronnie Screwvala
Executive Producer / Co-Producer : Deven Khote, Zarine Mehta, Siddharth Roy Kapur

Director : Ken Ghosh
Chance Pe Dance is the story of a talented and passionate young struggling actor called Sameer ( sHAHID kAPOOR )Positive and brimming with energy, Sameer juggles various jobs while working towards getting his big break in the industry. During his struggle he meets Tina who is a choreographer.Just when Sameer is promised his big break, he is left without a house as he cannot pay his rent. Not one to lose heart Sam starts living in his rickety old car and starts teaching dance in a school to young kids who have never won any dance competition. He hates kids and the kids hate dancing. The struggle in life continues as the director who was to launch Sameer now decides to choose his hero through a talent hunt. Sam is shattered but he diverts his focus towards the kids. Getting over his initial dislike of children, Sam not only emotionally bonds with them, but also helps them win a prestigious inter-school dance competition and gets their confidence back - aided by the spirited and beautiful Tina (Ganelia D'souza). Tina urges Sameer to enter the reality hunt, with the love and support from Tina and the kids, Sameer emerges a winner and eventually becomes what he was destined to be, a superstar.

The film starts off as the story of a struggling actor Samir (Shahid Kapoor) who works as a courier boy when not knocking on producer’s doors or shaking his jelly feet to impress film directors at discotheques. Luckily by chance, one hotshot director (Mohnish Behl) spots him and promises him a break in his movie. Alongside, Samir befriends and later falls in love with Tina (Genelia D'Souza), a cute, bubbly, scooter-riding stunner who’s the choreographer of Samir’s debut film.
But not all is well for our hero. He gets kicked out of his rented apartment and has no money to rent another place. So, he starts living inside his car and takes up the job of a dance teacher in a school, making the nanhe, naughty taare gyrate zameen par. Things get further worse when Samir gets booted out of his debut film after the producers decide to find a hero through a nationwide talent hunt contest.

Now, even as Samir teaches dance to school kids, he has just one option to take his shot at stardom - participate in the contest. But there’s another tragedy waiting to happen

The music is not peppy enough for footfalls to set the dance floor quaking. The choreography is excellent and cinematography good, even though the editor does seem to have slept at times while doing his job.

The film may not have the emotional quotient of Ishq Vishq, Shahid and Ken's first film that set the box office on fire, yet it does have its moments. A better scripted, less cliched second half would have surely given the film a better chance to dazzle and shake.

Rating : **

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RANN for Must Watch

Amitabh Bachchan - Vijay Harshvardhan Malik
Ritesh Deshmukh - Purab Shastri
Mohnish Behl - Amrish Kakkar
Paresh Rawal - Mohan Pandey
Neetu Chandra - Yasmin
Suchitra Krishnamoorthi - Nalini Kashyap
Rajat Kapoor - Naveen Shankalya
Gul Kirat Panag - Nandita Sharma
Sudeep - Jay Malik
Rajpal Yadav - Anand Prakash Trivedi
Alok Nath - Digvijay Hooda
Iklaq Khan - Pandey's Man
Simone Singh - Priya MalikShankalya
Rahul Pendkalkar - Tinu
Nina Kulkarni - Lata Malik
MUSIC_DIRECTOR: Amar Mohile , Bapi , Tutul Written by: Rohit Banawlikar
Written by: Rohit Banawlikar
Producer: Sheetal Vinod Talwar , Madhu Mantena
& Gautam Vaze
Director: Ram Gopal Varma

Latest movie Rann is not exactly a story revolving around the media-world. Rather it’s the clichéd corrupt politician chronicle set around the backdrop of media industry. Vijay Harshvardhan Malik [Amitabh Bachchan] is the founder of a private news channel, India 24/7. A hardcore upholder of journalistic ethics, his channel is battling for survival. Jay [Sudeep], his son, looks at his father's news channel purely as a business enterprise that must make profits to justify its existence. He hates that his competition [Mohnish Bahl] is doing better than him.
The story takes a turn when a corrupt politician, Mohan Pandey [Paresh Rawal], decides to use the channel to his advantage by using Vijay's son-in-law Navin [Rajat Kapoor]. Pandey aspires to be the Prime Minister and indulges in a vicious campaign against his political opponent.
Navin is the most insecure man on earth and won't rest till he becomes the number one industrialist in the country. He, in turn, involves his brother-in-law Jay in Pandey's game plan.
Ram Gopal Varma’s ‘Rann’ may make you feel like seeing another ‘Sarkar’. The movie has a strong theme and is made with the best intention to portray the evils revolving in the society. The movie may sound too idealistic to some but can be a right choice for the thinking viewers. The movie has a serious tone and it goes well with the requirements of the movie.
Harshvardhan Malik (Amitabh Bachchan) owns a news channel which runs on the principle of morals and ideals. Malik believes in presenting the true news and not creating news just to win public. However, his son Jai Malik (Sudeep) runs with the trend and takes media as a source to fill one’s pocket. He joins hand with the opposition leader Mohin Pandey (Paresh Rawal) and uses his channel to conspire against the ruling Prime Minister. Purab (Riteish Deshmukh) steps in to get into the truth of the issue.
Though ‘Rann’ starts very impressively, it begins to lack conviction as it progresses. The end becomes quite predictable and thus the movie lacks the suspense factor. One can easily draw a similarity between the climatic twist in this flick and that of ‘Page 3’. Dialogues are crisp and effective. Amit Roy’s cinematography makes a clear impression in the movie. Since it is a serious genre movie, music restrains itself to the background and it does this for good.
Speaking about the actors, Amitabh Bachchan is good as usual and one begins to feel the intensity of his acting particularly towards the end of the movie. Riteish Deshmukh comes as a surprise package in the movie and proves that he can do serious roles as good as the comedy ones. Paresh Rawal returns to his old genre of negative role after doing several hits of comedy roles. Other actors like Mohnish Behl, Rajat Kapoor, Gul Panag, neetu Chandra, Suchitra Krishnamoorthy, Simon Singh, Rajpal Yadav and Neena Kulkarni justify their roles.
On the whole, RANN is truly a well-made film. No two opinions on that. The film should be patronised by viewers of serious, sensible cinema. “Rann”. It’s a must watch for all who have a thinking soul and know the value of that one single vote you have in your hands which can make all the difference.
Rating:***
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Striker- story of a carrom player

Starring: Siddharth, Padmapriya, Aditya Pancholi, Anupam Kher, Seema Biswas, Ankur Vikal, Nicollete Bird
Singeers :Sonu Nigam Yuvan Shankar Raja Swanand Kirkire Vishal Bharadwaj Sunidhi Chauhan Blaaze.
Lyrics: Prashant Ingole, Nitin Raikwar, Gulzar, Swananda Kirkire, Blaze, Jeetendra Joshi.

Director of Photography: P S Vinod

Music Director: Shailendra Barve, Amit Trivedi, Yuvan Shankar Raja, Swananda Kirkire, Vishal Bharadwaj, Blaze .



Banner: Makefilms Pvt Ltd, I Indian Films, Studio 18

Writer,
Producer
&
Director: Chandan Arora

Striker is a Hindi action-drama film written, directed and produced by Chandan Arora.
‘Striker’ is another Bollywood tale of an innocent man being driven into the puddle of money-making.The film is based on true-life accounts.Strykar is the story of a carrom player who grows up on the fringes of a criminal existence but does not succumb to it.
Sidharth starrer Strikar is set in a Bombay (now Mumbai) in the mid ’80s,In Striker Sidharth plays a role named Suryakant Sarang who born into a poor family and grows up with minimum luxuries. Suriya couldn’t attend school because of his poor health – that is when his elder brother introduces him to carrom. Surya wins the Junior Carrom Championship at the age of 12 but is not enough to him on fire for the sport burning through adolescence.
Hopes for a job in Dubai replace the passion for carrom, as Suriya grows into a young man. Overseas employment agency dupes Suriya loses all his hard earned money he had saved for going to Dubai. But life has ways of testing even the strong. Striker is the story of a friendship, life in the city of dreams in the 80’s, a story of a game that is most common but non-existent. Striker storyline of a Carrom player who grows up on the fringes of a criminal existence but does not succumb to it Surya reaches Mumbai after his out of town trip and finds himself in an environment of communal riot. Surya is stopped by the police official, Faroukh (Anupam Kher). He gets trapped in the course of movie and eventually loses all the money that he had collected to go to Dubai. It is at this stage that he is re-introduced to carom but this time it is not just a game. He plays carom for gambling and stands face to face with the dreadful gangster, Jaleel (Aditya Pancholi) whom he hates since his childhood. He had always tried to keep away from Jaleel and his wickedness but ultimately finds himself standing in front of him.

The movie is made with the best of intentions and with a sensible theme. Dialogues are crisp and powerful. Like any other Bollywood movie, ‘Striker’ too has a love plot which never finds scope to grow fully. Noorie (Nicolette Bird), the love life of Surya gives a fresh impact to the audience. Friendship shared between Surya and Zaid (Ankur Vikal) is commendable and forms one of the main veins of the story.















Producer-director Chandan Arora makes a fruitful attempt in story
telling technique and manages to keep the audience watching. However, at times the plot weakens and tends to confuse the audience with the introduction of sub-plots. Songs are pleasant to ear and contributes to the progress of the movie.Siddharth poses a natural acting and shows his capability to shoulder a Bollywood movie on his shoulder. His work is highly appreciable and succeeds in maintaining the ‘Rang De Basanti’ magic. Nicolette Bird is pretty but finds no chance to show her acting skill. Anupam Kher and Aditya Pancholi show themselves to be experienced actors. Ankur Vikal, Anup Soni, Seema Biswas and Padmapriya suit their role perfectly.
The movie fails to leave an unforgettable impact and the movie will be acceptable only to limited audience, leave alone the weak hearts.
Rating : **

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