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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