OMG Oh My God Review

• Film : Oh My God
• Producer : Ashvini Yardi, Akshay Kumar, Paresh Rawal
• Director : Umesh Shukla
• Star Cast : Paresh Rawal, Akshay Kumar, Mithun Chakraborty, Sonakshi Sinha...
• Music Director : Himesh Reshammiya, Meet Bros Anjjan
• Rating :
  Rating:2.5
   

This is not the routine blowhard atheist questioning your God and later realizing that he is utterly wrong. Nor does the director try to thrust God and the fear of god into your face. Instead an interesting litigation between god and a non-believer is what you are audience to at the screen. Would you be intrigued to see why a non-believer has to go the distance trying to prove the existence of god and not the other way around? OMG Oh My God Review

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Story

Kanji, Paresh Rawal, the primary character of the movie is an atheist who runs the business of selling idols of god. He hence has to find ways to cash out the beliefs of the believers with his fake tales and boost his business. His wife, a believer and a person who fears the God is disgusted by the antics of her husband who tries to exploit people on their weakness and fear. Obviously, the God is also not pleased with him. In this scenario an earthquake shatters and brings down his shop to ramshackle condition. Kanji however doesn't appear to be very troubled since he has got the place covered under insurance; well planned like most atheists. Insurance companies however have fine print in all their insurances and this case is no different. They point out to him that this is an act of God which is not covered by his insurance. Kanji cannot claim “bull”ocks since he used the name of God for his business.
With no choices left he decides confront the Almighty, Omnipresent, Omnipotent; the God. He files a case against Him accusing him of destruction of property and hence fine-able. But, Where does He live? Desperate Kanji goes to the God-men who claimed that they could talk to God constantly and delivers his petition against them.
Enter the priests, Mithun Chakraborthy, the fiery Siddheshwar Maharaj (Govind Namdeo) and eye-candy Gopi Maiyya (Poonam Jhawer). Kanji is now has to deal with two problems; Proving His existence and proving that he is responsible for the damage occurred.
Bhagwaan (Akshay Kumar) makes his appearance. Can Kanji win his petition, will God teach him a lesson, the soft way as he usually does, converting Kanji to a devout businessman.
Nothing is free these days; if you are further interested make haste for the box office.

Analysis :

Though not an original story, it brings the Gujarati play written by Bhavesh Mandalia to the screens. Definitely a movie far away from the hackneyed movies that have droning plots or outright repulsive storyline. Umesh Shukla has made a more than decent job of bringing the play to the big screens. Being the main character, Paresh Rawal makes his appearance in almost all the frames. But we all know what to expect from Paresh Rawal; he only gets better by the day. With several witty dialogues and arguments he never ceases to amuse you on screen and also they are logically flawless too.
The part where the movie comes down to the tracks parallel to Mahabharata, Charioteer Krishna (our Akshay Kumar) addressing his warrior Arjuna (Paresh Rawal in this instance) is a great analogy. The movie make you think and seek answers to several questions you put to yourself.
The concept of God-men in the movie is well directed. However, the movie strays away from the main theme like a goat with no shepherd on a mountain. The story becomes more about false God-men than about the very existence of God. Though the last part is a sound conclusion to the movie, Kanji's dialogues seem excogitated.
Script and direction are not to be questioned, for they are above par. Amar Mohile’s background music is good. Go Go Govinda and Mere Nishaan songs are neat while others do not please you as much; Himesh and team could have tried harder. Sethu Sriram’s cinematography is nice. Editing could have been better at places but no complaints, people. Special Effects as always in Indian movies, but for a few, are choppy. Trained eyes cannot feel comfortable.

Performance :

Paresh Rawal, enough said. He has never failed with his action, regardless of sloppy story lines and poor dialogues at times too. For a man who could carve the ornate wooden sculptures with rocks you can expect what he would do with the him the chisel. His negative role is not a hindrance for you to stop clapping at his dialogues delivered with utmost ease and miles away from depicting hints of being forged. Akshay Kumar is fine in his God role but the writers could have made his role even better trimming off a few unnecessary parts. Mithun Chakraborty as one of the stereotypical God-men is near perfect. His “broken-wrist” act can make you squirm. Govind Namdeo could have stayed on the ground with his saffron clothes but his action has gone a bit overboard, not unnecessarily though. Poonam Jhawer has a minimalistic role which does what it was intended to do, put a grin on your face at times. With a few parts of the God-Men's scripting excerpts from the lives of the today's fake babas, the laughs are doubled.
Mahesh Manjrekar is good as the lawyer. Sonakshi Sinha and Prabhu Deva are fun in their guest appearances.

Final Word: OMG Oh My God Review Definitely have some fun with your family. Fiinallyyy, one movie where you don't have to cover your kid's eyes at any time in the movie. The novel concept should be appreciated to promote directors to go for new and not time-worn love stories of which we already had enough. (AW- Anil)

 

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Heroine Review

• Film : Heroine
• Producer : Ronnie Screwvala, Madhur Bhandarkar
• Director : Madhur Bhandarkar
• Star Cast : Kareena Kapoor, Arjun Rampal, Randeep Hooda, Shahana Goswami Sapkota ...
• Music Director : Salim-Sulaiman
• Rating :
  2
  
  

Heroine Movie Review in short could be described as a poor shot from Madhur Bhandarkar missing the target by miles to depict the story of a real life heroine. Instead of taking you into the glitzy world of a glamorous heroine and the world of the movies behind the screens; Bhandarkar decided to divert the journey into a mentally unstable life of a Heroine who apparently has condition similar to bipolar disorder. Not worth a watch unless you are desperate to see Kareena Kapoor in a semi-lesbian steamy scene.

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Kareena Kapoor plays Mahi Arora, a leading protagonist in the industry but is an extremely moody and completely spoilt one too. With a problem of dipsomania, the petulant actress often visits her psychiatrist to get her prescription medications too. On the other had she would be involved in an affair with Aryan Khanna, played by the not impressive- Arjun Rampal. Aryan a married superstar works to get his divorce from his wife while being involved in the relationship with our Heroine who is extremely loving at one moment and furiously angry in another. The narration behind the screens also keeps talking about the extreme mood swings.

Aryan fed up with the angry unmanageable side of Mahi dumps her after she screams at him repeatedly. The actress who just begins to experience the downfall of her career path has more sorrow to bear after her beau decides that she isn't the one. Divya Dutta enters the scene as she plays a kind of godmother and also her PR manager and get her out of her woes. Her life gets better as the spoilt heroine take little time to find another love with a popular person Angad Paul, Randeep Hooda, a charismatic cricketer. With life getting better by the minute, Mahi also signs up for an art film directed by a national award winning director (Ranvir Shorey), which also features Shahana Goswami.

The movie has nothing noteworthy to mention with a monotonous theme of love and break-downs repeating. Most part of the later movie makes little sense to the audience. If you are still interested to know what happens in the movie, the theaters are all yours to watch.

Analysis :

Madhur Bhandarkar has tried to become an acclaimed director with real life stories but has made his abysmal mark with this one. He has tried too hard and should try something new. A piece of advice to Madhur Bhandarkar: stop writing for movies and concentrate only on direction. There could hardly be a script that is more hackneyed, dull and unimaginative. Every part of the movie is predictable and the direction does not make up for that. Screenplay didn't fare too well too.
It appears that Madhur Bhandarkar has read a page or two about a few stars and then developed the rest with a complete lack of creative mind. The movie boasted to be the life of a real actress had turned out to be fake on the screen.

Stereotypes everywhere; from gay designers to annoying reporter sporting blng-bling jewelry, dark part, drugs alcohol which are always associated with top positions and there is a list that can go on and on. Except for the lead characters mentioned earlier other people have no part in the movie what so ever. Recently movies have less and less importance to the side roles other than villain, protagonists and supporting actors. This movies seems to have neglected everybody else but the lead roles.

The story tried to gain sympathy from the audience rather than impress them. Mahi's life exemplifies melancholy a far beyond acceptable levels that by the second half you would start cursing yourself for buying tickets for this movie. Not once would you want to sympathize with Kareena. Three hours is an extremely long stretch for love-breakup-repeat theme coupled with the dejected lover going into rage then love again several times in the movie. The only positive point I could spot is that the writers had tried their best to show the ephemeral life of a heroine with all her problems, especially her co-stars, and life after marriage. Dialogues are just fine but overshadowed with the gross direction.

The magnum opus as described by the director is a far cry from a good movie, let alone be his greatest work. This is what happens when you take a movie focusing on several discrete aspects of a person's life all at once. It could have been better by a large measure if the movie showed only a few aspects like her problems off screen and the dipsomania. Madhur Bhandarkar instead thrust the pseudo-lesbian side of the heroine, mentally unstable character and several other needless parts of the movie.

Salim-Sulaiman’s music is relief in the movie with Halkat Jawani, Saiyaan and Heroine. Editor Devendra Murdeshwar is ok; not many glitches in his book. Cinematography by Mahesh Limaye is acceptable.

Performance :

Kareena Kapoor is the only person you can see on screen at all times. The mood swings he shows in the movies are worth appreciating but the timeworn script prevents you from concentrating on Kareena. Arjun Rampal is just fine but not up to the expectations. While Randeep Hooda has improved his acting in the movie playing the charming Angad. Divya Dutta as a PR agent couldn't have fared better. Shahana Goswami and Ranvir Shorey, though insignificant in the movie by large, did pretty well.

Final Word: Heroine Review my humble opinion is that you should give the movie a miss unless you have a fantasy to watch Kareena Kapoor in an almost lesbian scene and few cleavage shows. (AW- Anil)

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Barfi Review

Barfi Review

• Film : Barfi
• Producer : Ronnie Screwvala, Siddharth Roy Kapoor
• Director : Anurag Basu
• Star Cast : Ranbir Kapoor, Priyanka Chopra, Ileana D’Cruz, Saurabh Shukla, Bhola Raj Sapkota and Akash Khurana...
• Music Director : Pritam
• Rating :
  3.25
  
  

A movie which is based on the story of two depressing, disabled lead characters and another actress who is never content with her life seems to be begging for sympathy but Barfi is a lot better than that. It doesn't just churn out tears to leave your eyes dry. The movie depicts the bright and the funny side of disabled people and autism. This movie effortlessly make you cry and laugh at different times but never overdoes it. In short, you would miss a good movie if you give it a miss. Barfi Review

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A touching movie in a whole different way that you ought not miss; that is how I would like to out Barfi. The movie could be stretched a bit, plot may seem a bit roundabout at times but the movie never bores you or makes you want to get out of the seat for a loo break.
Murphy or Burfi's (Ranbir Kapoor) is narrated to the audience via several voices. Initially the movie shows the love story between Ileana D Cruz, as Shruti, and Barfi. As a college student Shruti falls in love with a guy in her college and moves to Darjeeling for after getting engaged. But in Darjeeling she finds her new love in the adorably pixillated character of Barfi, the deaf-and-dumb youth in the hill station. The disability however doesn't stop his mischeif in the town. Unmanageable to the policemen and his father, Barfi manages to tickle your funny bones.
Barfi and autistic girl Jhilmil played by Priyanka Chopra also share a different level of romance in the movie. Jhilmil seeks freedom after she had been confined to the walls of her room for being autistic. Her parents eying the property of the grandfather which would be bequeathed to Jhilmil, bring her back from the special home. She could be great trouble to her parents but Barfi learns to control her with his genuine care and love.
The story gets convoluted as it moves to Calcutta, and then boggles you with a bank robbery and the much awaited ending of a novel triangle of love which is more sweet than bitter is better watched on the screen.

Analysis :

Needless to mention, attempting a movie that would hit the 100 crore mark with disabled lead characters is an audacious move in itself and Anurag Basu had performed the feat the best anyone could. Script and story are pretty sound without mistakes that you can make out unless you are nitpicky. Characters are also well built and and so lovably performed by the actors that you would miss them after the movie.
I'm probably crabbing when I say pleasant movie could have been perfect if the plot was a little simpler with the kidnapping scene considering the narrative and not so straight-forward theme of the movie; but maybe that is just me. Another small flaw is that Jhilmil's love for Barfi is well explained but not the other way around. What attracts him to Jhilmil? Like most movies today, the length could be a bit long but not much of a complaint. Dialogues are just apt for the and not drab or flamboyant.
Coming to the role of the creator, except for the few flaws mentioned which are also nit-picky issues, Anrag Basu did a wonderful job with the movie. I might not have said the same if the movie had a different director. Thoroughly entertaining. Ravi Verma cinematography is commendable with the vibrant feel to the movie which could have been dull otherwise.
Pritam's music does a good job but feels ingenuous as it reminds you of In The Mood For Love very often. No complaints on Akiv Ali’s editing.

Performance :

Ranbir Kapoor knows no limits when it comes to learning from experiences, he delivers in Barfi too. With a character given no dialogues at all; Barfi, my friends, doesn't count as a dialogue, it is definitely hard to come out with flying colors. A tough challenge for actors is to impress with just expressions but it is a walk in the park for Ranbir. Though the action of Ranbir appears to be influenced by Charlie Chaplin, especially due to the lack of speech, the personal touch of flair from Ranbir makes it humorous. Well done. Priyanka Chopra, as expected, performs extremely well as Jhilmil. At times you would never realize she was not autistic in real life too. Ileana D Cruz does well for a debut and her acting is more than fine, but her character appears to be incomplete. Saurabh Shukla is a master at his role playing the enraged and irritated policeman behind Barfi for his lifetime in the movie. Bhola Raj Sapkota and Akash Khurana are adorable as Barfi’s friend and father respectively.

Final Word: Barfi Review is a movie that leaves a lasting impression in your mind with the adorable and warm characters, a different romance and love. The emotional scenes brings you to the verge of shedding a teardrop or two. A must watch, recommended by us.

(AW- Phani)

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