- Hasee to Phasee - Vik Rating - 4 star.
There are
movies you can see that it is full of flaws but you still can't deny you like
it. This is one of it. It is only because of Parineeti, she is the cutest girl
in Bollywood and she plays this crazy but cute girl so well, that you just like
her. How can an innocent girl scam people, universities, family, hop around
countries and still act innocent and cute? Good question. But she does and yes
it doesn't make sense. The songs are awesome and skip the regulars you have
heard the regular punjabi wedding song stuff, and go to the last 3 they are
nice and melodious (Zehanaseeb, manchala and Ishq Bulawa). The boy (Sidharth
Malhotra) (another wannabe Varun Sanon, obviously he is just not that. If you
have no idea what am talking about check him out in my friend list), is just
ok, he had to just look at Parineeti in amazement and he does that. This is a
good one; watch it with no expectations
except for having a good time.
- Total Siyapa - Vik Rating - 1 star.
There are
movies which narrate the entire story and all the good scenes in the trailer.
Yes this is one of them. Just watch the trailer, which is pretty entertaining
and that's the movie. To sit through it is a pain. It is one night movie where
everything goes wrong for the couple pakistani boy and Indian girl trying to
convince girl's family that they are a good couple. I like anupam kher's
stupid kind of comedy but in this one he is the biggest pain and an
embarrassment. In fact it is sad to make fun of his 'memory loss'. Ali Zafar
finally fits a role because he is playing himself so his heavy Pakistani accent
is ok here. Bad movie, why am I writing so long for a 1 starter?
- Shaadi ke Side Effect - popular rating – 2 Stars
I gave it
a skip. Keeping with the tradition of not watching something that wife already
watched in a theater. Turns out it was pretty bad with predictable married
problem jokes and only showing one side of the story (how men have problems
with marriage and kids).
- Dishkiyaon - Vik Rating - 0 star.
There is
Herman Baweja and there is Sunny deol and there is nonsense. Trying to make it
a thriller with flashback and flash forward all mixed with no grip. Sunny
Papaji was roped in for a day and Herman is telling him his story on how he is
in a mess, trying to make it a cool movie but have no idea what they are
making. I am sorry if it was a Masterpiece I did not get it.
- Queen - Vik Rating - 3 Stars.
Too much
hype but did not live up to it. Kangana gives the character so much
authenticity that it feels real. Like parineeti, kangana makes it happen. She
is the movie. A middle class conservative girl finds more to life than getting
married to the one and only. When you make a movie with a statement, in this it
was Indian women lib. I couldn't help think that the entire movie there was
nothing that she had right as a conservative small town girl. The movie showed
everything cool and great with western ways however messed up her friends she
made in west were, they were somehow better than her. Anyway a good
watch.
- Gulaab Gang - Vik Rating - 1 Star.
Juhi Vs
Madhuri, 2 yesteryear female leads face to face and that’s it. There is nothing
more to say about this one. The plot is a women uprising somewhere in rural
area which was apparently a true story and this movie lifted the same story
with cinematic liberties. When the basic premise is to show off Madhuri's
talent and how she is still good, it always becomes a belabored effort. It
seems she is trying too hard to tell you she is the same Madhuri she was, she
does not stay in the flow. She wants to look gorgeous and is conscious to not
look her age and it all shows that something is amiss. Juhi as the villian is
ok, but nothing what the cute juhi used to be... ahh..
- Highway - Vik Rating - 2.5 star.
Much
talked about Alia Bhatt is again doing the same thing what Madhuri is doing in
Gulaab Gang. The movie is not made with intention of narrating a story, it is
made to display Alia as a perfect product and whenever that happens it shows. One
thing wrong with this movie was they were confused wether to make completely
authentic movie or not. When you are a ‘karan johar’ then stay that. Don’t try
to dabble in reality. This movie goes too real when you show Randeep Hooda as a
truck driver with real truck and real homes, and on the other hand you want to
show Alia just prancing around with these 'very real looking criminals' with no
fear at all and reforming them because she had a few demons to kill of her own.
The 2 don't gel. I think the driver should have been a Ranbir Kapoor style cute
driver (who no way will look or act like a driver - a la besharam goon or a
rangeela aamir). Then this may have made some sense. Anyway this movie for some
reason just rubbed me the wrong way. Sapna liked it, so 2.5 stars.
- Bewakoofiyan - Vik Rating - 2.5 stars.
I do have
a soft corner for Ayushmaan Khurana's movies but this one is not up to the
mark. It is a simple love story of a couple fighting and making up along the
way. How losing job affect everything was a good premise but was a little dull
in presentation. Rishi Kapoor who has quickly become the 'comic dad in every
other movie', is boring and is a drag with his character completely devoid of
any depth. This girl Sonam Kapoor takes her tag of 'stylish' a little too
seriously, please stop putting weird makeup on you.
- Goonday - Vik Rating - 2.5 Stars.
This is a 80s
style multi-starrer bonanza of a movie. Dostana, Shaan, Suhaag, Kaala Pathhar –
movie zenre. There is one problem - there is no Bachchan in this one. Though I
wanted it to be good but it just couldn't recreate the magic, it had everything
in it, the friends who turn enemies, a villian who is not completely a villain and
a common lady love, but the 2 men who need to carry the movie fall flat. The
problem with new age heroes is, they are just not that rugged and tough, though
they are all buffed up like a cartoon, but no one can brood and be the man of
yore.... uff...
- Dedh Ishkiya – Vik Rating – 3.5 Stars
I will
like to warn you, this maybe a better movie than I suggest because I am a huge
fan of Ishqiya so obvious disappointment on the sequel. It has the old jokes
and characters. This time it looked everything was a little stretched maybe to
cash in on what worked last time including the ending with a twist. It was too
heavy on mausaki and shayari and may have a language barrier to most people. There
are some good funny scenes in the movie and the girl ‘Huma Qureshi’ is good.
Songs disappoint after great ones in the first one. Overall a good movie to
watch.
- Mein Tera Heero - Vik Rating - 2.5 stars.
There is
someone called David Dhawan and he has a plot or 2 and he made like 30 movies
on the same plot with Govinda and Salman and now he decided why not start it
again with his son. That is Mein tera hero. The stupidity continues, and it is
everything same.... can we get a little fresh air somewhere.. How can you
repeat everything? oh yea you can every 20 years audience change and the new
audience don't care if you give the same stuff, just package it new.
