Monday, August 13, 2007

ChakDe India: It's nice to see SRK ACTagain after long time

Watching ChakDe India is like watching a fixed match whose result you already know, but you still feel the excitement. I give full credits to Shimit Amin for the excellent direction. Watching SRK act is a treat, he should do more such films which showcase his acting not his King Khan image. This is an sports flick and unlike other sports flick it concentrates only on our national sport. Thanks to SRK, a lot many people now know that there Hockey is a 70 minutes game with two halves of 35 minutes each and a lot more about a sport which no one cares to watch these days. It's undoubtedly the best sports movie made in Hindi film industry.

The movie is well made with good screenplay and dialogues. Some dialogues are really touchy and some make you smi0le. All the girls though not very good actors have done there part well, specially the girl who played Komal Chautala. I also liked the songs, they are really inspiring and suit the mood of the film.

With all these plus points, there are some negatives also, like some scenes have been dramatized unnecessarily (YRF effect may be), like the end and the climax. But overall packaging is really beautiful to conceal all other negatives. It's a must watch, and I would rate this movie as 8 out of ten.

Tuesday, August 7, 2007

Cash FAQs

Some questions are crawling in mind after watching the great movie Cash. No movie other than Gunda has left me with an itching brain. Thanks to certain community and blogs, Gunda FAQs are answered. Can someone be kind enough to answer the following questions about this masterpiece made by Anubhav Sinha:

1. What kind of engineer Ajay Devgan was (It has been told in the movie that he was an engineer, but which stream)?
2. Why so many scenes were animated?
3. What happened to the businessman's son from whom the third diamond was stolen?
4. What was Chinese mafia doing throughout the movie after stealing the third diamond?
5. How many devices Ajay Devgan actually places on the bridge where Shamita Shetty’s car breaks down? (If you see the entire seem closely the no of devices switches from 2 to 1 and then again 2 and this keeps on repeating till the seen ends)?
6. What was the use of those gadgets placed on the bridge by Ajay?
7. Why Shamita Shetty did not hear any sound, when Ajay’s cellphone fell down and then Ajay himself?
8. Why was the police following Zayed Khan after Riteish Deshmukh throws the painting to him in the water?
9. What was the IQ of Shamita Shetty’s character in the movie?
10. When Zayed Khan meets Esha Deol in Capetown for the first time, he says he’ll need her help in the assignment he is there for. What, when and where did Esha help Zayed in that particular assignment i.e. stealing the painting?
11. In last chase sequence from where Ajay and Riteish get cars, they started the chase on roller board?
12. How many times people change targets in the last chase sequence?
13. Why police is always chasing Esha Deol?
14. Why Riteish Deshmukh always says Kabaddi Kabaddi, when surrounded by Police?
15. Does marking the money means, mark some notes with big black spots?
16. What was in the painting that was stolen by Riteish from exhibition and why the same was stolen?
17. When Dia Mirza exchanged her car keys with Riteish, why didn't he say or do anything? Did he know she had a better car than his?
18. Why police following Zayed Khan started shooting at people on Uncle's boat?
19. Why one helicopter was following Anna Shetty after he shot Uncle?
20. What did the man in the helicopter do when Anna Shetty snatched his gun and threw the same in water? (he must be crying like hell. bahuhu, meri bandook fek di, ab dusari kaon dilayega.)
21. Why Anna Shetty drove the car blindfolded when he first met Dia Mirza in the movie?
22. Ajay Devgan was controlling only one toy plane from the helicopter, who was controlling the others and how?
23. When Shamita Shetty jumped on the van, carrying the money, Ajay was inside the van. How he managed to get out of it, without Shamita Shetty spotting him?
24. When Ajay Devgan smashes the manager of Princess Yacht on the cake, I thought his intentions were to remove the name from the cake, but the same was visible later also. What his real intention was behind smashing the poor guys face on the cake?
25. Does Anubhav Sinha have sleeping disorder and was sleeping during the shooting of various scenes? Why there are so many continuity flaws in the movie?

I would be really grateful to whoever clarifies these doubts. I haven’t slept properly since Friday.

Sunday, August 5, 2007

Cash: Confused

While watching Cash, one thought that kept on crawling my mind again and again, was am I the only confused one in the hall. The movie is all about confusion (don't get me wrong, it's not the Guy Richie style of movie making I am talking about). Everyone associated with the movie seems to be confused. Scriptwriter did not know what to write, Dialogue writer could not write suitable dialogues to the characters, editor did not know which scene to edit and to what extent, director did not know what he was doing, actors did not read the script/character sketch even once before coming for the shoot and finally last but not the least audience, they seem to be wandering why they took the decision of watching this film.

The film is full of so many flaws that you can not count them on fingers. Continuity has not been taken care of at various occasions. A is chasing B (both are unaware of the reason, why?) may be because the director told them to do so, suddenly director himself forgets, who was chasing whom and next thing you see is, C is chasing B and A is chasing D (how?).

The movie should have been titled Chase (have heard this is the title of Anubhav Sinha's next movie), instead of Cash. In the entire movie someone is chansing someone else with or without a reason. The intentions behind making such film are still unknown, may be further analysis of Anubhav Sinha's brain reveal some facts.