Must Watch Movies Before you die - 2

21. Munnabhai MBBS (2003) - Hindi

Director: Rajkumar Hirani

Writers: Vidhu Vinod Chopra, Rajkumar Hirani

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Sunil Dutt, Sanjay Dutt, Arshad Warsi, Gracy Singh, Boman Irani, Rohini Hattangadi, Jimmy Shergill

One of very best movies made in Indian cinema which made you feel good.

22. Masoom (1983) – Hindi

Director: Shekhar Kapur

Writer: Sampooran Singh, Gulzar

Genre: Drama, Family, Musical

Cast: Naseeruddin Shah, Shabana Azmi, Jugal Hansraj, Urmila Matondkar, Saeed Jaffrey, Supriya Pathak, Satish Kaushik and others

The movie dealt with infidelity and its consequences. A soulful movie is with equally soulful songs. This was directorial debut of famous director Shekhar Kapur.

23. Forest Gump (1994) – English

Director: Robert Zemeckis

Writers: Winston Groom (novel), Eric Roth (screenplay)

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance

Cast: Tom Hanks, Robik Wright Penn, Gary Sinise, Sally Field, and others

As the tagline of movie says it is the story of a lifetime of Forrest Gump who might not a be a intelligent man but quite remarkable person and big time achiever.

24. A Few Good Men (1992) – English

Director: Rob Reiner

Writers: Aaron Sorkin

Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller

Cast: Tom Cruise, Jack Nicholson, Demi Moore, Kevin Bacon, Kiefer Sutherland, and others

Movie with some brilliant acting performances. Movie tells the story of a battle between army men but not on a battle field but in court room. A battle which is not for land but for honor.

25. Vazir (1994) – Marathi

Director: Ujwal Thengdi

Genre: Drama,

Cast: Ashwini Bhave, Vikram Gokhale, Ashutosh Gowarikar, Ashok Saraf,

Political drama, Ashok saraf with his best performance, May be climax could have been better but over all movie is top class.

26. Socha Na Tha (2005) – Hindi

Director: Imtiaz Ali

Writer: Imtiaz Ali

Genre: Romance, Comedy

Cast: Abhay Deol, Ayesha Takia, Ayesha Jhulka, Apoorva Jha, Rati Agnihotri, Sandhya Mridul, Suresh Oberoi and others

Movie is like fresh breeze of air, good light hearted romantic film. No unnecessary drama or glamour involved.

27. A Wednesday (2008) – Hindi

Director: Neeraj Pandey

Writers: Neeraj Pandey
Genre: Drama, Thriller

Cast: Naseeruddin Shah, Anupam Kher, Jimmy Shergil, Dipal Shaw, Aamir Bashir

The solution provided in film against terrorism and terrorist may not be right but film one many hearts as it portrays agony of victims of terrorism.

28. Black Friday (2007) - Hindi

Director: Anurag Kashyap

Writers: Anurag Kashyap, Hussain Zaidi (book)

Genre: Crime, Drama

Cast: Kay Kay Menon, Pavan Malhotra, Adutya Srivastava, Dibyendu Bhattacharya, Kishore Kadam, Gajraj Rao, Zakir Hussain, Imtiaz ali, and others

The story of the Mumbai bomb blasts, it is one of the most shocking, black and intense movie made.

29. Shwas (2004) – Marathi

Director: Sandeep Sawant

Genre: Drama, Family

Cast: Arun Nalawade, Ashwin Chitale, Sandeep Kulkarni, Amruta Subhash, Ashwini Giri, Ganesh Manjarekar.

It tells us to always keep positive attitude towards life.

30. Tare Jamin Par (2007) – Hindi

Director: Aamir Khan

Writer: Amole Gupte

Genre: Drama, Family, Children

Cast: Darsheel Safary, Aamir Khan, Tisca Chopra, Sachet Engineer, Vipin Sharma, Tanmay Chheda.

As the tagline of the movie says every child is special. And Darsheel Safary comes up with exceptional performance. It is also debut od Aamir Khan as Director.

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Movie Review: "Sorry Bhai"

Movie Review: “Sorry Bhai”

Director: Onir

Cast: Sharman Joshi, Chitrangada Singh, Boman Irani, Shabana Aazmi, Sanjay Suri and others..

“Sorry Bhai” is a new movie directed by Onir. Onir is a director who made movies like ‘My Brother Nikhil’ and ‘Bas Ek Pal’. Onir always comes up with distinctive and very complex emotional subject. This time also keeping up with his own trend Onir come up with another distinctive, complex and hard to digest subject for Indian audience. But because it is hard to digest and shocking it seems interesting. Onir chose this time story of a guy who falls in love with his brother’s to be wife. The plot promise too much but movie could not fulfill those promises.

“Sorry Bhai” is a story of a confuse guy played by Sharman Joshi who is a scientist and believes that every object in this universe has its own life. His motto of life is to prove these theories to world by making a wooden dog fly. As he is so involved in his research he is always absent minded. Then there is his brother played by Sanjay Suri who is workaholic kind of guy. He is settled in Mauritius. One day out of the blue he calls up his family for his wedding. Obviously the mother played by Shabana Aazmi is angry. But movie gets interesting when Sharman joshi, Shabana Aazmi and Boman Irani playing Sharman and Sanjay’s father went to Mauritus. They met the bride to be played by Chitrangada Singh and all of them made up there mind about her. Boman had taken liking for her and Shabana dislike her immediately. And Sharman falls in love with her eventually. And how they convince each other and the family about their love is the story.

For me movie didn’t click, as I said earlier there was so much scope for director to explore the complexity of the situation but which he totally failed to achieve. After movie end I was wondering why the hell character played by Chitrangada start liking and loving Shrman’s character. You could never see any romance developing in between them not even any sexual intimacy. It is failure of their chemistry as well as screenplay. It was clearly justified when the girl didn’t want to marry Sanjay Suri’s character. As he is just after money and ditches her every time, he even postpones his wedding day for his work. So it was understandable that she didn’t want to marry him. But why she select his brother was not clear. It looked like because she wanted to run away from Sanjay’s character she took immediate possible option. It was like anyone but him.

The movie could have been a boring drag if Boman Irani wasn’t present in the movie. His presence made the film enduring. He was coming after every scene otherwise I had to walk out of theatre even before interval. Boman is in his usual best jovial performance. His pairing with Shabana azami will surely be there in many coming movies. Both seasoned actors compliments each other really well.

Sharman Joshi did well but this is not his best work or not anywhere closer to it. Sanjay Suri gave as usual competent performance, without any flaws. Chitrangada Singh did her comeback after 2-3 years. Lot of people say she looks lot like Smita Patil. She might look like her but in acting department she is nowhere close to the legend. She has lot of things to work on.

As for Onir only thing I can say to him “Sorry Bhai” but spare me next time such a movie. Music of the movie is almost not present. Good music could have made movie somewhat tolerable.

If I have to rate the movie I will give 4 out of 10.

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Movie Review: "Oye Lucky - Lucky Oye"

Movie Review: “OYE LUCKY – LUCKY OYE”

Banner: UTV Motion Pictures

Genre: Comedy

Producer: Ronnie Screwvala

Director: Dibakar Banerjee

Cast: Abhay Deol, Paresh Rawal, Neetu Chandra, Archana Puran Singh, Manu Rishi, Manjot Singh, and others

Music Director: Sneha Khanwalkar

Background Music: Dhruv Dhalla

Editor: Shyamal Karmakar

Story / Writer: Urmi Juvekar, Dibakar Banerjee

Like majority of people me and my friend was also not very keen to buy a ticket and go for “Oye Lucky” although promos shows some promise. This is just because of lesser amount of curiosity created by the project. For the most movies in the Bollywood biggest selling point is the star cast. And that’s where this movie lags behind. As Abhay Deol by no means a big star nor his past movies are blockbusters nor he is ever presented as female heartthrob or something. Personally I enjoyed his work in “Socha na Tha” and “Ek Chalis ki last local” but was that enough to fetch people to theatres. There was Paresh Rawal who once was big asset for any film but last year or so he does not have anything to rave about. In fact the USP of the film was that the movie is directed by the same man who directed “Khosala ka Ghosla” who wasn’t a blockbuster hit but good brilliant entertaining film. And that’s one of the reason we decide to go for this movie and other is there was not any other option that week.

“Oye Lucky” is a story of thief who robs just about everything from car, TV, music system, crockery, money, furniture. He also steals a Pomeranian dog. And while watching movie you don’t feel this is any sort of exaggeration. Movie is centered in heart of Delhi. Lucky is born and brought up in by lanes of Delhi. Movie shows journey of Lucky from his teenager days. It shows how he slowly and gradually took the world of robbery. It is story of lucky’s journey from middle class boy to popular thief who’s mode of operation is to rob the people with his sharp mind and wit.

It surely reminds you of BUNTY or BABALI. But it has its own unique pleasant points. Most refreshing, surprising part was acting of Manoj singh who was doing the part of younger Lucky. And frankly I won’t have mind if he carried on being older Lucky too. He was brilliant in whatever he did. His scenes with the card gallery girl and his first crush were some of the best scenes I had seen ever. I will eagerly wait for his next movie.

Abhay deol did good job. Paresh rawal was as usual gave powerhouse performance. He had opportunity to play three different characters in one movie and he did all the three roles equally brilliantly. But I think biggest winner in this movie is a director Dibakar Banerjee. He excelled big time after ‘Khosala ka Ghosala’. We should thank UTV that they are funding new subjects which are not by any means Bollywood masala movie. It is really appreciable that they do not fall for the traps of big star casts.

Music Director Sneha Khanwalkar did commendable job, her first film I think it was called “Run” was big disappointment but not this one. Cinematography and background score was at par with the best. And editing was simply brilliant.

There is so much more to talk about this movie but I will suggest you better watch the movie. That is more enjoyable experience. Eventually if I have to rate the movie I will get 8 out of 10.

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