Superstar Movie Reviews
Uncategorized February 9th, 2008
By Joginder Tuteja, January 17, 2008 – 16:04 IST
Films with glamour and entertainment industry as a backdrop are in vogue. If 2007 had Om Shanti Om and Khoya Khoya Chand with Bollywood as a backdrop, in 2008 we have already seen Halla Bol and My Name Is Anthony Gonsalves as the two releases that had liberal dose of Bollywood references to it. And upcoming films like Superstar, Mithya, and Fashion would only be taking this trend forward this year.Directed by Rohit Jugraj, who had made his debut with action flick James, Superstar belongs to the light hearted entertainer genre and paves the way for the first ever double role performance of Kunal Khemu. However, when it comes to the film’s music, one is a little apprehensive because except for a handful of numbers, composer Shamir Tandon doesn’t quite boast of an interesting repertoire in spite of making a mark years back with ‘O What A Babe’ (Rakht). Shabbir Ahmed has written the lyrics. Read the rest of this entry »
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We’re experiencing a whole new world in cinema. Themes that were considered abstract and offbeat are slowly making inroads into Bollywood. These films are a complete contrast to what we’ve been experiencing thus far. You could actually mistake it for European cinema in general and French cinema in particular. MITHYA, directed by Rajat Kapoor, is one of those films. Conceal the faces of the actors and you’d never believe it’s a Hindi film.In this case, MITHYA, you can’t draw parallels with any film, past or present. That’s because something like this has never been attempted before. And that happens to be the flip side as well, for MITHYA is not everyone’s cup of tea, everyone’s idea of entertainment. It caters to a niche audience, those with an appetite for ‘different’ cinema. It’s for the discerning viewer that wants a change, who wants to watch a new story unravel on celluloid. 
Comedies are the flavor of the season and RAMA RAMA KYA HAI DRAMAAA follows the rules and guidelines earnestly. But let’s not mistaken this film to be an offshoot of PARTNER and WELCOME. The idea is to recreate the Hrishikesh Mukherjee and Basu Chatterjee kind of cinema by handling a serious topic [marital problems] in a humorous format.Although the topic it touches is serious in nature, debutante director S. Chandrakant weaves humor in the plot so that the goings-on don’t get heavy at any point. Also, you don’t really expect the moon from the film, so you aren’t disappointed either.To cut a long story short, RAMA RAMA KYA HAI DRAMAAA isn’t a great comedy by any chance. But you continue to smile, not squirm, as the reels unfold!The story revolves around three married couples — Prem [Aashish Chowdhary] and Khushi [Amrita Arora], Santosh [Rajpal Yadav] and Shanti [Neha Dhupia] and Mr. and Mrs. Khurana [Anupam Kher and Rati Agnihotri]. Santosh marries Shanti, a small-town girl, and later realizes that Shanti is not the ‘perfect wife’. Petty differences start popping up and Santosh starts day-dreaming and imaging other women as his wives. 
Vijay Anand’s evergreen classics TEESRI MANZIL and JEWEL THIEF have been inspirations for many a film-maker over the decades. A number of films have borrowed from these two classics that are rightfully acknowledged as textbooks in film-making. Director Rohit Shetty also seems like a big fan of TEESRI MANZIL, since the script of his third outing SUNDAY is structured on those lines. But, in actuality, SUNDAY is inspired by the Telugu film ANUKOKUNDA OKA ROJU [2005].A lady is murdered at the very outset and the pieces of the jigsaw puzzle are fixed in an interesting and stylish way. Any whodunit works if and only if the needle of suspicion points at the various assorted characters all through the narrative. And SUNDAY has that quality, it keeps you guessing!
Nagesh Kukunoor is back to the genre he began his career with — a light entertainer. In his new outing, BOMBAY TO BANGKOK, he goes a step further and incorporates every ingredient available on the shelf that constitutes atypical Hindi film. This one’s not ’same-same, but different’ from Kukunoor’s earlier films!But all’s not well in Kukunoor’s BOMBAY TO BANGKOK. The plot, though interesting, isn’t fine-tuned into a gripping screenplay. What holds promise at the start turns out to be a below-ordinary exercise midway through the film.
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