Bollywood Junction : Movies Blog

After Rang De Basanti, Rakesh Omprakash Mehra comes up with his new film Delhi- 6. Rahman did his bit by giving some exceptional tunes and quadrupling the hype. Will this America to Chandni chowk work at the box-office or at least find place in the hearts of millions as Rakesh’s last movie?
The story is about an NRI who comes to his homeland to leave his dying grandmother and falls in love with the people around him. But his life is not going to be easy as the antics of a Monkey man turns the colorful people in the community grey. Will the hero be able to save the day? Or will he return back to US and stay off these troubled streets? Watch it yourself. (more…)

Story is the King in Billu Barber and not SRK whose histrionics pale in front of the other Khan, Irrfan, that is.

Your heart aches for Billu, the poor village barber with just one rupee note in his shirt pocket and a simple humble heart beneath it. His life scrapes the bottom way below poverty line. In his ramshackle shop he awaits customers that walk into his rival’s refurbished salon across the road. At home, bijli has been disconnected due to nonpayment of bills, and Billu’s two kids are thrown out of school for same reason. In this already turbulent life of Billu ( Irrfan Khan ) enters a tornado in the shape of superstar Sahir Khan ( Shahrukh Khan ), Billu’s estranged childhood buddy. (more…)

Director and writer Anurag Kashyap has done a brilliant job and the movie is more than just another remake of Devdas.

Dev (Abhay Deol) is a regular spoilt brat having a good time in London while keeping in touch with his childhood friend Paro. He wants a look at her nude and she complies which is all the motivation he needs to ditch London for some making out back in India. (more…)

Luck By Chance is the directorial debute of Farhan Aktar’s Sister Zoya Akhtar and in her first film only she hhas proved herself than is she is nine less than Farhan as a director.Its a film that takes you into the underbelly of Bollywood – into the world of dreamy-eyed strugglers, pampered starlets, superstitious producers, Hollywood aping directors, and the sensation seeking media.

Without giving in to cynicism, first-time director Zoya Akhtar tells a delightful tale that exposes the workings of an industry where stars are deified and strugglers scorned. Farhan Akhtar plays Vikram, a struggling actor who leaves his dad’s flourishing business in Delhi to try his luck in films. Similarly, Sona ( Konkona Sen Sharma ) is a girl from Kanpur who has been doing odd roles in films with the hope that a big break – promised by an exploitative producer – awaits her. (more…)

Victory is the second movie of Harman Baweja and like wise this movie is proved to be disappointed for Harman’s career.VICTORY may not be a true-life account of any one person, but you can’t help but draw parallels with people who led a wild life off the field. Also, any sports-based film works if it arouses the right emotions and VICTORY does so towards the final moments. But there’s a hitch.

VICTORY tells the story of Vijay Shekhawat [Hurman S. Baweja], who hails from Jaisalmer. Soon, he becomes India’s latest world-class batting sensation and is catapulted to superstardom. (more…)

Slumdog Millionaire is a kind of movie that is made only once in a while. It requires more than just an accomplished director to tell a story that cuts through cultural barriers while still being rooted in the grime and crime of Mumbai’s netherworld that lies in the shade of the symbols of India Shining – the skyscrapers and malls. It takes more than just a good ensemble cast to make a film like ‘Slumdog Millionaire’ work.

That’s also what the film’s story is about. An uneducated chaiwala ( Dev Patel ) at a call centre is on the verge of winning 20 million rupees on the Indian version of ‘Who Wants To Be A Millionaire’. How did he manage to answer all the questions correctly? Is he a cheat? Well, the show’s host ( Anil Kapoor ) and a local cop ( Irrfan Khan ) certainly think so. But may be he’s not. May be everything that happened in this slumdog’s life somehow conspired to bring him to the hot-seat of the television show where he would know almost all – if not all – the answers! (more…)

Starring: Emraan Hashmi, Kangana Ranaut and Adhyayan Suman
Director: Mohit Suri

After the super sucess of Raaz starring bipasha basu And Dino Morea Mahesh Bhatt Comes out with the seqel of Raaz. Yash (Adhyayan) and Nandita (Kangana) is a couple deeply in love. While Yash is heads a successful reality show on TV called Andhavishwas which exposes superstitious beliefs in India, Nandita is a successful model. One evening Nandita realizes that a stranger (Emraan) is following her. The stranger then manages to encounter her in her building lift. He introduces himself as Prithvi and shows her the paintings he has drawn of her. What has him intrigued is that though he had never seen her before, he has drawn her many portraits including one which shows her lying in a pool of blood. He tries to caution her about something evil about to happen to her soon but she ignores him. But from then on, strange things start happening her as if she has been possessed by an evil spirit. What twists and turns follow next form the rest of the film. (more…)

One of the most awaited movie of the yaer starrin Deepika Padukone and Akshay Kumar is basically a action comedy.Akshay Kumar can no longer be the saviour of no-brainer comedies that have become a sort of excuse for many directors to hide their incompetence behind

So in the name of entertainment you have the tomfoolery of a goofy cook Sidhu (Akshay) who’s tired of his dreary existence of chopping vegetables everyday and being kicked about in his butt by his righteous, hard-working Dada ( Mithun Chakraborty ). Leaving Chandni Chowk, Sidhu goes to China after a bunch of Chinese men convince him that he is the reincarnation of an ancient Chinese warrior, even though Sidhu is told by a feng shastra expert ( Ranvir Shorey ) that he was a machchar (mosquito) in previous life. Little does Sidhu know that he’s taken to the other side of the Great Wall to fight and kill an evil and powerful ganglord Hojo (Gordon Liu). (more…)

Aamir Khan suffers from short-term memory loss in Ghajini, a cerebral disorder by which his memory lasts only for 15 minutes. Seemingly director A R Murgadoss suffered from the same while deriving from Memento, for he seems to have retained only about 15% of the original masterpiece and fabricated the rest as per his formulaic sensibilities.

So while you still have the Polaroid camera, post it notes and a tattooed body from Memento, the nonlinear narrative and conspiracy theory is compromised for a prolonged romance track and exaggerated revenge drama. Sadly gimmicks like 8-pack abs or trimmed hairline can’t cover up loopholes of a flawed script.

Sanjay Singhania (Aamir Khan) has been hit on the head which gives him recurring bouts of amnesia, almost every fifteen minutes. He is hunting for a person named Ghajini (Pradeep Rawat), and to remember his target, he has inscribed his initials and related clues on his body, has pasted post-it notes all across his apartment and carries a Polaroid camera to click pictures of people important to him.
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Onir has always beeen a film maker who has fascinated me because of his choice of unexplored territories in human psychology and relationships. He might not have the recognition of Sanjay Leela Bhansali or the success of Karan Johar, not even the controversies like Anurag Kashyap, but he is one film maker who has constantly delivered top notch films, and so when I sat down to watch Sorry Bhai! I had a lot of expectations from the film right from the very onset.

The promos of the film pretty much made the plot clear to the audience. Sharman Joshi plays Siddharth, the young brother of Harsh a.k.a Sanjay Suri who falls in love with his brother’s fiancee Aliya(Chitrangada Singh) when he comes to attend the marriage ceremony. Since the major plot was already revealed it was intersting to see how Onir handled the depths of a sensitive subject like this, as well as make it entertaining.

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