Being ... ALI HASSAN

After like months and months of crappy and stupid flicks finally we have KURBAAN!! and thank god for that, well actually thank Rensil D'Silva and Karan Johar. The movie is simply outstanding and has been written and treated very intelligently I mean all the aspects are well thought out and the homework has been done to the T.

The main strong point of the movie is of-course the storyline which grips you from the very start and when things move into the second half the movie is in its zone, I am not sure but I think Rensil is a first time director and if he is then he is the "MAN!" and kudos to Karan J for producing such a cool flick.

All the performances are very good but the good thing is that no one trys to hog the limelight and they share all the screen space, I mean yeah Saif and Kareena get most of the footage in the first half especially Kareena but when Vivek Oberoi enters he does a very fine job especially with his accent he is brilliant and very natural, Saif and Kareena are superb they are good actors and after watching this movie you know why also Om Puri is decent and so is Kiran Kher with Diya Mirza in a very small role.

So at the end I will say this and say it again.. u NEED to watch Kurbaan!!

Stars: ****

-Alstar

Ok first things first this is not a disaster movie its a story about love and relationships more than anything else, I know the whole backdrop is of the Mumbai floods and all but that only comes into the picture at the interval and trust me its not as big of a deal as you may think it would be. The essence of this movie is in the love story of these two characters played by Emran and Soha and how they deal with life once they are together.

I personally thought that the first half was quite good and it just went well but the second half should have been a lot shorter, it has too many flashbacks highlighting everything which kinda gets to you, it can easily be 15 minutes shorter at the most. The story is nothing great I mean the director just focuses what happens once the couple start living together and how they go about in their daily life and what sacrifices they end up making for each other. The movie is not a bore and at times quite engaging but again I have to come back to the time factor which is a killer if we ask me!

The music is quite good with 'Tum Mile' being the highlight and Emraan and Soha look very natural and good actors and I think Soha Ali is quite cute :-). So all in all a timepass movie a little dragging but alright not too bad, I liked it...

Stars: **1/2

-Alstar

Madhur Bhandarkar's cinema is always hard-hitting and has a message in them so when he came up with Jail all of us thought it would be on the same lines as his other reality based flicks in the past and to some extent this is true but if you look at the movie as a whole some-how it does not stay with you primarily because of the fact that it has made out to be a little too dragging with many sub-plots.

Its an honest attempt and a sensible flick and the good thing about Jail is that it does not take sides and it tells the story of one character who has been wrongly accused of the crime, we can debate that it has been made out to look a little silly especially the way the movie ends and certain situations in the movie but the director had the heart in the right place while making this one.

Neil Nithin Mukesh has put in an honest and looks the part, Mugdha Godse looks good and under plays her character very well. Arya Babbar is very effective and after Neil his character really stands out and Manoj Bajpayee is alright.

Jail could have been a winner if made with a tighter script but this flick has its loose endings which crop up every now and then but atleast its not as stupid as APKGK..

Stars: **

-Alstar

Ok now I cant tell you how the movie ends..no its not because of any major suspense or anything its because i walked out half way through the second half..yea it was that boring! I expected the movie to get better but sadly it never did, the gags are so repetitive that we have heard them in numerous flicks nothing original about them.

Everyone expected the director Raj Kumar Santhoshi to re-kindle the magic of andaz apna apna but this movie is not even an inch compared to the cult classic, the story is well not present so don't need to write about that too much. Its funny in certain situations but those situations are too little and far between which kinda sucks!

As for the performances I think Ranbir is quite a funny guy and his comic timing is very good and given the right kind of script he can do wonders but this is just not that script, Katrina looks gorgeous as always and plays out her part very well. So even if you have nothing to do please dont go watch this one!

The music is kinda good though...

Stars: *

-Alstar

When u have really big names associated with a  project expectations are bound to be sky high. Vipul Shah after a strings of highly successful films out of which Namaste London was my pick, Ajay Devgan after 'All the Best' and a very good actor and finally Salman Khan for just being Salman!!

So after you watch about 30 minutes of the movie you get the idea that its going to be one of the stupid ones with no logic hindi movies, I mean the situations shown and depicted in the movie are plain stupid and un-real, like when Ajay Devgan's character as a small boy runs off from the airport in London without any money and mind you no passport and any identity and finds his way around London by playing music on the street from which he gathers up the money to enter a music school!! (How very exciting...)

There are a number of sequences just like the one above which I can write but thats gona take a long time so chuck it and lets talk about the good stuff and it has to be Salman, he is the life and soul of the movie and the ONLY reason  to watch London Dreams that's it! Its only because of him you want to sit through and finish this one or else I would have walked out much earlier, I like the songs they aren't mind-blowing but easy on the ears. Asin is alright but again she has nothing much to do as everyone was completely over shadowed by Mr Khan!

I didn't expect this from Vipul Shah who I thought was a highly intelligent screen-writer but I guess his mind wasn't in the right place for this one, so all in all watch London Dreams only for one reason..Salman Khan!!

PS: Keep your brains out for this one!

Stars:**

-Alstar