U Me Aur Hum: Ajay Devgan and Kajol

Bollywood star couple Ajay Devgan and Kajol will be soon appeared on the cinema screen again in the forthcoming movie U Me Aur Hum. U Me Aur Hum is the directorial debut of dashing actor Ajay Dvgan. The heart touching story has been written by Ajay Devgan himself with Robin Bhatt and Sutanu Gupta. The Film is the straight from the heart of Ajay Devgan, starring by lead pair Kajol & Ajay Devgan and Isha Sharvani, Divya Dutta,Karan Khanna, Sumeet Raghvan.

U Me Aur Hum is a highly unusual love story about two simple people Ajay (Ajay Devgan) and Pia (Kajol). Ajay falls in first sight love with Pia when he saw her serving alcohol him. Pia seems Ajay lots intoxicated than wine while Pia doesn’t feel pleasant herself with the first meeting of Ajay. She finds Ajay making himself a fool for few glasses of alcohol. Pia also listen some exalted comments from him about the first sight love for her.

During a short encounter the cupid had done his work over Pia and after doing some hearted efforts by Ajay, he succeed to get a positive impression on Pia and wins her heart deeply. Both are find an anchor in each other and bond forever through the marriage.

Even though both are surrounding by few happy and unhappy couples who tells their experiences about marriage.Happy marriages begin when we marry the ones we love, and they blossom when we love the ones we marry. Every marriage has some obstacles such as happens with Pia and Ajay. Pia leaves Ajay and now he waits for his love for a long period. Does true love gets its way or destined by circumstances? U Me Aur Hum approached a positive aspect for remain stable a relationship.

Khuda Kay Liye Movie Review

Cast:
* Shaan - Mansoor
* Fawad Afzal Khan - Sarmad
* Iman Ali - Maryam
* Naseeruddin Shah - Maulana Wali (Special Appearance)
* Hameed Sheikh - Sher Shah

Director:Shoaib Mansoor
Khuda Kay Liye attracted audiences for being the first Pakistani film to be released in India. Apart from opening gates for serious exchange of films between India and Pakistan, Khuda Kay Liye is one movie that has differentiated myth from reality and Islam from fanaticism.Khuda Kay Liye is a story of Mansoor (Shaan) and Sarmad (Fawad Khan) two brothers, from an affluent and liberal Pakistani family, who encourages them to pursue their career in music. Khuda Kay Liye is the story of Mary (Iman Ali) who struggles to find her true identity as British-born-Pakistani. Khuda Kay Liye is also the story of those hapless Asians who became the victim of America’s post 9/11 obsessive hunt for terrorists.

The film unfolds as a dramatic clash of cultures between two rock musician brothers –Mansoor, a liberalist disapproves of the religious view of music. Sarmad is brainwashed by Mullah Tahiri (Rasheed Naz) that Islam doesn’t approve of Music and Art. Sarmad is gradually transformed from a Jeans-wearing westernized Pakistani to a so-called ‘true Muslim’. Still Sarmad could not understand why he is not happy despite making the right choice. While innocent Mansoor, having made the right choice ends up in the US prisons as one of the suspects of 9/11.

Director Shoaib Mansoor questions multiple factions of the world today – modernists for not using their brains to decide on religious preferences, liberalists for deviating from religion, extremists for mixing politics with religion and feeding misconceptions about religion to people, Non-resident Asians who are confused which place they belong to and Americans who mix religion with terrorism.

Muslims should watch this movie to see how they can hold both religion and the world in hand and strike a balance. The rest of the nation should watch this movie to get their facts right not only about Islam but also Pakistan.

Shaurya Movie Review

Cast: Rahul Bose, Kay Kay Menon, Javed Jaffery, Deepak Dobriyal and Minssha Lamba
Director: Samar Khan

Think of Indian army and the thought that strikes your mind first is war, blood, gore and neighbors Pakistan. But the new movie on the block Shaurya is not about soldiers in Indian army its about lawyers in army who are as important as their soldier counterparts. Now lets not mistake Shaurya to be a patriotic movie it’s a story about justice, loyalty, truth and courage.

When you have powerful and dynamic actors like Kay Kay Menon, Rahul Bose and Javed Jaffery all together in a movie you expect it to be a great movie and director Samar Khan doesn’t disappoint you ‘coz the film has such an impact that even after you leave the theatre it forces you to think and the values of Shaurya keep lingering in your mind.

Here is the brief synopsis of Shaurya from its official site:

Shaurya is a story of justice, honor, faith and above all believing in yourself…

A story of finding courage within… where friendships are tested in the battle that matters the most…

The battle for truth and justice…

Shaurya is the story of Javed Khan (Deepak Dobriyal)… a man wronged by his country by the very men who he fought with and were his friends. It’s the story of Siddhant (Rahul Bose), whose only aim in life was to escape reality and wasn’t ready for what life brought him. It’s the story of Kaavya who never understood why it was difficult to speak the truth. It’s the story of Aakash (Javed Jaffery) for whom living the rules was the only way to live life. And it’s the story of Brigadier Pratap, a man who lived by his own rules even if they were against humanity. Captain Javed Khan charged with mutiny, treason and killing a fellow officer. Even when he is held for court martial, he refuses to speak in his defense, as the secret he holds is too powerful for the establishment to handle.

Assigned for this task are Sid and Aakash… two best friends, lawyers and very ambitious individuals who have contrasting views on life.

Nevertheless, this one case will change their lives… forever. The case takes them to Srinagar. While Aakash, for whom winning the case matters the most, follows the blueprint, Sid discovers a new meaning in life, Kaavya (Minissha Lamba), Javed and of course the man in question, Brigadier Pratap (Kay Kay Menon).

Shaurya is alleged to be inspired from the Hollywood blockbuster “A Few Good Men” and the Bollywood touch is given by adding communal hatred content. But Samar Khan who advocates truth, justice and loyalty in Shaurya doesn’t even wink before copying the whole plot from A Few Good Men. If you haven’t seen AFGM then you would like the movie but people like me who have already seen Tom Cruise blockbuster will feel ashamed of Bollywood’s plagiarism.

The plus points of Shaurya is performances from the lead actors, excellent chemistry between buddies Javed and Rahul, awesome climax-worth sitting through the whole movie, good direction, high quality Cinematography,

The minus points are lifted story, unnecessary Hindu-Muslim communal content, a very slow first half and a rubbery kind stretchy second half and a bad item number to start the movie.

Kay Kay Menon is the show stealer; his power packed performance in the climax makes the film entirely his. Rahul Bose plays the character to which a common confused man can identify with and he plays it to perfection. Javed Jaffery is equally good in serious roles as he is in comedy but his character is eventually lost in the second part of the movie. Deepak Dobriyal who plays Javed Khan doesn’t has much dialogues to mouth but is such a fine actor that he expresses his pain and helplessness through his eyes. Minissha Lamba fits the bill of a journalist and gives a good performance.

Like every Indian movie Shaurya has its own flaws but at the end it emerges winner ‘coz of great performances by the cast. Don’t think about ‘A Few Good Men’ and Shaurya is a great movie, so before heading to the theater delete AFGM from your head to enjoy Shaurya.

One Two Three Movie Review - 123

Did you ever see the comedy serial Office Office, yeah the same comedy serial who consecutively won the award for best comedy sitcom year after year. What happens when the person behind Office Office comes out with his first directorial debut movie. You expect a blast, but then Ashwani Dhir’s One Two Three not only blasts but also buries your expectations.

While going out for One Two Three, keep in mind to open up your head, squeeze out your brain and stuff some hay into your empty head, because for the next three hours what you see is complete nonsense. The dialogues are good, the lifted witty one-liners were ok but the script lacked the punch.

Here is the story of the movie from One Two Three’s official site:

Diamonds worth ten crores are stolen from dangerous Don, Papa. The diamonds accidentally fall in the hands of young love birds - Chandu (Upen Patel) and Chandni (Tanisha), who quickly hide them in a car. Papa and his idiotic henchmen Alberts(Vrijesh Hirjee) and Pintos (Manoj Pahva) are desperately hunting for the diamonds while hot headed police officer Mayawati Chautala (Neetu Chandra) is on the prowl looking for offenders of any kind.

Enter the first Laxmi Narayan (Tusshar Kapoor). He’s from a khandani mafia family and his mother prays that with a few murders under his belt, he will be settled for life. After botching up badly in his early attempts, he’s got a final chance to redeem himself as a Bhai. He comes to Hotel Blue Diamond, Pondicherry because he’s taken supari to bump of Papa (Mukesh Tiwari).

Enter the second Laxmi Narayan (Suniel Shetty). He’s an MBA from Darjeeling and lives his professional life by following two simple rules - 1) the boss is always right. 2) If the boss is wrong, follow rule number 1. He is sent to Hotel Blue Diamond, Pondicherry to collect a new car for his boss from Laila (Sameera Reddy).

The third Laxmi Narayan (Paresh Rawal) is a hawker who has made so much money selling underwear on the footpath, that he has set up a lingerie factory for his son. His son sends him to Hotel Blue Diamond, Pondicherry to collect lingerie samples from upcoming designer Jiya (Esha Deol).

One… 2… Three…Laxmi Narayans in the same place at the same time.
One… 2… Three…Laxmi Narayans waiting for messages at the hotel reception desk.
One… 2… Three…Laxmi Narayans getting letters and photographs meant for the other.

First Laxmi Narayan gets lingerie designer Jiya’s photo and goes to kill her, only to end up as her hero. Second Laxmi Narayan gets Papa’s photo and goes to collect the car from him, only to be mistaken for a killer and gets beaten black and blue. Third Laxmi Narayan gets Laila’s photo and asks her to show him her underwear, only to be branded an old pervert.

Meanwhile Chandu and Chandni are determined to stop anybody from buying the car where they have hidden the diamonds. But Laila has to sell the car to save her showroom. And Jiya has to sell her designs to save herself from lecherous Mende’s clutches.

One…2.. Three - A case of not one mistaken identity but three!
One…2.. Three - A crazy bunch of people doing the wrong things for the right reason!
One…2.. Three - A laugh riot from beginning to end!!

Bad things about One Two Three are bad script, bad screenplay, below average cinematography, hamming actors who fail at comedy, dumb actresses and forgettable music from Raghav Sachar. The few good things about One Two Three are: Sanjay Mishra is outstanding in his performance, Manoj Pahwa is brilliant, good editing, usage of funny sound-effects and above all the movie is a great stress buster.

Coming to the performances of other actors, Sunil Shetty is good, Paresh Rawal repeats his monotonous Hera Pheri Act (I am sick of this), Upen Patel- no comments, Mukesh Tiwari and Vrajesh Hirjee are ok, Tusshar Kapoor needs to work on his dialogue delivery, Esha Deol looks dumb, Sameera Reddy’s act is a dud (like her Race’s performance), Tanishaa is bad and Neetu Chandra overacts.

Folks don’t expect anything great from the movie and you might actually end up enjoying it, otherwise it’s a strict no-no, ‘coz the three hours spent on a dingy seat in One Two Three’s torture room can be worse than hell.