Movie Review: U Me aur Hum

Get this. Whenever Kajol acts, she kills the competition. Of the current lot, no one quite compares. No one can hold a close-up like she does or leap straight out of the screen to involve you in her pleasure and pain.

She’s a natural and that quality is mined constantly by first time director Ajay Devgan in U Me aur Hum. Indeed, the direction is remarkably assured, especially in the emotional stretches. You may not connect with the cornball humour in the first-half, set on an ocean liner.

But auspiciously the post-intermission section grabs you by the collar and doesn’t let you go. The actor-producer-director, with cool persuasion, compels you to care for the couple, so made for each other, till…one day, she just forgot his name. Read on» » » »

Movie Review: Race

Think drinks. One guzzles lime water, the other’s addicted to beer and assorted booze. Indeed, these step-brothers are enough to make you blow an electrical mind fuse. They have no other work in life but to confound and confuse.

Indeed, it would take super-brains - right from Aristotle and Plato to Amartya Sen - to decode Race, a crime-grime-adultery-disco-bomb-explosion thriller. Cars somersault, thud, bang and crash. A very hungry assassin, called Franco, looks as if he could do with potato mash. Meanwhile, the plot turns out to be a mega-rehash. Gnash. Read on» » » »

Movie Review: 10,000 BC

Roland Emmerich, the director of Independence Day and The Day After Tomorrow, now goes far into the past to create a prehistoric warfare, 10,000 BC. Read on» » » »

Movie Review: Jodhaa Akbar

Ashutosh Gowariker’s India formula works the magic again. Lagaan and Swades revolved around India, and so does Jodhaa Akbar. Love and secularism seems to be the central theme of the movie. And Ashutosh knows how to handle this best. The movie is the right mix of history and love that make it a must-watch in spite of being a period movie.

Amitabh Bachchan has lent his voice to the movie here too. Movie begins on the battlefield with Akbar (or Baadshah Jalaluddin Mohammad as he was then called) as only a few years old child. Ashutosh has made a good attempt to show a sort of war strategy of hitting arrow right in the enemy’s eye. From Lagaan, he already has the knack of handling huge crowd of people. He brings his experience here again in the war sequence. The war sequence at the very beginning makes a huge impact. Read on» » » »

Its ‘Star Wars’ again

George Lucas, creator of the Star Wars franchise. Image: Joey Gannon. (cc-by-sa-2.0)

George Lucas has announced that there will be one last Star Wars movie to end the six movie epic, but it won’t have any actors. Star Wars: The Clone Wars, an animated film is scheduled to be released into theaters on August 15 of this year.

“I felt there were a lot more ‘Star Wars’ stories left to tell. I was eager to start telling some of them through animation and, at the same time, push the art of animation forward,” said Lucas in a statement to the media.

Movie goers cannot be fooled though. Lucas says that although the film is animated, people can expect the same kind of galactic space battles and action that all the other Star Wars films have. Read on» » » »