Tashan: A Review

Category: Movie Review
Movie: Tashan
Director: Vijay Krishna Acharya
Cast: Akshay Kumar, Saif Ali Khan, Kareena Kapoor, Anil Kapoor
Run Length: 155 Minutes

Rating: 2/5
Verdict: Go to theater, if you are desperate because of the star cast. There exists no other reason.

I didn't spend much to watch the movie. The debut director has written dialogues/scripts for a few critically acclaimed movies like guru and the action packed dhoom series. One expects a decent show from such writers/directors. Movie tashan makes first impression with its flashy star cast. Within first few minutes you realize that it's not worth it. Script is not strong. Experiment with 'Hinglish' dialogues of bhaiyyaji(Anil Kapoor) fails miserably. His dialogues were difficult to comprehend at times and meaningless always. When director could have exploited the real life chemistry of saif-kareena in reel life, he surprisingly didn't. Saif is not impressive in his supportive role to Akshay Kumar, who is the only high point of the movie - as impressive in his 'kanpuria sooter' role as always. Any well figured girl looks ravishing in two piece, Kareena is no exception !

Plot demanded quite a number of action scenes. Most of them have been designed to be visibly good with no brain being involved whatsoever. Well ! Tashan means ..style..and this movie has none.

Reasons to watch: star-cast, akshay kumar, slimmer kareena
Reasons to avoid: Bad script, bad performances from kareena, anil, bad action sequences and so on......


Watched it...what do you think ?

T2 on traffic woes

category: Fantasy
target: Traffic problems

26th April, 2008
8.40 PM

One fine day, T2 accidentally lands on earth (So he must be an alien) while on an inter-planet trip. Fortunately (or unfortunately), place where he ended up was a busy Bangalore traffic signal. He was frightened to see some things - having two shiny eyes, different sizes (some small...others larger), different shapes and making different noises. But he was quite intelligent. Very soon he realized that these were sort of vehicles used by inhabitants of earth to go to places. Then, why did they have to stop in between ? Nobody gets down but the vehicle is stationary ! He was pretty surprised when realized(through his own understanding) that because there are too many vehicles in each direction, few have to stop to let others go.

''How could they be so dumb? (Traffic system of his own planet flashed into his mind) Why do they run vehicles only at the surface? Why can't they utilize the whole space God has given them, as we do it ! They could build parallel paths one over another at suitable heights and design new type of vehicles to commute easily, effectively and quickly. Why don't they think in that direction ? They must be technically backward'', he thought. I will look odd if i stay here any longer. He did something with his wristband and flew away in a flash.

26th April, 2008
8.41PM

Krazzy 4 : Review

Category: Movie Review
Movie: Krazzy 4
Director: Rakesh Roshan
Cast: Arshad Warsi, Rajpal Yadav, Irfan Khan, Diya Mirza, Juhi Chawla, Rajat Kapoor and Sazid Khan
Run-Length: 2 hours (Approx.)

Rating: 1.5 / 5
Verdict: You need not watch the movie even once. You can safely assume that it's bad.

I watched it yesterday. Abhinay theater reminded me of the auditorium of my college. For a few moments I thought I was back to BITS, Pilani..but reality struck soon !

Krazzy 4 has some of the finest modern day actors and each of them has his individual style of acting. But even some individual brilliances can not hide the loose script and out-of-the-place dialogues. None of the actors were allowed their characteristic style by the script. It seemed like they (the actors) were the kings behind bars.

Movie does not take off even till interval. Even before you are set in your seats, it's interval. First half fails to generate interest to sit through the next. Second half is slightly better (that's why movie gains 0.5 ratings :D ). When it ends, you can't decide whether it was a comedy movie or a melodrama. It is a terrible mix of things. Story is okay but converting such a story into a two hour movie is rather tricky that is exactly where the movie fails to impress.

Only thing worth watching in the movie is the item number by Rakhi (for male audience),SRK and Hritik (for all :D). Surely you would not like to pay a hefty amount for just that.
You don't expect such products from the same director who gave us 'Koi Mil Gaya', ' Kaho Naa Pyar Hai' and 'Krrish'. Well ! Just avoid going to theater for 'Krazzy 4' !!