2/10
The movie “Game” started with a promise of an interesting plot and some breath-taking action and some good dance moves. The movie introduces four troubled individuals from different parts of the world – casino owner Neil Menon (Abhishek Bachchan), politician OP Ramsay (Boman Irani), actor Vikram Kapoor (Jimmy Shergill) and journalist Tisha Khanna (Shahana Goswami).
All of them receive personalised handwritten invitations by billionaire Kabir Malhotra (Anupam Kher), offering them a helping hand if they arrive at his private island of Samos in Greece. Getting easily convinced and without wasting much time, all of them reach the exotic island, only to find out, they have been tricked. It turns out; they were all responsible in some way or the other, for the death of Kabir’s daughter Maya (Sarah Jane Dias), three years back. Before Kabir can avenge the death of his daughter, he is found dead, in what looks like a suicide. Detective Sia Agnihotri (Kangna Ranaut) feels otherwise and interrogates the four visitors, holding them murder suspects.
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After a long, long time, I found a Hindi movie refreshing and to some level engaging. The movie Dhobi Ghat does not target box office top position neither does it try to please all audience and create an average (read as headache-generator) movie. I was quite stunned with few selected scenes where I felt really uncomfortable, as if I am “in” the scene. The movie Dhobi Ghat is for someone who likes crisp, no non-sense and mixed-emotion movie.
The movie Aisha (Anil Kapoor Production, directed by Rajshree Ojha) started off really jolly and with a carefree mood. I liked the way the movie began with slowly building the characters through events and dialogues. Aisha is based on 
When the movie “Tere Bin Laden” started, it seemed like a “common” tickling movie with not much substance in it. Also with the star cast I was not hoping for much either. I had just looking forward to a watchable time-pass movie specially with such a long gap of a good comedy movie in Bollywood. But was completely wrong and surprised. “Tere Bin Laden” went far beyond my expectation was really “tickled” my brain in a very good and sarcastic ways.
The movie Rajneeti was released a while ago (June’10). After recently watching this long movie (3hrs), I didn’t find it much different than any other standard politics movies. Furthermore this movie has taken most of the concepts from the epic Mahabharata and I was successfully able to predict what’s going to happen next (in a broader fashion) based on the Mahabharata episodes I used to see very diligently in my childhood. This commercial movie is from Prakash Jha and after watching it for about an hour, it was clear that writer and the director likes to put everything straight forward without any subtleties whatsoever. As if I am watching event after event with very less left for me to think about.
The movie Once upon a time in Mumbai is definitely out of the ordinary. The movie begins with a “down-to-earth” scene of a police officer trying to commit suicide and then the director Milan Luthria takes us back in time. The movie quickly sets a theme of “Don”-raaj in Mumbai, India in the 70′s. This is a story about two gangsters Sultan Mirza and Shohaib played by Ajay Devgan and Emraan Hashmi respectively. It has inspirations of the characters of infamous smuggler Haji Mastan and now infamous don Dawood Ibrahim. Narrated by the police officer, played by Randeep Hooda, this movie explores the search for unlimited power, ethics, ideals, conscience, principles and reckless ambition.
The movie Khatta Meetha started with quite an impression and looked promising, although Akshay Kumar was a lot louder (all the characters somehow were shouting throughout this movie… ). The beginning of the movie set the grounds very clear that this will be about the corruptions in various departments in Indian Government and its consequences on ordinary people. But as the movie went forward, the story line (or lack thereof) was too weak to keep me interested.
I started watching Milenge Milenge with a hope of a “light-hearted” romantic story with some standard (yet tolerable) mixture of Bollywood masala. But I was quite mistaken. This movie is worse. After watching about 30 minutes, I was almost comparing every scene with the Hollywood classic Serendipity (starring John Cussack and Kate Beckinsale) and of course cursing Boney Kapoor and Satish Kaushik of making such a weak and emotionless remake.
