Krantiveer - The Revolution Movie Review

Krantiveer - The Revolution Movie Review

Krantiveer - The Revolution - Purana frame Nayi Tasveer IndiaGlitz [Saturday, What is it all about? Rata riti hota hai……… Rata meri jaan rata rat a rat, rattling hai mahan rata rat ta rat. Change the world by shouting and breaking the audience parda in the ears that’s what Mehul Kumar the erstwhile entertainer feels. Now he wants his daughter to carry the message of change which our dear Nana did superbly in 1994. The problem is, during 1994 the character of Nana was identifiable in that era of yell-o-yore when Nana ruled with his unique strength of adding his zing, color, flavor to those slogan cinemas like Krantiveer, Tiranga, Yeshwant etc. But this sequel Krantiveer hams and hams right from start till the end. Nana was playful, comic, and serious but this wannabe Bollywood kumari is unbelievably only serious. The Story……Of course Roshni (Jahan Bloch) has inherited not only the courage and sting of her legendary father (Nana Patekar) but also the spirited lingo and the indomitable style. Like him, she too wants to rid the nation of its corpus of corrupt, over-the-hill netas who have no idea - and no desire - of clean governance. She joins a TV channel and becomes a firebrand investigative journalist who is hell bent on exposing any and every scam. And now you don’t need to be an Einstein to guess what happens next. What to look out for? The movie is able to strike one message that youngsters should come forward and take charge of this suffering country otherwise sadly; the movie is mediocre in every department. What Not? The girl is yelling right from the word go and we don’t know why is she so serious while reading the news also. The treatment is old fashioned that won’t go with today’s audience who wants things to be in undertone. The drama, the sting operations, the sleazy politicians, the item song, the greedy head honcho, the mandir masjjd and the transfer of footage from the 26/11 attacks fail to make any impact. Conclusion: Go if you must.

bollywood movie kites review

Ashok Nayak Fri, 21 May 2010

Touted to be the first Bollywood film for the Global audience, Kites marks the grand return of a superstar who has been missing from action for a long time now. Hrithik Roshan returns with a Mexican leading lady Barbara Mori in this Anurag Basu directed film.

Kites begin with a wanted man stranded in the middle of a desert. He is J (Hrithik Roshan), a crook who has married many girls to get them green cards. Natasha (Barbara Mori) is one of them. Cut to the next scene, both have found their partners; J has Gina (Kangana Ranaut), daughter of a wealthy and most influential casino owner and Natasha is engaged to Tony, who is Gina's brother.

Fate has something else in store for J and Natasha, as both falls head over heels in love with each other. What will they choose? Love or money? Stay safe or risk their lives?

Kites, like almost all movies produced by Rakesh Roshan, is a combination of romance, action, comedy and a bit of thrill. But Kites disappoints mainly because of the lack of a proper storyline. The writing is poor, you wait for a twist something as effective as the one in Basu's very own Gangster, and it never comes. You wait for some dialogues in Hindi, but all you get is an English - Spanish film.

The story of J and Natasha is very predictable, the pace is slow, the dialogues are cheesy and the editing not quite up to the mark. However, the action sequences have been brilliantly shot. The choreography and Hrithik's moves are awe-inspiring, certainly one of the highlights of the film.

The performances are outstanding as well. Hrithik is magic on screen in a near-perfect performance. He emotes well, performs the action scenes with ease and his chemistry with Barbara Mori is something to watch out for. Talking of Barbara, she's fantastic and holds her own against Hrithik. One of the best performances by a foreign leading lady making her debut in a Bollywood film, never easy! Nick Brown is surprisingly good. Kangana Ranaut has nothing to do.

To sum up, Kites requires a bit of patience. Watch it without any distractions and you might just about like it.

Raavan movie review

Ashok Nayak Fri, 18 Jun 2010

Raavan directed by Mani Ratnam is a film centered on the antagonist of the Hindu epic, the Ramayana. In the film, Beera is Ravana (Abhishek Bachchan), Ragini is Sita (Aishwarya Rai), Dev Pratap Singh is Ram (Vikram), Sanjeevani Kumar is Hanuman (Govinda), Laxmana Pratap Singh is Laxmana (Nikhil Diwedi) and Serena is Surpanakha (Priyamani).

Beera has abducted Ragini, wife of a police officer Dev Pratap Singh and kept her hidden deep inside a forest. The reason? The rape of Beera's sister Serena. Dev in search of Ragini takes the help of Sanjeevani Kumar, a forest police officer, who has Hanuman like qualities. The rest of the film is all about revenge, from both sides.

Raavan is a confusing watch. For one, the script is filled with several flaws. Two, the antagonist is portrayed as a protagonist, due to which you neither hate him nor like him. Three, some of the events that take place in the film are hard to digest, for example the polygraph test, to ascertain if Ragini is 'pure'. What were the writers thinking?

Having watched and admired Mani Ratnam's work over the last several decades, Raavan, his most ambitious film to date, is also very sadly his weakest. Frankly, nothing works. The pace is sluggish, Rahman's music apart from Beera track isn't up to his usual standards, the performances are below average, Vikram has nothing to offer and Abhishek's makeup is awful.

Aishwarya Rai's performance and beauty, Santosh Sivan's cinematography and the crisp to-the-point dialogues act as the only saving graces of this Mani Ratnam film.

Abhishek Bachchan apart from a scene or two, hams. Present in every frame, the film was entirely dependent on his performance, unfortunately he disappoints big time. I, like many, expected much more screen time for Vikram, but strangely he has a very short role. Govinda and Nikhil Diwedi are good. Aishwarya Rai looks ethereally beautiful and performs her role well.

To sum things up, Raavan's weakest link apart from Abhishek Bachchan's performance is Mani Ratnam himself. Very Disappointing.