PK [2014]

The dinner I had the previous night was a torture. It was so awkward talking with my own mother. Well, the truth is I am a junk eater and had wasted all of my pocket money eating roadside chaat. So, begging for more money (just to get my first day first show ticket) was a serious crime as per the laws drafted by my Mommy. The living room was so quite that I could hear my own jaw moving, each bite clearly defined. "This is one of the tasty dish I ever had so far!", I said in an attempt to break the silence. "What's so tasty in these Dum Aaloos? Anyways Thanks.", she said and gave a smile which quite didn't reach my eyes. Later, when I reached by the sink, I stuck to my plan to get the money from her wallet. "I'll help you arrange the wet dishes", I said. Arranging the plates from the water and later bravely added,"Mommy, can I get some cash?" And guess what, she gave me a stiff look (as expected) staring at me as if I was her enemy. I guess I couldn't blame her now atleast. When you are on a vacation at home, not even partying with friends or going for a trip anywhere with someone it is pretty much cynical, isn't it? But thankfully Mommy mentioned New Year's Party arrangements which was a  perfect lie. I added some more dialogues to make it sound more believable.

Okay so lets move away from this drunken story of mine. The most anticipated movie of this year "PK" is not what you'll expect before entering the talkies. We all agree the fact that Rajkumar Hirani is one of the greatest of all directors and also he is the paragon of the most entertaining directors. "Munnabhai MBBS", "Lage Raho Munnabhai" and "3 Idiots" are no doubt included on the lists of the 'most thought-provoking films' and they do deserve. All of these were strategically planned movies and earned a lot at the BO. But "PK" is something noticeably different from others where virtuoso Hirani teams up with his writer Abhijat Joshi and bombs on religious matters that are considered superior on this land meticulously.

Aamir Khan (Called as PK in the film isn't his real name. Public names him Peekay) referring to a drunken man who walks, talks strangely and questions people behaving as seven year old kid. Khan lands from a spaceship, completely nude, somewhere in a desert in Rajasthan where a villager snatches his remote control (kind of a locket which he wears as a necklace) and sells it (around 40k) to a godman Saurabh Shukla (Swami Nithyananda). Khan needs this remote control in order to return to his planet and so he sets out on a journey which results in to bring about a small change in our thinking and religious beliefs.

Two of those funniest sequences were firstly, the 'Dancing Car' scene. Oh that was just hilarious! I still don't believe that who will like to have car sex somewhere far away in a desert? PK identifies the dancing car (so called by him) and steals their clothes for his use. Second one is when Boman Irani (News channel anchor) refuses to broadcast religion-based material on his channel because he was once butt-stabbed by a Trishul printing three marks on his ass. Such scenes depicting any religious content were smoothly delivered and Hirani keeps PK interacting with our mind in the most gentle way. Khan carrying the Pooja Thaali in a Church, Wine bottles in a Dargah are simply funny and in a balanced proportion instead of offensive. Anushka is bubbly and cute. Her hairstyle isn't that bad. Sushant Singh Rajput holds a short role of a Pakistani boy who falls in love with the former Indian.

The movie falls just after the interval where the climax becomes clearly predictable. Also, all the songs are simply annoying and irritating. A year ago, I watched BUZZ FEED VIDEOS on YouTube (they haven't paid me to promote them) for a continuous three hour stretch, and I would rather see it again than to sit and listen these BHEST OF TIME songs.

Surely, PK is not like 3 Idiots or the Munnabhai Series but Hirani still has a better story to tell. It has some beautiful lovable characters and of course Aamir who will win your heart guaranteed! Hope this cute story helps to redefine India's mindset on religious beliefs and amends our society socially.

Movie Review : Matru Ki Bijlee Ka Mandola [ 2013 ]

' Reveal the mysterious Gulabi Bhains '

So the most crowd pleasing title Matru Ki Bijlee Ka Mandola having a distinctive casting, offbeat music and the film which grabbed most of the attention towards, Vishal Bhardwaj after his terrible 7 Khoon Maaf returns with this original story of MKBKM. Bhardwaj has always tried to be original towards his plot, think of Kaminey where the film worked with critics along with the masses too. Bhardwaj is a kind of director who gets adjusted to his surroundings vividly. Bhardwaj's music is unique having a typical title track, Matru Ki Bijlee Ka Mandola starring Imran Khan ( Matru ), Anushka Sharma ( Bijlee ) and Pankaj Kapoor ( Mandola ). Though this casting is different from anyone's point of view but worked brilliantly at this piece of cinema.

The plot displays unrefined rural locales of Haryana where a kinky, odd industrialist Harry Mandola ( Pankaj Kapoor ). The village is named after his surname Mandola. He himself, known as Mandola most oftenly, is a personality with acuteness in his thinking regarding money, serious, cunning and slick. Mandola wanted his area to be announced as an economic ward obliged to which he forces the native residents who had their farmlands, to sell and leave the village. But Politician Chaudhari Devi ( Shabana Azmi ) who appeals him into thwarting off the villagers. Mandola's MONEY while Chaudhari Devi's POWER can only unite when their offsprings get married to each other. In the midst of all, Mandola's Man Friday Matru ( Imran Khan ) who has nothing to do with these situations enters them, tends to bring about a drastic change against land extortion and defends the villagers.


                        

The scenery is captured beautifully, though it is unrefined, raw but that's the beauty of this film. Bhardwaj puts the best comical scenes between the breathtaking star Pankaj Kapoor and Imran Khan, who just sets the cinema on the right track. Imran Khan gets the mood for watching such a type of genre while Pankaj traps everyone in his histrionics. The Director then ( itself in the first half ) tries to bring a mysterious character Gulabi Bhains ( Mao ) but the balloon burst right before the interval leaving nothing to forecast in the second half. Practicality is what Vishal Bhardwaj tends to assure in 'Matru Ki Bijlee Ka Mandola' and it forces him to choose for a midway which was more apt towards deep red before pink. The abusive manner doesn't consent an impact pretty much like the odd and unusual presence of Gulabi Bhains ( Buffalo ). The song ' Jiski kheti uski zameen, hatt lootne wale ' conjointly imitates the same emotions.

                       

All in all to be a Vishal Bhardwaj's film you expect some twists in the second half but the plot is empty making everyone go predictably right and have a banausic continuity. The man who stands alone in the film is Pankaj Kapoor with his stupendous drama. He just fills the glass which was emptied by the storyline to the way it had to be. Pankaj Kapoor's drama win right from the very first shot where he is in his drunken amazement scowling some Haryanvi dialogues. Shabana Azmi gets an easy role but stills does as if she has somnambulism problem. Anushka is good, peppy and cheerful.

Pankaj Kapoor saves this film with his acclaimed acting but still Matru Ki Bijlee Ka Mandola departs you displeasingly. In all, the second half is sluggish and most foreseeable without any twist and turns.

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Jab Tak Hai Jaan [ 2012 ]

The big fiasco ends dull at BO

        


The most awaited movie to be watched in Diwali ' Jab Tak Hai Jaan ', though apocryphal & phenomenal Yash Chopra's last flick, this wasn't the DDLJ formula. The cinema thought to make more at BO will bang the former with its insignificancy and sluggish plot writing. Shahrukh Khan ( Samar ) charming as ever still sadly wasn't exciting as any Italian food dish and tasted as some pokey dish.

Why did the unexcelled formula established in DDLJ probably go rotten ? It possibly won't as long as it collect in hundreds of crores rupees. Anushka Sharma ( Akira ) depicting herself in the film is been deserted by the scenes and Katrina Kaif ( Meera ) is been lined up for no reason. A.R. Rahman, the man who would sail the ship towards victory sadly failed to do it this time. The song Challa projected again and again to keep the audience away from the flaws that the film does have, withholding the audience going blank at times.

The film packed with challenging lower IQ characters who hold the London police look so stupid ( as they aren't ) is just filled with star power and nothing else, except the fact that Shahrukh doesn't has aimless pranks and gags in the flick.

Anushka is so amusing, she goes with her ' New youth of India ' were she just intends to sleep encompassing and pile them in rubbish making a Chutiya out of it ! She opens her arena is funny enough to make unitentional laughs in the flick as long as the entry goes. Hot but still foolish elaborates a scene that initializes from her bums and then grooving the camera upto her breasts giving a side look which unfortunately ends giving a dive in the Ladakh lakes where the water is cold enough screening it screamingly.

' Devika Bhagat ' gets the screenplay at grief and just drums the audience mind with her collapsed writings. Katrina casts like Diana Penty in Cocktail and falling in love with the protagonist after bringing her to a night club where she starts doing her fucking favela dance which was a mere failure. Shahrukh goes on diffusing bombs, one of his bombs explodes on our face, being a religious discord having breaking up for the sake of promise she had to Jesus Christ.

Yes ! The most interesting was that the bedroom scene were Shahrukh has his unshaved toes mingling with Katrina's manicured one. SRK for the first time Onscreen kisses the reel counterpart that too doesn't help the movie make enough. Neither lame but the sad sex scene, thus unromantic making it look dull.

Jab Tak Hai Jaan disappoints with its unconditional story and Adi for the first time makes his cinema as flat as he could. Ignore this film as it has only the glamour, lacks the major unconvincing materials in the film. The T.V soap commercial ( LUX ) promotes the film where Kat looks like goody Snow White in her fab dress, though this won't make the film fill its inconsistencies.

Save your money for Dabangg 2 or Talaash in the upcoming month which will prove more worthy than this. Khiladi 786 is a scary film for your pocket though seeing the script has been written by Himesh Reshamiya since. Lets wait for the Big Clash next month.

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