Catch These Flicks In ‘009, Part 2
December 30, 2008 by krisdhingra
Filed under News
As we approach the final stages of the year, people are getting ready to say goodbye to 2008 and welcome 2009. Everyone hopes that the new year would change a lot of things that have gone wrong in this year. While the last few months of 2008 have spelt doom in a lot of ways it has been a good time for Bollywood. Reports indicate that Rab Ne Bana De Jodi and Ghajini are both Super Hits with Ghajini having grossed in excess of 20 crores in only 2 days of it’s opening. Both these movies together have contributed to more than 20% of the earnings of all the movies this year.
The current economic downturn is expected to grow and then die in 2009 and it in all probability means that the Entertainment industry would enjoy a good year. So following up with Part 1 of our series we take a look at some more movies to watch out for in ‘009.
3 Idiots
After the super success of Ghajini, Aamir will be seen next in 3 Idiots. It’s been a long time since Aamir has worked in a multi starrer movie or a movie that hasn’t been produced by him. 3 Idiots is loosely based on Chetan Bhagat’s best-selling novel Five Point Someone and will star Aamir Khan, R. Madhavan and Sharman Joshi along with Kareena Kapoor.
Surely a film to watch out for as it is set in an Engineering college. It will attract the entire youth audience and given the fact that a good script is a pre-requisite for Aamir to work in it, the film will most likely do well.
My Name Is Khan
2009 would see SRK in 2 movies namely, Billu Barber and My Name Is Khan. While the trailers for Billu Barber are already out , My Name Is Khan would most likely be released in towards the end of 2009. Directed by Karan Johar it will once again star SRK and Kajol. As per reports Shahrukh Khan is playing the role of a man who suffers from milder form of autism and the film is based on the true story of a couple in the US.
Well it looks like Karan Johar has some strange fascination with shooting in the US, as most of his past movies have been based there.
Apart from these, viewers would also be able to enjoy the third installment of the Munnabhai series called Munnabhai Chale America, which promises to be quite hilarious again. (Catch the promo below).
Rab Ne Bana De Jodi - Truly A Different Love Story
December 14, 2008 by krisdhingra
Filed under Reviews
Year: 2008
Writer: Aditya Chopra
Director: Aditya Chopra
Producer: Yash Chopra And Aditya Chopra
Length: 180 min
Category: Drama
Media: Film
Studio: Yash Raj Films(YRF)
Rating from CBFC: U
Have you ever seen Shah Rukh Khan play Superman ? After last year’s success of his 6 pack starrer Om Shanti Om SRK is back with his only major movie of the year, Yash Raj Films Rab Ne Bana De Jodi, which also sees the comeback of Aditya Chopra as a script writer and director. As the title would suggest this movie is yet another love story from the YRF stable starring SRK. Mr.Khan is undoubtedly the king when it comes to romantic movies and for some reason he always chooses to repeat the same kind of roles again and again. One really hopes that the lethal combination of YRF and SRK would make more films like Chak De India which showcased SRK’s real acting capabilities and was a refreshing change from the mushy love stories that keep coming out in Bollywood.
Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi (RNBDJ) is however slightly different from other love stories as it shows SRK do a Superman as he dons two different egos and personalities as he tries make his wife fall in love with him. After a tragic series of events SRK(as Surinder Sahni) ends up getting married to Anshuka Sharma(as Taani). While the meek and timid Surinder loves his wife to the core, she chooses to lead a life of denial and refuses to accept her husband’s love. It takes a Dance Show to bring back some life into Tania and provides Surinder the opportunity to make his wife fall in love with him as he dons the hat of his alter ego, Raj, naam to suna hi hoga.
From there on starts the long and rather boring track of how he shuffles between the characters of Raj and Surinder. The movie is interspersed with some good songs that for once come up at the right times, except for a masala number featuring SRK in 5 different attires aping 5 different bollywood greats dancing around with 5 different bollywood divas (haven’t we had enough of that). The movie is also funny at many places and the audiences just loved SRK’s portrayal of the simple and naive Surinder Sahni. Vinay Pathak as Surinder’s best friend Bobby does a brilliant job as well and his chemistry with SRK keeps the audience in splits.
Finally, new comer Anshuka Sharma is a refreshing change form the regular staple of limited bollywood actresses and potrays her role well. One just hopes that she won’t fade away into anonymity like some SRK’s other co-stars, Gaytri Joshi his Swades co-star being an example. Overall the movie is worth a watch although it has a very low repeat value, is rather long and has a slighty stretched second half. Watch it for SRK’s only movie of the year, his entertaining performance as Surinder and for the charming effervescence of Anushuka.
