BHOOL BHULAIYA

So fa the BEST Movie of the year. Individually there is no special aspect of the movie. It is not the best thriller, not the best comedy... not the best horror...not the best of technicality. BUT it is the combination that works. The movie has agreat repeat viewing value. You can watch the film over and over again.

Akshay Kumar at his best. By far one one of his best performances ever. He has evolved as an actor over the years. Completing his record spree of 4 consequetive super hits with this movie he holds the film together.

Vidya Balan was good in her role. She looked fabulous in the song.. mere dholna.

Shiney Ahuja was the only negative point of the movie. He was too loud for his role. His dialogue delivery seemed to be forced.

All other characters whatever small with a special mention of Rajpal Yadav (as Chota Pandit) did more than justive to their characters.

Music was good. The theme song is one of the most rocking songs of recent times. Mere Dolna was a refreshing classical song ( it somewhat vanished from mainstream Bollywood films) and sung well and presented exceptionally well.

Over and all it would give it 8.5/10.

It is must watch movie. If you have missed it make sure to watch it.

SAAWARIYA

BLUE - GREEN & GREY describes the movie best

BLUE describes the music that flows like river. One of the best music of recent times. The most important is the usage of the music in story telling. The background theme music mystifies the feeling.

GREEN describes the freshness of all the characters of the movie. Starting from Ranbir Kapoor to Zohra Sehgal - All looked fresh in the movie. Each and every character has been given importance and that is something special in the film

GREY describes the pain, sorrow and agony the character goes thru. Be very sure they are not black but in subdued manner of black. You can feel the pain the characters go thru.

The Movie holds up because of fantastic music, one of the best cinematography, Great acting and good direction inspite of a common & not so great story line.

Ranbir Kapoor shows the genetics of Rishi Kapoor & Neetu Singh. He is the most promising newcomer after Hrithik Roshan. Great Actor, dancer and a stunning looker.

Sonam Kapoor is good. But she need few more films to brush up the rough edges. She reminds you of Tabu in her earlier films.

Rani Mukherjee has done justice to her character in most convincing way.

Zohra Sehgal was best in the movie. At a ripe age of 96 she still have the JOSH in her.

Salman Khan had basically nothing to do in the movie.

Overall 7.0/10.

OM SHANTI OM

1St half of the movie can compete with the best comedy movies. But the 2nd half was too bad & predictable (infact it was a rip off from KARZ by 90%).

Shahrukh Khan - Hope he will never show his bare 6 Packs ( Urrggghhh!!!!) again... it never suits him. his acting has been good. Specially in comedy roles he was fantastic.

Deepika - looks good. Not much chance to act. She had nothing to do but look cute and she had succeeded in it.

Shreyas - Good in 1st half. But doesnot look convincing as an old person. He should not act in such type of movie.

Arjun Rampal - Avoidable. Totally wasted his capability.

Kiron Kher - too Loud for ears. Can cause ear drum damage.

Opening sequences has been too good in fact one of the best.

Overall 5/10. Additional 1 for Mix of old Bollywood Actors like rishi Kapoor, Sunil dutt, Rajesh Khanna & jeetendra in the songs & Akshay Kumar in the Filmfare award function.

JHOOM BARABAR JHOOM

Long Haired Amitabh, Abhishek, Bobby- Actually all the main cast have long hair. That is the only thing you will notice in the movie other than some foot tapping songs.

Sure its a light movie meant to be enjoyed in light spirits but then even light films can have better dialogues, fewer songs (or at least those that contribute to the pace at least in some way) and some sweet comedy.

Well, the biggest drawback of the movie is the script!No doubt the movie is high on style but it's the script that matters.

The concept of two strangers meeting on a railway station (Abishek-Preity) and telling stories about their respective fiancés (Lara Dutta-Bobby Deol) is interesting but the execution is not up to the mark.

The music was pretty well done although Shaad Ali managed to drag all life out of the catchy title song since it pops up all over the film. The slow romantic number was also good.

Overall a bad film. You can enjoy it if you are in a party mood and paying only 50% attention to the movie.

LETTERS FROM IWO ZIMA

Director:Clint Eastwood

Cast :Ken Watanabe ,Kazunari Ninomiya, Tsuyoshi Ihara, Ryo Kase, Shido Nakamura

During World War II, Japanese were characterized in the media as sneaky and fanatical, almost sub-human and many had a hard time adjusting to our being allies after the war. Clint Eastwood's Letters From Iwo Jima seeks to balance the equation. The film takes place in 1944 during the fight for the island that was deemed strategic for both sides, a fight that ended with 21,000 Japanese and 6,000 American casualties. Spoken in Japanese with English subtitles, dramatizes the battle from the Japanese point of view. They are depicted as soldiers who loved their families but were victims of Japanese militarism, forced to adhere to the Bushido code of serving the Emperor by dying honorably rather than preserving one's life.

Throughout the film, the Japanese soldiers write letters home, most of which they know will never reach their destination. The hero of the film is Commander Kuribayashi (Ken Watanabe), an American trained Japanese General who was outnumbered by a ratio of five-to-one yet fought off the US invasion for over a month without air or naval support. He is portrayed as a warrior with dignity and courage who was called an American sympathizer by some officers but who only wanted to give his men a fighting chance.Assisting in the preparations for an expected American invasion, are Baron Nishi (Tsuyoshi Ihara) and Lieutenant Ito (Shido Nakamur). Ito is a fanatical warrior who wears land mines around his shoulders and vows to destroy an American tank by pretending to be a corpse. Kuribayashi, countermanding the order to build trenches on the beach to resist the invasion, orders the soldiers to build underground tunnels in the hard rocks. While knowing the battle is a lost cause because of the American advantage in technology and numbers, he hopes to inflict enough casualties on the American troops that they will lose the will to go on.

We get to know Saigo (Kazunari Ninomiya), a Japanese soldier who left his job as a baker and his pregnant wife to join the military. In a flashback, Saigo learns that he is called to serve and is unwilling to leave his wife and their unborn child, but, encouraged by his neighbors, is forced to surrender to the idea of it being a privilege to fight. He stands out as a soldier who values life more than an outmoded code of honor. After a day of shoveling trenches, he writes to his wife, "Am I digging my own grave?" and wonders why he should die trying to kill Americans.Shown in a faded color palette that is almost black and white, Letters From Iwo Jima is a beautifully executed film, though I did find it a bit overlong and the battle scenes repetitious. Additionally, the film may go a bit too far in its attempt to show fairness to both sides, idealizing Kuribayashi and Nishi and inventing an incident in which American soldiers left in charge of two Japanese soldiers who surrendered, ruthlessly shoot them to death rather than stand guard all night.

Letters From Iwo Jima serves as a powerful reminder of our common humanity and makes clear the insanity of war and how it corrupts everyone involved.

This is probably the most emotionally effecting and powerful movie I've ever seen. Never has a movie effected me like this. Never has a war film shown the horror of war like this before. The music was the same throughout the entire movie but it had a great impact. They had a piano and trumpet version. It sounded like a funeral which fit perfectly because Iwo Jima was lost before it even started. The sound editing is great (won Academy Award). The battle scenes are very well done. The only flaw was that they didn't show a timeline. The Japanese held the island for 36 days but it seems like 5. The only other flaw is that they don't make clear exactly how many men there are.

To sum it all up, "Letters from Iwo Jima" is one of the greatest war films ever made, and is easily does the best job of depicting war as something that harms all involved that I have ever seen. Clint Eastwood has, with this achievement, engraved his name as one of the greatest American directors in film history

THE DEPARTED

The Cast :Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon,Jack Nicholson,Mark Wahlberg,Martin Sheen,Alec Baldwin

The screenplay: Fantastic

The performances: Stars competing among themselves who is best

The music: perfect with the theme

The Directing: Martin Scorsese at his finest and he delivers that

This film meets or exceeds the expectations of its audience in nearly every way. There are moments of incredible tension, violence, and drama, moments where characters reveal their vulnerabilities and weakness. Comedic moments and moments of sadness and through it all a multi layered .

This film is Scorsese's finest work , but it is not simply about Martin Scorsese or the amazing screen play by William Monahan, it is more than an amazing score, and great cinematography. While many of the accolades for this film belong to those behind the scenes people who envisioned and directed this film. One would be remiss to not point out the great performances of an all-star cast, many of whom deliver the finest performances of long and storied careers. Martin Sheen, Alec Baldwin, Jack Nicholson, Leonardo DiCaprio and Matt Damon deliver incredible performances. However the performance that stood out for me was Wahlberg, Mark Wahlberg's Sgt. Dignam stole every scene he was in, and he shared screen time with each of the afore mentioned actors. He gets to deliver some of the best lines, and with every scene he leaves the audience wanting more, and anticipating his next scene.Anyone out there who previously disregarded Leo DiCaprio as an actor will be totally converted as he delivered an astounding performance and showed a gritty side to his character. In fact, he was so good that Mr Nicholson didn't act him off the screen when they shared screen time together.

The Departed is a fast moving, intense action thriller with great usage of smart humor, fantastic acting (as stated above), good character development, and the brutal Scorsese violence his fans love. Definitely one of the best films of the 00's.

The Departed is nothing short of spectacular. Funnier that most comedies, Scorsese is still able to amplify the bloodshed and meticulously deliver a stunning cinematic achievement

SPIDERMAN 3

Warning - This is not the best Spiderman Film!!!

This film is flawed in certain ways. It's much more convoluted than its predecessors, and nowhere near as cohesive. It seems like Sam has tried to fit too much into the film. Three villains as well as Peter's own inner demons, tension with MJ, problems at the Bugle...how much can one superhero handle? The film somewhere misses out to touch the heart.

Sure, everyone has their own part to play...but introducing all those new characters, and having their individual arcs play out to a satisfying extent - it's a big job, and one that doesn't quite pay off - or, at least, pays off at the expense of smooth narrative flow. We end up with some terribly clunky lines of expository dialogue – such as Eddie Brock's line to Chief Stacy, which goes something like 'I'm the new photographer at the Bugle...oh, and I'm dating your daughter' - that will make you spit goo in annoyance . Some of the scenes are really inspired by bollywood movies, like dialogues when Harry dies (remember Amitabh & Dharmendra in Sholay).

The many mental/emotional shifts Harry (poor, poor Harry) goes through are handled in a pretty ham-fisted way, too. There are also a couple of very 'sequelly' bits, which seem a little inconsistent with the other films. I'm not talking about the whole 'Flint-Marko-killed-Uncle-Ben' thing – that was actually handled surprisingly well. The most memorable example of what I mean is Bernard's little word in Harry's ear concerning Norman's cause of death. Umm...so, why couldn't he have mentioned it EARLIER?!

It is the darkest, the most action-packed, and by far the FUNNIEST Spider-Man yet. This, I suppose, is the upshot of Sam Raimi himself writing the screenplay . The sequence in which Peter turns into the lamest bad-boy in history is a total crack-up. The looks on the faces of the 'laydeez' as he struts along the street like a nerdy are absolutely priceless.The chase/fight sequence between Peter and Gobby Jr. is brilliant. We fly and fall through the air, not knowing which way is up half the time. Only Sam Raimi could disorient an audience to that extent while still allowing us to keep up with what's going on - AND manage to inject the scene with such style, humour and gravity, all at the same time.Both Sandman and Venom are great to watch. Yes, the special effects are awesome, but it mainly comes down to the fact that both characters are so well cast .The cast are all as good as ever, and have now grown nicely into their roles.