BEST DEATH SCENES - BOLLYWOOD

SHOLAY - Jai dying in the arms of Veeru. Dramatics at its pinnacle.

ANAND - Anands death scene..and BABUMOSAI...in the background

NAMAK HARAM - Death of Raja Murad & "Main Sayar Badnaam" in background..haunting

RANG DE BASANTI - Though not shown in movie but ..... will make you sit back and take notice

AGNEEPATH - Dying in arms of mother - Amitabh at his best

DEEWAR - Again dying in mother's arm

DARR - Horryfying death to Shahrukh Khan..end to historical KKKK KIRANNNN....

PARINDA - Death of Anil Kapoor & Madhuri Dixit during suhaag raat and death of Anna (Nana Patekar) on the swing

KARAN ARJUN - death of Karan & Arjun in hand of thakur - a scene to watch out for as it is the only movie where 2 Khans die.

RAAJNEETI - Death of Arjun Rampal - Fast & Quick, Death of Ajay Devgan - Cold blooded kill by Ranbir Kapoor

BORDER - Death of Akshaye Khanna - Heart breaking

1971 - Death of Manoj Bajpai - So close yet so far.

SATYA - Both the death of Viku Matre & Satya - no dramatics, no emotion - simply ruthless

DONNIE DARKO (2001) DIRECTOR'S CUT (2004)

Warning - before reading the below, please watch the Movie.

You can't help writing anything about it when :
IMDB says the plot to be
" A troubled teenager is plagued by visions of a large bunny rabbit that manipulates him to commit a series of crimes, after narrowly escaping a bizarre accident."
The Tagline Says
"Life is one long insane trip. Some people just have better directions"

This is not the review of the movie but a kind of introspection into the characters and happenings portrayed in the movie.

Donnie Darko as a movie explores the unexplained yet the explained side of human nature and life in total. Characters are humane with a dark side attached to them. It explains the natural phenomenon of life in a supernatural way. The song from the film " Mad World" explains it all.

Characters depicts all shades of human emotion. The story depicts all shades of social emotion.

Confusing as it sounds can be clarified once one explains the movie as per one's own understanding.

One can consider Donnie Darko as a protagonist who manipulates his fate by sacrificing his life for his loved ones or it can be explained that "time and life" will follow its own path whatever it may take or whatever you try to avoid it.

The movie keeps many things unexplained(purposefully) to have your own interpretation of what happens.

Donnie calls his mother a "b@#t*h" yet again he saves her life giving his own.

Is Donnie a hero who save lives giving his own or he is just a weak human who commits suicide to avoid the pain of living a life without his loved one's.

The movie also explains (unexplains) time travel. Pre destination paradox has been depicted to accuracy without any technical explanation.

Is Donnie an angel who saves lot many lives ???
Is Donnie an evil who takes many lives for his survival ???
Is Donnie just a human like all of us ???

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0246578

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