Hindi

The team of Hera-Pheri has come up once again to re-create the magic and one could say that they have partly succeeded. Nitin (Akshay kumar) works as a butler, cook, watchman, driver and a gardener to a wealthy female industrialist (Archana Puran Singh) in Singapore. He always wants to do something big in life so that he can become rich and marry the love of his life Anjali (Katrina Kaif) who supports him financially. Ram (Suniel Shetty) is Nitin’s best friend and just like him, he also comes to Singapore to become rich but he ends up being a courier deliveryman. Ram loves a very rich girl Manpreet (Sameera reddy), but her high society parents will never approve of their marriage, as Ram is not wealthy. Harbans (Paresh Rawal) is a shrewd businessman who wants to avoid his debtors and multiply his income in any way. He has a son (Chunkey Pandey) whom he decides to marry off to a very rich girl so that he gets lot of dowry. He is introduced to Manpreet’s parents at a function and is very impressed by their high status. He introduces himself as a very wealthy businessman and decides to get his son married to Manpreet. Nothing seems to be going fine for Nitin and Ram and they receive tantrums from their girl friends as well. So they finally decide to kidnap a wealthy person and become rich. But the kidnap plan goes awry and both hide at a local hotel for the ransom money. Manpreet’s wedding reception is also scheduled at the same hotel. Soon they are joined by a set of characters including a Chinese don (Asrani), a hired assassin (Johnny Lever), an ACB police inspector (Sharat Saxena), a club dancer (Neha Dhupia), an ambassador (Vikram Gokhale), a young frustrated wife (Aditi Govitrikar), a letch (Shakti kapoor), a drunken waiter (Rajpal Yadav) and a dead body nobody wants to check in the hotel. All the fun and humor of this 2:45 minute movie has to be watched on silver screen.

Akshay kumar has done a tremendous job and his comic timing is simple perfect. Paresh Rawal has recreated of what he has done in Hera-Pheri. Sunil Shetty has done a decent work. Katrina kaif is glamorous and Sameera reddy has nothing much to do. Amongst the other characters, Johnny lever, Archana Puran Singh, Manoj Joshi, Asrani and Vikram Gokhale deserves special mention.

It is a typical Priyadharshan movie and if you don’t mind to keep away from logic, catches this movie at a theater near you. The production values are of high standards. Music by Pritam is alright and back ground score by Salim-Sulaiman is good. Cinematography by K.Ahambaram is excellent. Dialogues by Jay Master need a special mention. They are extra-ordinary.

Cast: Akshay kumar, Sunil Shetty, Paresh Rawal, Katrina Kaif, Sameera Reddy, Johnny lever, Archana Puran Singh, Neha Dhupia, Manoj Joshi, Vikram Gokhale

Music: Pritam

Background Score: Salim-Sulaiman

Cinematography: K.Ahambaram

Dialogue: Jay Master

Editor: Arun Kumar

Producers: Ganesh Jain, Girish Jain, and Ratan Jain

Director: Priyadharshan.

Mickey (Aftab) is a 12-year old kid. His life is almost like a fairy tale. He has a beautiful family, a very good friend Bonnie and an angel on earth, 23 year old Mitika (Aamna Sharif). His life is shattered on one fateful day when he realizes that he is an adopted child and when his angel calls him a kid. A heart broken Mickey sits all alone until Hitchcock (Johnny Lever) appears. Hitchcock is a local street side clown and Mickey wishes for a miracle. To his astonishment, he wakes up the next morning and realizes that his wish has been granted. Initially, Mickey has a hard time convincing Bonnie that he is indeed his friend Mickey. The best thing for Mickey to get older is that he can get a chance to come closer to Mitika. He tries his best to impress her and eventually Mitika falls in love with him. Things get more complicated for Mickey when Mitika gets ready to marry him. To know what happened next, catch this movie at a theater near your place.

This movie is inspired by Tom Hanks starrer Big (1988). Though the movie is cute, it fades out in the later part. The scenes where Aftab is trying to woo Aamna have come out really well. The choice of subject is good and but the story lets you down. The romantic angle between the grown up kid and Aamna is not effective. Aftab has turned producer-writer for this movie. His act is impressive like a kid locked up in an adult body. Aamna Sharif has a terrific screen presence and has improved a lot in acting when compared to her debut film – Aaloo Chat. Johnny lever excels whenever he is on screen. The kid playing Bonnie is also good. Rati Agnihotri is good and the kids are full of energy. Riteish Deshmukh makes a special appearance at the end of the movie.

Director Glenn Baretto succeeded in giving the film a very soft romantic appeal within a fairy tale setting. It would have been much better if he had made the last few reels of the movie more gripping. Music has been handled well by Ankur Tewary, Xulfi, and Mickey McCleary. But one gets a feeling that there are too many songs in the second half of the movie. The best part of this movie is Keshav’s camera work, which is top-notch. He has captured the locales of Himachal Pradesh and Goa very well on celluloid. Choreography by Longine Fernandez (Slumdog Millionaire fame) is good.   On the whole, Aao wish karein is a cute, fun, clean romantic film. Having said that, the movie is engaging only in parts. Even less publicity is a big drawback for this movie to click at box-office.

Cast: Aftab Shivdasani, Aamna Sharif, Johnny lever, Rati Agnihotri, Riteish Deshmukh.

Director: Glenn Baretto

Producer: Aftab Shivdasani

Story/Writer/Screenplay: Aftab Shivdasani

Music: Ankur Tewary, Xulfi, and Mickey McCleary

Choreography: Longine Fernandez

Cinematography: Kesav Prakash

Editor: Steven H Bernard

Release Date: Nov 13 2009.

Jail is a typical Madhur Bhandarkar movie representing the jail system in India. Filled with hard-hitting dialogues in almost every scene, the movie gives a glimpse of the terrible conditions the inmates of a jail have to go through. The movie is an attempt to showcase the actual happenings inside a jail that will never be able to see the light of the day in reality.

Parag Dixit (Neil Nitin Mukesh) is a manager of a corporate house. The movie gets interesting when suddenly on one day Parag gets falsely involved in a drug case. It all starts when police starts trying to arrest the actual culprit, who happens to be a friend of Parag. Unfortunately, Parag's friend slips to coma and eventually Parag loses the last hope that could prove his innocence.

Parag's mother (Nauni Parihar) and girlfriend Mansi (Mugdha Godse) enter the scenario making unsuccessful attempts to secure a release for Parag. Unable to cope up with the lawyer's hefty fee demands, they give up which sees the entry of Parag inside a jail. The story takes a new turn from there on.

Kurbaan comes with a strange tag line 'Some Love Stories have blood on them'. The story begins with the return of Avantika (Kareena Kapoor) to India from New York, who is a teacher by profession. This is because her father suffers a heart attack. She takes up teaching at a university in Delhi, where she happens to meets a professor named Ehsaan Khan (Saif Ali Khan). As fate has, they both meet and then love happens. Months pass by both getting still close as their love intensifies. Suddenly, twists in their lives occur when Avantika gets a call from her university in New York to come back. She informs the same matter to Ehsaan for which he says he has no regrets. Instead, he offers to come along with her all the way to New York and after getting there he expresses his plan to find a job there. They get married after all such sorts.