India trip movie review

Well this post was long pending. A trip to home is always accompanied with watching a lot of movies. Here is the list and 2 line reviews.

Raat gayi Baat Gayi - Written and directed by Saurabh Shukla, it starrs Rajat Kapoor, Vinay Pathak in leads. A very well made small budget indie comedy where the humor is in the story and not in the act. Vinay Pathak is just too good. Movie starts in a morning where no one remembers what happened in the night before. Again these are movies which do not have a strong story but movies which should be made. These should be watched on a casual rainy day evening.

Siddarth the Prisoner - It has Rajat Kapoor in the lead who gives a great performance. An interesting story, again an indie movie made with an exciting idea and nice execution. An author comes out of a prison to write about his prison experience in a book and twists happen when the briefcase containing book manuscript is exchanged by a briefcase containing money.

Ishqiya: Naseeruddin shah and Arshad warsi in leads who fell in love with Vidya Balan. This movie comes from the camp of Vishal Bhardwaj. Good in parts and rest is average. Does not give the feel of an Indian village, has too many cliches. Liked the heist planning part. Decent performances. Average movie overall. One awesome song - Dil to bachha hai

Tera kya hoga Johnny: Directed by Sudhir Mishra. Ok, too much expectations going into the movie. A very strong cast. Story revolves around the life of a teenager named Johnny who dreams to go to Dubai. A disappointment. My main problem is that there are too many sub plots going on and hence become too much to digest. More depth and less variety was required here. Loved the concept of Corporate in underworld. And i have a bigger issue with Kay Kay Menon. Even though Kay Kay is a versatile actor, i think he is best suited for idealist, angry young man type roles (Black friday, HKA etc) But consistently he has played negative roles and even though he is good, he is now appearing to look monotonous in them.

Striker - Left halfway, cant comment.

In theatres -

Rajneeti: The good side: Ajay Devgan is not doing comedy, atleast he acts in this movie. Arjun Rampal looks good in pieces. Average plot. The bad: Bad acting by Ranbir Kapoor, Katrina Kaif has no idea how to portray and man the story sucks so bad. It is an intersection of Godfather and Mahabharath. But please take inspiration, not imitation. And that idiotic Karan concept was not needed at all. Overall the movie could have been very realistic but it fells into the ususal bollywood crap.

Raavan: Dir by Mani Ratnam. Starring Abhishek and Aish. So people were disappointed by this movie. I was not. I had no expectations and the movie turned out to be average. Santosh Sivan's cinematography is just brilliant and it stands out. Script is also quite good atleast has some thought provoking points in it on who is correct. But the acting is just bad. Both Ash and abhi are overacting, trying to do too much. Would have liked to see someone in place of Govinda. Dance and makeup is quite bad as per me.


The Karate Kid: Loved it. I have seen all previous 3 karate kids, the plot is known. Standard three structures - Cause, Karate training and karate execution with moral ending. But the execution is quite good. First, acting of that kid is very good. Jackie Chan gives a quite performance and its good to see him in such a role. Overall, a good movie to watch with family.