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A more of a leer and simpler kind of drama by Ashwini Dhir, Atithi Tum Kab Jaoge is quite different from all the frenzied laugh acts that have been trying to make its audiences laugh recently in Bollywood. The movie does not even try to convince you that life is full of smiles and laughter, where as it just goes on creating condition where in you feel the warmth and smile off with a known eccentricity of the decipherable situations.
In a mood for watching some mature romance with some tangy yet sweet and touching taste, then It’s Complicated should be there on your list. Directed by Nancy Meyers, the movie is all about love, marriage, divorce and everything in between all of this. The director has tried to transform a divorced couple into a romantic couple, signifying a faith in love persevering even after the marriage dies off.
Have you ever received a call from yourself? Is it possible? Actually this concept impulsively generates the curiosity in the film. Karthik Calling Karthik is a decent creation but unfortunately with an unconvincing conclusion. There are a lot of theories going about round and round inside the movie but on the whole the movie turns out to be unpersuasive.
An immensely topical film based on the novel by Walter Krin and directed by Jason Reitman, Up In The Air is rooted completely in today’s corporate culture, ethics of modern living, independence and success along with an envelope of self ostracism. With all the white-collared bewilderment moving in and out of the film, the movie is something about todays continuous, the people who appear to be heartless souls giving out the fearful firing sheets and the ones who jump off the bridges after getting the sheets.
One more cinema that motivates, moves, inspires and forces you to think. My Name is Khan not only brushes out the history, but also builds up an astonishing vignette with its challenging scenes that lay out a question in front of its audiences and debunk all the myths that have been laid down up till now. “
It’s current and topical. Ram Gopal Verma returns back to his old lets dissect the world attitude with the go fast kind movie, Rann. Though it runs on some predictive lines, the movie has a gripping touch that keeps its audiences not to move out for popcorn. There is businessman-politician-news baron at work that brings out the whole known story of the media world, news battle and the hackneyed politician chronicle that tells you that “sensationalism” is not the only buzzword in the business of news.
A comedy entry by Peter Bilingsley, Couples Retreat is something based upon an idea of Vaughan’s. The movie follows the storyline that every marriage has to be worked upon, although they seem to be looking perfect on the surface. Though not so good at its humor, the movie has tried to answer a simple question as to why marriages rock with its storyline of the different couples who flee off into marriage therapy island when divorce impends upon the married life of their friends.
This is the one for the biopic movie lovers. A movie on the life of Michael Jerome Oher, The Blind Side is the story of the American Footballer who had played for Baltimore Ravens of the National Football League. Featuring the myth of the white men being the redeemer of the impecunious, poor and crime ridden black community, them movie has a smooth flow.
A wacky kind of black comedy by the Debutant Director, Abhishek Chaubey, Ishqiya is a completely desi delight. Though there is a mark of Vishal Bharadwaj on the movie, the director has managed to come up with his own taste as well. If you are in a mood of watching some bold and hardcore cinema then Ishqiya can be on your list this weekend.
A perfect ending to an exciting 2009 for India, 3 Idiots is a perfect model of the new age Indian who is a non-conformist and questions the outdated methods and chooses to live his life on his own terms of finding new roads that evade out the rat race. As assured all the desi cinema flatters accompanied with the ‘apna Bollywood’ style makes the movie a worth watch with friends for the weekend.
