Admissions Open Release Date : 14,May 2010

Producer Mohd. Israr Ansari
Director K. D. Satyam
Music Amit Trivedi
Lyrics Shellee
Release Date 14-May-2010

This film is all about a revolutionary movement started by the victims of our stereotype education system. A disheartened IT professor, Tariq Siddhiqi (Anupam kher) who is basically disappointed with the orthodox education system and Devang Tripathi (Ashish Vidyarthi) an alcoholic professor who is thrown out from Mumbai University for his abstract methodology for teaching and Arjun Sehghal, (Ankur Khanna) an under achieving student who disenchants the traditional education system as he doesn’t believe in grading system and Priyanka (Arshi) who wants to break through the typical parental pressure of our society to accomplish her passion as a super model. Finally as they all posses same perception towards our stereotype education system, they decide to go against to it and they form an abstract pattern of education system to encourage the failure students of our society. But problem arises for them when Raghavendra Reddy (Pramod Moutho), the dean of a prestigious college in Pune complains to the National Accreditation Council (NAC) against the new college for being run without accreditation.

The subject is very topical and the film appears extremely well intended but the director K.D. Satyam fails in executing it well. Amateurish writing makes the matters worse. The new college looks more like an ashram where classes on seduction and occult sciences are held apart from those in cookery and painting! During a sequence, the college girls and boys are shown to be sleeping with one another in suggestive positions. Is this the kind of new education the makers suggest in place of the existing one? What is the funniest part of the film is the characters talking about education can’t even pronounce English words right.

Ankur Khanna who earlier made an impressive debut Yun Hota To Kya Hota (2006) delivers a sincere performance. Arshi needs to brush up her acting skills. Veterans Anupam Kher, Rati Agnihotri and Ashish Vidyarthi are good as usual. Pramod Moutho is impressive.

The only positive thing to talk about this film is the music by Amit Trivedi of Dev.D fame. But sad such good tunes are wasted on a film like this.

Bumm Bumm Bole Release Date : 14,May 2010

Producer: Sanjay Ghodawat Group Percept Picture Company
Director :Priyadarshan
Music: M.G. Sreekumar, Tapas Relia, Azaan Sami
Writer: Manisha Korde
Lyrics :Sameer, Irfan Siddique, Satish Mutatkar

What's it about: If you haven't watched Iranian filmmaker Majid Majidi's brilliant opus Children of Heaven, then you won't realise the gravity of how wrong the remake has turned out. Priyadarshan's version of the 1997 Academy Award nominee for Best Foreign Film is set somewhere in the North East. Pinu (Darsheel) and Rimjhim (Ziyah) are the children of a poor tea garden worker (Atul) and his wife (Rituparna). After losing his sister's shoes in the market, Pinu's whole world revolves around finding her a brand new pair. He loses sleep, comes up with back-up plans to replace them but fails. His poor family can't afford a new pair so he decides to participate in a marathon where the third runner-up gets to take home brand new shoes. However, it doesn't quite work out right. Along the way there's a terrorist plot (ULFA?) wanting to create upheaval in their quiet town.

What's hot: Priyan succeeds in creating the right mood for the film. Even though he keeps the location ambiguous for a long time before someone says Shillong, the characters fit perfectly in the scenic setting. When there are child actors involved there's always the fear of them turning out either super cheesy or just plain boring. Fortunately both Darsheel and Ziyah perform exceedingly well. Priyan creates moments highlighting the simplicities of a child's life like the world coming to a stop when you don't have proper shoes to wear, or the plain pleasures of finding a playmate to play catch. Ziyah is a find, with a natural charm and right effervescence; she fits the part perfectly.

What's not: There is an agonising wait for the ball to start rolling at some point in the film. Priyan takes too long to cut to the chase and start telling his story. We get the fact that he needs to establish his characters, but once that's done why the delay in taking the action forward? Scenes of Pinu and Rimjhim exchanging shoes before the other goes to school get monotonous and lethargic. Also watching a tiny tot run across fields in large shoes over and over again serves no purpose other than the fact that the poor girl must have got a really big treat waiting at the end of the shot. One can't turn a blind eye to the crude product placement of a shoe brand in the climax, and then cut to another shot of a health drink being guzzled down by a kid. Talk about making a film on a 'shoe-string' budget! Atul Kulkarni is earnest and stays true to his brief while Rituparna doesn't have much to do. The terrorist angle doesn't add or take away anything from the film. The second half needs heavy trimming and the fantasy song with giant shoes only adds to the already impending doom.

What to do: Priyan's version of the Children of Heaven doesn't hold a candle to the original. Lengthy second half and weak script makes it a dull affair.