Shaabash! You Can Do It

Director	:	Shankar Mondal
Language	:	Hindi
Genre	:	Comedy / Thriller / Suspense

Shaabash! You Can Do It: But you didn’t!
Rating: 1 out of 5
Starring: Hitesh Agrawal, Mansi Dovhal, Sudesh Berry, Nasir Khan, Vivek Shauq, Charu Sharma, Rajiv Verma, Adi Irani, Atul Kinagi, Vedita Pratap Singh, Praveen Singh Sisodia,
 Vishwajeet Pradhan, Rakesh Shrivastav and Aslam Khan.
Director: Shankar Mondal
Shaabash! You Can Do It doesn’t live up to its title et all. There is not even a single good element which one can think of, and gather some guts to watch the film. Poor is synonymous to this film in every aspect. Poor direction, storyline, direction, selection of actors is what compounds to the misery of this film.
The story revolves around the character of Neil and his journey from being an underdog to ultimately emerging as the winner of a dance competition with its protagonist Vikram, who’s a three years champ, by learning yoga.
His journey is facilitated by Professor Siddhant’s encouragement and his newfound love for Mahi. It is a truly inspiring film for viewer of all age group. It also has excellent music, good dance sequences, culminating in breath taking competition and suspense. Also, for the first time yoga has been excessively used as a tool of transformation. Too many actors Hitesh Agrawal, Mansi Dovhal, Sudesh Berry, NasirKhan, Vivek Shauq, Charu Sharma, Rajiv Verma, Adi Irani, Atul Kinagi, Vedita Pratap Singh, Praveen,Singh Sisodia, Vishwajeet Pradhan, Rakesh Shrivastav and Aslam Khan has added in further disdain of the film.
Highly non-recommendable says it all for this film.

Love Ka Tadka Release Date : 23,Oct 2009

Genre: Romance, Comedy

Director: Gautam Adhikari, Rajan Waghdare

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Star Cast: Sammir Dattani, Nauheed Cyrusi, Satish Kaushik, Rakesh Bedi, Vrajesh Hirjee, Bakhtiyaar Irani

Release Date: October 9, 2009

Bollywood is known for churning out some of the best romantic flicks and comedy movies every year. And when the two genres are combined in a single film only, you can be sure that the result would Love Ka Tadka Moviesimply be outstanding. Bringing across the viewer various shades of love, with many hilarious situations scattered throughout, is Gautam Adhikari’s latest venture ‘Love Ka Tadka’, co-directed by Rajan Waghdare. It has Sammir Dattani and Nauheed Cyrusi as the main leads, with Satish Kaushik, Rakesh Bedi, Vrajesh Hirjee, and Bakhtiyaar Irani forming the supporting cast.Watch online Movie Trailer free Love Ka Tadka Hindi Bollywood Indian film

Scheduled to hit the theaters on 9th October 2009, ‘Love Ka Tadka’ revolves around the life of Aditya (Sameer Dattani) and Sheetal (Nauheed Cyrusi). Aditya is a middle class guy, who works as an executive in ‘Easy Money’. Struggling to make ends meet, he has only three main things in his life - his work, his friend Vicky and his corrupt boss. One fine day, Aditya bumps into Sheetal, a beautiful girl who mistakes him for a ‘Romeo’. And every time Aditya tries to clear the misunderstanding and prove his innocence, following the advice of Vicky, he ends up creating more mix-ups and confusions.The film Directed by Gautam Adhikari,



In the process of clearing the confusion and bringing everything on track, Aditya ends up falling in love with Sheetal. Soon, the two of them get married also, but the story does not culminate in a ‘Happily Ever After’ (‘picture abhi baaki hai mere dost’). In fact, this is where the actual story begins. Rather, it starts getting more chaotic and even much more amusing. The very first problem is that Sheetal considers Aditya to be a Manager, who lives in a plush condominium (as per the lies he told her, to woo her). As expected, she becomes livid on learning that he is an executive and lives in a chawl.

Inspite of the difficulties, Aditya and Sheetal manage to sort out their differences and also pool in money to buy an apartment. However, before this could happen, Sheetal's dad (Satish Kaushik) insists on coming to stay with her. The couple somehow manages to make him stay in Vicky’s house, till they find an apartment of their own. As if this wasn’t enough, when they go to buy their new house, they run short on funds. In order to help them out, Vicky ends up cutting a deal with the house owner. He promises that either they will pay the balance within a year or forfeit even that amount which they have already given to the owner.

After crossing all hurdles, Aditya and Sheetal manage to get their own house. However, just when they think that everything is fine, a new problem crops up. They come to know that their house is in a strictly vegetarian society. While they agree to compromise on the fact, Sheetal's father, who is strictly an anti vegetarian, presents a problem. As it is, he is not happy with Aditya. So, the couple decides to hide the fact that the society is pure vegetarian. What follows is a series of comic situations, where Aditya and Sheetal try to do a balancing act between the latter’s father and the society members, by smuggling the forbidden food items into the house.

Fruit and Nut Release Date : 23,Oct 2009

Movie Details

Language: Hindi

Release date and status: Released on Oct 23, 2009

Cast: Boman Irani, Cyrus Broacha, Dia Mirza, Mahesh Manjrekar, Atmaram Bhende, Rajit Kapoor

Music: Sangeet Haldipur/Siddharth Haldipur

Director: Kunal Vijaykar

Fruit and Nut, directed by Kunal Vijaykar was termed as a social parody, a satirical of sorts. Sadly it’s a far cry from its vivid definition. The film only provides dozens of roll of the eye situations and innumerable number of annoying so-called funny sequences. Fruit and Nut has its share of nutty characters indeed. However only a few giving justification to their insane attributes.

The film about an ex-Maharaja Harry Holkar (Boman Irani) who feels his city has gone to the dogs, devises a plan to rid Mumbai of all its evil. Enter Jolly Maker (Cyrus Broacha) an accident prone goody two shoes in search of love and money who finds himself entangled in this mess along with attractive smart snob Monica (Dia Mirza). Khandarchaala (Mahesh Manjrekar) a corrupt government official only ends up taking advantage of the situation to satisfy his own evil motives.

The first half of the film is a hotch potch of bad over the top acting and nonsensical humour which has you cringing in your seat. Boman Irani is probably the only saving grace of the film who keeps you entertained till the very end of the film. While his shoddy makeup and garish clothing might be a little hard on the eyes, he makes sure his mannerisms and punchlines leave you marvelled by this powerhouse of comic talent. Cyrus Broacha should stick to what he does best that is reality TV hosting and theatre- his emoting and expressions are only good impromptu and he just ends up making a bakra of himself in the movie. Mahesh Manjrekar does a fair job but starts to annoy after a while. Dia Mirza is unconvincing in her tough girl look and her romantic scenes with Cyrus are just too much to digest for the day. Rajit Kapoor is a pain to watch.

The movie picks up in the second half with a rib-tickling climax which will have you rolling off your seat. The scene in which Boman hails Salim Sulaiman the dreaded aging underworld dons is probably the most hilarious sequence in the film. However after the first gruelling half hour of the film you just don’t have the patience to sit for the second half. The movie which has been targeted for the urban crowd wont appeal to them as such considering teenage Pj’ are better than humour in Fruit and Nut.

The screenplay and dialogues by Sharad Kataria are nothing to boast about, and Kunal’s direction is good for a newbie but scripting is just not his cup of tea. The production value only speaks of the hesitance Studio 18 must have had in putting in money for the film. The music for Sangeet Haldipur is ho-hum with Boman’s title track being the only standout song which even though I beg to recollect, evades my memory.

From what I hear Studio 18 couldn’t make head or tail of the story when they saw the end result of the film and had even asked Kunal to re-edit the film several times. But with all the unnecessary sequences in the film, one can only begin to imagine the fruits of sleeping on the editing table and the effort in trying to crack the nut of a movie they produced in the bargain.

Bal Ganesh 2 Release Date : 23,Oct 2009

ovie Details

Genre: Animation

Language: Hindi

Release date and status: Released on Oct 23, 2009 Director: Pankaj Sharma Producer: Pankaj Sharma , Smita Maroo

Our filmmakers do produce mythological animation flicks but that’s a rare occurrence. Mostly, you have a kiddie animation releasing when the children have their summer holidays and knowing the fact that they would anyway see the flick, seldom do filmmakers come out with an animation movie that makes an impact.

You like them or you don’t, but movies like ‘Hanuman’ and ‘Bal Ganesh’ are simple efforts put in by filmmakers to infuse a breath of fresh air in the humdrum of Bollywood.
Similarly, ‘Bal Ganesh 2’, directed by Pankaj Sharma, is a simple story, clubbed with sweet animation and just that.

It includes three different stories, all related to Lord Ganesha and the outcome rather gratifying. It is more than a movie; something you would want your children to see not because it’s about Ganesha, but for the fact that it shows him in a childlike form, making it easier to identify with him and believe him.

The second instalment of ‘Bal Ganesh’ is a step ahead in every term, whether it is the content, voiceovers or the animation. It updates you with what you witnessed in its first part and then three different stories unravel: The first story pertains to a cat and how Lord Ganesha plays a prank on it. Much later, Goddess Parvati gives an invaluable advice to Lord Ganesha... The second story pertains to Sage Vyasa. Lord Ganesha not only writes the entire book, but also translates it while writing it. The third story pertains to Lord Ganesha fighting it out with a powerful demon. He fights it out and you love it.

On the whole, it can prove to be a nice watch.

Rating: Two cheers

All The Best Release Date : 16,Oct 2009

Film: “All The Best”
Cast: Sanjay Dutt, Ajay Devgn, Fardeen Khan, Bipasha Basu, Mugdha Godse
Directed by: Rohit Shetty
Rating: ** 1/2

In his first really decent and meaty role since “Munnabhai”, Dutt gets into the satirical groove effortlessly and fluently playing a visiting Bade Bhaiyya from abroad whom his kid brother Fardeen Khan (tolerably befuddled) must fool into believing he’s married and decent.

The guys in Rohit Shetty’s comedies are anything but decent. Rascals and rogues of the first order, Devgn and Khan are splendidly supported by a sparkling cast of comic actors ranging from Asrani to Johnny Lever to the wonderful Ashwini Kalsekar (remember how cheesy and charming she was in Rohit Shetty’s “Gol Maal Returns?”) to Sanjay Mishra (as a zonked out wannabe householder who says ‘Just chill’ as though his tongue had just been through a sugarcane-juice machine).

The screenplay (Robin Bhatt) juices the material for all it’s worth. The constant flow of cheesy-breezy dialogues is littered with high-school humour but blessedly no vulgarity. This is one comedy you could take your mom to see without once walloping a wince into the wanton soup.

The burlesque is fast-paced though surprisingly restrained and has room galore for PJs. The one-liners are so silly and graffiti-like in their basic humour, you can’t but titter at the trivia wrapped in gloss that makes welcome room for Pritam’s pacy music without getting in the way of the one-liners.

So ok. This one doesn’t leave you… er blue in the face. The comedy is purely situational and the style purely ‘Rohit Shetty’. That means a bit of slapstick, a bit of that rapidly-moving tongue in the cheek, and a lot of Ajay Devgn.

And if you add Sanjay Dutt to the bubby buncy comic brew… man, you’ve got a show that’s on the road from the word go. This time the setting, if you must know, is Goa.

Shetty doesn’t use the touristic spot as a character. You suspect he places his colony of characters in the Goan location so they could all be camera-framed into a streamlined stampede.

There are only three female characters in the show, the rest are all guys playing conmen, goons, gangsters, wheeler dealers, warriors and worriers all of whom display an exemplary comic strength.

Sanjay Dutt gets it right after a long time. He has a lot of fun doing his part and he lets us share his enjoyment. Ajay Devgn’s comic timing has gotten rapidly dead-on under Shetty’s tutelage. He gives Dutt tit for tat, and then some more.

Not all the material is uniformly amusing. Towards the finishing line you do begin to wonder how much longer it would take this wonky wacky world of wispy and reparable wickedness to set itself right.

Blue Release Date : 16,Oct 2009

The visual splendour of the sea has never been captured before in any Indian film like it is in Blue. The opening reels of the film will have a viewer’s mouth agape with awe and beauty of the water world, caught on camera brilliantly by underwater cinematographer Pete Zuccarini, who has ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’ to his credit.

But a sinking feeling begins to set in as ‘Blue’ steers into the second half and one notices that between the numerous stunts, both on land and under water, there’s hardly any depth or grip in the story to keep you glued to ‘Blue’. Thankfully, there is Akshay Kumar, once again working his charm with that flashy gummy grin of his. And, of course, there is Lara Dutta in those eye-popping bikinis to kick the hormones amid all the adrenaline rush….Enough of what one can expect for the cost of ticket and time spent on this aqua-adventure thriller.

Much of ‘Blue’ is set over land, in Bahamas. Aarav (Akshay Kumar) and Sagar (Sanjay Dutt) are good friends who bond over fishing and boxing. Aarav, who is rich and looking to be richer, seems particularly interested in a sunken ship called ‘Lady in Blue’. Why? Because it carries a treasure lost in 1949 when the ship sank on its way from England to India.

Before one wonders that how on earth did a ship from England to India ended up going down in Bahamas (which is way far off), one sees that Sagar has some emotional strings attached to the sunken ship. He won’t go there for any temptation, any except brotherly love.

Which brings us to Sam (Zayed Khan), Sagar’s younger brother, who’s left the home and is flaunting his attitude and bike-speeding skills in Bangkok. He gets into a mess with a local mafia don (Rahul Dev) and flees back to his brother Sagar in Bahamas.

From then on, Sagar is pushed into a set of situations where he’s got no option but to go looking for the sunken treasure trove with Aarav and Sam.

In this adrenaline burst of macho men, speedsters, and deep sea divers who swim with sharks, some glamour and titillation is thrown in in the shapely forms of the bikini-clad Lara Dutta and deadly-looking Katrina Kaif. There’s also Kylie Minogue, the Aussie pop icon, chiggy-wiggying with Akshay in a club song.

But what’s missing is a nice and tight story that could make the movie work besides its action, stunts and glamour. Pardon the little spoiler but the whole hunt for the treasure is justified in the end by a flimsy reason about preserving the family honour.

Watch the film for Akshay, who rocks once again. Sanjay Dutt looks tired, Lara Dutta hot. Zayed Khan does better than what we’ve seen from him in the past. Rahul Dev has a lengthier role than Katrina who’s there only for a few minutes.

Debutant director Anthony D’Souza, also the co-writer of screenplay, makes a fine debut but leaves a lot to be desired. If he had a tighter story and believable reasons to justify the motives of the characters in ‘Blue’, the film could have been an absolute delight and an edge-of-the-seat experience.

Such as it is, ‘Blue’ is still worth a dive.

Rating: 6/10

Main Aurr Mrs Khanna Release Date : 16,Oct 2009

Main Aur Mrs Khanna is heaps of romantic mush that tries too, too hard to pull your heartstrings but fails miserably. PERIOD.

Remember all those romantic dramas from the 1990s that had countless dialogues about bura waqt, farz, pyaar ka ehsaas and more of such romantic guck. ‘Main Aur Mrs Khanna’ has tons of it. One such dialogue that Salman Khan mouths more than once in the film is: “Achchey waqt ki ek burai hoti hai: woh badal jaata hai. Aur burey (bad) waqt ki achchayi hai ki woh zyada der nahin rahta”. True indeed. Because the experience of watching Main Aur Mrs Khanna ends after just a little over two hours.

The film tells a story of a married couple buffeted by financial crises. Samir Khanna (Salman) first spots Raina (Kareena Kapoor) at an orphanage in Dalhousie and instantly falls in love with her. After a little wooing, he wins her love and marries her.

CUT…the next thing we see is a pale faced Raina sitting on a couch in a swanky apartment in Melbourne as Samir walks in shaking off his morning sleep and asking for a cup of coffee. The reason why she’s pale is because of Samir’s nose-diving career in financial market. It’s clear that love has fizzled out between the couple. No matter how hard she tries to please or comfort Samir, he has a stern expression on his face, looks in empty space while she talks to him, and walks out of the room even as she longs him to be with her.

The SOLUTION - change the place if you can’t change bad times. The self-centered Samir decides on his own to shift to Singapore and pack his wife off to Dalhousie. In justification he mouths a few lofty dialogues about “financial stability” being crucial for a marriage, and, of course, the aforesaid dialogue about “bura waqt”.

But Raina doesn’t board the flight to Delhi. At the airport she meets Aakash (Sohail Khan) who works as a waiter in a café and falls for her at first site. Thereafter, starts a new track between Aakash and his Mrs. Khanna. He loves her, but she keeps daydreaming about her loveless hubby who’s chalking out a new career for himself in a distant galaxy, it seems. And just when Aakash decides to pour out his heart to Raina, Mr. Khanna walks in.

‘Main Aur Mrs Khanna’ is so very behind its times that it appears that writer-director Prem Soni gleaned most of the scenes from the scrapped scripts of the unmade movies from the previous decade. The worst is its juvenile humour which is supported by background sounds of grunts, growls, slurps and whip lashes. Ouch! To still top it, there’s an overdose of dramatic background score that breaks in every now and then, as if trying to tell the audience how to feel in a particular scene. Hey, Mr. Soni! The audience ain’t dumb. If anything was left, there’s a pointless guest appearance by Preity Zinta, as a Pakistani singer who tries to entice Salman in the song ‘Happening’ that’s clearly inspired by ‘Kajra Re’. The less spoken about the performances the better. Salman Khan almost seems to sleep-walk through his part. He’s uptight, stiff-necked and has an inexplicable beatific smile on his face even in dramatic scenes. It’s a pain to see Kareena Kapoor’s talent being wasted in a role that’s neither properly written nor fleshed out. Sohail Khan capers about as a fun-loving guy for most of his part, but flounders when he has to get emotional. Director Prem Soni gives no reason to look forward to his next work. His writing and style of direction is outdated. Yes, there are some beautifully cinematographed shots where lighting changes in split seconds and there are also some hummable songs, but that doesn’t gloss over the plot holes so wide that a dozen Salmans can walk through them. Sample a few - Mrs. Khanna is dressed in designer outfits but has no cellphone. Within few days of her job at the airport, she’s able to afford a swanky house of her own. Months pass by and Mr. Khanna refuses to take calls from her. Then he shows up out of nowhere one day. The chemistry between the couple revives and just when they are about to jump in bed…wham…they begin to fight again!