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Phoonk 2 Movie Review
Movie Review Phoonk 2 ( 2010 )
Director: Milind GadagkarStar
Cast: Neeru Bajwa, Sudeep, Amruta Khanvilkar, Ahsaas Channa, Rishabh Jain, Anu Ansari, Ashwini Kalsekar, Amit Sadh, Ganesh Yadav, Zakir Hussain, Vikas Srivastav, Rakesh Raj, Chyan Trivedi, Jeeva
?Phoonk 2? is the sequel of the flick ?Phoonk? by Ram Gopal Varma (RGV) which got released in 2008. Though, ?Phoonk? was a total failure in the box office and failed to give even the slightest panic to the audience. Now, RGV?s all hopes are set to ?Phoonk 2?.
?Phoonk? was all about black magic done by a female Madhu to traumatize the family of Rajiv (Sudeep), a businessman. The movie ended with the death of Madhu. The sequel ?Phoonk2? tells the story of Madhu?s evil spirit returning back to haunt the family and take her revenge from Rajiv.
In ?Phoonk 2?, Rajiv (Sudeep) shifts to a new place and is immersed in his construction business and his kids Raksha (Ahsaas Channa) and Rohan (Rishabh Jain) are also happy with the new place which is surrounded with beach and woods. The horror in their life starts when the kids find a doll in the woods which they carry back home. Thus, the evil spirit of Madhu returns into the doll to haunt and torment Rajiv (Sudeep),his wife Arati (Amruta Khanvilkar) and his beloved children Raksha and Rohan.
Rajiv could not stand the torture that his family gets to face because of Madhu. Madhu?s evil spirit leaves no stones unturned to smite Rajiv?s family to take its revenge. Manja (Zakir Hussain), was the only man who could have helped Rajiv but Madhu?s spook didn?t spare him either. The family suffers in a gruesome and cruel way in the hands of the evil. The spirit of Madhu is shown far more dangerous than she was before when alive. She became more rebellious and filled with animalism. She is brutal, dangerous and cruel and unforgiving. The family got trapped in the evil spirit?s woven trap and the movie shows how a living evil person can be more rebellious and powerful in evil manners after death. The spirit becomes invincible which the family fails to overcome. The evil spirit brings Rajiv to the verge where he has to choose to save a loved one by sacrificing the other.
Let the climax of the movie be a secret which will give answers to as to how do Rajiv cope with the situation, did his family members survived? This can be found out only in the theatres.
The story of the movie has been penned down and directed by Milind Gadagkar who is a debutant. The movie has been produced by P. Chandrashekhar and Prashant Burra. The flick is presented by Zed Pictures and Sarthak Movies. The flick?s music is by Dharam and Sandeep.
The movie has a lot of scenes which has shown sheer violence, bloodshed and horror. Disfigured bodies have been shown to produce the scare and disturbing sequences of death. People who have heart ailments can stay away from the theatres as there are a lot of disturbing scenes and sequences in the movie.
Horror genre is a chancy venture. However, it cannot be denied that there are many Horror genre hits in both Bollywood and Hollywood. Indian horror movies like 'Bees Sal Baad' and 'Raaz'(Part 1) with a solid script, good cinematography and direction have successfully given goose bumps to the audiences. The fate of ?Phoonk 2? depends on the audience now.
Paathshala 2010
Movie Review Paathshala
Starring: Shahid Kapoor, Ayesha Takia, Nana Pateka, Saurabh Shukla, Sushant Singh, Swini Khara, Dwij Yadav, Avika Gor, Anjan Srivastava
Director: Milind Ukey
Rating: **
There are few films, a star does for friendship and some with the lure of working under a big banner, irrespective of their content.
An extremely choosy actor Shahid Kapoor after giving big hits like Vivaah, Jab We Met and Kaminey has been giving duds like Dil Bole Hadippa (Yash Raj Films), Chance Pe Dance (UTV) and an equally bad follow up with Paathshaala.
Shahid?s friendship with producer of the film, ace choreographer Ahmed Khan is well known. But still we wish, he should have not blindly trusted his buddy when it came to a film!
Shahid plays Rahul Prakash Udyawar the new English teacher joining Saraswati Vidya Mandir, a school established in 1941. Since the school doesn?t have a music teacher, he ends up being one as well.
He gets help in this from the school's nutritionist-cum-admin girl, Anjali Mathur (Ayesha Takia). School principal Aditya Sahay (Nana Patekar).
Anjali ends up falling for Rahul during this process. Sahay who has nurtured the school for 32 years, cannot see it going down financially. So, he gives in to the management's demands of generating more revenue by commercialising the operations of the school.
This is met with intense opposition from the teachers, but they eventually have to comply to save their respective jobs. The school management even decides t hired PR experts to change its image.
Thus began, film and ad shoots happen on campus wherein students are used as extras. And before they know it, all kids have to now keep aside studies for 10 days and prepare for a reality show audition.
The rest of the film is about how the reality show thing tortures the students and how Rahul stands against it.
Director Milind Ukey who gave us the very lovable animated film Hanuman has got a good topical subject on hand but falters big time in the script written by producer Ahmed Khan himself.
While it identifies the problems perfectly, a proper solution is not offered in the end. Also what happens to the school finally is also not made clear.
Bad dialogues are made only worse by loud acting by most of the cast. Certain emotional scenes leave you either bored or end up making you laugh. Hanif Sheikh?s music barring the Lucky Ali number Aye Khuda is nothing much to praise about.
In an attempt to showcase how education goes for a toss in private schools as the managements aims to earn the extra buck the makers also don?t lose out a chance to make a satire out of the media, shifting focus from his original aim.
The pathetic climax is unintentionally hilarious with no conclusion to what happened to the villains of commercialization and all suddenly become well!
Shahid Kapoor and Nana Patekar are the only saving graces of the film with their well nuanced performances. The rest including Ayesha Takia don?t really make a difference. The child stars are just about okay.
Avoid this Paathshaala if you are in no mood for a badly written gyan giving film.
Prince Its Showtime 2010
Movie Review: Prince Its Showtime
Opening-weekend box office indicates 'Prince' could be in the Reliance Fresh Rs 10 dump bin as a worthy replacement for those hard to find rocking-coffee-table balancing objects. For incompetent and cartoonish are the best words to describe 'Prince'. The film actually wants us to ponder its moral and ethical implications, which is like a stripper telling you she wants to go to law school.
Fans of both action and comedy will likely be howling for director Kookie Gulati's head, and I can't say that I blame them. The IQ here is as low as the body count is high and the uncharismatic Vivek Oberoi might as well have been wearing a mask for all the emotion he shows. One can't call 'Prince' shoddy, exactly, and the actors take it painfully seriously - it's just dispiriting to see all this endeavour in the service of something so daft and hopeless. The fight scenes are saggy, the actors are stiff, and the sleepiness of it all is enough to make you nostalgic for the simple smackdown charms of a violent videogame.
'Prince' boasts some of the most involving special effects ever conceived by Bollywood. Of course there isn't really any acting to speak of, although Aruna Shields and Nandana Sen get to chew Vivek and scenery, the dialogue is pretty much what you'd expect. There is a tremendous amount of shooting and running. You could build a large pond just from the adrenaline we see expended in the course of the movie. Most of the film is good enough that way - dumb, but not boring. But does it have to be so witless, so stupid, so openly contemptuous of the very audience it's supposed to be pandering to? Not by a long shot.
The film borrows heavily from Hollywood's 'Crank'. Prince (Vivek Oberoi) wakes up one morning with a severe bout of amnesia and a gunshot wound on his arm. He realises that he is being simultaneously hounded by the CBI, India's secret service and a shadowy criminal organisation. He also finds out that he has committed the biggest crime in the history of the universe and embedded in his brain is a secret that threatens the ENTIRE human race. Three scantily clad girls (Nandana Sen, Aruna Shields and Neeru Bajwa) wag their tongues and claim to be his girlfriend Maaya. And if it all weren't uncomfortable enough already, Prince finds out that he has only five days to live. Will our hero vanquish the villains and save the human race? Watch the film before acute anticipation turns you into a squeezed lemon.
Action director Allan Aamin and cinematographer Vishnu Rao are the real stars of 'Prince' - if there's anyone who deserves Aruna Shields in a bikini its them. Oscar winner Resul Pookutty's sound design matches big budget Hollywood standards. Editor Nicolas Trembasiewicz could as well have been dropped considering there is no escape from Sachin Gupta's music. Director Kookie Gulati's concept is cookie, he seems so pleased with the fact that he came up with a thinly plausible pretext for this clash of the visual effects that he didn't bother to develop the characters or fashion a plot with any suspense.
Final verdict? If your favourite idea of fun involves staring at Vivek Oberoi who is attired in black leather, brandishing guns in various poses, grimacing and thrashing around violently, uncertain as to why he is doing it or what will come of it, then this is the movie for you. Others should take it as a warning to stay the heck away from this literally and figuratively deadly travesty.
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