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Hate Story Review
Erotic thrillers, no matter how good they are, have always received partial response from the audience for the erotica involved in it. However, with industry opening up to various kinds of films, even Erotica centered around a story is finding its way to the ticket windows. Gambling in the territory is filmmaker Vivek Agnihotri who last made John Abraham starter Goal who comes up with the bold film Hate Story. Whether this film has story strong enough to drive people to the theaters or not remains to be seen.
Right from the first look of the film, you know that Hate Story is a revenge saga. Kaavya Krishna (Paoli Dam) is a journalist who exposes a big cement firm through sting operation. The expose doesn't go down well with Siddharth Dhanrajgir (Gulshan Devaiya) the head honcho of the firm and he chooses to use and throw Kaavya. He appoints her, gives her all the luxuries, sleeps around with her and even leaves her. The moment she turns pregnant, he forcefully gets her child aborted and ensures that she never becomes pregnant again. Feeling humiliated, scarred for life and betrayed ruthlessly, Kaavya swears revenge and then begins her vendetta saga where she openly uses her body to lust men and get her work done. How she eventually succeeds in taking revenge is what follows through the rest of the plot.
A revenge saga, if dealt properly, can at least make for an interesting one time watch. However, Vivek Agnihotri falters at the basic premise of it. The entire 'normal girl turning into a prostitute to seek revenge' doesn't quite gel well with the storyline as in the process she is seen sleeping around with only two men to work her way up the ladder. A task for which she needn't necessarily had to hire a prostitute to learn the tricks of fake.
Moreover, Vivek takes too many cinematic liberties to make the story proceed. The length of the film is another hassle. At a full length feature film of 2 and a half hour, you irksomely start hating the time being put to finish viewing it.
Bengali actress Paoli Dam dares to bare it all in her first film itself and confidently pulls off some scenes that could give shudders to many others. Even on the acting front she decently essays her part. Gulshan Devaiya comes as a let-down as he has shown better potential in his prior two films Shaitan and That Girl In Yellow Boots. Nikhil Dwivedi gets completely wasted, a track shoved down the drains.
Over all, you might have more reasons to hate this story than enjoy it.
Right from the first look of the film, you know that Hate Story is a revenge saga. Kaavya Krishna (Paoli Dam) is a journalist who exposes a big cement firm through sting operation. The expose doesn't go down well with Siddharth Dhanrajgir (Gulshan Devaiya) the head honcho of the firm and he chooses to use and throw Kaavya. He appoints her, gives her all the luxuries, sleeps around with her and even leaves her. The moment she turns pregnant, he forcefully gets her child aborted and ensures that she never becomes pregnant again. Feeling humiliated, scarred for life and betrayed ruthlessly, Kaavya swears revenge and then begins her vendetta saga where she openly uses her body to lust men and get her work done. How she eventually succeeds in taking revenge is what follows through the rest of the plot.
A revenge saga, if dealt properly, can at least make for an interesting one time watch. However, Vivek Agnihotri falters at the basic premise of it. The entire 'normal girl turning into a prostitute to seek revenge' doesn't quite gel well with the storyline as in the process she is seen sleeping around with only two men to work her way up the ladder. A task for which she needn't necessarily had to hire a prostitute to learn the tricks of fake.
Moreover, Vivek takes too many cinematic liberties to make the story proceed. The length of the film is another hassle. At a full length feature film of 2 and a half hour, you irksomely start hating the time being put to finish viewing it.
Bengali actress Paoli Dam dares to bare it all in her first film itself and confidently pulls off some scenes that could give shudders to many others. Even on the acting front she decently essays her part. Gulshan Devaiya comes as a let-down as he has shown better potential in his prior two films Shaitan and That Girl In Yellow Boots. Nikhil Dwivedi gets completely wasted, a track shoved down the drains.
Over all, you might have more reasons to hate this story than enjoy it.
Life Ki Toh Lag Gayi Review
Put together a cast like Kay Kay Menon, Ranvir Shorey, Pradhuman Singh (of Tere Bin Laden fame) and Manu Rishi and you already have a certain credibility built to your film. After all, the four have some excellent work in experimental genre to boast off. Maybe that̢۪s the logic with which filmmaker Rakesh Mehta goes ahead to make a wayward film Life Ki Toh Lag Gayi.
Life Ki Toh Lag Gayi is a one day journey of four different people struggling in the city of Mumbai. One with vengeance, one on a mission, one with hope and one to con. They eventually end up at one place and find their ways...
Tensed Salman (Kay Kay Menon) is looking for the murderers of his parents, a humiliated cop ACP Chautala (Manu Rishi Chadha) is looking for 4 Nigerian drug peddlers with 24 hours dead line on his neck, a desperate lover Amol Ganguly (Ranvir Shorey) comes to rescue his beloved girl friend who got married to some millionaire, a runaway girl from Chandigarh Dolly (Neha Bhasin) wants to go back to home but not before she recovers all the money she has lost in attempt to become the top heroin of Bollywood and then a surprise Ajoy Ghosh the funny Bengali anti Christ rockstar who advises his close friend Amol Ganguly to commit a suicide and it all happens in one day in city of Mumbai…
There hasn̢۪t been any hardcore effort put forth by myself in this synopsis as it̢۪s a clear cut lift off from the press note. But when the filmmaker himself doesn̢۪t seem to be slogging enough to put together a decent show why blame the critic for lethargy?
If skewing a plot alone could make a film work, Life Ki Toh Lag Gayi may be a monumental piece. Sadly, it doesn̢۪t and neither does the film. Four varied plots are corrugated in a garbled fashion, so much so at even within themselves they appear highly disjointed.
When you don̢۪t have a plot that holds your attention you look for the actors but sadly even that doesn̢۪t work in the case of this film for even the likes of Kay Kay Menon seems to have slept through their parts. He appears so disinterested in the film that there̢۪s only one scene (the end sequence with Sharat Saxena) that shows his acting prowess. Ranvir Shorey̢۪s dubbed dialog that have a Bengali slant are badly placed on his lip-movements and don̢۪t appear in sync. His plot with Pradhuman gets increasingly annoying scene by scene and either want to kill yourself or the actors. Neha Bhasin holds just one expression throughout the film and meaninglessly wander from place to place.
Characters keep coming after every 10 minutes right till the end. So you have Manu Rishi as the Haryanvi cop, Tom Alter, Jackie Shroff, Shakti Kapoor, Asrani, Rukhsaar, Sharat Saxena among the others I may have missed for the surplus of it all!
To sum it up, Life Ki Toh Lag Gayi is best avoided unless you derive some evil pleasure in punishing yourself.
Life Ki Toh Lag Gayi is a one day journey of four different people struggling in the city of Mumbai. One with vengeance, one on a mission, one with hope and one to con. They eventually end up at one place and find their ways...
Tensed Salman (Kay Kay Menon) is looking for the murderers of his parents, a humiliated cop ACP Chautala (Manu Rishi Chadha) is looking for 4 Nigerian drug peddlers with 24 hours dead line on his neck, a desperate lover Amol Ganguly (Ranvir Shorey) comes to rescue his beloved girl friend who got married to some millionaire, a runaway girl from Chandigarh Dolly (Neha Bhasin) wants to go back to home but not before she recovers all the money she has lost in attempt to become the top heroin of Bollywood and then a surprise Ajoy Ghosh the funny Bengali anti Christ rockstar who advises his close friend Amol Ganguly to commit a suicide and it all happens in one day in city of Mumbai…
There hasn̢۪t been any hardcore effort put forth by myself in this synopsis as it̢۪s a clear cut lift off from the press note. But when the filmmaker himself doesn̢۪t seem to be slogging enough to put together a decent show why blame the critic for lethargy?
If skewing a plot alone could make a film work, Life Ki Toh Lag Gayi may be a monumental piece. Sadly, it doesn̢۪t and neither does the film. Four varied plots are corrugated in a garbled fashion, so much so at even within themselves they appear highly disjointed.
When you don̢۪t have a plot that holds your attention you look for the actors but sadly even that doesn̢۪t work in the case of this film for even the likes of Kay Kay Menon seems to have slept through their parts. He appears so disinterested in the film that there̢۪s only one scene (the end sequence with Sharat Saxena) that shows his acting prowess. Ranvir Shorey̢۪s dubbed dialog that have a Bengali slant are badly placed on his lip-movements and don̢۪t appear in sync. His plot with Pradhuman gets increasingly annoying scene by scene and either want to kill yourself or the actors. Neha Bhasin holds just one expression throughout the film and meaninglessly wander from place to place.
Characters keep coming after every 10 minutes right till the end. So you have Manu Rishi as the Haryanvi cop, Tom Alter, Jackie Shroff, Shakti Kapoor, Asrani, Rukhsaar, Sharat Saxena among the others I may have missed for the surplus of it all!
To sum it up, Life Ki Toh Lag Gayi is best avoided unless you derive some evil pleasure in punishing yourself.
Tezz Review
This would be a rare multi-starrer film that hasn't garnered any buzz around. Even the one item song starring Mallika Sherawat titled Laila that aired maximum on TV didn't quite receive a thunderous response. However, between the lukewarm reception and the non-promoting, warring actors (yes, there were warring leads Kangna Ranaut and Ajay Devgn in the film too, if that spices up the film for you) Tezz finally makes it to the theaters. What the fate of the film will be is for time to tell. Meanwhile we give you a brief summation whether it's worth the pick for this week or not.
Disclaimer - The synopsis follows for those ignorant cinegoers who may not have seen, read reviews of or heard about Hollywood blockbusters like Speed, Taking Pelman 123 among various others, who the diligent cinema buffs can point out much to their annoyance as the film takes its course.
An illegal immigrant Aakash Rehna (Ajay Devgn) is deported to India for working in UK without permit and also aiding other illegal immigrants. He is separated from his wife Nikita (Kangna Ranaut) right at the time when she is pregnant. Aakash comes back with revenge on his mind and devices a plan to terrorize UK. He plants a bomb in the train that will go off the moment its speed reduces below 60!
So while Aakash is on his task along with two aides Adil Khan (Zayed Khan) and Megha (Sameera Reddy), Himanshu Verma (Anil Kapoor) counter terrorism chief is back from his retirement to handle his last case and goes all out to save the 500 passengers traveling in the train.
Priyadarshan clearly lifts off his plots from various Hollywood films and cares less about people pointing it out. After all, give us some high-octane drama, some fist-fights between two main leads, some romance and gaana-shaana and the so-called aam-junta will take it. Isn't it Priyan?
So there's flashbacks of love saga between Ajay Devgn and Kangna Ranaut, flashback of sorry story of Sameera Reddy, a sudden jolting of item song featuring Mallika Sherawat gyrating in a strange African mode and voila! Fillum ready!
However, ignoring the flaws, the thrilling elements in the film are attention grabbing in parts and keep you hooked to the storyline, despite you knowing what's to follow.
There are also a few in the film who show tremendous faith on Priyadarshan and deliver engaging performances. Anil Kapoor and Boman Irani top the list on that. The two deliver crackling performances and deserve to be appreciated for keeping the audience glued to the seats.
Ajay Devgn delivers his best sequences with Anil Kapoor while Kangna Ranaut, Sameera Reddy and Zayed Khan are passable. South star Mohanlal who plays a cop adds only to the humour quotient of the film by his deep south Indian accent and podgy self.
There was a lot said about the action sequences in the film and while some actually are executed brilliantly (read - the bike chase sequence shot on Sameera Reddy) there are some shots which have shabby graphic work on display (for example - the sequence of two trains passing simultaneously or even a fairly old Anil Kapoor jumping off from a building window funnily).
Over all, Tezz can be seen for Anil Kapoor and Ajay Devgn and also for the Bollywoodishness of it. For the ones disinterested in these elements, Tezz isn't the film for you.
Disclaimer - The synopsis follows for those ignorant cinegoers who may not have seen, read reviews of or heard about Hollywood blockbusters like Speed, Taking Pelman 123 among various others, who the diligent cinema buffs can point out much to their annoyance as the film takes its course.
An illegal immigrant Aakash Rehna (Ajay Devgn) is deported to India for working in UK without permit and also aiding other illegal immigrants. He is separated from his wife Nikita (Kangna Ranaut) right at the time when she is pregnant. Aakash comes back with revenge on his mind and devices a plan to terrorize UK. He plants a bomb in the train that will go off the moment its speed reduces below 60!
So while Aakash is on his task along with two aides Adil Khan (Zayed Khan) and Megha (Sameera Reddy), Himanshu Verma (Anil Kapoor) counter terrorism chief is back from his retirement to handle his last case and goes all out to save the 500 passengers traveling in the train.
Priyadarshan clearly lifts off his plots from various Hollywood films and cares less about people pointing it out. After all, give us some high-octane drama, some fist-fights between two main leads, some romance and gaana-shaana and the so-called aam-junta will take it. Isn't it Priyan?
So there's flashbacks of love saga between Ajay Devgn and Kangna Ranaut, flashback of sorry story of Sameera Reddy, a sudden jolting of item song featuring Mallika Sherawat gyrating in a strange African mode and voila! Fillum ready!
However, ignoring the flaws, the thrilling elements in the film are attention grabbing in parts and keep you hooked to the storyline, despite you knowing what's to follow.
There are also a few in the film who show tremendous faith on Priyadarshan and deliver engaging performances. Anil Kapoor and Boman Irani top the list on that. The two deliver crackling performances and deserve to be appreciated for keeping the audience glued to the seats.
Ajay Devgn delivers his best sequences with Anil Kapoor while Kangna Ranaut, Sameera Reddy and Zayed Khan are passable. South star Mohanlal who plays a cop adds only to the humour quotient of the film by his deep south Indian accent and podgy self.
There was a lot said about the action sequences in the film and while some actually are executed brilliantly (read - the bike chase sequence shot on Sameera Reddy) there are some shots which have shabby graphic work on display (for example - the sequence of two trains passing simultaneously or even a fairly old Anil Kapoor jumping off from a building window funnily).
Over all, Tezz can be seen for Anil Kapoor and Ajay Devgn and also for the Bollywoodishness of it. For the ones disinterested in these elements, Tezz isn't the film for you.
Jannat 2 Review
Vishesh Films deserve the credit for always giving romantic tales a different backdrop spin off, be it the 26 July deluge setting in Tum Mile, Australian racist attacks in Crook, flesh trade in Murder 2 or even illegal diamond racket in Blood Money. Going ahead with a similar trend the Mahesh Bhatt and Emraan Hashmi's power-packed team comes up with yet another plot of illegal arms smuggling with Jannat 2. With the stakes of Emraan Hashmi going high and his star power increasing leaps and bounds, it only remains to see how well the film works at the box-office. For now we help you decide whether it's worth a watch or not.
A street smart illegal arms dealer Sonu Dilli KKC (Emraan Hashmi) falls in love with model like doctor Jhanvi Tomar (Esha Gupta). He tries to reform himself by leaving the illegal line in a bid to become a good partner but is shoved back into it, this time as a police informer by ACP Pratap Raghuvanshi (Randeep Hooda). Pratap has a personal vendetta against the entire gun smuggling nexus and wants to swipe it clean under any cost even if that means putting his informer's life on line. How Sonu Dilli's love life goes for a toss and whether the two manage to crack the nexus or not follows through the rest of the plot.
The gun smuggling backdrop and the detailed built up to the widespread arms swindling rackets that was given to the audience via publicity and interviews actually had the potential to turn the film into a blockbuster had it not been for the intrusion of the romantic storyline. Blame it on the weak script and poor screenplay, serial kisser Emraan Hashmi fails to infuse the soul in the romantic track. His portions with Randeep Hooda and also with Mangal Singh Tomar played by Manish Chaudhary are gripping.
Filmmaker Kunal Deshmukh falters in bringing a semblance between the stark plot and romantic mush in the film and that's where Jannat 2 majorly lags. He gives in to a lot of cliches throughout the film for example, the deadbeat love-at-first-sight syndrome, the sudden inclination of Esha Gupta towards Emraan Hashmi or even the sequence where Randeep Hooda barges into the hospital yelling "It's an emergency, it's an emergency". He doesn't even bother about continuity for Emraan Hashmi's strong Haryanvi accent in the start almost fades off by the end of the film.
Esha Gupta except for showing off her snow-white set of teeth and planting smooches here and there doesn't offer much to the script. Moreover, even in her fleeting appearances in the film, she appears too wooden and model like stiff. One can easily pinpoint her Kingfisher calendar type postures in the film.
Randeep Hooda is the mainstay in the film. His brooding character adds the much needed grip to the film and even the sequences between Emraan and Randeep hold your attention. Manish Chaudhary seems to have become the new in-house villain as this comes as his second negative lead after Blood Money. The actor appears a misfit in the garb of a Haryanvi goon.
Music by Pritam otherwise makes for a melodious experience however, doesn't get effectively used in the film. The dialogues are decent in parts and highly bollywoodish in others while the background score is quite impressive.
Over all, Jannat 2 isn't half as enticing as its first part. Watch it for Randeep Hooda or if you are a big fan Emraan Hashmi.
A street smart illegal arms dealer Sonu Dilli KKC (Emraan Hashmi) falls in love with model like doctor Jhanvi Tomar (Esha Gupta). He tries to reform himself by leaving the illegal line in a bid to become a good partner but is shoved back into it, this time as a police informer by ACP Pratap Raghuvanshi (Randeep Hooda). Pratap has a personal vendetta against the entire gun smuggling nexus and wants to swipe it clean under any cost even if that means putting his informer's life on line. How Sonu Dilli's love life goes for a toss and whether the two manage to crack the nexus or not follows through the rest of the plot.
The gun smuggling backdrop and the detailed built up to the widespread arms swindling rackets that was given to the audience via publicity and interviews actually had the potential to turn the film into a blockbuster had it not been for the intrusion of the romantic storyline. Blame it on the weak script and poor screenplay, serial kisser Emraan Hashmi fails to infuse the soul in the romantic track. His portions with Randeep Hooda and also with Mangal Singh Tomar played by Manish Chaudhary are gripping.
Filmmaker Kunal Deshmukh falters in bringing a semblance between the stark plot and romantic mush in the film and that's where Jannat 2 majorly lags. He gives in to a lot of cliches throughout the film for example, the deadbeat love-at-first-sight syndrome, the sudden inclination of Esha Gupta towards Emraan Hashmi or even the sequence where Randeep Hooda barges into the hospital yelling "It's an emergency, it's an emergency". He doesn't even bother about continuity for Emraan Hashmi's strong Haryanvi accent in the start almost fades off by the end of the film.
Esha Gupta except for showing off her snow-white set of teeth and planting smooches here and there doesn't offer much to the script. Moreover, even in her fleeting appearances in the film, she appears too wooden and model like stiff. One can easily pinpoint her Kingfisher calendar type postures in the film.
Randeep Hooda is the mainstay in the film. His brooding character adds the much needed grip to the film and even the sequences between Emraan and Randeep hold your attention. Manish Chaudhary seems to have become the new in-house villain as this comes as his second negative lead after Blood Money. The actor appears a misfit in the garb of a Haryanvi goon.
Music by Pritam otherwise makes for a melodious experience however, doesn't get effectively used in the film. The dialogues are decent in parts and highly bollywoodish in others while the background score is quite impressive.
Over all, Jannat 2 isn't half as enticing as its first part. Watch it for Randeep Hooda or if you are a big fan Emraan Hashmi.
Fatso Review
A happy go lucky man Navin (Purab Kohli) is madly in love with Nandini (Gul Panag) and plans to get married to her too. However, fate has something else in stores for him. In a sheer case of mistaken identity, Navin dies in a car accident instead of his friend Sudeep (Ranvir Shorey). And on his journey upward into a waiting room he realizes that blunder that's happened. Life gives a second chance to Navin as he comes back but this time in the body of a flabby fatso Sudeep only to realize things are fast changing, Yash (Neil Bhoopalam), Navin's friend, wants to break up with her long time girlfriend Tanuja (Gunjan Bakshi) to propose Nandini. Whether Navin manages to keep Yash off Nandini and whether he wins her over once again this time as the podgy Sudeep follows through the rest of the plot.
Rajjat Kapoor who blatantly refuses the conventional norms of filmmaking has always had his quirky ways carve its own niche. The filmmaker who's inspired by Italian filmmaker Federico Fellini also showcases various references in bits and pieces from various films. There are also many Hollywood references that can be noticed for example, Here Comes Mr. Jordan. However, sadly his offering turns out to be a half baked attempt.
There are quite a few ideas that could've been explored but Rajjat Kapoor falters in letting his story grow gradually. The entire waiting room sequence could've appealed far more had it been for crisper writing paired with amusing satires but that's where almost the entire film lags. Even the romantic turn of Nandini's character towards Sudeep is very sudden almost to an extent of surprising the audience.
The first half appears more of a private party footage of college students who have only one agenda in life, that's to party while most of the activities happen in the second leaving one after the other and the end almost leaves you baffled.
But within the semi-cooked plot lies the sweetness and subtlety of the film which gives rare glimpses especially the sequence where Sudeep expresses how he loves almost everything about life.
Ranvir Shorey is endearing while Gul Panag and Purab Kohli act well.
To sum it up, Fatso is a good plot gone bad. The film could've worked well if the execution of it may have been better.
Rajjat Kapoor who blatantly refuses the conventional norms of filmmaking has always had his quirky ways carve its own niche. The filmmaker who's inspired by Italian filmmaker Federico Fellini also showcases various references in bits and pieces from various films. There are also many Hollywood references that can be noticed for example, Here Comes Mr. Jordan. However, sadly his offering turns out to be a half baked attempt.
There are quite a few ideas that could've been explored but Rajjat Kapoor falters in letting his story grow gradually. The entire waiting room sequence could've appealed far more had it been for crisper writing paired with amusing satires but that's where almost the entire film lags. Even the romantic turn of Nandini's character towards Sudeep is very sudden almost to an extent of surprising the audience.
The first half appears more of a private party footage of college students who have only one agenda in life, that's to party while most of the activities happen in the second leaving one after the other and the end almost leaves you baffled.
But within the semi-cooked plot lies the sweetness and subtlety of the film which gives rare glimpses especially the sequence where Sudeep expresses how he loves almost everything about life.
Ranvir Shorey is endearing while Gul Panag and Purab Kohli act well.
To sum it up, Fatso is a good plot gone bad. The film could've worked well if the execution of it may have been better.
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