Talashh-review

Review of Talaash

                                               

Talaash is a mélange of whodunit,action,noir psychological and supernatural story where Reema Kagti,the director, has come up with an idea of  a quest for  inner feelings.If you love watching  suspense movie,then watch it and read my views later…..it is best watched when untold!

The film begins with the rendition of “Muskaanein jhoothi hai” depicting a Mumbai which you generally don’t see;a Mumbai of underworld dons and their molls,star-studded parties and extravagant fashion shows of drugs-fed-n-starved models; in a Bollywood movie.However the film makes its notion of “a city that never sleeps” literally true with its male protagonaist,Surjan Shekhwat,a police inspector,wandering all night on the streets in his police vehicle .The story begins with the accident of a film star whose car jumps off to the Arabian Sea.Surjan tries to unfold the mystery behind the accident and learns about more of such previous accidents.Rosie,a night-charmer,helps him tie the loose ends of  these accidents and consequently seduces him to her charms.But Surjan is chased by the guiltiness of tragic death of his teenage son which in turns leads to a dormant relationships with her wife Roshni who takes refuge in the secret sessions of  Frenny who summons dead spirits and enables Roshni to see the thoughts of her son through written words.At the end,Rosie unveils the big suspense of Simran….the supernatural concept and the Talaash ceases!!

First half of the movie is good and makes you glued to the screen to search for the answer to ‘whodunit’.However you are disappointed to see the fragile explanation of it at the end of the film.Amir is robust in his police uniform and specially his more robust moustaches and portrays his intensity on his face,another female protagonist,Kareena Kapoor has delivered her seduction well.Rani Mukherjee is in without make-up which helps her in successfully  portraying a better-half of a troubled family.The film seems sympathizing   towards the plight of the night-charmers of Mumbai.Songs are agerage.’Muskaanein jhoothi hai’ is better.Sona Mahaptra is not as impressive in ‘Jiya lage na’ as she was in Amir’s Satyamev Jayate’s song-Hume kya bechega rupaiyya.

It’s a suspense movie where you can’t expect a realistic explication of the spirits,…so don’t feel cheated at this front…….!

Review of Burfi

Anurag Basu has come up with a brave idea of presenting a love triangle where his principal characters can only use non-verbal communication.This film is not like  Basu’s

any other flick with bustling chart numbers,it is a more serious movie with songs comprehensible only to your soul than to your ears.

The plot is set in the 70s in the misty hills of  Darjeeling where a boy Murphy  is born and   his mother succumbs to labour pain.Murphy,porter of contraries, grows to be a mute and deaf man,unlike the barnd name of  radio.Somehow he pronounces his name as Burfi and later becomes a jolly man who is not impaired of happiness despite being physically impaired.Burfi,Ranvir Kapoor, reminds us of Raj Kapoor and Chaplin’s comedy traits.Romantic drama takes over when Shruti,Ileana,comes to Darjeeling on winter vacation with her mother,Rupa Ganguly.Barfi charms Shruti with his witty and childish acts.Love sparks in them but the problem is that Shruti is already engaged to a rich Sengupta of Calcutta.Barfi convinces Shruti to shed the engagement ring and offers her his natural grass-ring.Depth of Shruti’s mother’s personal experience gauzes the situation and she makes her daughter realize the zameeni hakikat and manges to put her on reason-track than straying to emotional-path.Barfi is hurt…his expressive eyes reveal his helplessness….The movie spins when Barfi needs money for his father’s operation.He tries robbing a bank but to no good.Meanwhile,Jhilmil,Priyanka Chopra, an autistic daughter from a rich local family,is brought home.Jhilmil is a childhood friend of Barfi.Barfi sees an opportunity in Jhilmil to beget money and kidnaps her.But he could not save his father.Now Jhilmil is not ready to leave Barfi but Barfi has to plan something to get rid of her as he is constantly chased by a sub inspector,Saurabh Shukla,for kidnapping Jhilmil.Incidently,love flames in them and they set their course to Calcutta and find a shelter to live.Here comes the case of co-incidence,,,,Mrs. Shruti Sengupta accidently finds Barfi before her and once again her love for Barfi reignites…..but this time Barfi is not alone.He has his better half,Jhilmil,with him.Shruti Sengupta now listens to her heart and abandons her husband in search of her lost love which is not only lost now but is found by a person who can not weigh it on reasoning but can feel it …..Barfi goes to the Halwai who knows how to keep its sweetness!!!!!

Barfi has shown that even Ranvir Kapoor and Priyanka Chopra can act with such a seriousness.Ranvir has much to do in the film so he is more visible but that does not mean Priyanka is less important,rather the contrary is true.She seems to have put more efforts for wiggling her fingers and twitching her lips.Ileana also impresses with her perfect Bengali Bodi role.Save the whodunit story of Jhilmil's kidnapping, if you like good movies,this is the one for you….!!!

Review of film Heroine

Heroine-Madhur Bhandarkar takes his movement of projecting female protagonist to a little more distance from gullible Mumtaz of Chandani Bar to self-made Heroine Mahi Arora,Kareena Kapoor….Mahi is a case of bipolar disorder due to disturbed parenting.Initially,she is drawn to her married-co-star Aryan Khanna,Arjun Rampal, and is keen to marry him as she loved him but in a later scene dumps her cricketer boyfriend Randeep Hooda who loves her.It justifies the saying that when you keep longing for something,you don’t get it,but when you get it,you want it no more…..Mahi’s ephemeral stardom fades away and she had to beg for a sex worker’s role in a B-grade Hindi movie of a Bengali director.During the shooting of the film,Mahi is seduced by her co-actress.But this film fails to take off before it’s release.Mahi had nothing to buy public attention so she calls her media girl to leak her intimate video.This pays off.She gets attention but alienating herself from self……Heroine is a mere reproduction of Bhandarker’s  Page 3,this time on a different background.You will again find people attending a funeral,clad in white.What does it signifie?Even on music front there is nothing except a little from the jhatka song Halkat Jawani….The only good thing about this film is Kareena’s role.She does justice to her role and sometimes impresses you with her dialogue like-Heroine agar Dubai gayi to uska rate card ban jata hai!!!