Cast: Sikander Kher, Neha Uberoi, Boman Irani, Anupama Verma, Gulshan Grover, Gaurav Gera, Arbaaz Khan, Shakti Kapoor, Sachin Khedekar
Music Director: Aryans , Shibani Kashyap, Anu Malik
Producer: Shobha Kapoor, Ekta Kapoor, Sanjay Gupta
Director: Hansal Mehta
Banner: White Feather Films
In the tradition of film noir that is guaranteed to shock, thrill and surprise. A compelling film from director Hansal Mehta about swiftly changing moralities in today's world. After a successful businessman's stunning wife disappears, hostile and taunting ransom demands follow. As the true nature of stakes for the captor and his captives unfold, Woodstock Villa lithely transforms from a precision neo noir into a chilling and shocking thriller, and ultimately into a vivid, invigorating, icy masterpiece of murder, mystery and suspense.
The film tells the story of a jobless youth Samir (Sikander) who sleeps around with his ex-boss’s wife (which explains why he’s jobless). He lives in a rented apartment but can’t pay the rent and he owes money to a don who frequently gives him “tonic” (read thrashing) for not paying the dues.
At a discotheque, he falls for a stunner named Zara ( Neha Oberoi ), who makes him an unusual proposal to kidnap her because she wants to test her husband’s love. And the husband here happens to be a rich businessman, Jatin Kampani ( Arbaaz Khan ).
Hard-pressed with need for money, Samir laps the offer only to find himself in a mess after Zara dies in captivity. He buries the body, erases the evidence, and leaves the city. But then another surprise awaits him.
‘Woodstock Villa’ is one of those movies that try desperately hard to jolt you with repeated twists in the tale. But the way those twists unravel takes the punch out of the plot. For instance, the final twist, when the camera specifically focuses on a bag with money on two different occasions when it changes hands kills the suspense for a discerning viewer.
To put it in other words, ‘Woodstock Villa’ is a vain and superficial work of cinema.
Thankfully, Sikander Kher is the silver lining in this dark enterprise. The guy has it in him to carry a movie on his sole shoulders. There are a few moments in the movie that show glimpses of his potential. It is a pity that ‘Woodstock Villa’ is his launchpad.
Neha Oberoi is eye-catching and manages her part without hamming. Arbaaz Khan has at last begun to act in the real sense of the word. Sanjay Dutt ’s song seems deliberately squeezed in the narrative.
‘Woodstock Villa’ is a film that will appeal to those who are a sucker for style. Those who want substance should better steer clear of this movie.
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Jannat
Movie: Jannat
Cast: Emran Hashmi, Sonal Chauhan, Sameer Kochhar, Vishal Malhotra, Javed Shaikh
Musician: Pritam
Playback Singer: Rana Majumdar, Kay Kay, Richa Sharma, Rupam Islam, Kamran Ahmed
Producer: Mukesh Bhatt
Director: Kunal Deshmukh
Banner: Vishesh Films
Jannat is the story of a man caught in a bog of crime and he struggles to find heaven on earth
Arjun ( Emraan Hashmi ) comes from a middle-class family, but his dreams are big and he doesn’t mind taking the short route to riches regardless of morality, or the lack of it. He graduates from being a gambler to bookie, solely by the dint of his intuition to predict correctly. He falls in love at first sight with Zoya ( Sonal Chauhan ) and eventually goes on to win her heart, her trust, and her respect with his love and his riches.
As Arjun struggles to choose between the two, the Don offers the forbidden apple of limitless wealth in exchange of his soul and draws him into his core entourage of money spinners.
How far will the horizon of reality stretch as Arjun and Zoya tread a fine, fast-blurring line between right and wrong to find the heaven?
But when she comes know the source from where the riches come, she hands him over to the cops. Arjun goes to jail and vows to reform himself – all for the sake of love. But then, one sight of jannat, one last temptation to fix a match, gets the better of his senses. And situations turn around so unexpectedly that he finds himself sinking just when he was about to come ashore.
Like all the Bhatt films, the story of ‘Jannat’ steers clear of the good-versus-bad formula. It is a subject in which both good and bad coexist inside the leading characters. There is no moral message, no sermonizing, but just the poignancy of a tragic love story.
All in all, ‘Jannat’ is eminently watchable. Just don’t go expecting heaven from it.
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Movie Review: Bhootnath
Movie: Bhootnath
Cast:Amitabh Bachchan, Juhi Chawla, Rajpal Yadav, Tejas Are, Vijay Nath, Satish Shah, Aman Siddiqui
Music Director:Shekhar Ravjiani, Vishal Dadlani, Salim Merchant
Story Writer:Vivek Sharma
Director:Vivek Sharma
Producer:Ravi Chopra
Banner:B. R. Films
Bhoothnath is the story of a young boy and a ghost. A young Banku (Aman Siddiqui) and Bhoothnath (Amitabh Bachchan), a ghost, become friends and help each other in various walks of life.
‘Bhoothnath’tells the story of a ghost inside a swanky, neglected, uninhabited house in Goa. The ghost named Kedarnath is in limbo, and he won’t let anyone live inside the house, Nath Villa, to which his fond memories are attached. But then comes a family of Banku (Aman Sidiqqui), his kitchen-shy mom ( Juhi Chawla ) and slap-happy dad ( Shah Rukh Khan ) to live in the house.
The story seems to go in circles as the film focuses on the adventures of the kid and the ghost until Bhoothnath’s past catches up with him. Thereon, the tongue-in-cheek humour of the film wisps out of the plot and melodrama comes in, and the movie becomes a tearjerker, though just partly effective.
‘Bhoothnath’ works mainly in the first half, when it’s funny. Writer-director Vivek Sharma fumbles in the second half, when he obviously feels a necessity to give a definite direction to the plot and veers the story into heavy melodrama reminiscent of films like Baghban .
This is a story that will show adults to see the world through the eyes of a child… an angel, a creation of god. It's then that one will realize what a beautiful world they live in after all.
If only the film also had such a helping hand to pull it out of the mire of weepy melodrama.
Movie Review: Jimmy
Movie: Jimmy
Cast:Mimoh Chakraborty, Pooja Singh, Zulfi Syed, Ashish Vidyarthi, Ehsaan Khan, Rati Agnihotri, Rahul Dev, Shakti Kapoor, Vineeta Thakur, Adi Irani, Vikas Anand, Gargi Patel, Vivana , Vikaas Kalantri
Music Director:Anand Raj Anand, Bappa Lahiri
Playback Singer:Shaan , Anand Raj Anand, Kailash Kher, Kunal Ganjawala
Story Writer:Ranbir Pushp
Producer:Nawman Malik, Salman Malik
Production Designer:Saima Malik
Banner: High Defination Motion Pictures
Director:Raj N. Sippy
Mimoh’s first movie ‘Jimmy’ seems like a film from a bygone era. It is as if the writer found an obsolete script – with a few pages missing, at that – and pepped it up with twists and turns borrowed from more than one source. To add to the proceedings, the director (Raj Sippy) decided to have a number of songs in the film solely to showcase the newcomer’s dancing skills. And voila! A dream launch is ready for Mimoh. Only, it is a launch that doesn’t promise a successful take-off.
One of the many tragedies of ‘Jimmy’ is that it purports to showcase Mimoh’s dancing skills with songs that hardly sound appealing. However, to be fair, Mimoh’s quite a dancer, but the fact doesn’t stand out because the dances have been choreographed and shot in a way that fails to capture the power or the spirit of the music.
Enough about dancing, now let’s get to something serious.
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Movie: Anamika
Cast: Minissha Lamba, Dino Morea, Koena Mitra, Gulshan Grover, Achint Kaur, Prithvi
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Producer: Bhanwarlal Verma, Ramesh Shah
Lyrics: Sameer
Cinematography: Pushon Kriplani
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Movie: Anamika
Cast: Minissha Lamba, Dino Morea, Koena Mitra, Gulshan Grover, Achint Kaur, Prithvi Zutshi, Vishwajeet Pradhan
Producer: Bhanwarlal Verma, Ramesh Shah
Lyrics: Sameer
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Editing: Sanjib Datta
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Mr. White Mr. Black
Movie: Mr. White Mr. Black
Cast: Sunil Shetty, Arshad Warsi, Sandhya Mridul, Upasna Singh, Vrajesh Hirjee, Tania Zaetta, Sharat Saxena, Mahima Mehta, Shravan, Ning, Anishka Khosla, Bobby Darling, Rashmi Nigam, Sadashiv Amrapurkar, Aashish Vidyarthi
Producer: Deepak Shivdasani, Bhola Malviya
Lyrics: Sameer
Cinematography: Thomas Xavier
Editing: Steven Bernard
Screenplay: Nishikant Kamat, Sanjeev Duggal
Story Writer: Shaktimaan
Director: Deepak Shivdasani
Rating:**
Short Movie Review: The film, attempted as a comedy, turns out to be a somewhat tragic experience for the unsuspecting viewers who walk in the cinema halls expecting some good laughs but walk out with their expressions suggesting they have endured some kind of torture.
Gopi (Sunil Shetty) a simpleton, arrives in Goa from Hoshiyarpur. His mission - to hand over an incredibly tiny piece of land to his childhood friend Kishen, which was his father's last wish.
Kishen (Arshad Warsi), now a conman, swindles people with a little help from his accomplice, Babu (Atul Kale), to earn enough money to educate his sibling Divya (Mahima Mehta) who's studying in London.
Who gets the diamonds? Does Gopi manage to take Kishen to Hoshiyarpur? And was the land just a meager piece of land or something more? The answers are out in black and white by the time you go through this hectic cinematic maze!
"If you are looking forward to an entertaining weekend, Mr. White Mr. Black is not the answer".
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Movie: Anamika
Cast: Minissha Lamba, Dino Morea, Koena Mitra, Gulshan Grover, Achint Kaur, Prithvi Zutshi, Vishwajeet Pradhan
Producer: Bhanwarlal Verma, Ramesh Shah
Lyrics: Sameer
Cinematography: Pushon Kriplani
Editing: Sanjib Datta
Art Direction: Gayatri Marwah
Story Writer: Anant Mahadevan, Anand Vardhan
Director: Anant Mahadevan
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Short Review: The movie, starring Dino Morea , Minissha Lamba , Koena Mitra , Gulshan Grover and Achint Kaur, has a few deft strokes of a good thriller that are evenly divided throughout the course of the film to keep your interest from waning. But overall, the film fails to engross you because it lacks a credible, convincing development in the plot. The final unraveling does not hit you because you anticipate it well before the climax.
‘Anamika’ works only in patches. The film begins well but loses its steam mid-way. And the climax is a let down.