My Vantage Point: 2010

Sunday, August 22, 2010

Lafangey Parindey

Cast : Deepika Padukone, Neil Nithin Mukesh
Directer : Pradeep Sarkar

If you dont particularly have any thing else to do and also have some extra money lying at home then Lafangey Parindey might seem as a good idea. Else it s just like watching a Tv ad, u watch it until it plays and then forget it completely.

Niel plays One shot Nandu, a street boxer who can knockout any one in single punch and also leads a typical life of a mumbai hench men and also has the usual group of friends with weird nicknames like Chaddi and Diesel. Pinky,Deepika Padukone is a skating-dancing prodigy who constantly curses her condition and feels that she belongs in the world of stardom. All changes one night when Nandu accidentally runs over pinky in a car and she becomes blind. The rest of the film is how Nandu Motivates pinky to get back to her old self and how they fall in love with the same "love-fight at the last round of reality show which they finally win-love " scenario.

The problem of this movie is that its hundred percent predictable. You could say whats gonna happen at end after 15 minutes from beginning the movie. Again its a very clichéd movies with a lot of stereotypes. You have a hard hitting hero, gold toothed villian , the old cycle of hate to romance ,a pair of bad and corrupt cops and a good cop who finally lets the hero escape. And the bombay-accent doesn't serve much purpose either.

Its not completely a bad film. Its not a very good film either. Its one of those movies that goes straight through your mind stopping nowhere!!!

RATING : 2.5/5

A Beautiful Mind

By: Thejas Krishnan on 1:18 AM

Cast: Russell Crowe, Jennifer Connelly, Ed HarrisDirector: Ron Howard

I have not seen many Russell Crowe movies, only Gladiator to be precise, and he only had a lukewarm impression in my mind. But After this movie he has gained a huge amount of respect from my part.

Russell Crowe is John Nash, a mathematical genius who sees life through numbers. We see him formulating equations on feeding patterns of pigeons and scribbling notes on the library window.A bit of a Loner.But even with his

non charismatic appearance he manages to find a few friends and even a women.

But then things go wrong. Set amidst the cold-war era , he feels that his superior knowledge in mathematics is being used by the govt. to fight against Russian forces. He begins to hallucinate and feels that his life is in constant danger. Unable to convince the people, he finds himself in the assylum struggling to return to a normal life.

Russell Crowe portrays the protagonist with so much sincerity and agony that its impossible to ignore it. He handles the situations and executes his dialogues with such a surgical accuracy that he brings about a strange pain in every viewers heart. Jennifer Connelly as Alicia gives a cent percent commitment and really plays the role of a powerful woman who doesn't breakdown easily.She exemplifies classic beauty and knows how to add passion to her character.

Overall A Beautiful Mind is one of those movies which you wouldn't want to miss, at any cost....

Rating:4.5/5

My Top 5 Hollywood Directors

By: Thejas Krishnan on 4:43 PM

5.Wachioski Brothers:
The Matrix

4.Christopher Nolan
The Dark Knight

3.Roland Emmerich
2012

2.James Cameroon
Titanic

1.Stepen Spielberg
Jurassic park,ET

My Top 10 Female Playback singers

By: Thejas Krishnan on 4:08 PM

10.Chinmayi

9.Dominique Cerejo

8.Shilpa Rao

7.Kavitha Seth

6.Rekha Bharadwaj

5.Suzzene Dimello

4.Alka Yagnik

3. Sunidhi Chauhan

2.K.S. Chithra

1. Shreya Goshal

My Top 5 Composers

By: Thejas Krishnan on 6:18 PM

5.Monty Sharma

Best works: Saawariya

4.Vishal-Shekar

Best works: Om Shanti Om, Bachna Ae Haseeno, Dostana

3.Pritam

Best works : Jab We Met, Race, Billu

2.Shankar-Ehsan-Loy

Best works: Dil Chahtha Hai, TZP, Bunty&bubly
Rock On, Mission Kashmir

1.(As if there was any doubt...) A.R.Rahman

Best works:::ALL:::

Kites..

By: Thejas Krishnan on 3:28 PM

Cast: Hrithik Roshan , Barbara Mori, Kangana Renaut , Kiran Bedi.

You can make a stunning movie with a very low budget like "Welcome to Sajjanpur" or you can waste enormous sums of money and end up making a Bakwas movie like Kambaqt Ishq.I'm sorry to say that Kites falls in the second category.Even though not as bad as Kambaqt Ishq, its still not a very enjoyable movie.It ultimately makes no point and fails to touch hearts as its script meant it to be.

J, played by Hrithik is a dance teacher in vegas, who does an awful lot of illegal jobs to earn a little extra. He acts to have fallen in love with Gina(Kangana) to open the doors to the her wealth , her father being a very rich and dangerous Casino owner.And then he meets Gina's brother's Fiance Nathasha/Linda(played by Barbara).They fall in love and take off. The rest is the usual villain chasing Hero Scenerio...

Even the very versatile Hrithik Roshan fails to lift the crappy script. Though he charms the audiance with some spectacular dance moves and his glistening body, thats pretty much it....

The first half is completely hollow. the second half is also very boring. Even the car chase seems very drab and dragging.

Apart from a few good scenes, the "hollywood-like" camera work, there isn't much to anticipate.

Rating:2/5