Bollywood's Rajneeti

Production: Prakash Jha
Star cast: Katrina Kaif, Ranbir Kapoor, Arjun Rampal, Nana Patekar, Manoj Bajpayee, Ajay Devgan
Rating: * * * *

As the title itself suggests that the movie deals with the dark politics whose concept is similar to Mahabharata, produced and directed by ten times National Award winner Prakash Jha.
The story revolves around those powerful people in the third-world countries, who corrupt the politics to fulfill their dirty ambitions. However with the increase in evils it became impossible to differentiate between the heroes and villains.
The movie is about owing political power between the opponent claimants of the Pratap family. After the elder brother suffered a paralytic stroke, the leadership shifts to his younger brother. Veerendra (Manoj Bajpayee), son of the elder brother hopes to get the thrown, but the younger brother gets the control. Prithvi (Arjun Rampal), son of younger brother inherits the powerful political legacy, but his cousin, Veerendra, proves his biggest political opponent.

Veerendra plays a new game: He picks up Sooraj (Ajay Devgan), a young leader whose identity’s secret is revealed much later. Prithvi’s brother Samar (Ranbir Kapoor), least interested in politics, had been pursuing PhD and was settled with his girlfriend abroad, slips into his family’s dirty politics after his father passed away. Indu (Katrina Kaif), daughter of a wealthy industrialist loves Samar but gets married to Prithvi, is also caught in this web. Brij Gopal (Nana Patekar), plays the role of mentor and guide to Prithvi and Samar in the battle.

Rajneeti is all about fought elections in which money, corruption and power are the instruments, cheating and deception are commonly used to defeat the opponent. Sacrifice of love and friendship for political benefits makes it an emotional flick.
Every actor gave a sparkling performance. Though Katrina has not played much but she has performed well her scenes. Manoj Bajpayee did his negative act superbly. Ajay Devgan is remarkable. Arjun gives best performance of his career. Nana Patekar justifies his act and utters the cruelest lines positively. Ranbir Kapoor’s performance is speechless. Musically, the movie has rich pleasing variety.

Rajneeti is emotional, entertaining and the real face of politics

Jaane Kahan Se Ayi Hai

Direction: Milap Zaveri
Production: Mukesh Talreja & Nikhil Advani
Star Cast: Ritesh Deshmukh, Jacqueline Fernandez, Vishal Malhotra, Sonal Sehgal, Ruslaan Mumtaz
Rating: * * *

Jaane kahan se ayi hai is a romantic comedy movie, written and directed by Milap Zaveri. Love story of a man from Earth and girl from Venus, sounds quite interesting and at the same time slightly weird. Everyone in Zaveri’s movie is searching for love.
The story is about Rajesh (Ritesh Deshmukh) who has been in search of love since he was a child. He was hopeless and frustrated until he meet’s Natasha (Sonal Sehgal), sister of Desh (Ruslaan). Natasha blows away Rajesh's mind. Natasha tries her hands at direction in the film Rajesh is working for. But when unlucky Rajesh proposed his love then she responds by saying that she thought him as a friend only.

Disappointed Rajesh when questioned God angrily about his love then an unknown and adorable beauty falls right onto his arms. Rajesh carries her home and leave her there to think aloud the situation with Kaushal. After making sure that she has nothing to say of herself, they christen her as Tara.
Tara is from Venus who comes to earth in search of true love and requests Rajesh to help her. She asks her search device to search the most loved man in India and the result is Desh. Tara wants to get Desh but actually what happens later is totally different from what’s planned. Rest of the movie deals with how soul-mates find each other. One can easily predict the rest of the movie after the entry of Tara.
Jacqueline Fernandez is sweet in every frame. Ritesh is cute but is trying too hard. Vishal is fantastic. Supriya is good. Sonal and Ruslaan are perfectly cast and justify their role. Special appearances by Akshay Kumar, Farah Khan, Sajid Khan, Priyanka Chopra, Amrita Rao and Boman Irani make their presence felt. Vishal Malhotra is fantastic. Music is average.

Jaane kahan se ayi hai is fun, entertaining and cute love story.

PAA becomes Son

Direction: R.Balakrishnan
Production: Sunil Manchanda
Star Cast: Amitabh Bachchan, Abhishek Bachchan, Vidya Balan, Paresh Rawal, Arundhati Naag
Rating: * * * *

Paa is Balki’s brilliant work after his extremely lovable Cheeni Kum (2007). Flicks of Balki are often simple, easy to understand and different on the other hand.

Story isn’t focused on the illness; it is more about a 13 year old boy, Auro (Amitabh Bachchan), who is suffering from Progeria. He lives with his Gynecologist mother Vidya (Vidya Balan) and her mother. Due to the disease Auro looks like a 70 year old man but mentally he is of his age.

During Vidya’s student days, she was in relationship with Amol (Abhishek Bachchan) and got pregnant. Amol wanted Vidya to abort the child as he considered the child to be a hurdle in his political career ambitions. But Vidya’s decision to keep the child led to her break up with Amol. Rest of the movie deals with how they get back together.

Wih Auro’s act Big B proves that he is the paa of all actors where acting is concerned. Vidya Balan plays the role of a mother effortlessly. Abhishek Bachchan was preety good. Arundhati’s act was impressive. The child actors were very good.

The music is average but sweet. Makeup by Domini Till, Christien Tinsley deserves special appreciation for turning Big B to a Progeria patient.

Paa will leave tears in your eyes as well as smile on your lips.

Love Aaj Kal

Direction: Imtiaz Ali

Production: Saif Ali Khan, Dinesh Vijan

Star Cast: Saif Ali Khan, Deepika Padukone, Rishi Kapoor, Giselle Monteiro

Rating: * * * *

Love aaj kal is Imtiaz’s next direction after a cute love story jab we met (2007). Certain things doesn’t change with time, of course the process changes, this is what the movie’s theme is. Today, a couple like Jai (Saif) and Meera (Deepika) could be found anywhere, the break ups and getting involved with someone else but the movie proves that purity and feeling of love never changes.

Jai doesn’t believe in eternal love. According to him, true love exists only in books and one has to be practical. After having relation for more than one year with Meera, their life takes them to different directions. They accept this easily and decided to have a break up as they don’t believe in long-distance relationships. To describe love kal Imtiaz put in the character of Veer Singh (Rishi Kapoor) who falls in love with Harleen at first sight. But soon after some days Harleen’s family takes her to Kolkata, when Veer comes to know about this, he also goes to the same place to get his love.

On his meeting with Jai, he finds it strange to observe the absence of passion in love matters. On the other side Jai is shocked to see how Veer could have been so silly about Harleen. Rest of the movie deals with how Veer and Meera realised the existence of true love for each other.

Saif did a fabulous job. Deepika plays Meera so effectively; you're left wondering who else could have done the role. Rishi Kapoor as a love guide was brilliant. The girl playing Veer Singh's love interest is suited to the character. Dialogs are funny. Music is super hit. Imtiaz Ali's direction was so successful in traversing between two eras and he told the story superbly.

Love aaj kal is cute, funny, entertaining and romantic love story.