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Jul 14
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Raajneeti Review

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Katrina Kaif stars in RaajneetiOh my, oh my! Where do I begin? This hasn’t been a good few months for me and Bollywood. I actually walked out of Raajneeti, I couldn’t take it anymore. Enough with the politics already. Talk about a super heavy drama, my goodness!

I am not a fan of politics but I’ve concluded quite a few things after watching 3/4 of the long and drawn out Raajneeti. It seems that the public in this movie are complete idiots, the people vote for that person who gives them a cunning speech and not to that person who genuinely wants good for them. These politicians use the police as they see fit, throwing them against eachother for their own benefit. And finally, there seems to be no humans in politics. All I saw was greed and open defiance to get what one wanted at any cost.

The director Prakash Jha, famous for making movies on serious topics and getting success for every film, fails miserably this time. All his previous movies worked because he stuck to the main story till the end and the lead actor did justice with his role. But, in Raajneeti he did a different thing, he assembled a huge star cast with every actor having a potential of pulling of any movie well and a strong topic: politics, which was great but he didn’t give preference to MAIN story this time which went wrong.
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  • Kites Doesn’t Soar Too High
    no responses - Posted 07.13.10

    Hrithik Roshan & Barbara Mori star in KitesJ., played by Hrithik Roshan, is a dance teacher in Las Vegas, Nevada. As an alternate source of income, J. and his partner Robin, decides to marry immigrant women for their money and to get them a green card. When Gina, the rich daughter of a powerful casino owner falls for him, J. goes along in order to marry into money. He doesn’t love her but realizes that she’s a Daddy’s girl and whatever she wants, she gets.

    He discovers that his future brother-in-law, the vicious, homicidal Tony is about to marry a Mexican woman named Natasha (the spanish Barbara Mori), whom J. knows as Linda, the last of the immigrant women he married. On the night before “Natasha” and Tony’s wedding, Linda and J. spend a romantic but chaste night, humorously agreeing to a “divorce.” A jealous, gun-wielding Tony, however, arrives at her apartment while J. is there, and after he hits her, Linda impulsively knocks him out with a heavy object while he tussles with J. Linda and J. go on the run toward Mexico, with Tony and police in pursuit.

    Now with that said, Kites is definitely not a movie that has stayed with the tried and true Bollywood flavor, turning into the many hundred American movies that are released yearly. Kites is a very bad movie and it only serves Hrithik Roshan female fans who love to watch his tall body move like a rubber band (I still don’t know how he does it). Overall, it could have been a good story but it falls flat with the Hindi, spanish and english language thrown in. It should have just been told and then wonderfully executed.

    But this director decided to make it a love tragedy that he amped up on steroids. The music of the movie…

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  • Desi Salsa – Rocket Singh
    no responses - Posted 12.16.09

    Ranbir Kapoor in Rocket SinghRocket Singh tells the story of a simple man with traditional values, but because he’s not too smart, school that is, he’s having a hard time getting a job like his good friend who is going into the MBA program. With that said, I went to see “Rocket Singh: Salesman of the Year” it on Saturday. Rocket Singh (Ranbir Kapoor) is the new guy in a salesman’s world. He is super stressed when he realizes that he doesn’t seem to know how to deal with the unrealistic goals set by his boss. He comes across a client who blatantly expects a bribe and Rocket must tackle his ideologies. When Rocket doesn’t offer the bribe and tells the client that he’s wrong, Rocket leaves and sees a complaint box and proceeds to place his complaints there. What happens next is what causes Rocket to eventually seeks assistance from some of his fellow co-workers.

    I enjoyed this movie and I think the characters are great. Most of the dialogue is very witty and some of it is cut-throat. You can’t go into this movie thinking of Ranbir as being sexy, as he played in Bacha Ae Haseeno or Saawariya. It’s not the most powerful performance but I think overall, with the storyline and script, he gives a memorable performance.

    I really liked the chemistry between D. Santosh, who plays the PC assembler and Ranbir. D. Santosh has some of the most funniest lines in the movie. I particularly like the scene with Koena (Gauhar Khan as the receptionist) who is really upset that they are going to be found out (since they started their own company within the company) and she keeps saying, “I knew something like this was going to happen,” Mr. PC…

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