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I am a bit late for this though it has been more than 3 days since I saw the movie, I have was not able to post since I was in Mumbai and Vodafone thought it would be good to not activate my GPRS for apparently no reason and even after a week it hasn’t been activated(It’s a different story). Well I saw the movie at Fame multiplex in Mumbai at 10:45 since it’s hard to find tickets for other shows.

Review:

So, lets talk about the movie. The story is not at all difficult to understand, it’s simple re-birth story of how the hero dies in 70’s trying to save the girl he loves and is reincarnated. First thing everyone should realise that, movie is made by people who made Main Hoon Na so one thing no one should expect is, story. The movie is actually more or less fast the narration gets into overdrive when they reach 2nd half. SRK remembers his past life just 10 -20 minutes into the 2nd half of the movie. I found that quite ridiculous but still they didn’t prolong it and made it short and sweet. This is one of those masala movies that can boast of action,drama,comedy,romance,thriller,horror(yeah horror too),a little bit of suspense(only tiny bit) and many more genres.

There are many moments where you might feel that the movie is totally senseless and doesn’t bother at all about logic but if you had expected an oscar winning story, then it’s definitely your fault. It’s one of those movies that is just meant to entertain you and nothing else. I personally many times hated the movie just because of not having any logic whatsoever, but still the movie was an entertainer. In Main Hoon Na the ending was a big let down, it was a total what the fuck moment for me when the movie ended. Something that I had really liked about Main Hoon Na was also present in Om Shanti Om, the way they show each and every on screen is the best part. You get to know who all worked on the film. Deepika Padukone was the real treat in the movie, you get to listen some good dialogues from her in the first half and in second half she is wasted(even SRK is wasted but still). Arjun Rampal felt a bit different I wasn’t hoping to see many variations in his expressions but to my surprise he did have different expressions. The second half wasted many of the characters and just rushed to the conclusion. I should specially mention Shreyas Talpade and Kiron Kher who excellently portrayed their roles and were able to do quite a lot of justice to their characters. The acting by the whole crew in the first half was very good though it deteriorated in the 2nd half which I believe is mostly because of fast narration and hasty conclusion.

Though the film has had it share of controversies including Manoj Kumar controversy, it all helps in making the film more popular. Even the blatant copying from the candian film Kopps was criticized by many. I felt that scene was quite funny, though I don’t think family audience would like it very much. I felt a big part of the success of the movie goes to the songs of the movie too. All the songs from Dard-e-Disco to Jag soona soona lage were very nice and gave the movie a very good feeling. I personally feel that Farah Khan has come a long way(on the same road though) since Main Hoon Na. I won’t rate the movie or anything since most of the people might have rated it but one thing I would say is even if you hate Sharukh Khan or SRK and Farah Khan combination, you should definitely watch this movie for Deepika Padukone because she just looks awesome in the movie.

So I would conclude this review by saying that whatever anyone says this movie will definitely rake in a lot of moolah and will entertain lots of people because cinema was made for entertainment.

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If you have no idea what I am going to blabber about just check this link. The DVD is releasing on 14th August, I thought why not write about it since I got to see it. Its funny how Marvel picked up one of the lesser known characters from it’s universe for making it into a STV(Straight to Video) animated movie. But hey I am not complaining I have always liked Dr. Strange’s character so no problem for me.

The main thing about the film is that they have changed the origin story of the Doctor Strange but only a little bit. The first introduction of Doctor Strange where he sees the wizards fighting the dark creature even though they had used a cloaking spell was the best. I will give a synopsis of the story:

Dr. Stephen Strange was one of the most gifted surgeons in medicine before his hands were left shattered and useless as a result of a car crash. Spending his fortune in pursuit of a way to fix his fractured body, the dejected doctor believed all was lost until the Ancient One offered him hope and healing in Tibet.

Training mind, body and soul with the Ancient One and his pupils, Doctor Strange’s scope, power and compassion grows as he steps closer to his mystical fate. But to fully embrace his destiny and protect the worlds of magic and reality, Strange must face betryal, death and the emergence of Dormammu.

The way the depict the training of Doctor Strange is wonderful, it’s all about learning magic and accepting the unacceptable. We see how a disheartened surgeon becomes the Sorcerer Supreme of the earth realm. The last fight with Dormammu ended to fast I believe they could have made it a bit more longer.

Coming to the animation. I for one have really liked the other three Direct-to-Video animation films by Marvel(Ultimate Avengers, Ultimate Avengers 2 and The Invincible Iron Man). This one also had very crisp animation. The character designs were excellent except for Dormammu since it seemed he was more or less just made of fire and some weird lines; other than that the other character designs were great. The character design of Doctor Strange was very good. They showed three different types of designs for him. First was when he was a surgeon and the next when he loses all his hope and became destitute. The third one was of him becoming the Doctor Strange and the clothes were really cool. The most unfortunate thing is that this the only animated movie that will ever be made for Doctor Strange since the next and the last animated film that Marvel is going to make with Lions Gate is Avengers Reborn(about kids of Avengers becoming the New Avengers or something). At the end of the film when Wong says that they have found new prospects and one of them named Clea seems to be the best was a great dialogue which suggested a possible sequel but as we know that is not going to happen. So, this was my small review on Doctor Strange Animated Film 2007.

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Yeah I don’t know why but I simply love this picture. Maybe it’s her pose that makes the picture perfect.

So now coming to the movie, I have always loved reading all the books in the Harry Potter series but The Order of Phoenix was one of those books which I actually don’t include into my favourites since I found it quite boring. But there were nearly hundred or something pages that I had found quite interesting in the book; actually some of the scenes were quite thrilling. I always thought when I read the book that they will use the only good part from the book.

I am quite happy they did exactly the same thing. They used only the best parts from the book and made it into the movie. Unfortunately I reached only when Harry had reached 12 Grimauld Place since I had gone to watch 8 am morning show at Sathyam here which is the only timing for Harry Potter (I guess one will know why since Sivaji was released in two screens in Sathyam). Now since I had missed lots of fun stuff I can’t comment on that but still had the whole movie left after that. In the movie some scenes were shot excellently giving details exactly as in the book. But I have to agree with Harsh the scenes of the Great Fred and George Weasly making their grand escape could have been a lot better. There are certain moments in the movie were a non reader might feel left out and I guess that’s because of not using the whole book and it’s quite common now.

I normally watch Harry Potter now just to see how much did they deviate from the book and it seems they did a lot of that in this movie. Thought it was very close to the book there were many minor deviations too which can obviously be noticed by any reader.

Atlast I would say this was a very good effort. I mean this would be one with my other favourites like The Chamber of Secrets and Prisoner of Azkaban. I would say this will complete my top three favourite movies in the series. I guess this film deserves 3.5/5.

Links of Interest: Download Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix to your iPod. Or watch it in DVD and DivX formats.

As it has been quite a while since the movie has released writing a review would be totally worthless. So I thought why not just write whatever I felt about the movie than making it into a review. I saw Spiderman 3 on last Friday as I was not able to score tickets for the movie for Saturday and Sunday before that.

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The movie starts with a scene of a typical malayalee “thatukada” (tea stall), in the tea stall innocent is making tea and then he sees someone selling the land on which his tea stall is to someone else. He says he has no objection as he is selling the land to a very good guy who also happens to be a great friend of his. We see how “kuchumon” (that is the name of mammootty the hero of the film) hits a local rowdy and then how his Dad sends him to Kozhikode so he odes not end up in any trouble. After reaching to Kozhikode he tries his luck on cards and bets on jack and wins triple Jack (hence the name Thuruppugulan). The movie is only comedy-action without much focusing on story. But we had to expect this from mammootty after his performance in Rajamanickyam which proved out to be successful. Mammootty had been branded the name of serious-action hero which he wants to change desperately hence these films. These films are total entertainers but you could have never expected such films in Malayalam cinema which gives less importance to story and more to comedy but this has been the trend recently. The movie stars many known faces like innocent, harishri Ashokan and the other main thing about the film was Sneha the tamil heroine. First it was Malayalam heroines to Tamil and now its Tamil heroines to Malayalam. The character that mammootty plays is of an young guy who is child-like he wants to be a great bharatnatyam dancer and whose habits are also child-like but when it comes to fights he is much ahead of everyone in that. We see many twist and turns in the film which all result to an obvious climax. I can’t say the movie is a must watch but if you like comedies which are nothing but comedies then you can surely like this movie.

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Here is what varnachitram has to say about it.

I know the movie is old but it was released here some days ago and I went to see it on the meet.

The movie is one of those English movies which makes you think of what we do. Racial discrimination is something common here too and so it is in America and some European countries. The movie starts with how a one lady hits the car of another lady who is a cop and they start fighting and the cop’s colleague goes to investigate something with fellow officers nearby and then we go into a flashback. The stories inside stories tell you about all the different races in America other than white and how they suffer racial discrimination. Stories of different people are intervened into each other. The stories tend to get confusing in short while but then it’s the theme of the story and its supposed to be like that. The film has a district attorney worried of loosing his black votes and a wife who is paranoid about anyone other than white. There is a Persian scared about his shop. There is a lock repairer scared of people shooting here and there. There are two cons one who is good at heart and another one who considers every gesture from a white guy is a show of racial discrimination. There is a black cop looking for his brother and not caring about his mother and a white cop who is too harsh with blacks and has a Dad with problems of his own. The cop has a partner who has no grudge against blacks and hates his partner. They all end up doing different things. The racialist cop ends up saving a black women he molested and his partner ends up killing a black just because he thought he was about to shoot him. The stories are of all different people whose stories coincide with each other. It’s a must watch movie. I would love to give it 9.5/10 which I say is the highest I will ever give to a English movie.

Check here for its imdb information.