Prince - Notepad

He He, the travails of a fellow reviewer. When I saw the movie today I did not know whether to critique it as a reviewer or just lose myself into the typical popcorn story going on on the screen.

But hell, I then thought all this worked so right during Joy Mukherjee's time, so with the wizardy of today, the movie should work... but alas.. Vivek is wooden! You cannot help it!

Bollywood Hungama review stated that the first half is real good but it slacks in the second. Nevertheless, no review has been as bad as this. And to top it, the movie had an excellent start everywhere. I guess the reviewer did not get a movie pass or free ticket and started blasting the movie from the first minute. Ha

I have watched Dhoom2, Race and Krissh and I would gladly pay all over again to watch these. These movies are identical to another Blockbuster of the same genre - Ghajini. Ramen- You mean to say that all those people who have spent Rs115 crores watch mindless and pathetic commercial films. Whats so great about Avatar, Transformers, Pirates of the Caribean,Dark Knight, Spiderman, Matrix etc. All these movies provide a simple thing that you don't understand - ENTERTAINMENT!! My friend, my advise to you is to stay home and watch realistic documentaries on Discovery channel. And to Bollyfan, I agree with dissing a film on its demerits, but c'mon, it can't be all that bad. A reviewer who can recommend boring movies like Harishchandra Factory and Paa should understand the factor of entertainment. Movies are make-believe; if you don't believe something is believable, so be it, its a movie made for entertaining. I m not defending Prince but I'd like to know the reviewer's opinion about the Bourne Identity series where Matt Damon plays a similar role.

Mr bollyfan, I pity you. You have come down to the level of swearing to prove your point which means you know what. I have absolutely enjoyed all the films in your list barring the boring ones I mentioned earlier. Mind you, I don't enjoy trash either. I haven't seen Prince but I was going by bwood hungama review. I know your kind who try to act like movie connoseiurs and try to prove that they like these boring art movies. I actually stayed awake till the end of Manorama to see if it could redeem itself finally but it was a wasted 2 hours of my life. Actually, munnabhai series and johny gaddar are in my top 10 of all time. I recommended these 2 to so many people. Have you seen another trash 'The hangover'. Sorry for waking you up. Hehehe!!!

"Over n f'n out!!" - Now is that poetry? Your tone is so angry, my friend. Calm down, Relax, Easy. If you are as knowledgeable as me, lets discuss movies on my blog. Let me know if you are up for it.
Lets come to your fav movie - MSFU. This is a Roman Polanski & Jack Nicholson ripoff from the 1974 Mystery "Chinatown" to a major extent and eventually end-up to same old cheap Indian pretext of "jameen-jayjaad,paisa,daulat". This a perfect example of how Indian directors trying to fool the audience end up making dimwit of themselves. They can't dish-out the same Hollywood version in India, so they try to add their own genuine Indian-ness(which is actually fake and lame) and on excuse of a multi-layered mystery ,totally confuse themselves. Many Indians have access to Hollywood Classics and you just can't fool everybody trying to imitate that work. Although this movie is different from usual Hindi movies and the director has tried to put some effort but the fake rajasthaani accents,detached characters,unemotional performances and actors act as though they don't seem to understand the gravity of situation...only Kulbhushan Kharbanda has shown his veteran ability...others just go through the motion. No matter how good the film is, we must remember that it's a copy. And copy means the screenplay writer saved a great deal of efforts to build the characters. Writing the screenplay of Chinatown must have been really magical journey, considering the complex characters it involved, now compare it with the screenwriters of MSFU. They just took the same structure, same characters and put them into different setup, their job is so easy. And why should we feel proud of it? And how can it be called a good film? Trying to imitate the gripping atmosphere and story-telling of the original one, director concocts a loosely held narrative with lousy, lackluster editing and the same old "They were after your Money" conclusion, which is so worn-out and old that the viewer thinks he wasted his 2hours 17minutes. Movie could have been a lot shorter and that would have made it more interesting. The pace is so slow. If you want a real twist in a suspense, watch the recent masterpiece "The sixth Sense". A true gem of a movie!! Here is my list of recent original top 10 (Not in order),See if you can come with a better list of commercial and critical successes:
1. 3 Idiots
2. Lagaan
3. Munnabhai MBBS
4. Lage raho Munna bhai
5. Dil Chahta hai
6. Johny Gaddaar
7. Dilwale Dulhaniya lejaayenge
8. Vaastav
9. Sarfarosh
10.Rang de Basanti

People comparing The Matrix - a film that merges sci-fi with the most fundamental question, that of our existence - to Dhoom 2 an Race? You don't deserve to watch movies.

Meetu, Thanks for your reply. Seems like you misunderstood my point. I would never in my sane mind compare Dhoom & Race to Dark Knight and Matrix. My point was that many movies like Race & Dhoom may be trash from a critical point of view but they do provide entertainment and paisa wasool to the aam junta. Thats why these movies become huge blockbusters. Let me ask you - Why would millions of moviegoers spend their hard earned money to see something that is trash. Nowadays, it is the age of instant hits and instant failures. Case in point is Veer (Instant Flop after the first weekend) and Blue (same story). Blue had terrific effects and first of its kind underwater scenes but the aam junta was not fooled with this script-less, mindless and crap excuse of a movie. Hence, My conclusion is give credit to the aam junta as they are not fools as much as you think. On another point, even though special EFX have a great influence in Hollywood movies, Hollywood still manages to merge great EFX with a solid script in movies like Dark Knight (which I may have seen 10 times). Simply amazing!!

@cinefreak, wow - you just found a way to make superhit movies in 4 days! Mr knowledgeable, pls enlighten us why did the following flop even though they made money in your 4 days - Blue, Veer, London dreams, chandni chowk, kambakt ishq etc. The list can go on for pages. Talk sense, Mr ignoranmus!

Watched it! its ok not much finishing in various graphics which they tried to show as hollywood movie! Just a Time pass movie!

India me Prince to gadde me girte hi rehte hain........reminding you of a 3 years old kid that fell into a tubewell pothole :)