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Dattaprasad
Dattaprasad has rated 2 movies, and has posted 41 comments.
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Dattaprasad has rated 2 movies, and has posted 41 comments.
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Bad acting and Undelivered Promised Sex.... Boy, am I going to enjoy catcalls or what (fortunately I have an amazing single screen nearby, where audience are comedy goldmines) This is one of those types of movies where audience makes it enjoyable.
Perfectly Cautious write up, what more it was insightful too (one promo matlab low budget - that never occurred to me... haalaki yeh alag baat hai ki now TV is showing more promos. But it was an insight nonetheless.)
"The only thing that could hamper any anticipation is the director's last venture as a director, Home Delivery."
Director ka last venture 'Home Delivery' nahi ne Dikdi, balki 'Aladdin' tha. (helps if you imagine parsi baba speaking)
Wow!... Woo Hoo!... Whoa!... aah my Back!. (interesting read)
Starring - Manisha Koirala?? Naseeruddin Shah??
Did I miss something?
Liked everything in "Rockstar", well almost everything... Nargis Fakhri still has some distance to cover acting wise but she looked God Awesome (maano jaise Pakistani Angelina Jolie).
But its a hard to like film... coz its not what you expect... its not a rags to riches story, it doesn't have a political message, Hero isn't sympathetic, the love story doesn't fit in moral framework and what not. I understand the anger towards it, although those exactly are the points which make me admire it.
[P.S: I would've liked to defend the movie... but it would mean I have to give some part of movie away; Kaash, private discussion rakh sakte wogma pe. Either that or a public one with SPOILER alert.]
Good to know that you were pleasantly surprised.
Aaah... reading the review is such a relief.
1. Katrina got a role which suits her.
2. You too found Ali Zafar annoying.
and about the audio review, ek farmayish hai... Please sneak in some hindi here and there, pura ka pura english review kucch zyada hi formal lagta hai.
And it refused, as if taunting me, "you wanted story, you take story! And here take some more."
LMAO!!
aah, finally... finally review an english movie after such a long time. I was waiting for it more than the movie.
I've checked in IMDB, this movie doesn't star Aamir Khan nor co-directed by Kiran Rao. Then why does credits here say so?
The movie is quite paradoxical, quite like 100 gram zindagi song. Both restrained and un-subtle.
@meetu: Didn't see Kites, yet. Didn't get that Dadaji one... Seriously, is there a character named 'J' in that?
@meetu: 'uncle MIB wale' ka funda yeh hai ki MIB movie me Will Smith chacha ka naam bhi 'J' hi tha.
@J(uncle-MIB-wale):[Correction] bas itna bolo naa ki tum ko pasand aayi, yeh meetu ko KYUN kos rahe ho? Yeh galat hai, get well soon, mamu.
@J(uncle-MIB-wale): bas itna bolo naa ki tum ko pasand aayi, yeh meetu ko kos rahe ho. Yeh galat hai, get well soon, mamu.
@meetu: Thank God, I don't have a TV. Hype se bach gaya. But jab story se jyada, Barbara aunty pe focus ho (public-city me) toh kuch naa kuch locha hona hi maangta naa.
Pagal kar dala dibakar ne, hadh hai yar. Koi consistently acchi movies kaise de sakta hai?
Aaylachamaayla, mast movie hai. Bohot enjoy kiya... go watch it.
Satish Kaushik ko toh maan gaye.
@Sanjeev Kumar Singh: ;)
@sanjeev kumar singh: sorry bhai, assume kar liya ki meetu ne review likha hai... so jo bhi previous comment meetu ke naam par hai tumhare liye hai, once again criticism ka tension nahi lene ka, ek kaan se sunne ka doosre se chhod daalne ka. film dekhanu, review likhanu... majjani life.
But I do wonder, itni der baad kyu review aaya.
@meetu: meetuben, criticism ka tension nai lene ka.
@manu: no she didn't give the story away, she has just mentioned premise. Yaar, woh toh ads me hi bata dete hai. Besides story fulltoo cliche hai, sunega toh bhi utna khaas nai lagega... lekin jab dekhega... Masha Allah!!!
This one sounds interesting... didn't hear about it. Thanks meetu, for bringing it to my attention.
Directed by Saurabh Shukla & Saurabh Shukla
Cinematographer: Fuwad Khan & Fuwad Khan
Music Director/Lyrics: Ankur Tiwari &Ankur; Tiwari...
With Credits like that... Movie should've been called 'Namesake'
Thanks for heads up on Dalip Tahil. Kind of thing which I really wanted to know.
@Meetu: Occurred to me just now, for those who use your site for parental guidance(and not censor rating)... you should mention about the 'sperm' race which might traumatize... Parents.
@Comrade:
Agreed.
@meetu:
Concerning Chetan Bhagat, as the grading of one great website says "To Each his Own".
yeah, forgot to say this... that monkey dance (not giving away the movie, it's in posters) was bit annoying after a point.
Well, I liked the movie. The boy was gonna die at thirteen so senti scene toh inevitable the.. but they've been kept to minimum. Thank GOD!!
May be you're right. Aisa hai ki I went with faithful adaptation expectation... somewhat frank darabont style... plot me change hoga tobhi gum nahi lekin book ke themes ko touch hona maangta. They didn't give it, I felt cheated.
I won't give movie away... but just say this felt like watched three movies in one... Taare Zameen Par, Bawarchi and Munnabhai. Plus Javed Jaffery twist toh pach hi nahi raha.
ye galat hai meetu, woh galtiyon pe galtiya kare phir bhi maaf kar rahi ho. Infact that's why I'm POed at Raj Kumar Hirani.
I guess their Ads said it all.Oscar Winners, Budgets , Phirangi Imports, Macho Sounding (actually ridiculous) dialogues were given more preference ads than on content of the movie. Agreed we need to show these to attract crowds, but don't over do it, all it does make content conspicuous by it's absence.
I went to see this movie in the same Cinema Hall where kaminey was screened, having noticed impressive vijay maurya in many ads, I went with sky high expectations (Justified by his Item Patao Tutorials to Kay Kay in ads). to say that's the only funny part in the movie, other parts which i felt could have been funny but were ruined (by bad direction,acting... I know not). The movie was waste of money, as far as my opinion is concerned.
Most of the times when I read your review, its as if you write right what I want to read (Either a new insight or well criticised, How do you do it so consistently?).But this time however, i'll have to disagree with meetu, although i'm not a writer I thought the story was well written (with simplistic premise, I concede that ). But the characters were good, I felt as if watching modern version of chawl in sai paranjpe's KATHA. I hated serial 'Hum Pardesi Ho Gaye' and didn't even remember who the lead actress was, until i saw her in this movie and would never forget that her name was 'Kartik Devi Rane'. I feel it was writers skill that he could do justice to that guy who cracks unfunny jokes.
I recommend "Horton hears a Who" to learn how it's done by masters of the game...
It seems that I've found the example rather quickly , my apologies in advance for I'm going to recommend a movie which is really pathetic...
There's a movie called "Meet the Spartans", now there's a sequence when leonidas starts to behave like a video game character.
Now his movement corresponds to animation of a videogame character.
and look of the movie corresponds to 300.
I guess this would distinguish animation v/s visual satisfactorily...
Well it's clearly a mismatch of visuals and animation(intentionally for humour), so is roadside romeo (unfortunately it was done unintentionally)
Animation deals more with the movement(of anything, let's restrict ourselves to characters for present discussion) and visuals deal more with look of the movie.
movement is influenced(and influences) by many things design of characters, design of environment, voice actors, quirks of species, narrative, anatomy etc.,
To be Continued....(I'm finding myself short of words and examples, as soon as I find more convincing way to put what i feel across, I'll resume)
Before I begin to explain, Let me get these facts straight:
1.I haven't seen Roadside Romeo movie, I've seen all of their trailers though.
2.All of my comments are based solely on trailers .(Believe it or not, their approach to animation of the character in first teaser itself reveals that it would be a shabbily made movie.No, it's not a fluke.)
3.I must confess that I said visuals for the lack of better word(whatever is the word for when movie looks good but just doesn't suit or contribute to the style in which movie was made, refer previous yashraj films).So I'm prone to few blunders.
Now that I've got these things off my chest, let me continue to explain visuals v/s animation.
Roadside Romeo wasn't well made, I also felt animation was awkward and didn't really do a good job of combining human and dog traits.I appreciate the visuals though.(visuals not to be confused with animation)
Exactly that's the point, Any Movie which is well made is always welcome.
Prashant, no offends but i guess what reviewer meant was that... if it's a movie targeted at children then... do it faithfully(for the lack of better word).
and kids movie is not always mythological(I've no problem with mythological if they are well made), they can deal plausibly with the relevant issues like elephant(based on columbine high school massacre).
and let the children form their views please don't taboo sex(learning to woo a gal/guy is not such a bad thing either, stop demonizing it.), even they can be in kids movie, needless to say that it has to be dealt sensitively.(This is personal suggestion... cause prashant's statement that movies other than mythological are polluting child's mind is alarming...)
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