'All is Well that ends well' ~ Pun intended

Release date - 21'st August 2015

One Word which describes the film - Stereotyped

Best Dialogue - ' Bhaag ke jaao, par dabe paanv jana.'

Genre - Family Drama

Music -Himesh Reshammiya, Amaal Mallik
Meet Bros Anjjan, Mithoon

Producer - Bhushan Kumar,Krishan Kumar, Shyam Bajaj, Varun Bajaj

Story- Sumit Arora, Niren Bhatt

Direction -Umesh Shukla

Cast-  Rishi Kapoor, Abhishek Bachchan, Asin, Supriya Pathak, Mohammed Zeeshan Ayyub

Budget- 40 crores approximately

I went to watch this film only because of Umesh Shukla's last directorial venture Oh My God (2012) which I enjoyed to the hilt.

The film started with the song "Tu Milade" where we are shown that Abhishek Bachchan is a struggling musician in Bangkok. He delivers a very heavy duty dialogue, 'Kuch log apne sapno ko sach karna chahte hai isliye wo unke peeche bhagte hai aur kuch log sapno ke peeche is liye bhagte hai kyonki wo apni jindagi ki haqeekat se bhagna chahte hai' and i thought maybe the critics were too harsh on Junior Bachchan.

In the next one hour I was made to regret this thought and how.

We are introduced to a couple who is always fighting with each other, a cynical singer, a romantic girl who believes in destiny and signs and the crooked money lender. 
The characters were well thought of but the screenplay and dialogues are so poor that we wonder why veterans actors like Rishi Kapoor and Supriya Pathak agreed to do this film. The only good thing about the film is it's songs which are so well shot that it appears as if half of the budget of the film was spent on just the songs and then some story and random dialogues were written around those songs.
Some dialogues are so pathetic that we are forced to laugh at the sheer stupidity of the writer and director for even thinking that they can make this idea work. There is an item dance by Sonakshi Sinha where she looks like a fair sumo wrestler. Then comes the mindless running which is a very bad imitation of Rohit Shetty style of films. Interval comes with the line ' All is not well' and we wonder what torture will be inflicted on us in the next half.
In the second half we are showered with a dose of equally bad dialogues along with some emotional drama. The director has now started following Farha Khan style of Om Shanti Om and tries to make everything right so we can have a happy ending.
Abhishek Bachchan has tried to act and manages to give expressions in some scenes. Though when he tells his father, 'Man, get a life' we wonder how a person who has come from Bangkok manages to talk in an American accent.
Asin as the girl next door looks sweet but in some scenes her dresses are so common and dull that we wonder if she actually got them from Pantaloons or Globus.
Rishi Kapoor is a good actor and we expect nothing but a great performance from him but when he was made to say those silly dialogues like ,' Kinare karo, mujhe make water karna hai', we wonder why can't he simply say NO to such films.
Mohammaed Zeeshan after leaving his mark in Tanu weds Manu Returns totally disappoints in this film. 
There are few scenes which make us laugh but they are lost in the overall slow pace of the film. The overall film looks so low budget that it gives the feeling of a stage drama rather than a full fledged film. There was a picture of a young Abhishek Bachchan which was sometimes hanging in the bedroom and sometimes in the hall. People like me who pay attention to such minute details must have laughed at the director's folly.

The film got an opening of just 10-15% and has collected approximately 5 crores in 2 days which is too less for a Rishi Kapoor, Abhishek Bachchan starrer. The reviews and word of mouth are so bad that it will be a big task for the film to even collect 20 crores.

2015 has been a really bad year for T-Series as apart from Baby none of their films such as Roy, Ek Paheli Leela and I Love New Year have managed to make money at the box office.

In a line the proverb  'All is well that ends well'  holds true for this film as we were back to our all is well status and took a sigh of relief when the film finally ended.

Highly Avoidable. Junior Bachchan fans can watch this film at their own risk.

Review of Bewakoofiyan

Release date – 14 'th March  2014

One Word which describes the film – Directionless

Best Dialogue - 'Police commissioner mera dost hai, mujhe naughty sms bhejta hai.'

Genre – Comedy/ Drama

Music – Raghu Dixit

Producer - Aditya Chopra

Story- Habib Faisal

Direction - Nupur Asthana

Cast - Rishi Kapoor , Ayushmann Khurrana , Sonam Kapoor

Budget- 22 crores approximately

Nupur made her directorial debut with YRF's Mujhse Fraaandship Karoge which was about the young generation addicted to Facebook.

Her second film shows the love story of Mohit who has the perfect girlfriend, Myra.
Myra wants to marry Mohit but only with her father's consent.

As we are introduced to the characters , we start liking the film.

There is the father, the soon going to get retired IAS officer who wants the perfect guy for his daughter .
The boy who is passionately and madly in love with a girl and is ready to do anything to have her in his life.
The girl who loves her father as much as she loves her boyfriend.
We like the father daughter interactions especially when he says,'main aapse kabhi baat nahi karoonga' which must have been used by parents all over the world. We like the chemistry between the love birds but soon it starts getting repetitive and we can guess how the story is eventually going to end.
The main problem in the film is the lack of characters and events. In most of the scenes there were empty roads , empty hotels , empty neighborhood which made the setup look so unreal and made me wonder why a studio like Yah Raj could not keep more junior artists in the film.
Rishi Kapoor tried to add humor in the film with his superb sense of timing and acting, but he alone cannot save the film.
Sonam Kapoor wore a bikini for the film and even gave some really steamy kissing scenes but the songs in which all this was shown occur randomly and so failed to make any difference on the overall speed of the film.
Ayushman Khurana has the same troubled expression during most of the film. Least efforts were made on developing his character so in one scene he is shown as a very caring person and then he asks his girlfriend to get off from his car, he refuses to accept a job as a trainee but has no problems in asking his girlfriend for money.

The producers must have been equally dissatisfied with the end results and so they decided not to waste anymore in promoting and advertising the film because of which  the buzz of the film was pretty low.

In a line if you are a big Rishi Kapoor fan ,then only you should watch the film in theaters , otherwise the film hardly offers anything which you haven't seen before.
Avoidable. Can be seen when is aired on TV

Rank- 5 (Out of the 7 films I have seen in 2013)

Besharam - How the Mighty have Fallen.

Release date – 2nd October 2013

One Word which describes the film – Disappointing

Best Dialogue  – ' Ye khoon kharaba apna style nahi ,ye to sirf apna talent batana tha.'

Genre – Comedy /Romance

  

Writer- Abhinav Kashyap, Rajeev Barnwal

Music –Lalit Pandit

Producer- Himanshu Mehra , Sanjeev Gupta

Direction -Abhinav Kashyap

Cast- Rishi Kapoor , Neetu Singh ,  Ranbir Kapoor , Pallavi Sharda ,
 Javed Jaffrey 

  

Budget - 80 crores (including print and publicity)

When a film has a startcast of Ranbir Kapoor ( whose last films were  Rockstar , Barfi!  &  Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani ) and Rishi Kapoor who gave powerful performances in  D-Day , Aurangzeb and  Shuddh Desi Romance  you start expecting a lot from it. 
What the film actually delivers, is a story taken straight away from old films, poorly written screenplay and dialogues, too many songs and dances, weak characters and a lead pair who share zero chemistry.

Abhinav Kashyap, who made his directorial debut in 2010 through Dabangg has totally antagonized the audience with his second film. The full blame for this nonsense in the name of action/romance /comedy lies on his shoulder as not only he wrote the story he also wasted talented actors like Rishi Kapoor and Neetu Singh in roles where they had nothing to do.
Ranbeer Kapoor, who is the current heart throb is made to wear cheap clothes, use lame lines and act like a buffoon in most of the film. Even Kashyap's girlfriend and leading lady of the film, Pallavi got no preferential treatment. Though she is a manager who drives a Mercedes she wears Globus kind of clothes( bought during sale period) and has no dialogues or chance to show her acting skills.

The tag line of the film is 'Na samman ka moh , na apman ka bhay'. Sorry Mr Kashyap but this film has nothing for which you will receive a single word of praise or appreciation. 

The film was released in 3600 screens and because of Ranbeer Kapoor's popularity it made an opening day collection of 20 crores. Ranbir Kapoor must have realised  that he made a blunder in choosing to act in this film as he took no interest in promoting the film in Mumbai or any other cities.

In a line, the 3 Kapoors together have given such a 3'rd class film that in future I would rather watch a movie starring the 3 Bachchans (Sarkar Raj) or 3 Deols (Apne) .

Highly Avoidable.

Review of Shuddh Desi Romance

Release date – 6'th September 2013

One Word which describes the film – Sizzling

Best Dialogue  – ' Doubt ghadi dekhkar thodi na ate hai .'

Genre – Romance / Comedy

  

Writer- Jaideep Sahni

Music – Sachin - Jigar

Producer- Aditya Chopra

Direction - Maneesh Sharma

Cast – Rishi Kapoor ,  Sushant Singh Rajput , Parineeti Chopra , Vaani Kapoor

  

Budget - 20 crores 

Yash Raj films had promoted the film as a bold film dealing live-in relations by giving statements like ‘In a survey 80% people thought that those who were in a live-in relation had loose characters.’

The song ' Chanchal man ..ati random..kal ispe aya tha , kal uspe ayega ' sets the theme of the film. 

The characters were introduced in a humorous way and then started the kissing scenes which came every now and then till the movie ended.

Sushant Singh Rajput’s  character who is a tourist guide but is hardly shown doing any work is a bit hard to believe. In Rishi Kapoor’s words ‘ tujh main aisa hai kya jo sari ladkiyan tere paas ati rehti hai !’ He dresses shabbily, uses lame pick up lines and still manages to impress everyone.

Parineeti Chopra’s character is bold and fiery. She has had lots of relationships and affairs and she is open about it . She believes in doing what her heart tells her to do and is not concerned about what people will say. She represents the generation who stay away from their parents to avoid questions about their way of living.  

Vani Kapoor , a model turned actress makes her bollywood debut with this film. Her acting is effortless and she looks pretty . Her character is not very well defined , so we are clueless about the reason behind her actions. She has signed a three film deal with YRF so hopefully we will see her in a full fledged role in future. 

Rishi Kapoor as the ,wedding planner cum  caterer cum advisor manages to outshine all the three young actors.  

After watching twice in every movie how ‘Mukesh Harane’ died because of chewing tobacco it was quite a turn off to see the lead actors smoking throughout the film.      

  

‘Shaam gulabi , sehar gulabi’ is the only melodious song in the film which one would want to listen more than once.

The title of the film is very misleading as there is neither anything pure (Shuddh ) about it nor Indian ( desi) . As far as Romance is concerned , jumping into bed at any opportunity is not the kind of love story  you will like to see with your parents or kids. 

In a line watch this film for it's situational comedy and some sizzling scenes between the lead actors.

Can be seen in theatres only with friends or spouse. Time-pass

Rank - 19 (Out of the 54 films I have seen in 2013) 

Review of Aurangzeb

Release date – 17'th May 2013

One Line which describes the film –  '50 Shades of Grey '

Best  Dialogue – 
" Kingship knows no kinship, Baadshahhat bhaichare ko nahi dekhti. "

Genre – Crime / Thriller 

Music – Amartya Rahut,  Vipin Mishra

Producer - Aditya Chopra

Screenplay & Direction - Atul Sabharwal

Cast – Rishi Kapoor , Arjun Kapoor , Prithviraj Sukumaran ,Sashaa Agha

Budget - 25 crores

The film is about the fight for money and power between policemen and a real estate business tycoon .

In  just his second film Arjun Kapoor gets to play a double role .With his body language, expressions and dialogue delivery he manages to show the difference in nature between the two characters .   

Prithviraj who had a bad debut in Aiyaa gets to play the role of ACP who is confused between the ideologies of his corrupt uncle and honest father .    

Rishi Kapoor , as the head of the family of policemen who are actually into business of collection has given an excellent performance .The shrewdness and cold heartedness of his character matches that of Agneepath's Rauf Lala .

Sasha , daughter of Salma Agha sizzles in her short role. With her dare to bare attitude , hourglass figure and vibrant voice (she has even sung the song Barbaadiyan ) she manages to fit among the all male cast .

Jackie Shroff , Amrita Singh , Anupam Kher and Tanvi Azmi have short but pivot  roles and manage to outshine each other .

In a line , Aurangzeb is a dark film, everyone has some hidden agenda but the story has enough twists and turns to keep you guessing till the end ,about the fate of the characters .
Good one time theater watch.
Rank - 10 (Out of the 28 films I have seen in 2013)