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You wonder why I saw this movie? If yes, then this review is unnecessary. You already know that its not worth it. But then why do I write? Just for keepalive sakes :D

So, this movie, with trailers showing Anushka Sharma in hot attires and all time favourite of chicks Shahid Kapur, did do okish at the box office. Whom do I blame for the headeache I had after watching the movie? The writer of course.It has a very "unusual" plot. Unusual? atleast that's what the trailers suggested. And if you do watch the movie you will realise that all the script does is try and prove that the hero always wins. He makes mistakes but in the end he always makes things right. Did you mark his dialogues? No? Can't be..unless you did sleep through the movie. All his statements give one the impression (this was an observation made by another person who bore the torcher of watching this film) "I am the hero..so I have to be cool"
Let us now start with the acting part. Anushka..I think she has hardly acted. All she did was show skin. Shahid, I felt overacted. Rest of the characters were hardly needed.
Story? You really want to know? Ok then, I won't take the trouble of going through the "unusual" plot once again. I'll direct you and basically reuse some else's good work :P. So here it goes. Enjoy! (not the movie..the story :P)

The Back-up plan

It is a nice light hearted romantic comedy. A one time watch if you adore Jennifer Lopez.
The movie is about a woman in her thirties 'Zoe' who still hasn't met a man of her dreams and feels its time to have kids. So she conceives through artificial insemination and then meets Stan, the man of her dreams the very same day. She seems to like him and cannot get enough of him but is afraid of losing him on telling him the truth.
The movie proceeds almost predictably with Stan feeling she cheated him by not telling him about it before and then he anyhow is so madly in love with her that he agrees to raise the kids as his own. But then when everything is going right, Zoe thinks Stan doesn't consider the kids his own and then walks out on him. However when its time to deliver realization dawns and she asks for forgiveness and for Stan back in her life. So, they have kids and live together and then after a while Stan asks Zoe for marriage and she says 'yes'. A happy ending!

I didn't really see much sense in the movie. Even the comedy was hardly there. Acting didn't really catch my eye as the movie couldn't keep my attention.

Remember Me

The movie starts with a terrible murder at the railway, leaving a small girl to live without her mother. She is the daughter of a detective in chief who is over protective of her. He blames himself in some way of his wife's untimely death and hence tries to keep his daughter away from everything except himself. He fails to realise the needs of a teenager. The daughter hear is Ally (Emile De Ravin).
The second lead actor Tyler (Robert Pattinson of Twilight fame) has a family with an elder borther and a baby sister. His parents have separated after his brother committed suicide.
The story proceeds with Tyler asking Ally out as a part of a bet (a very usual trick used in many bollywood movies too) and then..as always predictable, he truly falls in love with this simple homely girl. Tyler's relationship with his father is strained since, his father Charles (Pierce Brosnan) is a very successful business man who never has time for his family (another very common formula of bollywood).
Slow and steady all the strains start getting relaxed and moving towards normal when we have the 9/11 which shatters the twin towers to disappearance.
The last part with the twin tower disaster makes your heart cry out. The remaining part of the movie is pretty usual with nothing out of the ordinary to offer. The direction is not bad. The acting is also not bad. The only thing that was missing according to me is a script.

House full - why was the show house full?

This yet another Sajid Khan's movie. As if I didn't ask the question "why does he make movies?" after I saw Heyy baby..I stepped into this movie too. And yes, not very surprisingly I asked the same question after I stepped out of this movie..."Why the hell does he make movies?".

Lets start from the very beginning. The movie starts with a song about how unlucky Akshay Kumar is..and the words of the song..are pathetic. It sounds worse than a poem being recited. If you think I may have over reacted..sample this "he is a panauti..." so go the words.
The comes the script..was there any story? Its just another All the best. The same old some lies being spoken, some more to cover it up and then so much confusion added just to keep it all going and create a pseudo comedy effect.
The acting is pathetic and overdone. The dialogues don't make you want to laugh. The only reason you might laugh is just because your desperate to leave the screen and get back to a saner world. The three ladies are there just to try and keep the screens house full, since they wear bikinis and dance away to songs for no rhyme or reason. Chunky Pandey and his "Im just joking" really doesn't fit into the movie. And the worse part being the premise of the movie...Akshay Kumar's bad luck! How on earth can someone really really think of making a movie on this theme? I know India is a country where people do believe in luck etc but to go out and make a movie on the same, I find very dumb.
The end to the movie was also too senseless and not well directed. It ends up with all the people including the Queen of England (I don't know why she was needed here) laughing out their wits (since "santa-banta" leave the room filled with laughing gas) while the lead characters clear up the confusion that has built up.

A really really sad state of comedy films for bollywood. A senseless and brainless movie is NOT a comedy flick.Our industry is maturing and comedy is the piece that still lacks in content and luster.

City of Gold

Mahesh Manjrekar is all out making movies on true stories and the mood is rebellious.
This movie is a hindi-remake of the film Lal baug paral. You could watch the marathi original too for better dialogues (So I've heard)

This movie is based in Mumbai. It is a story about the mill workers and their plight when mills close down because of the owner's greed. The owner's close down mills to sell the land to builders making commercial buildings and multiplexes etc. The workers are not paid their wages and not even their pension. The movie delves into details of one such mill and the chawl the workers lived in.
Their lives, their joys, their desperate moves for money to save their loved ones is all depicted very well in this movie. It is the reality..the harsh reality which makes you want to go out and scream and think...that all the hardships we face today are not as big as what people faced earlier and even face today in small villages in our very own country India.

The movie is very well directed and the story telling is brilliant. All the actors have done a good job.
All in all the movie is a serious flick and is a must watch.

Date Night

This movie is a light hearted romantic comedy. Shawn Levy has done a good job of the movie and the script is also entertaining. The dialogs are nice..and the comic timing of both the lead actors viz., Steve Carell and Tina Fey is applaud-able.

The movie is about this couple, who has been married for quite some time now. They have kids too. But they still follow a small tradition i.e. they have a date night every Friday. After a while it gets monotonous and the two start feeling they need something new. One night when Claire(Tina Fey) dresses to kill, her hubby Phil (Steve) feels the need to impress his wife all over again. So they go out to an over-hyped restaurant and a simple move to take a reservation of another couple leads them to live an unexpected night. This night not only cements their relationship but also helps them sort out their differences and disappointments.

The movie keeps its pace till the end, never making you ask for it to end. The comic timing is good and makes it a nice movie to watch. And yes, the comedy is not brainless as in bollywood movies. So I'd say..its definitely worth your time once.

Prince..its not showtime!

Kumar Taurani's action thriller with supposedly hot bikini babes hit the screens this summer.

I agree that action thriller's may not require a story, but then when you're making the film with Vivek Oberoi, you should have atleast a script. Not even the babes were hot enough to keep you sitting through the entire film.

So, no script..no acting..no oomph factor..no thrill in the action. That is prince for you.

I don't think I'll take efforts to describe the very long and complicated non-existing storyline. I'll reuse resources that have very well drawn out the entire script. Here it is. Enjoy!

And ya..please please..don't bother!