X-Men First class

The movie posters had all new faces and that made me tell myself, this movie is going to be a disaster. But the reviews and good vibes I was getting from all around, made me reconsider my decision.

The movie is a prequel to all the X-Men movies. It is the prequel to Wolverine too.

The movie has an amazing story line and is pretty fast paced. You hardly get a breather between all the events that take place. You remain glued to your seat right from the start till the end.

The era depicted in the movie is one in which not all were aware of the existence of mutants. The mutants knew they were different and tried their best to fit into the life of normal people.


A rogue mutant (Sebastian) has set out to free the earth from the burden of normal, weak humans. A CIA agent unknowingly sees someone disappear in thin air and comes to think that mutants might exist. When she hears about Professor Xavier's thesis on mutation, she catches up with him to discuss the possibility. These two then join forces to protect the very existence of humans against Sebastian's army. The story just sprints from here picking up more characters on the way.

The performances by each and everyone are great. The direction worth a mention.The action is absorbing, the effects interesting and the story..well as I keep saying is very well knit. Wolverine also shows up in his usual fould mood, for a miniscule moment much to the joy of everyone in the audience.
This movie has made me want to watch all the X-Men movies again and I'd like to coax you to go and watch it if you already haven't. Enjoy!

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Zaru

Pyar ka punchnama

Its a guys movie. Gals can watch it if they don't mind getting a little offended and finding out some extremist behavior traits in their species! (There I said it. Its true..about the characters in the movie. But, not all girls are the extreme characters portrayed in the movie)

The movie starts off with the routine lives of three IT professionals. One who is always complaining about his current job, whereas the other two don't really care about  the kind of work their doing. They are room-mates, stay, eat, drink and have fun together. Their lives are pretty usual, until they meet their girls. The movie then proceeds as to how these girls interfere in everything they do, use them and then throw them away like the wrappers of a chocolate and basically make their life hell!

The three girls in the movie are:
Neha : The control freak
Charu : The long distance chick
Riya : The can't say NO gal

The movie is well directed. The story is well told. The acting is good, could have been better. The guys are way better than the girls though. The end is a bit melodramatic and stretched. But overall a movie you must surely go and watch to have a good laugh.
The reason why this is movie is so enjoyable is, even though this is reality, it doesn't want you to weep (like some KJo movies try and try to make you want to weep). It brings out the truth and emotions all too effortlessly.

The best part of the movie : do not miss the awesome dialogue that two guys share when one is telling the other the problems he is facing with his girlfriend. Hilarious! (note : this can give ur bfs many more dialogues to use when you act stupid :p)

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Zaru

Shaitan

An Anurag Kashyap movie..had high expectations. Only that it was produced by him, but directed by Bejoy Nambiar. Nevertheless it did have moments of brilliance in direction.

The story is about Kalki (Amy a.k.a Amrita) whose family has shifted to Mumbai from L.A. She meets a K.C. who is another rich spolit son. She then joins his gang of friends, who belive they are enjoying life to the fullest by indulging in drugs and alcohol. One such moment of brashness and drunk driving changes their lives forever. The story ahead is a ride full of fear, confusion, greed, ego, madness, corruption, honesty, an urge to clean the system and finding one's true self. Its no doubt a hell of a ride, with no time to think what will happen next. Rajeev Khandelwal always does well. Kalki, no doubt is an intense actor. The rest of the cast is not as impressive, but they manage to do some justice to their roles.

All in all, a nice watch. Could have been better, but deserves to be mentioned. The best part of the movie..rather two parts were very well done.
1. The incident that changed their lives. A littlt obscure at first, but very very effective.
2. The scenes towards the end, where Amy remembers her last moments with her mother. Brings out the unstableness of her mind, which we keep registering throughout the movie but never really think about.

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Zaru

Source code

I had great expectations from this movie. One being the name of this movie..so appealing to all software engineers. Second, well.. no..it was just one reason.

The concept was great, create a new universe which is an exact copy of this one, with a little time lag. All the characters in the new universe are also a copy (no reference). The events that take place in the new universe are also a copy of the original. Sound interesting? Yes, the program that did this was called source code. One more interesting part is that it can send you into the universe, as whatever you would like to be. A handicapped man could be sent in with all his limbs intact. Sound wonderful? Yes.

Well, this concept didn't hit home when you saw the movie. The direction is below average, which makes you feel yes..why..sigh..yawn..again? but he was just here.
The direction was as I mentioned earlier not to the mark. And hence you turned towards the performances for some hope, but that didn't save the movie too. I mean everything was so monotonous after some time that the one and a half hour of the movie seemed like ages.

So in essence this movie is a nice concept gone totally waste!