Do Dooni Chaar..Fir se hua Pyaar!

What do you get if you mix brilliant acting with a basic story? You get Do Dooni Chaar. It has been done multiple times in the past especially by Amol Palekar. Take a girl, take a boy, capture the shyness of the boy and how he overcomes that and you got a movie at hand that touches people of all ages. Of course, you need to handle it well else it has potential to become a flop.

Do dooni chaar is such a story where the basic emotions are captured very well. Be it a girl's dream of being different than her 'nutsy' family or a boy's ventures of living his own life and all this when Father is trying to fight between lures of wrongdoings and conviction of morals.

Now the ratings..

Theme. Almost everything sticks to the theme, right from the boy hiding money from parents to father trying to win a lottery by opening 1000's of 555 soap packets. Some elements could have been avoided 4/5.

Chemistry. Could have been better. Off late I have noticed actors in many movies have started speaking as if they are talking to a wall without any flow. This movie does a better job but someitmes you feel the same disconnect. 3/5

Story Line. As I said it's one of those Amol Palekar ones and you know how were those. 5/5

Direction: Brilliant, though choreography/picturization of songs could have been better. 4/5

Characterization. This is the best part of the movie. See Rishi Kapoor tapping his helmet after wearing it and you would surely remember a scene from real life. 5/5

Overall (Average): 4.2/5. Bottomline: Must See and Make sure your parents watch it too!

Golmaaal Three...Watch it if only Free!

So I started my review again but the first movie I watched didn't fit what I was looking for. Still, I bet there would be lot of people who would love this movie, thanks to it's predecessors. The review goes..

Theme.. Sticks to the theme but doesn't to the history. Earlier GMs were more funny and less serious. In this one they tried to add at least 25% of serious stuff. Breaks your pattern of laughter, may not sit with lot. 4/5

Chemistry.. Can't say a great lot here. Few actors did their bit well but looked disconnected at times. 3/5

Story Line: Expected craziness. Lives to GM expectations, for whoever follows. 4/5

Direction: Not great, not impressed.2/5

Characterization: Good, everyone sticks to what they are playing. Though acts were repeated, which would happen in real life too. Also, they used the same crew well. 4/5

Overall: Average of above..3.4/5..One time watch especially if you are fan of Golmaals!

Reviving this blog. Thanks to easy way of posting by email :-) or getting even with Nikhat Kazmi of TOI. Man, never understood why she gets people motivated about movies that don't deserve a visit and doesn't give even a low five to real good movies. Anyways, people have different tastes so for better or worse I think I would like to publish my ideas on movies here. Won't write a whole lot about a Movie and won't be able to write about whole lot of movies (Don't get money for watching like Nikhat gets) but would surely give you an idea of what I really felt after watching the movie. Take it or..

For starters, I would like to tell you the parameters I'm going to use for rating a movie so you can decide if I think like you or have taste buds err experience buds like you. So, here are the parameters:

First and top most: Theme! Movie and all characters should stick to theme all the time. Really not a big fan of a normal guy all of a sudden started flying or have a complete change of heart in a second. Can't believe it; won't rate it.

Second: Chemistry: In other words listening skills of actors. Would like to see if actors are really working with each other or for the camera. This parameter takes higher stage than story (next one) as sometimes you are able to watch a movie without a very decent story just based on the collaborative work of actors but not other way round. What can I say I'm a big believer of team work :-)

Third: Story line, as promised: Not thinking about a touching one or about a message. Think story line should be believable. I know the first question you have: Does it mean sci-fi movies are all out of the window. Nope. You can believe a sci-fi movie if it has some logic to it. Example, ,my favorite "Matrix".

Fourth: Direction: I know, I know: So what did I say above? I can name some movies that were made by best of the directors and were successful but I think either they were sleep walking through it or just were not in a good mood while directing. Director's first job is to connect the audience with the movie and to do so he has to make his make-believe world a reality for the audience. Didn't get it? I give you an example, Did you realize that in Lagaan all the villagers were wearing cleanest of clothes possible especially Bhuvan's just came from the next door laundromat. I didn't like it.

Fifth, last but not least element: Characterization of the actor. Now, it takes a whole lot for actor to get into skin of character but if he is still himself (actor) then he has not done justice to the character. You don't want to watch same actor you saw few days back playing a King now playing a lover boy. You go to watch a King in that movie and lover boy in the next one. Forget the actor!

So, let's get started and see what lies on the path of...whatever..let's just get started.