Movie Review: Bhoothnath

Banner: B R Films
Producer: Ravi Chopra
Director: Vivek Sharma
Star Cast: Amitabh Bachchan, Juhi Chawla, Shahrukh Khan, Aman Siddiqui, Priyanshu Chatterjee, Rajpal Yadav, Satish Shah
Music Director: Vishal Dadlani, Shekhar Ravjiani, Salim Merchant, Sulaiman Merchant

The movie “Boothnath” is aimed at children audience on vacation. The movie is about a friendly spirit, family generations, school pranks and relationships. The script of the movie is clear and performance of Amitabh Bachchan is extremely perfect. Though the film shows Ghosts, it is not a horror movie and it just tries to get spirituality in theme.
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Movie Review: Jimmy

Banner: High-Definition Motion Pictures
Producer: Nawman Malik, Salman Malik
Director: Raj N Sippy
Star Cast :Mimoh Chakraborty, Zulfi Syed, Aashish Vidyarthi, Ehsaan Khan, Rati Agnihotri, Vikas Kalantri, Rahul Dev, Shakti Kapoor, Nilofer, Gargi Patel, Pooja Singh,
Vallabh Vyas
Music Director: Anand Raj Anand, Bappa Lahri, Vijay Verma
Cinematography: S Pappu
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Movie Review: Mr. White Mr. Black


Banner: White House Productions Limited, Eros Entertainment
Producer: Bipin Shah
Director: Deepak Shivdasani
Star Cast: Sunil Shetty, Arshad Warsi, Sandhya Mridul, Upasna Singh, Vrajesh Hirjee,
Tania Zaetta, Sharat Saxena, Mahima Mehta, Shravan, Ning ,Anishka Khosla, Bobby Darling, Rashmi Nigam., Sadashiv Amrapurkar, Aashish Vidyarthi, Atul Kale
Music Director: Shamir Tandon, Tauseef Akhtar, Jatin Pandit, Lalit Pandit
Background Music: Sunil Singh
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Movie Review: Pranali

Banner: Harward Entertainment
Producer: Nikhil Mathur
Director: Hirdesh Kamble
Star Cast :Nargis, Upyendra Limaye, Raman Trikha, Sudha Chandran, Vinay Apte, Hemant Pandey, Sujata Sehgal, Suzanne Bernert, Rohini Kapoor, Vinod Khemani, Kalpana Sathe
Music Director: Kailash Kher, Paresh, Naresh
Cinematography: Najeeb Khan
Choreography: Saroj Khan, Pandit Birju Maharaj
Action: Abbas Ali Moghul
Art: Jasmita Pathare
Editor: Chaitanya Bose
Screenplay: Hirdesh Kamble, Manoj Pandey
Sound: Santosh Kumar
Dialogue: Manoj Pandey
Costume: Nikunj Vyas
Story Writer: Hirdesh Kamble, Manoj Pandey

The movie Pranali has a socially awaking script that gets irreverent, becasue of the way it has been made. The movie has the biggest disadvantage that audience cannot identify with whatever is shown onscreen. The movie tries to talk about legalizing the profession of prostitution in a very unconvincing way. The debuting director Hirdesh Kamble lacks precision in implanting script onscreen and the performance of the actors (except Nargis) is unsatisfactory. Screenplay and music are equally ineffective in bringing out anything from the movie.
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Movie Review: Anamika

Banner: Bhanwar Lal Sharma Production
Producer: Bhanwar Lal Sharma
Director: Anant Mahadevan
Star Cast :Dino Morea , Minissha Lamba, Koena Mitra, Aarti Chhabria, Achint Kaur, Gulshan Grover, Prithvi Zutshi, Vishwajeet Pradhan
Music Director: Anu Malik
Cinematography: Pushan Kriplani
Choreography: Piyush Panchal
Action: Jai Singh
Art: Gayatri Marwah
Editor: Sanjib Datta
Screenplay: Anand Vardhan
Sound: Navin Shah
Story Writer: Anant Mahadevan, Anand Vardhan

The movie “Anamika” is a suspense thriller that has unwanted ingredients of horror. The script of the movie has been taken from story book Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier and has been made into Indian scenario. Being the movie based on a long script (a book ) it gets tiring in the second half and it can clearly made out that the director Anant Mahadevan, himself found it complex to depict the story with a decent conclusion. The movie catches attention but suspense gets identified in second hour and movie couldn’t engage audience further to the screens.
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Movie Review: Sirf - Life Looks Greener on the Other Side

Banner: Seven Eagle Productions
Producer: Sanjay Kotadia, Ghanshyam Patel, Kanu Patel
Director: Rajaatsh Nayar
Star Cast :Kay Kay Menon, Manisha Koirala, Ranvir Shorey, Sonali Kulkarni, Parvin Dabbas, Rituparna Sengupta, Ankur Khanna, Nauheed Cyrusi
Music Director: Sohail Sen, Shibani Kashyap
Cinematography: Baba Azmi
Choreography: Baba Yadav
Art: Shree Kumar Nayar
Editor: Rajendra Surve
Screenplay: Rajaatsh Nayar, Shashikant Verma
Dialogue: Santosh Saroj
Story writer: Rajaatsh Nayar, Shashikant Verma

The movie “Sirf - Life Looks Greener on the Other Side “ tries to explore the relationship problems of couples who think that the other person whom they are meeting are more happy then their own but the movie doesn’t have any impact on the audience because the script seems to lack a powerful end to all the three hour long story.
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Movie Review: Tashan

Banner: Yash Raj Films
Producer: Aditya Chopra
Director: Vijay Krishna Acharya
Star Cast :Anil Kapoor, Akshay Kumar, Saif Ali Khan, Kareena Kapoor, Sanjay Mishra, Manoj Pahwa,Yashpal Sharma
Music Director: Vishal Dadlani, Shekhar Ravjiani
Background Music: Ranjit Barot
Cinematography: Ayananka Bose
Choreography: Vaibhavi Merchant
Action: Peter Hain
Art: Sukant Panigrahy
Editor: Rameshwar S Bhagat
Sound: Rishi Oberoi, Ali Merchant
Costume: Aki Narula
Story Writer: Vijay Krishna Acharya

Spontaneous dialogues and performance of Anil Kapoor and Akshay Kumar are the only attractions of the movie Tashan, that lacks proper finishing in all sections or it can be said that there is no Tashan in the movie. The movie looks raw and the script of the movie is full of flaws though it later tries to amend into a meaningful cinema but overall the outcome is unimpressive. Tashan may be entertaining for the youngsters who are die -hard fans of Yash Raj banner movies but the movie really needs brushing up and improving in script, editing, direction, cinematography and choreography.
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