Movie Review: Aa Dekhen Zara

Banner: Eros Entertainment
Producer: Viki Rajani
Executive Producer / Co-Producer: B Chintu Mohapatra
Director: Jehangir Surti
Story Writer: Sheershak Anand, Shantanu Ray Chhibber
Star Cast: Neil Nitin Mukesh, Bipasha Basu, Rahul Dev, Sophie Choudry, Bobby Vatsa,
Shrivas Nydu, Deepak Dhariwal, Biswajeet Chatterjee ,Tanapath Si-Ngamrat, Sameer Siddiqui
Music Director: Gourov Dasgupta, Pritam Chakraborty
Cinematography: Jehangir Chowdhury
Choreography: Ahmed Khan, Harshall, Vitthal
Action: Shyam Kaushal
Art: Pradip Jha, Haseena Shaikh
Editor: Bunty Nagi
Screenplay: Sheershak Anand ,Shantanu Ray Chhibber
Sound: Rakesh Ranjan

The film “Aa Dekhen Zara” is a science fiction, a thriller where a camera predicts future and life of a young couple is captured by the camera and later it is also controlled by the camera. Neil Nitin Mukesh has taken up another thriller after “Johnny Gaddar” and the movie proves to be perfect for his image. Bipasha Basu as a dusky beauty opposite Neil and she is also impressive in the movie.
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Movie Review: Ek – The Power of One

Banner: K Sera Sera, Dharam Films
Producer: Jaswant Khera
Executive Producer / Co-Producer: Jaswant Khera
Director: Sangeeth Sivan
Star Cast : Nana Patekar, Bobby Deol, Shreya Saran,Chunky Pandey, Jackie Shroff, Kulbhushan Kharbanda, Jaspal Bhatti , Gurpreet Guggi
Lyricist: Shabbir Ahmed, Mayur Puri
Music Director: Pritam Chakraborty
Cinematography: T Ramji
Choreography: Piyush Panchal, Remo D’Souza
Action: Peter Heins
Art: Narendra Rahurikar
Editor: Chirag Jain
Sound: Pradeep Suri
Costume: Falguni Thakore
Story Writer: Pankaj Trivedi

“Ek –The Power of One” is about a young criminal who has been hired by political leaders to kill prominent opposition leader and he changes from being a criminal to normal living being, when he meets a caring large family and a lady love. The film has a predictable story as many movies in the last decades have been made where a criminal is glorified and it was termed that he changed from a terrible man to a nice person because he found the love of his life.
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Movie Review: Firaaq

Banner: Percept Picture Company
Director: Nandita Das
Story Writer: Nandita Das, Shuchi Kothari
Star Cast : Naseruddin Shah, Paresh Rawal, Raghuveer Yadav, Deepti Naval, Sanjay Suri, Shahana Goswami, Tisca Chopra, Dilip Joshi, Suchita Trivedi, Sumeet Raghavan, Vicky Ahuja, Amruta Subhash, Arun Kumar, Mohammad Samad
Music Director: Rajat Dholakia, Piyush Kanojia
Cinematography: Ravi K. Chandran
Art: Gautam Sen
Editor: Sreekar Prasad
Screenplay: Nandita Das, Shuchi Kothari
Sound: Manas Chaudhary

“Firaaq” has been made on communal riots taking the Godhara incident as base and the film depicts six different stories of people of different class and society who suffer losses of relations, property and much more, during the riot. Every time when there is a crisis in society or a riot happens or militant attack takes place or a war, anywhere in any part of the world, people have to face similar events, the minority or the less equipped group has to suffer.
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Movie Review: Barah Aana

Banner: Bandra West Pictures
Producer: Raja Menon, Raj Yerasi, Giulia Achilli
Director: Raja Menon
Story Writer: Raja Menon
Star Cast :Naseruddin Shah, Vijay Raaz ,Arjun Mathur, Violante Placido, Tannishtha Chatterjee, Benjamin Gilani, Mahabanoo Mody-Kotwal, Jayati Bhatia
Music Director: Shri
Cinematography: Priya Seth
Art: Sree Kumar Nair
Editor: Hemanti Sarkar
Screenplay: Rajkumar Gupta, Raja Menon
Sound: Debasish Mishra, Ajay Kumar P B
Dialogue: Rajkumar Gupta

The film “Barah Aana” is about three friends who believe in simple ways, honesty and hard work but they are considered insignificant and losers by the people around them who mistreat them and they are too easy to protest. The misbehavior of people stirs up remorse and anger in them and later the three characters take up an unconventional path in life to come out of their troubles .The movie shows a daring criminal act is commited by the three men to get money and to prove that they are not just small unwanted creatures on earth!
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Movie Review: Straight

Banner: iDream Productions, Sony Pictures
Producer: Shripal Morakhia, Charlotte Wontner
Executive Producer / Co-Producer: Ashish Bhatnagar, Rohit Sharma
Director: Parvati Balagopalan
Story Writer: Uttam Gada
Star Cast : Vinay Pathak, Gul Panag, Siddharth Makkar, Achla Sachdev, Daman Baggan, Ketaki Dave , Anuj Chaudhary, Rasik Dave
Lyricist: Subrat Sinha
Music Director: Sagar Desai
Background Music: Louis Banks
Cinematography: Dev Verma
Editor: Nishant Radhakrishnan
Screenplay: Uttam Gada, Anahata Menon
Sound: Kunal Mehta, Parikshit Lalwani
Dialogue: Uttam Gada, Anahata Menon
Costume: Anuja Joshi, Priyadarshini Majumdar

“Straight” generates a few laughs as it depicts a shy man Pinu of above 30 confused over his sexual orientation. The movie depicts a man owning a restaurant in London who is professionally settled and single. He hires two employees in his restaurant, a girl and a boy and the three become good friends. Pinu is unsure if he is attracted to the girl in his restaurant or to the boy.
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Movie Review: Aloo Chaat

Banner: Maverick Productions, Mirchi Movies Limited
Producer: Anuj Saxena, A. P. Parigi, Gary. S
Director: Robby Grewal
Story Writer: Divynidhi Sharma
Star Cast : Aftab Shivdasani, Aamna Shariff, Linda Arsenio, Kulbhushan Kharbanda, Manoj Pahwa, Dolly Ahluwalia, Meenakshi, Sanjay Mishra, Chandan Anand
Lyricist: RDB, Xulfi, Vipin Mishra, Syed Gulrez
Music Director: RDB, Xulfi, Vipin Mishra, Mehfuz Maruf
Background Music: Sanjoy Chowdhary
Cinematography: Sanjay Kapoor
Choreography: Pony Verma, Andy Kumar
Editor: Aarif Shaikh
Screenplay: Robby Grewal, Divynidhi Sharma
Sound: Rishi Oberoi
Dialogue: Robby Grewal, Divynidhi Sharma
Promos: EFX
Publicity Designs: Glamour Design Studio

‘Aloo Chat’ takes recipes from NRI Punjabi family dramas depicted in various movies of Karan Johar and Yash Raj Banner and shows the same with a little change. These kinds of Punjabi NRI family dramas got praises mostly in previous decade but in the last few years these are not getting the same attention although the comedy part of the movie can not be neglected. Actress Linda Arsenio impresses from her role of a forced detested foreigner bahu into a conventional Punjabi family. The romantic songs of the film are impressive and a few songs are choreographed well.
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Movie Review: Jai Veeru

Banner: Siddhi Vinayak Movies
Producer: Narendra Bajaj, Shyam Bajaj
Executive Producer / Co-Producer: Varun Bajaj
Director: Puneet Sira
Star Cast: Fardeen Khan, Kunal Khemu, Dia Mirza, Anjana Sukhani, Arbaaz Khan, Rajesh Khattar
Lyricist: Sameer, Omer Inayat
Music Director: Bappa Lahri

The film “Jai Veeru” takes the friendship theme from “Sholay” and merges it up with other masala movies of 70’s , to get a package comprising of item numbers, dance, emotional sequences , comedy and action but the film fails to impress in any of these fields and the overall effect is rather nullified.
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