Kabhi Alvida Na Kehna--A Review






StarCast :--Amitabh Bachchan,Shahrukh Khan,Rani Mukherji,Preity Zinta,Abhishek Bachchan,Kiron Kher,Arjun Rampal

Rating :- 2/5

As per Walter Semkiw's Book "Born Again",Amitabh Bachchan was possibly the re-incarnation of Victorian Actor Edwin Booth.Booth's first wife Mary Devlin is now Rekha and Second wife Mary Mc Vickers has appartently been reborn as Jaya Bachchan.Shahrukh khan,again,is the re-incarnation of popular Bengali Dancer and Actor Sadhana Bose.

If one is to believe in the book,the re-incarnations of such distinguished personalities were still accomplished celebrities in their new bodily manifestations,but this this re-embodiment
(KANK) of 'silsilla' seems to be a fiasco.

It was once again an allegory of married couples ,in which the protagonists Jai (Shahrukh Khan) and Shalini (Rani Mukerji) ,both espoused to different people, are in seek of something deeper and more worthwhile in their relationships and end up getting attracted to each other.

The story inspired by silsila,except that it doesn't deduce the
attraction element from the pre-marital affair, and the lovers
don't go back to their original spouses in the end,has several flaws
in its realization.The reasons for Shahrukh being an
unsuccessful person in life are not explicit - whether that is
due to the soccer player meeting with an accident at the outset
or he, not having the innate ability to be an achiever.Further,the
two marraiges stink,but whether they are due to the incompatible
pair,or both getting weary of each other not willing to adjust,is
not ascertained.












Similar is the case with the rendition of characters.Amitabh bachchan vagabonds between the character of a skirt chaser and a family man.Sometimes,he comports like his character in 'boom' and other-times he delivers an emotional speech like a 'Baghbaan'.

Rishi Talwar(Abhishek) loves his wife so much that sometimes he scampers around the house with the vaccum cleaner to please her,and admits(in the second half) that he couldn't take her off his mind no matter how hard he tried, and other times he (for no significant reasons)
despises her so much that he gets himself some work in paris
to keep himself away from her. Dev (Shahrukh) abhors his
wife greatly,but what made him marry her,in the first place
,is something still to be answered even after three and a half
hours of torture.

Rhea Saran is irked by her husband all the time,but whether
it is due to he being an underachiever or a lack of rapport in
their relationship is not evident.Similarly,Maya(Rani
Mukherjee) has a strained relationship with her husband.But
what is that she finds in Dev(shahrukh) which she finds absent
in her own hubby Rishi(Abhishek) is nowhere brought about.

So,the movie delves into the grey areas of the relationships
but without excavating about the characters sufficiently.

Shahrukh performance also looks cliched in the first half of the movie-
He also keeps getting influenced by his own characters from other
movies.At the outset, he borrows from his own role in DDLJ,
when the movie reaches halfway, he turns into a maverick 'Raj Aryan'
of 'Mohabbatein' and in the end,he is 'Raj' of chalte chalte.The other
casts,though,are able to do justice to their characters.


The worst part of the movie is the last one hour of the movie,
where the director starts to wind up the movie.The scenes are
prolonged and melodramatic and the story seems to go nowhere.
The music of the movie also is not any gratifying.The only song
which seems to catch attention is the title song "Mujhe ko
bhi hai khabar"

The only good parts of the movie are some hilarious moments
in the first half and the performance delivered by other stars
in the movie.

Karan Johar's "kuch kuch Hota hai" might have won eight filmfare
awards,and his "kabhi khushi kabhi Gham" might have bagged five
of them,but KANK seems to lose out completely.He has tried
to make up a collage but without making any sense.

In short, prolonged scenes in the second half, awfully realized script
and arid music might have increased the sales of popcorn and coffee
stalls in the theatre,but it will be something definitely disastrous for
the movie at the box-office.

Anthony Kaun hai ??--A Review

Star cast :--Sanjay Dutt,Arshad Warsi, Minissha Lamba, Anusha Dandekar,Raghuvir Yadav,Gulshan Grover

Rating :-- 4/5


Well,if you guys are going to the theatre to elicit an answer to the question,the title of the movie poses,there isn't too much of a suspense really.It stands answered right in the first half.But as they say,its not about the destination,its about the journey as a whole, the movie totally complies with that -- An absolutely relishable watch to rejuvenate your harrowed week.

The Munnabhai duo titillates the audience once again--this time with the roles reversed,Arshad warsi plays the protagonist and Sanjay dutt features in a supporting role,rather a minor role.But the movie wouldn't have been an engaging watch without the memorable moments of the sunjay-Arshad tryst.

The movie revolves around champak chaudhari(Arshad Warsi) who specializes in forging documents.It opens up with Arshad Warsi sitting duck with Master Madan(Sanjay Dutt) who suspects him to be 'Anthony Gonsalves'.Arshad Warsi attempts at offering an explanation and is browbeaten by Sanjay Dutt to be gunned down if he falls short of a gripping story.

He narrates his story in flashback about how he scouts around for diamonds hidden by Raghu(Raghuvir Yadav) and finally ends up being there in front of him.In the process he expatiates interesting incidents from his life hitherto leaving the audience tickled pink.

To say it in short,the movie has a slightly atypical storyline,with sidesplitting moments of Arshad-Sanjoy colluquy and a 'popcorn khao mast ho jao' kind-of appeal which makes it a must-watch.