Trailer: Ishqiya

This looks rad!

Director: Abhishek Chaubey

Starring: Naseeruddin Shah, Vidya Balan & Arshad Warsi

Release date: December 2009 (Tentative)

Trailer: Michael Jackson’s THIS IS IT

We all have been waiting for this one for a long time, the wait will end in 3 days! 28 Oct., in theatres only for 2 weeks.

Watch the official trailer of Michael Jackson’s THIS IS IT.

Acid Factory

No, I wasn’t waiting for this movie, nor did I spend a penny on it. [Thanks to people at PVR, they invited me for Premier].

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Just when you thought the era of “inspired” movies was over, along came Acid Factory! Oh, what waste this movie was. Even though I haven’t seen the Unknown (The movie Acid Factory is inspired from) but just by reading the Plot, you can tell it is an exact copy, even the duration is same [95 mins (Acid Factory) 98 mins (Unknown)].With a cast like Fardeen Khan, Dia Mirza, Aftab Shivdasani and Dino Morea in the lead, I bet no had any expectations from it, but just to compensate that it had Manoj Bajpai, Danny Denzongpa and Irrfan Khan, but their presence really didn’t help. Former 4 actors had a same expressions on their face, or should I say no expression on their face. The “suspense” can easily be decrypted just half way though the movie, which makes seating for the second half unbearable. Anyway, other than the movie I have a constant thing running in my mind, how does the Censor Board work in India? I recently saw an interview of Madhur Bhandarkar who said, he had to edit out the movie in order to get it passed by the Board, even the nude scenes by Neil Nitin Mukesh, which were in total relevance of the story [Unreleased Movie: Jail]. Whereas we have Board passing insanely inappropriate half naked girls dancing around in an “Item Number” (Yeh Jism), which of course we all know, have no relevance in a movie moreover they give the U/A certificate! Major glitch in the system.

Getting back to Acid Factory, avoid it! With a little humor thrown in and no story present, this movie so not worth catching it. I wonder how did they manage to get producers.

Rating: 0.5/5 (Very generous)

Year: 2009

Imdb: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1201557

Trailer: Paranormal Activity

Currently the movie is screening only in select states of US and Canada, and I don’t even see it releasing anytime soon in India. But just enjoy the trailer of this movie, Paranormal Activity, that has got the whole Social Media (Twitter and Facebook) world crazy!

Probably the next The Blair Witch Project, only spookier!

 

Screening request @ http://www.paranormalmovie.com/theaters.php

[US & Canada only, as of now.]

Inglourious Basterds

Another movie for which I got only good things to tell!

The brilliance that lies in the Quentin Tarantino‘s work is distinctive in it’s own commen

dable way! He is known for overdoing certain things, like the bloodshed, fight sequences which work perfectly, for him, and of course throwing in some awesome dark humor (Pulp Fiction – best example), you will get to see all this in Inglourious Basterds. I might have little bias for the movie, probably because of the duo, Quentin Tarantino–Brad Pitt, and come on, I bet just first look of the movie would have got you hooked on for sure!

I personally find the movies set in the Nazi era very fascinating and also the ones based on racism, like The Pianist and Schindler’s List [Both Oscar winning flicks – must watch btw] based on former, and American History X & Crash, based on latter.

Now coming on to Inglourious Basterds, movie is set in Nazi era showing slaughter of the Jews by the SS and Nazi Army but not to the extent of Schindler’s or even Pianist, more than the Jews, it has gore filled with slaughter of Nazi army, and that too, Gore-Tarantino-Style!

Even though it might appear that the story’s protagonist is Brad Pitt, I really didn’t find that way, in fact I found the story somewhat revolving around Mélanie Laurent (Shosanna Dreyfus) (who btw is a French actress) and what amazing performance she delivered, I’m a fan!

Speaking of performance, do look out for Christoph Waltz, the guy in “negative role” – Nazi Col. Hans Landa, sheer brilliance!

The characters or the “Bastards” if you may, have been hand picked and have done perfect justice. Take for example Eli Roth who played Sgt. Donowitz aka The Jew Bear, great screen presence.

Now, Brad Pitt – Lt. Aldo Raine, supporting a thick Southern accent, gave out a great performance, as always, but didn’t really have a lot of screen time, as I said earlier, not really the protagonist. Mike Myres has a “guest appearance”, nothing that’ll stick to your memory.

There are some really hard hitting sequences in the movie, like at the end when the projector keeps rolling but projection comes on to the Smoke with the sound still on, it sent chills down my spine. Or the one where The Jew Bear lashed out on a Nazi Officer in the middle of the Jungle, whoa!

Now having said all this, the movie did not leave a mark in my memory, which obviously I expected it would. And what could have been better, the background score, there was so much possibility there.

Anyway, this one the biggest movies of this year and worth catching on big screen, and a little heads up, movie has lot of French and German, so keep an I on the screen – subtitles .

P.s. I still have to confirm if Inglourious Basterds is remake of the Italian movie – Quel maledetto treno blindato.

Rating: 4/5

Year: 2009

Imdb: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0361748