The best, the good and the ugly

Here are my reviews for the three movies I watched this week:


Chak De India: Let's start with the latest one. Chak de - simply all-round winner. No romatic scenes, no love songs, no skin shows and no mummy-beta sentiments. But chak de will get you excited more than any other movie. Should I say, after lagaan, this is the most successful movie made in bollywood based on sport? The thing is for chak de everything fits in fittingly well. The true actor in SRK who comes out occassionally in movies like swades, devdas was in full flow in this one. He was simply tremendous and the fact that he made people think therez lot more in movie other than SRK shows out how good he had been in the movie. He never took the centerstage and let the story talk for itself.

The other fact that's heartening is that unlike lagaan in which the sport was cricket, undoubtedly the most popular in our country hands down, the sport in chak de is hockey, which seriously needs some redemption to survive let alone reach glory. By far, one of the best movies bollywood has ever produced, chak de will just glue you to your seats for 2 hours. Hats off to Shimit Aman and Jaideep Sahni for such an excellent movie. And the background score simply elevates the grandness of movie.

Finally, if I were to rate chak de on a scale on 10, I would give it 20. Yes. It's wonderful. It's marvellous. It's Chak de India.


Pyaar ke side effects: A comeddy film with a sensible and emotional touch. A real near-life portrayal of urban relations, PKSE brings out the best in Rahul Bose and something good out of Mallika Sherawat. It's all about love, marriage and commitment. And it's fun all the way. The only problem with the movie is it suddenly jumps towards a serious note occassionally. It vacillates between fun and serious drama, but finally you will enjoy the movie. Worth sitting 2 hours, though not much of a should-not-miss movie. A light-hearted one.
Just sit back and enjoy.

The last legion: The lesser you talk about this, the better. I started this movie and after 15 minutes, I continued watching it waiting for the end. Disaster from start to the end. It's about the sword of king Arthur - I mean how can someone mess us such a heavily exciting mythological concept. The first step towards the movie being a flop was Aishwarya Rai. Let's talk about her a bit here. She simply gives those oh-i-am-so-innocent and oh-i-love-you-truly looks which irritate me a lot. What we expext is some action and she turns her role into a warrior girl who falls in love (well, that might be the script but she could have surely done lots better). She ought to know that hollywood is different from bollywood and it takes more than beauty and exposing to be noticed in hollywood. Even the other actors' performaces were not upto mark and the film turns out to be a boring and unattractive attempt. On the whole, I would give it a 3/10.

On the whole, the week was a mixture of movies ranging from the best to the worst.