Bollywood Earworms - Songs so ridiculously catchy you can't get them out of your head
Part 1
Bollywood Fashion - when Bollywood fashion finds its way into the international catwalks
Bollywood Posters - Looking at the awesomeness of Bollywood movie posters
Bollywood Sunglasses - Looking at Bollywood stars rocking some cool Sunglasses
Bollywood Film/Song Titles - Ever heard of a film title you think you might have heard from a song? Well there are lots of them in this post
Bollywood Seductions - Exploring those 'oh so' seductive bollywood songs
Bollywood Singstar - Discoving the joys of bollywood karaoke
Fashion Showdown - Fashion battles between your favourite bollywood stars
Bollywood Loves Michael Jackson - Looking at some of Michael Jackson's influence on
Bollywood
My Favourite Bollywood Songs of 2009
Sunday, 6 September 2009
Dhadkan (2000)
This film has a lot of beautiful songs which is the reason i watched it plus its one of Shilpa's most famous films so i thought i'd check it outDev (Sunil Shetty) a pooor man who can't even afford to change his chewed up Kolhapuri sandal is in love with wealthy Anjali (ShilpaShetty)
Dev's mother (Sharmila tagore) urges Anjali to promise her she would stick by him forever as he's known as illegitimate by society, Anjali promises her
Anjali tells her parents of her lover Dev, when he comes to meet them he doesn't even bother to make an effort plus he fails to make a good impression on her parents as he starts acting arrogantly
Anjali's father is disgusted and feels disgraced by her bringing home such a lowly guy, he arranges for her to be married to wealthy Ram (Akshay Kumar)
As Anjali is a traditional girl at heart and not wanting to disobey her parents she willingly marries Ram and of course she feels bad for betraying the promise she had made to Dev's mother
Dev is devastated and if the breakup wasn't bad enough, his mother dies leaving Dev alone in the big bad world
After their marriage Anjali refiuses to have sex with Ram, being the gentleman that he is, he agrees
(hell no what's it with this Ram, a night or two is fine but a whole month... hell no..lol)
Eventually she starts warming up to Ram and she falls deeply in love with him
Things take a turn when Dev now a millionaire comes back into her life, Dev hopes he can still make Anjali marry him
When he notices her love for Ram, Dev is jealous and he starts creating havoc in their lives
Will Anjali and Ram's marriage survive Dev's evil tactics? Will she remain faithful to Ram or will her affections shift towards Dev?
Dhadkhan (heartbeat) irritated the hell out of me, the done to death love triangle plus all the self sacrifices got on my nerves, also added to my annoyance was some Cinderellaesque type storyline with Sushma Seth as the wicked Stepmother Inlaw and Parmeet Sethi and Manjeet Kular as the wicked step sisters. Despite all the annoying things, for some reason i couldn't chuck it out of my Dvd player, i watched it all the way through as such I wouldn't describe it as an entirely awful film, but its not execeptionally good either watch it if you like Shilpa, Akshay & Sunil or if you're in need of some time filling entertainment or better still for the songs, the music of this film is probably one of the reasons it'll still be playing on my Dvd
Decent performances from all the cast but why oh why did Sunil Shetty win Best villain for this film, i've nothing against his acting in this but his role when he comes back to wreak havoc in Ram and Anjali's life can hardly be described as true villain material
Fabulous soundtrack from Nadeem-Shravan i loved all the songs here the romantic 'Dil ne yeh kaha hai' the joyful 'aksar is duniya mein' the celebratory 'Na na karte pyar' which sounds like a Chinese pop song and my favourite 'Tum Dil me Dhadkan ho'
Total Score: 5/10 ( Tired but watchable love story)
Friday, 4 September 2009
Humraaz (2002)
After giving us a hollywood/bollywood taste of Disclosure with Aitraaz, my favourite director duo Abbas Mustan strike again in this entertaining suspense drama. Humraaz (our secret) is said to have been inspired by Dial M for Murder which i'm yet to see, however i did enjoy this colourful suspense thrillerKaran (Akshay Khanna) and Priya (Amisha Patel) are a couple, they're also dance instructors hoping to make it big
Priya believes they can make it so does Karan, they hope their dance troupe will be selected for as the major healiners for a ship cruise
Their auditions are threatened when Jojo Fernandes a fellow competitor for the cruise ship gets selected ahead of the other dance troupes without auditioning
A dissatisfied Karan decides to approach the owner of the Cruise ship Mr Raj Singhania (Bobby Deol) about the issue
the auditions are reopened and Jojo jeopardises the chances of Karan's dance troupe by tossing a coin on the floor while Karan's dance troupe are performing , a vengeful Karan murders Jojo, his dance troupe are then selected for the cruise
Priya meets Raj during a dogchase on the cruise, Raj takes a liking to her
The two start dating and Karan starts getting Jealous
Raj asks for Priya's hand in marriage and she agrees, however its a plot to trap Raj, Raj and Priya had planned this all along in order to kill Raj and then inherit his property
Raj and priya get married and on the wedding night she refuses Raj sex asking him to wait for a month, a kind Raj agrees
(Hell no, after a lifelong of waiting there's no way i'll give in to this kind of demand one night is fine but one whole month hell no..Lol)
Karan and Priya's plot goes wrong when Priya starts falling for Raj as a result of this she becomes hesitant in carrying out she and Karan's plot
Will she give in to karan's demands? Will Raj take matters into his own hands? Will Raj ever come to know of Priya and Karan's schemes? Watch Humraaz to find out
This is a well placed suspense movie from Abbas Mustan, the suspense is introduced when least expected and generally keeps with the pace of the story, Humraaz is totally enjoyable but a minor downer for me came with the masalaish fighting end
Humraaz is also helped with great acting from all its stars
Bobby was fantastic as Raj Singhania, i loved his performance in this and i guess this is my best Bobby movie so far his character as Raj also provided me with my favourite Hindi film dialogue Tum aashiq nahin, talal, talal hai (you're not a love rather you're a pimp, a pimp)..LOL
I loved Amisha in this, what happened to her, She was bollywood's sweet girl around this time as she was riding high on the success of Kaho naa pyar hai and Gadar.. Ek Prem Katha, she was great in this and her character even though she resorts a bit to the atypical damsel in distress towards the end, her character is well etched out, and she looked utterly gorgeous
bahut khubsoorat ladki
Ahh Akshay Khanna he was fantastic in this, so evil so cunning and soo sexy
i love his funky shirt
Great Music by Himmesh Reshammiya ( i love this soundtrack a lot), from the earworm worthy 'Bardasht nahin ka sakhta' ( i love this song soooo much), the mellow grooves of 'Pyar kar' where Akshay gets to pull some funky moves to the romantic sweet sounds of 'Dil ne ka liya' the breezy sexy sounds of 'Sanam mere humraaz' and the very upbeat 'Life ban jayegi' which is sure to get any true blooded bollywood party rocking
Total Score:7/10 ( An enjoyable suspense thriller)
Humraaz is available on Youtube with English subtitles in 19 parts
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