Tuesday, January 15, 2008

Movie Review : Hanuman Returns (2007)

Language: HINDI
Genre: Animation
Director: Anurag Kashyap
Producer: Percept Picture Company
Music: Tapas Relia
Lyrics: Satish Mutatkar
Screenplay: Anurag Kashyap


Movie Summary:-

Millions of years ago... the armies of demons led by their general, Rahu Ketu, are ready for the mother of all battle against the god. As the bugle is sounded, the two army's charge at each other & are locked in fierce combat. Rahul Ketu creates havoc amidst the hapless armies of the god. fortunately, to the rescue come lord Vishnu and throws the demons into space along with their guru, Shukhracharya, whose body then takes the shape of planet Venus a.k.a Shukra-Garah. Shukhracharya curses humankind with a most terrifying fate;" that mankind would be destroyed by the creature created by its own sins".

Cut to the present. Hanuman wakes up and on a sudden impulse goes around the world. A child at heart, he sees kids enjoying themselves and expresses his wish to Brahma to make him a kid again.

Brahma agrees and Hanuman is born to a pundit and his wife, Shiela.

Holding the cutest kid in the world, hanuman earthly parents instantly realize that is no ordinary child, but an avatar of lord Hanuman and hence he is named Maruti.

Maruti is different from the other kids. He begins walking by the time he is one month old and talking by the time he is three months old. The one thing that troubles his parents the most is his insatiable appetite!

Maruti starts going to school and immediately makes friends, while setting the record straight for the bullies. Many wild & zany escapades follow, as Maruti cannot seems to keep away from trouble. En route, he manages to get the better of the bad guys, who hatch a plan to capture him. They manage to capture him but they have not reckoned with Maruti's friends around world.

Maruti's rescue sets off another chain of events, which finally snowballs towards fulfilling Shukhracharya evil prophecy, made millions of years ago....

The fate of humankind now rests on the shoulders of young Maruti


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Movie Review : Halla Bol (2008)

Language: HINDI
Genre: Drama
Director: Rajkumar Santoshi
Producer: Suresh Sharma
Cast: Ajay Devgan, Vidya Balan, Pankaj Kapoor
Music: Sukhwinder Singh, Vanraj Bhatia
Lyrics: Sameer, Shri Dushyant Kumar, Mehboob

Cinematography: S Natarajan Subramaniam
Editing: Steven Bernard
Screenplay: Rajkumar Santoshi
Story/Writer: Rajkumar Santoshi
Art Direction: Nitish Roy

Movie Summary :-
Ashfaque (Ajay Devgan) is a small town boy aspiring to be a film star in the Hindi film industry. He joins a street theatre group run by a reformed dacoit Sidhu (Pankaj Kapur) who uses street theatre as a medium to bring about an awakening in the masses. Ashfaque struggles to give a creative vent to the actor in him in order to realize his dreams.

Ashfaque's determined struggle pays off and he gets a break in films. He gets a new screen name - Sameer Khan. With the passage of time, the roles start becoming better and he moves up the success ladder in a very short time. Soon, he becomes Sameer Khan the superstar - one who can enact any role with finesse, get under the skin of any and every character with ease and walk away with audience applause.

Sadly, amidst all adulation and applause, he slowly loses his own identity. He forgets his real self and imbibes all characteristics of the various roles essayed by him on screen. Corruption takes over his entire system, alienating him from all loved ones, including his wife Sneha (Vidya Balan).

A shocking incident at a party changes everything, rocking Sameer Khan's lifestyle. He gets caught between his human self on one side and his corrupted superstar image on the other.

Whether the conflict within him gives way to good sense and whether he is able to discard his corrupted image and emerge as a true life hero, becomes an integral part of this true life cinema.

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