'Hum Tum Shabana' Movie Review

Directed by the Bheja Frydirector Sagar Ballary, the movie Hum Tum Shabanadoes look like a good film. But will the film be a good bet at the box office this week. Let’s find out:

Storyline - With barely a height of 5ft or more, our heroine Shabana Raza (Minissha Lamba) is a model and wants to win a beauty contest, and with the help of our two heroes,Shreyas Talpade and Tusshar Kapoor, she succeeds in crossing the initial hurdles, but only to make them fall madly in love with her. Soon she leaves her helpers… err... her lovers without any word. The dreamy-eyed true lovers, in Bollywood isstyle, land up at her house ruled by a chubby gangster. Who is he? A dreaded criminal of the underworld, and also the chacha jan of Shabana. Instead of wooing Shabana, our heroes now want to shoo off their love for her. The change of hearts of the two suitors of Shabana and how they go about trying to lose her make the rest of the film. What follows after it is a bumpy ride with regular doses of slapping and screaming.

Not Again! - One can feel bored seeing the comedy sequences in the film. Where is novelty, Ballary? However, the movie looks promising, especially in the first half with beauty pageant against the background of scenic Goa locales. Ballary indeed proves his mettle in some scenes. Oh! but the later portions can easily fry your bheja as the script fails terribly. Shreyas Talpade and Tusshar Kapoor try to bring back the smile on our faces, alas it’s too little too late.

The enjoyable moments - The unsurprising first half with splatter of witty jokes. Sanjay Mishra, the one man whose performance excites us in the film: he is awkward, clumsy, confused and bearable in most parts, which we definitely can’t say about the film. Tusshar Kapoor aping his dad Jitendra while donning a Johnny Depp attire is hilarious, at least.

Performances - Minissha Lamba as Shabana is just about looks and no talent. The actress should try movies like her debut film ‘Yahaan’. In this film she neither has scope nor riveting screen presence. Model-Vj Pia Trivedi as a snooty top ramp model is perfectly acceptable. And after seeing Satish Kaushik’s bizarre gangster role which is more of a slap master and less of a ring master, we thought of patting our backs for braving the movie. Tusshar Kapoor as Rishi and Shreyas Talpade as Kartik will try to woo you back to theGolmaal days, but hello, haven’t we had enough of Golmaal. Com’on guys, this is another film. Bheja fry ho gaya!

Coming to the direction of Sagar Ballary, the director needs to don a thinking cap, otherwise he stands the risk of losing his loyalists from ‘Bheja Fry’ days. Wasn’t Bheja Fry 2 enough that he now came up with ‘Hum Tum Shabana’! The songs of the film by music composers Sachin and Jigar could have acted as a saviour because they are popular on FM channels; but as the film lacks punch, the tracks too fall flat on big screen.

‘Hum Tum Shabana’ is not only a waste of time, money but also energy. The serious search for fun in this comedy film was like a treasure hunt in a trash dump. No way!

Rating - 1.5 out of 5

Directed by the Bheja Frydirector Sagar Ballary, the movie Hum Tum Shabanadoes look like a good film. But will the film be a good bet at the box office this week. Let’s find out:

Storyline - With barely a height of 5ft or more, our heroine Shabana Raza (Minissha Lamba) is a model and wants to win a beauty contest, and with the help of our two heroes,Shreyas Talpade and Tusshar Kapoor, she succeeds in crossing the initial hurdles, but only to make them fall madly in love with her. Soon she leaves her helpers… err... her lovers without any word. The dreamy-eyed true lovers, in Bollywood isstyle, land up at her house ruled by a chubby gangster. Who is he? A dreaded criminal of the underworld, and also the chacha jan of Shabana. Instead of wooing Shabana, our heroes now want to shoo off their love for her. The change of hearts of the two suitors of Shabana and how they go about trying to lose her make the rest of the film. What follows after it is a bumpy ride with regular doses of slapping and screaming.

Not Again! - One can feel bored seeing the comedy sequences in the film. Where is novelty, Ballary? However, the movie looks promising, especially in the first half with beauty pageant against the background of scenic Goa locales. Ballary indeed proves his mettle in some scenes. Oh! but the later portions can easily fry your bheja as the script fails terribly. Shreyas Talpade and Tusshar Kapoor try to bring back the smile on our faces, alas it’s too little too late.

The enjoyable moments - The unsurprising first half with splatter of witty jokes. Sanjay Mishra, the one man whose performance excites us in the film: he is awkward, clumsy, confused and bearable in most parts, which we definitely can’t say about the film. Tusshar Kapoor aping his dad Jitendra while donning a Johnny Depp attire is hilarious, at least.

Performances - Minissha Lamba as Shabana is just about looks and no talent. The actress should try movies like her debut film ‘Yahaan’. In this film she neither has scope nor riveting screen presence. Model-Vj Pia Trivedi as a snooty top ramp model is perfectly acceptable. And after seeing Satish Kaushik’s bizarre gangster role which is more of a slap master and less of a ring master, we thought of patting our backs for braving the movie. Tusshar Kapoor as Rishi and Shreyas Talpade as Kartik will try to woo you back to theGolmaal days, but hello, haven’t we had enough of Golmaal. Com’on guys, this is another film. Bheja fry ho gaya!

Coming to the direction of Sagar Ballary, the director needs to don a thinking cap, otherwise he stands the risk of losing his loyalists from ‘Bheja Fry’ days. Wasn’t Bheja Fry 2 enough that he now came up with ‘Hum Tum Shabana’! The songs of the film by music composers Sachin and Jigar could have acted as a saviour because they are popular on FM channels; but as the film lacks punch, the tracks too fall flat on big screen.

‘Hum Tum Shabana’ is not only a waste of time, money but also energy. The serious search for fun in this comedy film was like a treasure hunt in a trash dump. No way!

Rating - 1.5 out of 5

Movie Review 'Saheb Biwi Aur Gangster'

Some movies have a great script; some have great performances by the actors, and some have both. Luckily, Saheb Biwi Aur Gangsterfalls in the third category! The movie is a dream combo of a nearly perfect script and some neat performances by the cast. Saheb Biwi Aur Gangster, though, cannot be called a remake of the old classic Sahib Bibi Aur Ghulam, it can definitely be considered inspired from it. After all, the three characters have been adapted from the movie. Saheb Biwi Aur Gangster is a film about Aditya Pratap Singh (played by Jimmy Shergill), the Nawab Saheb of a province in UP, who is struggling to maintain the status quo set by his royal ancestors. His Biwi (Mahi Gill) is an aggravated lady who craves for some attention, love, and not to forget, sex! Coming to the Gangster, Babloo (Randeep Hooda) is a criminal planted as a driver in Saheb’s house, by a rival political party. The movie is a combination of love, lust, politics and the hunger for power. The ruler of the rival party, Gainda Singh (Vipin Sharma), wants to win the province under Saheb’s authority, since it has been with the royal family for years. He plants Babloo as a replacement to the old driver, who met with an accident, as planned by the rival party. Babloo, the secret informer, keeps a check on Saheb and discloses all the moves made by him to Gainda Singh. However, he falls in love with Saheb’s Biwi! And, the Biwi, too, sleeps with him and satisfies her physical needs and wants. The real excitement, however, begins when Babloo confesses to Saheb about his being planted as an informer! What follows are a series of twists and turns, which, though, once in a while feel illogical, still keep you on the edge of your seats. Jimmy Shergill is amazing as the Nawab a.k.a. Saheb. One feels for him since he is an actor with some remarkable potential. He showed it in A Wednesdayand has shown it again in Saheb Biwi Aur Gangster. Randeep Hooda, too, impresses us with his act as Babloo, the guitar playing gangster. Speaking about the third lead, Mahie Gill outperforms herself! If you loved in her Dev D, you’ll fancy her even more after watching her play the role of the displeased Biwi! Director Tigmanshu Dhulia has shown he is skilled when it comes to direction. Though Haasil still remains my favourite work of his, Saheb Biwi Aur Gangster makes a special place in my heart! The music of the film is just about okay, with Jugni being the only saviour. A great script, memorable performances and some superb direction was well backed by the coarsened lingo used in the film. The desipan in the dialogues was welcomed with whistles by the audiences. Though, there were numerous dialogues that were worth applause, the one I can currently recall is where Saheb says he is going to the city and asks if his wife wants anything. The Biwi replies: “Ho sake toh hamari raatein le aayiega” We loved the film and would recommend it to you. Go for it, guys! Final verdict - 3.5 out of 5

'Force' Movie Review

 Force, a remake of the Tamil blockbuster Kaakha Kaakha.
First things first. John Abraham is beefcake as good as it gets. The girth of his biceps, the count of his abs, his painstakingly sculpted torso, and his Stallonean bod can easily make aam mortals like you and me look like those dwarfs from Gulliver’s Travels. And we have seen in some recent blockbusters that when the leading man is flexing his muscles and going shirtless to display his pectorals -- prominent enough to hang that very shirt on -- the script just goes by the board. Director Nishikant Kamat, thankfully, doesn’t commit that cinematic sin. Though he highlights John’s hot bod repeatedly to qualify certain scenes of Force as sheer brawn porn, Kamat doesn’t compromise on the script that, strictly speaking, ranges from good to middling.

What’s good is how Kamat structures the action sequences, particularly the one in which several drug busts are clubbed together in a single sequence ending with a pyrotechnic boom! What’s middling is how Kamat loses the plot in the second half and foists on us a blood-and-gore fest, with forced violence, shootouts and encounters. And what’s unforgivable is how the director squanders the opportunity of giving the Indian cinema a villain that could give the heroes a run for their money. Vidyut Jamwal, the movie’s villain, makes a terrific entrance in which his acrobatic stunts, leaps and maneuvers leave you gasping for breath and asking for more. You take that entrance as a teaser for grittier stuff to come. But come it doesn’t. Rather Kamat turns the electric Jamwal into a seething, vengeful foe, given more to pulling triggers than strutting his gymnastics. Pity…real pity!

The story is darned simple and straight. Yashvardhan (John Abraham) is a narcotics control bureau cop singularly devoted to weeding out the drug menace from society. So much so, he keeps himself free of the fetters of personal relationships that, he thinks, might make him weak and vulnerable. But then he meets Maya (Genelia D’Souza), and despite trying not to, ends up falling in love with her. As he earns love, he also earns enmity -- of Vishnu (Vidyut Jamwal), a drug smuggler who is hellbent on taking revenge for the encounter of his elder brother (Mukesh Rishi) by Yashvardhan and his team.

A lot of blood is spilled and lots of people close to Yashvardhan are bumped off in what turns out to be a battle of brawns rather than brains between our cop hero and his formidable foe. And it’s this peccadillo that punctures the steam out of Force. What an edge-of-the-seat experience the movie might have been, if Kamat had made his villain smarter rather than just a vengeful, impatient, feral baddie abducting the ladies and gunning down unarmed adversaries. More than the deed, it’s the slick and smart execution that makes for real thrills. Such thrills are hard to come by in the second half of Force.

The film is further hamstrung by a hamming John Abraham, trying hard to act like a man in control but turning pale in front of a decidedly cute and captivating Genelia D’Souza. Vidyut Jamwal is the find of Force. He’s got the looks, the physique, the voice, and, unlike the puffed-up hero, he shows a few flashes of good acting as well. Kamlesh Sawant (playing a happy-go-lucky cop) chips in some humour while Mohnish Bahl and Sandhya Mridul come up with creditable performances.

The music is nothing to hum home about. But the action and stunts surely save the day for Force. The scenes when John lifts a bike, or when Vidyut Jamwal bashes up half a dozen guys in Mombasa partly redeem the ticket price. But, all in all, the movie remains a strictly one-time watch and -- pardon the obvious pun -- hardly a force to reckon with.

Rating: 2.5 stars out of 5

Mesmerizing supermodel Surabhee Prabhu

Blessed with a natural toned, curvy physique that Indian women are adored for, Surabhee makes every shoot a fine work of art. She has modeled for top brands such as Onida, Pepe jeans, Provogue, Cygnus Diamonds, Kiah Diamonds, Garden Vareli Sarees, Kishco Cookware, Recold Water Heaters, Nabeel Perfume, Reliance , Damas jewellery and several other International Brands.

Turning point of her career was when she did her first music video "Sajanwa" with ace director "Anurag Basu" and singer "Abhijit Pohankar" thereafter, no looking back.... After that she has number of music videos ..... 

Hot & Seductive Model & Actress Surabhi Prabhu

Step into a world of sensual magic and fantastical seduction... A mesmerizing supermodel Surabhee Prabhu. And fix your eyes on the alluring pictures that shot by the leading photographers of India. A real tale of enchantment: Originally from Coorg, Mysore, Surabhee is pretty much a bit of everything, but when you add it all up, it equates to one thing: a very hot brunette beauty! Actress, dancer and sensational model, meet Surabhee, the curvaceous brunette who stands a statuesque 5ft 7" tall has appeared on various print ads, outdoors, ramp, music videos and TV commercials.