Kaminey (Hindi - 2009)

Kaminey is a 2009 Hindi Movie directed by Vishal Bhardwaj starring Shahid Kapoor (in double role as twin brothers Charlie and Guddu) and Priyanka Chopra. The approach to the story is a little different from what we used to see in usual Hindi movies. The film starts by showing the parallel lives of Charlie and Guddu. Their choice of life are in such a way that they are never supposed to cross each other. Charlie is a part of a mafia which does some business in horse racing. Guddu works among sex workers spreading information about the importance of using condoms. Charlie wants to start a booking house on his own and he is pulling strings to achieve that dream. Guddu at the same time, was staring at his girlfriend Sweety (Priyanka Chopra) who informed him that she was pregnant and her brother is a major politician cum don of the locality.



From here on, the story twists and turns and in the end, both of them cross their paths. Now both are fighting for money, and their childhood stories are being revealed. There are also instances where the links between police forces and the underworld are being depicted. The first half is a little bit lagging, but then the second half moves pretty swiftly. By the end of the movie, there are a lot of people behind the money and it ends in a shootout which was taken in a very different way. Almost all of the shooting scenes gives the viewer a 'slow-motion' feeling with lot of emotions.

The songs are good and the action sequences are close to reality. Altogether its a new kind of bollywood movie which I felt is worth watching. But unlike most of the critics who gave upto 4.5/5 rating to this movie, I'll give it a 3.5/5 because of the usual type of ending where everyone except the hero who got shot are dead. It may be the most feasible ending for a commercial movie like this, but then till the ending, it was so out of the box thinking and then all of a sudden it became like an ordinary movie - a little hard to digest. But still, it can be considered as one of the top class Bollywood movies.

My Rating : Must Watch (****)

Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince (English - 2009)

Its the sixth movie of the famous harry potter series. The movie presents a very good visual and audio effects even though there is a lack of action as compared to the previous parts. All the kids are now grown up and there is more romance in the movie. The entire movie is like a build up to the last of the series, the Deathly Hallows. And I hope that one will be full of action to complement this.

The movie starts with the attack of 3 death eaters on a bridge in London used by Muggles (non-magical people). Later on the day, Dumbledore picks Harry from a railway station and together they went to meet Slughorn who agrees to be the new Potions teacher in Hogwarts. Later Harry was dropped at Weasley's house where his trunk and owl were waiting for him. He was back again with his friends Ron and Hermione. Fred and George, the elder twin brothers of Ron had started a shop in Diagon alley. After attending the inauguration ceremony, Harry and his two friends happened to stumble across Malfoy and his mother. They saw some kind of a ritual being performed in a shop, and somehow manages to escape unnoticed. Malfoy was being selected by Lord Voldemort to do certain task and his mother with the help of Bellatrix makes Severus Snape vow that he will do the task if Malfoy wont be able to carry it out.

Back in Hogwarts, security has been beefed up so as to protect the school from death eaters. All the baggage of students were checked and walls were further fortified with magic. And later as per the instructions from Dumbledore, Harry tries to get Slughorn's memory regarding his advice to Tom Riddle (young Voldemort) and he succeeds in that too. From that memory, Dumbledore and Harry figure out that Voldemort has made 7 parts of his soul and kept those in Hurcruxes. Dumbledore informs Harry that they already have destroyed two of the Hurcruxes. Then they setout to find another one in a rocky island in the ocean. The Hurcrux was in a deadly potion and Dumbledore drank it. This made him very week, but he manages to save Harry from the attack of inferis from the lake in that island. Dumbledore is very week by now, and Harry took him back to Hogwarts. Then Dumbledore sends him to get Snape for help. But before he left, Malfoy arrived and revealed that he had been chosen to kill Dumbledore. By this time, he had managed to get 4 death eaters into Hogwarts. Malfoy was not in a mental position to kill Dumbledore, but then Snape arrives and much to Harry's horror kills Dumbledore using Avada Kedavra. Snape then escapes with the other death eaters. Harry tries to stop him by using a spell he learned from the half-blood Prince's Potions book he got from Slughorn's class room. But it didn't work out, and Snape reveals that he was the Half-Blood Prince.

Before leaving the castle, the death eaters create the Dark Mark and destroys the Great Hall. Then all the wizards and witches in the palaces illuminate their wands in honor of Dumbledore and in that illumination the Dark Mark vanishes. Later Harry identifies that the locket he and Dumbledore retrieved from the island was fake and somebody else has already moved it from there. The movie ends with Harry, Ron and Hermione deciding to find all the remaining Hurcruxes and destroying them.

The movie is good, except the fact that there is not much action. But then considering the fact that this is more like building up for the next movie in the sequel, we can hope for the best that one. The movie gives you hundred percent visual satisfaction. And they've handled comedy pretty well. Altogether it is going to be a nice time watching the movie.

My Rating : Good (***)

Hangover (English - 2009)

Hangover is a 2009 English movie. It tells the story of Doug and his three friends. Doug is going to marry and the 4 friends decide to celebrate it. They went to Las Vegas for a bachelor's party and had lot of boozing. Also they consumed a date-rape drug thinking that it was Ecstacy. This made them extremely out of control and the next morning they couldn't remember an incident from the previous night. Doug was missing, there is a tiger in the bathroom and a child in their cupboard. One of them, a dental doctor was missing one of his teeth too.

Then they start to trace back their previous night. It turns out that the doctor, who was living with a dominant woman married a stripper when they were out of mind and it was her kid that was there in their room. The tiger belonged to Mike Tyson. And above all, the doctor himself pulled out his tooth to prove that he is indeed a good dental doctor. But by the end they manage to find out Doug and solve all the problems. The film ends with a set of photos they took when they were under the effect of alcohol.

The movie is so hilarious that I was laughing from beginning to end. It contains a little vulgarity, but being an English movie with the story of a bachelor party it should be expected. Its not a family movie, but guys if you ever had a all out drinking party, then you should watch this. :)

My Rating : Must Watch (****)