Dil Bole Hadippa (Hindi - 2009)

Dil Bole Hadippa is a 2009 Hindi movie directed by Anurag Singh under the banner of Yash Raj Films. The lead roles are played by Shahid Kapoor and Rani Mukharjee. Its about the story of a Punjabi girl Veera's (Rani) desire to play for the team representing India against Pakistan and to win the Aman Cup held on the Independance Day every year. So when a team selection for the Indian team happens after the ninth consecutive defeat against Paksitan, she also went to join the team, and was sent back because she is a girl. But she didn't give up and in her next attempt, dressed up as a male (Veer), she passed the test and became a member of the team. Rahul (Shahid) is the captain of the team and in the due course of the plot, he caught Veera in the men's changing room. But she convinces him by telling that Veer is her brother. And then a love story happens between Rahul and Veera, and Veer is the intermediary. During the next match, Rahul identifies that both Veer and Veera is the same person and this made him lose his concentration in the game resulting in the Pakistan team piling up a huge score to chase. But then all the drama occurs and Veera is called back to the team as Veer. Then he gets injured, but still manages to help the team win the game. In the end, he reveals to the audience that "he is a she", and convinces them that she was right in doing this double role.





The main things around which the movie revolves around are the India Paksitan cricket rivalry, contrast between Indian culture and western culture and the situation faced by women interested in sports and games in India. All these things are conveyed beautifully without any lack of continuity in the whole flow of the movie. Its an entertainer, but we've seen such things before also. There is nothing new the movie could offer. And here and there you may spot some resemblence with "Jab We Met". Also there are some unwanted elements like the roles played by Rakhi Sawant and Sherlyn Chopra who are playing two roles that looks like made for them only on special request. From the actors' side, they have all done pretty well eventhough these are not ofcourse their best performances. Last of all, there is a comparatively high preference for songs in this movie, that too Punjabi style.


All in all, the movie will come somewhere around 2 stars and 3 stars. And I'll finalize a 3 star for it just because of the humor and entertainment it provides.

My Rating : Good (***)

Final Destination 4 3D (English - 2009)

Final Destination 4 is a 2009 English Supernatural Thriller film directed by David R Ellis. Its the fourth one in the Final Destination series, and the first among the 4 to be shot in 3D. The plot is the same as in the previous movies. A group of people who were supposed to be dead in a car accident in a race course were saved due to a premonition occured to the hero. After the incident, the hero gets some wierd visions once in a while and very soon somebody from that group of survivors dies. They found out a pattern in all these deaths, and also informations about cases in which similiar kind of premonitions occured earlier. Now they are trying to save their lives, but as always, "Death cannot be cheated".




The movie has plenty of gruesome scenes including headless body, internal organs and stuffs like that. But the visual effects are really good provided you watch it in 3D. The pace of the movie is good (just about 1 hour 20 minutes) and the acting part is also ok. The plot is the same, the climax is the same, only the charectors are different. So if you've not seen the previous versions, go for it. Otherwise dont go expecting that you can see something that were not in the previous versions other than some brutal ways of death.


My Rating : Waste your time :) (*)

Blade Runner (English - 1982)

Blade Runner is a 1982 Sci-Fi moive directed by Ridley Scott starring Harrison Ford, Rutger Haeur and Sean Young in the leading roles. The plot happens in 2019, when there are the offworld colonies where genetically engineered androids (Replicants) are employed in hazardous enviornments. Tyrell Corporation, a leading genetic engineering firm develops a superior version of androids called Nexus 6 which have better emotions and intelligence. But their lifetime is kept as 4 years as a safety measure to avoid emotional developments leading to any sort of uprising. But the inevitable happens, and they were declared illegal and were ordered to be officially terminated. This process known as "Retirement" was carried out by a special group of police personnels named "Blade Runners".



Harrison Ford plays the role of a retired Blade Runner brought back to trace down and retire a group of some dangerous Nexus-6 Replicants. Following the information that these Replicants may try to attack Tyrell Corporation, he visits the company and meets Sean Young. She is another Replicant, but a better one which had undergone memory implants and she strongly believes she is a human. Based on the clues available, Ford starts chasing the Replicants and hunts down them one by one. Once he was saved by Sean after which both of them enter into a relationship. Rutger Haeur plays the role of the lead Nexus Replicant and both him and Ford will have a fierce fight towards the end of the movie. Ford was brutally attacked and when he attempted to jump from one building to another, he falls down but manages to hold on a slippery pipe. As he was about to fall down, the Nexus saves him and tells him about the plight of being a slave. This shows the level of intelligents the replicant has. And by the end of that conversation, the replicant's life is over and it retires. Ford then comes back to his place worried about Sean Young, but she is alive and both of them leave the place to a safer location.

My Rating : Good (***)