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Thursday, September 9, 2010
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'Housefull' - As good as you expected
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Cast: Akshay Kumar, Deepika Padukone, Lara Dutta, Riteish Deshmukh, Jiah Khan, Arjun Rampal, Boman Irani, Chunkey Pandey, Lillette Dubey
Music: Shankar Mahadevan / Ehsaan Noorani / Loy Mendonca
Director: Sajid Khan
It is a pity that Sajid Khan is following a strict 'mannat' according to which he will not read any reviews for 'Housefull'. I am going to say such good things about it. Let me be very clear right at the outset. 'Housefull' is silly, slapstick, often gross and more often contrived. But hey, c'mon…who really expected a highly cerebral comedy this time. Neither did the director ever claim such a thing, nor did anybody who went to see the movie get anything other than what they thought they would get. And as a critic, I am in one of my most lenient moods right now. If 'Housefull' delivers whatever it is supposed to deliver, it is a good movie. Period.
Yes, there are a few drawbacks naturally. The first half could be better utilised in terms of laughs.
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'Apartment' - Part Mental
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Starring: Tanushree Dutta, Neetu Chandra, Rohit Roy, Anupam Kher
Director: Jag Mundra
The only thing that is surprising about Jag Mundra's 'Apartment' is the allocation of role. Girl-next-door Neetu Chandra plays dangerously foxy Neha Bharadwaj while decided glam-doll Tanushree Dutta is Preeti, an airhostess who falls her victim. The story perhaps had the necessary ingredients of a fair-enough thriller had it been tackled with the right technique. But instead, the movie remains an unskilled take-off on Barbet Schroeder's 1992 thriller Single White Female starring Bridget Fonda and Jennifer Jason Leigh.
Plot - The plot is actually too simple for a thriller all things considered. Preeti chooses Neha as her apartment-sharing partner after having a misunderstanding with her live-in boyfriend. Initially coy and docile, Neha takes to her true colours after a while and decides to extend her scope of sharing to include a lot more.
Obsessively taking over Preeti's entire life - her clothes, her apartment, her boyfriend – Neha does not stop at
anything, not even murder.
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'Phoonk 2' - owls have awakened the crowing cock...
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Starring: Sudeep, Amruta Khanwilkar, Neeru Singh, Ahsas Channa, Amit Sadh, Ashwini Kalsekar and Jeeva
Director: Milind Gadagkar
Popular opinion is that 'Phoonk 2' is scarier, blood-curdlier, bizarrer and a lot more other superlatives in the fearsome line when compared to 'Phoonk', its prequel. But the point is, is it really necessary to be all of these in order to be a good 'horror' movie? Sometimes the best in the genre have created havoc simply on the strength of a few suggestive details. But let's not get off track.
In terms of being a sequel, 'Phoonk 2' is justified by a few recognisable threads. It's the same family's story, it's the same avenging spirit - only, Ashwini Kalsekar had personified evil in human form last time, this time she is back as a ghost. While Ram Gopal Varma had directed 'Phoonk', released in September 2008, Milind Gadagkar has directed 'Phoonk 2'.
Plot
'Phoonk' ended with Madhu (Ashwini Kalsekar) getting killed by tantrik Manja (Zakir Hussain). Phoonk 2 begins some time later with Rajiv taking his family to a vacation at his newly purchased beach house in Alibaug.
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