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Rajneeti... the Politics and Beyond It is often said there exists a story and a movie, from which, one can derive all possible stories ever conceived or all other movie dialogues ever spoken. The story goes by the name of the epic, the Mahabharata and the movie happens to be the 'Godfather' series. Rajneeti is one such attempt where Godfather met the Mahabharatha. Coming from the director of movies like Mrityudand, Gangaajal and Apaharan, Prakash Jha's latest, the Rajneeti is just a political revengre drama set in the backdrop of UP politics. Seeing the movie, one may believe that Prakash Jha has indeed made the journey from mainstream movies to commercial ones with a list of who's who of acting. Here he tries to mix too many things like revenge, politics and even 'love your family' kind of drama, and ends up highlighting nothing. The story is about two warring political scions Prithviraj Pratap (played by Arjun Rampal), a character resembling Son...

Lamha : The True Story of Kashmir *ing : Sanjay Dutt, Bipasha Basu, Kunal Kapoor, Anupam Kher Director : Rahul Dholakia As Kashmir was burning (and it still does, unfortunately), Rahul Dholakia brings us a movie that promises to reveal the real truth behind the politics of Kashmir but instead only end up widening the gulf between the audience and the filmmaker. The filmmaker though fail to take a definite position here regarding the political overtures which happen in Kashmir and implicates everyone, right from the politicians, to the police, the army, the intelligence agencies in keeping the unrest alive, leaving the audience a confused lot. Lamha thus, neither does emphasize on Kashmir’s past nor does it spotlight on its present but in fact gives a harsh picture wicked human side. The man on the mission, Sanjay Dutt (an Army Officer from the Intelligence Wing) is sent to the dodgy valley to explore the nitty-gritties of politics in the region and he eventually unearths a plot t...

Rock On! Dir : Abshiek Kapoor, Prod : Farhan Akhtar *ing : Farhan Akhtar, Arjun Rampal, Prachi Desai, Shahana Goswami, Koel Puri, Luke Kenny When one has grown up listening to Rolling Stones, Pink Floyd or Eric Clapton, a movie based on the lives and times of rock stars, automatically draws you onto the theatre. If one adds one's own middle life retrospect of one's own career, the theme of idealism verus realitic survival or rather.. a battle of 'what i could have become' and 'what i became', begins to resonate. This was what exactly happened last weekend or rather when I had that extended weekend - thanks to Independence Day - I could see three classic movies of recent times. The first one was 'A Wednesday', and then on the next day, that truly amazing trendsetting 'Dil Chahta Hei (DCH)' and on the third day, to round off that weekend, the amazingly made 'Rock-On!'. Seeing Rock-on was my second attempt at that movie, and when i finishe...

Delhi-6 It so often goes that once you raise your standards in things you do, you tend to cater to higher expectations in all future endeavors. This is one plain fact, that Rakyesh Om Prakash Mehra should have kept in mind while he made Delhi-6. After creating a trend-setting, movie like Rang De Basanti, his new movie fails to hold the viewers' interest. But this doesn't take away from the fact that just like Rang De Basanti, this one movie too is socially relevant and carries a message. As the title suggests, Delhi-6 is the pincode of Chandni Chowk, its most crowded, but the most beautiful and varied of places and the film gives a fabulous glimpse of this eternal old delhi market place. The Jelebis, the pigeons, the kite flying, festivals, and monuments are all there both traditionally and modern and we feel, little has changed from the old times. Into this hot-spot comes Abhishek Bachchan who is an NRI with his ailing grandmother who wishes to die in her own place. It do...