If you have watched the trailers of the movie Jannat, you must have got excited to know about match fixing and stuff. And many of you might have gone for the movie too.. (I could see that in the theatre with 80% of the seats being occupied in an afternoon show) But I have come to the rescue for the ones who still wish to go for the movie..

Okay, the plot revolves around a guy who starts with small time gambling and moves into betting, (Reason: His powerful sixth sense) and then moves to Match Fixing but all these things are not known to his girlfriend, so you know what will happen when she gets to know right?

Okay, so the review time now..

The movie started with portraying character of Arjun Dixit (Emran Hashmi) started well showing the image of a person who wants to earn lot of money in a short period of time and who is not worried about winning or losing. Okay, now, the lady love enters, Zoya (Sonal Chauhan), the gambler turns into a lover boy, breaks the glass of some shop to impress the girl. (That was purely stupid though) Uses friend’s money to buy a costly ring (He was supposed to pay that money to someone), the girl is in love with the guy. Now he needs a car?  He tries his luck at betting, his “sixth sense” makes him a millionaire within an hour. (Yea, it sucks)

So the point of these things in review? Well, I am trying to point out that the whole movie is based on so called “sixth sense” of Arjun, no tricks, no calculations, just pure luck. He guesses, Ganguly will hit six on the next ball and he does, He guesses, Sehwag will be out on next ball and it happens..

To be frank, these things doesn’t fit well in my tiny head. Just makes me say “Dude.. show me the real stuff.. not crap” But it never happens, the movie takes a good turn with love story. Sonal Chauhan tries to impress the audience and I guess she succeeded too. Must say, she looked pretty bold. Infact, Emran Haashmi was also good, very good acting.

Very good music, very good cinematography but what was bad then? The story.. it was very poor, execution was pretty bad too, specially the climax. It was simply pathetic, I could see many people walking out.

IF, the movie was executed well, IF the story had bit more about bookies (how they work and all), IF the movie did not have typical Mahesh Bhatt types ending.. then it would have been a much better movie but sadly, it did not happen.

I am quite disappointed with Jannat. I would rate it Rating: You can surely give it a miss and go for Narnia instead.

Box office wise, I think it should pick up well due to cricket and stuff, not sure about the future though.

Got this as a forwarded mail from a friend. You are gonna enjoy if you can understand Gujarati. (Though it is plain stupid but yet funny)..

Here we go..

Anyone heard about this movie, Jimmy? I guess no, actually it’s not worth knowing also. But I kind of wanted to watch this movie, not because I was expecting it to be a good movie but just because I wanted to watch macho man with kind of guy with Sachin Tendulkar’s voice. (No offence meant here though, just fun..) Talking about Mimoh, Mithun Chakraborty’s son.

Okay, so I reached the theatre at 10.30 AM for 10.35 AM show, got the ticket.. waited outside the screen 1. Was happy to see that it was still being cleaned up. Waited for around 10 minutes, still closed.

Finally, I asked someone at the helpdesk about it,

I told her - When is the show for Jimmy gonna start
She replied - Jimmy?
I said - Yea?
She asked again - Sir, Jimmy?
I replied - Yes, the movie Jimmy..
She checked my ticket to confirm, asked me to hold for a minute and went inside
She returned back with couple of guys, they all had a funny question mark sign on their face..
One of the staff members told me, Sir, unfortunately, we won’t be able to screen current show..
I asked them the reason for it?
He said, sir, because you are the only one who has booked the ticket for it..
I was like WTF.. there was one more guy yaar..
He replied - No sir, he was for some other movie.. we need atleast 4 people to start the movie..

Now, this incident reminded me of the movie Rocky, that movie had managed to get 3 people including me. But sadly, this one could not do that.

But I am no mood to review and go for it.. (though I am sure, my review would have give everyone a good laughter dose)

Anyways, that was my story.. pretty funny though.. I still remember, Sameer laughing out loud when I told him about it over the phone.. lol

Okay, now if anyone is still interested in the review, please read it on Buzz18 (Pretty funny review)

To be frank, I was going to review Jimmy (Mimoh starrer) first, but luckily I went for Bhoothnath and I am really happy about my decision. (More about Jimmy story in a while) Now back to Bhootnath.

The story revolves around a kid, Banku (Aman Siddiqui) and Bhootnath (Amitabh Bachchan). The story shows how Banku becomes friend of a bhoot or Angel in his words, how they share the relationship like grandfather and grand son.

Very well drafted story, aimed mostly at kids. In most of the kid movies we see the movie going overboard with those magical moments and gets lost in it or many movies mix lot of emotions to show softer side of the bhoot / ghost. But this movie has balance of both, emotions and comedy (magical stuff).

The kid Aman, impressed me the most, very natural acting. Really loved the chemistry between Amitabh Bachchan and the kid, they look as if they are actually grandfather and the grandson. Like always, Amitabh Bachchan, he is a superstar, no one can beat him in terms of acting. Juhi Chawla was good, perfect for the character of a mother. Shahrukh was in guest appearance kind of role, nothing great there, they could have gone for an actor who is bit lighter on the pocket. Rajpal Yadav had a very limited role, kind of failed to make me laugh but his character was needed, so not wasted.

Graphics work was pretty good, I guess we have reached to a pretty good level in the field of GFX. I remember earlier kid movies, they badly lacked good GFX work.

Direction was pretty good, editing required some kind of tune up, found some scenes cut suddenly.. also couple of songs could have been chopped.. though kids might love those songs.

I guess, that’s it. Pretty nice movie.. worth watching in theatre, kinds gonna love this one.

I would give it Rating: . On the box office front, it should do fair amount of business, should reach the hit mark atleast.

Watched few movies last week.. so here are the quick reviews:

1. The Darjeeling Ltd. - Very different movie, in the beginning, I didn’t like it much but the end result was good. Pretty decent movie, only 1 and half hours though but worth visiting theatre once for it.
2. Iron Man - Fantastic movie, a must watch. Really enjoyed watching it. Loved the display of gadgets in the lead actor’s home / office. Action scenes were pretty smart.
3. The Forbidden Kingdom - Good movie, nothing great though but if you like Kung Fu fighting and Jackie Chan, don’t miss this one. Great fight scenes, worth watching once.
4. Tashan - Anil Kapoor was simply the worst of all, I would have preferred someone hitting on my head than listening to crappy dialogues of Anil Kapoor. Akhay Kumar was good but still not worth spending money only for him. Saif, Kareena were OK OK. I am still not able to grasp why Kareena was needed to put off the weight for this movie. The movie missed story, screenplay and direction too. Fight scenes were utter crap, above the head, confusing and too loud. Climax made no sense to me. They tried to show Kareena like Uma Thurman of Kill Bill but ended up showing some funny action scenes. Overall, the movie sucked. 

That’s it for now, next week looking forward to Mimoh Chakraborty’s Jimmy. (I love to watch stupid movies..) and Amitabh Bachchan starring Bhoothnath.