The meaning of Shaapit is cursed but I don’t think Aditya Narayan will consider himself cursed for starting his career with the movie. At least the songs of the film suggest that.
Shaapit’s songs are not great but most are certainly good and worth a try. Son of prominent singer Udit Narayan, Aditya gives his voice to four songs out of seven in the movie and sounds fairly good if not a rock star. The interesting part is that Aditya is not just the hero and singer but even composer for a song. Here is a music review of Shapit.
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Tags: Aditya Narayan, Chirantan Bhatt, Music Review, Nazam Sheraz, Shreya Ghoshal
I was interested in the music of this movie for one reason. Kumar Sanu. Yesteryear’s singing star, who is difficult to even find nowadays, is the producer of Yeh Sunday Kyun Aata Hai. Not so surprisingly, Kumar Sanu happens to be the composer for the movie and has definitely given his voice to some songs, and thankfully, not all of them.
While the album is not really great and sounds very Nadeem-Shravanish, the strength of the album is it’s singers. The album boasts of Sunidhi Chauhan, Shaan and even Kavita Krishnamurthy besides Sanu, and these singers have added at least something to the album’s almost outdated music.
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Tags: Kavita Krishnamurthy, Kumar Sanu, Music Review, Shaan, Sunidhi Chauhan
Doorie….
Yup, Click starts exactly on the same note as Shamir Tandon’s first composition Rubaayi starts exactly like Atif’s Doorie even though it changes its path early. The song though is good, and all singers, especially Sunidhi sound well. Lyrics of the song are slightly better than average for a usual love song. Overall, other than Atif effect the opening song of Click is not bad.
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Tags: Adnan Sami, KK, Master Saleem, Music Review, Raaj, Shamir Tandon, Shreya Ghoshal, Sunidhi Chauhan, Vijay Prakash
I was wondering what would be the fate of striker after such less promotion. But now I think the movie can run on word of mouth. Yes, I loved striker. Or at least most parts of it. Though it was a one man show by Siddharth, and it’s only his second Hindi film, the Bomarillu guy knows what he is to do here, and to say the least, he is here to stay, however the movie fares.
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Tags: movie review, Siddharth
Yes, Atif is coming to Bangalore on 13th February, 2010. Venue: as usual, Palace Grounds. There is report that the show, called Tu Janne Na, will be supporting Kids who have AIDS.
The ticket prices for the show start from Rs 850, and go to 1250 and 2000 for Level 2 and Level 1 respectively.
The tickets for the show can be booked from TicketFlare or BookMyShow.
I love Rahman. But I am still trying to guess what was there in the song Jai ho that the world is suddenly setting it up on fire. Anyway, I love Rahman for the hundreds of really great songs he has given us and I’m happy that he is getting recognition. And so is India, in a different way.
Well, that is anyway not the topic I want to talk about. The topic is that while Rahman was receiving Grammy awards, I was doing something that told me a lot more about Indian music. As I was reading Ganesh Anantharaman’s book Bollywood Melodies where he has written about Hindi film Industry’s music and the people who made it.
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Salim-Sulaiman are nowadays giving music which is more movie specific than general, especially so in Pyaar Impossible. This time they get a thriller as Teen Patti, and they create some good music for the movie. The songs may not be hits before the movie, but they sound good enough to fit well in the movie and so, if the movie goes well, which I expect, the songs may be loved by people. Here is a review of the album.
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Tags: Anushka Manchanda, Music Review, Naresh Kamat, Salim Merchant, Salim Sulaiman, Sonia Saigal, Sunidhi Chauhan
Frankly, after watching Rann, Ishqiya is quite out of my mind. But one thing which I can surely tell you is that when I was watching it, I was loving it.
Ishqiya is an entertainment package. While the story of the film is okay with an old cliche given a new form, the direction of the movie is good, acting of Naseer, Arshad and Vidya is high quality, Vishal’s music is awesome and Rekha’s voice is beyond words.
And then, there is Dil to Bachcha hai ji. 
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Tags: Arshad Warsi, movie review, Naseeruddin Shah, Vidya Balan, Vishal Bharadwaj
If you ask me how many stars I would give to Rann, I won’t go for anything less than four if I gave a four to 3 Idiots. The movie may have it’s own shortcomings, which even 3i had, and may not even be that entertaining, but then, it’s not always about entertainment, as the movie itself says.
Rann is a lot. It’s a good movie on a good topic. It’s Ram Gopal Varma back to the form; quite as he was in Sarkar. It’s an actor’s wonderful entry in Bollywood (though he was in Phoonk and is a well known Kannada hero). And above all these, it’s something that we should see.
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Tags: Amitabh Bachchan, Gul Panag, Mohnish Behl, movie review, Rajat Kapoor, Rajpal Yadav, RGV, Riteish Deshmukh, Suchitra Krishnamurthy, Sudeep
It was one of my regular trips. In fact the most regular one. From the whitefield bus stop to my office, ITPL. As I saw a 333P coming, I waved to the bus and since the bus had to drop people there, it anyway stopped. I got into the bus and sat in the front seats. The conductor, who was in the seat right behind the driver’s, did not move. The small journey was about to end and the bus was at its last stop, ITPL (yeah, like common man, BMTC also calls International Tech Park Bangalore/ITPB by its old name ITPL only). The conductor in his bored mood asked me if I had pass. I clearly gave him a ‘No’. He started talking in Kannada as he was clear that I wasn’t a native Kannada speaker. Now, this is a standard observation that whenever the local conductors want an edge, MOST of them start talking in Kannnada to non-natives which generally results in them getting money as people just want to leave.
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Tags: Bangalore
Bangalore, or Bengaluru now, is one of the best cities I have seen. But still there are things that need to be worked upon, in large measure. This time, I have some pictures of Mota Royal Arcade that speak for themselves. A mall at one of the best locations possible in Bangalore, provides you paid toilets, and their condition.
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All I was expecting here was a good film without much, or maybe any music. But I got a good album too. As can be expected, the songs of the album believe more in good lyrics but the music is good enough not to get you bored, IF you are interested in words. The music is composed by Sandesh Shandilya, Nitin Kumar Gupta-Prem Hariya, and Vijay Mishra, and I still haven’t been able to figure out who has composed which song. So we’ll simply move to the review.
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Tags: Hariharan, Kailash Kher, Kavita Krishnamurthy, Music Review, Paresh Rawal, Sandesh Shandilya
No. This is not a so-called ‘critical’ opinion on the movie. Nor is it a bashing of the Salman’s Veer, so in case all you’re looking for is bashing and thrashing of the movie, switch over to other critics, there are many who have done that.
Of course, I had read so many reviews before I saw the movie and that was one of the reasons I saw the movie pretty late. But once I entered the theater, there wasn’t one time I felt I shouldn’t have come.
I know Veer is not the so-called sophisticated movie with right facts and logical script/screenplay. But if you are a Salman Khan fan and ready to join the madness which can be called Salmanism, you ARE going to enjoy the movie. After all, Veer still accommodates more mind than, with all due respect, Rajnikant movies do. 
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Tags: Anil Sharma, Gulzar, movie review, Sajid-Wajid, Salman Khan
Hide and Seek is composed by three people Chirantan Bhatt, Gourov Dasgupta and Rakesh Batra. The first song of the album, Jingle Bells sounds like the popular ringtone which is a similar spoof on Twinkle Twinkle Little Star. The lyrics of the song are a bit okay, else, it’s a complete down. May be liked for one time or so.
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Tags: Jojo, Krishna, Suraj Jagan
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