Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi - Jodi No. 1

Hi all..

After a tiresome November with a pretty long working hours, it was time for me to have a break n go back home. We decided to go for a movie this weekend and it was SRK starring "Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi" - [means "A couple made by God!!"]

Below is my review of "Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi"..

RAB NE BANA DI JODI

Genre: Romance/Comedy

Direction: Aditya Chopra

Cast: Shahrukh Khan, Anushka Sharma, Vinay Pathak
Storyline:

A common man's yearning to express his love for his wife after their accidental marriage.

Bottomline:

SRK's versatility makes you watch it inspite of logical flaws and slow screenplay.

ShahRukh Khan join hands again with Yash Raj Films for yet another romantic movie "Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi". My first thought of romantic movies from Yash Raj Banner is the likes of "Veer Zaara" which had the romance with a lot of sentiments going. But this one is a bit refreshing with humour being a part throughout the movie but sentiments are also there in it [After all it s Yash Raj Films!!]. Also no foreign locations like those in typical Yash Raj Films. The film rolls over in the midst of city of Amritsar.

Surinder Sahni [ShahRukh Khan] , a common middle-class man working for Punjab Power, is so attached to his work as he always attend his calls greeting "Punjab Power! Lighting up ur life!!"[Even he shows his pride on his job by having his scooter labelled Punjab Power and his bag spelling out "I Work for Punjab Power"]. He goes to attend the marriage of the daughter of one of his college professors. The bridegroom dies in an accident on the way to marriage and Surinder marries his professordaughter as it was the last wish of his teacher. The bride Tanni[Anushka] lives in a separate room in Suri's home and Suri tries to do everything that will make her happy. It was very difficult for Tanni to forget her fiance as it was a love marriage and she couldnt even think of loving another person even her husband, Suri.

At the time, Tanni sees a reality dance show ad like Jodi No 1 in Amritsar and joins for it. Suri gets the help of his friend Bobby [Vinay Pathak] to change himself [Moustache removed, Specs replaced by Coolers and formal dress to casuals!!] as a cool dude Raj who joins Tanni as her dance partner. Its really surprising how couldnt Tanni identify that Raj is her husband [A big logic flaw in the movie which director is justifying that Rab (God!) is the one who s starting a new love story for Suri and so due to his wish, Tanni couldnt identify Suri! Rubbish!!]. Whether Suri got back his love reciprocated from Tanni? How did Suri disguised[??] as Raj made it happen? What love story did God write for the couple he made?? The answers for these questions lies in the rest of the movie.

Shah Rukh Khan proves again with his acting that his success is just not due to any six-pack abs. Whether it may be yearning for love of his wife, staring all day the tiffin box which his wife gave or the transformation of Suri to Raj, SRK personifies the character in every slightest movement of his body. SRK is the big plus of this movie.

Anushka Sharma being a debutante does her work well but due to some inconsistencies in the portrayal of her character, she scores average in her debut performance.

Another refreshing character is Vinay Pathak. He makes us with giggles of laughter with his small pranks n dialogue delivery.

The music being taken care by Salim & Sulaiman Merchant was finely done but it missed something to make the songs to feature in top charts. 'Haule Haule' was sparkling with SRK act and 'Dance Pe Chance' was a foot tapping number. The "Om Shanti Om" type song "Phir Milenge Chalte Chalte" had a good cinematography by Ravi. K.Chandran. "Thujme Rab" 's melody is soothing.

Much more was expected from director Aditya Chopra's come after 8 years. It was sloppy comeback for somebody who gave film like Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge as his debut. But the name of Rab(God!) was taken each n every instance and Rab was always there as a justification of Addi Chopra's logical flaws.

If you are real lover of celluloid love stories, this is a really new look to it. You can watch this atleast for Shah Rukh as Surinder. For ones those who had faced love in their life, u can find few instances of resemblances in this movie.

The tagline says "There is an extraordinary love story in every ordinary jodi". But this is a normal story but surely not an extraordinary one.

Surely 3 out of 5 can be given for this film especially for Shah Rukh's portrayal of Suri.

Plus: SRK as Surinder Sahni

Minus: Simple story with logic errors, An as expected climax

Rating: 3/5 - Average

After this film s over while waiting for my bus, I saw a blind beggar taking his wife's hand as support and asking for alms in the bus stop.

There I saw the real love! After all filmy things cant ever match those in real!!

Dhaam Dhoom - A Review

Hi frenz..

After a great struggle by my friends to get tickets for the movie "Dhaam Dhoom", we got our chance to watch the movie last evening at sangam cinemas.
Its long time I wrote a review so consider this as a work of amateur.
The movie created a lot of hype as its songs charted in the Top Hits right from day one of the music release.

Cast:

Gautham -" Jeyam" Ravi
Shenba - Kangana Ranaut(Introducing)
Arthy - Lakshmi Rai
n many more..

Review:

The film starts with a homage to the late cinematographer-director Jeeva whose memories linger in our mind whenever we come across the beautiful shots of Russia in the film. The way of dispalying titles portrayed novelty. The first shot showing the flow of the phone number from Shenba's(Kangana) phone to that of Gautham's(Ravi) was a new try n worked good. The first song "Pudhu Pudhu" started then.
Along with Ravi, there was a rapper whom I first failed to recognize. It was Guna, one of the members of Hip-Hop Group "Yogi B n Natchatra". A good song n a highly commendable camerawork.
Gautham(Ravi) who is a doctor by profession and expecting his marriage in a fortnight, starts for Russia half-heartedly to attend a medical conference. The "Bride-to-be" Shenba(Kangana) keeps on talking to him thru mobile. Then the second song comes ( in a span of 15 t0 mins after the first one!!). A beautiful song "Aazhiyilae" composed on the basis of the Anandha Bhairavi rocks u.
Then zoom!! The story goes to Russia. The director shows u the strict conditions of Russia where terrorism, drug smuggling, etc. is very much prevalent. There Gautham meets a model n another song "Thiku Thiku"(Oh my God! Not Again a Song!!). The next morning, the model is found dead at Gautham's Room n he gets arrested. It turned out that the model was none other than the daughter of Asst.Commissioner of Police there. Gautham s unable to explain his situation as the Russians speak nothing but their native language and lands up in Jail.Then comes flashback. The director has placed the flashbacks cleverly so that one doesnt get too much bored.
Raghavan Nambiar(Jayram), an officer in the Indian Embassy tries his best to comfort Gautham that his case will be well taken care by the Embassy . Jayram comes up with a good show in the movie but still lack the aggressiveness of a villain(Yup! Believe me!! He s playing the negative role!!). Amidst all these chaos comes Aarthy(Lakshmi Rai) as the attorney for Gautham. While returning from court, a mob tries to take down Gautham during which he escapes from police custody. Then it is a continuous Cat & Rat show. Gautham is being chased by police as well as the mob. Meanwhile, Aarthy develops a liking for Gautham which lasts for only one song "Sakiye"[Ha.. Ha..] after which Gautham tells about his engagement and Puff! goes the one-side love out of air.
Lot of flashbacks follow showing how Gautham fell for Shenba and the both the families reactions n other stuff. And Srinath, the actor who played "baachu" in "Ullam Ketkume and as the Indo-Australian in "Unnale Unnale", comes as Ondipuli more commonly known as "Chinnadhu"[??]. He keeps the bone tickling with his cheeky timing comedies. And Of course, second half has its own share of songs!! Till the day of marriage, Shenba hopes Gautham will return and waits for him.
How Gautham realises the dirty play of Raghavan and how Aarthy assists him to escape from the clutches of Russian law is the climax?
And since this is a tamil romantic film with Jayam Ravi in the lead, the end should be a happy ending and so Gautham and Shenba lived happily ever after.

One Hitch is that the song "Uyyalalo" didnt feature in the movie. But it didnt matter as there were song, songs all the way.
Jayam Ravi has given a consistent perfomance especially stunts and dance.
Kangana Ranaut as a debutant plays a girl next door character but still doesnt fit into the shoes of the likes of Meera Jasmine in "Sandakozhi". But a really fresh start to her career in Kollywood.
Lakshmi Rai has donned a really good character role unlikely to her previous movies where the glamour quotient was more than scope for acting . Here she has grabbed her chance and given her best.
"Pithamagan" Mahadevan, Bose Venkat, Nizhalgal Ravi, Chetan, Anu Hasan and company filled their roles to expectations.

Jeeva has written, directed the script well. And most importantly it didnt remind me of any other foreign or indian movies. He has caught the beauty of Russia in every frame and it is really a bad fortune for Kollywood to loose such a great technician.


PLUS: Cinematography, Screenplay, Stunts in Russia
MINUS: A desperation at last 15 mins to end the movie which results in a flurry of events, weak and guessable climax.


Though this film had most of the right ingredients in the right proportions, it still leaves a feeling that something is missing!
Anyway it provides a good entertainment and joins the loooooong[Pretty Long!!] line of always-welcomed romantic movies in Kollywood.
So this weekend, grab a movie ticket or two and enjoy the "Dhaam Dhoom" with a bag of Popcorn and Dhoom!!

Google Chrome - A Vital Member In The 21st Century Browser War!

Hi Frenz.. I m back after a year long of Hibernation! This time its gonna be about the new Google Web Browser "CHROME" which is making news!! Lets get into stuff right away!!!

The Browser War of the 21st Century is not a new one for any Computer enthusiasts. It got its peak during the Antitrust law suit against Microsoft during 2001. After that a lot of browsers started coming into market - Apple's Safari, Mozilla's Firefox to name a few. But it was a paradox that the leader in Web services "Google" didnt make any news regarding its browser. Now "Google" has made its impact in Browser market with its all new "CHROME".

Google Chrome is the new free open source browser launched by the Web Juggernaut GOOGLE on 2nd september 2008. The Windows Version of Chrome has been launched in 43 languages and the UNIX n LINUX versions are under development.
Now to the prime factors that decide the success of a Browser:

Security:
Security is taken care of automatic download of two blacklists - one for phishing and another for malware. Chrome uses the same tabbing as in IE8 and firefox. Chrome uses Sandboxing technique for each n every tab. That is, the processes running in one tab doesnt affect the other tabs and they end as the tab gets closed.
Speed:
When the discussion of browsers comes the most important feature to an end user is Speed!! Chrome works on V8 JavaScript Engine which has features like dynamic code generation, precise garbage collection, hidden class transition. Tests show that chrome is nearly twice as fast as Firefox 3.0 and Safari.

Initial Hiccups of "CHROME":
Some flaws in Chrome has been found of which some has been fixed and some yet to be taken care.
1. A denial of service flaw has been found. A malicious web page has the capability to crash the whole web browser. This flaw has been fixed.
2. Chrome has been found to be vulnerable to Carpet Bombing Attack. It means the Google Chrome users can be lured into downloading and launching a JAR (Java Archive) file that gets executed without warning. Chrome is actually WebKit 525.13 (Safari 3.1), which is an outdated/vulnerable version of Safari. Apple patched the Carpet bombing issue in its Safari 3.1.2 but Chrome is yet to fix it.
So why r u waiting for? Just go n check out the cool new Google Chrome and experience the "Google way " of Surfing the net.