66 posts , 57 comments , 233 Spam Comments. It has been an awesom journey. For the past 12 months, I have been blogging. There has been dormant periods, mostly because I was lazy and sometimes because I was busy. When I started blogging, I was confused on what topic to choose. Once that was resolved, my blog posts have been consistent. But then arose the problem of immaturity. Even after 60+ posts, I still think, I have tackled many topics especially politics ametuerishly. Hopefully, I am improving.

The journey began from an inspirational talk on blogging by Kenney. Kenney chettan is someone who I consider to be my mentor in more ways than one. Though I started this blog independantly, he has helped me all the way to make this blog what it is. There have also been other friends who had given me pointers. Even when I was feeling lazy, Sujithettan was there to motivate me to post more. A BIG ‘ Thank You ‘ to everyone.

Kambakkht Ishq is a mega budgeted comedy flick starring Akshay Kumar, Kareena Kapoor with some Hollywood stars doing cameos. The movie is produced by Sajid Nadiadwala and is directed by first timer Sabbir Khan. The movie is a remake of a hugely succesfull tamil film, PammalK Sambandam, which starred Kamal Hassan.

Synopsis
Viraj Shergil (Akshay Kumar) is a leading stuntman in Hollywood. He doesn’t believe in marraige. When his brother Lucky (Aftab Shivdasani) gets married to his girlfriend Kamini (Amrita Arora), he advices Lucky against marraige. Enter Simrita (Kareena Kapoor) who is a sworn spinster. She too chides Kamini for getting married and tell her men are only interested in women for ‘sex‘. Thus begins the battle of sexes between Simrita and Viraj.

Analysis
The movie’s main USP is its lead stars Akshay and Kareena. The battle of their ideologies form the crux of the script, but the catfight between them is vulgar and offensive. The scene in which Akshay kisses Kareena to stop her bickering or calling each other ‘dog’ and ‘bitch’ or the scene in which Akshay tries to hook Kareena up with a girl since she hates men is simply lousy and cheap.

Like his previous string of comedy movies, Kambakkht Ishq relies heavily on gimmicks to engage the audience. But unlike his previous films, this film is filled with cheap gimmicks which don’t even make you smile. Like the Kareena’s watch ending in Akshay’s stomach after operation or the women flashing at men during the wedding or the fight at the wedding party. The hero bedding numerous women and the following comedies seems repetitive from Heyy Babby. The scene in which Akshay teasing Kareena to be a ‘Virgin‘ when she says she is not interested in men or women is amateurish.

There are some good scenes in the movie but they are few and far apart. The scene in the operation theatre when Akshay realises that Kareena is going to be his surgeon or the introduction scene of Akshay or the awards ceremony scene are some of the better scenes in the movie.

Performance Of The Cast
Akshay Kumar brings nothing new to this role which is just an extension of his playboy roles in Garam Masala and Heyy Babyy. He tries to be dedicatd to his character and the script, but the character is so shodily developed all his efforts goes down the drain. Kareena Kapoor is good in the role of Simrita. She looks hot and beautiful and carries her role with panache. Aftab Shivdasani is alright in his role and Amrita Arora is mediocre. Its high time she realises acting is not all about wearing bikinis. The hollywood actors Brandan Routh, Sylvester Stallone and Denise Richards are just there to add a bit of spice. Excellent actors like Boman Irani and Javed Jaffery are wasted.

Technical Analysis
Director Sabbir Khan has resorted to tried and tested gimmicks to reach to the audience. Apart from a few scenes, he fails big time to keep the movie running. Baring a thousand loopholes in the script, the script is still weak and vulnerable and especially in the post interval part, the movie loses steam once it makes the transition to a romantic track. The dialogues of the movie are not funny and are offensive.

Akshay Kumar in a stuntman role. One would certainly expect some good action scenes but has to return dissapointed. The cinematography is excellent. The viewer is treated to some good shots of the Universal Studios and Kodak Theater. The Om Mangalam teack by RDB is excellent and Anu Malik’s music is good which have been choreographed well.

Verdict
The movie is held together by the sheer screen presence of its main leads and nothing else. Leave your brains at home and watch the movie and there is a small chance that you liked it. As for me, I would call this movie ‘unbearable’.

Rating: 2/5

Director Shyamaprasad (Ore Kadal, Akale…) is attempting a different movie, Rithu, which will be a youthfull movie. Scripted by Joshua Newtonn, this movie features a whole lot of youngsters. The movie is produced by Innostorm Entertainment Group and will be one of the first movies distributed by Mammootty’s Playhouse

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From my experience, I have learnt the fact that Movie making should never be a race against time. A typical example of what could go wrong when a movie becomes a race, is Prashant Maambulli’s 17 hour wonder, Bhagavan. The movie is centered on a terrorist attack in a hospital when Dr. Balagopal (Mohanlal) risks his life to save the day.

Analysis

It is after a long time that I am seeing Mohanlal so uncomfortable playing the lead character. He doesn’t seem interested and you cannot blame him as Bhagavan qualifies to be the worst movie in Mohanlal’s illustrous career. Direction by Prashant Maambulli is bad. I still can’t understand what was the need to complete the movie in 17 hours (though the movie wouldn’t have been any better even if it had been shot in 6 months).

The entire concept is ridiculous. For a movie to work with the audience, the soul of the movie (the script) should be good. But, in this case, the script (if ever there was one) and the story is silly with a childish screenplay. The manner in which most of the scenes are treated are silly and unexcusable. Be it the childish manner in which the commando units diffusing the bombs is portrayed or the closeups shown again and again, the movie throws at you a string of unthinkably ridiculous scenes. The dialogues are miserable and the word Bhagavan props up in Mohanlal’s dialogues every 100 words.

The director has wasted talented artists like Mohanlal, Lakshmi Gopalaswamy. The film is dumb and drags on and on paying no repsect whatsoever to the audience. Every 15 minutes you see some type of countdown from 10 to 0 on sceen and occasionally when the time of events in the movie are shown, it is then you realised you have been sitting through this movie only for about a few minutes. The movie fails on all technical grounds. The music of the movie is uninspiring.

When young directors like Ranjith Shankar and Swathy Bhaskar have given us refreshingly different movies, Prashant Maambulli gives us one of the most unbearable movies ever. At a run time of a little under two hours, Bhagavan is a bad excuse for a movie. Even ‘Bhagavan’ can’t save this movie.

Recomendation: Not even for your enemies. Stay far far away.

Rating: 1/5 (1 for completing it in 17 hours and for nothing else)

For the first time, the UPA declared its PM candidate much before the elections started. The candidate, Dr. Manmohan Singh was attacked by the NDA and third front saying he was the weakest PM. But still why did UPA win?

Firstly, the most important factor was the manner of campaign. While BJP and Left were keen on speaking how weak a PM Dr. Manmohan Singh was, the UPA was campaigning with the agenda of development of India. I still don’t seem to understand, instead of spreading their agenda, the BJP was busy pointing out the negatives in the UPA government.

Secondly, the youth of India were tired of hearing the age old Babri Masjid stories. If I could speak on behalf of the youth, then I would say, we were looking for a change, a leader around whom we could rally about. That leader was seen in Rahul Gandhi. His charisma simply won over the youth.

To a certain extent, I could say that BJD handed the UPA the win. The confusion raised about BJP’s PM candidate (Modi or Advani) nor the supporting of Varun Gandhi did them any good. What the BJP failed to realise is that the people are not willing to face another commnal battle.

UPA’s big win in potentially BJP, Left states cost NDA a lot. The win in TN, UP, AP, Rajasthan and West Bengal drove the nail through the coffin of the NDA and the third front. Thus BJP lost almost all their ploys and even their adwords campaign.

Last but not the least, ‘The Manmohan Singh Factor’ had a lot to do with the win. Even after being label as a weak PM, the people of India didn’t forget the man who stood adamant for the passing of the Indo-US Nuclear deal and got it done at all costs. This UPA win has marked the resurgance of national parties. India has said ‘JAI HO’.