Honeymoon Travels Pvt Ltd Thursday, Oct 23 2008 

5 stars and comedy and dvd and indian cinema , , , , , Humaira 8:52 pm

Honeymoon Travels Pvt Ltd follows six honeymooning couples on a trip to Goa. The couples couldn’t be more different.

Aspi and Zara who are perfect for each other and never fight.

Pinky and Vicky who are childhood friends. Pinky is outgoing and talkative and Vicky is more introverted but has feelings for Bunty when he first meets him.

Oscar and Nahid are the oldest couple. Oscar was Nahid’s first husband’s business partner.

Partho and Milly  who are traditional and reserved. They met in college.

Hitesh and Shilpa who had an arranged marriage which Shilpa was unhappy about. She spends the first half of the film crying against her new marriage which it seems she was forced into.

Madhu and Bunty who met on the internet and married quickly, not even telling Bunty’s parents about the marriage.

And a strange man on a black motorcycle who follows the couples and still has business with one of the passengers.

Its a really funny and light hearted film with lots of interesting moments, plot twists and a great ensemble cast. Each of the characters grows and discovers something new about themselves and their partners which is what makes this film worth watching.

A hilarious 5 out of 5 for me!

Honeymoon Travels PVT LTD

 

Corporate Wednesday, Jul 9 2008 

5 stars and dvd and indian cinema , , Humaira 8:55 pm

Corporate tells the story of two giant Indian corporations and the people that caught in the middle. Its a unique story in Indian Cinema and tackles a topic which has yet to be handled.

I enjoyed it. It started slow, but then the twists and turns just kept coming and I kept watching!

Bipasha Basu steals the film in her amazing performance as a high powered executive forced to take the blame for a scandal gone bad. She really makes the film worth watching as you watch the treachery and deceit unfold.

5 stars.

Corporate

 

Life in a Metro Saturday, Jun 14 2008 

4 stars and dvd and indian cinema , , Humaira 10:35 pm

This film deals with the lives of 4 couples as who live in Mumbai.

It’s a story of lust, broken hearts, strained relationships and regret told in inter cutting scenes as we jump from couple to couple as they try to work through their individual dilemmas. Each of the couples is looking for love, embarking on an affair or reclaiming lost love.

Its very different from the typical Bollywood movie, in that it follows the new trend of ensemble casts and tells differing stories that interconnect at the end.

I really enjoyed this movie, because while I love my masala movies with their time tested plot of boy meets girl, but they can’t be together and lots of songs and colour, sometimes you want a more serious movie.

Whilst this is not ground breaking, its a very real collection of stories about the hidden lives of the people we encounter every day and the way fate sometimes connects us.

This was marketed as Shilpa Shetty’s comeback film after the Big Brother fiasco, and she does phenomenally well in it. I’ve only seen one other film of hers, Dhadkan (Heartbeat) in which she totally over acted. But in this one she was very restrained as a bored housewife who embarks on an illicit affair with an actor she meets on the Metro.

Also Dharmendra as one half of the older couple in the film who comes back to die in India with his first love who he abandoned 40 years ago due to family pressure, makes the film stand out. No wonder he’s India’s second best actor after Amitabh Bachan.

The film isn’t without its flaws, in that I think in some places its too long and drags on a bit, but they’re minor complaints in an otherwise wonderful film.

This is one I would definitely recommend if you’re after something different from the Indian Cinema genre.

4 stars out of 5.

Life In A Metro [2007]