Mai Krishna Hoon

Cast: Juhi Chawla, Namit Shah
Direction: Rajiv S. Ruia
Genre: Animation
Duration: 2 hours 10 minutes
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Delhi/NCR
Fri 25 Jan 2013

Story: An orphan boy, who longs to have his own parents someday, finds happiness when he befriends Lord Krishna.

Movie Review: Kantaben (Juhi Chawla) runs an orphanage and funds it by mostly running a small-scale pappad business. One rainy night, she finds a baby abandoned in a basket, outside her orphanage. She takes him in and nurtures him. The circumstances in which she finds the baby, reminds her of Lord Krishna's birth and childhood. She thus names the boy (Namit Shah) Krishna. Krishna suffers from epilepsy. Things change for better for the boy, after he befriends Lord Krishna.

The film is not a full-fledged animation film. Barring lord Krishna's character and a few portions, the rest of the film is not animation. We wish the animation part was more as without it, the dramatic story isn't as effective and engaging.

The animated Lord Krishna is super cute and is the reason why you forgive the disjointed storyline. He is the hero of the film. The animation is decent if not first-rate.
Juhi Chawla plays a Gujarati character and we aren't sure if that is the reason why she chooses to go loud with her dialogues and expressions in most scenes. She makes you feel as if you are in a Kurkure commercial! She becomes subtle eventually for good.

Katrina Kaif and Hrithik Roshan are seen in special appearances. While Katrina's looks like a forced scene, Hrithik impresses even in the small but emotional scene he features in. The film, in fact, seems inspired by Hrithik's Koi Mil Gaya, where he overcomes all his short-comings after befriending an alien. Here it is Lord Krishna who creates magic and makes the world a better place.

Social issues have been unnecessarily added to the story. Child labour, discrimination on the basis of skin colour, milk being mixed with dangerous chemicals... add nothing to the story.

It is the presence of Lord Krishna that will make the kids in particular, ignore the flaws and enjoy the film which has both mischief and tears.

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Son of Sardaar: Movie review

 



Cast: Ajay Devgn, Sonakshi Sinha, Sanjay Dutt, Juhi Chawla
Direction: Ashwni Dhir
Genre: Comedy
Duration: 2 hours 20 minutes

Story: A strapping sardaar travels home (Punjab) from UK, to claim ancestral property; only to be welcomed by another family of sardaars who're age-old clan-dushmans. And the only escape is living-in with the enemy.

Review: Move over Chicken Khurana, the real butter kukkad is here. And he's here with a bang this Diwali - singing, dancing, flipping in the air - all in the mustard fields of Phagwara (that's in Punjab, FYI), classic Bollywood ishtyle. Except that this is a Singham getting Dabangg and Rowdier than any Rathore - on Punjabi steroids - and in total sardaar avatar. Hadippa!
Best Reader's Review


So bring out that tall glass of chilled lassi and let's figure the why, what, who of this desi-ghee story. Jassi (Ajay Devgn) jaisa koi nahi. He falls in love-at-first-sight, in a train with Sukhmeet (Sonakshi), call her Sukh please (she's quite a 'peace' of work); and ends up as a guest in her mad-house full of comical sardaars - The Sandhus. There's the head-of-the-house Billu paaji (Sanjay Dutt), bros Tony (Mukul Dev) and Tito (Vindoo Dara Singh), who've sworn to never have ice-cream and cold-drinks (rum-on-the-rocks is all he's ever had, poor liver, sigh!) until they avenge their father's death; and a kid sardaar who talks about 'pegs' (Patiala types).

Adding solid femme power to this macho sardaar story is Pammi (Juhi Chawla, delightful) Billu's mooh-boli-biwi, Bebe (Tanuja) suffering from part-time memory lapses; and lastly Rajpreet the loved buffalo (who mooed this cheez?) The problem? The Sandhus have been vengefully thirsting for Jassi's head, but can't lay a sword on him because he's their (unwanted) house-guest (mehmaan equals bhagwan, remember?), he even feigns 'paira-te-laces' (paralyses) to stay 'home' to save his life.

Ajay Devgn convincingly plays son-of-the-soil with power, playfulness and colorful pagdis in every scene. He switches from comedy, action and romance flippantly, impressing with funny lines, gimmicks atop a ghodi (Jassi again) and tons of PJJs (poor-Punju-jokes). Sonakshi throws in another 'heavy-weight' performance. In Ajay's own words, "kaafi bhaari hai" (read: weight). She does her usual dance routine (with ceetees et al), spouts 'chal jhoota' to all men, and plays the moophat girl in true sardarni style.

Sanjay Dutt, as the supporting sardaar, is a delight to watch. His gussa makes you giggle and his angry outbursts are adorable. Juhi Chawla lights up the screen with her comic timing as impeccable as ever. The coy-cum-cutesy scenes between Dutt and Chawla are amongst the highlights of this one.

The other members of this madhouse, Vindoo Dara Singh and Mukul Dev also pack a knockout Punjabi-punch with their dumb'n'dumber act.

Ashwni Dhir entertains in parts, with a plenty of Punju humour and goofy one-liners that crack you up. While handling all the Jaswinders, Parminders, Happys and Sweetys, he loses the plot, stretching it all around the sarson-ka-khet (and leaving some behind). This is a mass-entertainer, strung together with a series of Santa-Banta jokes, spiked solidly with macho sardaarisms.

Like Jassi says, "Kabhi toh hasliya karo", this one makes you laugh - in parts!