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...Yahaan (2005)
Highly recommended
An excellent movie. Its pathetic that public goes gaga over silly SRK movies and doing injustice to fine movies like Yahaan. Minisha is great for her debut and Jimmy is quite charming. Very good music. I love song "Naam Ada likhna" is in class of Machis. Very nice story and screenplay. I found this movie's DVD at one of the Public library in USA and was surprised. The librarian told me that some Indian reader recommended this movie and they just ordered it. It was a treat to watch this movie. My wife liked it too. A very simple but heart touching love story going swiftly. Cinematography is superb and takes you to Kashmir.
Banaras (2006)
Superb.....
Excellent movie. Immensely thought provoking and "hat ke type" story. Music, direction and photography are superb and acting of lead star cast is stunning. Specially Urmila did wonderful job, she got the suitable role and did it well. Ashmit impressed me. Dimple, Raj Babbar and Nasseruddin had done hundreds of such role so played their part with ease and positive impact. Super natural subject line is always hard to present but direction and script really are praise worthy. Music is very touchy and blended nicely with scenes and situations. Movie is very lucid, though slow, unlike todays funky movies. Story is gripping and dialogues related to spirituality are admirable.
Don (2006)
Hopeless movie
This is very silly attempt by talented director like Farhan. Movie is deliberately pitted against the former original one to promote it initially and later on, different tune is sung by SRK and his media management to project it as a different movie. When SRK will come out of his stardom and will get into the skin of character? So much ado about nothing. Movie is doing business totally on media campaign and festive season. I couldn't bare this movie full so I left after 1hr. Music is too loud and intrusive sometimes. Stunts, graphics etc were upto the standards of today's film making but cannot substitute the solid performances of lead star cast.
Waqt: The Race Against Time (2005)
A tragic saga of Love
Simply great movie no doubt about it. Great story and superb performances, be it Amitabh, Akshay, Shefali, Priyanka, Boman or Rajpal. Hindi film industry is going shameless with Mallika and Co, this movie is totally vulgarity free and therefore bound to fail in vulgarity addicted our Indian society. But the message and concept this movie carries are absolutely superb. Anu Malik(boring copy-cat) could have been avoided and Ismail Darbar or Himmesh Reshmmiya could have been used as musician. I think Vipul Shah should have given little bit Gujarati touch particularly in music also. Anu Malik is worst musician around and he thinks himself popstar but this is not the movie where is presence was required-He looks only good with Govinda style songs. I felt some nice serious music with couple of good Ghazals or sad songs could have made this movie more memorable.
Kaal (2005)
I like these types of movies.
This is very good thriller. Well-chosen star-cast has done well. Vivek, John and Ajay impress a lot. Heroines have lesser role. First song of Shahrukh is useless, but he did great thing by not doing any role in this movie. In whole movie scenes of tiger comes rarely and thats bit strange. This movie could have been improved a lot but still I would appreciate the efforts of film-makers to launch new type of story and presentation than the common bollywood style. Movie tries to give good message but not well-emphasized. What I dislike was too-much of background music kills jungle peace and naturality, this should have been avoided. But all-in-all a novel attempt bears praise.
Khamoshh... Khauff Ki Raat (2005)
Another interesting movie on split personality but a dup of Hollywood
Movie is very interesting from the start to end. I haven't seen the original movie Identity-from which this movie made. But this is much better than Mahesh Bhatt style seductive cloning of English thrillers. Only two songs bore us least and movie goes in nice flow. All relatively junior star caste has done good job, Rajiv Singh(his debut movie), Vrajesh Hirji, Vishwajeet Pradhan impress with their role. Shilpa Shetty got the role which she suits while Juhi has done her bit well. I wish Dipak Tijori could have played some role. I have special admiration for Rajivsingh, he looks smart and acted well for the first movie. End is bit strange and I would have liked some more reasoning of the way movie was ended.