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Corruption is rampant in many countries today. No work is possible without chai paani (bribe). Everyone must have experienced this ubiquitous nuisance. KHATTA MEETHA, a remake of the 1989 Malayalam drama film, VELLANAKALUDE NADU (which was again directed by Priyadarshan) is a satire on this perpetual menace. While it was a novel issue back then, it’s been done copious times over the years.

Sachin Tichkule (Akshay Kumar) is a struggling road construction contractor in a small town who has taken loans practically from the entire village. But he still manages to wear sunglasses! Trigun Fatak (Manoj Joshi), Sachin’s brother-in-law, is a corrupt chief engineer who works in the municipality. Suhas Vichare (Milind Gunaji) is a road contractor married to Sachin’s second sister. Anjali (Urvashi Sharma) is Sachin’s college-going sister.

While Sachin struggles through his never-ending woes, things go haywire. A bridge collapses because of bad construction, taking many innocent lives. Figun, Suhas and others who were involved in the construction, conveniently pass the buck to Vishwas Rao (Tinu Anand), who is a driver of the Tichkule family and later kill him. Azad Bhagat (Makrand Despande), who has lost his wife and son in the bridge mishap, is determined to bring to justice the criminals behind the scam.

The common man’s troubles remain the central plot of the film. As if Sachin’s miseries weren’t enough, the new municipal commissioner turns out to be his ex girlfriend Gehna Ganpule (Trisha) who now loathes him.

The successful director-actor jodi of Priyadarshan and Akshay Kumar (HERA PHERI, BHOOL BHULAIYAA, DE DANA DAN) fails to entertain this time. Priyadarshan falls short to render the issue of corruption, which Rajkumar Hirani did effectively in portions of LAGE RAHO MUNNABHAI. It has the right intent but offers nothing which we haven’t seen. The screenplay gets monotonous with Sachin Tichkule constantly borrowing money, his numerous tiffs with Gehna, perverted acts of Rangeela (Rajpal Yadav) and random songs.

With an excruciating long running time of 2.40 hours, the film drags. Music by Pritam except for the song Nana Chi Taang, is very poor according to his standards. Only V Manikanandan’s choreography is neat.

Akshay Kumar’s comic timing is impeccable but he is very loud. Trisha, who makes her Hindi film debut, is passable. She looks too young to be a municipal commissioner! Urvashi Sharma is decent. Johny Lever, who is seen after a very long time, is uproarious. Wish we could see more of him. Rajpal Yadav gives a superlative performance. Makrand Despande is effective in his small role. Manoj Joshi is impressive while Kulbhushan Kharbanda is good.

The verdict
No dont go ! please dont waste your money! Please, Inception is running in the next (Now that’s a life saving advice)

Rating – 1.5/5

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Sure, this year’s Comic-Con event was steeped with geeky goodness, with plenty of movies, TV shows and — if you looked hard enough — even comic books arriving with presentations and panels intended to satisfy every fanboy and girl in attendance. But what wasn’t being royally hyped that maybe missed out this year?

1. The Adventures of Tintin
2. The Cabin in the Woods
3. The third Batman film
4. That prequel to The Thing
5. X-Men: First Class
6. Planet of the Apes: Rise of the Apes
7. The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
9. The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn
10. Waiting for “Superman”

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The poll, by men’s website Askmen.com (www.askmen.com) ranked 29 cities across the globe based on how good they are for men to live, work and play, based on data that includes the number of vacation days, the ratio of men to women, the weather, the unemployment rate and new restaurant and club openings.

Despite being battered by the global economic crisis, New York took the top spot, with Melbourne, Australia, coming in second. Tokyo was ranked third and Madrid and London rounded off the top five.

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Filesharing and BitTorrent blog, TorrentFreak, put together a list of the most illegally downloaded Oscar “Best Picture” nominee films for 2010 counting each BitTorrent download  as one vote. According to TorrentFreak, the data was compiled from several BitTorrent tracking services counting all versions of each film, including those taken with video cameras, and the numbers were compiled while checking for inaccuracies.

Total Downloads – District 9 – 12,639,000

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RUNN AWAY!! That is all I can say to somebody who’s planning to go watch RGV’s latest flick: Rann. It seems he has tried to do a Madhur Bhandarkar with it, but failed miserably. Even the presence of Amitabh Bachhan has not been able to lift the standard of the movie.

I have so many questions that I would like to ask RGV: what is Rajpal Yadav doing in the movie? (when you set out to make an intense movie, you don’t put in Rajpal Yadav for comic relief). What is the role of Nitu Chandra?(except for showing her cleavage and legs that is). And this is the best: Why does Purab(Riteish D) always wear a pullover-shirt combination to his office?(there’s certainly no dress-code). But what I’d like to ask him most is, what was he thinking when he made this movie!!

The movie starts pretty good, the opening sequence has a horror-movie-like feel and is quite slick. But it seems RGV has tried to keep that same feel throughout the movie. With the camera mostly, if not always, hidden behind something or the other, people going in and out of focus and profusion of dark shadows; after a while, you feel like you are watching a sting operation of some kind.  Too many characters is also a problem RGV has not been able to handle. Amitabh B, Paresh Rawal, Rajat Kapoor, Reteish D, Gul Panag, Nitu Chandra, Rajpal Yadav…the list goes on (and I’m not even counting a lot many character artists). In an attempt to juggle so many characters, RGV has not been able to do justice to anybody. Riteish D spends most of his time doing detective work on his motorbike. Amitabh B seems more like a preacher than the head of a large media channel; his son (played by somebody who’s a decent enough actor) is obsessed with his cigarette lighter (again RGV’s obsession with making his actors play with small objects, as if showing how a person swirls a drink in his glass is the sole object of making a movie)  and nitu chandra doesn’t have clothes to wear, so she spends most of her time in nighties only…wait!!  there’s someone who looks like Rajat Kapoor too, but he spends most of his time calling up people and acting as a message delivery boy.

The editing seems slack, the music ok,  the dialogues monologueish and a bit too clisht (hindi for “pure/bookish/heavy”), the characters try too hard and end up being too “filmy”. The talents of Mr. Bachhan and Paresh Rawal have been completely wasted, though Riteish has done pretty well. The story is pretty good; a twist of the conventional corrupt politician-ethical hero theme, the actors are very good. Given to any other director (I would not like to speculate who), editor-cinematographer team and a little revamping of dialogues could have turn it into a riveting drama.

My Rating: 2/5 (that too because of some good sequences by Riteish and Paresh Rawal)

RUNN AWAY!!!

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Yes You Heard it right. Indian Idol is having an audition for the first time in Jabalpur.

Venue: Hotel Narmada Jacksons

Date : 29-Jan-2009

So Get Ready to Use those Vocal Chords !!

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