Movie Review of ‘Aurangzeb’ – Film that fails to leave a mark!

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After Shahid Kapoor appeared in double role in his movie Kaminey, we are getting to watch another movie with lead hero in double role. This time it is Arjun Kapoor who is starring in his second film in Bollywood. It seems that the formula of twin roles is still alive in Hindi film industry.

Aurangzeb Movie Poster

Arjun Kapoor has played a double role in movie Aurangzeb which is a debut film of Sasha Agha

We know Atul Sabarwal who is a director of the movie for his praiseworthy works in the past – a TV serial ‘Powder‘ which aired on television for a very short time and a thriller “My wife’s Murder” which earned critics positive reviews but failed to succeed commercially on box office. This time Atul is back with a masala movie with traditional twin brothers formula on the big screen.

The story of the movie is quite straightforward with almost predictable climax. Ajay (Arjun Kapoor) is the son of the real estate developer Yashvardhan (Jackie Shroff) in Delhi. Yashwardhan is,infact, a big gangster who under the disguise of his property empire runs a crime world.

Rishi Kapoor has played a senior inspector of crime branch named Ravikanth. He is well aware of Yash’s unethical activities and along with his team including Arya (Prithviraj Sukamaran) and Dev (Sikender Kher) plots a deadly plan to destroy the kingdom of Yashwardhan. With the help of his associates he manages to kidnap Ajay and infiltrates his look-a-like Vishal (Arjun Kapoor) in Yash’s empire to know all the other partners and plans they had to promote their black ideas.

However Ravikanth himself is not clean as he had to be. He is ambitious and has an unwise dream to be the kingpin by ruining Yashvardhan. Then comes a twist in the tale and Ajay and Vishal come to know that they are twin brothers who were parted in childhood under critical circumstances.

Do the brothers unite together to fight against the kings empire or they continue to fight with each other for their personal interests is best to watch on screen. That’s how the story deals further. It is very easy for an ordinary Bollywood fan to guess what happens next.

The movie really runs slow in the first half but picks pace after the interval. The scene where Rishi Kapoor assassinates his son-in-law arouses some intensity. The bloody political game between rivals Yasvardhan and Ravikanth to win one of the biggest building projects is seen to have some association with the story. But this momentum lasts till here only and after that film starts loosing its plot as nothing is given a fine shape to admire leave alone to remember.

One of the drawbacks of the film are its action sequences. The shootout scene at the hospital where Jackie and Arjun are shrilled with bullets will surely amuse you because the hero stands tall to fight back to the cops doesn’t have even a mark of blood on his face. We must say that the entire screenplay was the weakest part of the film. It has lots of holes in it and they are beyond recovery. When the story is plain and predictable and the dialogues are wacky what remains to be remembered in the movie?

Somewhere in between the movie director remembers to put a historical reference to justify the title of the movie and comes a needless and uninspiring Aurangzeb session by Rishi Kapoor. However the emphasis given connects nothing to the title. One feels that if the Mughal Emperor was alive today, he would surely have raised questions about the unnecessary tagging of his name to the film.

Arjun Kapoor as Ajay and Vishal

Arjun Kapoor in double role in Aurangzeb

Arjun Kapoor has done some impressive acting in his double role in ‘Aurangzeb’

Arjun Kapoor has tried hard to live up to the expectations in the role of Ajay where he appears energetic and funny. Unfortunately, he is kidnapped which may be the need of the script and arrives Vishal who has altogether different character. But we must admit that Arjun has delivered a good act in a beam and boisterous look. His dialogue delivery is good and the same charm that he showed in his debut film is carried in this film as well.

Rishi Kapoor as an ambitious Cop

Rishi Kapoor as an ambitious cop in Aurangzeb

Rishi Kapoor has played an ambitious cop in Aurangzeb and makes his presence felt with dominant acting

Rishi Kapoor has shown different shades of his acting skills after he is back on the big screen which can be called as his second innings. He loves to experiment and is ubiquitous in every second film that he is in. Here the cop’s role suits him perfectly. He looks like a person in command and his dialogue delivery looks dominant. He has justified his role with his equally potent acting abilities.

Prithviraj as a cop

The South Indian star Prithviraj seems to be settling his feet in Bollywood after he tasted failure in his debut movie – needless to mention the name.

Sexy Sashaa Agha makes Bollywood debut

Sasha Agha in Bikini in Aurangzeb

Sasha Agha looked extremely hot and sexy while flaunting off her curves in bikini in Aurangzeb

Daughter of Pakistani singer actress Salma Agha, Sashaa Agha has failed to leave any remarkable impact in the movie. She has played a female lead opposite Arjun and have exposed enough flesh as she could which didn’t seem to have come to her rescue. Her limited acting skills are exposed in some of the scenes. However she looks hot and stunningly sexy in her bikini that she has flaunted off in a poolside scene.

Sasha Agha looks beautiful

Pakistani actress Sasha Agha made her Bollywood debut with Aurangzeb.

Other Actors contribution

Jackie Shroff has played a business tycoon cum gangster and a helpless father quite powerfully. His presence on the screen is impressive. His body language has an aura and is compelling which is seen in Aurangzeb. After a long break we see Amrita Singh on big screen and it is good to watch her back in the business.

Final Review

Overall the film Aurangzeb is an average film with an ordinary story and predictable climax. The movie certainly deserves 2 and half stars and fails to make any impression.

Vidyut Jamwal and Akshay Kumar

Akshay Kumar will be part of ‘Commando 2′ confirms Vipul Shah

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Friendship of veteran filmmaker Vipul Amritlal Shah and superstar action hero Akshay Kumar is known to all. Akshay has worked with him in couple of his films like Waqt: The Race Against Time and blockbuster Singh is King. The later was a big budget super hit film of the year. However everyone was surprised when Vipul choose a newcomer Vidyut Jamwal in his action flick Commando. It is an action movie where all the stunts are performed by the hero of the film Vidyut himself. Being a karate champion himself Vidyut has enjoyed working in the action sequences of the movie just like Akshay Kumar. The film Commando contains death defying and thrilling action sequences that will make audiences hold their breath.

 

Vidyut Jamwal and Akshay Kumar

Akshay Kumar will be advisor and consultant in sequel of the film Commando.

However we hear that the reason behind not signing Akshay Kumar for the film was his busy schedule. Akshay was not ready to do this film and hence Vipul had no other option but to look for an equally skillful and talented youngster Vidyut Jamwal. Akshay kumar was too happy to see Vidyut do this role. Vidyut was seen in his first action film ‘Force‘ where he played a villain opposite John Abraham. The film didnt do well on the box office but it gave Vidyut a recognition as an artist and action star. He bagged all the awards for new face that year.

 

After a success of Commando, Vipul is planning to make a sequel of the film named Commando 2. This time he wants Akshay to be a part of the film. Vipul has confirmed that Akshay has given a nod to the project and he will be there but in a different capacity and not as a hero of the film. We understand that Akshay will be a part of the film as a consultant and adviser.

 

Vipul Shah said, “Akshay is the best action hero in the country. He was the most excited when we started Commando with Vidyut and, in fact, we’d have liked Akshay to participate more in Commando.  But he was busy. Now in Commando 2, we definitely intend to bring Akshay in.”

We all are excited to see Commnado 2 in theatres soon!

Thakur beats Gabbar in Sholay Climax

Climax of Sholay Where Thakur kills Gabbar was changed!

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Thakur beats Gabbar in Sholay Climax

Thakur is not shown killing Gabbar in the climax of the Sholay film as Police intervene in between. In original story however Gabbar was shown killed by Thakur with his feet.

Maker of the historic film Sholay, Ramesh Sippy, 66, has said that he is not yet happy with the end of the film. The original end that he shot for the film was rejected by the Censor Board as they found it too violent for the audience. To make them satisfied Sippy had to re-shoot the whole sequence again as per the demand of censor board. Sippy was speaking at Centenary Film Festival.

 

Speaking of those days of emergency when Censor Boards rules and regulations were very strict and filmmakers had to follow the stern guidelines Sippy further added that he had to convince the Board members about his idea of violence and its picturization in his film. The hands of film makers were tied. They could almost nothing. Censor Board had a very strong objection on the violence shown in the movie. Sippy tried to convince the board members that the movie doesn’t feature much of a bloodshed or gore.

 

The violence in the movie is symbolic. It is in the context of the movie. Even the scenes where Thakur’s hands are sliced off are not shown in the movie. The scenes were not even written leave aside shooting. The impact of the scene was produced with the shawl falling off. The cutting of the hands was suggestive and the actual scene was never shown as the makers ever felt it was necessary. The board however objected to the impact that it would leave on peoples mind.

 

Board did not stop at this point. They further went on to take a strong objection on the climax of the film where Thakur was shown fighting with Gabbar and killing him in the end. According to Board, it was very ruthless and violent of the ending. So they asked Sippy to change the climax and re-shoot the ending. Sippy had to argue on this point with them but in vain.

 

Finally he had to call back Sanjeev Kumar who was in Russia at that time attending a film festival. They had to go back to Bangalore where the actual set of the film was erected and they re-shoot the entire sequence where Thakur didn’t actually kills Gabbar at the end but Police intervene and stop him to take law in his hands.

Sanjay Mishra and Pragati Pandey in 'Saare Jahaan Se Mehnga...'

Saare Jaahan Se Mehenga… a satirical comedy by Anshul Sharma

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Sanjay Mishra and Pragati Pandey in 'Saare Jahaan Se Mehnga...'

Sanjay Mishra and Pragati Pandey are playing a lead roles in satirical film ‘Saare Jahaan Se Mehnga…’ which is a directorial debut of Anshul Sharma.

Director Anshul Sharma’s directorial debut movie ‘Saare Jahaan Se Mehenga…’ which is a satirical drama of the present situation of inflation in the country is releasing next week. We will take a look at the background of the movie, its story line and cast and crew.

 

Anshul Sharma is not a new face to the industry. The movie may launch him as a director in Bollywood, however he already has worked be with number of big names in the trade. The talented filmmaker had worked with many top names in the Hindi cinema like Anurag Kashyap (in DEV D and NO SMOKING ), Vishal Bhardwaj (OMKARA ) and Suneel Darshan (BARSAAT and DOSTI). This time he planned to venture on his own and has come up with a much more realistic movie which has a plot which is much close to the day to day life of a common man- that is inflation. When asked about how he came up with an idea of making a movie on this topic, Anshul said that the plot came to his mind during the recent price hike of Onions. He felt that if a satirical film is made on the burning topic then it can certainly create a buzz and awareness among the people.

 

While selecting cast of the film he preferred to go with mere handful of known faces and has focused on selecting new but talented actors. Veteran actor Sanjay Mishra is playing a lead role in the film. When asked if the film will only portray inflation as a central major issue or it has another shades of romance and comedy he clarified that the movie indeed has inflation at its core. However there is a spice of romance and comedy is prevalent in entire movie from start to finish. The issues are serious but the situations are comical and are delt with the backdrop of satire and humor.

 

The film will be released on March 8, 2013. The film is produced under the banner of Revel Films Pvt. Ltd. Revel Films is an entertainment-based film production company founded by Ashok Pandey and Pragati Pandey in 2009. The company provides a platform of new and budding talents by investing in production of out of the frame sensible movies. Earlier productions of Revel include the short film ‘An Expression‘ and the feature film ‘Phas Gaye Re Obama‘.

 

The other starcast of the film include Zakir Hussain, Vishwa Mohan Badola, Sitaram Panchal, Pragati Pandey, Paritosh Sand, Ranjan Chhabra, Disha and Pramod Pathak.

 

Recently as a part of promotional event of the film the cast of the film staged a ‘dharna’ at the jantar mantar in Delhi late last week. Almost of the actors and crew members of the film have participated in the dharna.

 

Nonetheless, it will be quite interesting how the film performs on box office. BollywoodTales team wishes the entire cast and crew of the production house all the very best!

Film ‘Kai Po Che’ box office collection report

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'Kai Po Che'

‘Kai Po Che’ movie starring Sushant Singh and Raj Kumar Yadav has been successful on Indian Box Office!

Abhishek Kapoor’s directorial venture ‘Kai Po Che‘ had already created news before its release. The reasons were so many. Not only it was based on the famous novel written by Chetan Bhagat named ‘3 Mistakes of my Life‘, but it was a debut movie of television superstar Sushant Singh Rajput.

 

Everyone knew that Sushant has played a big gamble by quitting his most popular roll on the television show ‘Pavitra Rishta‘. If the movie did not succeed then it would have been heartbreak for him and his career would be in shambles.

 

Still there is good news for Sushant Singh and his entire fan family. ‘Kai Po Che’ has done exceptionally well on the box office in its opening week itself. The film has newcomers like Sushant Singh Rajput and Raj Kumar Yadav in leads. Both are fresh faces but the magic the movie has created has made them superstars overnight!

 

The film has concluded the first week with a superb business at the Indian Box Office. The movie has topped the domestic collection chart.  Sanjay Dutt, Vivek Oberoi and Arshad Warsi starrer ‘Zila Ghaziabad’ stood second this week.

 

‘Kai Po Che’ had massive promotions in all media forms. The movie had a massive response at the multiplexes. However in single screen theaters the business was average for the film. Saturday and Sunday saw the huge growth and the film collected Rs 18.10 crores nett approximately at Indian box office by the first weekend.

 

The breakup of the collection was as follows: Friday- Rs 4.50 cr, Saturday – Rs 6.25 cr and Sunday – Rs 7.35 cr. Unlike the prediction that the business will go down in weekdays, the movie has managed to fetch young audience to maintain its strong position in following days. The film revolves around the lives of three best friends who are young and enthusiastic. The storyline is very appealing to the youth and it seems that young generation has helped the movie score high on box office.

 

The movie registered very high occupancy ion Monday and it looked like the movie is released on same day! The weekday collection can be explained as below: Monday – Rs 3.25 cr, Tuesday – Rs 2.95 cr, Wednesday – Rs 2.70 cr and Thrusday – Rs 2.50 cr.

 

On weekdays the movie successfully earned Rs 11.4 Crs bringing the total business to Rs 29.50 cr nett.

 

The big cine pundits and movie critics have appreciated the movie and their positive reviews are helping the movie to sustain till another week. No doubt the movie Kai Po Che has proved to be very lucky for everyone including Sushat Singh!