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Hindi Movie Reviews
Do Dooni Chaar (Hindi)
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October 08, 2010When was the last time you saw something – on a window display, on Amazon.com, in the flight magazine – and told yourself, "Someday, I'll buy that!" Santosh Duggal fights that battle almost every day! His animated family's needs far surpass his paycheck. After all, how much does an average Indian school teacher make? Probably 3 fancy dinners at the Marriott. But they are happily living in their little middle class Delhi paradise. And then one day, arrives Phupho, Duggal's 'little' sister from Meerut. She is here to invite them to a wedding at her in laws and give them an ultimatum. They have to come by a car. The only problem is that the Duggals don't own a car. Phupho's solution? "Khareed lo!" There is too much of Phupho's pride at stake to cancel going to the wedding.
So the Duggal's gear up for their first big purchase in years. The piggy banks are emptied, the PF is encashed, a loan is in the offering, new hiding places in the house are found, where everyone discreetly kept their savings... and secrets. But the real battle lines are drawn within the house. The four of them can't seem to agree on anything – the car, the make, the colour... Like Payal says, "Hamaare ghar par discussions aise hi hote hai!" A mad journey ensues. After putting together all their resources, there is one big hole that remains to be filled. And then comes a gigantic lurking temptation. An easy way out... Will they take it? Do Dooni Chaar will revive your memories of your own family's story. It is the story of the middle class man and his tireless endeavor in coping with the fast, new 'India Shining'. It's funny, real and heart warming. We all have our own scooter to car tales. We are all our own Duggal. Do Dooni Chaar makes us see the Duggal in us with the rare chance to laugh at ourselves.
Anjaana Anjaani (Hindi)
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October 01, 2010Two people can meet anywhere. In a cab on a rainy New York afternoon, at the neighborhood bar, in a queue waiting to use the ATM Machine, On a plane, deep sea diving, in the middle of an earth quake, sitting on that famous bench at the Taj Mahal or standing under the Pyramids in Egypt. You can meet someone in the most mundane of circumstances or in the most exotic ones. Akash and Kiara meet. But they meet in a situation as unusual as no other. But what if the two people who meet as strangers want to stay that way? They want to end right where they started – as strangers.
This is the story of two strangers on an odyssey of discovery – down a path that is ridden with the exquisite pain and joy of falling in love, only they don't realize it. A series of hilarious misadventures trace their bi coastal road journey as they go about fulfilling their last wishes. But then life interrupts, as is its habit; and painful choices must be made. The duo part with the understanding that their days together were a brief interlude of insanity that had to succumb to real life. They part as they met – as strangers.
But can a cloaked love so strange between two strangers conquer the idiom of normalcy we all believe in. Is it worth another chance? Is it worth leaving behind all that is familiar? Is it a love in time, is it truly the beginning they never expected? Follow Akash and Kiara, along this hilarious, contemporary yet poignant journey of stumbling into all that is worth living for. Can you let a stranger change your life…. forever……
Robot (Hindi)
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October 01, 2010Location – Chennai 2010 Mission – creating a andro humanoid robot Chitti Purpose – to help the society Development time – 10 years Configurations – speed one terra hz, memory one zeta byte, processor Pentium ultra core millennia V2, FHP 450 motor from Hirata, Japan. Special Features – A human who is not born but is created. He can dance, sing, fight, is water and fire resistant. He can do all that a human can and more. He feeds on electricity. He takes instructions literally. Where a human can lie to save himself this andro humanoid robot Chitti cannot lie. Where he has a razor sharp memory and can memorize an entire telephone directory by just running through the pages, he cannot understand human emotions.
Dr. Vasi upgrades Chitti’s processor and simulates human emotions without realizing the repercussions. Chitti gets transformed. He can now feel, and the first feeling that he discovers is Love. Will this love come in the way of Dr. Vasi’s purpose of creating Chitti?Will Dr. Vasi’s own creation destroy him?
Khichdi The Movie (Hindi)
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October 01, 2010Narrated through the two wise kids of the hilariously madcap Parekh family, namely Jacky and Chakki. Khichdi – The movie is about a hare brained dream of a snail brained bunch of lovable losers. Hansa's brother Himanshu has born a ridiculous ambition that is to have a memorable legendary love story. It's all together another matter that he is not in love with anyone and neither is he capable of getting any sensible girl smitten to him. But as Babuji over wisely says that for every idiotic Praful there is an even more idiotic Hansa made, his prophecy turns out to be true. Parminder, Himanshu's neighbor falls in love with Himanshu for no logical reason and the 2 get engaged to get married.
That's when this ridiculous story line takes a ridiculous turn. Himanshu realizes on the eve of the wedding that the impending ceremony would mean impending doom to his desire to have a legendary love story. For nothing interesting ever happened in his love story to make it memorable. It was a simple non happening take with a boring happy ending. No resistance, no conflict, no separation, no sad song, no climax nothing. And so our gifted dumb family sets out to stall the wedding. And then begins their journey to create all those missing stages in Himanshu's love story in order to make it legendary. How, in this hilariously hare brained process, they make a mess of everything and how at the incredibly ridiculous climax Himanshu eventually manages to win his love back, makes up the story of Khichdi The Movie.
For Real (English)
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September 17, 2010A child's determination to keep her family together, When the all-powerful adults are intent on destroying it. Six-year old Shruti knows something no one else does. An alien has come in place of her mother and her real mother has been sent to the Orion Galaxy. While the alien looks just like her mother on the outside, Shruti knows she is completely different from her beloved mother on the inside. Shruti turns to her brother for help but he doesn't believe her. Her father, like always, remains wrapped in work and unavailable to her.
Unable to accept the Alien in her home and desperate to be with her mother, the lonely child runs away. What follows is a child's passage to finding her real mother, a man's struggle to save his family and a woman's journey to finding herself.