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Hindi Movie Reviews
Kurbaan (Hindi)
Avantika is a teacher in a university in Delhi. She has come back from New York where she teaches, because her father has suffered a heart attack. During this period, she meets a temporary Professor called Ehsaan Khan. Soon they begin seeing each other and love blossoms. A few months later, Avantika receives a call from her university in New York, asking her to come back for the Fall Semister. Avantika breaks the news to Ehsaan. He in turn, tells her he doesn’t mind coming to the States with her, to find a job. But first they need to get married.
Soon after the marriage, they leave to start a new life in New York. They buy a house in an Indian neighbourhood and move in. Just as they are setting up home, their conservative Muslim neighbours, Hamid and Anjum, invite them over for dinner. The next morning, Salma, one of the women Avantika met the night before at the dinner, visits her under the pretext of gifting her sweets. When Avantika invites her in, Salma tells her that she is in grave danger. Nothing is what it seems. Salma pleads with Avantika to help her. What follows next, is a series of incidents that sucks Avantika into a vortex of danger and intrigue. As her life spirals out of control, Avantika realizes that she is a pawn in a huge game. And no one is to be trusted.
Ajab Prem Ki Ghazab Kahani (Hindi)
Prem is an ajab kind of a guy. As life president of happy club, he's always trying to make everybody happy, but somehow it always en in disaster! He kidnaps Jenny by mistake!! Because now Jenny thinks he's worst form on earth. Ouch!! But he think she's beautiful… she's vanilla ice-cream… yummy!! Love can make you do the strangest things… and if Prem is ajab, his love is ghazab too!
He's never worked in his life now he's spending hours and hours churning out ladoos and frying jalebis in halwai shop… sweat and slurp!! He's always been a shudh vegetarian. Now he's putting tigers to shame with all the chicken he's eating. Chomp Chomp!! And as icing on the wedding cake, he even helps Jenny run away from her own wedding. Run baby run!! With a furious father, frustrated bridegroom, greedy don and wily politician running after them… What's going to happen now? Prem's prem kahani had an ajab beginning, will it have a ghazab ending?
London Dreams (Hindi)
Arjun (Ajay Devgan) & Mannu (Salman) are childhood friends. But they had little in common except their family's vague connection with music. While Arjun's life was consumed by a passionate drive to get on stage and realize his grandfather's unfulfilled dream, Mannu had little interest in his music tutor father's instruments and was content with remaining a child at heart with no higher ambition than enjoying the good things in life. But little did they expect music to strengthen their friendship and then test it with catastrophic results...
Arjun diligently pursued his dream, at the risk of running away from an uncle who was his only family in an unfamiliar land and roaming the streets of London before taking shelter in a music shop and priming himself until he's ready to make his foray into the world of music and showmanship.
As Arjun forges a band with Zoheb and Wasim, two brothers who'd duped their relatives in Pakistan to travel to London in pursuit of their musical aspirations, and Priya, a music enthusiast from a conservative South Indian family, far away in Punjab, music becomes a survival tool for Mannu, who takes to playing in wedding bands in his village.
But when he gets Mannu to London and makes him a part of the band, Arjun soon realizes he's created the biggest threat and obstacle to his own ambitions.
For, Mannu, with his inherent musical gift and irreverent style of performing, becomes an instant darling of the crowds. What has taken Arjun years to achieve, Mannu does overnight. It causes Arjun to feel betrayed by the God to whom he'd surrendered everything in return for eminence in music.
Arjun's unbearable pangs of jealously and insecurity only worsen when Mannu also unwittingly woos and wins his secret love, Priya (Asin). As he battles his inner demons, Arjun slowly devises a sinister plan to destroy his best friend. Over a three city tour spanning Paris, Rome and Amsterdam, Arjun sends a naive Mannu on a downward hurtling rollercoaster ride of sex and drugs that almost breaks Mannu's spirit and his love life days before a show at Wembley, a venue where Arjun hopes to have his moment of glory. A venue where his grandfather had failed before a crowd of 25,000 people!
But a rude shock awakens Arjun at Wembley at the expense of his band, his friendship and his credibility - a humbling experience that teaches him the true meaning of acceptance
Aladin (Hindi)
From the land of myths and legends - India - comes a fantasy adventure for the entire family. Directed by Sujoy Ghosh, 'Aladin' is a modern re-imagining of the classic tale of 'Aladin and The Magic Lamp'.
Aladin Chatterjee (Riteish Deshmukh) lives in the city of Khwaish, an orphan who has been bullied since childhood by Kasim and his gang. But his life changes when Jasmine (Jacqueline Fernandez) gives him a magic lamp - because it lets loose the genie Genius (Amitabh Bachchan). Desperate to grant him 3 wishes and seek the end of his contract with the Magic Lamp, the rock-star Genius makes Aladin's life difficult until the real threat looms on the horizon : the ex-genie Ringmaster (Sanjay Dutt). Why does Ringmaster want to kill Aladin? What is the dark secret about Aladin's past that Genius is carrying? And what is Aladin's destiny? Find out more in this swashbuckling fantasy adventure film from Eros International and Boundscript Production.
Main Aur Mrs Khanna (Hindi)
An international airport is an unmatched location for human drama. As planes arrive and take off, so do people carrying their baggage of emotions, tensions and unresolved conflicts.
Our three protagonists – Raina, Samir and Akash- are such three people who lives entwine at an international airport. Here the find three themselves in transit – at the crossroads of life where each has to make a decision that will change their live forever…
Samir (Salman Khan) has to decide whether he wants to stay in the same city that gave him so much and then took away everything… or fly away to a new city … a new life…
Raina (Kareena Kapoor) has to decide whether her love and loyalty for her husband, who left her to peruse success is more justified, than her faith and trust in her new found friend…
Akash (Sohail Khan) has to decide whether what he feels for a married women is lust or true love… and whether he's justified in trying to win her at all cost… even at the cost of her marriage…
Three people coming to terms with their conflicting feelings, personal and psychological problems and the overriding emotion – LOVE… set against the hustle and bustle of an international airport…