‘Alone’ – MyView

Alone Theatrical Poster

Well, first of all, do not watch this movie alone, nope, not because you are gonna shit your pants but because this is such a shitty movie you surely want someone to smell it with you!

This is a ditto remake of the movie Alone (2007) but fails to recreate the spine chilling horror which most of the horror loving fans might have come to see. But, people who came to watch Bipasha in skimpy clothes sure had a gala time!

The story revolves around the conjoined twins – Sanjana and Anjana (Bipasha Basu and Bipasha Basu) who promises to stay attached forever but decides to split out of jealousy and insecurity of loving the same man, Kabir (Karan Singh Grover) and one of them dies and haunts the other; you will know if you have seen the trailer itself. But if you have seen the trailer, then that’s pretty much to it! All the horror scenes are already revealed in the trailer then why would spend your 2 hours and 13 minutes that you will never get back! why? Why? WHY? Yes, that haunts me!

Not to repeatedly point out, the same kinda make up, the same kinda haunted house, the same kinda ghastly housekeeper, the kala jaadu and typical hindi horror movie scenes.

So Sanjana receives a phone call the exact same moment she delivers her dialogue that she doesn’t want to go to Kerela; irony much or deja vu? Anyways, they go to Kerala, the ghost (Anjana) is not pleased, of course and haunts her sister, gets in her body, romances the hot-bod Kabir, exorcism occurs, revelation of plot twists – that Sanjana is Anjana and bleh, both the sisters are dead, end of story!

Furthur classifying, the first half of the movie deals with the ghost sister juggling her twin sister and I will not be exaggerating but the entire theater laughed whenever there was a ghost on the screen. “Oh look! the ghost sister, bwaaaaaaaahahahaha!”. And the second half of the movie just deals with the flashing of the hot bodies unnecessarily! I know it will not be the first time with Bollywood, but the songs were abrupt and forcefully squeezed in the scenes!

Oh! the acting, please don’t get me started on that! I strongly feel that Bipasha should not jump into the horror genre just because she has Raaz in her pocket! Karan Singh Grover needs to brush up on his acting skills as well. The chemistry was pathetic between the duo, I mean two sugar cubes in my tea have a better chemistry than them!

So altogether, if you wanna see a horror movie this week, I would suggest please stick to your own movie list. You ain’t getting any horror strokes outta this one!

‘Interstellar’ – MyView

Interstellar theatrical poster

Judge me all you can but I did not see the trailer of this movie before I actually went and watched it (which is totally unlike me). I did not even have the slightest idea if this movie existed! But now I can’t even stop thinking about it. It has jolted me left, right and center!

Christopher Nolan has left his audience speechless, yet again but this time I guess we are gonna be awestruck for a much much longer period till he hits us again! It is a long movie but every ounce of the movie seemed logical. What is still in the theories, this man wove it so intricately that it just bangs your head with “OMG! wow!” scene after scene.

The beginning was a little tricky but as the movie paces, things fall into places and makes perfect sense. The movie starts with an old lady narrating the story about her father and how there was a scarcity of resources on Earth. Her father, Cooper (Matthew McConaughey), a former NASA test pilot-turned-farmer still enthusiastic about controlling flying drones, decoding binary codes made by dust, almost crashing NASA headquarters and well, piloting Endurance (the spacecraft), and not to forget flying into the worm hole in search of the potential habitable planets to save the mankind. But! the glitch being that he was never meant to save the world, he was instead a sort of catalyst to help his daughter save the people! Just when you thought the story was getting predictable, Nolan smacks you with his theory of extra-dimensional where time is physical! WOAAH!

The journey is detailed and I hope this timeline designed by Dogan Can Gundogdu helps.

Interstellar timeline by Dogan Can Gundogdu

P.S. I think its a typo where black hole should actually be a worm hole as Gargantua is the only black hole with the tesseract in it.

The cast includes amazing performances delivered by Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway, Jessica Chastain, Michael Caine, Casey Affleck, Mackenzie Foy and of course the voice of TARS (another sidekick after Dobby I am in love with) by Bill Irwin.

This movie is a must watch and I am awestruck by it so much that I have started rating movies as “bad”, “okay”, “good” and “interstellar” ! 😛

P.S. – Unlike me, please watch the trailer before you go to the theaters!

“Mankind was born on Earth. It was never meant to die here.”

‘Shaadi ke Side Effects’ – MyView

Shaadi Ke Side Effects Theatrical Poster

After the historic ‘Pyaar ke side effects’ comes the sequel ‘Shaadi ke side effects’, but I rather think it should have been titled ‘Baccho ke side effects’ because their married life was sailing smoothly until the kid came along!

To be honest, I really had high hopes, which were thrashed a little, but nevertheless, it was worth seeing Farhan Akhtar *Drools* and Vidya Balan sharing the screen. The movie starts with Trisha (Vidya Balan) and Sid (Farhan Akhtar) flirting in a club, only you’ll find out later that they are actually married! Its their fantasy of meeting up as stranger and “stay in love”. Farhan Akhtar has this full-proof plan of a perfect married life, his guru-mantra being, “If it’s your fault, say sorry. If it’s your wife’s fault, say sorry”. I mean how many times have we actually gone through this joke. A LOT. Hello! We know that fact already. So, they have a fun-filled life (what every married couple wants) until they find out that Trisha is pregnant. That’s when the poor husband looses his wife and is stuck with the mother of his child.

The first half of the movie will actually make you fall of your seat (a little exaggeration here), full of drama and laugh riots! But it fails to make the same effect after the interval, then its more of the senti and drama where Sid is guilty of having an affair (Affair as stated in the movie, is anything that you do in the ‘time’ which you should have been devoted to your family, is an affair) with a much careless alter ego of himself with his flatmate (Vir Das) and parties all night (yes, he rents a PG to have ‘his own guy time’), lying to his wife that he is stuck in his studio work (he composes jingles for a living). There are few scenes of Purab Kohli in the movie which is cute where he is a friendly neighbor, Sid is jealous of. “Tum rehne do na! Shekhar (Purab Kohli) hai na!”

So, all together in the end,  after all the drama, the mantra of a happy married life is “Stay Truthful” ! REALLY! This is something we have been hammered since our childhood! I wanted to know more full proof points to avoid the side effects! Being truthful is so mainstream.

Watch it for the superb acting of Vidya Balan, Farhan Akhtar, Ila Arun, Vir Das, Ram Kapoor, Purab Kohli and others. The cast is pretty interesting to look out for. The chemistry between Farhan and Vidya is also worth seeing, after all he is the bechara-pareshaan husband haunted by his DramaQueen-naggy wife!

Don’t watch if you are expecting a what-to-do-LIST to avoid the side effects, because your list will just have ‘be truthful’ and we all know that!

‘Hasee toh Phasee’ – MyView

Hasee Toh Phasee Poster

I still didn’t get why the title of this movie was ‘Hasee toh Phasee‘ when the story line was not even revolving around it much. It was rather on drugs, Big fat shaadi, polymers and everybody seemed crorepati (well, typical KJo movies, eh?). Well, the story line was quite simple, nothing much to rack your brains into, but rather it focused on much more simpler things of life (now I know that wrapping a wet towel around your tummy can cut down your hunger craving). The dialogues were pretty interesting (“Tum Oxygen ho aur main double Hydrogen, humari chemistry ekdum paani k jaise hai“)

Yes, the story revolves around an intelligent-weird-girl-speaking-chinese-and-eating-pills-because-of-sansanahatt-and-ghabrahatt-and-some-hatt-hatt-in-her-body and a guy-who-is-scared-to-dump-his-gf-who-dumped-her-oh-so-many-times.

The story starts with young Meeta (Parineeti Chopra) locking the door with a nada and it becomes a bawaal because everyone gets locked out and only her pappa appreciates her hoshiyaari while she gets beaten up by her mother. In the parallel universe, a young boy Nikhil (Siddharth Malhotra) opens the door with his tactics to watch his favorite movie which his IPS officer papa forbids him to watch.

17 years hence, they both meet in Meeta’s sister Deeksha’s marriage from where Meeta eventually escapes after robbing her dad (because she had to do some R&D) helped by Nikhil. Next time lap, after 7 years, Nikhil is about to marry Karishma (Meeta’s sister whom he had an affair for 7 years after seeing her at Deeksha’s marriage). Now obviously, when the heroine is zinda, how can he get married to Karishma?! So here enters our heroine, Meeta! She is now on pills which makes her do stupid expressions (actually those weird expressions rather looked forcible acting). She is forbidden to meet her pappa (after the robbery, her dad had an heart attack). Both the star-casts spend some cute moments which will make you go awww. She sings a ‘Punjabi‘ song when she belongs to a ‘Gujju’ family, but then after learning Chinese, Punjabi would be bai-haath ka khel, I believe. Eventually Nikhil finds out that she is here to, well, rob her pappa again. Her polymer project (she makes a ball which goes ping pong ‘until stopped by an external force’) needs money and she thought robbing her dad is the last hope because its against her oosool to rob anyone else, but she rather goes up to her dad and things get sorted out (enriched emotional drama and dialogues). And after all the drama, our darling Meeta gets along with Nikhil (the end was pretty much predictable)!

Why you should watch it?
Of course it stars Parineeti Chopra and Siddharth Malhotra. The cuteness overflowing will make you go awwwwww! The songs are nice (I’ve been listening to the jukebox since morning – on repeat). In short, I would say you would not regret the movie* at least I did not.

*bhai! go and watch it on your risk. If you are into rom-com and emotional stuff, you’ll like it.