Movie Review "Jatrai Jatra"

There are very few movies which have taken Nepali movie standard to new height. To name some among these are "Jatra" and its squeal "Jatrai Jatra". The common feeling most audience have while watching most Nepali movie in hall is; very poor acting; unrealistic scenes; undigestible dialogues and poor comedy if there are any some comedy scenes. Most of the times while watching Nepali movie its very painful to sit patiently for around three hours and watch the movie till end. But the movie "Jatra" and its sequale "Jatrai Jatra" has changed the whole dynamics of Nepali movie. Unlike other nepali movies you dont feel disconnected to the movie scenes. Each and every scene in this movie relates to daily activity of every Nepalese citizens. You are not forced to laugh by undigestible forceful comedy scenes. The small comedy scenes are interwined and plotted to an interesting story line to which each and every audience feels connected. This is the most strong part of the movie Jatrai Jatra. Besides this the acting of three lead characters Phanindra; Munna and Yas is superb; realistic and down to earth. The lead actress Sampu (Barsha) and the child actor Iman had done full justice to their role. The new characters added in the sequale "Daya Hang Rai" and "Raja Ram Paudel" have also done damn super good job. The cinematography is superb specially in the last part of movie which shows the scene of Pokhara and Phewa lake. In some of the movie plots there are some unrealistic turns and sudden change in plots which is a bit weird. Otherwise the movie is flawless and fully entertaining.

Review of 2.0

I had fully enjoyed watcing the movie Robot. "Can Robots have feelings and emotions?" "What happens if such machines develop emotions and fall in love with human?" ........ These were the important points raised in the movie "Robot" and was worth watching. However the sequale of movie Robot; "2.0" is not as interesting and as worth watching as its previous movie Robot.

The movie 2.0 starring superstars Rajnikant and Akshay Kumar; has raised an issue of how too much use of mobile phones is impacting the overall ecosystem. In the movie Akshya Kumar plays the role of an Ornithologist who is disappointed with the fact that telecommunication companies increase their frequency much higher than that allowed to them by the law to survive the increasing competition between different service providers. This has killed many birds which in turn has affected the overall ecosystem. So to save birds government must follow stringent regulations and strict monitoring on the telecommunication service providers. This is the crux of the movies story and directors has added different animations, flavors and cooked up some small stories to support the main idea.

Although first half of the movie is very interesting; in the second half audience start getting bored and film looks little bit lucid. In the earlier movie Robot; the use of animations and technology was digestible but in this movie too much use of animations and technology makes the movie unrealistic and unpalatable. Its a mediocre movie with many areas of improvement and not meeting the expectations of audience who were desperately waiting for the sequale of movie Robot.

Review of "Babel"

After coming to Dhangadi, the most difficult thing for me was spending time during the weekend. And if I miss Pokhara on any day then it was especially during the weekend…especially the swimming in Begnas and Pame, bike ride to Sarangkot and hanging around in chipledhunga and infront of Binayak store with no any reason. Oops…..how carefree were those days………… but after coming to Dhangadi all those beautiful moments were gone…………...neither here are any such beautiful places nor I have any good companion…….…for me the only thing to do during the weekened was either facebooking or watching movie. So during my last visit to Pokhara I bought lots of DVDs from “Music Mania” to watch during the weekend. There were almost around 30 – 40 DVDs. I had thought they would help me for at least next six months…but guess what I finished them just in a month. Sometimes for the whole day during the weekend there was no any thing to do so my routine was just sitting in the room and watching movies. But among such list of movies there were only a few I enjoyed and some movies I didn’t even completed because I didn’t like to watch till the end after watching for 15 minutes.

But one of the best movie among these was Babel….it was very good and was surprised after watching this movie …… the only thing that came in my mind after watching the movie was “Oh my god ! how can someone be so creative and link the stories in such a way”…..yeah the movie made provided me a huge refreshment and I couldn’t stop myself from writing the blog.

The movie is shot in four countires Morocco, Japan, Mexico and America. The greatest thing I enjoyed is the plot created which links the event in one country to another. In Morocco a bus carrying tourists is shot by two children who are looking after goats. They actually wanted to test how far their newly bought rifle hits and they target at the tourist bus. Among a American couple in the bus the lady is hit by the bullet on her neck. The search for how the rifle came takes the story to Japan. A Japanese hunter who was once in Morocco gave the rifle to his guide while returning to Japan. This Japanese man has a deaf and dumb adolescent daughter who is eager to break her virginity. While all her friends are dating with guys and having fun she has no any male friend and when guys know she is dumb they avoid her, this makes the girl frustrated. The story plot of the movie also revolves around USA and Mexico. The couple who were shot in the bus in Morocco have two kids in their home in USA and a Mexican maid is looking after them. The maid wants a leave for a day to attend her sons wedding in Mexico but she finds no one to look after the babies. So she takes the babies to Mexico along with her and the kids also enjoy the wild Mexican party. While returning to USA from Mexico the driver who is drunk gets into scuffle with police. Finally the couple shot in Morocco is rescued to USA with series of failed attempts.

The most interesting part of the movie is getting to know about life in rural part of Morocco and getting acquainted with wild Mexican party. The sexual desire of a deaf and dumb Japanese adolescent girl is well portrayed in the movie. The love and care shown by Mexican caretaker to the American kids is portrayed very well. It was horrible to watch the way a vetenary doctor in Morocco sews the neck of American girl hit by bullet.

The best part of movie is it gives a multicultural taste. The movie is worth watching and is a good time pass.

Paa……it could have been better.

I don’t know whether it was my high expectation or whether the movie itself was not up to the mark, but I was not much satisfied after watching the movie. After watching the movie, I was feeling like something is missing. The only thing that came in my mind after watching the movie was it could have been much better than this……..After watching the promos of the movie I was making my own expectations from the movie Paa. I was thinking this movie must be of same standard like “Black” and “Tare Zammen Par” and I can confidently say that this movie (paa) is not up to that standard.

The movie is about a child suffering from a rare medical disease called progeria in which the growth of child is five times more than his normal growth. The movie has well portrayed the son father relationship and it is the strongest part of the movie. The shortcoming in the movie is it has tried to show politics and love as well. The movie I think is also suffering from the old concept that there must be some songs in a movie…….so the unnecessary songs has got the space in the movie.(some may find it good, but the songs were very boring for me). The confusing characters of Abhishek Bachan first as a lover boy, then as a politician and finally as a good father is the thing I didn’t like in the movie. Instead of that it would have been better if the director would have sticked to son father relationship. The most enjoyable part is real life son (Abhishek) playing as reel life father of his real life father (Amitabh). I call it a perfect tribute from son to his father. Another weak part of the movie is that the face of child suffering from progeria (Amitabh Bachhan) has been too disfigured……..it could have been made much better. I read in news that a lawyer in India has even filled a case in court against director for making the face too much disfigured and humiliating the disabled people. I don’t know who wins the case but I only know that the face also could have been made attractive and better. Despite all these shortcomings the acting of Amitabh Bachhan is superb, some lessons about entrepreneurship and vision India are appreciable and Vidhya Balan has done full justice to her character.

If there were no any song and it had stuck to the son father relationship……..the movie would have been far better. However the movie is worth watching………..

The Pursuit of Happiness

There are only a few movies which have touched deep in my heart. One of the latest movie i watched "The Pursuit of happiness" was also able to touch deep in my heart....so i couldn't stop myseld from writing its review. Thanks to my friend who recommended me to watch the movie and provided me its DVD.

This movie is the story of a man struggling in his life. It's also a story of a loving father. Christopher (Will Smith) the lead actor of the movie is a seller of bone density scanner (a portable medical device). He works hard and lives with his wife and his son. But their life is in misery as the income of both christopher and his wife Linda goes on paying the taxes and bills. The both couple are struggling hard just to solve their hand to mouth problem and providing good care to their son. One day on seeing the stock brokers and their luxurious life style Christopher also wants to become a stock broker "a high paying job " . But for a high school passed person like christopher being stock broker is not easy. The film is all about how he becomes stock broker. The struggles done by christopher to become stock broker is very impressive. I would love to.....but i don't want to......narrate here how he struggles and achieves his dream because if you have watched this movie you already know it and if you haven't yet watched it then, I recommend you to watch it

The struggle of christopher and his love towards his son are two of the things of the movie that touched me deeply. The director has well portrayed the father son relationship in the movie. When i was watching the movie i felt like how much do people can struggle. And behind the story of every successful people in this world there is another hidden story of struggle with life. But when we see them we only see their successful part. If we could see the struggle and understand how they overcome their difficulties then it would be a great lesson. The only lesson i learned by watching this movie is.....struggle hard if you want to be successful in life.

The Magic of Magik

I was never impressed by the promos of the movie “Rock On”. When I first heard the songs, they were also not good to my ears. I had always thought like “this type of movie is not my cup of tea.” So after seeing the promos of “Rock on” I had made my own perception about this movie which was like this “this must be a musical film and there is no any story …….. so I’m sure I wouldn’t like this film”. Due to my own false perception I didn’t watch the movie though I had many opportunities to watch it in my computer as well as in Cinema Hall.

But today when I went to Jiban’s room, just before I was about to depart he offered me “lets watch the movie Rock On together”. Jiban also had the same perception like me about this movie. And lately he had grown desire to watch the movie as he had heard lots of positive feedback about the movie from his friends. As I was also free, I accepted the offer and we together watched the movie in his laptop.

I have now realized how wrong was my perception about the movie. The movie is so good and I developed such perception without watching it. It reminded me one quote “Never judge a book by its cover”. And I did mistake by judging the movie just by it’s promos. This movie is about four young guys and their band Magik. The movie is also about friendship, misunderstandings, scuffles and reunion. The way the film has presented the story is very good. It reminded me of somehow of the movie “Dil Chahta Hai”. I can’t count how many times I have watched this movie (Dil Chahta Hai) and I will watch it many times in the future as well. Dil Chahta Hai and Rock On have many things in common but still I enjoyed watching the movie Rock On very much (but not as much as I enjoyed while watching Dil Chahta Hai). Fahrahn Akhtar (The director of Dil Chahta Hai and one of the lead actors in Rock On) is marvelous. I envy him. How do these guys become so talented yar…………

I don’t know what magic is there in the songs played by the Magik, the songs which were not good to my ears in the beginning are now pleasant to my ears. I have all the songs of Magik in my mobile and I play them at least once in a day.

SANO SANSAR

After reading the critics as well as appreciation of the movie “Sano Sansar” regularly in many National newspapers, I was desperate to watch the movie. On Tuesday the classes were off, so I went to Jai Nepal with a friend of mine to watch the movie.

The movie is too good. Each and every teenager who watches the movie feels like it is his or her own life. I can vouch that the incidents and events that are shown on the movie must have happened on the life of each and every teenager at least once. When Rabi chats with Los Angels one feels as if he/she is chatting. The scenes are just too good. I have never seen the New Road and Sigha Durbar road so beautiful and scenery. In the beginning when I saw the new road in the movie I couldn’t believe my eyes and asked my friend “Is it the same road through which we just came?” One of the greatest strength of the movie is that the places through which we have walked many times have been shown very beautifully in the movie. The attires of the actors are too fashionable. The chatting is lively and has been portrayed very well in the movie. The film has portrayed the real life of teenagers. Without any hesitations the director has shown in the movie how the teenagers communicate with friends, what does a teenager has in his mobile and how teenagers spend the leisure time. I think this is strength of the movie Sano Sansar. There is no any new love story, there is no any fight scene but whatever is shown in the movie is a real life story of a teenager. Thus rather than copying the stories of the super hit Hollywood and Bollywood movies the script writer has shown creativity by taking simple life of a teenager. This is one of the strongest parts of the movie. The music is also mind-blowing. All songs are arranged and composed beautifully with good lyrics. When we came out of the movie I felt like everyone was singing “Sano chha gaun….sanai chha sansar…….” because I was singing it.

There are some shortcomings too. Sometimes there is no fluency in the delivery of dialogues and it seems as if it is artificial. There are some dialogues and some unnecessary scenes which may be disgusting to watch together with family members. But that’s the reality and that’s how teenagers behave among friends. So the movie crew must be appreciated for this. However the movie has failed to represent the life of teenagers living in rural areas.

Nepali film industry has moved a long way but the list of very good movies can be counted in fingers. The Sano Sansar has created a new benchmark in Nepali film industry. If Nepali film makers go on giving such movies then it’s sure that Nepalese youths will not run after the English and Hindi movie just like they do now.