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Johny Lever could have done a better job.... ....In this spoof of the original DON. It can be said, "Its not only difficult to remake the original DON, but impossible" The casting is pathetic. Boman Irani is not at all suited for the job nor is Om Puri with is big belly. The camera work is not up to the mark. SRK is aging. His persona has not carried the weight of something as big as the character of DON. The problem with SRK is he can never be called the undisputed star of the Indian film industry till Amithab is around and by the time Amithab exits even SRK's time will be up. Please avoid the movie if you dont want to hate SRK for the mistake he has done by trying to remake AB's DON.

After a long long time had been to a drama theater to check out a Drama festival which is going on at Ranga Shankara this week. The Ranga Shankara theater is very near to my home and had never checked it out. Must really appreciate the quality which has been maintained in the entire execution of the festival.   Happened to meet T.S. Nagabharana (National Award Winning director) and Arundhati Nag, both famous theater personalities. More over I was sitting beside Nagabharana while watching the play :)   Nagesh Bhonsle is a well know film personality (Siva, Sarkar etc), was the UPS of the play. He perfectly fits as a lower cast mill labor who has lost his job. His almost perfect command on Marathi flock songs added to the ambiance of the play. But I liked the performance of Kumud Mishra as a Muslim worker.   The script, I felt exaggerated the concepts of castism and communism and are a bit out dated in the current context. It does bring out the frus...

I don't know why today i remembered that day... I was so very apprehensive about how things would turn out at this stage, where everything around me was going to change. I reached the new office almost nervous and was greeted by the person who had hired me. He said “there is a surprise for you waiting upstairs” i never understood why he said that. When we went upstairs and he introduced me to this girl, i went on talking and talking to her, may be because i was thinking so much, all the time and wanted to share it with someone. It turned out that we both were to be in the same team. I did ask her to share the rick to go to the office, which i had not did something before, asking a girl for something. I observed her for the first time in the rick. I was with her for such a long time but just could not connect, but in that rick i suddenly realized i was sitting there with a beautiful girl next to me. Those deep eyes, that simplicity on her face, those black shiny hairs on her shiny c...

“Ahista Ahista” a simple realistic and a clean film. There is no story as such but still there is a pace in the movie which keeps you hooked on to the screen. The simplicity of Abhay Deol's acting took me by surprise. Soha Khan is to very sweet and cute. Wish all women be so less complex. For a change there is a movie which does not have the glitter of the silver screen nor the sense less pace nor the unwanted songs pasted over the stories. Had missed watching the movie in the the theater. Things to watch out for are: The scene where Abhay calls Soha “sister” made me laugh. The scene where Abhay kisses her for the first time and then apologies took me my surprise. The character of “Khala” at whom he yells, shouts and even fights, stands outs in the script. When Soha's boyfriend returns and Abhay refuses to recognise him speaks of the “opportunistic” in each of us. The climax just reflects the reality of life. “Yeh nahi to woh sahi, woh nahi to yeh sahi”