Heroine

I’m a fan of Madhur Bhandarkar movies. I liked his Chandni Bar, and Fashion the most though I’ve seen Page3 and Traffic Signal too. Well keeping in mind his track record, I found Heroine a lit dissappointing.

 The story is confusing; Screenplay is weak; Songs are Ok; Choreography flashy; Not even a single character leaves a mark on your mind; Very ordinary dialogues ; Ending is not good at all…only thing worth a mention is Kareena Kapoor , she looked good and acted well too. But ekele Kareena kya ..kya karegi?

Major drawback of this story telling is after a point you loose sympathy with the character …she is ditched by a filmstar…she inturns ditches one cricketer…when she patches up with her X flame ..she ditches him by leaking  some scandle to get some cheap publicity…thus she has been somewhat portrayed in a wrong light. Common Madhur ji if you do not take side of your lead ..who will?

I’ve a big problem with the ending. In Fashion, Priyanka reaches the pit of trouble but at the end she comes out victorious but here the Heroine is an Escapist. I did not like that.
Score : 2/5

Barfi

Barfi’s promos were pretty promising. Thus I went to see this movie with lot of hope and I must say it excelled my expectation. I always felt that Anurag Basu has a distinct way of story telling which is definitely different from others and this time he nailed it with Barfi.

As for the casting is concerned, Ranbir Kapoor proved one more time that he has inherited his  acting talent  from legends and definitely he is making his parent’s proud. Ranbir ki jitney tariff ki jaaye woh kam hain….what innocent look, smart features, straight forward acts…a charming young boy who is deaf and mute still he is going to move you with every change of expression on his face. He looked as if he lived his part.

Ileana D’Cruz, she looked good, fitted her character well but that’s all.

As for Priyanka Chopra, well my personal opinion is Anurag Basu should have taken someone else for the very challenging role of Jhilmill Chaterjee ( the autistic child from a rich family). I personally don’t think that Ranbir – Priyanka Jodi looks good on screen. Priyanka looks much too older than Ranbir. Otherwise, Priyanka gave her best possible shots. It is very difficult to act when you do not have any dialogues. What Rani did for “Black” …Priyanka did for “Barfi”….undoubtedly an award winning performance.

Now  the music front…the first time I heard it on FM Radio that Barfi’s music is composed by Pritam ..I was too surprised …because it is very different from the typical Pritam numbers. Barfi’s whole album is overall – Good. All the songs are well woven into the script. Nothing is out of place. Well written and  superbly sung by all the male singers (specially).

One very important point of Barfi is the Charlie Chaplin kind of Comedy. It was great fun to watch.

Overall Barfi is a Very Good Movie, a must watch from my side.
Score : 5/5 may be even more, it is a landmark movie