Sep 14, 2006 11:08 AM
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These are my top five films of 2006 1.Lage Raho Munnabhai- Verdict- Blockbuster Cast-Sunjay Dutt, Arshad Warsi, Vidhya Balan Director-Rajkumar Hirani Description- It's all a chemical 'locha' (aberration). Munnabhai meets Mahatma Gandhi and they get along like a house on fire.
The prophetic leader from the past has a blast as he tells Munna (Sanjay Dutt) how to deal with an avaricious builder (Boman Irani) and other problems in life. It looks like Circuit (Arshad Warsi) has competition this time. Even as he remains fiercely loyal to his mentor Munna, the latter shifts his attention to the lovely Radio Jockey Jahanvi and Mahatma Gandhi.
The father of the nation keeps appearing in Munna's daytime reverie to advise the benign gangster on love, life and other vagaries of being human.Munna and Circuit, arguably cinema's most adorable and roguish reformists since Laurel and Hardy, go about the business of generating humour out of the pathos of human conditions.
The sequences, all fiercely path breaking, have us in splits. A GREAT FILM! 2.KRRISH- Verdict- Blockbuster Cast-Hrithik Roshan, Priyanka Chopra Director-Rakesh Roshan Description-It's not enough to say that Hrithik is one of the best actors of the country. Extraordinary is the word for the measured manner in which he glides through the air to the beat of Rajesh Roshan's rather-vapid songs... or cuts through the breeze to the stunning special effects created with a verve so-far unknown to Indian cinema."Krrish" takes us into the world of masked fantasy where the stakes are incredibly high... as high as the computer-generated leaps that the super-hero takes as he tries to save the world from the clutches of a megalomaniacal villain with a glint in his eyes that can only belong to Naseeruddin Shah.We've seen it before in "Superman", "Batman" and "King Kong". But our "Krrish" has something extra-special those films didn't. Hrithik Roshan.
- Rang De Basanti Verdict : Superhit Cast : Aamir Khan, Soha Ali Khan, Alice Patten Director : Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra Desription: I don't remember when I last saw a movie that had a story to tell and a message to give -- and did so in a real, gritty manner without being either preachy or dreary. Some people say history is boring. But sometimes walking through the lanes of the past can be enjoyable and gratifying, especially if your guide is someone as gifted as Rakyesh Mehra and companions as spirited as Aamir Khan, Siddharth, Kunal Kapoor and Soha.
If Mehra's directorial debut "Aks" was unusual, his latest "Rang De Basanti" is atypical and awe-inspiring. It is not a patriotic film that bores you by glorifying the past. Instead, it meticulously draws a line between the past and the present, both of which move in parallel lines. If the past shows a group of young martyrs sacrificing their lives to uproot the British from the country, the present has a bunch of college pass-outs clueless about their future.
4.Fanna Verdict Blockbuster Cast : Aamir Khan, Kajol Director: Kunal Kohli Description:Shibani Bathija's powerful drama about the tumultuous romance and tragedy between a blind Kashmiri girl Zooni (Kajol) and her guide, mentor and tormentor Rehaan (Aamir Khan) is suffused in the silken sounds of a heart feeling the first stirrings of love and hurt. Kajol expresses the delicate fragrance of a blind girl's romantic and sexual awakening in the hustle bustle of Delhi with a sure-fire sensitivity that energises the plot and gives the narrative the edge of excitement that cinematic romance captures once in a while.Just when the romance builds to a quiet crescendo, director Kunal Kohli brings in huge dollops of drama. In quick succession, Zooni regains her eyesight (a medical miracle straight out of the cinema of the 1970s), loses love, returns to be with her parents in the wilderness of Kashmir (actually Poland), becomes a mother and shelters Rehaan without knowing who he is.
- Phir Hera Pheri Verdict : Superhit Cast : Akshay Kumar, Suniel Shetty, Paresh Rawal. Director : Neeraj Vora Description:The three protagonists Akshay Kumar, Suniel Shetty and Paresh Rawal are still bumbling through what looks like a labyrinth of mind-boggling zigs and zags. Their bickering is still school boyish but noisily entertaining.The plot tends to get into comic curves from which it seems impossible to retrieve it. But then there's always the next gag to giggle over. Vora handles the characters with amusing aplomb. The trio of main players shuffle and juggle through what looks like a spiral of absurdities contrived to spotlight middle-class avarice.Akshay is the key to the film's effectuality. He hops skips and jumps through the absurd mime games with unbridled gusto, dropping all inhibitions before the camera. Paresh is again in comic form. He always ends up adding that extra sparkle to almost every scene. Suniel is a quiet and responsive foil to his co-stars.The three original "Hera Pheri" players are this time supported by an avalanche of eccentric overwrought characters from the fringes who enter and exit with amazing lack of grace. An entertaining film -- and an enlightening one too. Well worth the money spent.
