Rating: 
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Release date(s): 18 May 2011 (Cannes Film Festival), 26 May 2011 (Denmark), 11 November 2011 (USA)
Running time: 130 minutes

Quicktake:

When I was standing in the queue for this movie, many passed by me and asked why are you standing for this movie, it is just 5: 45pm and the movie is supposed to begin at 8: 15pm. But I stood there and so were many others including Ranvir Shorey who was standing there much before me. So when we went inside the sreen, I just hoped the movie better be worth the wait. So was it worth the wait, well read the review to know more about the movie.

Plot Review:

Melancholia is a heart-wrenchingly acute depiction of depression.
First things first, Melancholia is a movie not for everybody, not many would find the 130 odd minutes of the movie worth, because the movie is about holocaust and still it just focuses on the life of two sisters and some more who are involved with them. I was hooked on to the screen and just loved what the director Lars von Trier tried to depict in the movie.

The movie is divided into two parts and it tells the story of two sisters Justine and Claire. But before this, when the movie begins a prologue or what I thought was the dream of Justine shows us some really hard-hitting frames of the earth being destroyed, where roots have been uprooted, the earth has become so soft that when one walks on it, it actually sinks, birds falling from the sky and then finally the earth being destroyed. These visuals speak a lot when the movie progresses.
The story of Justine starts from her weeding day. She has got married to a very loving man named Michael. The man loves her to the core and so does the sister Claire and that is the reason why Claire and her husband who is also the best-man to Michael throw a very lavish party. But Justine seems to be unhappy and she just cannot part from her negative feelings. And one has to understand the character of Justine to actually understand why she cannot shake off her feelings.
Justine on her wedding day, just before she needs to cut the wedding cake goes and takes a bath, pees in the open garden and then finally has sex in the open golf course with the newly hired man in her firm who is behind her to get a tagline for some product. And then finally her new husband leaves her on the same day, and we move on to Claire’s story.
Claire is a happy homemaker who lives in a dream like home, has a loving and caring husband and a very sweet son. But she is scared from one thing and that is Melancholia, well Melancholia is nothing but a planet that has passed many planets and is going to pass through planet earth too. And her husband is confident of what the scientists have said that the planet will just pass by and will not hit the earth. But as we know the doomsday predictors have predicted the opposite and Claire is scared not only for herself but all of her family.

Then enters Justine who for some reason and that has to be her depression is very weak and cannot even walk come to their home. She barely can talk and Claire takes care of her, bathes her, and feeds her. Then the doomsday begins to scare Claire and Justine is of the opinion that the world would end soon and the reason is that she knows this. The way the climax has been built up is supreme and the viewers just cannot predict the way it will end.
Lars von Trier’s Melancholia has to do a lot with sympathy, frustration and sorrow. And as viewers the movie can be a over-dosage of sympathy, frustration and sorrow. One has to understand the characters of the sisters to understand the film, and one you do that the movie is just breath-taking.

Direction and Screenplay Review:

Lars von Trier’s Melancholia is much more better  than his last effort Antichrist, Antichrist was again a movie for those who can understand it. And I quite liked it but Mealncholia is much more conventional than Antichrist and still one complains of being unconventional.

Lars von Trier is a visionary director who loves characters that face depression and no one depicts depression like he does. The screenplay is also bang-on and never deviates the audience into something it has no connection with.
This is one of Lars Von Trier’s best film I have seen and I am privileged to have seen it on the silver screen.

Acting Review:

This is Kirsten Dunst best performance to date as Justine. She is just so convincing throughout the film. Her character hardly goes though any transformation and as a character needs to be it isn’t. It would have been challenging to be in the shoes of Justine. But Kirsten justifies her Best Actress award at the Cannes. Charlotte Gainsbourg is also perfect as Claire, and a very good support is offered from Alexander Skarsgård, Keifer Sutherland and John Hurt.

Verdict:

Melancholia is very different kind of movie and if audienes are expecting some science fition flick looking at the trailer, please the movie can be a heavy-going for you, as the subjet of the movie is very unconventional. However leaving all this the movie is just incredibly worthwhile watch. And no other experience would be as good as watching this movie once more and surely with an audience like what I had during the MAMI. I know that wouldn’t be possible but still the experience that I had, was just supreme.
And a final note on the movie, the film is just extremely beautifully shot. Lars von Trier and cinematographer Manuel Alberto Claro have gone ahead and done one of the most fantastic job in making the visuals so alluring and real and still very surreal. The attention paid to the detailing is just magical and the special effects are too good. Melancholia’s Cinematography is surely worth an Oscar nomination.
There is a fine merge of intimate shots and across-the-board descriptions, and great thought to feature. The effects engaged by Melancholia are as well first-rate.

Rating: 
Genre: Romance, Comedy, Drama
Release date: October 14, 2011

Quick review:

Nowadays it’s not sufficient for a romantic comedy to be just simple romantic or humorous, but in its place there should be raunchy somewhere in there. And so chasing in the paths of the ‘Bridesmaids’, this movie is the just as racy chick-flick, titled as ‘What’s Your Number?’, starring the extremely lovely Anna Faris and the incredibly swoon-worthy Chris Evans.

Story:

Based from Karyn Bosnak’s 2006 book “20 Times a Lady”, in reference to Lionel Ritchie’s ‘Three Times a Lady’, ‘What’s Your Number?’ takes us into the fairy-tale of Ally Darling (Anna Faris), who is worried that she may never locate “Mr. Right” for her. Her sister Daisy (Ari Graynor) is getting married and her mother Ava (Blythe Danner) seems firm that Ally will go forward in the midst of her life too.
At some point while travelling on the passageway, she discovers a magazine article enlightening that any female in the company of more than 20 sexual partners will under no circumstances come across a husband. Her buddies array between 4 and 9, whereas she fears regarding her apparently big figure of 19. She makes a decision for not to exceed 20 for the reason that she desires that her very next beau must be the gentleman she will be with eternally.
She has a practice of attempting excessively tough to make an impact on her male buddies, fears in relation to how others may sight her promiscuity, storms up by chance having sex in the company of her boss who just fired her, and dislikes her next door neighbour, Colin Shea, who sleeps with a new female every night. However, she highlights a plan to find all of her ex-boyfriends to spot which ones might have developed into spouse stuff. She recruits the assist of Colin in trade for an accommodation to hide in while he hangs around for his prior nights’ take-over to leave in the morning.
With the aid of her  playboy neighbour Colin (Chris Evans), she locates them one by one, simply to understand that it is not as easy as she considered it would be.

Screenplay, Direction & other technicalities:

Like the current ‘Friends With Benefits’ and the very funny ‘Bridesmaids’, ‘What’s Your Number?’ is ruder and funnier than several grown-up rom-coms in the company of hand-job funny stories, potty-mouthed talks and a lady personality who is open-minded, unsophisticated and enacted by a celebrity who is certainly not too timid or hopeless to humiliate herself. As Faris’ personally hunts for the just right man amongst her 20 ex-lovers and cameos from Martin Freeman and Andy Samberg preserve curiosity among audiences, its Faris and Evans script that offers genuine entertainment and chemistry.
‘What’s Your Number?’ is that characteristic romantic comedy where you can safe and sound stake your complete chance on the good little result of a finale, and just in relation to how a girl meets a boy and they fall in love unavoidably in the undeviating time distance are likely where the celebrities bring into line for everything magical to occur.
Technical results all strike their signs. There are a few attention-grabbing shots here and there, and one questions how they got a number of of those. This movie is also not on the subject of great cinematography nor sound, but it’s just on the subject of idiosyncratic little lass in an extremely open verbal-sex movie. Also at this time, having stated that, I believe that the delivery and editing of a few of the lines could have been better chopped off.

Performances:

Anna Faris is a sweetheart. Chris Evans not as uninteresting as you believe he is going to be, as he is in fact fairly attractive. They have fine chemistry and the teasing between them is highly amusing. They say the stuff that you imagine and would by no means provoke to speak out loud, which however made the viewers laugh and laugh.
Although if the movie works, which it does, it simmers down to two words, Anna Faris. She is making a profession based upon ditzy roles, and honestly she is not discovering ability at beating on all the correct places and bringing punch lines devoid of missing a bang, and containing what it takes to acquire on physical, funny side slapstick devoid of looking excessively dorky, nor uncomfortable in the company of the required to experiment in toilet hilarity.

It is watching a typical comic going throughout her range of tricks that on one hand you have seen almost before, yet still keenly expecting extra from the actor to bring her custom once more. Evans was magnificent as her co- star and the strip-basketball date was a bit that could lift the hotness, letting the actor to incessantly show off in this movie his Captain America buffed up body type that will either make you dribble at, or look on in the company of desire.

Final verdict:

“What’s Your Number?” is unsurprising and could have been penned down better. But it’s a cool chic romantic comedy movie, with superlative performances, that can be watched and entertained at any time.

Himesh Reshammiya is a guy, who is much known for his acting and singing. And thus there is something about Himesh Reshammiya, as he might not be one of your much-loved actors, but I am sure one cannot overlook him. Himesh, who made nasal play a fashion in the company of the runaway success Aashiq Banaya Aapne, will be out this Diwali to flatter the audiences in the midst of his dramatics and, of course, music in Damadamm. It’s said to be an entertaining movie on the subject of a two-timing lover, scripted by him.

In a recent interview when asked him that what is the secret at the back of his nutrition as an actor? To that he says that his prime USP has been his music, but he is having the skill to reinvent himself. As an actor, Himesh says he has looked at dissimilar characters, and therefore very shortly people will see the new Himesh Reshammiya with a six-pack, who is all set to play an action hero. Himesh further added that he is also enacting a special role in a Hollywood movie, A Star Is Killed, where he is playing the only Indian actor.
When talked bout his upcoming film ‘Damadamm’ and challenging in opposition to Shah Rukh Khan’s ‘Ra.One’ in theatres, which will be releasing more or less on the same week. To that Himesh says that Shah Rukh Khan is the king of Bollywood and his movie will do definitely well, but on the occurrence of Diwali, he is very much positive that his will as well do well, just like Akshay Kumar’s ‘Garam Masala’ and Ajay Devgn’s ‘Golmaal’, which was too released on the same week.

He further added that until at this time, viewers have seen him as Himesh Reshammiya in movies, but in Damadamm, they will notice him as Sameer, a middle-class young man who is rapt in a range of circumstances because of his overprotective girlfriend.

To become an actor requires quite a lot of hard work, especially when it is required to lift an actress. And for this, actor Tusshar Kapoor defiantly agrees to a certain extent.

A few days back, Tusshar was expected to lift Vidya Balan for a photo shoot of their forthcoming movie, The Dirty Picture. However the actor’s suffering started as soon as he was asked to pick up Vidya, who has put on quite a few kilos for the character, in a particular style. And as Tusshar was not able to obtain it accurate the initial few times, he wrecked up offering more than 150 shots for the similar pose.

The shoot went on for an approximately 3 long hours. Tusshar said that the shoot took long since they required an ideal take, and thus they had to click all likely alternatives so that the publicist would have various options at the time of publicizing the images.
Tusshar was been guided to hold up Vidya on his chest at the same time as delivering a happy facial look. Vidya as well, had to materialize cool and chilly in the midst of the part of her body mass on him. Tusshar said that in view of the fact that her legs as well had to be lifted from the backside, so it was a bit risky take, and that is why they wrecked up in carrying out a number of 150 shots for the similar pose.

However the actor praises that his co-actor was largely supportive throughout the intact period of the shoot. He quotes that Vidya was extremely helpful and under no circumstances got exhausted. In addition, she even insisted to play some peppy music, just to be in the atmosphere during the shoot.
Tusshar Kapoor will be starring next to in the company of Naseeruddin Shah and Emraan Hashmi in the biopic on the life of Southern siren Silk Smitha, enacted by Vidya Balan.

• Cast: Shah Rukh Khan as Don, Priyanka Chopra as Roma, Lara Dutta as Ayesha, Boman Irani as Vardhaan, Om Puri as Mallik, Kunal Kapoor as Sameer Ali and others.
• Director: Farhan Akhtar
• Story / Writer: Farhan Akhtar
• Producer: Farhan Akhtar, Ritesh Sidhwani & Shah Rukh Khan
• Lyricist: Javed Akhtar
• Music Director: Shankar Mahadevan, Ehsaan Noorani & Loy Mendonca
• Cinematography: Jason West
• Editor: Anand Subaya & Ritesh Soni
• Banner: Excel Entertainment & Reliance Entertainment

After Ra.One, Shah Rukh Khan is all set to woo the audience with Farhan Akhtar’s Don 2. Check out the new look of the movie, where the King Khan unveils the real face behind Don.

Don 2 is a sequel to Farhan Akhtar’s Don: The Chase Begins Again (2006), which is itself a remake of Amitabh Bachchan starrer movie Don (1978). ‘Don’ was the 5th highest grossing movie of 2006 in India, grossing over 104 crores worldwide. And the same is expected from its sequel by the makers.
The new look poster imprints with a tagline written as ‘The King Is Back’, and the trade analysts people are expecting that if SRK’s Diwali Dhamaka ‘Ra.One’ will go hit, then ‘Don 2’ will get hugely benefit from it. The film is will be screened in 3D, and is all set to release in theatres during Christmas, which is on December 23, 2011.