Dum Maaro Dum - Full Style Zero Substance...totally lacks dum....not worth it for sure...Get the DVD of 1987 'Jalwa' instead...

Hindi movies this year started with a bang in January 2011 and kind of continued with good movies in Feb'2011 as well but since March'11 the releases seem to have gone dry and I guess World Cup is termed as the main factor for that but after World Cup got over with India's glorious and memorable win everyone had thought 'Dum Maro Dum' will be a good movie including me but must say I was disappointed big time.

The movie has lot of style good style but in terms of content its completely lacks substance big time.

The topic of Goa and drugs with rave parties is a great subject but what one makes out of it is upto the maker and 1987 release 'Jalwa' starring Naseeruddin Shah is the best movie made about Goan and Drugs and 1989 release 'Goonj' starring Juhi Chawla and Kumar Gaurav was also quite decent,I would recommend you those but would never recommend this one for sure.

Performance wise the men in the movie were all good - Abhishek Bachhan,Rana Daggubati - Super Hot,Pratiek Babbar and even Aditya Pancholi though would not like to comment about their half baked idiotic characters specially the one of Rana Daggubati's

Dev Anand should have never allowed his cult of a beautiful number(dum maaro dum) to be remade is this trashy manner and pictured in a real cheap vulgar way on Deepika Padukone she looks outright cheap and vulgar no class absolutely I would say Zeenat Aman was a complete Diva in the original one and Deepika Padukone is absolutely nowhere close to that from any angle.

Bipasha Basu looks wow and thats it her character also was half etched and somehow I felt no sympathy at all when she is embroiled in a drug racket because she was so totally responsible for getting herself in the messy situation in the first place and the same applies for Prateik Babbar's character as well.

I had gone with the expectation that at least it would interesting but total waste of time and money and absolutely not worth it.

Aakrosh

Yes i am back to blogging after a long time and a fantastic movie like Aakrosh has compelled me to blog and not remain with few words in my facebook status update.

Now coming back to this powerful movie.

Shameful as it may sound, honour killings still exist in many parts of our country. The misconception is honour killings are all about the murder of a female/male family member by one or more family members, since the perpetrators / wrongdoers believe that the victim has brought dishonor / disrepute upon the family by having a relationship with a man of different religion or social status or marrying against the parents' wishes and this movie highlights that.

The whole thought repulses me and makes me feel extremely helpless that I can never ever be a standalone individual contributor and bring an end to this age old crap.There are parts of our country and I am referring to each and every state of this country where caste discrimination still exists in a big way and even among the so called Harvard/IIM graduates.Its easy to sit in a ac room and rattle off strategies and lecture how we should become patriotic and its a different ballgame all together to practically implement it ,some of them definitely do not have the courage but they are great orators and excellent in giving lectures to others.

I know of people who are so judgmental about which cars people own and think no lesser than some sort of celebrity about themselves but I am sure these are the same people who will hear about this incidents everyday and pretend they are superior and don't belong to that downtrodden world....nothing matters to them except for their some damn BMWs,Audis of the world sad but true...

But yes having said the above there are some people whose efforts are worth giving a standing ovation wish I could all support and contribute in some way to eradicate the shameful honor killings and many such shameful incidents.


Made with right intentions, AAKROSH enlightens you on the caste system which continues to be at its rigid best, with people from the rural areas I would say from cities as well refusing to change their attitude towards marriage.

This movie reminded me of Missisipi Burning which was based on the FBI investigation into the real-life murders of three civil rights workers in Mississippi in 1964.

Yes this movie is not your timepass crap Dabaang but a serious,brilliant cinema not to be missed.

Performance wise both Ajay Devgan and Akshay Khanna is absolutely marvelous so is Bipasha Basu in her simple yet brilliant role I liked the role played by Reema Sen,Paresh Rawal is menacing as the uncouth cop - you will just love to hate him..

I am glad Priyadarshan has come up with this brilliant movie after some of his forgettable laughathons.

The one and only drawback is the awful item number by Sameera Reddy.

Don't miss this one

My Bharat will become mahaan and India will truly become incredible when eradicate the caste system in the true sense...