Darr @ The Mall is not scary

One would expect a horror movie, but the movie has far too few spine chilling moments. The first half is definitely engaging. The suspense remains over whether there is a supernatural force or whether there is human intervention to the events occurring in the mall. The intricacies of a mall - the lifts, the parking lots, surveillance room, skating rink, dance bars, escalators, storage room, trolleys, washrooms have been captured effectively to make you think twice before visiting a deserted mall or visiting a mall at odd hours of the morning or night. That, I must say is the high point of the movie.


Apart from that, the plot second half drags in the second half with most part of it being too predictable, until the climax, wherein you realize that the movie is more of a revenge drama and a question on human conscience than a horror film.

Jimmy Shergill has done his job, but sound effects could have been better, There were no creaking doors, no alarm bells - the usual ingredients of a horror movie. These could have been added to make the second half more interesting.

The supernatural force shown in the end was unconvincing and did not seem "angry" enough to be capable enough of exacting revenge.

My tuppence - watch if you are a fan of horror movies or if you are a big fan of malls. This might make you think twice about visiting malls alone.

Humshakals - one time watch no-brainer entertainment

A word of caution - you will enjoy this only if you

1. keep your brain outside the cinema hall
2. don't use logic to question why something is happening
3. like slapstick comedy
4. don't consider jokes on animals and medical patients as unethical

This movie has everything to make you laugh - potion which turn humans into barking dogs, idiots play with medical equipment like video games (and a man coming out of coma as a result), cocaine parathas (in which atta is substituted by cocaine), vodka parathas (made with vodka in place of  water), Ram Kapoor dancing in a skirt and trying to enchant her (his) lookalik.

Not to forget - a man suffering from obsessive compulsive disorder stage 3 - who would go mad whenever someone sneezes in front of him. And a warden at the mental hospital, who loves to torment his patients.

Things go overboard in the second half - and I feel it gets stretched a bit too much with the function and all and its a forgetful comedy of errors at the end(which is not at all funny)

Worth a watch if you like no-brainer slapstick comedies like Housefull 2, Kya Supercool Hai Hum and Grand Masti. Nothing adult to the nature of comedy in the movie.

Youngistaan is more of an advertisement

When you decide to watch a movie by the name of Youngistaan, you don't have too much expectation from the movie. Without reading reviews or watching trailers, you would expect it to be a movie with a social message that talks about youth power.

The movie began on a different note with a scene in Japan showing two developers, who work at a gaming company being summoned by their boss. Apparently, a colleague of theirs (who was a beta tester) had taken credit for the game that they had developed. Even at this juncture, the expectations from the movie would be vastly different from what it actually turns out to be.

Soon, it is revealed that one of the game developers (and the protagonist Jackky Bhagnani), is the son of the Prime Minister of India, who is about to die of cancer. And post his death, Jackky is chosen by the party leaders as their next Prime Minister since no one is willing to assume responsibility (on account of a declining public perception of the party and the government)

The rest of the movie is more of an advertisement for a secular political party and its "young leader". The movie revolves around how he tackles party politics, deals with senior party leaders, eliminates dissent in the party and manages to gain the trust of young voters by declaring populist schemes for the youth and by ordering an enquiry against a very senior leader of his own political party.

Apparently, in less than three months as Prime Minister, he is also able to create systemic changes in voting - by introducing e-voting through mobile smartphones.

The movie also weaves in the finer aspects of him being in a live-in relationship over the past three years with his girlfriend, who also gets pregnant while he is in office and the news eventually leaking to the media. A supposedly conservative audience in a rural "Sitapur" from where he fights elections and wins by a record 4.5 Lakh votes does not seem to care about his personal life.

The music is average with the exception of "Suno Na Sangemarmar", which comes twice - once in the middle and once at the end.

My piece of advice - watch this as a light hearted comedy. Take your brains out while watching this movie. There is enough meat in the movie (at least in the first half) to keep you watching.Where it gets boring is in the second half, with the introduction of a serious political campaign.

F*UGLY leaves you feeling ugly

F*UGLY - the name itself promises a lot - a movie that would be different from the rest. A youth centric film - not that I am much gung-ho about them given the lackluster story in Student of the Year, Yaarian and the likes. Also, the soundtrack one had heard on radio wasn't bad.

The opening shot hinted that the movie would focus on the dark side of Delhi - one which treats women as mere objects. The shot of the self-immobilizing man at India Gate gave a hope that the movie would have a social angle to it - probably it would be youth against eve teasing in Delhi or the likes, but all these thoughts were soon to be shattered by by a poor script and raw acting.

The very next shot at the hospital with journalists interviewing the burnt man and asking him absurd questions even before he is provided medical care was height of stupidity.

The movie soon veers away from its focus on eve teasing to a dangerous game between four friends, one of whom is the son of a minister (Vijender Singh) and a tough cop (played by Jimmy Shergill), who is pissed off at Vijender for beating him up over an argument.

The entire movie revolves around how Jimmy tries to force these youth into doing whatever he wants by levelling false allegations against them to the extent that one of them is forced to self immobilize himself as the act would lend credibility to his words and generate public sympathy.

Overall, it is a thoughtless movie. Avoid if you can.