Great comedy with hit songs - Juhi Chawla , Amir Khan , Ajay Devagan, Kajol

Because of other commitments I got there an hour late but it is great fun movie and worth seeing again. Akshay does a fantastic job as a groom who has to find Rupees one lakh ( $3000) for his father in law before he can sleep with his new wife. As he is a guy who does not like to work it is hard going.

Verbal humour is hilarious the first time round -eg in the scene where Akshay teaches a goat to talk . Visual slapstick is more fun on repeat viewing as in Deewana Mastana. The fight between Akshay and the current world sumo champion is superbly choreographed - a real masterpiece with just the right amount of comedy. I hope that they will not subtitle it exactly . 'Blackie here is some money to get clothes- you dont look good naked' will not win Bollywood many customers in Nigeria ! -but it is said with a smile. One good thing is that men are getting some interesting costumes instead of boring jackets and pants . Watch for Akshay in maroon Turkish pantaloons .

This movie is not a 'Bollywood' movie as because of closed shop labour problems it has been filmed more cheaply entirely in Toronto. There is one street from 'India' but the game is given away with all the shop signs in Hindi. As anybody knows all the signs in India are in English now. They might as well have made it anNRI movie instead of all these strange houses with sloping roofs. Women will love the sumo wrestler. Apparently the fat belly and fat bottom and nappy brings out intense feelings of maternal love as can be seen by the majority of women at these contests.

Surprisingly there wre fewer crowds at this movie then DTPH . What is wrong with movie goers ? Dont they like to be entertained or what ?

Akshay gets the goat to answer three profound questions and sell it as a talking goat . What comes after April ? What comes before June ? Who is the goat -you or me ? They missed a chance to keep this line of questioning going -it was fun.

It was surprising that the censors let the scene with the hosue shaking and the female scream pass. Kids will now have to explain to their parents what it meant!..Mo .

The MAJOR VISUAL HIGHLIGHT of the film is the dancing (since the three principal protagonists are all involved theater production)- Karishma's dances are superbly choreographed and surprisingly she outdoes Madhuri in the dancing. T.

I must first start by telling you that I am neither a fan of either Karishma or Madhuri (nor am I a diehard fan of the heroes Shah Rukh Khan and Akshay Kumar). However, both women performed adequately in this film, though avid Yash Chopra fans will sorely miss the presence of a pectacular Rakhee, a sultry Rekha or a stunning Sridevi. There is not much to choose between the two girls in terms of scting or in terms of length of their roles. Karishma's character is slightly obsessive about SRK's character, while Madhuri is playing the archetypal, sweet and coy heroine. As for who ends up with whom, I'll only say that SRK does not get Akshay at the end.

Which brings us to Akshay. He is the film's "biggest surprise" in the words of the director himself. He handle shis role well and it seems Yash was most interested in his character. Akshay and Karishma play more interesting characters, but again there is little to separate them from the others. The direction is not good in places and the film does slip into slight incomprehensibility at times, but Yash does hold his own, making this film a visual treat. The musical score is fantastic and picturisations are rivalled only by other Yash Chpopra films. The only noteworthy disappointment for this filmgoer is that the film has little comedy, which can be attributed to the fact that Anupam Kher is not in the film. After Chandni, Lamhe, Darr and Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge, he is sorely missed. He was also missed earlier in his regular banner's Boney Kapoor's Judaai and Subhash Ghai's Pardes.

All in all, the film is worth at least one watch. If you are a fan of any of the main four protagonists, it is a must-see. If you are a fan only of Yash Chopra then be sure to see it at least once...abba

Watch for the director Yash Chopra and his girl friend in the opening credits when they show different couples.

The movie starts with hundreds of girls dancing in the skimpiest once piece swimming costumes I have ever seen but on a dimly lit stage so that who dont want to acknoweldge they like that sort of thing can pretend they havent seen anything.

Akshay Kumar finally has a hit after 25 flops and steals this movie away from SRK. He obvioulsy has been reading too many Ramli posts because he keeps calling Madhuri -motee ( fat) and she is not -she is JUST right ! while Karishma has no tits and no ass and would look quite sexy with another 10 kilos .

Akshay makes the mistake of leaving Madhuri at home after she has accepted his proposal for a few days while he goes off on business to London and we all know how from experience how fickle women are , and the inevitable happens.

The most electrifying bit was when SRK plays different tunes on the drum and Madhuri answers with an Indian classical dance bits . There is thousands of years of experience behind these dances and it really sets the heart racing. The rest of the dancing -oversynchorinised Western gymnastic movements not danced to lyrics left me quite cold.

One really impressive bit was when 4 SRKs and Madhuris are on the screen in the same frame -dont know how they did it , but it was very very impressive. Lighting was awful and camera work out of focus to I think give the dreamy sequence . I much preferred Deewana Mastana in that respect- at least it was shot in bright sunlight outdoors.Anybody know what make that tiny red car was ? I wan one.I also like the new bandito turbans.

At one time Lata and Asha could mould their voice and one would think that it was the actress singing , but the age gap now is too profound , the songs with Madhuri look like she is not singing them , and these singers should retire gracefully and let Kavita and Alka carry on the good work. I know the song cassette has been a bit hit but on screen it looks awful.

My female companion was very impressed with SRKs deep emotional scenes , so its bound to be a hit with the weepy sex, but I think Akshay is just great in the light hearted ones. I shall be seeing MAMK twice next week and let everybody know what I think of it .

Once again the distributor swines had cut scenes -so nobody knew the signicance of the Ganesh statue which somebody who had seen the movie before told me was critical. Everybody complain. The ending was good...mo

Devanna Mastanna is fun.Director David Dhawan took no chances putting together an experienced crew-Saroj Khan as choreographer,Anil Kapoor..,Juhi Chawla,a girl with a delightful smile,Govinda with the whitest teeth in filmdom .The two mothers are some of my favorites.Anil Kapoor's mother was the wide -eyed astonished woman who dropped her dishes in Pardes when Ravi wanted to go out in the fields with Mahima !Govinda who I sometimes find irritating was very good in this role.
It is totally unethical for psychiatrists to ever develop personal relationships with their patients and this film was rife with what would be considered ethical boundry violations.It was a bit hard for me to dispense with my sense of reality enough to keep that from bothering me at first but Hindi movies are frequently fluff.
I found the dancing much better than some of the jerky spastic choreography in some recent films.It was less suggestive than Saroj's work of a few years ago.I think its a shame that kissing is censored.It amazes me that pelvic thrusts are permitted but kisses are not.
Unfortunately,it is becoming a cliche to place a dance at every place where appropriate to substitute for displays of affection or intimacy. The ending was a real surprise-the first ending in an indian film that surprised me in a very long time..Michelle

Well, i guess that this movie was meant to be seen without using brains to follow the plot (the closest i can get to "dimaag baju pe rakh kar dekhne ki movie thi") eg, i cant understand how the landscape and background look european when the setting is supposed to be india or how govinda is fishing near the lake when he is suposed to be scared of water or how anils suzuki turns into a yam in the last scene
i m sure these things can be xplained in some sort of convoluted manner but IMHO they were more of director's error then anything else but then as i said, we were not supposed to look for these but rather just enjoy the comedy..kuntal

Yeah I am glad someone else recognized the Mr. Bean ripoff. But Govinda looks so damned FINE in that black lace shirt, with his fat poking out, that i can't stay mad at him for long... Lisa Tsering

This is one of those movies you think when you come out -that was a good movie must see it again ! Juhi is a psychiatrist who is chased by a con man and a patient who has phobias about water , fire and heights and lots of other things and so his rival and his side kick Johnny Lever try to kill him off using all three -curing him of most of them in the process !

Who - if anyone -gets killed off in the triangle is for viewers to find out. Choreography is great as is usual in Bollywood movies and there is an interesting interview in Movie this month with Saroj Khan -born incidentally a Sikh but married to a Pathan who tells how one has to integrate Manipuri , Bharatnatyam and Kathakali dances with the pelvic thrusts to make the dances interesting to viewers . Govinda is not only the best comedy actor at the moment but probably the best dancer as well.

No other area can touch South Asia in the beauty of female dress and most of this I think is due to the inticrate craftwork with the beads and other bits of jewellery sewn in. Male dress has however been scruffy jeans or awful clashing black or blue suits and white shirts, but this movie should set a new trend with color co-ordination - just look at Govinda's outfit when he goes to ask for Juhi's hand-top class ...Mo

I am sad to say I saw hamesha last saturday and it was awful.In general my opinions about movies are generous but this one was bad news. The story had much potential but the character development was so poor that it was hard to engage your interest.Saif Ali Khan overdoes it terribly.He looks too old for the character he plays and his voice is so high pitched it is out of character.Kajol is pretty but her western clothing inthe beginning of the movie is unflattering.Her voice is nice and she is a competent singer

.The love scenes with Saif ali Khan are overly stylized and boring.Helicopter scene photography can be a very effective tool but not for these scenes.There was little to resemble human emotion being portrayed in this intended tragedy of love...Michelle

Hamesha is a love story based on reincarnation. So if you can handle reincarnation the songs are great and Kajol is as beautiful as ever. I personally liked the movie..skm

Aditya is one of these strange men who get very turned on by the scent of a woman. Kajol makes the mistake of dropping a roomal ( large handkerchief) she has been wiping her sweaty armpits off with in the hot Indian summer in his car after he has given her a lift. Saif is a daredevil who tempts fate once too often.
Kajol tries hard to convince him they were lovers in a previous life. She is a sweet innocent looking kid and had she been a sex bomb like Mamta or Sonali she might have succeeded !.
Special effects are very good - I liked the car and the people going over a cliff. Stranglings could have been done better. Centre point ( where is it , could it be Sikkim ? ) overlooking a deep canyon has a lovers leap area where the GOI has thoughtfully removed the railings. Any lovers who kill themselves to be reincarnated again to go through all the anguish of puppy love all over again need to have their heads examined.
There is nothing comparable to watching great songs on big screens. Here is a great idea for cinemas struggling to fill seats. Since half an hour of each film is songs why not string four together say one hour each with a 20 min interval in between where all the songs from two films would be shown pre interval ( with a one minute scene before the song starts included) and two after. I would pay any money to see Barsat ki Rat ( Madhubala) and Mother India pre interval and Virasat + Judaii post . What do others think of this idea ? What movie songs would they pay to see ?
There is a good Rajasthani gypsy dance in Jaislmer palace in the movie and some great Rajasthani Hindi spoken for a few minutes .. Bollywood is sparing no expense nowadays and the quality shows on the screen . This movie is worth watching once.

Went to see this film on Friday and surprisingly enough I thoroughly enjoyed the film. Firstly, the songs take a bit of getting used to but Pyar Kiya and Dont break my heart were good....the others were okay but nothing to write home about.

One of those rare Bollywood movies where two people bump into each other and fall in love at first sight. Great comedy and songs in the first half. I like that bit about seeing one's love around every corner ! There is a naughty joke which most will miss. Watch the statue of the apsara on Sanjay's business desk holding up the tray above her head on which the drinks are placed . A beautiful blue color and topless !

Dont break my heart the best song and the ones all the kids had come to watch was placed at a very inappropriate moment when the audience was not in the mood. An electrifying moment to hear NFAK's voice and the start of a beautiful song. Cutting it into various timed pieces worked in Tamanna but doesnt here. Had they shown it complete ( and if Eros are to blame the managers deserve a necklace of jootas) I think this would have become a great movie.

I dont think it was shot in India. Its fun identifying all the foreign places- Trfalgar square , Hampton ccourt maze , Hyde Park , Niagra falls , Vancouver swing bridge , Victoria Island and more I lost count of - but once again let the scene of these areas linger a bit as it takes time for the brain to take it all in. They could have got a big closer to Niagra.

Fights are extraordinarily good and for once a hero doesnt beat 20 men. Most Indian movies tend to become too melodramatic in the second half and the same has happened here. It does not have the emotional impact of Tamanna or Virasat and should have been left as a comedy. It is still worth seeing twice - just for the songs and to see Akshay Khanna's brilliant acting.

It might be a good idea for the producers to test out these movies on selected audiences and change bits . I am sure had they done that they would not have made the mistake of putting the 'Dont break my heart' song when the audience was still too sheel shocked by what had happened. The patient undergoing a CT scan is very well portrayed but they should have shown the cancer itself on the Xray . Bollywood is doing a lot of good educating the Indian public of the latest developments.

There is a live appearance by MF Hussain the foremost Indian painter in an exhibtion of his work. He is big fan of Madhuri and has painted her numerous times and even as a godess , some I think nude for which he got into trouble with the fundamentalist nuts.

He apparently likes her so much that he has seen HAHK 80 times!. Bollywood movies are so well made nowadays that one can see them ( Virasat, Border, Tamanna..) endless number of times without getting bored...mo

Anybody who has not seen this movie should go and do so right away as it does the theater rounds again. Aditya is the boss of an ad agency who likes sleeping with all the models . The first one shown in bed with him -wow what a stunner !- the movie was worth seeing for just her alone -anybody know her name and no.? Bollywood could vastly increase its audience if it had a parade of these beauties in the background.

I took a goree to see the movie , her first every Indian movie and told her that we could walk out midway if she didnt enjoy it ( I had sen the second half before) but she enjoyed herself and would have none of it. She liked the music , thought she recognised a tune from an English movie but I told her Bollywood would never do such a thing. She like the 200 dresses that Juhi models but what impressed her most were the singing abilities of SRK and Juhi.

A marvellous performance by SRK - that scene with him talking to a mirror , hating what he is doing - a masterpiece. I like the fight scene , the bit where the big launches himslef on SRK lying on a sofa and SRK calmly lifts a leg and helps him over. It takes real imagination to think up fights like that . One of the top 5 grossers of this year , which are in order Border : will keep you crying for days after you have seen it. Virasat , Gupt , Judai and Yes Boss...mo

If you love bare tummies then Betaabi now playing in theaters is the movie for you ! It is a bit like Baywatch , acres of exposed flesh but done so innocentlfy that no one even in the Middle East could take offence. Still it is surprising what the censors are letting through nowadays . Most of the times the skirts are so short the panties are visible ! Another excuse Bollywood uses is 'Tribal ' dances , which are great fun and the women can dress as the temple dancers depicted in the Ajanta caves.

Chandrachur Singh is told by his hearthrob who doesnt like him at all that to win her , he must kidnap her and take her to India Gate. He kdinaps the wrong girl and there is a lot of fun on the way. It is great that movies are being made on different themes rather than the usual bad cops and bad politicians and bad Hindu priests so typical of Bollywood.

Dialogue and comedy is first class. I especially like the bit where one group getting beaten up by Sardars tricks them by playing Bhangra on drums , so all the Sardarjis feel compelled to break off and do the Bhangra ! Dances are good . Fights are superbly choreographed. A great fun movie worth seeing twice.

One good bit was Ch Singh saying to Angela , I am devoted to nonviolence and every time you slap me I am going to return it with love. So she keeps slapping him and he keeps kissing her !

I am a great fan of Shilpa Shetty and her long legs . Just see the fantastic slow dance she did with Govinda in Chote Sarkar , an all time classic dance. Somehow I dont think Prithvi is going to be a hit however.

The story line for a change in Bollywood movies is good. A wife gets kidnapped in Houston in the great state of Texas. The poor husband has to demolish half the city trying to find her. They missed a great chance of Suinil Shetty going to the local Meenakshi Temple which is a smaller exact replica of the huge one in Madurai. Dravidian temples are one of the most appealing to the eye of all places of worship .

Anyway Sunil Shetty could have gone to this temple and sung a song of desolation and this would have made the movie a hit. Pakistani and Indian movies have one big advantage over Hollywood- the dialogue is clever with double meanings , beautiful Urdu shairi so that when you go home you keep admiring the writer. For example in Pardes -when Mahima brings back the buffaloes into the house she tells SRK and all NRIs that in India relationships are based on love and that they dont break off old relationships when they form new ones.

So I was trying to look for such gems in Prithvi and there is not one - not a single one. And that I think is the main failing of this movie. Great action scenes , beautiful photography , good dances by Shilpa and the nightclub dancer but poor comedy sketches and dialogue that is not memorable. One criticism is that if you are going to go to exotic foreign locales you might as well let the camera linger a bit over the touristy areas. Bollywood movies are aping the Hollywood ones with cameramen with ADD ( hyperactivity disorder) - slow down the panning !

This movie released only two weeks or so ago ,is already out on video. Some good time pass comedy in the first half . Sonali Bendre takes a job in Akshay's household pretending she has an illness so that she cant see after 7pm - I forget the name of the medical syndrome. It gives her an excuse to go in while Akshay is having a shower and get 'pregnant'. One of the catchy songs which I believe is inspired by 'in the summer time' is I think filmed on the beach in Mombasa. One of the big black guys sings 'hasina gori gori'.

Its a bit let down by unnecessary violence. The evil Hindu priest's (Amish Puri) son burns a college student who spurns his advances and Akshay then beats him up . His father comes after Akshay... I think if they had made the priest as a good guy helping Akshay against bad guys more people would have come to see the movie. The reason is that there are some good classical bits. Amish Puri the evil priest does a very good song with the tabla or dholak between his legs and if he had been a good priest the scene would have been accepted as a classic. Akshay has to be number one in the fight scenes in Bollywood at the moment but I think his movies need a twist in the story. .

This has to be one of the greatest movies of 1997 , if not of all time . It grips you right from the very first scene and never lets go . Paresh Rawal is a superb actor , a true genius , here playing a Hijra ( eunuch or transvestite ) who picks up a baby girl ordered to be killed by her father ( and there have been certain groups in India who kill all the girl children so they dont have to pay dowry and instead take it and get rich over generations) and raises her , trying to hide his condition from her .
His screams when she accidently discovers the truth when she gets older are really heart rendering - these things happen . I know a lady who didnt discover that her husband liked to dress in female clothes until 20 years after her marriage and she was extremely distressed .
Pooja Bhatt is splendid in her role and the little girl who plays her as a child ( anybody know her name? ) is really one of the cutest children I have seen . Saying any more about the movie would be spoiling the fun for others so get it on video and watch it. Alka Yagnik's songs tug at the heart . Tanuja's dialogue is outstanding and the lyrics by Kaifi Azmi ( one who wrote Heer Ranjha in poem) and others are world class.
For once there is not the cliched endings where all the baddies are forgiven. Sparks who are realising it on video are not as bad as some others but still it is awful not to put out top class prints , it really needs the law to have a look at this practice of degrading the picture quality.
I loved this movie , its one of the best this year. All credit to Pooja Bhatt and Bollywood for having the courage to tackle such a difficult topic and humanise these people ! .