Film - Ocean 11 & Ocean 12

Film :Ocean 11 & Ocean 12

Recently I have seen, on recommendation from my friend, OCEAN 11 & OCEAN 12.

Ocean 11 is story of the biggest robbery planned & executed by Mr.Ocean along with help of his 10 buddies.

The first part of movie sets the atmosphere of biggest robbery plans by pick & choose of gang members. Mr. Ocean (George Clooney) & Mr. Rusty (Brad Pitt) are chief planner & they form the gang & also arranges the financer. Their plan is to rob LA Casino not 1 or 2 but total 3 casinos cash worth aprox. 150 Million Dollars.

The best part is how they get in & get out from the casino. The owner of Casinos loose all his cash along with his lady love. The lady love (Julia Roberts) was ex-wife of Mr. Ocean. He gets money as well as his love back.

I have never seen Gorge Clooney’s movie earlier, I like the way he is. He is cool guy & owner of pleasant personality. Brad Pitt at his best, with something or other in hand for eating, at all times.

I thoroughly enjoyed the movie.

It prompted me to see OCEAN 12.

Ocean 12 film starts post 3 years, Ocean 11. All the guys are rich & enjoying their new life. Life for some people is fun for others boring. Some uneasiness felt in their routine normal life. They are not comfortable.

Now, the owner of Casino is back & knocking the doors each & every member of OCEAN 11. They have to pay back the sum they have looted along with the interest of 3 years.

All stunned & they have no option to come together to plan new robbery to pay back as their cash in hand is not enough, again interest thereon for 3 years add to their worries.

Actually the main culprit behind their misfortune is one smart thief & they have to beat him to save their souls.

It is little tricky & boring. Some times we don’t understand what happening how the best buddies are get caught up. At the end of the movie I feel that they are trying to fool everyone including the viewer.

In any case with this big cast & pressure of earlier successful film their effort is just at par.

I like the way; the film shows life of gang members post robbery. They are trying to normalise their living & lives the life they thought. However as hard as tries they feel they are unable to adjust themselves.

Their dream come true is not happening as expected. Everybody is some way or another frustrated with his or her new, normal, routine life. At one point of time, Mr. Ocean also vocalize that he always have the urge for doing something challenging like robbery even if he had more than enough money.

“Once a thief remains the same for life time”.

The film is not as good as Ocean 11, however One time view is Ok for Ocean 12.

With love,

Khushal
26/03/2009

Film : Italian Job

As I have decided to write my observation / comments / review on books & films, I am full on to BOOKS, watching MOVIES on DVD recommended movies by my friends.

I am still skipping some of the movies that I have recently seen viz.

Delhi 6 ( I don’t want to write bad review about a film made with genuine efforts but lost somewhere)
Slumdog Millionaire ( So much written about this film so not to waste myself)
Khoobsurat ( I have no capacity to write review which will convincingly tell my feelings, it is very feel good, family oriented, stress buster & well meaning movie. Must see for all).
Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi ( I don’t feel to write anything about this movie, however music is good, specially the title song).

Now move on to English Movies I have seen, it includes 300, Darknight (Batman), Exorcism, Italian Job, Red Eyes, Ocean 11, Ocean 12 etc..

I am inclined to write review of Italin Job & Ocean Series, for 300 I have already written, & others will do on their merits.

First,

Italian Job,

This is movie about 6 thieves leaded by Charlie, the planner. One is dashing driver, one computer expert, one explosive expert, one master key-man (who can decode any locks) & one smart guy.

They plan to break the treasury full of gold bricks. The planning made by Charlie to the minute details & for each & every movements. They do successfully & their tricks to fool policy guys are awesome. However their joy of success vanish as that smart guy double cross them & take away all the money. He also tries to kill all but only one person i.e. master key-man got killed.

After 2/3 years, the same gang found out the smart guy & with the help of daughter of master key-man, plan to rob the smart guy.

It involves meticulous planning & they are against the person who knows their moves. All plans get tumbled down, again re-plans, new plans & lots of action…

The movie is good as far as action & tricks shown. I like the movie but not that much…


Khushal Gohil
24/03/2009

Book Review – To Kill A Mocking Bird

Book Review – To Kill A Mocking Bird

By Harper Lee

This book is really Timeless Classic of Growing up & The Human Dignity That Unites Us All. It was first published in 1960 & went to win the Pulitzer prize in 1961 & was later made into an Academy Award winning film, also a classic.

The author has set the background of the story in silent sleepy Southern Town of America. The story is about two children James & Jean Louise.

The story captures the growing up years of above two children. Their mother died early so their father Mr.Atticus is taking care of them.

The book gradually develops the story & introduce us the entire neighborhood one by one. Story takes us to Jean & James changing perceptions & attitudes over a period. Both had very good bonding.

Mr. Atticus (Father) was lawyer & destined to fight a case of Negro. At that time, any one helping / defending Negro was improper & against the socially accepted norms. He was inviting disgrace from all his relatives & friends. However major task for him was to help innocent Negro & also make sure that all these cheap talks, because of his stands, do not harm the children.

James & Jeans were taunted by schoolmates, relatives & nearby persons as their father is Negger loving (i.e. Helping Nego). He asked them to held your head high & ignore all this.

Mr. Atticus was learned man & take utmost care that his children do not learn bad things / manner / wrong notion. He can freely be approached by his child for all types of queries / questions. At one place, his tiny daughter asks him “What does rape means?”. He answered all their queries in dignified & understanding way. He handled them well too. He lives the life by example for his child.

The story have suspense, racism problem, tales of heroic & grit along with valuable lessons of human behavior during emergency times. It also rewind our childhood memories of adventures, revolt, fears of unknown places etc. etc.

I like the book very much, it helped me to understand lots of things about my behavior & to look at broad prospective of situations.

With love,

Khushal
19/03/2009

Book Review - Mera Sangharsh - Hindi Translation of "Mein Kampf"

Book Review – Mera Sangharsh (in Hindi)
Hindi Translation of Mein Kamph - Autobiography of Mr. Adolf Hitlar

By – Dr.. N. L. Madan, MA, Phd.

I have read quite a few translated books & noticed that it lacks the impact of original book.

As far as this book is concern, I must say that Dr. N. L. Madan have very good command of Hindi language & his job of translation of this book is excellent.

The book is autobiography of Adolf Hitlar. It is account of his childhood to formation & struggling years of his political outfit. The book is voluminous it took lot of time to read. I was also not aware about the then political & historical background of the Germany & some of the information / details mentioned were could not be comprehended by me. Wherever Hitlar justifies his thought patterns & pen downs his thoughts considering the prevalent circumstances & future stands, it is delight to read.

He was very clear in his thoughts & firm on his stands. He had all the qualities of leadership & he was driven my the sole purpose of reviving the lost glory of Germany. He was ready to sacrifice everything & nation was above everything for him. He was also very critical about parliament governing the nation & was also not believed in Democracy too.

His thoughts like Jews were responsible for failure of Germany (he has theory for the same), Marxism is threat to nation, Germans are only having pure blood, no mixing of pure blood with inferior blood, to prosper means to conquer the World by War etc. etc. are deep rooted in his heart.

These are the same reasons, which influenced his life’s future deeds and the rest is history as we know.

The book comes to end where his political outfit is gaining the momentum & ultimately German ruling bodies ban his outfit.

I could gather & understand the book only because of the good translation & I have never felt that any impact is lost. I like to praise once again Dr. N. L. Madan for his marvelous work.

As the book says, the reason for translation of this book is not to highlight the shortcomings of Hitlar. The book is to showcase that he was true lover of his motherland & highly motivated for betterment of his Nation. His burning desire to do anything for Nation & wiliness to sacrifice for noble cause is what India & Indian People needs to understand. This may lead to motivate us to place our Nation above everything.

Khushal

17/03/2009

FASHION - Film Review

Film Review – Fashion

Directed by Mr. Madhur Bhandarkar

Main Cast : Ms.Priyanka Chopra, Ms. Kangna Ranawat, Ms.Mugdha Godse


Mr. Madhur Bhandarkar is one of the finest director of Mumbai Film Industry. (I don’t’ use the word - Bollywood).

His first movie was Trishakti (Badly Flopped), then came, Chandani Bar toplining Tabu (It was huge hit), then I think Satta (Ravina Tondon), Page 3 (Konkana Sen Sharma), Corporate (Bipasha Basu), Traffic Signal ( Kunal Khemu, Neetu Chandra). In between one action flick with Akshay Kumar – Aan –Men at Work (flopped) was also came.

He is talented & handled women centric movie very well.

His recent movie “Fashion” is shown that he is guru in this field.

Fashion is not the story about fashion or glamour world. It is the story of Meghna Mathur, a small town girl who wants to conquer Glamuor Hub Mumbai & to become a Model .. no Super Model. The story moves with her journey from bottom to top & again nose-diving to bottom in the fashion world. The story gets progressive when same girl try to make come back.

The movie depicts the small town girl with attitude & luck climbs up the ladder of success & how her attitude turns to arrogance & ultimately her failure & exit from the fashion world. Whilst making comeback she have to struggle more hard than the earlier.

Ms Priyanka Chopra plays the character of Meghna, alongwith her, Ms. Kangan Ranawat dons the character of Ex Super Model & Ms. Mughda Godse (debuting from modeling to Films) as struggling model. Ms. PC has done good job & delivery her performance with ease. But the Ms. KR steals the show. Her characterization & acts is too good. For Ms. MG, considering her first movie, looks good & promising.

I would like to make special mention of the music of the film. As compared to Mr. Madhur Bhandarkars’ earlier movies, this movies music is very good, all the songs like Jalwa, Fashion Ka Hain Yeh Jalwa, Mar Jawa Meet Jawa, Kuch Khas Hain. I like the music very much. The music is composed by Mr. Salim Suleiman duo.

This movie is schedule to telecast on TV – UTV Movies most probably this week end,

See it & enjoy, ( However beware UTV Movies drags last portion of movie too much),

Khushal
16/03/09.

Film Review - "300"

Film Review – 300

This is the bang on movie.

I have read the review of this movie in Gujarati Paper. The writer was very amused by movie & applauded very much. I thought I should see the movie.

At that time, movie was out of theater & only recourse left was to see in DVD. I have recently purchased DVD player & was trying to get the DVD of “300” from my friend but of no use. My friend Prasad was also floored by the movie & strongly recommended me to see that movie.

One fine evening ultimately I purchased a DVD which contained 5 movies, one was “300”.

This long wait has increased by expectations from the movie.

The same night, I have seen this “Jabardast movie”. The movie is marvelous & worth seeing.

This is the story from ancient Europe and about SPARTIAN. Spartians are the people who are known for their bravery. At the time of birth of new child, if he/she is not perfect, they killed them. Each & every child of spartian goes through rigorous training & become the perfect warrior. The warrior, who will never run away from the battleground, never will bent their knees against the rivals. They will kill or be killed.

The movie is about 300 spartians fighting against lacs of soldiers. They chalked out such a perfect plan to counter the rivals that only 300 spartians keeps on killing lacs & lacs of rival soldiers.

The action, editing, photography, story narration, styling of the movie is at its best.

I do not know the lead actors but their performance where up to the mark.

I can write lot about the movie but to understand its impact you have to see the movie. Those who have seen this movie will agree with me.

I am planning to see movie once more.

This is must see for all people except those who do not like action flicks & / or war movie showing killings all over.

Khushal
06/03/2009