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Jung (2000)
Junk
Jung is junk. One of the rare few films I've walked out of in a cinema. It's amazing what low technical values Sanjay Gupta films had prior to Kaante and Musafir. Technical values aside, it's also beyond my understanding how one of Bollywood's best writers - Anurag Kashyap - came up with a terrible plagiarised screenplay like this one.
Apparently, the film ran into some trouble with the producer and the director left the film midway. Which may explain why there are flashes of 'acceptable-to-good' shots here and there. The rest (maybe the bulk) of the film may have been 'directed' by the producer himself. I can't remember the music at all; all I remember about the songs are an aging Raveena Tandon and Jackie Shroff looking uncomfortable and ridiculous - sadly unbecoming, doing Grease moves in 2000.
Veer-Zaara (2004)
I hate to like this...
If someone described this film to me, I'd probably hate it. It's mushy, illogical, riddled with clichés, has a dose of patriotic jingoism and has silly things thunder and lightning when someone does something dramatic. In a nutshell, it's everything that Hindi films are laughed at for. It undoes everything that films like Dil Chahta Hai, Lagaan, or even Kal Ho Naa Ho have done for Bollywood and brings it all back to square one.
Unfortunately (because I wish I hated this film), the film does what it set out to do. It pulls shamelessly at the audience's emotions and ultimately evokes the desired result.
So yeah...it's a terrible movie which I kinda liked.
Veer-Zaara (2004)
I hate to like this...
If someone described this film to me, I'd probably hate it. It's mushy, illogical, riddled with clichés, has a dose of patriotic jingoism and has silly things thunder and lightning when someone does something dramatic. In a nutshell, it's everything that Hindi films are laughed at for. It undoes everything that films like Dil Chahta Hai, Lagaan, or even Kal Ho Naa Ho have done for Bollywood and brings it all back to square one.
Unfortunately (because I wish I hated this film), the film does what it set out to do. It pulls shamelessly at the audience's emotions and ultimately evokes the desired result.
So yeah...it's a terrible movie which I kinda liked.
National Lampoon's Van Wilder (2002)
In a nutshell - thoroughly offensive
The low-points of modern, western civilization are blatantly displayed in this film and others of this genre. I have yet to see a commercial American film targeted at youths that doesn't contain toilet humour, cheap Hollywood starlets, drugs, gratuitous sex and clichéd characters. Every single character in this film is a token stereotype, even the dog. The acting by the female lead is particularly uninspiring and makes me wonder what made her get a role in a major motion picture to begin with when there are so many better actresses around.
On the other hand, the writer does have a knack for detail and cohesion in an otherwise asinine plot and manages to somewhat redeem the characters towards the end.
Lagaan: Once Upon a Time in India (2001)
Get the Columbia/Tristar DVD!
Great film released on a Columbia/Tristar DVD. One of the best from India in 2001. Considered a potential Best Foreign film contender at the Academy awards. Amir Khan's debut production comes across as flamboyant and extravagant and at once very sincere and heartfelt.