Friday Releases – 9^th Mar’12

Next in my series, where I express my opinion / expectation on the Friday releases as a movie goer.

Another week another set of movies to go for – 2 new movies releasing this week and 3 released last week.

I didn’t get a chance to watch last week’s three releases – Paan Singh Tomar, London Paris New York & Will you marry me – though I’ll try to watch Paan singh tomar over this weekend.

Now, coming to the current week’s releases – Kahani & Chaar Din ki Chaandni

Let’s first begin with Kahani

Kahani stars the lady of the moment – Vidya Balan – another ‘Khan” or ‘Lady Aamir Khan’ as she is being called after successive success of “Paa”, “Ishqiya” and most importantly “Dirty Picture”. For that matter she also is the latest National Award winner for the best actress, declared earlier during the day.

Movie seems to be a mystery thriller with Kolkata as a backdrop. Premise of the movie along with Vidya Balan makes the package interesting.

As far as the Director – Sujoy Ghosh – is concerned, he has had a mixed outing at box office so far. He arrived with a quirky “Jhankar Beats” but lost the plot with following “Home Delivery” & “Aladin”.

Let’s hope movie is actually as thrilling as the trailers are.

Second Release of the week – Chaar in Ki Chaandni

The premise of the movie has enough ingredients to create confusion amongst the family members of the protagonist and to turn into a fun family comedy.

But you can’t be certain as to what to expect considering the past track record of the people involved.

Samir Karnik has had a mixed bag with his earlier movies, while he started with a disastrous “Kyun ho gaya na” he salvaged a bit with “Heros” while “Vaada raha” & “Nanahe Jaisalmer” again went unnoticed, the breakthrough for him came in the form of “Yamla Pagla Deewana” but the first half of that movie too was little staggering in comparison to the whacky second half; that movie also benefited by the chemistry amongst ‘Deols’. So you can’t be sure how successful he would be with ‘Tushar’ and the able supporting cast of ‘Anupam Kher’, ‘Om Puri’, ‘Chandrachur Singh’, ‘Sushant Singh’ and ‘Anita Raaj’.

The leading actor ‘Tushar’ has not had a good solo run at the box office and is yet to prove his mettle in comedy outside the ‘Golmaal’ series (of course, if you discount a one off “Dhol”, which again was a multi-starrer).

So this movie may go either way – it may turn out to be a frothy family entertainer like “Yamla Pagla Deewana” or an average time pass, which can be very well watched on a dvd rather than venturing out in a theater….though I’ll try to keep you posted on which way it goes.

Till then… a very Happy Holi to everybody.

 Gagan

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