First Look @ SRK's Om Shanti Om

The craze of Chak De is still ON and SRK is coming with his OM SHANTI OM...have a look

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1ionZznx1Q

First Look @ Nag's DON

No one can match his style and grace...

Watch out Nag is coming as DON...redefining the meaning of DON..

Yamadonga : Dada's comments

YamaDonga

Movie in one line : Yamadonga minus Yamalokam scenes = utter rubbish

Negatives :

Lack of good comedy : There is no single scene which evokes you into laughter.Brahmanandam was not used properly.Even Ali is under utilised.And suprisingly there is an element of vulgar and sense less comedy in 2nd half.

Duration of the film : As the film approaches climax,people started moving out of theatres.I hope the movie will be trimmed ASAP.

Boring Later part of 2nd half : There are no interesting elements in the movie after NTR comes back from Yamalokam.The screenplay tests your patience.

Heroine's character is very old fashioned.

Infact you feel as if you are watching many old movies.(Heroine-daughter of dead zamindar-relatives tortue for her property)

Positives :

MohanBabu : One word..he is awesome as Yama.This movie again proves why he is called dialogue.

NTR : There is one scene before interval where NTR confronts Yama.The war of dialogues ,can be said as the best scene shot in recent times.NTR excelled.I guess we can say...only NTR can say those dialogues in current generation.On flipside,he should take care about his hairstyle.

Dances : WOW!! You have to see to feel it.Esp Nachore Nachore song....full marks to Dance Director.

Yamalokam Set and Graphics : As i said before...this movie is nothing if Yamalokam and the scenes in Yamalokam had not been shot in such a way.

Senior NTR : Theatre went berserk when "Anna garu" appears.It was very heartening to see him again.But my personal feeling is that director shouldnt have made Sr NTR to use "Nandamuri" vamsam and stuff...

Final Comments :

Rajamouli should have taken more care in presenting this in a better and clean entertainer.I doubt if this movie draws repeat audience.

With the concept new to current lot of audeince,NTR new looks and no competition near by...we can say Rajamouli might esacape first flop of his career...but having said that....this is just n above avg film.

Dada Rates it 6/10.

KILL PIRACY : Watch this movie in theatres else please dont watch it.Thank You

CHAK DE INDIA : DADA's Comments

CHAKE DE INDIA

"I saw first hockey match in my Life!! Thanks to SRK and Shimit Amin"

Movie in one line : Chak De!!

Let me start with Negatives.

What it Lacks??

A typical movie viewer will compare this with Lagaan.So did I.Let me tell you,LAGAAN is a once in life time movie.And you know what "Once in a Life Time " means.

Chak De some how couldnt get that emotion,passion..that patriotic feeling.Its more of a passion for game than passion for nation.

Another thing which i felt missing (many may not agree with me) is..the movie should have had atleast few scenes dialogues which tells about Past Glory of Indian Hockey.

Now coming to the real Chak De..

First things first....I will assure you that you will never find a dull moment in the movie.Its a good entertainer.

Performances :

SRK :

What can i say about him??

This role is a cake walk for the KING,the DON,the Baadshah of Bollywood.
Its very heartening to see SRK coming out of his routine lover boy movies and doing films like Paheli,DON and now Chak De.

His performance in Chak De can easily be in top 5 of his best performances.

After the final…. We see him just going back and sit down….. but not going into the field running….. When he sits down he doesn’t sit and laugh but … has tears in his eyes…. this is one of the best scenes ever shot in history of Cinema.

The fit of Shah Rukh as a hockey coach -- inspiring, canny, frustrated, helpless and profoundly hopeful -- is so naturally perfect that it's a wonder he hasn't done a sports film before. It's been a while since we've seen him visibly relish a role like this, and while he has to mouth some clunky dialogue, Khan is simply super.

Rest of the caste : Well ,apart from SRK and his team there are no other major roles.Coming to the performances of the girls...Apart from the captain,as far as i know,all of them are new to silver screen.They really rocked,esp the girls who played Preeti,Komal and Kaur.The way they speack the regional lingo,the way they show the passion,the emotion is just awesome.

HighLights :

I have seen many super duper hit movies in multiplxes.But never did i see audience whistling,shouting,cheering,clapping through out the movie.Chak De did it.Infact me too very rarely shout,clap in the theatres.I was clapping all the way. :)

7 years of pain and shame written on Kabir was expressed in eyes of SRK on every day in the field
7 years of loneliness and away from his mothers fav home was shown in his constant dedication and devotion to make a team and make them win the world cup

There are few scenes and dialogues,which will surely make you clap.

There is one dialogue by SRK "pehli baar koi gore ko hamare tirange ko lehrate hue dekha"-- total theatre went berserk.

I wont play spoilsport in revealing all the good scenes.Go n Njoy.

Music :

There are only 2 songs in the movie which are well placed.The other songs in audio album come as back ground.Mind you,they help to keep up the pace of movie.

Final Comments :

This film basically shows you the team spirit,the unity and proves the point that "Jo Nahin Ho Sakta..wahi tho karna Hain"

I saw in TV that Chak De has got poor openings,though the talk is good.

For me it doesnt matter.I assure you that you wont be disappointed watching this flick.Easily the best so far in 2007.

DADA Rates it 9/10

Other reviews of the movie :

http://idlebrain.com/mumbai/reviews/chakdeindia.html : 4/5

http://www.rediff.com/movies/2007/aug/10chak.htm : 3.5/5

http://glamsham.com/movies/reviews/movie_review_chak_de_india_080703.asp : 4/5

http://indiafm.com/movies/review/12948/index.html : 2/5

http://www.expressindia.com/fullstory.php?newsid=90708 : 3.5/5

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Entertainment/Movie_Reviews/Chakde_India/articleshow/2273247.cms : 4/5

KILL PIRACY : Watch this movie in theatres else please dont watch it.Thank You

Shankar Dada Zindabad : Dada's Comments

Shankar Dada Zindabad

Movie in one line:

If it had been better movie we could have called it a tribute to Lage Raho...but now we should call it a copy of LageRaho...if not a bad copy.

Good things:

Well the concept of movie is a good one.Gandhigiri.The original version was such a hit that Gandhigiri has become real tool for many social issues.Here we should say Hatsoff to makers of original.

Music : Devi's audio is good.

Performance : Srikanth did a good job as ATM,but his role limited first 2hrs of the movie.But still his action in comedy,sentiment is a worth a mention.Chiranjeevi is good at times but he was way better in SD MBBS.

Not so Good things and negatives:

Well the first and fore most negative about this movie is ...the idea of making this movie.Frankly they should not have remade it.Basically chiru being hero of masses...his fans expect songs,fights which they miss in this movie as the concept of the movie is against them.Not only this is thr reason...the original is big hit that almost 50% of AP population might have seen it and this movie (SDZ) doesnt give a impression of watching a new movie.

Chiranjeevi : Megastar sir..its time for restropection.Retrospection for deciding about your next step.Take care about ur looks,charm.Think twice before starting ur next project.

Heroine : Though there was huge negative talk on heorine.I found her OK.

Quality : The worst.Looks like old reels have been used for this movie.THere is no freshness.

Lack of Innovation : What did prabhudeva do???Can some one answer this?Even if i directed i wud have come up with the same movie if not a better one.Where is the creativity of the director? Or was he ordered not to change anything from original??Sequence to sequence,.,scene to scene ..dialogue to dialogue...directly lifted form original.Atleast the issues solved by Chiru on radio...they should have added different issues.If you observe..there r few new scenes added.MS narayana's cpl of scnes and venumadhav's ranganayaki scene.Believe me..these are the only scenes where i had a laugh on my face.

Dances : Did really Prabhu deva work for the movie?? i doubt.

Final word: I dont know how a person , who didnt see the original ,feel about SDZ.But as a person who watched and liked LRMB ,this movie can easily be skipped.It offers nothing new and even charm of chiru is missing.

DADA Rates it 5.5/10.

KILL PIRACY : Watch this movie in theatres else please dont watch it.Thank You