Casting: Aditi Govitrikar, Amole Gupte, Minissha Lamba
Director: Sagar Ballary
Release Date: 17 June 2011 (India)
Stroryline: Good hearted but not worldly-wise, the rolly-polly tax inspector, Bharat Bhushan (Vinay Pathak) is back to fulfill his long cherished dream of becoming a singer. To further his media ambition he enters a game show hoping to win a cash prize with which he can make his own music album. Eventually Bhushan goes on to win the competition which also gifts him a free stay on a cruise ship. It is on this cruise that he meets Ajit Talwar (Kay Kay Menon), an acrid tongue sadistic business tycoon, who is taking sheath on the cruise to flee from the Income Tax department. Close on his heels is tax inspector M.T.Shekharan (Suresh Menon), who is trying to unearth the identity of a financial scamster who has been elusive since long. Click here to watch the movie
Casting: Salman Khan, Asin, Paresh Rawal, Mahesh Manjrekar, Anuradha Patel, Manoj Pahwa, Manoj Joshi, Puneet Issar, Sharat Saxena, Akhilendra Mishra, Arya Babbar
Director: Anees Bazmee
Release Date: 3 June 2011 (UK)
Stroryline: Born from a Gujarati mother and a Punjabi father, Mumbai-based Bollywood Art Director, Simran, is in love with her childhood sweetheart, Raj Dholakia, who is also her mother’s choice. Then her employer, Veer Kapoor, assigns a slacker-Casanova, Jay Dhingra, to work as her subordinate. Jay turns on his charm – albeit in vain – and almost gets fired. Both eventually patch-up and get engrossed in the making of a movie ‘Pyar Pyar Pyar’. During the filming, Simran admits that she has fallen in love with him, and even breaks up with Raj, but Jay rejects her. Heartbroken, she returns to Raj – who welcomes her back, and they are all set to wed. It is then Jay realizes that he may in love, and wants to meet and apologize to her.
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I Hate Luv Storys (2010)
Director: Punit Malhotra
Release Date: 2 July 2010 (India)
Stroryline: Born from a Gujarati mother and a Punjabi father, Mumbai-based Bollywood Art Director, Simran, is in love with her childhood sweetheart, Raj Dholakia, who is also her mother’s choice. Then her employer, Veer Kapoor, assigns a slacker-Casanova, Jay Dhingra, to work as her subordinate. Jay turns on his charm – albeit in vain – and almost gets fired. Both eventually patch-up and get engrossed in the making of a movie ‘Pyar Pyar Pyar’. During the filming, Simran admits that she has fallen in love with him, and even breaks up with Raj, but Jay rejects her. Heartbroken, she returns to Raj – who welcomes her back, and they are all set to wed. It is then Jay realizes that he may in love, and wants to meet and apologize to her.
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Band Baaja Baaraat (2010)
Director: Maneesh Sharma
Release Date: 10 December 2010 (India)
Stroryline: Shruti (Anushka Sharma) and Bittoo (Ranveer Singh) are two 20-something years olds who have just graduated from Delhi University. Apart from this the two are very different from each other. Shruti, who is from a middle-class household, is very driven, ambitious and focused, while Bittoo is a slacker who is mostly interested in having fun with his friends. A chance meeting leads them to reluctantly start a business venture as Wedding Planners together, with one strict rule: not to mix business with pleasure. Through their business they experience the ups and downs of the lavish world of the glamor and glitz of Delhi weddings, something that will test their friendship over time and eventually make them discover one another.
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3 Idiots (2009)
Director: Rajkumar Hirani
Release Date: 24 December 2009 (UK)
Stroryline: Two friends (Madhavan and Sharman Joshi) embark on a quest for a lost buddy. On this journey, they encounter a long forgotten bet, a wedding they must crash and a funeral that goes impossibly out of control. As they make their way through the perilous landscape, another journey begins: their inner journey through memory lane and the story of their friend – the irrepressible free thinker Rancho (Aamir Khan), who in his unique way, touched and changed their lives. It’s a story of their hostel days that swings between Rancho’s romance with the spirited Pia (Kareena Kapoor), and his clash with an oppressive mentor, Viru Sahastrabudhhe (Boman Irani). And then one day, suddenly, Rancho vanishes.
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Casting: Raja Bundela, Ritesh Deshmukh, Lara Dutta, Govinda, Satish Kaushik, Sohail Khan, Kunal Kumar, Sushmita Sen, Ranvir Shorey, Rajpal Yadav
Director: David Dhawan
Release Date: 2 October 2009
Review: In the past decades David Dhawan has successfully given us highly enjoyable movies on the subject of extra marital affairs such as “Biwi No.1″, “Gharwali Baharwali” and “Sajan Chale Sasural”. But his current “Do Knot Disturb”, lacks the famous David-Govinda punch and fails to provide the expected entertainment factor to the viewers. Though the movie does manage to make you laugh in some particular scenes but the number of those hilarious moments is too small for a David-Govinda comic venture.
Casting: Bipasha Basu, Ajay Devgan, Sanjay Dutt, Mugdha Godse, Ashwini Khalsekar, Fardeen Khan, Johnny Lever, Sanjay Mishra, Ashish R. Mohan, Shraddha Musale, Atul Parchure, Vijay Patkar, Subhash Pradhan, Mukesh Tiwari, Sherveer Vakil, Puneet Vashist
Director: Rohit Shetty
Release Date: 16 October 2009
Review: A new genre has arrived in Bollywood! I would like to call it Shetty comedy! The Golmaal director has certainly succeeded in creating a brand for himself with All the Best.
Though some situations in the movie look forced, but cinema is known for taking such liberties. How else do you think Manmohan Desai would have survived. The best thing about Shetty comedies, are they don’t seem repetetive, and every time offers something fresh. Despite using the same comic formula (of punchy dialogues and multiple characters), till now Rohit Shetty has prevented himself from being typecast.
But beyond a point, it’s difficult to maintain that comic momentum. Even comedy king like David Dhawan slips whenever he’s overconfident. The recent example being Do Knot Disturb.
