Casting: Amitabh Bachchan, Abhishek Bachchan, Vidya Balan, Paresh Rawal
Director: R. Balki
Release Date: 4 December 2009
Review: Auro (Amitabh Bachchan) is an intelligent and witty 13-year-old boy with an extremely rare genetic defect that causes accelerated aging. He suffers from a progeria-like syndrome. Mentally he is 13, very normal, but physically he looks five times older. In spite of his condition, Auro is a very happy boy. He lives with his mother Vidya (Vidya Balan) who is a gynecologist. Amol Arte (Abhishek Bachchan) is young, progressive and a full-of-ideals politician. He is out to prove to the world that ‘politics’ is not a bad word. He is a man with a mission. Auro is Amol’s son.
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.
Casting: Mandira Bedi, Mohan Bhandari, Prashant Chianani, Nauheed Cyrusi, Sammir Dattani, Saurabh Dubey, Gautam Kapoor, Rajesh Khera, Purab Kohli, Mahima Mehta, Bikram Saluja, Nausheen Ali Sardar, Anupam Shyam, Dara Singh, Vivek Vaswani
Director: Nisha Chainani
Release Date: January 09, 2009
Kisse Pyaar Karoon (2009)
Director: Ajay Chandhok
Release Date: February 27, 2009
Stroryline: Sidh [Arshad Warsi], John [Aashish Chowdhry], and Amit [Yash Tonk] are inseparable friends. Their life is full of fun, frolic and adventure. But sometime the destiny cannot fathom such smooth sail. Hence it introduces twists and turns to the happy goings, to usher in some trauma and some drama. So, enters Sheetal [Udita] with an evil design to usurp all the wealth of John. She entices him and John falls for her. She creates problems and hurdles in their friendship. Sidh and Amit realize her game and plan to foil the same. They decide to bring John back but John is in her full grip and refuses to budge. To save John, Sidh and Amit embark on an ambitious Save John Operation. Sheetal retaliates with full venom. Sidh and Amit without any ammunition fight back with all the weaknesses at their disposal. We enter the world of Chitty – Chitty Bang Bang.
The futile attempts, the timid attacks, the weak scheming, the daring retreats and the lucky escapes of antic afflicted Sidh and Amit coupled with the submissiveness and meekness of the henpecked John will definitely succeed in bringing down the roofs. Needless to say Aarti Chabria, Shweta Menon, Shakti Kapoor and Aashish Vidyarthi all board the fun train to make the journey funnier and funnier.
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Jugaad (2009)
Director: Anand Kumar
Release Date: February 13, 2009
Stroryline: Jugaad is the real life story. Based on the MCD sealing in Delhi, this is the real first hand experience of the successful CEO of an advertising agency. Jugaad, kicks off with hectic agency work culture coated with humorous and witty dialogues to gel with the present generation.
The catch is Jugaad comes to life when the MCD locks the doors of advertising agency under the sealing drive. Life turns around to the worst and pushes the desperate CEO towards Jugaad and all makeshift efforts. In the process many characters like property dealer, power brokers, so called connected people with politicians and senior officers walk into the story.
The Stoneman Murders (2009)
Director: Manish Gupta
Release Date: 13 February 2009 (India)
Stroryline: After the serial killer aptly dubbed ‘Stoneman’ by the media has just claimed his fifth victim, the case is still of little interest to the Bombay Police force. But to suspended sub-inspector Sanjay Shelar (Kay Kay Menon), this killer poses an opportunity. Sanjay hopes to track this killer down and thus, possibly find an entry back into the police force. With the secret aid of his patronizing superior AIG Satam (Vikram Gokhale), Sanjay takes up the arduous process of tracking this killer down. But the official police investigator of the case Inspector Kedar Phadke (Arbaaz Khan) clashes incessantly with Sanjay as both of them, separately, delve deeper into the case. Even as the police jostle for leads and clues, the Stoneman stalks the streets unabated, claiming victim after victim…
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