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Maqbool (2003)
The best Hindi movie to come out recently
I saw this movie a long time ago and I saw it again recently, cant get enough of how amazing this movie is. A Hindi movie worthy of being screened at every internatinoal film festival, in fact it was screened at various festivals and was appreciated.
The list of the talented starcast is huge, Naseeruddin Shah, Om Puri, Pankaj Kapur, Tabu & last but certainly not the least, Irrfan Khan(playing the title role of Maqbool).
Story is about an underworld side kick who starts to have an inner conflict and where he has to make a decision and choose between loyalty and deceit, all because of a woman who is the mistress of the underworld gang leader Abbaji (played to perfection by Pankaj Kapur).
Performances, lines, screenplay, background score and editing, cinematography are 1st rate.
Sarkar (2005)
Good but disappointing.....
a rushed project is what i can call this movie, which had the potential to be great, but the director, Ram Gopal Verma, just to imitate The Godfather & The Godfather II, rushed so many things and made a mess of so many scenes.
The movie is watchable for the performances & background score & some of Amitabh's lines are praise worthy but there are many contradictions within the character of "Sarkar"..
At 1 moment Sarkar(Amitabh Bachchan) says "power is gained by joining people together, not by making them go against you", then when someone visits him(Rashid) to strike a deal with him, he himself acts in such an offensive way asking that man to become his enemy and forgetting his own basic rule.
At another moment Sarkar says "I don't interfere in other's business" yet after telling Rashid that he wont do business with him he specifically calls him and tells him that he would not even let Rashid do the business himself.(Note:in the Godfather how wonderfully Marlon Brando tells Solozzo who comes 4 a similar deal that drugs is a dirty business etc etc and he cant help him but also he wishes him the best in whatever he does, thats what should have been done here, since Sarkar is a man for the people, he should act nice even with an enemy so that he doesn't create a hostile environment around him) Now the son played by Abhishek(Shankar Naagre) and killing his own brother played by K.K(Vishnu Naagre), this was put in just to copy the Godfather II and nothing else, because it was so unconvincing the way it was handled, it took two parts for The Godfather to show Michael Corleone order the killing of his own brother, showing every inch of change in his character till the last scene of the Godfather II, whereas in Sarkar, it was rushed, out of no where you see Shankar telling his father he killed his own brother & the reaction of the father was very bad, it was not convincing at all, as if not a son but an enemy died.
So overall it was a good movie judging by Hindi movie standards but still, for me it was a huge disappointment because when this movie was announced, I thought RGV would handle it so well & make a movie better than his own Satya, which remains his best movie.
The Grudge (2004)
LOVED IT but some EXTREMELY FRUSTRATING scenes...
This has to be one of the best scary movies in recent times...Everything works well, the sounds, the make up, the plot, etc etc.....
Having said that there are some scenes that are so typical in horror movies and are so frustrating.....(some spoilers ahead) When the daughter of the old lady who works in an office experiences the horror show in the 10th floor and runs outside and gets a cab, why does she have to go back to her apartment alone? HELLO, go to a friend's house or just stay up all night in a restaurant or a bar or anything.....
When the detective decides he will burn the house, why does he go there in the night????????? Why does he go there alone? HELLO, get a freaking friend to go with, also why go inside the house to burn it? Couldn't try to burn it from outside?????????(btw the scene where the ghost of the boy fools him to think he is drowning was scary as hell because u know this detective will be dying soon)