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Sirf (2008)
Not too bad for the silly season!
Bollywood has yet to surprise us for the year 2008. After Taare Zameen Par, we have seen nothing to quench the thirst of cine-goers. Well, for those of you who are planning to watch Sirf, it isn't all that bad or let me say, not as bad as Tashan. It is the story about unfulfilled dreams. It is the story about not so content people, who are just not satisfied with the way things are in their life. It is also about breaking away from the monotony of one's life in such a way that it can ruin one's life. This movie could have been executed better, but the acting of Ranvir Shorey, Kay Kay Menon and Sunali Kulkarni has certainly made it a watchable movie!!!!
Laaga Chunari Mein Daag: Journey of a Woman (2007)
LCMD - yet another run-of-the-mill
This fall is supposed to be full of good and bad surprises. All the previews of this flick promised that a treat is likely to come our way. And this is exactly what has gone against this movie.The highlights of the songs weren't too misleading, as far as its catchy tunes are concerned. The plot revolves around a family settled in Benaras. Shivshanker Sahay (Anupam Kher) is a retired man lives in an ancestral house, with two daughters, and his wife, Sabitri (Jaya Bachchan). The elder daughter Vibha (Rani) is more conscious of her parents' old age, their growing anxiety for making both ends meet, and her incapacity as a woman to support her parents as a son would have done. This financial crisis pushes Vibha to fetch for work in a city of opportunities where opportunities are very hard to strike. From this point, the never-ending saga of Vibha turning into Natasha brings a very predictable twist in the story. Chutki (Konkana Sen) is one of the finest artists in Indian cinema. She has done full justice to her role as a younger daughter with little understanding of the family crisis and huge dreams for future. Though it is a very well-executed movie, with finesse of Pradeep Sarkar, and all the right ingredients for a commercial hit, it is a very predictable movie. The reason for its predictability is that the previews not only revealed the entire story, but stole all the surprising elements from it.