elvenninja Reviews

Bodyguard (I) (2011)

Wasted Potential and a regular useless tamil action showcase with languages changed

[5/10 · 6 October 2011]

The Storyline was heavily borrowed and most of the upcoming scenes were easy to guess at times but the story was still fine enough to have built up a sound epic but stupid and noobish direction and awkward and stupid thought out action scenes made it a total waste.

Our so called hero is tasked with protecting a rich girl who starts teasing him on phone and they end up falling in love with each other except our guy doesn't know who the girl actually is and ends up getting married to the wrong girl who in fact is the best friend of the other girl in question and knows the whole story but uses the situation to reap her own dreams but ends up falling ill to a deathly disease and writes the whole story for her son to read and possibly unite his father with his true love.

Now this could have made a good movie to waste the couple hours on but it ends up being nothing but a stupid action/direction flick from the south and nothing else.

One stupid scene i would like to highlight is when our hero guy is blinded with dust in the middle of action and no one dares go close to him and try and use the situation but once he is able to see again they are all trying to match him toe to toe like they always knew they could beat him up like a 3 years old kid...

Tere Bin Laden (2010)

Kungfu Chicken :P

[7/10 · 5 September 2010]

Well i haven't finished watching it yet, only half way through but its quite good. I don't watch many bollywood movies to be true as i m tired of all the same stories being repeated and good Hollywood stories being ruined and you know the end of a bollywood movie from the start but this one is different and quite simple and yet humorous enough to keep u laughing.

Although it disappoints in a few things like i was quite intrigued when i read earlier before the movie came out that a whole big research was done on a typical Pakistan neighborhood and people, streets and people's outfits were being imported and such but i must say the movie does a very poor or no job at portraying a typical Pakistani street specially when you see the lots with caps and whatever they carry on their soldiers and such, i don't know but i haven't seen anyone with such things here apart from the "Masjid imams" and even that very rarely and that truly takes away the Paki look thing from it as i have only seen such people in bollywood movies (typical Indian Muslim represented in a bollywood movie) before and i don't know but you don't see normal people in those outfits here and such but yeah other than that, the punjabi-urdu accent and the overall setting brings it quite closer to a typical Paki setting and does a good job at telling a few of the different parts of Pakistani society like a simple village guy with a chicken farm, a radio guy (apparently this guy was done perfectly for a typical Paki radio guy with both looks and sound), an ambitious girl and then a typical educated but ambitious guy who dreams of a better life in America and is rejected many times but keeps trying and so on and not to forget the kicking chicken, i laughed like hell there.

But anyways lets go and finish it and i encourage anyone who hasn't seen it to go and get it and watch it for if nothing else i am sure you are gonna be laughing a lot :)

oh and about another review relating the moderate stuff, chill out dude, I m a normal paki and trust me Ali Zafar isn't even 10% as "moderate" (if that's what you like calling it) in the movie (although i don't know what you are talking about since he is simply just doing a normal role of a typical Paki and does it quite well) as i am or i know many Pakistanis to be, we have different sections of society and most of them are much more advanced than your beliefs and thats what makes us different and unique so chill out and enjoy and smile at what you can :)