Sheena Patel
U, Me aur Hum marks Ajay Devgan’s debut as a director. It is also the first film starring both Ajay and Kajol Devgan, husband and wife, as the lead actors since their marriage eight years ago.
I’ve always felt that Ajay Devgan and Kaajol were quality actors, and so, despite the boring name and even more boring trailer, I decided to give U, Me aur Hum the benefit of the doubt and go to see it.
I know its been a couple of months since Rambo IV came out and I really should have reviewed it then, but I didn’t get a chance and so here we are now – you’re stuck with another one of my delayed reviews (but hopefully informative in a way that others are not).
The recently released blockbuster Jodhaa Akbar has been raising both media interest and political temperatures across India and beyond, raising my hopes in seeing an Indian historial film in the mould of Hollywood greats.
As many of you will know, mankind is currently on the verge of making important advances in biotechnology that could allow the artificial synthesis of live viruses and bacteria. ‘I am Legend’ attempts to throw a general feeling of caution and fear regarding the potential consequences of such technology.
The eerie story is set in the very near future, where US Army virologist Robert Neville (Will Smith) roams the streets of an empty New York City, with his dog Sam (Samantha), searching for food. There are deer roaming the streets and even a lion. There is something….
We’ve never reviewed a comedy act here at Hindu Voice, so I figured we might as well start with the one of the Canadian-Indian (or as they say it over there in the “New World” - East Indian) stand-up comedian Russell Peters’ ‘Outsourced’. Now in case you’re wondering why he’s called Russell Peters if he’s Indian, he’d say “…the British were there for 400 years man…If they can take all our jewellery, they can screw a few of us”, leave some names behind. “If I had an Indian name, I’d wear it proudly. But all I got…..
During a recent trip to India I was looking for books for teaching young children about Hinduism. I came across a series of books, attractively illustrated, quite unlike anything I’d seen in Britain. These were made my a company called ‘Dreamland Publications’, and included books on important aspects of Hinduism, such as the Gita, Mahabharata, Ramayana and about the popular Deities. For this review I shall refer to their book on the Bhagavad Gita, which spanned some 79 pages.
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Om Shanti Om is the first major reincarnation themed film that has adorned Indian cinema for a long while (the last one of note was Karan Arjun). The storyline is cheesy and at times slow, but the film has the right amount of humor, romance, glitz and an overall positive feeling for a decent entertainment experience.
Dhan Dhana Dhan Goal. What a dumb name for a movie about British football! This was the foremost thought on my mind with regards to this film, which I shall simply refer to as ‘Goal’ for the remainder of the review.
Goal is a Bollywood film about football. Based in Britain, it places particular emphasis on racial discrimination against Asians in competitive football, as well as attempting to portray the ghetto-like parallel society of many Indians, Pakistanis and Bangladeshis living here.
After Lord of the Rings, the new fantasy film to be released by New Line Cinema is The Golden Compass and they are very keen to let people know that.
Based on the book Northern Lights by Phillip Pullman, the film has some intriguing elements. The story takes place within a realm where one’s soul or “demons” as they are called, are not integrated, residing within people but walk besides them in the form of animal spirits. And the general basis of the film revolves around the something called “dust”, the mystical substance from which everything evolved and the knowledge
After Fahrenheit 9/11, the latest documentary from acclaimed writer-filmmaker Michael Moore is Sicko - his commentary on the US healthcare system which according to him is the worst of all the Western countries.
After seeing the movie (or any of his other documentaries) one has to say that only Michael Moore can make a documentary that is so watch-able, so funny, so shocking, and not to mention so persuasive.
Moore presents an absolute horror image of healthcare in America, which for those of you who don’t know, is a totally privatised enterprise, unlike the nationalised healthcare systems of Britain (NHS) and other Western European countries.
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