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| | | | The film begins in a little suburb in Mumbai, where the young Rizwan Khan (Tanay Cheda) lives with his mother (Zarina Wahab). The child suffers from Asperger’s Syndrome. Once he grows up (into Shah Rukh Khan) Rizwan moves to the US to stay with his brother (Jimmy Shergill) and his wife (Sonia Jehan). It’s in the US that he falls in love with Mandira (Kajol), a single parent. They get married and even start a little business. But the 9/11 attack mars all their aspirations of a happy married life. | | | | | | There is a mesmerising Krishna (Vidya Balan), who has you awed by her rustic beauty. Even as she merely sashays around her village house, she leaves the men breathless... Before you know what she is all about, you are confronted with Khalujaan (Naseeruddin Shah) and Baban (Arshad Warsi) and their complete twisted escape from Mushtaq (Salman Shahid)... | | | | | | | | | One of the most hyped and awaited films this season, RANN doesn’t at all match up to the claims of an “intelligent” audience, thanks to Ramgopal Varma’s crush and infatuation with Amitabh Bachchan, often projecting him in unbelievingly idealistic roles. This time RGV has clearly worked hard to set the backdrop for his film to be labelled “cardboard”. Such idealistic characters are extinct now, please! And the same camera angles and background scores, typical of RGV, have added predictability to what could have been an intensely dramatic plot. But that’s another story. | | | | | | HARISHCHANDRACHI FACTORY, our entry to the Oscars this year, takes you through the madness and passion of one man, who made cinema possible in India – Dhundiraj Phalke aka Dadasaheb Phalke. It’s not an unheard of story, but its adaptation on screen, by director Paresh Mokashi, makes it an unusual treat. | | | | | | | | | This is what one flop hero, now a director, does to another flop hero. They make PYAR IMPOSSIBLE. With a gawky title as this, one is hardly even aroused to get up and waste a weekend around this trash. Jugal Hansraj has directed the movie, the second flop in a row for him after Roadside Romeo. | | | | | | |
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