ISHAQZAADE

ISHAQZAADE

Relased: 11-05-2012

Ratings: 3.5*

Genre:Action,Romance & Drama

Director: Habib Faisal

Producer: Aditya Chopra

(Yash Raj Films)

Star Cast:

Arjun Kapoor(Debutant-Parma),Parineeti Chopra(Zoya Qureshi),Gauhar Khan(Chand)

IshaqZaade Movie Review

Ishaqzaade starring Arjun Kapoor & Parineeti Chopra  is an entertaining fare which works on the strength of its first half & the performances.Movie ends up with a twist which may not be appreciated by majority of lay viewers.Arjun delivers a good performance but Parineeti was awesome in the movie.She Steals the show for a healthy time once again with her Frank & bold attitude.

Ishaqzaade is a love story of two youngsters belonging to two opposing political families.

In a small town in UP,Almora where muscle powers reigns & politics is conducted through the muzzle of a gun, Parma (Arjun Kapoor) is one of the grandsons of Surya Chauhan, a political leader who is contesting for the post of the MLA.Aaftab Qureshi, is the current MLA of the area. Chauhan & Qureshi are sworn enemies, whose fight for supremacy often leads to gun battles in broad daylight. Parma, who is one of the ringleaders of the Chauhan family, wants to rise up the family ladder.

On the other hand, Zoya (Parineeti Chopra), Qureshi‘s gusty daughter, is no less than her brothers in her hate for the Chauhans.

While canvassing for votes in their college,Parma & Zoya have a tiff & Zoya slaps Parma in front of everyone. As he has orders from the family patriarch to not indulge in violence, Parma stops short of shooting Zoya.

Soon, he falls for her & woos her till she reciprocates his love. The two meet secretly & even get married in the presence of two of Parma’s friends. Immediately afterwards, Parma has sex with Zoya. Then, to her surprise, he abandons her, claiming revenge for the slap.

Parma even uses photos of Zoya getting married in the Hindu way – without showing his own face – to rubbish her family’s name. As a result, Zoya’s dad loses the election. Parma becomes his grandfather’s blue eyed boy.

Zoya’s father decides to snap all ties with her. Zoya, meanwhile, escapes from her home with the intention to put a bullet in Parma’s head.Parma's Mother caughts her & holds her & clarifies the matter in front of Parma.Her mother tries to control Zoya's emotion & makes her realize the fact that she will be shot if her father & Chauhan's are able to chase her.Parma's Mother loses her life protecting Zoya from Surya Chauhan's bullet & While on her last breath she asks Parma for a Promise that he will accept Zoya as her wife & will protect her throughout & tell Zoya to run away.Zoya escapes from the crime scene.Chauhan's goon & Parma chases her but now Parma wants to protect her & Chauhan's goon wants to kill her.Parma catches her & takes her  to Chand(Gauhar Khan),the brothel,was the safe place for them to hide.There,Parma apologizes for his blunder & falls in love with Zoya.Zoya,first ignores him but later they both fall in Love.Now this time they get married actually in the brothel only.

The day of Eid,Zoya decides to visit her home along with Parma.Both leaves the brothel for her place where Zoya's father refuses to accept her marriage & opens fire on them.They escapes from there.They moves to Bus Stand to leave Almora forever.Parma goes to buy some stuff for Zoya & when he comes back,Zoya was not there as she was caught by the goons.Parma fights the goons & grabs Zoya to her college.After few minutes both the leaders along with their goons reaches the college & decides to kill them jointly.After a long encounter,Zoya finds that they had left with only 3 bullets.Zoya tells Parma its better to kill each other but not to die with those bastards bullets.Zoya & Parma shoots each other.This the ultimate twist in the movie & movie ends up here.

Star Performances

Arjun Kapoor makes a fine debut as Parma.He emotes well,acts with a swagger & dances delightfully. He has a very good screen presence as well. Parineeti Chopra,whom we loved in Ladies Vs Ricky Bahl, shines again in a complex & intense role.She looks very good & acts like a song.She made the audeince to enjoy the movie till the end.Full marks to Parinneti Chopra.She wasthe appropriate choice made to the role of Zoya as she delivered with attitude required for the role.Arjun & Parineeti’s on-screen chemistry & excellent performances are the highlights of the film. Gauhar Khan,who plays courtesan Chand, does very well. All the supporting cast members provide very good support.

Habib Faisal’s direction is first-rate.The writer-director treads a very different territory after Do Dooni Chaar but manages to make the narrative compelling.Only if he had paid more attention to making the second half crisper, the film would have proved to be a better package.

Watch or Not: Recommended.
Verdict: Its a good movie to watch for this weekend.The performance delivered by Arjun & Parineeti is more than enough to make u entertain throughout.Feel the Love & enjoy the action with a twisting climax.Its a Thumb Up for Ishaqzaade.

JANNAT 2

 JANNAT 2

Released: 04-05-2012

Rating: 2*

Genre: Bollywwod Crime Thriller Banner,Love Story

Director: Kunal Deshmukh

Producer:Mahesh & Mukesh Bhatt

Star Cast:

Emraan Hashmi(Sonu Dilli),Esha Gupta(Debutant-Dr.Jhanvi Singh Tomar),Randeep Hooda(ACP-Pratap Raghuvanshi),Manish Chaudhary(Mangal Singh Tomar),Md.Zeeshan Ayyub(Balli),Sumit Nijhawan(Sarfaraz),Brijendra Kala(Daddha),Arif Zakaria(Head Police)

Jannat 2 Movie Review

Jannat 2 is a movie of a illegal gun dealer Sonu Dilli(Emraan Hashmi) who fells in love with Dr.Jhanvi Tomar(Esha Gupta) & turns to a informer of Police.Jannat 2 has nothing in common but the sequel shares a common climax.Esha Gupta,who had  been compared with Angelina Jolie,as a debutant fails to make her presence noticeable by the audience.Movie is not that special but may get a successful opening because of its promotion.If we compare Jannat 2 with Jannat,majority of votes will be for Jannat.Its a low budget movie & will be unable to win Hearts on the whole.Rare may enjoy the movie but in parts.

Sonu Dilli (Emraan Hashmi) is a street-smart, small time arms dealer along with his old time friend Balli(Zeeshan Ayyub) in Delhi who has the gift of gab. When he is interrogated by a tough cop, ACP Pratap Raghuvanshi (Randeep Hooda) first he confuses him by introducing himself as a cut piece dealer but then ACP uses his trick & cuts his hand with knife & endangers his life,now Sonu turns informer for the latter.


Sonu visits a Doctor for dressing but Sonu falls in love with his first sight with a doctor, Jhanvi Tomar (Esha Gupta) he meets her many a times coincidently whenever police was chasing him & tells her the same but finally he manages to woo her,now he wants to leave the life of crime & settle down.Here,the question raises how a Doctor fells in a love with a street-smart hustler?Later,She accepts her wedding proposal & gets married.


Although helping ACP Pratap puts Sonu in jail for a little time, he continues to purvey the ACP with information about illegal arms racket as he has no other choice. ACP Pratap, who is hell bent upon finding who the leader of the arms racket is, persuades Sonu to continue being his informer by promising him protection and a good life afterwards.Sonu,unknown to his wife, joins a bigger gang of arms traders along with Balli.


Sonu’s world is shaken to the core when he realises, after his marriage to Jhanvi, that Jhanvi’s estranged father,Mangal Singh Tomar (Manish Choudhary), is the Kingpin of the arms business in Delhi.However,Sonu manages to convince Mangal that he is a corrupt and shrewd person who will be of use to his gang. Mangal embraces Sonu as his next in command.


ACP Pratap, who knows this, blackmails Sonu to give him information on upcoming arms deals, so that he can catch Mangal Singh red handed.ACP destroys a large consignment of weapons of Mangal Singh.Then Mangal decides to track out the traitor.While tracking,Balli sacrifices his life as a traitor in order to save his best friend Sonu.Sonu was now in deep grief after the incident,caught between the devil and the deep sea, starts playing a double game. He neither gives information to the ACP, nor tells Mangal the truth about him being a police informer. Secretly he plans to run away with Jhanvi, so that he can live a peaceful life with her.But Jhanvi comes to know about Sonu Dilli's truth.He explains her that he is working for ACP Pratap Raghuvanshi,but she refuses to belive him.He promises her that he will be back with ACP & reaches to ACP,where ACP kicks him tagging him as a coward.Sonu helps him for a last time with all the information of a big deal.Sonu comes to Mangal' Haunt where a big deal of arms was about to begin.Mangal receives a call from his Police informer(who was working in ACP's team) & comes to know about Sonu Dilli's character.He fires on Sonu but at the same time ACP with his team reaches there to save Sonu & the deal.In this action,Sonu was hit by bullets,ACP shifts him to a hospital where doctor tells him how serious sonu is,Sonu while taking his last breath asks ACP that he must not tell his truth to Jhanvi otherwise she will not be able to live her rest of life.ACP keeps his promise & defines Sonu Dilli as a arm dealer to Jhanvi & insist her to start a new life.Movie ends here.

Star Performances

Emraan Hashmi is first-rate as the glib and deceitful but endearing criminal.He has proved once again that he can make a negative character likeable.Randeep Hooda carries himself very well and delivers an excellent performance. Esha Gupta,was more or less alike to Lara Dutta was really disappointing as debutant,if we compare with other Debutant actress of recent times like Paoli Dam(Hate Story),Yaami Gautam(Vicky Donor).Her dialouge delivery,expression were not able to withstand.I will give her minus marks for her poor performance.Might she get another couple of movies in future but this time she is failed to make her presence noticeable.She was so far from being Sonal Chauhan as Zoya in Jannat.Manish Choudhary,as Mangal Singh Tomar,was good to watch in villainous role this time as compared to Blood Money.Zeeshan Ayyub,as Sonu’s friend Balli,leaves a mark again.He was a bit of eye catching.Sumeet Nijhawan,as the goon Sarfaraz,fills the bill. Brijendra Kala,as Daddha-ACP Pratap’s assistant,was marvelous.Arif Zakaria,Imran Zahid & others offered a good support.


Kunal Deshmukh was okay with his direction but has certainly failed to deliver a complete entertaining package.Movie is boring in in its middle.


Watch or Not: Not Recommended,as it is not upto the expectation.
Verdict: At last i would like to add that Jannat 2 is not that entertaining.Movie does not delivers upto the expectation of the audience.Will not be appreciated.Its a Thumb Down to Jannat 2,as its disappoints a lot.