Aaj Ki Taaza Khabar

Kiran Kumar is the hero of this movie.
Who would want to watch such a movie?
I urge you to differ as he's a great actor and I think he could have been a superstar, had luck favored him.

Let's start another way. What did you think of 'Golmaal Returns'? Funny. Interesting. Different. Well, you need to revisit your conclusions. Because, it's *inspired* (in total Anu Malik style) by this fun loving 1973 flick. You can read more about this inspiration here.

AKTK (Aaj Ki Taaza Khabar) has a plethora of comedians filled in - Asrani, I. S. Johar and Paintal.The movie has its fair share of star attraction as well. There's one song each for Helen, Mehmood and Jayshree T.

Shankar Jaikishan are the music composers and you would have surely heard the classic 'Mujhe meri biwi se bachao' song.


Story:Sunil Mehta (Kiran Kumar), gets caught in a funfare along with an unknown lady atop a giant wheel for a night. His wife Geeta(Radha Saluja) refuses to believe him which forces Sunil to come up with a fake story about his friend Champak Bhoomia. Ramji (I. S. Johar) is a smart servant who knows, which trigger needs to be pulled and when.

Sunil Mehta convinces his friend Amit Desai (Asrani) to play as Champak Bhoomia in front of his wife. However, an actual Champak Bhoomia (Paintal) shows up at their residence to create chaos. To add to this, we have Champak's wife (Padma Khanna) who thinks Champak's having an affair with Geeta and Amit thinks his wife Kesari (Manju Asrani) is having an affair with Sunil. The latter confusion is stemming from the fact Kesari is the lady who was stuck with Sunil in the carnival. All ends well as every one learns their lesson of having a mutual trust between husband-wife relationship.

Decent script, decent performances from all actors make this film a decent afternoon time pass. It might be a bit slow paced for today's time but then we do respect originality. Don't we?!?!? :)

think M Rating: 2.5/5.0

Dosti

A movie from Suneel Darshan camp - who had earlier disappointed with flicks like Barsaat (no, not the Raj Kapoor / Twinkle Khanna starrer), Ek Rishta, Jaanwar, etc. What would you expect? It was surprising that the movie was not a total disappointment. It had catchy music from Nadeem Shravan, starred 2005's top actor - Akshay Kumar, and was well-directed - what more could you ask?

In fact, this movie was way ahead of Suneel's brother - Dharmesh Darshan's (of Raja Hindustani fame) Bewafaa. Despite the script lacking freshness, there was no disappointment in any department - screenplay, choreography, music, acting, direction.


Story: Like Saajan, this movie speaks about two childhood friends - Raj (Akshay Kumar) and Karan (Bobby Deol). Fate brought them together - they stood all problems together but then comes a point where Raj has to leave! How does Karan react? Karan's hurting family bonds were healed by Raj. Where Karan's father (Kiran Kumar), mother (Lillete Dubey) and sister (Mona Chopra) fail to care for Karan, Raj had been his protector, friend and guardian. But now what? Watch the movie for the answer :)

Kareena Kapoor as Anjali, Lara Dutta as Kajal play love interests of Raj and Karan respectively. Juhi Chawla is however wasted in a miniscule role. Her make-up has been poorly done in many shots.

As told earlier, this movie lacked freshness but what needs to be appreciated is it brought back memories from 80s. An afternoon-time pass recommendation this movie surely deserves.

Rating: 3.0/5.0