Movie Preview : Talaash

Posted on November 18, 2012 by amodini

Aamir Khan’s much awaited film finally hits theatres November 30th. This is a joint production by Aamir Khan and Farhan Akhtar, with screenplay and story by Reema Kagti
 and Zoya Akhtar. Aamir, Rani Mukherji, Kareena Kapoor and Nawazuddin Siddiqui star.

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Movie Review : Jab Tak Hai Jaan

Posted on November 17, 2012 by amodini

[amazon_link id=”B009O6S96I” target=”_blank” container=”” container_class=”” ]Jab Tak Hai Jaan[/amazon_link]
Rating : 3/5
Genre : Romance
Year : 2012
Running time : 3 hours
Director : Yash Chopra
Cast : Shahrukh Khan, Katrina Kaif, Anushka Sharma, Anupam Kher, Sarika, Rishi Kapoor, Neetu Singh
Kid rating : PG-13

Yash Chopra was known for his swoon-worthy romances. Veer-Zaara, Chandni, Lamhe, Kabhie-Kabhie are only some of the quality films he had directed; he produced many others. “Jab tak hai jaan” is a romance then of the Chopra stable; it is grand, yearning, ever-lasting passion. But it is a romance with an 80s throwback of a story, and that waters down the awe-inspiring love tale. JTHJ turns out, overall, to be an average film; I had expected better.

Unsophisticated Samar Anand (Khan) is making a living in the UK, working odd jobs, and singing desi ditties (Challa) in London’s public squares, glamorously, impishly, oozing charisma like only a Yash Chopra hero can. Here he meets Meera (Kaif), whom he has only glimpsed earlier, and has already fallen in love with. A few meetings and one tempo-fed dance (Ishq Shava) later she is in love with him too. The two spend some quality time together (in bed/on the rooftop/in telephone booths) and promise lifelong devotion to each other, until . . . the unthinkable happens.

10 years later Samar is Major Samar Anand, bomb defusal expert in the Indian Army (don’t ask how). Dubbed “the man who cannot die”, Samar defuses bombs without protective gear and has so far defused 98 of them. Lively 21-year old film-maker Akira Rai (Anushka Sharma) decides to make a documentary on him, a film she hopes will help her make a career at the Discovery Channel. So she follows Samar and his crew around, and soon falls in love with 38 year old Samar’s distant, broodingly intense persona.

Love lives get entangled when Samar and Akira happen to land in London and meet Samar’s first love, Meera.

Shahrukh, Katrina and Anushka do very well in this film, but are hampered by sketchily defined roles, and a plot full of holes. Ordinarily, for a Chopra film, I would not even worry about plot holes. Ordinarily a Yash Chopra film would have swept me off my feet into a warm, fuzzy, romance-ruled haze. Not so this one. With JTHJ it seemed like I was watching a romance from the 80s, where surreal events happened without rhyme or reason or plausibility. The characters never quite develop into real people; they remain shiny, glamorous, well-dressed folk regardless of the circumstance, like Samar, who inspite of ever-present heartbreak, always appears in muscle tees with snazzily wrapped scarves, or dandily tipped hats. Katrina looks gorgeous in every frame while Anushka sports the shortest shorts I’ve ever seen on Bollywood heroines.

This is a very long film by today’s standards – a whopping 3 hours. And believe me when I say that it feels LONGER – 1.5 hours of this would have been enough. While I admire the passion in the film, and the noble notions of love being hinted at leave me weak-kneed, I’m also yawning when the film takes longer than it should, going clichedly with the love triangles, and the “retrograde amnesia”, and the private conversations with God. Is it too much to ask for modern sensibilities in a supposedly modern film ? Is it too much to ask for characters with (gasp!)brains, or even, even, common-sense?

On the plus side JTHJ has some beautiful cinematography and three dazzling stars. Even a logic-hampered love, if it comes via Yash Chopra is powerful, and so it is here. The romance gets to you, and you’re kinda wishing that the dumb lovers would get their act together (even though it’s taking them 3 hours to do it!). I liked SRK’s character best, inspite of all his eyebrow-wiggling and affected mannerism. With a stubble and a brooding gaze to match, he makes quite the languishing lover. The music is mediocre; Rahman is a genius, but he can have his off-days.

It wouldn’t hurt to wait for this film on dvd, but if you must, go with lowered expectations.

Kidwise : Some kisses, love-making scenes, short, skimpy clothing, but no overt vulgarity. Safe for the 10+ crowd.

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Movie Review : Skyfall

Posted on November 15, 2012 by amodini

[amazon_link id=”B009WJ2XT6″ target=”_blank” container=”” container_class=”” ]Skyfall[/amazon_link]
I went with very high expectations, but alas, Skyfall (IMAX version) isn’t all that. I have seen better Bond movies. Apparently everyone else and his uncle thought otherwise, because there was a huge line of people snaking it’s way across the AMC corridors just to get into the theatre. And that after buying the tickets! The ticket attendant on the way in informed us that it had been that way for all the Skyfall shows, when we gasped at the line.

Getting down to brass tacks though, this Bond film’s story is like any other – with a villain to nab and challenges galore. Someone has gotten hold of a file which lists all the undercover NATO agents embedded in terrorist cells worldwide, and plans to use it to out the agents and destroy MI6 and it’s steely-eyed boss M (Dame Judy Dench). Bond and Eve Moneypenny (Naomie Harris) are on the job in Istanbul – that’s how the movie opens, with motorcycle chases through narrow bazaars and on tiled rooftops. The chase is over before the opening credits start up, and there is little else to match it in the film.

The villain here is Silva (Javier Bardem) maniacal in a soft-spoken, wheedling, borderline-gay avatar. He has an axe to grind with M, and Bond must protect her, along with being the macho super-sleuth that he is. In Skyfall though, Bond is a little weaker, falling to his death, failing physical exams and very off par when it comes down to marksmanship. Apart from a “personal” gun (works only with his fingerprints) Bond has little else in the way of snazzy gadgets. There is also no Bond heroine. Minor roles (and flirtations) are awarded to Moneypenney and Severine (Berenice Marlohe) but M is the major female character in this film.

The second half of the film didn’t seem like a Bond film at all; too much talk and too little action. The focus is on M, her decisions – wise or not, her come-uppance, and the threat to her life. Skyfall sets the tone of future Bond films to come; it is like the changing of the guards. M is in hot water about her performance, and is requested to retire, Eve Moneypenny takes over as M’s secretary and a new, younger Q (Ben Whishaw) is introduced. Moneypenny who’s M’s secretary in the Ian Fleming novels starts off as a field agent in Skyfall. Later she is demoted to secretary (some demotion that!) – which I found a tad ridiculous.

A good first half and a decent second makes this a watchable film. It is not quite the explosive thriller I was expecting; in the next Bond venture, I hope Craig gets to flex more than just his vocal cords.

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Movie Review : Luv Shuv Tey Chicken Khurana

Posted on November 6, 2012 by amodini

[amazon_link id=”B009VGREIU” target=”_blank” container=”” container_class=”” ]Luv Shuv Tey Chicken Khurana[/amazon_link]Rating : 3.8/5
Genre : Drama
Year : 2012
Running time : 2 hours 20 minutes
Director : Sameer Sharma
Cast : Huma Qureshi, Kunal Kapoor, Vinod Nagpal, Rajesh Sharma, Rahul Bagga, Mukesh Chhabra
Kid rating : PG

I hadn’t expected this film to hit theatres in the US, given that it is a low-budget, starlet-adorned film from Anurag Kashyap’s production house (yes, they of Gangs of Wasseypur fame). But it did. So, of course, I watched it.

This is a film of NOT-in-your-face-Punjabiyat. The bhangra is muted, the singing-dancing is occasional, and the Balle-Balle’s are missing. But this is a Punjabi film – in Hindi. It is set in a small town of Punjab where the fields are large and green, the havelis sprawling, and the families typical. The film’s essence reminds me of the title of an Amulya Malladi book “Serving Crazy with Curry”. Because like the much-touted saag, crazy is abundant here.

The hero, Omi Khurana (Kapoor) is your average spineless no-gooder Punjabi brat. Omi ran away from home with the family’s savings wanting to make it big, and believing that the UK was where it’s at. 10 years later and neck deep in trouble, he returns to the family fold trying to siphon off their funds again. The family welcomes him back, although some members like Omi’s chachaji still have reservations about his character. Daarji, Omi’s loving indulgent grandfather, has since lapsed into dementia. And Omi’s first love Harman (Huma Qureshi) has become a doctor and is now engaged to Omi’s cousin Jeet. A loving and forgiving Chachiji, and her nutcase of a brother, Titu (Rajesh Sharma) round off the Khurana family.

This film has a stellar cast, with the exception of the charming Kunaal Kapoor, whom I found unconvincing. He can adlib the less intense scenes but where it’s really required, can’t quite project the right emotions. I remember him in films where he appeared in a non-major role (Rang de Basanti, Ranbir starrer Bachna ae haseeno) and it seemed like he had potential. Those illusions shatter with this film, because when placed front and center, he just doesn’t light up the screen.

But the rest of the cast – they’re all stars. Huma Qureshi we saw in Gangs of Wasseypur II and she is just as perfect here, as a feisty Punjabi doctorni. The wonderful Vinod Nagpal (of Basesar Ram in “Hum Log” fame) plays Daarji, and Rahul Bagga as Jeet is the quintessential runt of a brother – harangued by his loud family and hiding a deep, dark secret. The actress playing the ever-smiling, easily beguiled Chachiji is fantastic, and Rajesh Sharma is just as good as her lunatic perpetually-pajama-clad brother Titu.

LSTCK is a rare film in that it actually has an innovative storyline where the loose ends tie up neatly and (almost) believably. The ending was so pitch-perfect; it was like desi Tarantino. The characters were very well scripted – from the silent Daarji, the skeptical Chachaji and the once-bitten-twice-shy Harman to the wannabe property-businessman Lovely or the servant Dalidri. The British hoodlums Manty and Shanty cracked me up, and the character of the weed-smoking Sant Buaji was a hoot. The film has a story (yay! for Bollywood), a great cast, melodious music, good production values and attention to detail, humor and a warm, fuzzy feel-goodness.

So, if the film has all that, why less than 4 star rating you wonder? Because this film could have been knock-your-socks-off spectacular and it’s not. It is a good film, but in an underwhelming sort of a way. It’s probably still one of the better movies of the year and loads better than crap like “Ek tha tiger”, but it is slow and meandering and lacks that oomph which would have made it special. This is still worth a watch – for the humor and the bonhomie and the eccentric characters and their crazy situations. It reminds one of home, because the Khuranas – they’re OK-shokay.

Kidwise : Apart from some scenes in the beginning and some language, the film is mostly clean. Might be wasted on younger kids, because of oblique humor and references, and adult situations.

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Disco Deewane : The Old and the New

Posted on October 25, 2012 by amodini

First there’s the gussied up version of “Disco Deewane” – the “Disco song” in “Student of the Year”. The song does keep some of the orignal lines in Hassan’s voice:

Then there’s the original by Nazia Hassan, sung in the early 80s (that’s her brother Zohaib, also a singer, in the background):

Her best I think, was Boom Boom (for the movie “Star”); Biddu and she created music that was ahead of their time. Hassan sang “Boom-Boom” when she was 16. She died of lung cancer at the age of 35.

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Movie Review : Student of the Year

Posted on October 20, 2012 by amodini

Rating : 3.5/5
Genre : Romance
Year : 2012
Running time : 2 hours 26 minutes
Director : Karan Johar
Cast : Siddharta Malhotra, Alia Bhatt, Varun Dhawan, Rishi Kapoor, Kayoze Irani, Ronit Roy, Manjot Singh, Ram Kapoor
Kid rating : PG

I’d expected an entertaining film and that’s exactly what I got. A good time was had by all. My kids loved the film, since it was kind of geared towards the younger set. Karan Johar does this genre of cinema very well – glitzy, glam lifestyles of the rich, attitude-wallahs.

Son of rich industrialist Nanda (Ram Kapoor), Rohan Nanda (Varun Dhawan) studies at St. Teresa’s , along with other members of his rich gang. Girlfriend Shanaya (Alia Bhatt) is frustrated with his roving eye. Enter Abhi (Siddharth Malhotra) a middle-class boy on a sports scholarship. At odds with the rich-kid gang at first, Abhi becomes good friends with Rohan. The competition for the “Student of the Year” trophy and Abhi’s growing attraction for Rohan’s girlfriend though, test this friendship.

In case you’ve never watched a Karan Johar movie let me set your expectations right. Realism is not Johar’s forte (although he did dabble in it), so do not expect it here. St. Teresa’s (which the “cool” gang call St. T’s for short) is unlike any other boarding school in India. It has football games with cheerleaders, dance competitions, and treasure hunts like you’ve never seen before. In fact rather than a desi school this seems like an Indianised version of Rydell High. Initially the film also reminds me of Grease – there are songs at the drop of a hat. Remixes of older songs like “Gulabi Aankhein”, “Yeh chand sa roshan chehra” work well in giving this film a peppy, musical start.

Karan Johar knows how to make an entertainer. This one is nicely packaged with good-looking stars, expensive looking sets, melodious songs and romance. It is then superfluous in this bright and beautiful film to even expect character development and deeper context. I have to say I didn’t mind that, and bore even some of the awkwardly scripted, cringe-inducing scenes well. Truth be told, I went along with the flow and enjoyed myself.

There are a bunch of young ones here, the main stars coming from film lineage. Siddharth is Prem Nath’s grandson, Varun looks like his dad David Dhawan, and Alia is quite like mummy Soni Razdan. Varun is a natural at dancing and does fairly well emoting, but doesn’t quite have the personality of a hero – kind of reminds me of Uday Chopra who had the same issue. I’m predicting a low-key career, probably in multi-hero starrers. Siddharth is a model, so he’s got the looks. Unfortunately they are his sole asset, although the swooning masses will probably not care. He is wooden in dialogue delivery and his dance moves look like they’ve come after hard and rigorous practice. He is still a better dancer that Sunny Paji, John Abraham or Ajay Devgan, so that’s some consolation.

Alia looks younger than her 19 years, but fits the bill here – a fresh, pretty face, a little less on the brains and a lot more on the oomph. It has to be said: these kids are easy on the eyes and fit right into Karan Johar’s carefully constructed pseudo-realism. Boman Irani’s son Kayoze is the bespectacled narrator, Manjot Singh is the Coach’s assistant (we also saw him in “Udaan” and “Oye Luck Lucky Oye”). In the older set Rishi Kapoor plays St. Teresa’s principal Dean Vashisht, Farida Jalal is Abhi’s grandmother, Ronit Roy is St. Teresa’s Coach and acting-wise they all do well enough. Ram Kapoor, he of the ever-increasing girth, is believable as Rohan’s nasty dad.

This movie is frothy and peppy and young; candy floss in it’s most alluring avatar. It doesn’t pretend to be anything else; it’s vintage Karan Johar. There is brainless cinema, and then there is Karan Johar’s brand of brainless cinema. I’m averse to the first but OK with the second. Why ? Because he keeps it light, fluffy and clean. There is objectification, and the whole “boys will be boys” thing going on, but his films are generally kid-safe and keep away from vulgarity.

Watch it for total time-pass value!

Kid-wise : No overt vulgarity, but mentions of push-up bras and female anatomy. Skimpy clothing. Also some fawning gay characters and similar humor.

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New Releases : Aiyyaa, Student of the Year

Posted on October 13, 2012 by amodini

After a dry spell, it looks like it’s raining good (OK . . . at least watchable) Hindi films. What, you don’t think so? Have you taken a look at this and this and this? This weekend it’s Aiyyaa, Rani Mukherjee’s film for 2012. Going by the songs and the trailer she’s certainly giving it her all. This is one fantastic actress, watch her do the Rekha impression below, LOL! I can’t help smiling seeing her gobble up that song!

Then there’s Karan Johar’s “Student of the Year” which releases next weekend (Oct 19th). I suspect it will be a glorious (slightly juvenile-ish ?) mish-mash of glossy dance numbers and peppy young things all ready to strut their stuff. Some famous industry kids star : Mahesh Bhatt and Soni Razdan’s daughter Alia Bhatt, director David Dhawan’s son Varun Dhawan, actor Boman Irani’s son Kayoze and model Siddharth Malhotra. Manish Malhotra apparently did the clothes. I mean, look at what Siddharth is wearing in the song below; it’s classic MM! And I can’t help saying this (although I’ll probably regret it later) the bachchas look cho-chweet.

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Movie Review : English Vinglish

Posted on October 7, 2012 by amodini

Rating : 4/5
Genre : Drama
Year : 2012
Running time : 2 hours 12 minutes
Director : Gauri Shinde
Cast : Sridevi, Adil Hussain, Mehdi Nebbou, Sulabha Deshpande, Priya Anand
Kid rating : G

I went in to see this film with very moderate expectations. Firstly I am not a big Sridevi fan (inspite of films like Sadma, where her work has been quite fantastic). Secondly I had seen the trailers, and Sridevi’s character in them seemed to be the kind of nauseatingly ultra-naive, over-sweet, over-moralistic person that Bollywood is so good at creating. Thirdly, she has slimmed and aged over her hiatus of 15 years (that’s one more than Ramji’s vanwas) and I’m wondering whether her role will be age appropriate, or will she morph midway into some disco-loving aunty in figure-hugging hoptpants – this is Bollywood after all, you never know! I’m here then to tell you, O good readers, that none of my above fears came true. This is a fabulous film, even if it did have some flaws.

Sridevi plays Shashi Godbole, married to Satish (Adil Hussain), and mother of two beautiful kids. Satish has a good corporate job and provides well for the family, and Shashi keep the household running smoothly taking care of the kids and her mother-in-law (Sulabha Despande). Homely Shashi’s one passion is cooking and she indulges in this via her hobby/business of making boondi laddoos and supplying them to homes. Essentially Shashi is the typical housewife who values her family over all else. All should be hunky-dory for her.

When Shashi is invited to New York to attend her sister’s daughter’s wedding, Satish decides she must go by herself to help out, with himself and the kids following at a later date. A sheltered Shashi is hesitant, but goes anyway. In New York, surrounded by unfamiliar people speaking a language she does not know (English), Shashi’s tamped down insecurities come rushing to the fore – she can either face them or be the Shashi she has always been, docile and unquestioning.

Sridevi, in this film, appeared to be more South-Indian than Maharashtrian, which is what Shashi is supposed to be. Still she does well, appearing to be the loving mom and the patient, doting wife and daughter-in-law. She still has that beauty; it is tinged with a restrained maturity now, but that makes her all the more graceful. The role is graceful as well; Shashi is a very, very nice person, so much so that you feel for her when her daughter delivers one of her rude barbs, or her husband ignores her quiet pleas for attention.

Good acting, a decent cast, apt music and a reasonable pace make this a good film. The film is written and directed strongly – so kudos to Gauri Shinde. The characters are developed well enough – Shashi is a little too patient and good, but I liked her anyway. A lot of screen time is devoted to the English class and those scenes appeared to be right out of the “Mind your Language” television series with cliched stereotypical personalities – a Chinese beauty-salon worker, the gay teacher, the idli-loving South Indian and the Hispanic nanny. There are also the finer touches, the well-crafted scenes between her and French classmate Laurent (Mehdi Nebbou) where understanding transcends language barriers. In one such moment she wonders aloud to Laurent, that anything in the world can be taught, but how can one be taught to respect another’s feelings ? Good question indeed, and a sort of theme for this film.

Besides all this though, the reason I really liked English-Vinglish is because I identified with Shashi, as a woman juggling home and work and kids and a little me-time. I’m nowhere near as patient and good or as sedate as Shashi appears to be (and thank goodness for that!), but I do sympathize when she wrings herself out for her kids and all she gets is thankless disparagement in return. I’m not the only one feeling Shashi’s pain; many women friends feel the same, and it is a common story for home-makers who seem to get taken for granted by their families, not to mention a culture and society that touts a sacrificing, selfless Bhartiya nari as the epitome of woman-hood. When Shashi weeps, and berates herself for being selfish, for thinking about herself, I longed to reach in and comfort her and tell her that it was OK; she was important too.

This is Shashi’s story, so it is definitely a woman’s point of view. It is also a story of empowerment, from Shashi’s clear-thinking ma-in-law, who urges Shashi to enjoy her time in New York, free from the demands of her household, to her supportive niece (lovely Priya Anand) to Shashi’s hesitantly made decisions to stand up for herself. This is a must-see film, and a required watch for families.

Kidwise : Clean, this one is made for families.

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Anticipating Looper

Posted on October 4, 2012 by amodini

A sci-fi film, with time-travel AND Bruce Willis. I’ll be watching Looper this weekend and I can’t wait.

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Movie Review : Heroine

Posted on September 25, 2012 by amodini

[amazon_link id=”B00945G1E6″ target=”_blank” container=”” container_class=”” ]Heroine[/amazon_link]
Rating : 3.5/5
Genre : Drama
Year : 2012
Running time : 2 hours 20 minutes
Director : Madhur Bhandarkar
Cast : Kareena Kapoor, Arjun Rampal, Randeep Hooda, Shahana Goswami, Divya Dutta, Sanjay Suri, Mughda Godse, Lilette Dubey, Ranvir Shorey, Govind Namdeo, Helen
Kid rating : R

This is one of the rare movies that I went to without any prior info; the only thing I knew about were the stars – Kareens, Arjun Rampal and Randeep Hooda. I was a little let down when I saw that it was directed by Bhandarkar, because he has been getting sloppy lately. From the gorgeous Chandni Bar to the pretty good Page 3 to the average Fashion, Bhandarkar is steadily losing nuance and subtlety in his work to the point where the first hour of Heroine felt more like Praksh Jha’s in-your-face work (Rajneeti, Apaharan) than his own. It is not as poor as the critics say it is, but it is stolid, predictable and very been-there-done-that.

Insecure women in glitzy careers make good grist for the filmi mill, and Bhandarkar taps this again (his Fashion was based on the downward spiraling life of a ramp model). Kareena is Mahi Arora, a heroine with big banner films and A-list endorsements. She is also having an affair with married co-star Aryan Khanna (Rampal) who has promised to divorce his wife. At the top her game, Mahie is still needy and insecure and constantly needs assurances from outsiders. Almost bipolar and subject to sudden changes of mood, she is the product of a broken home with a single mother (Dubey) who lives in Delhi. The film follows her tumultuous career and her equally tumultuous personal life.

Kareena puts in a strong performance as the lonely and vulnerably frail Mahi; you feel for her, and her insecure little heart. Arjun Rampal downplays his hero’s role – a job well done, considering his not-so-shining track record, while Hooda is quite effective as Angad, the dashing young cricketer so in love with Mahi. Talented Govind Namdeo is Rashid-bhai, Mahi’s secretary and brings to his role an avuncular restraint. Divya Dutta plays the hard-boiled PR agent Pallavi Narayanan, and is as good as can be in this cliched role. Shahana Goswami is Promita, the arty Bengali actress, and Ranvir Shourey is the Bengali director to whom Mahi goes to prove to the world that she is a good actress.

The main cast then does a good job, but it is the small fry – the character artistes essaying the minor roles that bring down the quality of the film. There are the ubiquitous gossips, the gay fashion designers, the snide media people, the hangers-on (like Rats, Mahi’s friend) – all 2 bit cliched roles, but scripted and developed so badly and in so off-hand a manner as to bring the film down a few notches. They all seemed to appear in the first half of the film – an attempt to develop the “atmosphere”(?) – but the film then seemed to settle down and find it’s groove as Kareena’s life took centre-stage.

Still, it is the small touches that make a film, and if Heroine is anything to go by, Bhandarkar is on a losing streak. The film is rife with cliches – it is as if Bhandarkar is churning out films with the same old fodder, presenting his view of Bollywood as a hard, calculating, merciless place full of jaunty, gay folk or drama queens emanating of broken homes. I long for him to break out of his C-grade reverie and think out of the box again; good films in Bollywood are getting too few and far between. The songs are forgettable – all except the track “Main Heroine hoon” which reminded me of the James Bond opening credits soundtracks. This is a decent enough film, relatively (primarily due to Kapoor’s capabilities), and can be watched once.

Kidwise : An adult themed film, this is unsuitable for kids under 17. Lots of bare skin in the name of realism, and the most plunging necklines I’ve ever seen Kareena sport. Make-out scenes, allusions to sex, and “adult” talk abounds, so think carefully before you subject your kids to this borderline-tawdry film.

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