Monday, September 18, 2006

Shiva ..another disappointment from Ram Gopal Verma


Movie : Shiva
Place : Metro, Cinema, Kolkata
Day : 16 th September
Why we chose to see it ? : There was nothing else to do. And apart from Metro we have no idea about other cinema halls in the vicinity at Esplanade.

Prologue : I can never forget Satya ! In the movie Ram Gopal Vema handled the Mafia theme superbly with innovative charcterisation of Bhikhu Mahatre. Then came three more memorable flicks from the same production house; Company , Bhoot & Sarkaar along with lot of forgettable one’s of Darna series. Off late my rating for Ramu has dropped, the reason being he has confined himself two two themes terror & mafia. So when you see any of the Ramu’s new movie u have déjà vu effect.

Movie : Coming to Shiva, a story of an upright sub inspector who fights against the…..yeah u guessed right ! same old mafia + political leader nexus. Ramu uses the same James combination of Mohit Ahlawat & Nisha Kothari as the leads.
There is nothing new in the treatment of this mighty boring old plot…
About Mohit Ahlawat .. looks OK has nothing much to do apart from using his fists with lot of anger in his eyes
Nisha Kothari….hmmm she is OK too as a crime reporter who has to expose whenever Ramu desires ! it is irrelevant whether story has anything to do with it or not. Remember Rangeela & Daud where Urmila did the same as Nisha is doing now. It is a pattern in the Ramu’s movie which no body can miss.
About the music the less said is the better.
All in all a movie to make a quick buck rather than a tribute to upright police officers as Ramu claims. I will advise him to see Ardha Satya made by Govind Nihlani on the same subject again and his head should hang in shame.

Epilogue : I have heard that Ramu’s finances are in bad shape but that doesn’t mean he should make movies which have nothing new to offer. There was a phase that anything with Ramu’s name was perceived by average moviegoers as something different. But with this sort of stuff even that image has taken a dent.
Why he has to confine himself within his comfort zone of mafia and thrillers? Why his music has nothing soulful off late. I don’t know how Sholay will turn out but omens are not good.

Rating : Don’t waste ur money or time on this one !

5 comments:

Urvashi said...

I'd actually watched James, just for Mohit Ahlawat! ;)
I didn't think Shiva would be worthwhile and your blog has proven that!

RGV should really reanalyze his motives for making movies now. I'm not too excited about "Sholay's" remake.
I'm dying to watch Farhan Akhtar's "Don"!

Dawn said...

I have no clue of this movie so cant say :) lekin shayad ab bach gaye paise :D
cheers

KL said...

Watching movie in Esplanade.....grrr...you are more Bongs than I am :P - okay, so learn the Bengali properly ;).

What was his latest movie - it was supposed to be extremely scary - I was seeing the ad some time in March/February of this year. I want to see it.

Manish Kumar said...

PR hmmmm yani Mohit ne mohit kar rakha hai aapko, yes he is cool.
Totally agree with ur views abt RGV.

DON hmmmm Let's hope Sholay will be better.

KL tumhein to wahan sath hona chahiye tha humeinguide karne ke liye, par US mein aisi jami ho ki khisakne ka naam nahin leti :)
haan wo pics dekhogi to darna bhool jaogi
Darna Mana Hai
aur phir
darna juroori hai :)

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