Dabangg proves why Salman is the greatest human entertainer in B-Town

Dabangg has unleashed a terror of fan frenzy and wolf whistles and continues to reverberate the cinemas dotting the Indian subcontinent. The effect has only reinforced the unpredictable yet so dominant, Salman Theory of Entertainment on BO.

When its all Salman affair, you never wish to know if the stuff comes reheated or refried. Forget that goes around the film, story, cinematography, whatever. Time and again this man proves why he’s still Bollywood’s baap of kitsch, a loner who is enough to boot out the top movie reigning the BO (forget his London Dreams or Main Aurr Mrs Khanna).

The movie opens up to reveal a bit about the dysfunctional childhood of Chulbul Pandey (Salman Khan, thanks to his father's demise and subsequent remarriage of his mother (Dimple Kapadia) to Pandeyji (Vinod Khanna). Makhanchand or Makki (Arbaaz Khan) becomes his half brother and sows seeds of separatism at home. After 21 years, Robin hood Pandey is born. Meet this corrupt and ‘dabangg’ police officer from Lal Gunj, a small town in UP.
Whilst seen chasing some local goons, Chulbul stops at glimpse of beautiful Rajo (Sonakshi Sinha). Song follows. Rajo doesn’t wish to marry until the death of her father and Salman says he wish her dad hit Parlok at the earliest. Golly, he does. Due to some indifference with his half brother Makki, Chulbul vows that his marriage will be held before his younger brother. For this, he brings his khaki colleagues on Makki’s wedding day and easily hijacks the mandap and other accompaniment meant for the couple and weds Rajo. The USP in the film are the insane, larger-than-life and seriously comic dialogue of Chulbul. Watch him ask pundit ji whilst seated in the mandap, "Kshma ke jiye pandit ji, thodi si walking kar le?"
Cheddi Singh (Sonu Sood) is the spoilt antagonist in the film and home-breaker of Chulbul’s family. Its about at the end Makki realizes he has been used, he apologizes and teams up with Chulbul.

Watch Dabangg For –
The charm of a reckless Salman Khan that has apparently reappeared after a long break. Well guys, here is it. Salman Khan is back with a bang. Dabangg is a serious Chulbul Pandey affair. Watch him shake his pelvis, spurt out craziest dialogues ever in his signature carefully careless manner and the starry charisma he has whilst emoting drama on screen, its lovely. We loved this man’s fake moustache and his Ray Ban glasses pushed on to the back collar to let us await his next dialogue "taki mujhe aage aur peeche ka dikhe". The fight scenes offer you a heady potion of the Matrix sequence in Main Hoon Na, the quintessential southern influence (Rajni), Jackie Chan and The Hulk.
The beautiful Sonakshi Sinha truly deserves a mention here and does her part so well as a rustic belle and later as Mrs. Pandey.

Music. Needless to say, if you guys had enough of Salman, savour some great melodies by Sajid-Wajid. Munni Badnam Hui/Zandu Baam by Lalit Pandey may top the charts and get good press, but seriously there is nothing earth shattering than to watch Malaika Arora khan hopelessly ape Bipasha Basu in the song Namak Isque Ka from Omkaara.

Though it is not worth two thumbs, watching the 'Dabangg' Robin hood Pandey from UP was largely paisa-vasool for me. "Complete entertainment...."

Movie Review

Alice In Wonderland(2010) Is Straight Like Pasta, Minus The Taste

I wouldn’t call Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland a disappointment. But this one has a script that is straight like pasta, not in taste, however.

A composite of Lewis Carroll's Victorian fantasy novels, 'Alice in Wonderland' and 'Through the Looking-Glass', the movie opens with the engagement party of Alice (Mia Wasikowska)and Hamish (Geraldine James), a dandy and fastidious young gentleman. I must confess watching his perennial scowling face had given me a hope of some real grinning moment, which, however did not realize.

Alice gets strayed from Hamish and people who surrounded her and follows a rabbit. She falls down to a hole to find herself in the Wonderland aka Underland. While she feels she is still under delusion, nothing helps the old anthropomorphic friends to cure the air of distrust about Alice. The good inhabitants, save Mad Hatter (Johnny Depp, doubt whether it is the same Alice they had met years before.

The magical Underland has a futurist scroll which details the historical timeline of land. It hails Alice as the saver of the kingdom of Underland from the clutches of evil Red Queen. To this, she has to slay the Jabberwocky, a gigantic dragon-like creature and restore the kingdom to the banished White Queen (Anne Hathaway) the blood-sister of the reigning queen.

Can the day-dreaming Alice slay the gigantic Jabberwocky and set the kingdom free? Will she return to her own world and answer some the questions about her own life? And, this forms the later half of the story.
To sum up, the memories of this mediocrity hardly lingers as you step out of the movie hall.

A word about performances.
Alice (Mia Wasikowska) is charming and makes a statement with her expressionless expression like Bella in the Twilight series, minus attitude. Blame it on the script, Hatter doesn't seem to amuse you with his crazy antics and embarrassingly falls flat in displaying emotion. Whoever told the Hatter was a visual treat was lying to you. In fact, it is the Red Queen, Tweedledum and Tweedledee and even Hamish who rock you with some laughter every time they pop on the screen.
Did I miss out someone? Oh yes, the White Queen (Anne Hathaway). Though the character may lack the punch still provides a shot of laughter, thanks to her expressions and that secret recipe to make Alice short.

Music
Danny Elfman infuses life into a movie otherwise forgotten with his marvelous piece of music. However the background melody is heavily underutilized throughout the film. The music track “Tripping out, spinning around” by Avril Lavingne is a wonderful gift from this movie to all the pop music buffs and for wannabe singers, try this song for some music audition. :)