Rise of the Planet of the Apes: Review

Apes, what is it that comes to your mind first after hearing the word. A specie who is responsible for evolution of mankind. Science says humans evolved through apes, but after watching Rise of the Planet of the Apes, I wish we could stop the evolution graph when entering the matured Ape-like era. I would be glad if i had Caesar's intelligence. Afterall, who doesn't want to excel in each and every part of their life.

Yesterday, I had the privilege to go and watch Fox's new franchise after the very successful X-Men: First Class, the Rise of the Planet of the Apes. To be honest, my first reactions after hearing the never ending name and watching the not so attractive trailer, the first word came to my mind was 'Why?', Why is it that Fox is ready to waste their money on something that is not bearable, I mean Apes, please 'gimme a break'. But to my surprise, after watching the movie and coming out of the theatre I realized I am a human (Idiot, Jerk)

ROTPOTA has everything what it takes for a subtle action movie. Character sketches, graphics, action, humor, acting, background score, movie script and most of all the pace of the movie, all combined gives you a 'Smashing-Hit' package. ROTPOTA has managed to achieve itself this package. James Franco, John Lithgow and ofcourse Andry Serkis acted marvelously. For a moment i forgot that it was Andry Serkis behind Caesar's skin. Full justice done to the character by Serkis. The most beautiful part of the movie is the way emotions have been portrayed of both the Ape and the Human.

Plot: Human hands responsible for the evolution of Apes turning into highly intellectual individual, a science which gave birth to replica of human consisting of smartness, intelligence, arrogance, a science where even human has no cure to defy it. The tag-line 'Evolution becomes Revolution' is perfectly suited for the movie.

To sum up, ROTPOTA teases your imagination in a subtle way, the action and the story demands your attention, it gives you a proper build up to the story that was made in 2001. Everything in the movie makes sense. Rupert Wyatt has done a fantastic job by keeping in mind the duration and the pace of the movie. If you've managed to miss this one do not curse yourself, you're just being human (idiot).

My Ratings:- ***1/2

The Smurfs - Review

I am 23 and definetely no that type of a person who will go and watch animated movie targetted especially for monirs. But except for one clause, if i am getting free tickets. Yesterday, was one such day where i had the privelege to watch ‘The Smurfs’ for free. I had made up my mind that the movie i am going for will surely be a biggest blunder in the history of animated movies, courtesy the bad trailers and no PR. I entered the theatre with couple of my friends and wallah! What was suppose to be a biggest blunder in the animated arena, turned out to be one of the finest comic-book movie film to be ever made. It totally took me by surprise. The character description of each and every Smurf was amazing, i mean from the movie point of view. The voice overs, graphics and animation was commendable. The most enchanting part was the human emotion and touch involved to the entire script really blew me away by surprise. I haven’t read ‘The Smurfs’ comic book but after watching the movie would surely want to the libraries to lend me some of their comic book volumes.

Plot:- If you have read the comic book, you know the entire story. Gargamel the Antagonist of the movie is hunting for ‘The Smurfs’ to experiment his wicked spells. Clumsy the Smurf lands all the other Smurfs in trouble by bringing them all to planet earth between the Humans. Gargamel follows them to Earth. The Smurfs somehow gets connected to Mr and Mrs Winslow. Patrick dreams high of becoming a successful human-being, and hates the smurfs. But the cuteness and the honesty of The Smurfs drives Patrick towards them, who infact helps them in acheiving their final goal i.e. to go back to where they came from. Gargamel vs Smurfs and Patrick is also well focussed in the movie.

In all, do go and watch the movie, even if you think you are the most matured person alive on this planet earth. The movie surely attracts the Big and the minors.

My Ratings – ***

'Aise Movie Na Banao Dobara' - ZNMD Review

Working for a particular brand in a digital field may get you few not-so-needy perks, but substitute the word ‘brand’ with ‘entertainment’ (movie) it works as bounty. Me and my colleague were blessed with preview tickets of Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara. Here we were, excited, humming all the songs of the movie and expecting a exquisite performances from the trio Hrithik, Farhaan and Abhay and nonetheless the icing on the cake ‘Katrina’. As soon as we entered the theater saw packed house with hooting and shouting all around the theater. Well if you are an hardcore ZNMD fan i think you should stop reading any further. The movie started and within 30mins, the broad smile on our faces turned into the expressionless face one could ever have while watching a multi-starrer movie. To start with, i read somewhere in the credits list that the movie had a editor. Yes, it did but only in the credits roll. How can a usual movie buff watch a 3 hour movie with nothing in it? The last time i saw a 180minutes movie was Lagaan back in some 2001, a decade back. Apart from the editing goof up, Reema Kagti and Zoya Akhtar were told to write a screenplay but they managed to write the entire history of their respective lives. Hypothetically, around 20,00 papers were wasted to write the screenplay *wink*. Coming to the actors of the movie, Out of the three Farhaan Akthar stood up and actually stole the limelight away from the two. His performance reminded me of Saif Ali Khan from Dil Chahta Hai. The timing and the panache was displayed very aptly and pleasantly. The girls would love Abhay Deol’s character, as he behaves and acts the way every girl in this world would want their lover boy to be, ‘Pet Dog’. Kalki Koechlin gave a stupendous performance of being a very grumpy girl, i loved her very much in the movie. Mr. Hrithik Roshan – BLAH, Ms Katrina Kaif – BLAH.

Plot: The movie is about 3 bachelors (Abhay, Hrithik and Farhan) who are on a road trip to Spain. Here they wish to fulfill each other’s decided tasks from Skuba Diving, Tomatino festival, Sky Diving and the running of the bulls a.k.a. encierro. Co-incidentally their Skuba-Diving teacher is the beautiful Katrina Kaif who is attracted towards Hrithik and shows him the truth of life. Abhay is soon going to get married to Kalki but later finds out that he still needs time to settle down with her. Kalki is the fiancee who is completely suspicious and grumpy about things. Farhan is a copywriter, who has the nag of writing poems and is a big time flirt, apart from being the usual stud he is in search of his father who left him and his mother and has settled down somewhere in Spain. Naseerudin Shah is apparently the father of the inquisitive Farhan, who is least bothered about his son and his doings. The movie starts with them, revolves around them and ends with them + Katrina and Hrithik’s love story.

In brief, nothing new for the viewers to watch. Zero freshness, raw editing and zilch screenplay makes a viewer say ‘Aise Movie Banao Na Dobara’, Zoya Akhtar’s amateurish attempt to make a matured movie. If you have absolutely no frutiful stuff to do in the weekend, only then go for ZNMD. Also, if you see Spain in Rs. 200 then stop calling the ‘Hollidaywallahs’ and go for the movie.

My Ratings - **1/2

Ferrari ki Sawari - Gujju Bhai

Ferrari, the first thing that comes out when we hear, see and feel the Ferrari is “WOW”. Well this wow is truly an understatement for a man… errr…. Sorry GOD. Here I am referring to our one and only SACHIN TENDULKAR. Yes, it’s sad but true but the master blaster has sold his Ferrari to a well know gujju businessmen in Gujarat named Jayesh Desai. If you could exert your mind a little you might just recollect that this is the same Ferrari Mr. Michael Schumacher had gifted him few years back. The expression on your faces matches mine when I read the news and couldn’t believe my eyes, had to ask my colleague to literally SLAP me twice. What amazes me is why would a super human like Sachin Tendulkar sell his gift to someone else? A God to many and a role model to most of them. I mean let me ask you this question – Would you ever sell your gift to someone else? If you ask me my answer would be a big “NO”. Guys… Guys… Guys… I am not anti-Sachin Tendulkar or demanding you to think over your loyalty towards Sachin Tendulkar, I am a Hardcore Sachin fan, but sometimes this brain of mine have some unsolved and unanswered questions like the one asked above and strangely most of the times there are no answers. Well would just say Jayesh Desai “Tamme Maja Ma Cho”.

Happy Father's Day

Walking down the crowded beach,

I saw a father and son having a great time

The father was teaching the son to make a mud castle

The son was overjoyed to know,

The great castle carved by my dad would someday be mine

The father taught him how to swim?

But also taught him the horror of drowning

The son eyes sparkled with joy,

Hugged his dad tightly with warmth

Conveying he has learnt alot & nothing else he could do except Thanking

Watching this, the rage ran through me

I asked my father what is it that you did for me?

You never taught me to make a castle

Learnt it all by myself

Forget the building process, you neither supported me

The rage still continued

I asked my father, Swimming had two sides

One is life the other death

You never taught me both

Learnt it all by myself swimming through those heavy tides

My dear old father, stood right infront of me

He told me, Son i never taught you anything, i agree

There was a motive behind it, you see

Today the world respects you much as Himanshu Parmekar

and not with the middle name added to your initials, Agree or Disagree?

Character Dheela Hain – Green Lantern

Yes as the headline states ‘Character Dheela Hain’ is what the film is all about? My friend a staunch green supporter fought with me over the popcorn and the pepsi in the theater and then over how the movie Green Lantern could have been much better. He said “Himanshu, WTF is wrong with these people. Green Lantern is supposed to be a BLACK guy and not some THUG.” I was clueless because “Firstly, i was fighting for a sip of the pepsi and arguing over girls hotness” he took it entirely wrong, not my fault. But back to Green Lantern through our (Me and My Friends) eyes

1) The action hero is not appealing. Hal Jordan (Ryan Reynolds) looks just ORDINARY. No charisma, No sophistication. He cannot be compared to any of the action heroes.

2) Dude, they say practice makes man perfect. It does it apply for superheroes too. Yes/ No. I go with Yes. This Green guy has no proficiency of to fight against his alien pals (foes), but still manages to beat the main Villain who has the sovereignty to beat all the odds.

3) Boss, Earth se Dusre Planet jaana halwa hain kya? This Green doll travels from earth to the universe whenever and wherever he wants. He just lacked a number plate with ‘T’ written on it.

4) The storyline is very unsatisfactory

We are no critic or an expert but a Green Lantern fan and a superhero movie lover. We would love to conclude by saying this – “DO NOT WASTE YOUR MONEY ON THIS MOVIE. GO FOR X-MEN: FIRST CLASS INSTEAD.

My Rating – **

Women in India

No, this is not just another Social Science subject or topic where the motive is too bore you all but a serious issue to talk about. The issue here i am referring to is the latest study which suggests that India ranks fourth unfavorable country for females to stay in. Well I completely agree with the statistics, I mean look around us (India), we have a problem of female infanticide, sati, rape, eve-teasing and I can go on, to concise it bunch of horny Indian men in and around India. The time we meet a girl our two eyes work like X-Rays and point towards their bust and the vagina, I mean in 5 minutes we have raped the girl. Am I wrong? Try doing this, Put a poll on your facebook wall with the question saying “What would you do if a girl comes knocking your door in the middle of the night asking for some help?” and see the devil mind work. Try it! With such conditions and environment that we men have created in and around India don’t you all think they might just extinct one day? Then why are we (Men) laughing at GAYS if one day we intend to be one through our sins towards women. Think about it GUYS, its time we get the gentlemen back in us.

P.S. This is to inform you all that i have my own website now and will be posting all my new blogs on the website. If you really like my blog you are always welcome to my space i.e. www.himanshuparmekar.com and www.mynotebook.in. Thank You.