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CHANDNI CHOWK TO CHINA - REVIEW

Now that’s a perfect Kungfu comedy movie from Akshay Kumar. It’s rumored that it’s his true life story. The story is fresh and Bollywoods first ever Kungfu comedy film. The movie is directed by Nikhil Advani and the release date is 16th January 2009. Akshya and Deepika Padukone is pairing for their first time on screen. They played main characters in this movie, and they share love interest on a screen. This movie had another specialty that it is shot mainly in China and the first Hindi movie to be shot over there. There is another peculiarity that this movie is an adaptation from a South Indian Malayalam movie named “Yodha” starred  Mohanlal. So the script of the movie is not new but the locations, songs and costumes are very new. They had completely absorbed Chinese’s beauty into celluloid. Akshay Kumar is one of the hottest stars in Bollywood. All of his movies are blockbusters, and he is the guaranteed star in Bollywood. He had 5 hits in a row and his last movie “Singh is King” became the box-office record. His acting skills are tremendous and he can make people burst into laugh. Once again, Akshay is proving that he can handle any roles. Deepika’s role is also noted. She is playing as a Chinese girl. The technicals used for the fights are really interesting and great to watch.

CHANDNI CHOWK TO CHINA - SYNOPSIS

Story of this film is about a simple man Sidhu living in Chandni Chowk. It’s an area of Old Delhi. Sidhu is a cook. He earned his living by cutting vegetables and working at a restaurant. Akshay Kumar made this role very excellent. Sidhu is very disappointed that he cant earn more money in his life and his life is trapped in a kitchen. He became a constant visitor for astrologers to know about his future. Once two Chinese strangers meet him and found that he is the reincarnation of Chinese’s hero who is the one to save their village from the evil Hojo. For that they took him to China. On his way he meets Sakhi (Deepika Padukone). He reaches the village and fight against villain smuggler leader Hojo. First Hojo catches Sidhu and exposed him as country’s buffoon. But at last with the help of Kungfu expert Chiang, who is the father of Sakhi saved the villagers from the cruelty of Hojo. In this film, we can see martial arts, dance sequences and romance and change in culture from India Hinduism to Buddhism. The stunt scenes and frequent shifting from comedy to serious scenes are main highlights of this movie.

THE CHANDNI CHOWK TO CHINA - THE MUSIC

Music of this film is composed by Shankar, Ehsaan and Loy. Singers Kailash Kher and Bappi Lahiri-Bappa Lahiri sung these songs excellent. Akshay Kumar is also sung a rap song composed by Punjabi rapper Bohemia. Just take a look on music track.Qawali style singer Kailash Kher has given a beautiful voice in his tracks.

1. S.I.D.H.U Kailash Kher
2. Chandni Chowk to China Neeraj Shridhar, Anushka Manchanda,Shankar Mahadevan
3. India Se Aaya Tera Dost (Aap Ki Khatir) Bappi Lahiri, Ravi K Tripathi
4. Tere Naina Shankar Mahadevan, Shreya Ghoshal
5. Chak Lein De Kailash Kher
6. Chandni Chowk to China (CC2C) Akshay Kumar, Bohemia
7. Chandni Chowk to China Remix by Dj Amyth
8. Chak Lein De Remix by Dj Amyth

CHANDNI CHOWK TO CHINA - RATINGS

The movie opened with a good collection of audience. I think all of them have the impact of Akshays last hit movie “Singh is King”.But after the movie they do comment that its not as much of Singh is King. Its a fully comedy movie and Akshay has done it perfectly.The comedy sequences are very well done by Akshay. The movie is a combo of action and comedy. Akshay Kumar’s recent films have all had chart busters in terms of the songs and so people are looking forward to the music of Chandni Chowk to China. I think the producers, Warner Bros will get happy by the result. We would give a rating of 3.5/5 for this movie “Chandini Chowk To China”.

SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE

It was one of the major attempt that a famous British director Danny Boyle made for the idea of his blockbuster movie “Slumdog Millionaire”. This drama has changed the life of all the crew working for it. This heart meltdown drama takes another turn into the movie career of Danny Boyle. This movie is an adaptation of a novel by Indian author Vikas Swarup from his book named “Q and A”. The movie turned out to be a very slow hit. It had grabbed most of the awards and above all the Golden Globe awards for best drama picture, best musical score, best screenplay and best director. A total of 4 golden globe awards were achieved by this movie and turned the profile of all the achievers.This is one of the unbeaten movie in this season. Beautiful songs and dances make this movie different. The music maestro A.R Rahman had composed many tracks that turned out to be gold for his career. The movie stars include Dev Patel, Freida Pinto, Anil Kapoor, Irrfan Khan make this film excellent.

A SYNOPSIS of SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE

Story of this film is based on life of Jamal from slums of Mumbai. He is the main character of this movie and Dev Patel made this role excellent. Actually this film contains flashbacks of Jamal’s childhood growing up on the streets of India. The handsome young man is an orphan from the slum of Mumbai. He had to face the biggest day of his life. When he is just one question away from winning 20 million rupees on India’s “Who Wants To Be a Millionaire?” show, then he was arrested by the police on the suspicion of cheating. The police suspected that how this street boy with no education answer these difficult questions. To prove his innocence, Jamal share the painful story of his life in the street and where he and his brother grew up, their adventures together on the road, encounters with local gangs and the girl Latika, he loved and lost with audience and police. Each chapter of his story reveals the key to answer of game show’s questions. This is the wonderful story about love, hope, determination and the real side of life. The movie beautifully maintain the three main characters, Jamal, his brother Salim and his true lover Latika. The Bollywood Actor Anil Kapoor as the host of the game show. The acting of all characters in this film is natural. That is the good specialty of this movie. This film won many awards. This won four golden globe awards. There are the best director award for Boyle, the best music score for Rahman, best screenplay for Simon Beaufoy and also were included in the category of best drama. After all it is wonderful movie with great story and amazing stars.

THE MUSIC OF THE SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE

All the tracks were composed by A.R Rahman. This had made one of his outstanding performance in his career. The film has 13 songs. All songs ensembles the true nature of the movie. Rahman created a history by his tracks. he received Golden Globe award for this tracks. He later said that this is his greatest achievement in his entire life. Now he is waiting for Oscar award for this category. The movie songs are.

1. “O… Saya” performed by A. R. Rahman, M.I.A.
2. “Riots” by A. R. Rahman
3. “Mausam & Escape” by A. R. Rahman
4. “Paper Planes” performed by M.I.A.
5. “Paper Planes (DFA Remix)” performed by M.I.A.
6. “Ringa Ringa” by A. R. Rahman featuring Alka Yagnik, Ila Arun
7. “Liquid Dance” by A. R. Rahman featuring Palakkad Sriram, Madhumitha
8. “Latika’s Theme” by A. R. Rahman featuring Suzanne D’Mello
9. “Aaj Ki Rat” performed by Sonu Nigam, Mahalakshmi Iyer, Alisha Chinai
10. “Millionaire” by A. R. Rahman featuring Madhumitha
11. “Gangsta Blues” by A. R. Rahman featuring BlaaZe, Tanvi Shah
12. “Dreams on Fire” by A. R. Rahman featuring Suzanne D’Mello
13. “Jai Ho” by A. R. Rahman featuring Sukhwinder Singh, Tanvi Shah, Mahalakshmi Iyer

RATING

Many Indian ambassadors like Amitabh Bachchan criticised this movie, saying that India is shown more dirty and third world developing nation. It had caused pain to nationalists and patriots. He said that same kind of slums do exist in many devolped nations. This movie turned out to be one of the most sensible movie of the year 2008 besides this crticism. This has topped in many charts and everyone had given a good ratings for this movie. This Indian casting movie stands different from many other senseless and showy movies recently released. This movie is very sensible and colorful. The posters and the advertisement were not so appealing so it made theaters empty for the first few days. It was a slow hit and now its on its way to break all the records. “Rotten Egg” one of the main movie rating site has given 94% for this movie which is the best one that a movie can get. This is a world wide hit. Above all we give rating of 4.5/5 for “Slum Dog Millionaire.” In the ninth week it grossed around $37,983,676.

SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE - INDIAN REVIEWS

Even though Slumdog Millioaire is not directed by Indian director, but it got mixed opinions from Indian viewers. Some people commented that it is just entertainment movie, but some people commented that it really brings the reality of shining India. It really portrays India’s injustice about slum people, Hindu-Muslim violence, the Bollywood craze, cricket mania, Mumbai underworld, horrible exploitation of young children, police brutality , poverty etc. Some famous people like Amithab Bachchan criticize this movie because, in this film India is presented as a ugly country and it cause pain to nationalists and patriots. But all Indians are proud of their music legend A. R. Rahman. He won golden globe award and nomination for Oscar award through the beautiful songs of this film. This film’s screenplay and cinematography are excellent, new and old actors performance are real, but this film not gained more collection in India after one week run compared to International collection. This film gained approximately 9 crore in India after one week. This film released both in Hindi and in English in India. It’s English version got more response than Hindi version.

7 BAFTA AWARD FOR SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE

Danny Boyle’s Slumdog Millionaire continues its success in every field of film industy. Now it captured seven awards in “British Film Academy Awards” (Bafta) 2009. Seven awards includes Best Film, Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Music, Best Editing, Best Sound and Best Cinematography. The British director Danny Boyle taking best director, best adapted screenplay for Simon Beaufoy, best music score by A.R.Rahman, Chris Deckens won the Bafta for best editing and Resul Pookutty won the Bafta for best sound editing and the British cinematographer Anthony Dod Mantle winning the Bafta award for best cinematography for Slumdog Millionaire. Before, Slumdog Millionaire, the story of improbable winner of game show “Who Wants to be a Millionaire” gained many awards. It won four golden globe awards for best drama picture, best musical score, best screenplay and best director. By getting globe and Bafta awards, A. R Rahaman became the first Indian to get these awards. Now Slumdog Millionaire is favorite of nominations of Oscar awards. We all Indians expected that A. R Rahaman will win Oscar award through the beautiful musics of this film. Now the latest news about Slumdog Millionaire circle is that American president Barrack Obama wants to see this movie. This news had been said by White house officials. Yesterday this movie had bagged 8 Oscars including the best picture, best director, best adapted screenplay with A R Rahman becoming the only Indian to bag two Oscars for the best score and original song. This movie had made many movies like “The curious case of Benjamin Button” , “Milk” etc to stay back. Slumdog has been awarded as the “best motion picture” of the year. So this has become another glory to Indians and a great thing to boast off.