Bhaag Milkha Bhaag runs away with many Filmfare Awards of 2013.

Here’s the list of the winners of 59th Idea-Filmfare Awards.

Best Film - Bhaag Milkha Bhaag
Best Director - Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra (Bhaag Milkha Bhaag)
Best Actor - Farhan Akhtar (Bhaag Milkha Bhaag)
Best Actress - Deepika Padukone - Goliyon Ki Raasleela Ram-Leela

Best Actress in a Supporting Role - Supriya Pathak Kapur (Goliyon Ki Raasleela Ram-leela)
Best Actor in a Supporting Role - Nawazuddin Siddiqui (The Lunchbox)

Best Music - Mithhoon, Ankit Tiwari, Jeet Ganguly (Aashiqui 2)
Best Playback Singer (Male) - Arjit Singh - Tum hi ho - (Aashiqui 2)
Best Playback Singer (Female) - Monali Thakur - Sawaar (Lootera)
Best Lyrics - Prasoon Joshi - Zinda (Bhaag Milkha Bhaag)


Tum hi ho - (Aashiqui 2)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Umqb9KENgmk
Sawaar Loon (Lootera)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QM1IswXgIl8

Zinda (Bhaag Milkha Bhaag)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fP6MNznzVcQ

Best Debut (Male) - Dhanush (Raanjhanaa)
Best Debut (Female) - Vaani Kapoor (Shuddh Desi Romance)
Best Debut Director - Ritesh Batra (The Lunchbox)

Best Actor (Critics) - Rajkumar Rao (Shahid)
Best Actress (Critics) - Shilpa Shukla (BA Pass)
Best Film (Critics) - The Lunchbox

Lifetime Achievement Award - Tanuja
RD Burman Award - Sidharth Mahadevan

Best Action - Thomas Struthers and Guru Bachchan (D Day)
Best Background Score - Hitesh Sonik (Kai Po Che)
Best Choreogrpahy - Samir and Arsh Tanna – Lahu muh lag gaya (Goliyon Ki Raasleel Ram-leela)
Best Cinematography - Kamaljit Negi (Madras Cafe)
Best Costume - Dolly Ahluwalia (Bhaag Milkha Bhaag)
Best Dialogue - Subhash Kapoor (Jolly LLB)
Best Editing - Aarif Sheikh (D-Day)
Best Production Design- Acropolis Design (Bhaag Milkha Bhaag)
Best Story - Subhash Kapoor (Jolly LLB)
Best Sound Design - Bishwadeep Chatterjee and Nohar Rajan Samal (Madras Café)
Best Screenplay - Chetan Bhagat, Abhishe Kapoor, Supratik Sen and Pubali Chaudhari (Kai Po Che)

This year's awards were hosted by Priyanka Chopra and Ranbir Kapoor , though I personally didn’t enjoy the hosting this year with futurist 2050 references and robots  and clones etc.  The glitzy ceremony also featured a host of performances by Madhuri Dixit, Katrina Kaif,  Priyanka Chopra, Salman Khan,  Shahid Kapoor and Ranveer Singh.

This evening was simultaneous aired while the 56th Grammy Awards were getting viewed in the USA, so have to say juggling between the Grammy and Filmfare was not easy. 

Jan – February 2014 Bollywood Movie Releases

Sholay 3D

Director: Ramesh Sippy
Producer; G.P. Sippy
Screenplay: Salim-Javed
Cast: Amitabh Bachchan, Dharmendra, Sanjeev Kumar, Hema Malini, Jaya Bhaduri, Amjad Khan
Music :    R. D. Burman
Genre:Action
   
   





Dedh Ishqiya

Release date: Jan 10
Genre: Thriller, Romance, Social
Director: Abhishek Chaubey
Producer: Vishal Bhardwaj, Raman Maroo
Cast: Arshad Warsi, Naseeruddin Shah, Madhuri Dixit, Huma Qureshi,Vijay Raaz, Shraddha Kapoor, Ravi Gosain Bhuvan Arora,Manoj Pahwa,Salman Shahid, Midhat Khan, Bhakti Deshpande,Fareed Ahmed, John Vijay
Story / Writers: Darab Farooqui
Background Music:Clinton Cerejo
Music Director: Vishal Bhardwaj
Lyricist: Gulzar
Screenplay:Vishal Bhardwaj, Abhishek Chaubey
Dialogue: Sanjeev Dutta



Jai Ho

Release :24 jan, 2014    
Genre: Action/Drama/Comedy
Director: Sohail Khan
Cast: Salman Khan,Sana Khan,Daisy Shah, Tabu



Producers: Sohail Khan, Sunil Lulla
Writer: A R Murugadoss
Screenplay:  Dilip Shukla
Based on : Stalin by A. R. Murugadoss
Music: Sajid-Wajid, Devi Sri Prasad, Amal Malik
Background music: Sandeep Shirodkar





One By Two

Release date: 31 Jan, 2014
Genre: Romance/Comedy
Director: Devika Bhagat
Cast: Abhay Deol, Preeti Desai, Rati Agnihotri, Jayant Kripalani, Darshan Jariwala, Lilette Dubey, Anish Trivedi









Hasee Toh Phasee 
  

               
Release date: Feb 7, 2014   
Genre: Romance/Comedy
Director: Vinil Mathew   
Cast: Sidharth Malhotra, Parineeti Chopra, Adah Sharma

Producer:Karan Johar, Anurag Kashyap

Screenplay/ Story: Harshavardhan Kulkarni
Music: Vishal-Shekhar









Heartless

Release date: Fe 14, 2014   
Genre; Thriller
Director: Shekhar Suman
Cast: Adhyayan Suman, Ariana Ayam, Om Puri, Deepti Naval, Madan Jain, Shekhar Suman

Music: Gaurav Dagaonkar










Gunday

Release date: Fe 14, 2014
Genre: Romance/Action
Director: Ali Abbas Zafar
Producer:Aditya Chopra
Cast: Ranveer Singh, Arjun Kapoor, Priyanka Chopra, Irrfan Khan
 Music:Sohail Sen
Background Score:Julius Packiam









 Highway

Release date : Feb 21,2014
Genre:Drama/Romance
Director/Writer: Imtiaz Ali
Cast: Randeep Hooda, Alia Bhatt

Producer: Sajid Nadiadwala
Imtiaz Ali
Music: A. R. Rahman









Shaadi Ke Side Effects

Release date : Feb 28, 2014    
Genre: Romance/Comedy
Director/Writer : Saket Chaudhary
Producer:  Pritish Nandy,Balaji Motion Pictures
Cast: Farhan Akhtar, Vidya Balan, Vir Das, Ram Kapoor, Gautami Kapoor, Ila Arun, Hariharan, Purab Kohli, Rati Agnihotri
Music: Pritam








Queen

Release date : Feb 28, 2014
Genre: Romance/Drama
Cast: Kangana Ranaut, Rajkummar Rao, Lisa Haydon
Director: Vikas Bahl
Producer:  Anurag Kashyap, Vikramaditya Motwane
Screenplay:  Parveez Shaikh,Chaitally Parmar, Vikas Bahl
Story: Vikas Bahl
Music: Amit Trivedi

Dhoom 3- Movie Review

  Producer: Aditya Chopra
  Story & Director: Vijay Krishna Acharya
  Cast: Aamir Khan, Abhishek Bachchan, Katrina Kaif, Jackie Shroff,  Uday Chopra
  Music Director: Pritam Chakraborty 
  Genre: Action, Adventure
  Release date: Dec 20, 2014
  Rating: ***.5
  Review: Birjis Adeni Rashed
  Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yeF_b8EQcK0

(The aim and intention of my reviews is to critique and recommend while not revealing the whole story to enjoy the movie when seen. But minor details have been divulged for a proper review!)

Check out  Dhoom#2 Review - http://bollywoodfilmcritic.blogspot.com/2006/12/dhoom-2-its-like-exciting-but-not.html

Dhoom 3 is entertaining with stunts, races, acrobatics, gadgets, gizmos and Aamir Khan. But with more emotional, melodrama, and revenge masala, than the previous Dhoom series movies.

Dhoom-# 3 is the revenge story of a child who grows up to avenge the banker who ruined and closed his father’s dream circus by systematically robbing all the branches of the Chicago bank to ‘close it down’! This unrealistic plot to start with is set in the wrong time and place.   In 1980s Chicago, USA, banks were not owned by single bankers like the  1930’s and banks don’t close down if they are going down, historically the federal reserve and the government bail out the banks in USA!

But the magnetism of Dhoom is not its irrational story but the action. The movie, like all the Dhoom movies is about amazing hi-flying stunts, hi-tech robberies, and impossible heists and more. Dhoom3  has  vrooming on the bikes like ‘Fast and Furious’,  aerial  outlandish acrobatics and  high rise and underwater stunts like ‘Mission Impossible’ with  ‘Bond’ like gadgetry transformations.  In addition to this is charismatic Aamir Khan biceped, brainy and brawny with the eye-candy babe presence of Katrina Kaif which is drawing crowds to the theatre!

 When the Indian cops Abhishek Bachchan and Uday Chopra are summoned up to America to solve a bank robbery just because the thief  signs off every robbery with  a saying in Hindi with a clown mask, you think  hey they could have asked the Desi’s who know Hindi in America, to translate ;)
The Indian cops silly Auto rickshaw races and gravity defying flying stunts in India  juxtaposed with  Aamirs  extraordinary stunts and  racing  machinery in Chicago with its contradiction is quite amusing mish-mash.  But the interesting link is the motorcycles used for racing both in US and India were all BMW. Good advertising revenue from there I guess;)

The story obviously is man centric with Katrina Kaif injected only for sizzling eye-candy for song to song intervals. And  surprisingly not a lot of women in the cast!

Dhoom3’s  extra long narrative and dragged  scenes which need serious editing elaborates the motives and reasoning of  Aamirs bank robberies and heists unlike previous Dhooms!  The circus with sentimental melodrama is very much like ‘Now You See Me’ and the secret plot twist is an apparent inspiration from  ‘The Prestige’.

But lastly I would have liked a different ending!

Aamir with his acting caliber, smart brains, pumped up  brawn, charm,  amazing stunts and sleek artistry steals the show. Though in the tap dancing scene his shortness was vastly emphasized.
Katrina Kaif shows of her fit and sexy stunning presence in the beautifully picturized songs, but doesn’t have much other role besides some romance in a subplot.

Abishesk Bachchan is good but his role of a tough cop is not strong enough to parallel the anti hero Aamir in this movie.  Uday Chopra as the side kick is less funnier than the  previous Dhooms.

The cinematography in Dhoom was excellent, capturing the downtown Chicago well. ‘The Great Indian Circus building is btw- The Shedd Aquarium.

The Music, and choreography of all  the songs are  quite good.   Kamli, Malang,  Dhoom Machale  and Tu hi Junoon are all melodious. Lyrics of a few are clichéd. The poem  Bande Hum Uske is good.

Dhoom #3 is entertaining but don’t ask questions. A lot of whys, ifs and buts are sparked while watching this Dhoom too like previous ones. But the people who are raving are the ones responsible for this action adventure to gross Rs.501.35 crore ($83.56 million) worldwide in just 3 weeks!
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