Chandni Chowk To China Movie Review

STORY :
A small village in China is terrorized by one cruel gang lord, Hojo (Gordon). Fed up of his tyrannies, the hapless villagers consult an astrologer who tells them that China’s most famous ancient warrior Liu Sheng has re-incarnated and he is the one who will kill Hojo. cctc18 Movie Review - Chandni Chowk To China

Two villagers go in the hunt of this re-born Liu Sheng which happens to be one staying in the famous Chandni Chowk of Delhi in India.

This bloke Siddhu (Akshay Kumar) in real is anything but their warrior they are in the look out for. Working in a paratha shop, as a vegetable cutter, the portly Siddhu is forever chasing dreams of a luxurious life without wanting to do hard work to achieve it. His foster father, Dada (Mithun) is fed up of his lethargic ways and always tries to make him realize his hidden potential.

The two Chinese villagers finally find Siddhu and with the help of a fraud Chinese astrologer Chopstick (Ranveer) manage to take him to their village in China. Chopstick too tags along as Siddhu’s translator. During the journey, Siddhu encounters Sakhi (Deepika Padukone) a popular model and falls for her instantly but soon his hopes come crashing as he comes across her lethal side of that of a thief.



But little does he know that its not Sakhi but her long lost twin Suzie aka Meow Meow (Deepika Padukone again) whom he has got confused with. What happens when Siddhu arrives in the remote Chinese village and how Hojo reacts to his arrival and what it leads to forms the rest of the film Chandni Chowk To China!

There had been lots of expectations raised from the slick promos of the film but unfortunately, the film doesn’t really end up being the joy ride it promises to be. The biggest flaw of CC2C lies in its predictable script which packs in all the 70s masala including lost and found, revenge drama, the triumph of good over evil just that the setting is changed from India to China.

Chandni Chowk To China begins well with a superbly shot fight on the wall of China but then the pace dips as Siddhu’s daily life is introduced. Then again post the interval any average cinegoer can predict what is in store at what intervals and there is where boredom starts creeping in.



You keep looking at your watch hoping it to end. Also, despite a good built up given to Hojo’s Kung Fu expertise and hopes raised about the one on one fight between him and Siddhu, the climax fight ends up being very short and disappointing.

Amongst the most redeemable factors about CC2C is Akshay Kumar. He makes you laugh, cry and cheer for him but then again he is let down by an average script.

But it’s a great treat watching Akshay going back in the action mode and doing some really breathtaking Kung Fu stunts. Deepika Padukone in a double role does well but the chemistry between her and Akki is clearly missing. Gordon Liu as the villain is simply superb. He manages to bring out terror just with a stare. Ranvir is good as usual whereas Mithun impresses in the few sequences that he gets.

The music of Chandni Chowk To China appears better when watching the songs onscreen as they have been very lavishly picturised, especially the title track. The film scores full marks on the technical front. But we wish we could say the same about the script!

The film Chandni Chowk To China is a must see for hardcore Akshay Kumar fans, for the rest well one can only say that if you want to get nostalgic about the 70s cinema with some humor mixed with it then going for this 2 hour 40 minutes film won’t be a bad idea. -Sampurn Media

Chandni Chowk To China: Old wine in new bottle

Starring: Akshay Kumar, Deepika Padukone, Ranvir Shorey, Mithun Chakravorthy and Gordon Liu

ABOUT THE FILMMAKERS:

NIKHIL ADVANI - DIRECTOR

RAMESH SIPPY, MUKESH TALREJA, ROHAN SIPPY - PRODUCERS

SHRIDHAR RAGHAVAN - WRITER

HIMMAN DHAMIJA - DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY

DEE DEE KU “HUEN CHIU KU” - STUNT DIRECTOR

SHANKAR - EHSAAN - LOY - MUSIC DIRECTORS

KAILASA - MUSIC DIRECTORS

PONY VERMA - CHOREOGRAPHER

Chandni Chowk To China

After the grand success of Welcome and Singh is Kinng last year, Bollywood hunk Akshay Kumar is ready to hit the bollywood again in the new year through his new movie CHANDNI CHOWK TO CHINA. It is first release for Akki in the new year. Director Nikhil Advani takes you on a journey from Chandni Chowk To China through the movie. The movie is produced by well-known Ramesh Sippy and Rohan Sippy.

Star cast of Chandni Chowk To China :

AKSHAY KUMAR as siddhu is a low - existance person who cuts the vegetables at roadside stall in Chandni Chowk, Delhi. He believes on astrologers and fakirs more then himself. Siddhu's lowly existance takes a turn for the exotic with arrival of two strangers from china who claim him to be the renascence of a war hero and insist him to take to china.

DEEPIKA PADUKONE (Double role) as Ms. TSM/Meow : Ms. TSM (Tele shopper's media), Sakshi is Indian Brand ambassador to arange of quirky chinese gizmos. She is son a journey to pay homage to the land where she lost her chinese father.

MITHUN CHAKRABORTY as Dada : Siddhu's father figure, Dada feels like, he is banging his head againest a brick wall everytime he tries to knock some sense into siddhu's thick skull.

RANVIR SHOREY as Chopstick is a chinese translator who accompanies siddu on his journey instigating dreams of delicious future without bothering t o reveals the perils that lie ahead.

Story of Chandni Chowk To China :

The story of Chandni Chowk To China is all about Siddhu who believes on everything except himself and his father figure Dada's best efforts. One day, his life takes a turn when two strangers from china claim him as a renascence of a war hero in the past and takes him to China. At the same time, Siddhu meets with chopstick, the devious translator who helps siddu on his journey.

Now siddhu happily sets to china with Chopstick without knowing the perils which await him. But apart from all troubles, Siddhu meets with sweet Sakshi (Ms. TSM) Who has embarked on a journey to pay homage to the land of her birth and her dead father and twin. Then, Siddhu comes in the way of Hojo who is a vicious smuggler and he and his men are the plague of the village. Then , Siddhu decides to free all the villagers from the Gojo's fear and finds the one man who can make siddhu a Kung - fu expert and set the village free. Armed with his Sifu (master), faith in himself and the love of the fair Sakhi Sidhu sets forth to conquer all.

Music of Chandni Chowk To China :

The music of Chandni Chowk To China is composed by Kailash Kher, Shankar, Ehsaan, Loy, Bappi Lahiri and Bohemia and the lyrics is written by Kailash Kher, Rajat Arora, Bohemia, Shailey Shailendra. The album Chandni Chowk To China includes 8 songs :

• Sidhu

• Chandni chowk to china

• India se aaya mera dost

• Tere naina

• Chak lein de

• Chandni chowk to china (Akshay and Bohemia)
  
  

• Chandni chowk to china (Remix)
  
  

• Chak lein de (Remix)

42 Kms

Eastern Union Entertainment releases its most ambitious film - 42 KMS on January 23rd, 2009 across India. Movie is directed by Nisha Chainani who is the assistant of Rakesh roshan. 42 Kms has a decent starcast includes Mandira Bedi, Samir Dattani, Purab Kolhi, Bikram Saluja, Prashant Chainani, Nausheen Ali Sardar & Nauheed Cyrusi in main role and Dara singh, vivel vaswani in supporting role.The story of the movie resolves around a marathon race of 42 Kms. In the race, five different people participate as they have different reasons to participate. but same 42 KMS to run! It's an inspirational journey of perseverance and personal triumph.

First participant is Sanjana (Mandira Bedi), a housewife, whose life is limited to her sweet home, children and her husband. But above all, she realizes that she had become so complacent in her world that she forgot her true identity. To gain her identity back, she participate in 42 Kms race.

Second participant, Ravi Anand (Bikram Saluja), a businessman whose Life is not beyond deals, profits and collaborations. Work and success are the two things that make him turn-on. But suddenly his life drive him in a direction he never ever thought. Therefore to get his glory back, he participate in 42 Kms race.

Third participant, Raju (Purab Kohli) who is a son of a wealthy villager. Raju loves Sumitra (Mahima mehta) and wants to marry her but her father rejects a good for nothing bum such as Raju, he now has a challenge of proving his mettle, not to others, but to himself.

Fourth participant, Sanjeev (Sameer Dattani), a champion of football from Goa.but still far a way to become the greatest footballer in the country. But life has other plans for Sanjeev. After getting diagnosed for life threatening disease ,he is forced to withdraw from the team and later he takes up to run in the marathon to get back his lost glorious past.

Last and fifth participant is Mr. Sameer (Prashant Chainani), a young, handsome and charming guy. Blessed with looks and charisma, Sameer had earned an image of being a Casanova. but one day when he meets Divya (nauseed cyrusi), a simple honest girl and Sameer falls in love with Divya. But this time, his Casanova image that comes to haunt him. To prove he is in love, he has to run for the marathon of 42 Kms.

On the whole, movie 42 Kms is all about how this race change the life of above five people who are desperately want to prove themselves.

Kaash mere hote

Kaash mere hote is making the re-entry for Sneha ullal who was in Lucky opposite to Salmaan khan. Kaash mere hote is directed by B.H. Tharun Kumar. The story line of the movies being teenage attraction is not love. The movie consists huge starcast including Kumar Saahil, sneha ullal, Sanna Mirza, anupam kher, johney lever and rajesh khanna.

Kaash mere hote is a story of a married couple, Krish (Kumar Saahil) and Radhika (sneha ullal), who make up a very happy couple. Krish is a well known fashion photographer by profession and radhika also works in a departmental store. One day, krish gets a assignment in Mauritius for a magazine. For this, he shoots on the beaches and roads of Mauritius, where Piya (Sana Khan) first sees him and falls in love. But krish does not love her as he already in love with Radhika. then Piya tries everything to get her love in her life. However , her conviction is so great that Piya will kill everyone and anyone who will come in her way of love. If that's not all, she will also resort to black magic to get her love. Not much later one after another murders begin to occur in town. And this case is given to be solved by I.G. Danda (Johnny Lever), who tries to solve this mistry in his own way.

Kaash mere hote is produced by Sharvan Rathore and Prakash Pange. The music director of the movie is Sanjeev darshan rathore.

Ghajini crosses Rs 200 cr mark

Ghajini, the biggest blockbuster of the year, has broke all the records in the history of Indian cinema. Its collection are increasing rapidly. On Wednesday, when booking for the movie opened at a theatre in UK, the film became the first to gross Rs 200 crore at the worldwide box office. It has grossed Rs. 162 crore in the domestic market and Rs 39 crore has come from overseas till Thursday.

Amod mehra, one of the trade consultant, said "Ghajini was very strong from day 1. it has been galloping like a one-horse race and in my estimate, it will cross the Rs 250 crore mark very easily." Bollywood producer Pankaj Kharbanda is also not surprised with the collection of Ghajini. He said "In the last year alone, there has been a 40% increase in cinema screens and also a rise in the cinema-going population. With most of the theatres recording good numbers on Ghajini, the 200 crore mark is hardly a surprise."

Ghajini released with the maximum numbers of prints in India and it made inroads for itself. A trade source said "Ghajini is set to take the mantle of the highest domestic bollywood earner from Anil sharma's Gadar - Ek Prem Katha." In the overseas market, the film is, till now, second only to Karan johar's Kabhi Alvida na Kehna. Ghajini has also earned Rs 4 crore from gaming rights, Rs 21 crore for satellite rights in India and overseas and something to the tune of Rs 10 crore for home video and music.

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Bad Luck Govind

In the second week of the new year, Varun Khanna makes his directorial debut with the movie "Bad Luck Govind". Its a comedy movie which is all about a general man who fight against his Badluck. It stars Gaurav Kapoor, Hrishita Bhatt, Zakir Hussain and Vrajesh Hirjee in lead role. Other cast includes Govind Namdev, Parmeet Sethi, Lalit Mohan Tiwari, Ganesh Yadav Amit Mistry, Yogesh Joshi, Manoj Tiger and Archana Puran Singh.

The story of Bad Luck Govind resolves around a common man Govind Sharma (Gaurav Kapoor) who always seems to be favored by misfortune. He is a hapless human who invokes disastrous situations wherever he goes. Gaurav shares a special kind of connection with the Almighty. One day, he moves from Delhi to Mumbai, in hoping luck would change, but his bad luck still follows him. Here in mumbai, he comes across six crazy underworld 'bhais' - satta (gambling) bookies - (Govind Namdev, Parmeet Sethi, Vrajesh Hirjee, Lalit Mohan Tiwari and Ganesh Yadav) and a beautiful nurse (Hrishitaa Bhatt). As the luck of all the eight people, the result is a series of humorous situations. after all, Govind learns to have faith in life and the power of positive.

Bad luck Govind realizes us that all things are connected, and through the close relationship between us and our surroundings, we have the ability to change ourselves and the world we live in. Bad luck Govind is a riot comedy which have all the ingredients of drama, music, laughter and all.

prelude - Luck by chance

After the huge success of ROCK ON, bollywood Rocker Farhan Akhtar is ready to set the pulse racing again in his new bollywood movie luck by chance. Luck By Chance is directed by Debutant Zoya Akhtar who is Farhan's sister. The movie boasts of a huge star cast including Hrithik Roshan, Rishi Kapoor, Dimple Kapadi, Isha Shravani play the lead role.

The story of Luck by chance resolves around struggling actor Vikram Jaisingh (Farhan Akhtar) who comes to Mumbai from Delhi to fulfill his dream.During this struggle phase, he faces many problems but he gets some helping hands from his friends. There are more characters in the movie like Rolly (Rishi Kapoor) who is a successful punjabi producer though superstitious producer who only works with the biggest stars. Sona (Konkona Sen Sharma) is also a straggler who shares the relationship with Vikram. Dimple Kapadia is also playing a character of 70's superstar who's name is neena. The special thing about the movie is Hrithik Roshan who is playing a character of Superstar Zaffar Khan.

On the whole, the movie is all about bollywood life in which luck plays a very important role that's why Luck by chance. After the great composition in Dil chahta hai and Rock on, Shanker- Ehsaan- Loy is again ready to compose their magic in Luck by chance. The lyrics is also written by none other then great Javed Akhtar. The movie Luck by chance release on January 30, 2009 all over the globe.