Watch Kahaani 2012 Hindi Movie Online...

Watch Kahaani 2012 Hindi Movie Online...

Movie Information:

Kahaani is an Indian Bollywooddrama-thriller film directed and co-produced by Sujoy Ghosh. It stars Vidya Balan and Parambrata Chatterjee in lead roles. Balan plays a pregnant woman in search of her husband and the father of the child.

Agneepath: Movie Review

Director: Karan Malhotra
Cast: Hrithik Roshan, Sanjay Dutt, Rishi Kapoor
Rating: *** ½ 
Amongst the first recall values for the originalAgneepath is Amitabh Bachchan's trademark self-introduction dialogue of Vijay Dinanath Chauhan. While evaluating its official remake, the first thing that crosses your mind is how the reinterpretation of this signature scene would be. Unlike in the original, the monologue plays pretty late in the remake, whereby it establishes Vijay's identity over merely introducing him and with such individuality and elegance that it pays a perfect homage to the original, while at the same time not blatantly imitating it. That is how a remake is supposed to be! Retaining the spirit of the original and having a soul of its own. This dialogue kinda summarizes the overall aura of the remake.

The basic backdrop remains the same. Kancha Cheena (Sanjay Dutt) is the uncrowned king of Mandwa Island and terminates the rebellious village schoolmaster. The master's son swears revenge and grows up to be Vijay Dinanath Chauhan (Hrithik Roshan) under the wings of Rauf Lala (Rishi Kapoor). Lala who trades in human and drug trafficking, rules the Mumbai underbelly. Vijay uses Lala to reach Kancha and thereby reclaim his island and self-esteem.

While the primary plotline remains the same as Mukul Anand's classic, director Karan Malhotra along with co-writer Ila Bedi Datta refreshingly revamps the screenplay giving it a new structure and approach. So you never miss the omission of Mithun Chakravarthy's award-winning Krishnan Iyer from the original and welcome the induction of Rishi Kapoor's foul-mouthed and despicable kasai character. If at all the film falls into predictable zone, it's not because you are familiar with the original but because at the core of it, the story remains a basic revenge drama. The film employs the age-old conflict of a reformist school-teacher versus the conniving zamindar, duping the villagers of their lands.

The remake isn't essentially remodeled to modern times because the film retains its original era thereby reviving the raw essence of the 1990 film. And beyond the epoch, Malhotra also imparts the cinematic treatment of that time period to his film. So both the villain and hero have stylized entries, their confrontations boast of high-voltage drama and, in the climax, when the bruised and battered protagonist rises to take revenge (in exactly the same manner like his father was killed), he wins instant applause. Also the idea of Vijay concealing his identity from his teenaged sister is so intrinsic of the era (a la Anil Kapoor's Jeevan Ek Sanghursh).

Where the new Agneepath raises the bar is by casting Sanjay Dutt as the baddie. In his black-attire and bald-look, Dutt has such solid screen-presence that the director makes things difficult for himself with a challenge of how would Hrithik's hero overpower the villain. Thereby the film employs some extreme action, which is more brutal than boisterous, to justify Kancha's imposing persona and the subsequent seethe in Vijay's revenge. Thankfully, what puts Agneepath a notch above the recent mindless actioners is that it has a basic human connect which it reasonably balances with the extreme action and never blatantly exploits any emotion




Piyush Mishra's dialogues are impressive with rhetoric punches every now and then. And even when the lines go unrefined for Rishi Kapoor's crude character, it leaves immense impact without crossing the familial domain. Cinematography by Ravi K Chandran and Kiran Deohans is remarkable. Akiv Ali's editing is accomplished and despite the film having a three-hour runtime, you never lose the narrative for a moment. The only slacker is the obligatory romance track (Priyanka Chopra) but thankfully even that is kept short. Ajay-Atul's music and esp. the background score are effective. Abbas Ali Moghul's action is raw and unrestrained.

Beyond his hold on the subject, Karan Malhotra succeeds in extracting inspiring performances from the impressive cast. The usually suave Hrithik Roshan convincingly glides into his coarse character here and has a towering presence. He completely redefines Vijay Dinanath Chauhan and never in his act do you see even a glimpse of the original. Sanjay Dutt reeks of menace and malice through his sadistic laughs. At times he overdoes his guffaws but therein lays his strength, which he uses to the hilt. Rishi Kapoor has never looked or played so mean onscreen before. As the kohl-eyed Rauf Lala, the affable actor reinvents his screen image with a beastly streak to his character. So good is the actor that you never get enough of him. Arish Bhiwandiwala as the young Vijay Chauhan puts in a confident act. Priyanka Chopra, Zarina and Om Puri are functional.

With Bollywood being obsessed with remakes in recent times, Agneepath is an important lesson on how to pay proper tribute to the original. Despite the original being his home production, Karan Johar attempts playing with fire (treading uncharted territory) with Agneepath and emerges victorious. Agneepath has the fire for a lustrous entertainer!

5 Things That Annoyed Me This Year

1) Old ladies that must stop right inside the grocery store in front of the exit to look at their damn receipt. Keep walking and check that shit out in your car I’m trying to get somewhere!
2) People that leave 5 car lengths between them and the car ahead of them in the fast lane, when there is no one in the slow lane. Speed up or MOVE OVER.
3) People talking on their cell phone and attempting to drive.
4) Smelly Indians/Middle Easterners. Wear deodorant!
5) Black people who walk slowwww as shit across the parking lot when they see you.
6) Black people thinking they are entitled to acting high and mighty as if they are owed something.
7) Corporate VPs thinking that the rules don’t pertain to them.
8) Annoying cell phone ringers.
9) Slow ass lines when it isn’t even busy at fast food restaurants.
10) People who ask how is married life, and then comment “Let’s see if you are still smiling after a year.” Look… just because you’ve let yourself go and your husband doesn’t want to have sex with you anymore isn’t my problem.
11) People who will smile to your face and stab you in the back.
12) People who can’t be happy for you.
13) Jealous bitches.
14) Woman and how they are so damn moody. Smoke some pot or something.
15) Men that let woman tell them what to do and where, and they listen to it. Get some balls.
16) People who think the rules don’t apply to them.
17) People who always tell you their life story and problems when you didn’t even ask, but then don’t listen to anything you may have to say.
18) Insecure women.
19) People who don’t know the difference between there, their, and they’re.
20) Men who don’t take care of themselves but won’t settle for anything less than a supermodel. It’s called OUT OF YOUR LEAGUE.
21) Loud talkers.
22) Fat woman that comment on my weight, or how I’m losing weight EVERY DAMN TIME I SEE YOU. I haven’t lost a lb in over 5 months.
23) Gay people that cover their car with bumper stickers about abortion and equal rights.
24) Close talkers.
25) People that I don’t even know that well who pick off hair or fuzz from my clothes. 
26) cheap ass horrible smelling perfume.
27) People who talk loud about certain things about their life so everyone can hear how important they really are. NOT.
28) People who don’t think they need to listen to flight attendants. 
29) People who let their kids SCREAM out in public and don’t even try to do anything.
30) Black people who drive BMWs… they think they own the road because they bought a fancy car.
31) People who do EXACTLY the speed limit in the fast lane. MOVE OVER.
32) Women who marry men that are obviously gay…. DUH honey!
33) People who don’t say thank you when you hold the door open for them and just stroll right in like it’s your job to hold the door for them. Well you are welcome your Majesty!
34) Snooty hotel stayers. (“Eh… this isn’t 5star diamond quality, but I guess I’ll have to manage.” Screw you.)
35) People that hold grudges over the dumbest things. 
36) Women who constantly man bash. Why would a man want to be with you anyway if you think so ‘highly’ of them?
37) People who ride their breaks but insist on only keeping 2 inches between them and the car ahead of them.
38) Salesmen.
39) Snooty business people in the airports.
40) Rude help.
41) Passive aggressiveness.
42) Not using car signals.
43) Barking dogs at all hours of the night.
44) cockroaches.
45) People telling me I better hurry up and have kids. Look… I will have kids when I want to have kids!
46) Family drama.
47) Liars.
48) People who you thought were your friends who blow you off for an important event.
49) People who only do things if it benefits them.
50) Down talking.
51) Talking for hours on the phone and you can’t get the person to shut up.
52) Woman who take way too much crap from men and allow them to do so.
53)Screaming kids at the pool when I am trying to relax.
54) Mexican families that house 15 people in an apartment for 2.
55) Illegal aliens that don’t have to pay taxes.
56) Gay marriage. Marriage is between a man and a woman.
57) People who always dodge your call.
58) Co-workers cooking fish and burnt popcorn.
59) People who tell you all about their kids when you never even asked and don’t shut up about them.
60) Woman who constantly seek attention

Don 2 Movie Review

Director: Farhan Akhtar
Cast: Shah Rukh Khan, Priyanka Chopra, Boman Irani

By the time it dawns on you that a 6-feet contemporary Bollywood actor (in a cameo) has been passed off as the unabridged undercover for Shah Rukh Khan's Don in the film, you are expected to be equipped for many more of such cinematic liberties. And rather than crying a spoiler there, you could rather preset your logic mode to the multiple masquerades in store in the movie. 

Don 2, the sequel starts off almost from where the earlier episode ended and while it attempts to maintain some continuity with the last installment, it fails to bring back the intelligence of the original. Don (Shah Rukh Khan) emerges in Malaysia and gets himself arrested only to get the convicted Vardhan (Boman Irani) out of jail. Vardhan has keys to a video footage which they use to blackmail a bank vice president (Alyy Khan) to get access to a German bank's security systems. The big plan is the old-fashioned and formulaic robbery of the currency printing plates from the bank. So the sequel to Don merely boils down to being a heist film.

The film, more or less, starts as an action flick with Don's one-man-army introduction in Thailand, a convenient escape from Malaysian prison and some conventional car-chase sequences in Germany. None of them excite much until you realize you have already reached the interval. The plotting and scheming starts in the second half with an easy induction of a hacker (Kunal Kapoor) who can not only barge into the security systems of the vault but also seems to have blueprints of the bank building to the minutest details.

The writing by Ameet Mehta, Amrish Shah and Farhan Akhtar is more style over substance attempting to camouflage cliches with the cool quotient. Even the central heist seems confusing and convoluted but Farhan Akhtar intentionally keeps the pacing swift enough, leaving no time for the viewer to notice any loose ends. However, the more he makes the situation easy to suit his script, the more it becomes difficult for the audience to digest things.

Even the robbery seems mundane Hollywoodish exercise with no moments of thrills in particular. However the highlight isn't the heist per se but Don's hidden agenda behind it. While it isn't much difficult to decode the mystery, it makes for a decent climax. The director mercifully keeps mush away from the major proceedings though he can't resist the temptation in the climactic portion in his attempts to induce chemistry between Don and his rival, Roma (Priyanka Chopra). But Don would have been better-off as the suave and stonyhearted killer rather than a 'Rahul' prototype. Thankfully the chemistry is peripheral and never blooms into romance.

Also one would have preferred to see Don as more brain over brawny hero but the director makes him a jack of all trades giving him James Bond kinda complete-man characteristics. Vulnerability is alien to Don, essentially making him larger-than-life. But despite being an unethical drug-lord, Farhan Akhtar's treatment is such that you still adore him as the hero over abhorring him as an outright villain. Don 2 never gets into the good v/s evil battle.

The cinematography by Jason West is striking. However Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy's musical score doesn't leave a mark this time and the background score has to repeatedly resort to the theme-piece from the original for some impact. Farhan Akhtar's punch-lines in dialogues are initially amusing but with a Don-ism in every second line, it sounds hackneyed and hollow after a point. 

Shah Rukh Khan is in his comfort zone as the Don bringing more charm than cruelty to his character. He rules supreme and the film's indulgence with him is as much as Don's obsession with himself. Everyone else is overshadowed. Priyanka Chopra is passable. Lara Dutta, as the Don's moll, is simply a substitute for Isha Koppikhar from the prequel and is hardly there for a few scenes. Boman Irani is underused. Kunal Kapoor fails to register any impact. Om Puri, Alyy Khan and Nawab Shah are plain functional. Sahil Shroff irritates.

Don 2 ends with the promise of Don 3 (that's what the number-plate of Don's bike reads) and the trademark dialogue 'Don ko pakadna mushkil hi nahi, namumkim hai' (It's not just difficult to catch don, it's impossible). But we would surely want to 'catch' up with a more worthy sequel to this. It's not impossible Farhan. Is it?

Anna Hazare dubs Lokpal Bill as 'very weak'; dares Sonia Gandhi for public debate

RALEGAN SIDDHI/NEW DELHI: Setting the stage for a confrontation with the Government, Anna Hazare today rejected the Lokpal bill introduced in Parliament, saying it is "very weak" and dared Congress chief Sonia Gandhi for a public debate on the proposed legislation. 

Soon after the bill was introduced in Lok Sabha, Hazare said in Ralegan Siddhi that the new bill is "very weak and useless" and it will not help in tackling corruption as it does not bring CBI under the control of anti-graft ombudsman. 

"This government is incapable of tackling corruption. Why are they scared of giving away CBI? If CBI is under Lokpal's control, they fear that there will be a line of ministers going to jail," Hazare told reporters. 

Hazare said the new Bill is of no use if the anti- corruption ombudsman does not have control over CBI and the lower bureaucracy is not brought under its direct control. 

"Sonia Gandhi says the bill is strong. If it is so, let her come out and debate with us in front of media. Let people see it. Let us have a face to face debate. Convince the people of the country that it is strong. We will explain how it is not strong," he said earlier in the day. 

"What is right and wrong with the bill, let us debate in public," he said. 

Hazare's remarks came as a response to Gandhi's speech at Congress Parliamentary Party meeting yesterday during which she said the proposed legislation was strong and she was ready to fight for it. 

Continuing his attack on the government, Hazare said he will go ahead with his three-day fast from December 27 in Mumbai and then leave for Delhi to join the 'jail bharo' agitation during which he will protest outside the residences of Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi. 

Describing the bill as "anti-people and dangerous", Hazare's close aide Arvind Kejriwal said in Ghaziabad (UP) it was "worse" than the legislation introduced in August in Lok Sabha.

Corruption: Why Gen X supports Jan Lokpal

Corruption knocks 1.5% off GDP and stories of mega scams abound in the backdrop of people's representatives asking for more perks of office (red light and higher protocol). It also does not help that one-third of the parliamentarians are there because of their families, one-third have criminal records and the remaining one-third possibly cannot be dissociated from chicanery and they will continue to be there so long as elections are like multiple choice tests where citizens will have to choose from all defective answers. 

People see parliamentary performance on television, a Bill gets exactly 10 minutes to be passed in the presence of a 10th of the House. A far cry from debate, discussion and modification on the floor. Even if the debate takes place, the range and the depth are limited, often enough. In this background, beating the chest that Parliament is supreme and the war cry that it is the job of the government to make laws sounds hollow and reflects the hiatus between the people and their representatives. 

Imagine a situation when someone gets a call to come and meet some agent once the passport is made but does not. When she receives a newly-minted passport by courier to discover that it has been deliberately mutilated, anger and anguish are natural. But the difference is that she is not prepared to accept it as the inevitable wheel of life. She understands that the entire chain of corruption is to be countenanced. 

The reluctance to keep CBI's anti-corruption wing under the Lokpal is surprising. The interlocked arrangement and relationship of dependence of the CBI with the government keeps the CBI beyond the realm of impartiality as far as the government is concerned. CBI has got powers but it is not independent. CVC is independent but does have sufficient power and resources. The merger of anti-corruption wings of the government and bringing them under the control of Lokpal is well-thought-out and emerges largely from positive experience of Karnataka.

On bringing the Group C and D employees under Lokpal. Either we accept corruption is a corrosive problem or we do not. If we accept the former is an issue, we will have to recognise the chain and a system is to be devised that will deter corruption by bringing the corrupt to the book and meting out punishment quickly. The argument that a lot of employees are required to cover 57 lakh Group C employees is not convincing. The presence of the law itself will deter the corrupt and make them careful. Perfectlyreasonable people who often descend to corruption in the absence of deterrence are more likely to behave. It will be stupidity to design a system as if everyone is corrupt because given the right climate, majority of them will turn out to be clean. If the need arises to recruit more people, say 10,000 or 20,000, so be it. This is the price the system will have to pay to bring corruption under control. 

Ponting still awaiting 'Tendulkar-like' re-birth

MELBOURNE: In a defiant captain's swansong,Ricky Ponting hit a fighting century in a losing cause as Australia bowed out of the World Cup earlier this year and then spoke of his hopes for a "Tendulkar-like" re-birth. 

Nine months later, the gritty Tasmanian is still gazing at the horizon, waiting for a new dawn that has stubbornly refused to break. 

In Australia's four-Test series against India starting December 26, Ponting will face off once again with the man he desperately wants to emulate. 

Former captains alike and the most prolific run-scorers of all time in Tests and one-dayers, Ponting and Sachin Tendulkar are still two of the brightest stars in cricket's firmament. 

They head into the Boxing Day Test at the Melbourne Cricket Ground both desperate for a century but for very different reasons. 

Tendulkar, afforded God-like status in a nation of a billion people, needs one more to complete his 100th international century, a near-mythical landmark that many doubt will ever be eclipsed. 

Ponting, who stepped down from the captaincy in March and turned 37 on Monday, needs a first Test ton in nearly two years merely to save his career. 

Each have had their chances, with Tendulkar especially tantalising as he reached 94 in the third Test against the West Indies in Mumbai last month before nicking an edge to the slips. 

The 38-year-old also threatened with a 76 in the first West Indies Test following a 91 in the fourth Test against England at the Oval in August. 

He arrives in Australia still near the peak of his powers, having amassed 651 runs in eight Tests for an average of 46.50 this year. 

Ponting, conversely, is a shadow of his former dominant self. Two half-centuries in his last four Tests have lifted his average to a paltry 24.84 for the past year. 

Ponting's recent dismissals, flailing across the crease with the ball invariably cannoning into his pads, have been seen as an indication of a man no longer the master of his technique, let alone the match of the world's best bowlers. 

With debate raging about his place in the team, his captain Michael Clarke has backed him to follow Tendulkar into his own Indian summer - as soon as that elusive third digit again appears next to his name on the scoreboard. 

"Once he makes that score, he'll go on like Sachin and the next few years of his career could be his best," Clarke said before Australia's tour of South Africa last month. 

"Ricky's a huge help to a lot of the young guys in our group, passing on experience and knowledge. I still do a lot of work with him on my batting," he said. 

Ponting and Tendulkar's will undoubtedly loom large in cricket long after they bow out of the game but their careers may be viewed quite differently. 

Tendulkar's legend was born when the curly-haired 16-year-old defiantly batted on with a blood-stained shirt after being struck in the mouth by a Waqar Younis delivery during his 1989 debut in Pakistan. 

His aura only grew from there as he racked up century after century with an effortless grace that Don Bradman remarked was similar to his own. 

Ponting hammered 96 on debut as a 20-year-old against Sri Lanka, and his fiercely competitive nature and front-foot aggression has propelled him to 39 Test centuries and 42 Test wins as captain, the most ever. 

Moulded in a succession of ruthless teams bound by a culture of winning, the belligerent Tasmanian remains a figure of respect rather than adulation in Australia. 

The public is unlikely ever to forgive or forget his crime of captaining the team to a third Ashes series loss earlier this year, and a protracted departure will not help. 

"It is a tough thing to decide when it is the end," former Australia skipper Greg Chappell told local radio this week. 

"The players of Ricky Ponting's calibre are rare and it is better to give them one game or one series too many than one game or one series too few because there aren't that many that can replace them. 

"There does come a point - and I don't want to make a comment one way or another about Ricky's stage - where there is a diminishing return on the investment and the decision has to be taken as to whether there is somebody else who can do as well at the moment but has a chance to get better."