BEST MOVIES(???) OF THE YEAR 2007

Merchant of Death:

Stars: Narendra Modi, Sonia Gandhi, Keshubai Patel, Media.

A typical masala movie .The story line was simple. At the beginning of the movie, the major villain Sonia Gandhi, Media, Election commission of India every one seems to be against the Hero ‘Modi’. In fact the film starts sensationally with Sonia describing Modi as the Merchant Of Death” and the media showing flash backs of 2001 riots. Later with the other veteran BJP leader Keshubai Patel and other BJP rebels also joining hands with the villains, and exit polls predicting defeat to Modi it seems the Hero is struggling. But as typical of any masala movie, the Hero makes a massive comeback and defeats every one and delivers a famous dialogue “I am a CM always, for me CM means Common Man”.

It was a very impressive performance by Modi, who has played a hero role. This is his second movie, after the first movie “Gujarat riots” in which he acted as a villain. In fact his public speeches in the film are full of fire. The dialogue writer deserves a special round of applause. The major villain Sonia Gandhi fails to impress us except in the first scene when she calls Modi “the merchant of death”. The comedy role is being played by Union minister Kapil Sibel, who tries to defend his party leader Gandhi through out the film from Election Commission for her Merchant Of Death remark, although every other character is being over shadowed by the awesome performance by the Hero.

The story line is very good, but there are two confusions at the end of the movie, 1) Did the hero succeed because of development or because of Hindutva or because of the mixture of the two and 2) Are the senior BJP leaders happy or sad at the hero’s success. The Director promises there will be a sequel to the movie in few years time with the base place being changed from Gujarat to India, but before that film he has to clarify these confusions.


2) Right Combination:

Stars: Mayawati.

Yet another masala movie similar to that of “Merchant Of Death” but the lead role is played by leading heroine Mayawati. The film begins with Mayawati trying to find a right balance of caste mixture in laboratory so that she can win her elections and she finds the right combination , FC+SC. She experiments it in the elections and wins it quite comfortably. In fact she comes in almost all the scenes of the movie, that sometimes we tend to feel that she is the only character in the movie. Nevertheless we never get tired of her and a brilliant performance by her. The movie ends with she saying that the experiment will be performed in larger scale through out the country, and one has to wait and see whether she will able to give a hit that time too.


3) Indian Juggernaut:

Star: Indian cricket team.

The movie begins with the Houses of the Indian players being hit with stones after world cup debacle in West Indies and ends with the Open Bus Drive in Mumbai after Twenty 20 success. The film has everything that the average audience asks for. The climax in which the Indian team defeats the arch rival Pakistan in the final of the Twenty 20 world cup is the best climax one has seen in recent years. There are various poetic moments in the movie like the one when Yuvraj hits Broad for 6 sixes in a over after the verbal dual with Flintoff and the producer seems to have been very magnanimous in spending for the last scene of the movie where the team gets a heroic reception back home. Over all, a typical sports movie with lot of masala.

4) Neighborhood chaos:

Star: Benazir Bhutto, Nawaz Sherrrif, Musharaff.

A tragedy movie with the base in Pakistan, the film has bombing scenes once in every five minutes. The movie begins with the Benazir Bhutto, the heroine giving a TV interview where she says, she doesn’t fear death, and ends in her funeral. In the tragic script with very high violence, the director tried to introduce few comedy scenes towards the end of the movie, when the Pakistan Government said that Bhutto died because her head hit some part of her car, but it looked very artificial. Nawaz Sheriff performed his character role superbly, although when he cried so naturally after Bhutto’s death, no one was sure whether it was because of her death or for the fear for his own safety.

5) Who Killed Him?

Star: Bob Woolmer, Jamaican Police, Pakistani Cricket team.

A thriller inter woven with cricket world cup, with the Jamaican beauty in the back ground. With good screen play, this could have been a block buster movie of the year. When Pakistan team lost to Ireland and few days later Pakistani Coach dies, every one in the theatre sits up expecting a brilliant movie. But sadly the directors ideas seemed to run out after those initial scenes, and at the end of the movie , no one including the director seems to have any idea as to who was the culprit. The Jamaican police played the major comedy role, giving one reason every day for Bob's death. Through out the movie, no one has any idea whether the Pakistani team is an innocent or a culprit.

6) Deal, Deal:

Star: Manmohan Singh, Communists

A super hit comedy film of the year. The greatness of the movie lies in that there is no story. There is some thing called nuclear deal, which the director does not explain what to the audience through out the movie, either because he feels they will not understand or because he himself did not understood it. Through out the movie, Manmohan singh wants the deal to be signed and the communists does not want it to be signed. Director maintains a delicate balance and no one really finds out whether they are friends or enemies till the movie ends. But together they run a company called Indian Government and third character called BJP looks in anticipation when ever they fight hoping that their company will collapse, so that they could get the company but unfortunately they end up dejected at the end of the movie. No one knows what happened in the end of the movie, but the comedy played by the communists in the movie is appreciated widely by every one and people just went to the film to relax after the hectic day at office.

7) Karnataka thamasha:

Star: Devagowda, Kumaraswamy.

Yet another comedy movie. In contrast to the previous movie, there was a story in this movie, but it was too complicated that no one understood it a bit. Nevertheless the movie was single handedly supported by the comedy actor Mr. DewaGowda. His son Kumaraswmay also tried to play his part in the comedy, but he was no match to his experienced father. Father – Son show saved the movie from being utter flop.

8) Nandhigram Killings:

Star: Budhadev, Mamta Banarjee

The movie was a interesting tussle between Budhadev and Mamata set up in Nandigram. No one until the end of the movie could find out who was the hero or the villain, and the director needs to be congratulated for maintaining the suspense. But the movie had lot of violent scenes, with the record number of rape scenes too, and bit of comedy too with communists wearing police dress during the mid part of the movie.

9) Doctor treatment:

Star: Ramadoss, Karunanithi

The film is set in Tamil Nadu, and Ramadoss played the role of a comedy hero who opposes any scheme brought by the CM Karunanithi. The climax of the movie sees a brilliant verbal fight between Arcot Veeraswamy , Karuna’s associate and Ramadoss. Ramdoss’s son Dr.Anbumani also chipped in with his comedy role.


10) The Great Family War:

Star: Karunanithi, Azlagiri, Maran brothers.

A family sentimental movie. The movie begins with the entire Karunanithi’s family happily singing a family song. But soon the problem begins. With Maran brothers trying to gain popularity over Karunanithi’s sons, ever violent Azalagiri turns even more violent. With Madurai literally burning, Karunanithi feels his sons are more important to him than his niece’s sons. As a result serious of highly sentimental scenes follow , and the film ends up with the Dayanithi Maran losing ministry and Kalainjar TV being launched. Best sentimental movie of the year.