Film Noire : Is it the Next Trend ?

The first teaser promo of Yashraj's Latest flick - Tashan is out now and from the rushes it looks like that the film would be a pure hardcore action flick and would have completely different styling for all the lead stars ( Akshay,Saif,Kareena & Anil) . The teaser has nothing but just an introduction of the star-cast and background score of a typical action flick . The trailer ends with a dialogue by Anil who appears to be the bad guy which goes something like this in crude english : " Firsht Impression ish the lasht impression ".

The Tag-line of the film is " The Ishtyle... The Goodluck... The Pharmoola " which kinda makes me think that this one would be also an attempt to a new genre for Bollywood - Film Noir . The graphics for the title are also like any typical Neo-Noir film .The recent flick which did this was Sriram Raghwan's "Johnny Gaddar" . The movie did quite well and got great reviews .

For Akshay it is back to basics time since this one is not comedy and is his first love Action . For Kareena it is a new arena since she has never done an action flick before . I am sure she would leave her different mark among all the other greats . For Anil this one would be a kinda nostalgia since he himself comes from dharavi where bad guys are regulation and abusing on screen wouldn't be a problem for him . Kareena would have also learnt one or two more (after Jab We Met )from them . Saif would be the Playboy for sure apart from Akshay . Well enough guessing work , I hope the new guy Vijay Krishna Acharya does his job well of Direction and matches Sriram's Vision.

Vijay has earlier written screenplay for both the Dhooms and also written Dialogues for Mani Ratnam's GURU . The Yashraj Banner would certainly not compromise on the Action sequences but of late there Scripts have been quite weak apart from Chak De which was brilliant . Expectations would be running high from Aditya for Vijay .

Bollywood is searching for new scripts and genre and Film Noir genre promises to hold all the attractive ingredients . It has all the Dialogue-Baaji and the Beatiful Girls which are enough to attract the audience not to forget the Action and cheap one liners . The production houses today want to rake in the moolah and they can make any kind of cinema to do it . Looks like the Neo-Noir would be the next insect that would bite the bollywood producers .

MANORAMA -- Six Feet Under

As they say pleasure always comes in small packages . So true for this movie , a very little publicised and hyped movie but a must watch for movie lovers . For me it is a great suspense thriller that has released after a long time . The movie for a change is not based in a metro but instead it is based in a small town of Rajasthan . The cinematography is Top notch for the movie bringing out the true beauty of Rajasthan .

Now talking about the script the movie revolves around a novel writer who writes a detective novel which gets flop . He gets a detective job considering there being no Detective agency in small town by a mysterious women who asks him to spy on the Minister of the state . Then starts the series of events in which the lead actor ( Abhay Deol ) gets entangled in a Power Game and is being trapped by the Minister ( Kulbhushan Kharbanda ) . The movie has a lot of suspense and twists hence I am not disclosing any details of the story .

Abhay fits perfectly in the role of Writer " Satyaveer ".

He is a brilliant actor & in fact quite lucky also . I say so bcoz he always got Movies in which there was a good story . Gul Panag makes a come back on big screen and plays the role of his wife well . Then there is Raima Sen who is also brilliant in her performance. The background score of the movie is also great with not even a single sound being missed . The two songs which are there in the movie suits the situation . I forgot to mention Vinay Pathak who plays a Police Inspector in the movie and as usual pulls it off very well . He should get better roles in which he could show his limits . His performance stands out very well among others .

The director Navdeep Singh does a fine job and should receive an applause . It is really a very Brave Attempt and comes out really well . The last suspense movie that I saw " NAQAAB " being " UTTER CRAP " I would like to say that we don't always need a Director Duo & an " Inspired " Script to make a good suspense Thriller .

The Movie gets Three Stars - - *** from my side & I would recommend it . It is a must watch especially for people who like Suspense Thrillers .