Chandni (Hindi Language)

Advantages: Excellent acting all through
Disadvantages: Thoroughly depressing story

...The topic tackled in Chandni Bar is very brave and quite different to the regular glitz and glamour of most Bollywood films and was a major hit with cinema-goers when released in 2001. This film directed by Madhur Bhandarkar is definitely targeted at an adult audience and is rated 15. The excellent screenplay is by Mohan Azaad and the lead character Mumtaz is played by Tabu (Vijaypath, Silsillay, Hawa, Chachi 420, Tarkieb). PLOT In 1985 Mumtaz moves in with her uncle in Bombay after having lost her parents in religious riots. Arriving in Bombay though, her uncle (who seems to be a lazy so-and-so) can't find a job and another relative who's lived in Bombay for a while encourages the uncle to send Mumtaz to work at the Chandni Bar, a local adult bar, where women dance and titillate the male patrons (I guess the equivalent here... Read review

Ciao members have rated this review on average very helpful

Advantages: Funny, Good Acting, well know actors and actress
Disadvantages: quite long

...parents – especially his father. His father's every word, every wish becomes an unwritten commandment for him. One that he would never break, but unfortunately he does. Because Rahul falls in love! Rahul falls in love with Anjali (Kajol), a bubbly girl from Delhi's Chandni Chowk, who dotes on her younger sister Pooja (Kareena Kapoor) and cares madly about her ailing father Bauji (Anupam Kher). A simple girl who Rahul marries and brings home. A girl that makes a proud stubborn man forget that he is a father and reminds a son that he is adopted. Rahul decides to leave the mother who taught and encouraged him to fall in love and whose every waking moment henceforth will be spent waiting eagerly for her elder son to return home. But Rohan makes a promise to re-unite the family. Will the family reunite? Will Yash and Rahul make... Read review

Ciao members have rated this review on average somewhat helpful

Advantages: Songs, sometimes the comedy, Shahrukh
Disadvantages: Story, Some of the actions, find out more by yourself

...that the fellow students make fun of his appearance and age. So, if the hero is always humiliated, then the director always gives him a chance to regain his fame. So gets Shahrukh. In the college database, he finds out his brother’s photograph and eventually his brother gets into a trouble in the college at that very moment. So he does some superman kind of stuff and saves his brother. That brings him close to the students. Now, if hero is there, heroine is bound to come. So comes Chandni (Susmita Sen), a chemistry teacher of the same college. Major Ram at once falls in love. Don’t ask more about this Chandni character. She didn’t have enough to act. She was used as a glamour idol, that’s it. Hero and heroine are there, now the turn of the villain to come. Comes Raghaban, trying to kill Sanjana. Ram protects her by all means... Read review

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