BILLU BARBER

This was a nice movie, but it could have been a lot better. I’m sure many figured it was an SRK movie, because all the promotion seemed to point to it. I loved the soundtrack, but at least two of SRK’s songs needed to be cut to make for a better film. Love Mera Hit Hit should have been chopped (even though I absolutely love the song) and Ae Aa O should have been shortened. There should have been more concentration on Irrfan Khan’s character, and less of SRK’s. Still it was a good film.

Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars

DHAN DHANA DHAN GOAL

Watching this wasn’t my decision. My mother seems to randomly set movies to record from the satellite, and for some reason she set this one to record. I was sitting here, so I watched. It’s really an awful film. They seemed to want to go the Chak De India route, but couldn’t quite get there. It’s predictable, it’s bad acting all around (surprisingly bad performances from Arshad Warsi and Boman Irani. It’s understandable from John and Bips). And the ending was just ridiculous.

Rating: 1 out of 5 stars

A WEDNESDAY

I heard so many good things about this one, and it was everywhere in the Filmfare nominations. And it’s a tight, slick, short film that’s very good. I have a few problems here and there, especially with how ethical the ending really is, but it’s so much better than some of the junk we’ve been getting from Bollywood lately. Though so many movies seem to be about terrorism, I’d like a serious film that doesn’t have to deal with that subject. Naseeruddin Shah and Anupam Kher are top notch. Jimmy is good too, can’t wait to see him in MNIK, he’s really a good actor it seems.

Rating: 4 out of 5 stars