Players (2012)

The first major release of 2012 is another heist movie involving players having different talents. Gold worth about 10000 crores is the target and a train moving from Russia to Romania is the carrier. All the cliches like prosthetic masks, technical gimmicks, explosions, chases, stunts, illusion etc etc are there in this too. The biggest take home is the uninhibited leg/thigh show by the girls in the movie.

Hits

• Top notch production values - exotic locales, helicopter shots, decent VFX, nice stunts, rich look etc etc
• Neil Nitin Mukesh is the only actor who impresses
• The girls in the movie - Bipasha and Sonam have forgotten their bottoms. Uninhibited leg/thigh show. Too hot and it's totally worth the 10rs ticket. Sonam Kapoor's legs are something else. There is another lady in the movie who almost bares it 'all'. The camera has feasted and the guys like us feasted on the 'leg' treat too. Lovers of cleavage won't be disappointed too. Sonam and Bipasha have revealed whatever they have on top too. 
• Good sight seeing for the meager ticket amount. Auckland, Wellington, Russia etc. You name it. They got it. 

Misses

• Painfully long
• Very weak star cast
• The twists are predictable and expected too. 
• The chase sequences in the climax incite good laughs
• Pathetic songs. 
• Abhishek Bachchan, Bobby Deol, Aftab etc. A bunch of losers. How can a movie featuring this trio run? 
• The heist genre has been beaten to death. Chuck it guys. 

VERDICT

Worth spending 10rs. The girls in the movie have put on a skin fest. Good sight seeing too. 

Mausam (2011)

The Plot
The film is basically a love story between a Punjabi boy Harinder Singh aka Harry and a Muslim girl Aayath. It starts in 1992 and finally meets a happy ending in 2002. Their love travels from the Punjabi village Mallugat to Scotland and back to India at Ahmadabad.

Their love has many hurdles in the form of the Babri Masjid riots in 92, the Kargil war in 99 and the final Gujarat riots in 2002.

Harry's duties as an IAF pilot are also a reason for the delay in the happy ending. But after some major drama in the climax due to the Gujarat riots, the lovers unite and live happily ever after.

Hits

• Shahid Kapoor is the rock of the film. The various transitions from the young village boy to the young pilot to the final mature look, are all perfect. He emotes very well and looks like a million bucks as always.
• The cinematography is the next major plus. Be it the pristine locales of Punjab or the Scottish locations, they are extremely pleasing to the eye.
• The initial scenes in the Punjabi village where the love blossoms are light hearted and entertaining. Then, the scene in the Scotland train where Shahid madly searches for Sonam is another thrilling highlight amid the total bore. 
• Among Pritam's melodies, 'Rabba' is very pleasing to the ears. 

Comments

• Sonam Kapoor is plastic and fake. She doesn't know to act and has one or two standard expressions. Looks pretty and elegant at places.

Misses

• Extremely slow moving and boring at many places
• The editing by Sreekar Prasad is a major letdown. 
• We expect at-least the war scenes in the fighter aircraft to have some fizz. But, that too goes bust. 

VERDICT

A flop in the making. Shahid Kapoor is the lone reason to check out this long drawn out love story.