2012 Taiwan Excellence “SmarTEST!” whirls huge across Asia

The Taiwan Excellence Campaign is back with a focus to create excellent lifestyles in India. And this time
they are taking you to Taiwan.

A creative and fun campaign across the four emerging markets- Indonesia, India, Vietnam, and Mainland
China, The SmarTEST! 2012 campaign aims to outstand those most street-smart and the most creative
minds, and offers the contestants cash and prizes totaling USD 100,000, the highest ever in Asia!

Just a heads up on the contest:
Top ten contestants from each country will proceed to the next round of challenges, which will be
conducted in August. The contestants will be required to perform a series of tasks, using a variety of
Taiwan Excellence products. To be the smartest winner, contestants may ask for assistance from all their
possible social networks to survive from the elimination. The winner will be decided basis the number of
votes received in support of each contestant. The winner will then choose any two people to constitute
a team that will represent their country and compete against the winning teams from the other three
countries in the finals to be conducted in Taiwan in October 2012. At the final stage, the cross-regional
final winner will receive cash award of USD 35,000 and an armful of premium products sponsored by
Taiwan Excellence brand partners.

The top 7 elites from India are Asif Khan Yusufzai from New Delhi, Sahil Khanna from New Delhi, Gaurav
Mittal from New Delhi, Mohsin Ahmed Batla from New Delhi, Tarun Miglani from New Delhi, Siddharth
Mukund from Lucknow, and Susanta Saren from Jamshedpur.

But this year The Committee has decided to reward the smartest, innovative and most diligent voter
with an all expense paid trip to Taiwan. While this may seem simple, you have to fight it out with some
50,000 plus facebook fans. After all opportunities like these don’t arise daily. And from what is heard
and seen, there is stiff competition on the page already. But no worries, remember that just the first
task has ended. You’ve got another 7 challenges left. So don’t sit here reading this, like the Facebook
page and start voting: www.2012smartest.com | https://www.facebook.com/taiwanexcellence.in |
Twitter@TaiwanExcellent!

Another thing, they’ve got Maliaka Arora Khan as their Taiwan Excellence Celebrity Endorser of Taiwan.
Nothing more needs to be said!

The King and The Commissioner

Location - Kulraj Broadway, Bhandup (Mumbai)

Theatre Status - 40%


1st Half

The movie started off well where Pakistan military enters to India for a mission of destruction which is found by a senior analyst of Intelligence bureau. Nedumedi venu who is the chief in-charge who tries to pass this message to top people gets killed along with analyst . Then the search continues Why they got killed? Whats the motive behind their killing. Janardhan who act as G.K the Central Minister calls Joseph Alex  THE KING (Mammootty) to search out regarding the investigation of the case. Mammootty entry start up with hard core dialogues against the press media and Devan. The story goes on well with lots of twist and turn and at every loop hole their is a murder mystrey and destroy of evidence. Sai kumar who is acting as the Swami jee has shown the cruel face behind him showing the lust for the money. Jayan cherthala who wants to be next prime minister join hands with swami jee. Almost for an hour later  happens the grant entry of Bharath Chandran  The Commissioner (Suresh Gopi) with his power punch dialogues. Both King and Commissioner join hands together to search the loop hole of the investigation. The action sequence in the Boxing ring was quite over and unneeded in the movie. Till interval the movie had good hard hitting dialogues and had some good expectation from the movie.

2nd Half

As the first half was good the movie dragged in second half. The story was going somewhere and feels like boring. The movie was totally based on dialogues where Alex joseph gives punching reply to Jayan cherthala just like that Bharath Chandran giving hard hitting dialogues to Swami jee. The Pakistan terror was their only to kill people, its sad that they didn't have any dialogues and just make entry to shoot or kill the people. The ending was a predictable the win over the evil and justice to the nation. Last action scenes didnt have any goosebumps as we had in The King movie or The Commissioner movie. Same old dialogues repeated again in the end which we have seen before also. I expected a suspense at the end of the movie but nothing was their.

Acting wise Mammootty and Suresh gopi has done a great job but somewhere Suresh gopi have overshadowed mammootty in the movie. Sai Kumar as the Swami jee is no where to Narendra prasad. Sometimes you feel that he is doing a bit over acting. Jayan Cherthala has done a good job with his dialogues and with his get up also. Devan as usual had done a nice job. Good supporting by Janardanan, Nedumudi venu, Mohan Agashe and P. Sreekumar. Samvritha sunil is just wasted in the movie.


Direction by Shaji Kailas disappoints again. Shaji kailas and Renji Penicker have given more concentration on the dialogues rather then on the script. If the movie had a good script then surely it would have  gone to next level.


Rating - 5/10(Just an Average flick)

Agent Vinod

Theater Status - 40%

1st Half

We always love to watch Hollywood Spy action movies like James Bond,
Mission Impossible etc. so if some one tries to make such movies in Bollywood we have lots of expectation in areas like action, dialogues, romance with girls and all. Agent Vinod had everything of these but lacked a good script. Movie starts with full of action in Afghanistan then starts a secret mission in russia for Vinod regarding the a nuclear bomb which is provided by his friend Rajan (Ravi kishan) that can destroy a full city. In every ten minutes their is twist and turn and you get excited as the movie goes on well. The code book of the bomb reaches in the hand of some Rich Evil hands like Prem Chopra. Ruby (Kareena Kapoor) who work as a doctor under prem chopra has a sad secret pass gets involve with vinod to search out for the book. Ram kapoor has a small role as negative character and has done his role well.
Till interval it was good.


2nd half

As the movie has the pace in first part it dragged in second half. It was like traveling from one country to another and from their to another and it goes. The Bomb was traveling to different location. The main theme was Pakistan involvement in the case. Then kareena involvement of the case. Every 5 minute their was some one death. At the end how saif ali khan tackle the situation when terror try to destroy New Delhi with the nuclear attack and search for the main person who involved in this terrorism.

Acting wish saif ali khan has done ha good job somewhere his dialogues were not that great. Kareena has a notable role. Adhil Hussain as Colonel has done a nice job. Gulshan grover has very little to do.

The songs were Ok. You will love the mujra song and specially kareena as she looks nice in that get up.
Background sound was too loud. I think director has given more time to background sound of shooting and  action then the script.

After giving a nice movie like Johnny Gaddar and Ek Hassena Thi, Director Sriram Raghavan disappoints this time. If he could have made a better second half the movie could have been hit.

Overall Verdict - 5/10 (A one time watchable)

Kahaani

Movie - Kahaani


Location - Huma Mall, KanjurMarg, Mumbai


Theatre Status - 60%


1st Half

A story of a pregnant woman who comes to Calcutta from London to search her missing husband. She gets a help from a police officer who always be with her in every situation. Where-ever she goes to get the information about his husband nobody identifies about him. Whatever clue she gets from a particular person about her husband, they are brutally killed. Every minute of the movie gets in to new twist. Just before the interval its really heart breaking moments.


2nd Half

The search goes on but this time not her husband but a Killer who has similarity look of his husband. The Investigation bureau  wants to grab this killer anyhow and they try to help her in investigation. But its not easy to grab him as big bureaucracy are behind this who are helping him from inside system only. The climax scene is so much of twist that's you cant judge that this would have been the ending just breathtaking suspense.

Vidya Balan is the hero of the movie. Their is Khans, Kapoor, Kumar, Roshan in the bollywood and we can now add Balan also in the list. She can make a movie blockbuster not just on her name but due to her super powerful acting. Any appreciation about her acting is less. Parambrata Chattopadhyay has done justice to his role. He is the once to watch out for. Rest of all characters has done their role superbly.

After making a nice movie like Jhankar beats and then a pathetic movie like Aladdin, Sujoy Ghosh is back with a bang. Wonderful direction by him. Well picturised and calcutta locations is shown superbly.

Music by Vishal-Shekar is nice.

No negativity for the movie.

Rating - 8.5/10 (A Must Watch movie)

Paan Singh Tomar

Huma Mall, Mumbai

Status - 60%

A real life story of UNSUNG hero who died in the encounter on October21, 1981. Paan Singh was a small town lad who went on to win the steeplechase at the Indian National Games for seven consecutive years. First Half of the movie is full of about Paan singh works who as a Army but his running ability takes him to next level and then he becomes a sportsperson from national level to international level. Second Half is all about family war and disrespect towards sports and the reason Paan Singh becomes a Dacoit. The director Tigmanshu Dhulia has done lots of reasearch on Paan Singh and that hard work is shown in the movie. Marvelous directing. Hats off to him to make such a brilliant movie.

Acting wise Irfan Khan just steals the show. His dialogue delivery, acting, action, expression were so perfect as if we will feel he was not acting he was living in that character. A standing obsession for him. He deserves a national award. He is a natural actor for sure.

Mahie Gill,  Vipin Sharma and all other characters have done their role nicely.

The movie doesn't have any songs but that was OK but it has good background music.

I don't have any negativity about the movie.

Verdict - 8.5/10 (A must watch)

AGNEEPATH

Location - RCITY(Ghatkopar), Mumbai

Status - 100%


1st Half
Didnt have much expectations with this movie as AmitabhBachan as original VIJAY was outstanding in Agneepath with superb acting Mithun. But the movie was too good with content remaining the same but given different style for the movie. You fight for the good of the village but their are devils who always want to have super power and rule and good people gets dominated. To beat the that devil someone have to fight with guts thats the theme. Perfect starting with awesome dialogues. But the interesting part was RISHI KAPOOR in first half he was too good in the movie. KANCHA(SanjayDutt) was the monster in the first half. Hrithik action and emotion scene are well showned in the movie. Priyanka chopra Dialogues was good. Songs were Ok. Till interval it was breath taking.

2nd Half

Wht to say abt rishi kapoor his acting was simply superb. He dominated Hrithik and Sanjay also. The way he kidnapped Hrithik Sister and do stuff was brilliant. Then Chikni Chameli song uff HOT HOT HOT . But the movie started dragging some what.
The climax was good but was quite over action scenes. Some emotion scenes were shown well. Love for his mother, love for his sister, revenge for his father killer all is well done by hrithik. Sanjay does waht he looks superb acting. Om puri has carrried his role well.

Positive
Hrithik
Sanjay Dutt
RishiKapoor
storyline with different style
chikni chameli
all others have acted well

Negative
2nd half quite dragging
Verdict - 7/10(Will be Superhit)