dwpollar 1st watched 1/30/2010 – 4 out of 10 (Dir-Raj Kumar Gupta): Fair thriller with good soundtrack but typical American-like terrorist theme played out very much like a lot of Hollywood output in this genre. They story is basically about a seemingly innocent Indian native who is returning to his homeland from England to continue his practices locally because of more stringent requirements on foreigners(as far as I could understand). He is thrown a cell phone by some motorbike riders and given instructions to follow or his family will be harmed. Of course, he wants to know who's behind this and what it's all about but the abductors won't give him the info right away. He eventually finds out they're a part of a Muslim extremist group that wants to start a holy war(and it's followers appear to be everywhere and know everything about him) and they choose him for some reason to help them. The movie follows the typical good-guy manipulated by bad-guy motif and then tries to end with making us think about our moral choices. I won't give away the ending but basically he has to decide if his life is more important than strangers' lives in an excruciatingly long final scene. The soundtrack was the best part of this movie and otherwise it was a typical Hollywood-like thriller that Bollywood shouldn't be trying to imitate – in my opinion.

Raafat Khan Aamir is a nice film and can be seen although the subject is inspired of 2005 released Cavite . The title is played by Rajeev Khandelwal, and watching him on small screen i always doubted him but his performance did astonished me. And I was glad this guy could really act too. He was perfect with the emotions part, since he didn't had more dialogs he expressions for portraying the emotions were really good. But what lacked is his voice, I believe if he has a bit heavy voice he can surely do wonders. Coz when you see him in the film in scenes where he's suppose to be agitated and angry and whenever he shouts, the expression were OK but his voice is so low pitched that it just didn't faired the moment completely. Nevertheless, when I expected nothing from him. He certainly gave me a pleasant surprise.

Ornis Ahmed A Masterpiece showing a reality of old Bombay at present, a small budget movie with great significant of present issues photography was excellent by Alphonso Roy, A great effort from rising star of film industry"Rajiv Khandelwal" sure he'll going to have rocking future like S.R.K. If we put ourselves in the character then we will realize the psychology of the maker & excellent story with a power punch to think Aamir=Leader title is perfect beyond the politics Watch it at any cost. the life of the people in Mumbai-3 is being well portrayed the locations were all real no sets at all. filming was done in a short period of time

Raj Doctor So much is said about Aamir – the movie - by most critics that I was very eager to see this movie. The movie surely has an interesting theme, very rarely presented and seen in Bollywood.Aamir Ali (Rajeev Khandelwal) – a doctor, returns from UK to India. He faces religious discrimination at the airport and when out of the airport is drawn into a web – when he knows that his family is kidnapped by some Muslim extremist, who want Aamir to run from one place to another in Bombay and end it up by planting bomb on a crowded bus. Will Aamir plant the bomb to save his family? Or will he save the people in the bus? Will he take revenge? Will be fight the Muslim extremist and kill them? I won't tell you the ending and leave it to you to see it.This is a very good effort by the first time director Raj Kumar Gupta, who has also written the movie. He has maintained the tempo and pace of the movie until the end. There are lots of other characters who come and go but Rajeev Khandelwal as the main protagonist has done a great job in enacting the role of the educated Muslim youth.The technique of the movie is good and reminds us of some Hollywood style movies. But, does the movie really satisfy you? I would say NO.The reasons are – first, the protagonist behaves like a stupid and an idiot from the first scene onwards when he is so unaware of his baggage, or while catching the mobile thrown at him, or replying the mobile when he knows his luggage is driven away in the car. He continues being foolish throughout the movie except the last scene, where he smiles and does not reply the mobile ring. A thing he should have done in the first place, in the first scene.Second, Indian Muslim issues are portrayed from a terrorist viewpoint. All issues though true loose substance and become flimsy because of that. There are also many other causes and reasons (local, national and international, economic) for terrorizing Bombay. Drama looses credibility.Third, there are annoying scenes – especially the one with the prostitute, or the joke scene in the hotel and the fight scene of hero.The best part is the way the life of Bombay is capture on the celluloid. It is brilliant – especially the dark lanes and chawls. The music is okay and some songs are good and hummable.Raj Kumar Gupta has done good job for his first movie, but the movie could have had been much better. Let's see if the director is a one film wonder or has some potential to surface again with another interesting theme.(Stars 6 out of 10) and an above average rating.