Reviews

Pros Great acting Star cast powerful dialogues

Cons Weak script Especially the coincidence of five family members who are lost from each other meeting each other so frequently was quite funny. Moreover only one villain (Amjad Khan) vs three heroes (Raaj Kumar, Rajesh Khanna and Jeetendra) was also unbalanced.

Meri Bhabhi is a simple loving movie. There are also a few other Bollywood movies on the same topic. However this is one is good in a way that it is well directed, well acted and seems natural. All the main cast worked well with Sunil Dutt winning the crowd. Waheeda Rehman was subtle and classic as ever. Kamini Kaushal in the role of "Bhabhi" worked fine. Lalita Pawar and Kanhaiyalal also did well in negative roles. Aruna Irani has a short but cute role. And last, but not the least, Mehmood, really made me laugh. The film is rural based that also I like a lot. A green Himalayan Village. It might have been in Uttar Anchal near Dehradun. Locations were excellent and the sky almost every time was full blue. Music was as per story and some songs were enjoyable. The story revolves around Rajoo and his Bhabhi. His Bhabhi, even after fourteen years of her marriage, is without a child and loves Rajoo as her child. When Rajoo marries Maya, she gets pregnant very soon. And coincidently Shanti, Rajoo's Bhabhi, also gets pregnant. Unfortunately during her last days, Shanti falls from stairs and gets injured. Her child gets wasted. On the same day, Maya is in hospital to deliver her child. She gets a baby boy. Rajoo decides to give the boy to his Bhabhi while she is still unconscious in order to save her life. Maya first disagrees but then she also gets convinced. So, when Shanti awakens, she finds a child near her bed and Rajoo tells her that this is her child. And that Maya gave birth to a dead child. After that their lives get complicated with the advent of Gangajali, Shanti's mother and eventually Rajoo and Maya are to leave that house. What happens next, u can watch the movie...

This is an awful movie. The scenes and dialogues both are quite below average. I respect Nagesh Kukunoor for 3 Deewarein and Iqbal, but this movie cannot be compared to them. The script seems to be written in quite haste. Although the first 30 minutes or so kept my interest in the movie but it was difficult to keep eyes on the screen after assault on Jai's mother. I also do not agree with Jeet's philosophy that he kills his father, mother and almost his brother just for the sake of money and moreover he did not give any time to them to justify themselves. And what a horrible character Ayesha Takia had. After knowing what happened to Jeet and also in picture of what Jeet's family think about him, she did not make any attempt to unify them. Javed Jaffery's character was also quite unimpressive. I do not understand why a beautiful girl like that medical assistant would fall for him. All in all I did not like the movie. May be because almost all thrillers of Hollywood are more or less the same type and I was expecting something special from a talented man like Nagesh Kukunoor.

Lets review the movie again. All goes a little O.K. until Doctor Gosai goes to jail. Now comes the problem. I am unable to understand why there was not even a single attempt made by him to prove himself innocent and by the way, when he signed the clearance of vaccines, why did not he go to police and tell them the truth that he has signed N.O.C. under death threat? When Tony feels guilty, why does he not himself go to court and tell that he was the one who got the papers signed from Gosai. When Vikas Patel gets a bullet in his shoulder, how can he smile in front of Tony and tell him that he was looking for him? The actions scenes were one of the worst ever made. Bobby Deol is a brilliant action hero but is wasted by poor actions. What was the action director doing? I think the finances were finished at the end of the movie and that is why its climax comes so suddenly but it was good because by that I was saved from trouble of seeing more piece of crap. Mr. Dhanoa! come on, direction is not your piece of cake. So muchhhhhhhh sillllllllyyyyy mistakes cannot be tolerated.

For viewers, skip this one for your own sake.

Pritish Nandy Communications is doing well as this is their seventh movie within a span of three years. Though this is the first movie with prominent stars otherwise only Chameli had a star like Kareena Kapoor. Getting to the movie, I think it was a nice attempt. Sanjay Dutt, Ashwariya Rai, Zayed Khan and all other actors perform their role honestly. Especially Sanjay Dutt should be given some credit as he was being seen in a different role after a long time, otherwise for the last five years, either he was seen as a comedian or a bhai (underworld man). The songs were also nice. What was unique in the movie was its script. But I do not appreciate it because ( I think) there were some flaws in it. May be the director wanted to make a sequel of the movie because the story was not complete yet as viewer do not know what happened to Yash and how Antra saves Shaukat. Another thing is where had the last page of the story gone. Was Ashwariya acting in front of Sanjay when she was weeping that Zayed has written that he was going to die? All these questions were unanswerable for me after I watched the movie.