yunusitboss New movie Reviews and lots more Hot news .... LIKE THIS PAGE : English Hindi TAMIL TELUGU Facebook : Movie Review by Yunus Irshad https://www.facebook.com/YunusIrshadsMovieReviewCalendar Girls (A) Hindi -------------- my Rating: ★★★ MILD HOT STRENGTHS:- * Second half and some reality elements * Perfect casting of models * Some good performances by nazdeen.... WEAKNESSES:- * Madhur's same formula..... * First half was really boring..... FINAL VERDICT:- * Overall.. it is a adult reality movie which portrays the struggle of calendar girls in the fashion industry. Just watch it once the girls will drove you with their sexy and hotness avatars.... A story of a girl who came from a village to get stardom in the fashion industry. What happens next when she is surrounded by obstacles? Director: Madhur Bhandarkar Writers: Madhur Bhandarkar (screenplay), Abhiruchi Chand (screenplay), 2 more credits » Stars: Akanksha Puri, Avani Modi, Kyra Dutt | See full cast and crew »

silvan-desouza Madhur Bandarkar joined bollywood with a flop Trishakti which starred Arshad Warsi, Sharad Kapoor, released in 1999 after being launched in 1996 when the stars were not happening. 2 years later he returned with Chandni Bar which was a success and got critical acclaim too. The film also is remembered as Tabu's one of the best films and performances too. Madhur then gave us Satta(2003) which didn't do too well but got acclaim especially for Raveena. In between he gave us the commercial dud AAN MEN AT WORK(2004) and then CORPORATE,TRAFFIC SIGNAL, FASHION all got success and acclaim, the latter one the most successful and got Kangana a national award. Sadly post that Madhur's career went through a downhill. Starting from DIL TO BACHCHA HAI JI which was a somewhat different film and it failed at the B.O despite having Ajay Devgn,Emraan Hashmi and then he came back to his comfort(repetitive) zone with Heroine which was a bomb. Calender Girls too falls in the same bracket like most of his films, exposing the industry, carricatures, highs and lows.etc he does show us reality but it's mostly seen before and nothing anymore shocking. Also the film doesn't convince at places, especially through the lows of the actresses. The film seems like a collage of sex scenes and girls wearing short clothes and the same clichéd situationsDirection is decent but Madhur needs to change his style Music is okayAmongst the new faces,Akanshka Puri, Avani Modi, Kyra Dutt,Ruhi Singh,Satarupa all are okay, none great actresses which does curtail the impact Keith Sequeira is decent in his role,Suhel Seth as Vijay Malya is good Rohit Roy as usual after Fashion and Heroine has a cameo Kiran Kumar is good in his role. Rushad Rana is okay,The film has a cameo of Madhur Bandarkar playing himself and he is nothing great

Preet Sharma CALANDER GIRLS - One of the best movies I've seen so far. A story that really touches you from insideThe story starts with five different girls hailing from five different locations who get selected as Calendar Girls. Right from the first scene the story gets interesting and starts attracting the interest of viewers.As the story continues few of these girls fall victim of situations and people's plotting. It is required to say that all the girls have done a fabulous job and have done full justice to their roles. The acting really seems natural and classy though the girls are debutants for the Bollywood films.The screenplay is a masterpiece, all the five stories are well woven and connected to each other that you'll be eagerly waiting for the next happenings. You'll never feel bored throughout the story and they will keep you stuck to the seats till the climax.Avani Modi as Nazneen Malik(Pakistani girl) and Kyra Dutt as Sharen Pinto have done fantabulous acting. In fact Nazneen's character made us emotional and we were forced to cry when she dies in the end. The story completely touches the heart and we feel a sort of emotional bonding with it.The film contains the reality angles as Match fixing, Escorting, Royal Family secret revelations, Anti Pakistani approach of people etc. which ate very well shown in such small duration of just 2 hours 11 Mins.Direction is superb as always by Madhur Bhandarkar and the background score is really touchy. The music of film is highly appreciable and each song is well composed according to situations and mood. The best numbers are 'Khwaishein' and 'Awesome Mora Mahiya'.The climax is very well executed and sums up the drama appropriately. MY RECOMMENDATION - The movie is a must watch for all sort of adult audience and you'll really feel that the money spent for it is too less as compared to the masterpiece you'll get to watch. Such kinds of movies should be encouraged and required to be made to keep the standard of Bollywood storytelling really high.My rating 10/10.

Anup APu Kumar CALENDAR GIRLS - Honestly i was not expecting much of anything from Calendar Girls and it was not in my plan to watch the movie and spent my money on it (lastly i end up watching it for free because my friend get his first job and it was a treat). After watching it i can say i was not that disappointed . Sometimes it good to keep your expectations really low. But that should not be the case when its a film by Madhur Bhandarkar. He is a well known director in B - Town that also for his realistic films. But in his last outings results were not so good. JAIL has been an average one and HEROIN was really boring . Although i liked DIL TO BACHACHA HEI JI , but it was not quite a kind of film which we expect from Bhandarkar. But yes FASHION was really good and also i think CORPORATE was great and only movie which show deep inside how bad a corporate world could be for a female. Unfortunately i haven't yet seen CHANDNI BAR and PAGE 3 , two more of his good movies. With Calendar Girls i can say its a small comeback from Bhandarkar. Seriously there was nothing new in the movie , its the same old story of glamour world , little bit of connected with Match Fixing and Girls turning into escorts because of their luxurious requirement . It feels too old. I mean a well educated girl can get any job . Just because she is Pakistani which is not being much appreciated in our country doesn't mean that she has to turn into a Female Escort. This one was the worst of all the five stories. But i cant explain all of them other wise i have to write twice of what i always write. Out of five stories at least three of them had the potential of being a whole movie about it , but in a short time of 2hr and 11 mins we cant get enough of them. Bhandarkar should have at least skipped two stories. But the good thing is that the flow was good. Editing has being really nice. Boring scenes or melodrama has been totally avoided (which actually made HEROIN such a boring experience). So its like you will never get bored of it , neither you will get much of any excitement in it. It has been said that the story of the Hydrabadi girl played by Akanksha Puri has been inspired from Shilpa Shetthy who leave his carrier in glamour world to marry a business man. But i didn't find anything similar in it. And also to tell the story of Shilpa Shetty , it needs a whole movie to be made on it. Among all the girls its only one girl who can really act good. And that's Kyra Dutt . And also Ruhi Singh has a potential of being a comic character. Rest three of them are just OK. Direction was good , otherwise movie could have been really bad. Songs were not chart buster but yes the glamour factor was there and at least the male audience doesn't mind a song when 5 beautiful girls are dancing together in it. One thing the movie has been constant in it and that's exposure from the girls. We even see a Reporter wearing Translucent Top while anchoring a Bollywood news programme. There was a good message portrait in the movie that its not the glamour world which is bad , but buts our personal choices which are bad . In the climax out of five stories 3 of then turned out to have happy ending. For a changes that was a good move by Bhandarkar.Anyways , i would expect Madhur to go up from here , and his next MADAMJI is with Priyanka Chopda so expectation will be higher. For the time being i cant say that i will recommend anybody to see Calendar Girls , you can skip it or you can watch it , in either case its not a bad decision. 6/10. By ANuP APu KuMaR.