varghesejunior Yakeen is a short but thrilling film that is definitely worth a watch.Story is about a accident-recovering amnesic man who tries to piece things together to know about his life, but soon realizes that people are not what they seem, and must go further to find skeletons in the closet.The storyline is good, acting is good on part of all actors, music is melodious, cinematography is good, locales of Shimla are breathtaking,the film is not draggy but quite fast, with a mixture of music and melodrama in between. The film also depicts the consequences of extra marital affairs.The bad is some stuff in some of the songs, that was unnecessary, but that's not too bad. Also there are a few unexplained things and flaws in the film.All in all, worth a watch.

desipunk80 Timepass. Yakeen is good for 2 hrs of that and nothing else. Esp if you (like me) are tired of all the 'new-age', 'different Hindi movies like Bluffmaster etc., and just want a break. This is an old-style whodunit that works even though the suspense is pretty obvious, because the motives are unclear till the end, and twists and turns are put in at the right intervals.The story starts on a hospital bed, where Nikhil (Arjun Rampal) is having reconstructive facial surgery after having survived a horrible accident. Surgery is successful, with one catch: he cannot remember anything about his past except a nightmarish glimpse of his car crashing into a cliff. He finds out that he's a successful architect with an awesome bungalow and a loving wife Simar (Priyanka). On the surface, everything seems to be rosy. But something about his unresolved past keeps gnawing at him. Will he be able to resolve his amnesia? What will be the result? That's basically what Yakeen is all about.Stories like this have been attempted before in Hindi cinema, albeit sporadically. So most of the content remains somewhat predictable, at least until the last 20 minutes. Performances are good all around. Arjun Rampal has got a great voice and he uses it to good effect. This is one actor that seems to have all the right tools, but somehow that star appeal is missing. Priyanka looks sexy and acts reasonably well, although (spoiler) toward the end her role gets to be somewhat of a repeat of Aitraaz. Sudhanshu Pandey is likable in his brief appearance, as is the dependable Saurabh Shukla. Girish Dhamija's direction is tight, and the dialogues are out of real life.This is one of Himesh's pre Aashiq Banaya Aapne albums, which is a good thing, as the soundtrack is melody focused, with a plethora of soothing romantic tunes, among which 'Meri Aakho mein' and Bhoolna Nahi stand out. All in all, watch this on DVD with low expectations, and you'll be entertained.

shahkaal The film was a well-made and well-acted film noir - very good editing and cinematography, competently subtitled, well acted and directed, and extremely well-paced for s suspense thriller - as long as one forwards all the songs.+++SPOILER ALERT+++ Screenplay writer Vikram Bhatt did not lift the script from the early 90's film "Shattered" - it just coincidentally turned out to be a scene to scene duplicate. Bhatt went back in time and wrote the script before the writer of Shattered wrote his version. Nobody to date has noticed or claimed that the script was plaigarized - because it was not. Bhatt is an original writer and this film is not plaigarized. There was no such film as Shattered.

Sherazade Arjun Rampal and Priyanka Chopra sizzle in this suspense thriller about a man who can't understand the very essence of himself following a nearly fatal accident. Upon returning home with his wife played by Chopra to recuperate, he (Rampal) finds himself lashing out at odd occurrences, not recognizing other people or himself and more shockingly, he stumbles upon lewd pictures of his having an affair. With this, he gets in over his head that there is a case to be solved and so he enlist a private detective as well as the help of his best-friend (played by Kim Sharma) to try and get to the bottom of things. The whole story begins to unravel when he catches his wife impersonating a man who is supposed to be dead and when his best-friend turns up dead, he suspects foul play and the plot intensifies leading to a very shockingly unbelievable ending! Unbelievable in the sense that you wouldn't believe that a woman could go that far to prove her so-called love, or cover up her crime!