Raqeeb had a good story line.

Raqeeb had a good story line.

Raqeeb released in 2007, had a very good storyline. The film was directed by Anurag Singh and produced by Raj Kanwar. Raqeeb in urdu means rivals.

The film revolved around the rivalry between Rahul Khanna, Sharman Joshi and Jimmy Shergill in respect of their affair with Tanushree Dutta. The story of the film had resemblance of Hollywood movie Wild Things.

Rahul Khanna was a security engineer in the film. His parents died at an early age after meeting with an accident. Sharman Joshi worked with him. Jimmy Shergill was a stage performer. Rahul Khanna met Tanushree Dutta through Sharman Joshi. Tanushree Dutta’s parents also died at an early age. She was also a loner. After having relationship between themselves for some time they married each other.

When Rahul Khanna was found dead, the suspicion fell on Jimmy Shergill who had motive of killing Rahul Khanna. Jimmy Shergill was the ex-boyfriend of Tanushree Dutta. When Jimmy Shergill came back to Tanushree Dutta’s life, their old love got rekindled.

They stopped Rahul Khanna from taking the medicine for asthma after creating mind game and he died. To the cops it appeared that the death of natural. But Rahul Khanna’s ghost haunted both Tanushree Dutta and Jimmy Shergill in the film.

Performance-wise all the actors in the film namely Rahul Khanna, Jimmy Shergill, Sharman Joshi and Tanushree Dutta did equally well. The music was composed by Pritam. It was impressive.

The film did decent business as these types of films have limited viewers.

Review of Kambakkht Ishq.

Review of Kambakkht Ishq.

Akshay Kumar and Kareena Kapoor had a lot of hope in their upcoming film Kambakkht Ishq to be released in July, 2009. Both of them required a hit film very badly as their performance in 2009 had not been worth saying.

Kambakkht Ishq had been directed by Sabbir Khan and had been produced by Sajid Nadiadwala. The main performers included Akshay Kumar, Kareena Kapoor, Jimmy Shergill, Amrita Arora, Aftab Shivdasani, Kiron Kher, Javed Jaffery and others. Even Hollywood actors like Sylvester Stalon, Denise Richards and Brendon Routh had put on guest performances and added flavor in the film. It had been a remake of the Tamil film Pammal K. Sambandan which was released in 2002.

The film was related to the story of Akshay Kumar, who was a stuntman in Hollywood films and his relationship with Kareena Kapoor who was also a firebrand lady in the film. Both of them believed in the theory that nothing like love relationship do exist between two individuals.

Both of them stuck to this belief and hated each other in the film. The hatred was reflected through a number of fact situations where one tried to win over the other. Both of them faced an encounter during Kareena Kapoor’s friend’s marriage with the brother of Akshay Kumar.

The relationship full of hatred got transformed into love relationship and the mindset got transformed. The performance of Akshay Kumar and Kareena Kapoor had been very natural. All the supporting performers including Jimmy Shergill, Kiron Kher, Aftab Shivdasani, Amrita Arora did a brilliant job.

The locations in US, had a great impact and the viewers will enjoy the scenic beauty. The music composed by Anu Malik had not been great but can balance the performances of the leading actors and actresses in the film. Besides the singers who had sung in the film including Shreya Ghoshal, Sunidhi Chauhan, KK, Shaan, Neeraj Sridhar, Alisha Chinoy will want to test their popularity in a keenly fought contest that is existing in bollywood music at this period of time.

Eros Entertainment had previously given a number of super hit films. Kambakkht Ishq has all the ingredients of a super hit film and will storm bollywood this summer.