Ladies vs Ricky Bahl
December. 09,2011 NRLadies Vs Ricky Bahl movie is a fun-filled rom-com where a smooth and charming conman, Ricky Bahl, cons girls for a living but finally meets his match. Dimple Chaddha, a brash 19 year old Delhi college girl falls in love with Sunny Singh, a fitness trainer. Raina Parulekar, a 28 year old independent and successful corporate woman in Mumbai does business with an art dealer Deven Shah. Saira Rashid, a 24 year old sweet, hard working widow in Lucknow makes a new friend, the shy Iqbal Khan. Three very different girls who each get taken for a lot of money by each of these three men. The problem is that it is actually just one man - Ricky Bahl who got the looks and he's got the charm. He could have the pick of the ladies. But love isn't Ricky's priority - money is! But a chance encounter unites the three girls and, discovering the truth, they hatch a plan to get their money back. So now unsuspecting Ricky is about to meet his match in the shapely form of Ishika Desai
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Best movie of this year hands down!
An Exercise In Nonsense
I cannot think of one single thing that I would change about this film. The acting is incomparable, the directing deft, and the writing poignantly brilliant.
By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.
This movie is strictly a pastime for it has the typical Yashraj elements-glamour, song and dance, appealing visuals, etc. Where it loses big time is in the script. The pull offs by Ranveer's character are very unimpressive and far fetched like never before. Since the movie moves sequentially, I'll try to do the same.For Parineeti, I don't get all the hype. She is no different from a typical brainless Yashraj heroine, bubbly and bimbo albeit Preity Zinta. And no, I did not find her expressionless acting to be 'cute'. For her story and character, it is as shallow as the performance, and there is nothing interesting enough here to comment.I am impressed by Dipannita Sharma, a model who can act. She gives the character exactly what it demands. But unfortunately the character is poorly written, and this one story is the most unbelievable of the three. Fooling a self made business minded woman cannot be cakewalk.Aditi Sharma is cute and also a performer. Her character's story is boring to say the least but it is her performance that makes it endearing.Last here is Anushka, who looks exotic and gives a very earnest performance. Undoubtedly, she has the central role here. I can give one star each to this movie only for these three brilliant ladies. Unfortunately, her's is another poorly scripted character with nothing beyond the ms. goodie-two-shoes.As for Ranveer, I would give a big thumbs down for his monotonous and uninvolved performance. He has great scope here to be a real charmer, but that never comes across.The music is average, but poorly fitted in with songs coming out of the blue and seeming absolutely unnecessary. The background score is offensive and irritating. The predictability of the story will make you yawn.I watched Dumb Laga Ke Haisha before this, and I can say Yashraj has truly evolved. Please don't regress to this level again.
After the successful Band Baaja Baraat, Maneesh Sharma did another film for Yashraj, starring the same pair of that film, Ranveer and Anushka with others like Parineeti Chopra who made her debut with this film, Aditi Sharma and Dipannita Sharma. Whenever filmmakers try to repeat a successful jodi, it fails many times like Dino- Bipasha after hit RAAZ were repeated in Gunaah which failed, Tusshar-Kareena too failed in Jeena Sirf Merre Liye, Hrithik-Amisha in AMALL.etc I know there are stars who have been successful too when their hit pairings were repeated but I just wanted to name this films. The film follows the route of Bunty Aur Babli regarding con artists. In this film our hero cons all 3 girls and they seek revenge by getting Anushka as an imposter to trap him but again he gets smart and cons them. Interesting concept? but the manner in which he cons all 3 girls is far from convincing. All of a sudden it predictabily becomes a romantic story and tries to pull off a smart twist which is well handled Direction by Maneesh Sharma is decent but the writing falls short Music is okay, most songs sound like typical Yashraj typeRanveer Singh tries to get into typical hero mould in this film, showing his body and all but acting wise he does impress again sadly he cant recreate magic of his debut. Anushka too does a good job as always but this time their pairing didn't create magic Dipannita Sharma is okay, Aditi Sharma too does well but the best act comes from debutante Parineeti Chopra who did a great job and then got Ishaqzaade.rest are all okay
Team-BBB (Band Bajaa Baraat) clearly had an advantage with their first outing. Yashraj films were at its lowest ebb which translated the expectations to sub-zero. When the winning combo decided to strike again, the sky-high expectations ended up working against it. What works?Ѻ Well written conning portions. Bollywood has generally witnessed scarcity in on this genre, Mr. Sampat and Mr. Natwarlal in the past and Bluffmaster and Oye Lucky! Lucky Oye! in the recent come to my mind. Ѻ Ranveer Singh - Undoubtedly he is the one who has what it takes to carry the mantle forward. Ѻ Anushka Sharma - Seamless performance. A word of advice to the leading ladies of 90's who are toying the idea of returning from sabbatical. You quit when you were ahead of the game, so stay put. Watch her and you will know why.Ѻ Parineeta Chopra - A surprise package. This dark horse nearly stole the thunder from Anushka Sharma.Ѻ Choreography on a few select songs.Ѻ Authentic supporting characters.Let downs.Ѻ The mushy-mushy YRF ingredient. Seriously, the plot had enough potential to steer for a better finale otherwise.Ѻ The spicy ingredients which went missing in the second-half.Ѻ The grand conning act appears to be long drawn.Verdict: A definite one-time watch material. And looking forward to the next outing from Team-BBB!
The surprise blockbuster team of band baaja baarat have come for a very different sub genre in romancefirst half is entertaining slowing grooving into the story, but second half does not have enough justification Anushka sharma is sizzling as ever.all the other 3 girls did well. ranveer singh gave his bestthere are many predictable scenes throughout the movie especially later half.not the best music as band baaja baarat on the whole a decent movie with simple story line and worth watch...