Reviews

Charlie and the chocolate factory, corpse bride and now Sweeney Todd. Tim Burton, Johny deep - every time they come together, my expectation to see a good flick doesn't do any good to me. i felt the film was nothing more than a revenge story done at the backdrop of a musical and old, ravaged england.

Only saving grace was Helena and Sacha baron Cohen. they were truly good and Johny deep will not win the Oscar for my worth of any amount of money and not to include Emile Hirsch for his role of Christopher McCandless in into the wild is a joke that only the academy can perform.

Art direction was probably something worth taking a notice of - but then, for the amount of money spent - its not something that was out of the ordinary.

Overall, a tame effort and my last Burton film ever.

Its not easy to choose a subject rather a film that has been made in almost all languages and by everyone who calls himself a director. Still, Ram Gopal Varma (RGV) has chosen it and has made the best Indian version of The Godfather.

Dialogues or the lack of it makes a wonderful statement about the style of RGV. It could have been easy for RGV to have gone an self-indulgence trip and shoot a 4 hour film. But he has kept it short, true to the characters, script and definitely has come out trumps.

Casting is wonderful in this film. K K has done a fantastic job. Amitabh has been well handled. Abhishek is getting better with each of his films. There are certain dialogues which are riveting and RGV has chosen the characters to speak them to have the effect on the audience like the Swamiji saying, 'You cannot kill the man, you should kill the philosophy' is easily the best dialogue in the film that epitomizes the script.

Camera, Music all positively adds to the film. Definitely an effort the original crew and cast would be proud.

A Must watch for film fans!