The All Time Greatest Dance Mixes, Sony Music

The All Time Greatest Dance Mixes, Sony Music
Nischint Sohal

Raageshwari comes out with yet another rightly-timed album that doesn't look like it's going anywhere much. Y2K Saal Do Hazaar is an attempt to cash in on the millennium bukhaar that has not spared anyone at all. With music and lyrics by her father, as usual, the tracks are rendered by Raageshwari. That her voice doesn't need any kind of music doesn't need to be said, she's one of them few natural talents. But the songs just seem to run into one another with alarming alacrity.

There are a couple of slow-ish numbers, of which you really don't know what to make. Pehchaan being one such. What is it? Senti? Serious? Sounds rather silly, actually. The title track might just catch the fancy of die-hard Raags fans, you've got to believe there are a whole lot of them around. But that's just about it. The rest of the tracks just sort of seem to fade away into part-Punjabi, part-pop and part-God knows what. No fun, this.

Y2K, Saal Do Hazaar, Raageshwari, HMV

Maya Mittal

Thisalbum has very good songs. The top 20 songs right now in fact. It is excellent to listen to. But une probleme. The songs are not irginal. They are all remakes or cover versions which, in layman's terms, means that even though the music and lyrics are the same, the song is actually sung by different people. Too bad.

One of the songs is Youe Drive Me Crazy by Britney Spears. But this cover version doesn't sound anything like her at all. In fact, the girl who has sung this song gives you a pretty good idea of what kind of a vamp has sung it originally. Well, actually not a vamp, but the other word would not be appropriate to use.

The other songs are pretty good but no fun since it is not sung by the original artistes. For 75 bucks, it might be a good deal. Go ahead and buy it but you will probably get mixed feelings towards the album.

Bacardi Blast 2, Virgin Records

Nischint Sohal

It's a never-ending trend. To come out with an album featuring the hit songs of the last few month's. TotalHits is one such album which features some of the latest Indi-pop hits.

Atleast, the songs in this album are actually hits. There are song's like Oh Carol - Stereo Nation, Jalwa and La La Dum - Daler Mehndi, Ali More Angana - Shubha Mugdal, Aye Sanam - Abbey to name a few. Makes you want to shake a leg. Must for any party animal.

Total Hits, Various Artistes, Times Music

Sabiha Kalolwala

Movie

If you've seen Dahek, you've seen it all! It's one of those enlightening films which make you realise what the Indian film-makers rate the audience's IQ. Must be very low for this film; Dahek is as far from quality cinema as the moon from the earth (maybe further!).

Sameer Shah (Akshaye Khanna) and Neelima Bakshi (Sonali Bendre) fall in love after their first chance meeting at the post office. And they have a whirlwind romance till they realise that Neelima is a Muslim and Sameer is a Hindu. A fact which both of them neglected because oftheir misleading names (sigh! such intimacy). But love knows no bounds, and the two of them decide to stand up against their families and elope. Little do they know that Neelima's racist uncle Jabbar (Danny Denzongapa) and Sameer's political background will make their love affair a political fiasco.

While the love-birds are cooing in Udaipur, Mumbai is facing the worst riots since the '93 riots. And this is where the foolishness of the film hits you smack between the eyes!

If you have to make films on flaming issues like the racism in our country the least you can do is make them a little more touching... and most importantly believable!

Dahek

Cast: Akshaye Khanna, Sonali Bendre, Danny Denzongapa, KK Raina

Maya Mittal

Mickey Blue Eyes is the perfect entertainer for a blue Sunday evening. The dry English-American humour centering around an elegant, debonair English man, Michael Felgate (Hugh Grant), who runs an auction house. Michael is having a strong healthy relationship with Gina(Jeanne Tripplehorn) till he `pops the question' that would normally make woman weep with happiness. But not in this case. Gina is devastated that Michael wants to marry her.

All because her father is a Mafia Don. And she refuses to have yet another one of her boyfriends getting involved in her father's, Frank Vitale (James Caan), `wheelin' deelins'! After learning the truth, Michael, manages to convince Gina that he can be married to her and still stay aloof from The Family. But one thing leads to another and soon he finds himself laundering money at his auction house, lying to Gina, becoming an accessory to murder and masquerading as the notorious mobster from Kansas Mickey Blue Eyes! What starts of as a simple love story carries on as anything but that. With excellent dialogues the film is dripping with refreshing humour!

Mickey Blue Eyes

Cast: Hugh Grant, Jeanne Tripplehorn, James Caan

Purvi S

Goody! Tis' the season to be jolly, falalalalalalala! Bring on the `family entertainers' fromHollywood, we'll watch them and spread the Christmas cheer! Every Christmas, you have sugar sweet films from Disney, but Inspector Gadget, unlike other holiday films is very entertaining.

This film is based on a very famous cartoon character of the same name, but the different aspects film are based on a variety of other movies, like Superman, Robocop, Mask and Knight Rider.

John Brown (Matthew Broderick) is a security guard in a robotics lab with a dream of being a cop. While thwarting Sanford Scolex (Rupert Everett) who is stealing a robotic foot (!) from a lab, John Brown dies, and becomes the perfect candidate for the cities' cyber cop program (a la Robocop). And thus Inspector Gadget is created.

But while Sanford Scolex is stealing the robotic foot (!) he kills Brenda's (Joely Fisher) father. Inspector Gadget swears revenge, thwarts Scolex's evil plans (again) and everything is cool again.

Inspector Gagdet as a film, is laden with cliches, is so sweet that you couldpuke, but yet is worthy of a holiday visit.

Inspector Gadget

Cast: Matthew Broderick, Rupert Everett

Joel Pereira