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This one is exclusively for Salman Khan fans and a strict no-no for anyody else.
Even if you are the former, I would pity you. This one is a real flop show. Salman soars through, but everything else in the movie is agnozingly bad. The story is a lifted in parts from several familiar movies. Troy, Gladiator, Mard, Raj Thilak are a few that some to the mind.
Here’s the story, Salman is a member of the Pindari community who were betrayed by the Raja of Madhavgarh, played by Jackie Shroff. Prithvi Singh (Mithun Chakravarthy) sends his son, Salman, to study in England, where Salman meets Jackie’s daughter (Zarine Khan). After this sequence, both head back home and are pitted against each other by traditional rivalry. What unfolds next forms the climax of this movie.
Except Mithun, Salman overrides every other actor in the movie. Not even his brother character, Sohail Khan, gets any screen time. Zarine Khan disappoints and fails to pull off even the romantic scenes. There are a cloud of well known actors in the Pindari community, but none of their roles have any substance.
Salman is the only saving grace in this movie. Acting the part of a sturdy looking guy comes natural to him and spends most of the time in the movie without his shirt. How long will this last??!!
The director seems to have been lost in including commercial elements in the movie. Music, camera and photography are above par. The action sequences are a letdown though. A few rope tricks seem very obvious and could have been avoided.
Overall, its 1 on 5 for this one. And Salman earns the single point for the movie.
The earthquake tragedy in Haiti was a tragic one and caused enormous amount of destruction. The country’s alrerady absent infrastructure is further crippled. Understandably, aid has come pouring in. In one week since the earthquake, $1 million dollars has been collected. People across the world are showing their sympathies by donating overwhelmingly.
But how much aid can Haiti take and use successfully. The Tsunami that left several countries in Asia devastated has several lessons to offer on aid distribution. Statistics have it that, of the funds that went out to the NGO’s, only 39 % was used by them in one year. Except in a few countries like Malaysia, help offered by a sympathizing world didnot matter. The reason: most countries couldn’t channelize all the aid coming in and distribute it to people. 75 tones of expired medicines had to be burnt, a few months after the Tsunami. Even free medicines could not reach people before their death. MSF (Médecins Sans Frontières) stopped collecting donations realizing this and was heavily criticized. But eventually their prediction was right. Taking that as an example, they have stopped collections for the Haiti Earthquake, instead asking people to donate to their general account.
The unfortunate events in Haiti only emphasize that all governments need to be in charge. Natural destructions can strike unexpectedly. Emergency relief infrastructure must become a part of basic infrastructure. Else, even aid from outside will not matter.
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