Ajj De Ranjhe 2012 – Movie Review - Punjabi Movie

When we hear the name Ranjha, we associate it with the symbol of love but what does the title Ajj De Ranjhe suggest ? It gives more of a tentative idea of modern, enthusiastic idle flirts. But does the movie Ajj de Ranjhe relates to this definition, thats what the point is to throw the light upon.

In modern days mostly youth oriented movies are making the impact on Box Office. So as the title speaks Ajj De Ranjhe also revolves around the modern youth. However, what distinguishes this movie from other youth oriented movies, along with romantic sequence it has also tried to touch some of the important factors like unemployment and the thought of breaking traditional thinking of the society.

The plot of Ajj De Ranjhe concentrates on two different stories through out until just before the point of climax. At one side it demonstrates the life of a hockey player turned Police Inspector Manjeet Singh Firki (Gurpreet Ghuggi) and on the other hand the story describes the life of an unemployed, struggler but yet a so called modern Ranjha, Ambar (Aman Dhaliwal). Manjeet Singh Firki has to deal with conventional problems which are associated with the job of a police man. Along with his durable duty he also to deal with a delightful case involving a NRI girl Harpreet (Kimi Verma) with whom he falls in love and that’s what he tries to say in the song Rabba Thanedar nu Pyar Ho Gaya. Being a struggler and unemployed, Ambar deals with some pragmatic problems at home. His life takes turn at one glance when he falls for a TV Reporter Kranti (Gurleen Chopra) and also decides to take on the same job which Kranti does. So even Ambar also has to deal with some conventional problems which are associated with the job of an honest TV reporter who extracts a racket of drug dealers. Just before the climax, the two different stories get emerged together which delivers a scintillating climax.

Ajj De Ranjhe offers an opportunity to showcase two aspects, the police public relationship and targeting a way to accountable life for youth. It also shows that if the power of police uniform and media can be used precisely, it can clean up so many social evils in a matter of days. So the subject of the movie can be called an impressive one because it delivers a valuable message to the audience. But there are some loopholes in the movie which makes the presentation sluggish a little. At times story moves very slowly especially before the interval and some songs make their way in at needless times. One gets the feeling it would have been better if the two different stories have emerged together earlier than they do. But still the movie has got so many decisive facts to offer and contains decent enough entertainment. It has been a complete package of Romance, Action and Comedy.

Ajj De Ranjhe contains a profound starcast with Gurpreet Ghuggi and Aman Dhaliwal being the main lead actors and Kimi Verma and Gurleen Chopra are the lead female actresses. Gurpreet Ghuggi is already known as the comedy king, with him Rana Ranbir and Rana Jung Bahadur also have cooked the comedy fries at the peak. Deep Dhillon and Paramveer Singh have looked promising in their negative roles. As per the current trends, there is a surprise for the audience, a dynamic guest appearance of Guggu Gill as a senior police officer. Each and every actor have done justice to their characters in the movie.

Well, when the name of Director is Manmohan Singh, then its almost certain that direction of the complies with subject of the movie. As everyone knows, he is a time-honoured director of Punjabi movies, so he has justified his stance once again. Music and background score of the movie is just about average. Screenplay and dialogs are very impressive and mostly very robust to the situation. Cinematography is just about ideal.
All in all, Ajj De Ranjhe is exciting, societal and funny. But it could have been more engaging especially in the pre interval part to bring more crowd in. Yet the movie has got so much nice about it and its worth watching.

From PunMovies.Net, Ajj De Ranjhe gets 3.5/5.

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Sirphire 2012 - Movie Review

Story: Sirphire revolves around three students who think that life should just be enjoyed, however, how much it should be enjoyed is not the point. Inder (Priyanshu Chatterjee), Preet (Preet Harpal) and Bittu (Roshan Prince) are extremely busy in making fun of life. The entrance of beautiful girls Simran (Monica Bedi) and Jazz (Gurleen Chopra) is not enough for the three friends to stabilize their lives or to focus on anything else apart from making fun. But later on due to an incident they have to bear a big shock, and suddenly they find themselves in huge trouble. From then on the meaning of living life changes for them and trying to balance their lives becomes their primary goal. While the friends are going through a tense situation and struggling in life, their love life is also affected by this and this also becomes one of the reasons to sort out their lives later on.

Review: If a movie contains a positive star cast, great music and a tremendous promotion on top, it will definitely catch the eye of viewers to ensure that there is a weighty collection of audience in the cinema hall when it releases. Sirphire covers all these perspectives.

Including bollywood stars like Monica Bedi, Priyanshu Chatterjee and well established singers like Preet Harpal and Roshan Prince in the movie, and to add to that buzz of comedy artists like Binnu Dhillon, B.N. Sharma and Karamjeet Anmol, Sirphire was one of the much awaited movies to hit the screens. So we need to find out how it looks like when the wait is over.

Sirphire tends to deal with the most common problems of youngsters these days. It highlights how Youth take their life in a casual manner at the time of when they are studying in their college years. Unaware of practical life, having fun and making so many mistakes, but they still choose to remain in the same lifestyle. The movie tries to address these issues and also tries to deliver a social message.
Sirphire can be called a good effort to entice the youth to get their lives stable and balanced but the movie lacks on some important aspects which are needed to make it one of the favourites to watch for the multiplex audience. The movie looks very good in patches. The subject of the story is quite impressive but it hasn't come out as appealing as it should have been. Sequence of story is also not up to the mark. At some points, the scenes don't relate to each other and even some of the scenes seem to be unnecessary. But there are many positivities to remember like the friendship theme and few emotional moments are really touching.

Sirphire is an important venture for few of its artists especially for Preet Harpal who has cemented his feet in singing from last many years and with Sirphire he is making his debut as an actor. To be honest Preet never looked like that he is making his debut in this movie. He played his role wonderfully well along with other actors. Other characters like Priyanshu Chatterjee, Monica Bedi, Roshan Prince and Shivender Mahal have played their part well enough. Gurleen Chopra has also looked very ravishing in her character of Jazz. Though the movie script fails to end some topics which were started related to some characters. Binnu Dhillon, B.N.Sharma and Karamjeet Anmol have managed to fill the comic aspect of the movie by providing the desired dose of comedy that's required according to the subject of the movie.

Harjit Singh Ricky is the director of Sirphire and to be practical he has done just about decent job. Cinematography and screenplay might not be tremendous but decent enough to carry the film to its motive. Music and background score has been produced by Jaidev Kumar and which has already appealed a lot with songs like Look-Lak and Gaani.

All in all Sirphire is not an accurate but decent enough effort to guide the youngsters to take their lives in right directions and to keep it balanced between fun and sincerity.
Review By - Sarvjit Khera

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