KITES

Storylight:
J is a smalltime hustler in Vegas, who likes to make money by teaching in dance classes and marrying gals looking for green card for money, untill one of his students who is crazy in love for him turns out to be daughter of bigshot businessman of Vegas.
J is getting nearer to what he wants viz money, but only for the Mexican fiancée of his mean haughty and cruel would be brother in law, who can't speak either English or Hindi but the language of love( shadow signs) and has barged into the family for the same reasons as J.
So finally the Love wins and they decide to choose life over the pelf, but the rich business family with media, cops and goons on their side are able to force the lovers to commit suicide in a very Shakespearean way. But hail bollywood, the lovers meet again under the waters they had committed suicide.

i think they are confused what they wanna make,
Bollywood old styled movie with Hollywood styled subtitles in Hindi,people speaking in English for most of the time and Bollywood's melodramatic futile attempts at extracting more than it deserves from a scene.
Fashion, Looks, Sceneries, are plus points, locations too good, all the characters are so well dressed up that it seems they'd do better for a photoshoot, but sad same is evident from their acting( that they are photoshoot guys.
For Hritvik crazy babes, tanned, perfectly crafted 6 pack abs, a treat.
Leggy soft spoken Barbara Mori for guys, but i think sometimes she pouts a little too much and smiles a little more than required.( though you should smile as much as you can)
No story, poor script, slow moving car chases, (first half literally drags) and a good but non matching soliloquy, guess trailers were too good.
Too slow to be called an action movie, too lame to make the love story click( kisses never came at right times, what were they afraid of censor?, media? or themselves?).
2.5/5: Go for locations, fashion.

the phone smell

It was those times when the phone was a luxury not necessity, i remember sneaking into my father's office to see the black colored magneto of those times, which has to be literally wrrrrung to talk to people, then there was this special 'case' in which rested that nice soft and elegant blue coloured telephone which smelled of the latest unused technology, and i could understand that instinct that drove mankind for newer inventions was lying somewhere near those parts of brain which make us happy on purchase of new clothes, new toys, new bicycle.

about HOUSEFULL,
No expert comments, just a movie which makes you feel that Deepika Padukone can act, besides having a good body.
The macho presence which is usually the domain of Akshay Kumar is stolen away by Arjun Rampal. Besides the enthralling screen presence which is kinda hallmark for him, the guy is good at acting as well.
Akshay disappoints with his sympathymonger scarcely lucky begging for fun role.
Movie makes a bad start with some unfunny comedies( tragedies for Kumar) like vacuuming whole room( means everything except walls including Ritesh Deshmukh's butt)
Lara Dutta plays a depressed due to dad, daughter who had married against the wishes of strict disciplinarian father( who keeps getting lashed by his mother and lashed means literally ), who is cheered up by Deepika Padukone when she suggests her tell her father about a son she never had.
On other hand Akshay is a star-crossed friend of Lara's husband played by Ritesh Deshmukh.( Who always makes you feel that he shouldn't have disclosed his real sex to anyone and entered as a female actress, would have done better).
Now Lara fixes him up with her boss's daughter( jiyah Khan: good at only kissing) who poses to be a fitting girl for Akshay only to run away on wedding night as it turns out that she was after her father's 40 million pounds.
Now depressed Akki starts swimming and goes on untill he drowns and gets saved by a sleek and bodylicious Deepika and falls in love with her.
Now the "Great Indian Khichri" in London is on screen when Deepika's ferocious brother who is head of Indian Intelligence comes to GBR to recieve commendation for his job from Queen.(yupps that's Arjun Rampal)
All the couples fall into a combined funny chaos which makes the plight of Akshay a little less pathetic and finally " jis jhooth se kisi ka ghar base wo jhooth, jhooth nahi hota" is won over by " jo ghar jhooth par bane wo ghar ghar nahi hota"
CHEERS

WATCHABILITY: 2.5/ Watch for Arjun and Deepika+ some fun in second half.