Thanks for the memories!

Amateur movie with Big budget

This movie was so-so. It had it's moments, but wasn't the greatest.

Not sure how, but this is easily one of the best movies all summer. Multiple levels of funny, never takes itself seriously, super colorful, and creative.

This film "Amadeus" http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086879/ leaves one breathless from its visual beauty, its magnificent score and the choreography, indeed, of the two together. Actually it's a masterpiece. This depicts a historically inaccurate, hypothetical story of the genius musician Mozart, where one mediocre composer hates him over the extraordinary talent he got. While comparing these two movies you will find the plot of these two is identical in spite of the differences in stories. Even the prayers to the God made by the mediocre guy in both movies follows the same pattern. But I must tell you that this is an pathetic effort if it ever tries to copy the plot from Amadeus. If you haven't watched "Amadeus" yet, please watch it and I believe you will notice the similarity of the plots.

There are so many good young actors/actresses in Bollywood now. The directors, in their desire to pull in box office results lean too heavily on the tried and true actors. Come on - Salman Khan is 45, Ajay Devgan is 41 - always, always they are cast as 20 somethings, and paired up with actresses half their age. Every time Salman is cast as a younger person, he over acts (remember Yuvvraaj - eewww, what a nightmare!). It's gotten old, and tiresome, and the result is stuff like this. This movie would have gone over a lot better with really younger leads, and a decent ending. Someone fell asleep and now the viewing public gets to do the same. They should take a clue from SRK and "act" their age.

Entire "London Dreams" as it stands today could have been easily set in India, frame-by-frame. There was no-value addition in setting it in London other than increased production costs. Not to mention, the creative liberties taken on account of which caused greater damage. Performances::↔ Ajay Devgan:: Wasn't suited for the role. Fresh blood was warranted to fit into the shoes of the music rock star. ↔ Salman Khan:: Went over-the-top to come across a cool character, but didn't quite get there. ↔ Asin:: Fresh out of success of "Ghajini", she reprises the same the screen presence and slightly tweaked character. Her staunch parents were simply out of sync to the main plot.↔ Aditya Roy Kapur & Ranvijay Singh:: There was no meat in the characters, glorified side-kicks.↔ Om Puri:: Utter waste.Vipul was good in "Aankhen" and "Waqt". And definitely got better in "Namastey London". Wonder what possessed him when he made "London Dreams". He seems to have lost the plot and ended up incorporating every possible ingredient to ensure all bases are covered - struggle, friendship, love, triangular love, jealousy, redemption etc in the garb of a musical. I haven't watched "Amadeus" from which its richly copied, hence would abstain to comment on those lines. As it is rumoured, if this story was actually written with Aamir and SRK in mind, then perhaps it would have alleviated to a different level altogether. It is warranted that a musical should be accompanied with strong music. Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy who did a spectacular job in "Rock On" have done a appalling job here, sad.Henceforth "Rock On" should be unanimously selected as a benchmark for all the future musicals.

I have been waiting for London Dreams since the days Rajkumar Santoshi was the director, the movie kept on delaying, and was eventually shelved. Later, Vipul Shah picked it up and the movie started rolling. Because of the name Vipul Shah (Aankhen, Namastey London, Waqt) and the wonderful cast of Salman Khan, Ajay Devgn and Asin was known, I was expecting a spectacular musical.The movie did give me a satisfying feeling, though it missed out on a few things, unfortunately. The first half is very entertaining and keeps the viewers interested, the climax is also very gripping. Just the ending spoiled it all, it feels like Vipul Shah forced the movie to end, it could have been so much better.Performance wise Salman Khan stood out once again, Salman carried the whole movie on his shoulders, he was very entertaining and very convincing. Asin looked beautiful and delivered a good performance, though her role was kind of small. Ajay Devgn was wonderful, the intensity of his character was visible in his very expressive eyes during the whole film. Everyone thinks the music of this film is very weak, I disagree because I feel the movie is good, not great though. Barso, Mann ko ati bhave, Khwab jo, are foot tapping. The Wembley song performance by Ajay could have been a different composition.The defect of the movie only lies within the last 7 minutes of the movie, which is such a pity, because I really liked the initial 2 and a half hours. You should go for this movie if you want to see gripping performances, great cinematography and emotions. Don't watch the movie if you hate movies which have very bad endings!Overall I would rate this movie 8 out of 10, because of superb Salman Khan, Ajay Devgn, Asin, the direction to a certain extent, and the great locales.