An evocatively titled gangster film, Allah ke Banday makes an interesting start, then rapidly descends into the usual mix of guns and goons, each more bloody and violent than the other.Fully filmy in its obvious telling, Alah ke Banday is set in the mean chawls of Mumbai, packed with over-cooked back ground music, bombastic street dialogue and cussed goons. Vijay and Yakub are two street kids staying in a chawl called Bhool Bhulaiya, just one of the many obvious metaphors the director resorts to. The older, reserved Vijay has an ailing mother, while the brash cocky junior, Yakub, is an orphan child staying with them. When still in school, the mohalla brothers get into crime, first peddling hashish for the local boss, then running scams with a friendly pimp (Zakir Hussain), before graduating to robbing stores. Once while splitting the loot with the local boss, there is an altercation and the kids shoot the boss. So they are caught and sent to a juvenile reformatory. The reformatory...

Jeevi rating: 3.25/5 Punchline: konthakalam premikudu Genre: Romance Type: Straight Banner: Anjana Productions Cast: Ram Charan Tej, Genelia, Shahzahn Padamsee, Brahmanandam, Prabhu, Nagababu, Sanjay Swaroop, Manjula Swaroop, Sanchita Shetty, Madhurima Benarjee, Srinivas Avasarala, Vennela Kishore, Praneeth, Gayatri Rao, Kalpika, Pavitra Lokesh etc Music: Harris Jayaraj Cinematography: Raja Sekhar & Kiran Reddy Editing: Marthand K Venkatesh Art: Anand Sai Dialogues: Thota Prasad & Surendra Krishna Story - screenplay - direction: Bhaskar Producer: K Nagababu Release date: 26 November 2010 Theater watched: Screen 3, Prasads, Hyderabad Review Story Ram (Ram Charan Tej) is an youngster staying in Australia. He is an honest guy who doesn’t want to complicate life by lying to others. He has clear-cut ideas about love and he thinks that the intensity of love will not remain the same as the relationship progresses. He falls in love at first sight with Jaanu (Genelia) and impresses...

Break ke Baad is a little better than recent outings like Anjaana Anjaani and I Hate Luv Storys. Check it out    Read full review..ononononononononononAnupama ChopraNDTV Post-interval, the promise of delving into the complications of long-distance romance begin to dwindle as Break Ke Baad runs out of ideas, spark, focus and momentum, procrastinating endlesslyRead full review..ononononononononononSukanya VermaRediffStarts off with what must have seemed like a good idea on paper, but comes off looking and feeling lameRead full review..ononononononononononShubhra GuptaIndian ExpressBreak Ke Baad is possibly the best love story we have seen all this year and maybe last year tooRead full review..Sukanya VenkatraghavanFilmfareBreak Ke Baad has a vibrant Imran and Deepika as its USP, but a faulty and an unpersuasive screenplay as is its major stumbling block. Fails to impress!Read full review..ononononononononononTaran AdarshBollywoodHungamaThe film does have a terribly sluggish...

Break ke Baad is a seemingly ‘with it’ movie which starts with an innovative title sequence, where the viewer has to literally search for the credit names, which are cleverly hidden within the props and backdrops of the scene.Smart. Once the credits are over, the real film starts, and then the viewer spends the next two hours desperately looking for the story, but alas, there ain’t none. Instead there are a lot of songs, cutesy dialogues, starched scenes, cardboard cut-out characters and fancy locations, but the stilted, limited screenplay just keeps on repeating itself ad nauseum. Of late, instead of getting the lovers to woo each other, Bollywood romcoms have specialised in keeping the lovers apart for most of the movie, fighting and arguing, before they magically come together in the end. It almost seems our writer-directors have forgotten the language of romance, or maybe it’s a reflection of our clinical times. Then in a significant role reversal, long overdue, it’s the heroine...