Cheeni kum

I won't say much about the movie. Most people have seen it. I love it.The blu ray disc is spectacular. The picture and the DTS HD sound is amazing. They also have DOLBY TRUHD on here.I own a lot of Hindi movies that I've copied onto my DVD-R discs and I've been happy with the picture and sound quality. For the first time, I witnessed what a blu-ray disc can do to a movie. I was speechless. The picture quality is 10 times sharper than my compressed video and the sound quality is 10 times sharper than my compressed audio on my DVD-RSo I've donated my copy of this movie in DVD-R and I'm keeping this blu ray disc. It is of course region free and will play easily on any blu ray player in the world. Please be warned that this will not play in a DVD player. This blu-ray disc requires a blu-ray player.Highly recommended!!

When you mix the superlative performances of AB, Tabu and Paresh Rawal with excellent screenplay and dialog, and gets directed by one of the most sensitive director, you have a product for ages. A super marvelous tasty bit of fun love story.

I'll admit, I'm a sucker for *masala* conventions - overstuffed emotions, whiplash plot swings from comedy to romance to tragedy, and elaborate song and dance numbers at the drop of a hat...especially that last. CHEENI KUM doesn't have any elaborate song and dance numbers, the emotions are recognizably human-sized, and even the plot swings feel logically presented in the story rather than tossed in as desperate "POP!"s to get the audience excited. Having said that, this is one of my favorite recent Indian movies - right up there with EKLAYVA: THE ROYAL GUARD, AAJA NACHLE, RANG DE BASANTI, OM SHANTI OM, BHOOTHNATH and KRRISH.If you watch any Indian movies, you already know Amitabh Bachchan is a wonderfully engaging ham bursting with star quality - CHEENI KUM shows just how great he can be playing a (mostly) human-sized character, a middle-aged but still single Indian man in London with a cranky mother still living with him. (Let's make allowances - he is the Executive Chef/Owner of a top Indian restaurant, after all, so he gets to roar a lot in the early going.) He meets disagreeably but is intrigued by a single Indian woman in her Thirties (Tabu) who won't be pushed around by his arrogance or bellicosity, and who shows him up on the proper cooking of a dish (one of his line cooks mistakenly added sugar instead of salt, which he would have known if he'd bothered to taste it when she first complained to him!). While never exactly admitting he was wrong, he tries to make it up to her - and thus begins a slow slide into the two of them falling for each other, punctuated with lots of increasingly affectionate insults and scoldings. When he finally asks her to marry him, the two of them, with his mother in tow, head off to Delhi to get her Father's permission - her pompous, cricket-mad, non-vegetarian Father who's six years younger than his perspective son-in-law!Bachchan and Tabu give beautifully modulated performances, and are completely believable as two older people who become a couple. Even the broadly comic (her father, supposedly a follower of Gandhi, stages a petulant hunger strike so his daughter won't marry a man older than he is) or "filmi" elements (the lovable cancer-stricken pre-teen daughter of his neighbor dies near the climax, resulting in Bachchan having a Bollywood-style mad with grief scene!) are offset by the human-sized situations and performances.CHEENI KUM is a Bollywood movie I think just about anybody, Western film fan as well as Indian one, would enjoy. If only it had a couple song and dance numbers, it would have been a five-star movie for me....

The movie is great. Print was not the best. Was more of a 720p kind.

I got this because my Mother loves Bollywood movies and it was a good gift for her. This one is certainly different from other Bollywood films in that it's about older people. Passion and romance aren't just for the young after all. Overlooking a few elements of ridiculousness it's a pretty good film. Well worth the money.

A glitzy flop if there ever was one. You have been warned! An almost seventy year old man falling in love in London with an Indian woman (Tabu) half his age, romancing and then going to India to convince her father (who is a decade and a half younger than him) that this is a good match!!!!!

I am a big fan and collector of Amitabh Bachchan movies. thank you round3. My disc arrive in great time and plays like new.

Great acing by big B as usual! Good story line

Movie's message is age and physical beauty are not the only ingredients to fall in true love.

As the title suggests (Cheeni Kum means "Less sugar") this film is subtle in flavour, and all the more delicious for that. Amitabh is charismatic and energetic enough to carry off the lead role with skill and style. He plays the owner/head chef of "London's finest Indian Restaurant", who channels all his considerable passion and powerful personality into his kitchen where he reigns supreme and unchallenged. Tabu plays a quiet, independent-minded youngish woman, who surprises and challenges him (and the audience) in every way. Their process of falling in love is done in an understated slow-build way which is entirely convincing and utterly charming. I won't spoil how they meet or how it ends, but it is superbly done with a script that sparkles with unexpected wit and charm, rivaling the best romantic comedies I've ever seen.Whilst appearing in many ways like one of the better Hollywood Rom-coms, the film never loses its Indian Identity and in fact reminds us that modern India is a country increasingly at ease with itself and far from either rejecting or emulating its old Rulers, is increasingly able to formulate its own unique identity combining many aspects of its diverse cultural past and present.Examples: (Potential spoiler warning)The heroine has a classic Indian look, but is a software engineer. The maid in Delhi is very traditionally and simply dressed, but in one scene we see her learning to surf the internet from a laptop. Back in London, we have an English waiter desperately trying to learn to pronounce the Indian dishes correctly. The father's enjoyment of classic BBC Cricket Commentators but rejection of `Imported fast food'. Equally there is some gentle mocking of melodrama in the father's psuedo-Gandhian hunger-strike. This is not offensive to Gandhi's memory as the background song here emphasises the distinction between Gandhi and Nina's father with beautiful irony, thus reminding us that 'Acting your age' is not always as it seems.(End of spoiler warning)I must also mention the cracking performances of the support cast, the feisty Zohra Saigal, the sublime Paresh Rawal, the wonderful ensemble of London sous-chefs and notably the 6 year old girl. Her amazing character together with Amitabh Bacchan's brings home the message that life experiences are to be cherished and relished at any age.Not to be missed.

It is good quality dvd

The product was neatly packed and came within 3 days. Was very pleased with both the quality and professional attitude. Definitely recommend to all.

Good movie