Best movie of this year hands down!

I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much

Undescribable Perfection

To me, this movie is perfection.

I just stumbled upon this movie in a video parlor. Frankly speaking I never had any expectations on this low budged movie. I was quite a pleasantly surprised by the story line.The movie is quirky, politically sarcastic and immensely hilarious. It has an interesting premise of the famously publicized visit of George Bush visiting India back in 2006. The American Embassy hires a PR Agency to shortlist 6 unique Indians and choose 1 India to "shake" hands with Bush. The choice would be make by going through few competitive rounds.The movie shows these 6 candidate's personal funny moments, opinions and reactions and funny apprehensions in the competitive rounds. The film successfully depicts Indian crazy euphoria of their American Dreams regardless of how stupid they may be. Each of the candidates are desperate to win. The film successfully brings the best of the sarcasm in the entire socio-political circus.I specifically liked acting of Anand Tiwari( the freaky financial broker),Konkona Sen Sharma(arrogant Bengali writer) and Shernaz Patel ( PR Co-ordinator).Overall the film is a great home video entertainer with popcorn. Trust me, you wont regret it!

Michael Moore - Fahrenheit 9/11. What did he do? Collected pieces of facts, joined them nicely with his hypotheses to prove his point against George Bush in a documentary style format. Treading the similar path is Kunal Roy Kapur who takes Presidents visit to India and weaves a nice fictionalised story on the process of "hard man is good to find" for shaking hands with him. ¤ Vivek Gomber & Ira Dubey as "American Desi" Rohit and "I am like confused" Archana:: What good is a Bollywood story without a love-story? The bitter-sweet couple has a touch of love, sacrifice and lived- happily-ever-after.¤ Namit Das as the "I want to have the cake and eat it too" Ramesh:: Looks wise very authentic. Until now I thought the actor was actually a South-Indian.¤ Anand Tiwari as "Gujju trader" Kapil Dev:: Again splendid. Note the finer nuance when he racks his brains to demonstrate his knowledge the scrip codes of stock market. And his mentality of using money-power to buy the completion is well enacted.¤ Konkana Sen as "crafty" Maya:: Falls short in terms of expectations perhaps because the other characters come about much stronger than her. Her attempts to ward off competition was not quite impressive and sheep in the wolves clothing was no surprise either. ¤ Imran Rasheed as "Security" Aslam:: Very short role. Pay attention how genuinely he does Salaam. ¤ Satchit Puranik as "the educated fundamentalist" Ajay Karlekar: His mannerism, costume and look gives a very authentic feel.¤ Aakash Khurana as "Help, I am a celebrity - get me out of here": Was wasted. I think he was dropped or opted out during production.¤ Shernaz Patel as "The Devil Wears Prada" Sam:: Was loud and hammed. Should have watched Meryl Streep for homework.¤ Shivani as "underdog" Ritu:: Miscast and perhaps didn't utilise the potential the character had to offer.The characters are very much true-to-life as each one of them is distinct leaving a lasting impression on the viewers mind. The actors deserve special mention for they literally get into the skin of the character with the mannerism and accent. Wonder if they are very much same in real life.The last 15-minutes deserved better writing for it was kind of coming especially the part when the penny is dropped.Anyways, brave attempt.

This is funny movie for sure. Firstly (The President Is Coming) reminded me of an earlier Egyptian movie named (Zeyaret el-Sayed el-Rais - 1994) or (Visit of Mr. President) ! Both movies got nearly the same main happening but with totally different plots and characters. However the 2 movies meet in many perspectives.Producing an Indian movie as a mockumentary that makes fun of the American president, policy so the American dream's mania, yet in English is an unmistakable message, that shows internationally a different Indian cinema and certain viewpoints as well. Its smartest point was dealing with the whole characters as no body is perfect. That left no room for any partiality, giving a plenty of space to mock but in objective style where all is questionable hence ready to be mocked at.It has many interesting points, on the top of them is the main idea. It's all about who will shake the American president's hand in his first visit to India ?!!! So the competition to select the Indian young man or women that will have the honor of shaking the no great shakes !At some parts I felt how it's a witty parody of reality TV shows, especially The Apprentice and Survivor, where the backstabbing and the shadow conspiracies are on. But you'd feel that the movie relayed on the dialog a bit much than the action, despite how lively the events were. Moreover, maybe against the movie makers' will, the constancy of the place or set gave it a little sense of boredom while I'm positive that the budget wasn't there to hold things out.Another problem, the logic of the movie as basically a documentary was broken. Simply scenes like the one of offering the bribe could be understandable while the deceitful competitors, a la Survivor, know by heart that there is a camera shooting them nonstop. But with other scenes it didn't make any sense at all. For instance, the moment when the arrogant manager steals things from the embassy wasn't believable since she naturally knows that she's on camera !!?? Plus the scene of exposing the plan of the assassination !! How the winner girl dared to declare all of that in front of the running camera ?? Actually when we see the whole room later from another angle we discover that there is no camera shooting at all ?! So, while the whole movie has been filmed by steadicam, the direction failed utterly to divide the moments that were in front of the "documentary's camera" from the ones which weren't (where the characters speak freely or deal frankly). That's a fault confused the viewer, which has been avoided in not too far experiences like (Drop Dead Gorgeous - 1999) in which the whole thing is from the running camera's point of view, where we don't watch the conspiracy or the conspirator, only the results.Minor points : at the end we saw the novelist living her life without any problems ? How is that while she was about to kill the American president and more than one person already knew about it ? Maybe the things were kept secret yet the movie didn't allow us to catch on that appropriately (even by swift hint at the end's boards). Or how they're doing exams, selecting the shaker just one night before the handshake ?! On the other hand, the performance was perfect. This cast made the best indeed. They are all brilliant, having both the charisma and the talent. I've been fascinated in particular by (Konkona Sen Sharma) who played the role of the novelist. And the fact that none of them delivered an overdone acting is something assures partly the quality of this director.Speaking of which, (Kunaal Roy Kapur) made a fine job. I liked the try to create a graceful pace with the camera moves and the clever editing. The very good animated commenting helped that and assured the movie's jovial personality. Suffice it to say that there were some cadres which were singly funny; character says an opinion to the camera while less important opinion is being said in the same cadre yet its sayer is down half-apparent, and so on.There is a nice satiric spirit all over it. This script managed to discharge its writer's anger well. The lines, the gags, even the soundtrack's songs all are intense and bitterly derisive. It's just the sexual tone that was somehow superfluous but not that copious anyway. I liked some obvious remarks yet lovely : the march of "shake the American president's hand, and you'll go to promise land", line like "inside every thief there is a good man" and where it was said !, or the Indian way of dealing with things "by the American way" which isn't "democracy" it's "reality TV" !! Let alone the wicked using of "he got the whole world in his hand" while seeing George W. Bush for the first time ! And last but not the least the quote of Gordon Gekko from Oliver Stone's Wall Street "Greed is good" as the best line will be said while shaking the American president.. Excellent !I loved the dramatic change, or rather disclosure, of the inordinately Americanized guy. The moment of him finally expressing his long curbed emotions towards America during his facing with Bush's statue was outstanding and the highest moment of this movie despite that I didn't admire its monologue.It's simple, clear, and compared to the general production of the Indian cinema lately—refreshing and most of all : original ! I hope my voice reaches this movie's makers while saying: Keep on the good work, WE NEED MORE!

I trembled while resisting the worst possible rating for this film but in all fairness I've seen worse. At least the promos were creatively misleading and since it's important to actually sit through the ENTIRE film before laying claim to a comprehensive review, I admit I threw up and walked out on this one within the first hour. Let's take it up one by one:The Acting: is at best shoddy and reminiscent of a self-congratulatory, Mumbai-based English-theatre performance. For those who don't know what this means, it's the equivalent of Timothy Dalton playing Bond or Arnie playing a mother. (Maybe I'm cribbing because I've seen some of these performers botch a perfectly good script on the Mumbai stage as well). The characters are so cocooned in caricaturisation that they you can't connect with them any more than you would with Puff-the-magic-dragon.The Direction: is amateur and unimaginative. Sorry KRK but the reality- TV style is losing its sheen unless you bring something to it. Those forced silences and awkward moments just don't work if you're not going to bring an element of the panopticon to it.The Production: Cut, cut, cut. I read someone say this film is slick but in my opinion you could trip on the gaps between cuts. I could hear myself grind my teeth between bad performances because for some reason the producer wanted me to notice they were BAD.It pains me to write this because I actually knew KRK back in college and loved his stage performances and steady supply of off-stage wit but I'm thoroughly disappointed at the hack job that's been put together with "The President is Coming". Let this be a lesson to all foreign dignitaries to steer clear of this country just so we don't have to be subjected to another one of these abominations.