Andaz Apna Apna Blu Ray!

[superman.indian]

4k from ultra, are they releasing it on blu-ray?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xZ6XlW2-pM

[Hindustani]

Can someone review AAA BRD by Ultra thats out now!

How is the PQ and AQ? please rate both if you can.

[Hindustani]

Originally Posted by superman.indian

4k from ultra, are they releasing it on blu-ray?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xZ6XlW2-pM

This is fake, upscaled 4K from 2K Master by ULTRA! plain and simple. Also, heavily compressed.

I just saw 2 of all 4K uploaded files of AAA on Youtube Ultra site and then I saw 15 mins of AAA BRD just now. The BRD is clearly better, more detail.

AAA has very interesting look to it. The colors are more fleshed out due to Fujicolor 35mm celluloid master imo. You can up the warmness by changing colors setting for your TV.

I'm glad I purchased AAA BRD. Its worthy of keeping in collection. Sound is excellent. This is the clearest sound I've ever seen for AAA.

MOVIE: out of
PQ : out of
AQ : 1/2 out of

I'm satisfied. I did not expected better.

But that lingering ultra logo.

[samala]

I haven't watch it yet; most love it, some hate it. Any opinions?

Cheers

[Hindustani]

Originally Posted by samala

I haven't watch it yet; most love it, some hate it. Any opinions?

Cheers

Well. TBH, AAA (1994) is atleast 20 years ahead of its time if you ask me.

AAA belongs in Christmas 2014 well beyond 3-IDIOTs Christmas 2009 release date. It would've had an unstoppable march towards 500 crores in holiday season becoming Bollywood's first 500 crore club movie with 2 reigning superstars, terrific entertainment value, wholesome family comedy, enjoyable clean family like songs as it belonged in both Single Screens and Multiplexes. Unfortunately, it released during peak golden era of 1990s decade of "romance" bollywood sandwitched between HAHK (1994) and DDLJ (1995).

Now the non-BoxOffice stuff.....

AAA aged so well because of its steller casting, amazing script that do not go for cheap, physical comedy (Shetty, David Dhawan cinema). Its self-mockery, silliness and direction made it such a landmark film and a boxoffice failure both. If one looks beyond its simplistic storyline, AAA works wonders on screenplay and direction alone. Whether it be Salman's buffoonry, Aamir's oversmartness, Karishma's innocence, Paresh's drama, Shakti's antics, it never takes itself beyond silliness. Therein lies its magic.

AAA could be Bollywood's ultimate "feel good" movie. My point is, if someone does an experiement on a depressed patient and is shown AAA every morning as soon as he wakes up for a month, he may see life from totally different angle and come out of depression. Very few movies possess this. Another movie I can think of is SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION, and this was a hollywood Boxoffice failure too.

[ravenus]

I'm not as hyperbolic towards AAA. In my only full viewing I found it quite tiresome in parts, mainly because I think Aamir Khan has zero flair for comedy. If his part had been done by Govinda, I suspect I'd have found the film more fun, but then the entire production publicity hype around AAA was that two of the leading Box-Office Khans were paired up in a movie. Also I felt the film could have been pruned better, several scenes went on for too long (of course this has nothing to do with its box-office fate, we see so many poorly scripted and edited films become huge blockbusters).

But the film admittedly has solid charm in its absurd moments (I especially appreciate the character actors in this one - Paresh Rawal, Shakti Kapoor, Viju Khote), and its fun-poking at the Bollywood formula ("Main hoon Teja, mark idhar hai", even if that had its origin in the climax of Gulzar's classy laugh-fest Angoor). While AAA may have had the bad luck of being released at a time when absurd comedies were not in season, calling it 20 years ahead of time is just our beloved Hindustani's tendency to exaggerate. In terms of flat out crazy funny I'd recommend a much older Hindi film Johar Mahmood in Hong Kong as a better alternative in a similar genre. It has its flaws of course, mainly in its bloated running time and excess of song breaks, but the part where the lead characters disguise a morgue to look like a bank, propping up corpses to play the role of bank employees is more hilarious and insane than anything Rajkumar Santoshi dreamed up for his film.

Johar Mehmood in Hong Kong Full Movie | Mehmood, I S Johar, Aruna Irani | Bollywood Comedy Movies - YouTube

[Star Lord]

I wonder why they haven't made a sequel of AAA yet. It would easily make 1000 crores now given the star power of Sallu and Amir.

[ravenus]

Originally Posted by Star Lord

I wonder why they haven't made a sequel of AAA yet. It would easily make 1000 crores now given the star power of Sallu and Amir.

Why The Sequel Of ‘Andaz Apna Apna’ Won't Have Aamir And Salman In It

[Hindustani]

Originally Posted by ravenus

I'm not as hyperbolic towards AAA. In my only full viewing I found it quite tiresome in parts, mainly because I think Aamir Khan has zero flair for comedy. If his part had been done by Govinda, I suspect I'd have found the film more fun, but then the entire production publicity hype around AAA was that two of the leading Box-Office Khans were paired up in a movie. Also I felt the film could have been pruned better, several scenes went on for too long (of course this has nothing to do with its box-office fate, we see so many poorly scripted and edited films become huge blockbusters).

But the film admittedly has solid charm in its absurd moments (I especially appreciate the character actors in this one - Paresh Rawal, Shakti Kapoor, Viju Khote), and its fun-poking at the Bollywood formula ("Main hoon Teja, mark idhar hai", even if that had its origin in the climax of Gulzar's classy laugh-fest Angoor). While AAA may have had the bad luck of being released at a time when absurd comedies were not in season, calling it 20 years ahead of time is just our beloved Hindustani's tendency to exaggerate.

Oh Boy! now I believe AAA is 30 years ahead of its time.

Your comments goes to show how little cinegoers understand script, screenplay and direction. Your analysis is too casual. I dont even know where to begin.

first of all.....

AAA is not as superficial as "teja main hu. mark either hai" or "galti se mistake ho gaye" (assuming you come from Hindi/urdu speaking belt and gujarati, marathi, rajasthani etc is not your mother tongue). Those 2 lines are just for all-India understand regardless of hindi/urdu/hindustani dilect their first language or not.

AAA is cleverly written and superbly directed. Something majority of the people dont even realize. Its "set-ups" are brilliant. A movie need not be out and out entertaining to be a masterpiece. Most people think SHOLAY is a masterpiece knowing perfectly well its direction and characters are copied from ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST. And find MUGHAL-E-AZAM, PAKEEZAH and GUIDE non-masterpiece, average cinema.

Let me give you few AAA examples.....

MALE INSECURITIES.

Having a beautiful wife who is also "wealthy." Amar's line adds "dhan" to Juhi's "main tumhe tan aur man se swikaar karti hu". Amar's biggest insecurity while continue living off Juhi's beauty and wealth but dont want any other male touching her or even getting too close to her professionally. Hence, "pictures mein kaam karna...magar dooor dooor rehna...door door rehna" Amar says it TWICE!. with such insecurity!. just brilliant.

Hence, Amar's OVERSMART attitude is to hide his male insecurities. Govinda would've been complete miscast here. Govinda is a loud, over actor who rely on cheap, physical comedy and tons of comedic help from Kader Khan, Shakti Kapoor and Anupum kher. Aamir's casting is okay. Akshay would've done same job as Aamir here. The important thing is Govinda would've destroyed Salman's timings, buffoonary and chemsitry with his over-acting. This would've ruined the whole movie. In David Dhawan, Rohit Shetty cinema, anything goes.

THE COMIC SET-UPS

DIARRHEA scenes would've been disguisting, vulgar and ugly had it been David Dhawan or Rohit Shitty comedy. How brilliantly "Dil ki Baat" becomes "Pet (stomach) ki baat" to Amar's OVERSMARTNESS of "Doctor ko bulaon kya Doctor?". Audience, never feet disguisted despite hearing diarrhea sounds of stomach.

PRISON RIBBON CUTTING Scene again shows Santoshi's brilliance as a director.

HOTEL scene is made brilliant by Harish Patel's cameo when he OUTSMARTS Amar's outsmartness. How can anyone forget "baju mein khabrastaan hai. wahan se complains nahin aane chahiye" and finishes off with "Batti (light) ki kya zaroorat hai. Kapde utaaro aur so (sleep) jaaoo. Kisi ko dekhna dikhana hai kya?". Vulgarity done so neatly and so subtle. Almost all Harish Patel's lines leave Amar speechless.

FOOTBALL MATCH Scene again shows writing and direction at its best. This scene has some of the best comedic writing bollywood ever seen. Devoid of any double meaning dialogues, vulgarity etc. How can you forget Robert saying "Sir aapne bataya nahin aaj mera happy birthday hai?" also when Amar goes "sabh apna apna glass utha lo". Robert's classic line "Apna apna glass?" LOL.

TIME BOMB scene.......BUS Scene.......CYCLE Scene etc etc. There are so many.....I dont remember all.

INSIDE JOKES

Amar taunting Prem why he saw SHOLAY 10 times. "iske baap ne likhi hai na. isi liye". etc etc. There is too much to remember.

Ajit's real life son casted as Bhalla. Talks like him. "Hamara Naye Plan ke Mutabiq....." and each of his plan fails.

AAA is a unique, one-of-a-kind film. If JAANE BHI DO YAARO was dark comedy. AAA is light, self-mocking, silly Masterpiece. It plays off in pairs mostly. Amar's oversmart cleverness vs Prem's foolishness. Raveena's cleverness vs Karishma's buffoonary. Bhalla's oversmartness vs Robert's foolishness.

Today, AAA will cross 400+Crores easily. It has that universal appeal that many people dont realize. More than CHALTI KA NAAM GADI. JAANE BHI DO YAARO. Its clean, non-vulgar, family oriented with loads of jokes and self-mocking. I dont believe how any indian kid, high school adolescent, college guys and family audience will miss out on it if released it on Christmas holiday season as a solo big film.

Bottomline is AAA is a bollywood's answer to ITS A MAD MAD MAD MAD WORLD or SOME LIKE IT HOT.

[ravenus]

Sorry, you may be utterly convinced of its masterpiece status but I just see a lot of verbal diarrhea up here trying to pass off perfectly serviceable but average material as some kind of incredible genius. Oh well, each to his/her own.

[jayavictory]

Apologies to bring back this old thread, but for those of you have seen both the Amazon/Netflix print vs Ultra's BR, is one better than the other? Audio? I know the dreaded watermark is present on the BR..

[Hindustani]

Originally Posted by jayavictory

Apologies to bring back this old thread, but for those of you have seen both the Amazon/Netflix print vs Ultra's BR, is one better than the other? Audio? I know the dreaded watermark is present on the BR..

Jaya

Please do not apologize for bringing this up. Apologies need to be given by Indian hindi belt cinegoers of mid-1990s who made AAA an ultra-flop.

I've seen Netflix and BD-50. Both are "ultra" 2K scan prints. If there is one mid-90s classics along with DDLJ, HAHK you must have it in your collection, its this Ultra BD-50 of AAA.

upon viewing AAA on Oppo UDP-203, I found AAA BD-50 showing slightly more detail on sony 900f 55". Other than this, colors are same as Netflix HD print. This could be because Netflix AAA HD file could be more compressed? who really knows? BD-50 is cearly slightly better PQ wise.