Title: Once Upon A Time In Mumbaai
Year: 2010
BD Release: 2010
IMDB Rating: 7.0
Category: Crime | Drama | Musical | Romance
Distributor: BIG Home Video
Authoring House: Digital Entertainment
Region Coding: A/B/C
MRP: Rs. 699/-
Media: Main Feature - 50GB BD
Running Time: 02:14:16 hrs
Chapters: 20
Video:
2.35:1, HD 1080p 16:9, AVC 24Hz
Peak Bitrate ?Mbps | Average Bitrate ?Mbps
Audio:
1/2 Hindi - DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 (48khz 5.9mbps) <-- Default Track
2/2 Hindi - Dolby Digital 5.1 (48khz 640kbps)
Subtitles: <-- 2.35:1 Screen Friendly (Positioned at the bottom of the picture area)
1/1 English
Special Features: SD | 16:9 | MPEG2 | AVC 24Hz | Dolby Digital 2.0
1. Making of Once Upon A Time In Mumbai 46:19
Divided into 6 Chapters:
1. Title Concept
2. Music
3. Action
4. Train Action
5. Look Styling
6. Production Design

Special Mention:
1. Pop-up menu during extras for the extras' chapters.

Authoring issues:
1. Pop-up menus do not close on their own and stay up forever or until manually closed by the menu button or a selection is made.
2. No Option to 'Play All' in the 'Song Menu' <-- This should be a no brainer for all Bollywood films.
3. Intemission/Interval missing.

Review:
Notes:
Reasonably well made movie. Tight and gripping. Milan Luthria has outdone himself, hopefully his future films will further raise the bar, rather than go back to his 'Kache Dhaage' days. Background score and a couple of songs are very good. What I did not like is the glorification of underworld kingpins, almost making them out to be heroes and role models.
DNR galore, straight out of Madame Tussuad's. Totally destroys an otherwise fine blu-ray. I have been personally assured by Mr. Chandna that any DNR issues are not of his company's doing, as they have simply encoded the master provided, as is without any re-processing.
One of the better surround sound mixes for a song, in the 'Parda Parda - Duniya Mein/Piya Tu' song.
Extras although SD are 16:9. Good to see BIG and Digital Entertainment including extras when space permits, as in this case.
Detailed Comments to follow....
Recommended

My ratings: (out of 5.0)
Movie: 3.25
Video: 3.25
Audio: 4.25
Extras: 4.0
Misc.: 4.0
Overall: 3.8




Screenshots courtesy 'Team IcTv'

Equipment used for testing:
Projector: Panasonic PT-AE2000U
Screen: Da-Lite 4:3 120" 'Model B' - White Matte
Viewing Distance: 11' 6"
A/V Receiver: Denon AVR5800
Speakers: 5.1
Front/Main: Paradigm Reference 100 v2
Center: Paradigm Reference Studio CC v2
Rear: Tannoy - Mercury M5
Subwoofer: Paradigm Reference Servo 15
BD Player:
Oppo BDP-83 (Hardware Modified 'Region Free' with 'BDP83-50-0424' firmware)
PS3 (80GB US 'Region A' with firmware v3.50)

Thank you for good review.
Actually I worried about the PQ, because the picture of Kangna's face is so horrible.
She looks like a spider what I saw yesterday. (yes, 50% kidding, 50% of my 2 cents)
(Sorry Kangna, that might not be your fault. It seems product authoring problem )

Do we know who are these idiots screwing up the source? I see a pattern starting with Rajneeti, must be the same company who is responsible for the DI.

the movie was good the music was good the mix was also pretty good.......and yes the background score was also good.....but the DNR is stopping me to buy this bd.....!! sanjay ive seen the movie in the dvd earlier so would you recommend this blu ray??

good review sanjay.

Saw this last night. Firstly, the movie. I thought it was pretty poor all round with nothing characters and a scattershot all over the place directorial style. Did like the picturisation of 'Pe Loon' and one early scene involving a young Shoaib getting caught.

As for the disc, PQ varies from scene to scene, some closeups have DNR galore but they mainly seem to relate to Kangna's scenes. Other scenes are nice and filmic while a lot of the long shots have EE. Way too inconsistent on the PQ front but not a disaster. AQ is nice but the songs are much louder than the rest of the mix (a problem with a lot of bollywood dvds and BDs). 'Pe Loon' sounds great.