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Dishoom – Movie Review

July 29, 2016 prejithpillai Leave a comment

(2.5 / 5)

An upgraded version of David Dhawan movie by son Rohit Dhawan starring the hunk John Abraham and Varun Dhawan. John as always looking awesome with his masculine bulk body and David Dhawan did complete justice to his role. Movie is like next jolly Bollywood movie with larger than life actions, beautiful locations and songs. As shown in the trailer, the movie is all about kidnapping of a famous cricket player named as Viraj Sharma before a crucial match of India with Pakistan in a final of some series. Akshay Khanna is back as a villain in the movie as a cricket match betting mafia who kidnapped Viraj and the story goes on.

Johan Abraham from Special Force India and Varun Dhawan from Arab Police is chasing for the player all over the movie through various challenges and situations. Movie is very colourful as always following the legacy of father David Dhawan. The lacking point is about the soul of the movie, it was not that much entertaining. The plot is too much good for making this movie with more thrill and perfection. It looks like Rohit Dhawan lost the grab somewhere in between the movie. As compared to Desi Boyz, his first venture, it was awesome.

Jacqueline Fernandez is there in a supporting role adding little masala on the movie with her stunning looks and the song Sau tarah ke. There are two more surprise packages in the movie as cameo roles which I can’t reveal here as per the ethics. Saqib Saleem is playing the role of cricketer and he did complete justice for the same.

Overall it is a onetime watch if you wanna enjoy something light without brain.

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Great Grand Masti – Movie Review

July 29, 2016 prejithpillai Leave a comment

(1.5 / 5)

When the first Masti released in 2004, it created a sensation with new level comedy mixed with emotional drama, story and awesome level of acting from the trio. The level of the comedy and story decreased by the next released Grand Masti in 2013 and now Great Grand Masti is a complete wastage of time, money and talent of Ritesh Deshmukh, Vivek Oberoi and Aftab Shivdasani. No doubt they are fantastic actors but when the plot and story is not keeping the pace, the actors can’t help it.

As shown in trailer, movie is based on vulgar comedy like putting a Viagra capsule into a glass of milk increases the size of glass. Story revolves around a ghost of a young virgin girl living in an old Bungalow. As per story she died without living her desires and fantasy, hence the ghost is waiting there to get a male person to full fill here desires. To include the flavour of melodrama, Director Indra Kumar tried to add some family values of love and respect between the couples but ended up with poor acting and baseless emotions.

Urvashi Rautela is the ghost in the movie flaunting her dresses in every essence, like the ghost is having a complete designer wardrobe at her home. The three sex starved husbands, this time completely failed in the task of entertaining the audience.

Overall, it is not even a one time watch.

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Sultan – Movie Review

July 8, 2016 prejithpillai Leave a comment

(4 / 5)

A mind blowing performance from Salman Khan, really an Eid Gift for all. It seems like movie starring Salman Khan are setting up a new standard as a film and record in box office. It is a complete family entertainer with full melodrama and power packed actions of wrestling. In the beginning of movie, I felt it to be a little lagging but soon it paced up immensely to the top. Story is little predictable but the way it is presented, made the movie a thrilling experience. As shown in trailer, it is all about a middle aged wrestling champion from a village of Haryana who won various gold medals for India and became a world champion in wrestling. The core of the movie is wrestling but the story is driven by love and romance. Movie is giving a message of girl empowerment along with promoting the sport wrestling in a very nice manner. Young crowd and new investors should promote alternative games other than monopolized game of our country.

Movie is blessed with beautiful songs composed by Vishal-Shekhar and sung by brilliant singers like Rahat Fateh Ali Khan, Mika Singh, Sukhwinder Singh etc. My personal best one is Jag Ghoomeya by Rahat Fateh Ali Khan. Salman Khan rocked with awesome acting and dashing wrestling moves. His dedication and hard work is reflected on screen. Respect for the various transition he made with his body for various stages shown in the movie. Movie is a combination of flashbacks where there is a 30-year aged Sultan with little lean physique but not as a pro. Then there is 40-year aged Sultan with bulky and fatty muscles with a tummy. Then transforming into a trained Pro-Wrestler in the same age of 40 with huge muscles and excellent definition. This time the only flaw I felt is the Haryanvi accent by Salman which is ignorable as the other entire performance is outstanding. As per my analysis the weak point with Salman was the emotional roles he does, but this time he performed it with excellence.

Anushka Sharma is there as better half of Sultan in the movie, she is also an International Level Wrestling Champion who is the sole responsible person for building up the personality Sultan in this world. She is the backbone of the movie with outstanding performance. She tried giving a message of saving girl child, importance of girls in the society and evil they are facing in some parts of our country. You can feel it that she really took wrestling classes to be original in the shots.

Randeep Hooda is there in a cameo role as a trainer of Sultan for the Pro-Takedown championship. No doubt, he did full justice to his role. Anant Sharma as Govind, Sultan’s friend who backed up always with Sultan for all his journey of life was outstanding and awesome in the movie. He completely nailed the Haryanvi character in the movie. Can’t ignore Mr. Kumud Mishra as Guruji of Sultan’s Wrestling, he added real touch of a true Guruji Pehalwan. Other than all-star cast, you can see real people from the wrestling world in the movie.

Watch it for a family melodrama with action packed wrestling.

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Raman Raghav 2.0 – Movie Review

June 27, 2016 prejithpillai Leave a comment

(3 / 5)

Anurag Kashyap is back again with his kind of movie accompanying one of the great actor of our times Mr. Nawazuddin Siddiqui. As shown in trailer Movie revolves around a serial killer who is completely physco. He claims that god gives him instruction to kill somebody and without any ado he accomplishes that. He stalks a Drug addict detective officer Vicky Kaushal investigating the serial killing case. The movie is somewhat inspired by the serial killer Raman Raghav who was at Mumbai during 1960’s. Using a steel rod, he uses to break the skull of the victim. He committed 41 murders and later sentenced to death by Bombay High Court. The judgment later changed to life time imprisonment after his defense pleaded that he was mentally ill.

In the movie Nawazuddin was searching for Raghav, a partner, as he claims himself as Raman and the movie goes on. Movie is completely thriller and full of brutal acts. Nawazuddin Siddiqui’s brilliant acting skills can’t be explained in words. Every next role he plays is like he actually craft himself into the character. Vicky Kaushal did justice to his role and completely evolved into the role of a drug addict cop. The beautiful Sobhita Dhuliwala is there as a random girl living with Vicky Kaushal who is later brutally killed by the so called killer in the movie.

Lacking part of the movie that, it is actually missing the real thrill of the subject and without a core of the story needed for this platform. Movie is too much predictable and little lagging in between, which actually dropped the grasp over the audience.

Watch it for Nawazuddin Siddiqui…

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Dhanak – Movie Review

June 18, 2016 prejithpillai Leave a comment

(4 / 5)

A movie you gonna love from the core of your heart, a journey you gonna travel in that two hours of time sitting at cinema. I bet, you will be in love with Krrish Chhabria, the chotu and Hetal Gada, the pari after watching this movie. These kids completely nailed the characters into such heights, where they are at par with our famous veteran actors. I saw tears, laughter and happiness on every single face sitting in my cinema hall. A heartiest congratulation to Director Nagesh Kukunoor for such a wonderful movie. Dhanak released and hit theaters on the same day with Udtha Punjab, it is a serious disadvantage for this movie as no big star cast is there in this film. But trust me, my Udtha Punjab fever evaded and I am totally Dhanak after watching this wonderful, colorful as rainbow (Dhanak) movie.

Movie is rich with awesome music composed by Tapas Relia, and some songs are fusion of Rajastani Music with Western Touch. Specially “Dum-a-Dum” song is truely a repeat mode song for your ipod. Talking about movie, as you saw in trailer, it is a journey of two siblings chotu and pari, where chotu is fan of Salman Khan and Pari is fan of Shahrukh Khan. Chotu is blind and pari believes that Shahrukh Khan will help her to get his brother’s surgery done. In that belief they both leave there home and walk across cities to meet the actor who was shooting somewhere around Jaisalmer. The whole movie goes around this journey and happenings in between this travel.

You can see, Rajiv the famous one from the MTV Roadies twins, as Rajasthani person in the movie. Bunch of highly talented actors like Suresh Menon, Vijay Maurya, Vipin Sharma and many more is there in the movie making it a real gift for your eyes.

If you miss this movie, you can’t full fill the loss with any other one…

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Udta Punjab – Movie Review

June 17, 2016 prejithpillai Leave a comment

(4.5 / 5)

One of the most controversial movie is released today with rock solid performances and an excellent plot which is making some people furious in the country. As seen on trailer, movie is all about the insurgence of substance in the youth of Punjab State. Story is portraying the current status of Punjab youth via a Rockstar, a labour girl, a doctor and a police man. Shahid Kapoor is playing the role of a Rockstar who is completely addicted to drugs and somehow he promoted the same through his songs and performances throughout the state and other places. Youth following him are inspired by him and thus, misguide themselves to walk on the path of drugs.

Alia Bhatt is in the role of a labourer girl from Bihar and somehow get caught into the drug racket due to the greed of making instant money and success. Kareena Kapoor a doctor from Punjab is protesting against the drugs in the state. She made a plan, with the help of a police person Dilijit Dosanjh, to bust the whole racket, and the movie goes on with awesome thrill and good story narration. Mix and match of three different situations together is not easy for a film maker, but it is beautifully done in the movie by director Abhishek Chaubey.

Casting is so beautifully done in the movie that, it is like real characters of real life. Hats off to Alia Bhatt for her wonderful performance, I believe she overshadowed every other person in the movie. After Alia, Shahid did an outstanding performance, he is maintaining his legacy to being into mature movies like Kaminey and now this one. On the other side, Dilijit is there with such nice and charming personality that he completely nailed the role of a Punjab Police person. A briliiant natural acting from a new comer Prabhjyot Singh as Balli in the movie is commendable, you must watch the movie to see him as brother of Dilijit there. Kareena adding a little romantic flavor to the movie with Dilijit is making the movie a complete Bollywood package with extra ordinary acting, direction and screenplay.

Watch it for some real acting performance with a thrilling story plot.

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TE3N – Movie Review

June 11, 2016 prejithpillai Leave a comment

(4 / 5)

A mystery drama film by Ribhu Dasgupta featuring Amitabh Bachchan, Nawazuddin Siddiqui and Vidya Balan in lead role. As seen on the trailer, it is about an 8 years old kidnap & Murder case of a child, for which the investigation is still going on. Amitabh Bachchan is the Grand Father of that child, Vidya Balan a cop investigating the same case and Nawazuddin is the old investigation officer who operated the mission 8 years ago and now he left police department and turned as a priest in church.

No words to explain the very awesome performance of Amitabh Bachchan again, he is like gifting golden movies like Piku, Wazir and now this one. He gonna completely win your heart with the performance of an old vengeful man himself investigating the crime with a will power to be after that for long 8 years. The whole movie is a journey of 8 years behind that criminal. Nawzauddin Siddiqui, no doubt he is awesome as usual, he delivered the character in such a manner that it is like he is not acting at all, he actually live the character. Vidya Balan is little overshadowed by both the above legends but then also she outraged the performance by her bold character.

Clinton Cerejo directed some very awesome tracks like “Haq Hai” and “Kyun Re” which made the tempo of movie so high with some strong emotional spirit.

Watch the movie for some real piece of acting and thrilling story.

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Housefull 3 – Movie Review

June 3, 2016 prejithpillai Leave a comment

(4 / 5)

Directors Sajid Samji and Farhad Samji made it great as compared to the last sequels of Housefull. Movie is very light and quite good comedy if you really want to get relaxed from your daily hectic routine. As it was shown in trailer, Movie is all about three men convincing a father that they are fit for marrying his daughters. Akshay kumar, as always maintaining the legacy of comedy, he started from Hera Pheri and in this movie he has split personality disorder of one naughty side and another good side. Ritesh Deshmukh has again done full justice to his role of acting as blind in front of father of girls.

Abhishek Bachchan is back with a bang and this time you can see a matured comedy from the actor with really funny scenes like saving Aishwarya’s wax statue from falling down and tolerating tortures to proof himself dumb in front of the father of girls. Booman Irani is there as father of three girls Jacqulin Fernadez, Nargis Fakhri and Lisa Haydon. As always he outraged the character of a high class Gujarati, who lives in London.

All three pretty girls are looking beautiful and awesome throughout the movie. You can see Jacky Shroff with a twist in the movie in a dashing role of Don threatening our chocolaty heroes. Chunky Pandey is back again in this movie with his famous dialogue “I am a Joookkiiinngg”.

Overall, it is a lightweight movie with excellent comedy.

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Veerappan – Movie Review

June 1, 2016 prejithpillai Leave a comment

(3.5 / 5)

This time Ram Gopal Varma nailed it with good cinema, awesome narration, direction and excellent performance from Sandeep Bhardwaj as Veerappan. This movie is biographical story of Indian bandit Veerappan who was spreading terror with his notorious crimes, sandal wood and elephant teeth smuggling, for nearly 30 years in the forests of the states of Karnataka, Kerala and Tamil Nadu. Various operations held by police failed to catch Veerappan. He killed more than 184 people in his span, out of them 87 was police officials and forest officers. Almost killed more than 900 elephants for teeth smuggling.

He kidnapped Kannada actor Raj Kumar for his desire of fame and money. This movie almost projected his life events and perfectly portrayed the terror and sharpness of Veerappan. While watching the movie I felt that it is made for glorifying a criminal or to project such a personality in front of public, in such a vast state that for 30 years our forces couldn’t catch him. This can also make negative impact on the people of our country. Some youth may get inspired by him. However, Ram Gopal Verma made this with good intention, as per his statement, “Making Veerappan is not glorifying a criminal, but it is to put a mirror to how he was allowed to happen in the first place”.

Sachin Joshi is playing the role of police officer who made the master plan to bring Veerappan out of the jungle and to encounter him. I must say it was exciting watching him in this character, brilliant and outstanding performance. Usha Jadhav playing the role of Muthulakshmi, wife of Veerappan is remarkable in the movie. You can see Lisa Ray back to the silver screen with excellent piece of acting. She is playing the role of a widow whose husband was a police officer and got killed by Veerappan. She coordinated with police to make the master plan for trapping Veerappan. Shiva Rajkumar a suspended cop was the important person in the movie to get Veerappan trapped. Besides having a short role in the movie he nailed the character and I bet he will be in the mind of audience for long time due to his unique style of acting. Other than this you can expect some loud background score in the movie as like the signature style of Mr. Ram Gopal Varma.

Well, it is a must watch to know about the biggest villain till today in the world.

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Sarbjit – Movie Review

May 25, 2016 prejithpillai Leave a comment

(4 / 5)

A movie which you should not miss at any cost. Brilliant piece of cinema from Director Omung Kumar based on the real story of a person who by mistake crossed the Pakistan border and got arrested with an allegation of being Indian Spy and later mistaken as Ranjith Singh who was accused for a serial bomb blast in Pakistan. Movie begins with the happy go days of Sarbjit in a small village at Punjab nearby India-Pakistan border. After being caught by Pakistan army, the beyond third degree torture that he undergo, and the way he is been treated in the Pakistani Jail is terrific and hard to even think about it. He is later sentenced for capital punishment by the supreme court of Pakistan. Randeep Hooda played the role of Sarbjit and I have no words to explain his performance. His dedication and the outstanding performance outraged his all past roles and I guess this one may be the best one till now. Talking about dedication, he revealed looks of skinny and weak Sarbjit in jail, for which he has been in starvation mode monitored by his sister Dr. Anjali Hooda. He lost 18 Kgs in the span of 28 days and it was like a torture for him. He was only allowed to 500-600 calories a day with no starch and only protein.

Another side, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan rocked the screen with her equally powerful character or I can say little overshadowed Randeep Hooda by her brilliant performance. She played the role of Sarbjit’s sister who devoted her whole life to go after Sarbjit, fight against system and Pakistan government to prove the innocence of her brother and to bring him back to India.

The sixty percent of movie is filled with her presence portraying the whole life journey of a young lady to a white haired old woman devoting whole of her life for an impossible mission and fight against the world. Richa Chadda is there in the movie as wife of Sarabjit. Very effortlessly she portrayed the emotional journey of a women losing her husband for no reason in her early romantic days of marriage and left with two children, who not even get to see their father’s face in consciousness.

While watching the movie you will realize how lucky you are as you are sitting in some lavish seats of a multiplex and watching the movie freely. Just think about the man who got trapped in a wooden box for months without food and light. Pakistan army left him with mice in the same box, he was being bitten and infected by them. Third degree torture and everything without even the person know why he is there and what is his offence. So next time when you feel that you are not satisfied with the life given my almighty you should think there are hell lot of people still trapped in Pakistan Jails without any reason. It is not a one sided thing; more than 275 Pakistan people are also there in Indian jail as per the stats of 2015.

Movie is a must watch to realize the value of your life, and to experience the outstanding performance of Randeep and Aishwarya.