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Kis Kisko Pyaar Karoon – Movie Review

October 6, 2015 prejithpillai Leave a comment

(3.5 / 5)

When I reached the Movie Theater, the noon show was totally filled up with family audience. Which represents a serious fan following of the famous Host of Comedy Nights with Kapil – Mr. Kapil Sharma. He is blessed with a good date of release for his debut project as today is festival day of Bakrid (Eid al-Adha). This is also a reason of such overwhelming response in theater.

Talking about movie, Director Abbas Mustan nailed it out from the very talented person Kapil Sharma and believe me this film is outstanding in the genre of comedy. You will really cherish the good times of all-time favorite Govinda movies. Now a day’s comedy in Bollywood is created either with nonsense logics or with vulgarity. This movie is a complete family entertainer even though the story is based on extra martial affairs or more than one marriage for a person at a time.

Story is based on some unrealistic reasons for Kapil’s marriage each time. Following a cheesy item number by Elli Avram, featuring weed things in songs is becoming a trend now. Items songs are little turn off in between the movie. Other than above mentioned very few turnoff’s, movie is awesome and worth watching. No doubt over the talented person Kapil Sharma, he is beautifully abled to give justice to his role as a comedian, actor and specially he bought emotions in comedy which looks completely real even you know that it is a comic emotional scene.

There are bunch of brilliant actors on board starting with Varun Sharma, playing character of a lawyer and friend of Kapil Sharma. The briefing of Newton’s law and science for making people puzzled to save Kapil from various problems are some good moments presented by Varun Sharma in the movie. Sharat Saxena as father of Kapil Sharma really gave some hilarious moments in movie like romancing with Supriya Pathak playing background music of Dhadkhan movie’s song Dil ne yeh kaha hai Dil Se… Arbaaz Khan as brother in law of Kapil Sharma also did well as per his character. Last but not least Jamie Lever daughter of the legend Johny Lever is also there in the movie as a Kaamwali Baai (Servant), short role but effective one.

Overall I found every single person laughing out of heart throughout the movie and there was a smile over every one going out of the theater at end.

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Katti Batti – Movie Review

September 19, 2015 prejithpillai Leave a comment

(1 / 5)

Katti Batti is an attempt to recreate the magic of Kangana with her bold and distinguished sense of acting and performance, but I am feeling sorry for Director Nikhil Advani as it completely went wrong and turned out to be a disaster which will make you bored for complete two and half hours.

Movie started with very slow and depressive momentum, audience expected the momentum to pace up till interval however it never happened till the end. There is not even a bit of hold of the movie over audience as I observed people playing games and leaving the theater in between the movie. Story is based on relationship mess ups and complication and suddenly come up with a ninety’s kind of climax. As mentioned Kangana is in a bold kind of rich girl’s character with a lavish attitude towards life. Flirting with a next to door regular guy’s character played by Imran Khan turned into a true love and their ups and downs of chemistry.

Imran again in a chocolaty look ordinary guy with expression less acting is also a turn off for the film. Movie is full of masala, catchy dialogues and situations but what actually went wrong is the theme of flash backs and the overall presentation and lack of thrill required for this kind of subject.

Well, as per my review it is not even worth watching once

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Hero – Movie Review

September 11, 2015 prejithpillai Leave a comment

(2.5 / 5)

The most needed debut for Sooraj Pancholi’s son of Aditya Pancholi, directed by Nikhil Advani, produced by Salman Khan & Subash Ghai is released today and seems the magic of the hero is not spreading much as expected. Although movie is good and better entertainer with all the Bollywood masala for mass, the theaters are not filling up fast. Probably we have to wait till this weekend to see about the responses of public.

Talking about the movie, it starts with overdose of heroism with larger than life action sequences. Later on, it comes down to the grounds of reality making the actions little logical. Sooraj is looking great flaunting his lean muscular body with an amateur and young kid kinda look.

The girl with a broad jaw line Miss Athiya Shetty, daughter of Sunil Shetty is casted against Sooraj as the lead lady. Considering this is her debut, she did better job in her pilot project. In the terms of acting skills both look like amateur but better than many in the industry.

You can see fantastic actors like Tigmanshu Dulia and Aditya Pancholi onscreen creating some good cinema. Aditya Pancholi is back on the screen after the movie Bodyguard supporting his son’s debut film.
Screen play and locations of the movie is pretty awesome showing places from snow covered Kashmir along with beautiful monasteries. Combining these locations with music of Amaal Mallik, Meet Bros Anjjan and Sachin-Jigar created a fantastic combination. Second half of the movie is having a little more hold on the audience emotionally as compared to first part, which is little lagging and slow.

The song “Oh Khuda” is picturized at a stage format and it is choreographed beautifully. Movie end up with the most loved song of the year sung by Salman Khan “Main Hoon Hero”.

Beside above mentioned points movie is a one-time watch with a light romantic love story which will not leave any impact on audience to remember ever.

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Welcome Back – Movie Review

September 4, 2015 prejithpillai Leave a comment

(3 / 5)

One of the most awaited sequel of a blockbuster evergreen comedy Welcome Back released today, carrying forward all the excitement from the last one. Movie started with the same kind of momentum and hold from the scene one itself. Nana Patekar rocked again with his brilliant and excellent performance, he is the man with versatility… he can make you laugh and cry in a single minute.

Anil Kapoor is a tough competition for all the upcoming actors of our Industry. He is still young and dynamic and rocked the movie with his Majnu Style. First part of the movie is filled with excitement, comedy and twist of emotions and a cherry on the top with glimpse from the last movie Welcome. Movie is full of humorous one liners which actually would create their presence in our brain forever.

Akshay Kumar is replaced with John Abraham is little lose for the movie as the comic role does not much suit over John. It is somewhat compromised as John is playing a character of a rowdy of Mumbai.

Lacking points of the movie starts with leading lady Shruti Haasan as she appears completely lost with emotionless and expression less acting. As talking about the crons the second part is little boring and some illogical comedy with seriously bad animations. Watching the first part will raise your expectation too high that the after interval part will really let you down. Movie climax is same us always creating chaos and confusions along with fight and drama. Movie is in the same platform as the old one with some characters replaced like Naseeruddin Shahin the place of Feroz Khan. You can see Shiney Ahuja back on screen with a not very strong character in the movie.

Other than the bad animations and little lagging part, movie is a complete entertainer especially for those who loves the part one movie Welcome. As the characters Majnu and Uday is themselves worth of your hard earned ticket money.

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Phantom – Movie Review

September 4, 2015 prejithpillai Leave a comment

(2 / 5)

Director Kabir Khan failed to create the magic this time as he did before with Bajrangi Bhaijaan and Ek tha Tiger. Movie is not as expected and is not as strong as per the plot of the story and subject.

Rolling up from the drastic tragedy faced by our country ever, 26/11 the Mumbai attack it is all based on the RAW surgical kind of operation in various parts of the world to eliminate and encounter terrorist secretly. As an actor Saif Ali Khan did his best as he do always, the lacking point is the presentation and dialogues. Movie is not able to create the intensity of patriotism as it can.

Katrina Kaif remains the same with less expression and poor acting. Talking about the positive parts movie is having a wonderful picturization of war front of Syria.

Over all it is a one-time watch if you have spare time…

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Manjhi, The Mountain Man – Movie Review

August 25, 2015 prejithpillai Leave a comment

(3.5 / 5)

A true piece of art and cinema is the one liner for the movie Manjhi – The Mountain Man. It is a movie based on the true story of a man Dashrath Manjhi from Bihar, India who carved a road through a mountain alone investing a long 22 years. The story itself is full of determination and motivation. Director Ketan Mehta very beautifully picturized the same into silver screen.

Movie is presenting the newly independent India, the evils and problems faced by backward villages of India at that time. Makers of the movie created environment of a Bihar village so perfectly that the audience can time travel through the village by feeling like you are there in the place Gehlaur. Almost shown all the evils prevailed that time like ruined Zamindari System, Untouchability, and people turning into naxalite to fight against.

Other than the story, movie is gifted with a person as lead actor, the legend of acting in himself, Mr. Nawazuddin Siddiqui. He nailed a movie again – this time with his unique kind of natural acting, giggling, laughter, dialogues, versatile expression and much more. Story of determination and motivation is actually ignited with the power of love and romance with the very beautiful actress Radhika Apte.

The chemistry between Nawazuddin and Radhika is unbelievable. Radhika switched into the character so effortlessly that you can’t even imagine she is the same girl from Badlapur. Ashraf Ul Haque as father of Dashrath, Tigmanshu Dhulia as Zamindar, Pankaj Tripathi as son of Zamindar it is a bunch of highly talented actors, most of them imported from Gangs of Wasseypur.

It is also a slap on Indian Government’s face ruled or ruined the country after Independence that, Shri. Dashrath Manjhi started digging the mountain from 1960 and he abled to carve a basic road for bullock carts and pedestrians till 1982. He tried his best to get help from government to build a proper road there to connect his village with outer world for basic necessity, amenities and a good connectivity shortening 80 KM distance to 1 KM. But he died in 2007, and finally the government built a road there in 2011 and named as Dashrath Manjhi Path. It is a shame that it took too long to realize the dedication and sacrifice of a great soul.

“Movie is a must watch! It is a real tribute to the real hero of determination, love and motivation…”

Actual Dashrath Manjhi and Nawazuddin Siddiqui

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All is Well – Movie Review

August 22, 2015 prejithpillai Leave a comment

(1.5 / 5)

All is Not Much Well, that is all I want to say about this movie. Director Umesh Shukla failed to create the humor he wants to; neither he been succeeded to deliver the message properly. Movie is trying to deliver a message of family values, responsibility of children towards parents and value of relationships via some senseless and sensible humor. Even after bunching too many talented actors the charisma is not there in the movie.

Mohammed Zeeshan Ayyub as Cheema the villain played an awesome and fantastic role in the movie with full justice to the comic role, I believe he is the only person who will leave mark on your mind after the movie. Abhishek Bachchan seems like he did the movie so casually that even he forgot to do the lip movement in corresponding to the songs or may be an editing fault. He is looking fake in all the singing sequences as the voice is not matching at all with his personality.

As I mentioned in my previous review for Brother Movie… again an unwanted item number by Sonakshi Sinha in this movie which is completely out of the track along with the story as the song is filling in by some senseless reason.

Humor is being tried to create in the movie by various senseless topics like insulting or making fun of Punjabi culture. It is irritating in the movie from start to end that Asin is trying to win heart of Abhishek all over the movie and the attitude of the boy character is so rude and ruthless that no girl will ever talk to that guy again.

Somewhat movie gained a little soul in the last twenty five percentage and will give at least a mind satisfaction to a person who devoted 2.5 hours for this presentation. I personally feel like the kind of personality and talent carrying by Abhishek Bachhan, Rishi Kapoor and Asin Thottumkal is not a thing to waste in these kind of movies. Hope to see some improved cinema from them in future.

Please don’t waste your time and money at all for this movie!

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Brothers – Movie Review

August 19, 2015 prejithpillai Leave a comment

(2.5 / 5)

A movie dedicated to Street fighting and mixed martial arts tournament. Director Karan Malhotra failed to bring the kind of excitement and energy he wants to fill into the movie. Movie started in a slow pace and it continue with the same till the intermission. The reason can be the style of presenting the story, which is in terms of each character’s flash back in the first half.

It is a story of two sons of an old time champion street fighter Jackie Shroff as Gary. Jacqueline Fernandez, playing the role of wife of Akshay kumar as Jenny, looking beautiful and gorgeous in the character.

Bringing Kareena Kapoor Khan in an item song “Mera naam Marry hai” doesn’t mean that it will help the movie being a hit. The song is completely waste and it is a kind of add on for the boring first half. I don’t understand the view point of most of the Hindi film makers, that why they need an item song to make the movie a hit. It is all about the story, the intensity that the director can create and also the cast. If you are not able to do that, it will only cater a certain group who is watching the movie only to see Kareena.

Somehow, the film managed to get the pace and excitement after the intermission and atleast paid justice to the audience who spent money over Akshay Kumar and Sidharth Malhotra in the role of a fighter. The workout circuit and training segments, the tournament fighting scenes showing various techniques and strategy of martial arts brought up the movie into an exciting mode. As mostly our films does it ended up with happy good go, and brought an end to the fire between two brothers. A fortunate, guessable climax with some serious moves of fight.

Watch the movie for some street fighting actions and to see Akshay Kumar and Sidharth in a real fighting avatar.

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Bangistan – Movie Review

August 11, 2015 prejithpillai Leave a comment

(1.5 / 5)

A light comedy Movie along with a message from Director Karan Anshuman, but failed to impress audience completely. The dashing Pulkit Samrat and versatile Ritesh Deshmukh did there job with full justice but the script or the story lacked the soul and thus fail to present the actual thoughts of director. The intensity required in the movie was not there for the kind of message they want to spread even after bunch of great list of actors they bundled up with.

You can expect some good kind of punches and things they have placed in the imaginary place which they have named as Bangistan. For instance, McDonalds becomes FcDonalds, having a guy sitting with gun and painted face in the place of McDonalds’ Ronald. The kind of environment they have created for a call centre at Bangistan. Even after so much creativity it does not have that much effect and grasp over the audience. They have wasted the talent of Jacklyn Fernadez in the movie just for a song and a 5% appearance as a Bar Tender.

Movie is all about Terrorism and creating Terrorist in the name of religion. A humorous way to represent the message that please come over above the religion and join hands together for the utmost religion and that is Humanity. A Muslim explains Hindu about the message in Bhagwad Gita and the Hindu explain back the message conveyed in Quran.

Overall the movie is bit boring due to the emotionless screenplay… you can watch it for a light humour with some serious message.

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Drishyam – Movie Review

August 8, 2015 prejithpillai Leave a comment

(3 / 5)

A remake of Malayalam Movie – Drishyam starer Mohan Lal & Meena directed by Jeethu Joseph is re-drawn by Nishikant Kamat, leading role by Ajay Devgan and Shirya Saran. Even though the intensity what Mohanlal created is not there in the Hindi Version, but it is an excellent performance in class by Ajay Devgan.

He may be the only one in the Film Industry for this role and probably will be chosen for National Award as Mohanlal earned. The weak and strong point of the movie was lady characters, Shirya Sharan lost it completely by giving a loose grab on the character and poor dialogue delivery. I am not sure either her dubbing artist or her own voice, it was completely emotion less and seems like lagging and in a very damn slow pitch. It was irritating the whole pace of movie.

But at the same side Tabu rocked the movie by the kind of intensity and mature performance she had on the screen. Almost parallel with Ajay she did a fantastic role of an IG Police .She is coming back to the silver screen with strong performances like earlier in Haider and now this one. Movie is all about a common man saving his family from the law after committing a crime unexpectedly.

How cleverly he made a master plan simply spoofing the police by re-creating the whole incident in the manner to proof that they didn’t even know about the crime. This re-creation of the time is just like showing somebody a visual screen to make them believe that the truth is not what actually it is. Here comes out the meaning of title of the movie “Drishyam”…

It’s a one-time watch filled by thrill and suspense… go for it for a kind of watching serious acting.