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Tamasha – Movie Review

November 29, 2015 prejithpillai Leave a comment

(3.5 / 5)

The duo Ranbir and Deepika is back with the same kinda message – “live your life from heart, not as per the commands of circumstances”. It start with screening of a stage show with amazing fusion of theatre art and storytelling. In the initial stage the whole movie depicts flashback of Ranbir’s child hood which is a beautiful imagination of his life story into some epic love stories like Ram-Seetha, Romeo-Juliet etc. As the name is depicting it is all about in a flow of tamasha or nauntanki.

Ranbir is looking dashing along with always cheerful Deepika Padukon… When this combo meets with Imitiaz Ali this kind of movie occurs. As like his all movies, this will also inspire you to be a traveller. Both the hero-heroine met first in the French Island Corsica and the Matarghasti song is picturized there and the place is looking amazing.

In between there is a song from an auto driver, a Punjabi song by Mika all is mixed in such a way that it will definitely mesmerise you with the magic. But be careful, this movie is not for masses, as it is little bit puzzling too. Some where I felt it is little lagging and boring after the interval, but carried back to the required pace within 15-20 minutes.

Overall, watch it to be a self-enthusiastic learning along with a little different Bollywood approach. “

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Prem Ratan Dhan Payo – Movie Review

November 13, 2015 prejithpillai Leave a comment

(3.5 / 5) – #PRDP #PremRatanDhanPayo

When you know it is a Sooraj Barjatya movie even if Salman Khan is not in the cast then also you must expect story of a family along with colorful larger than life royal set and locations with a high emotional family drama which can be not sugar but saccharin for the current generation. Talking about this movie it is the same screen play what he believes and follow from an era. The first thought that comes to your mind in the very beginning of the movie is that Salman is looking so very cheerful and lively on the screen as always Sooraj Barjatya used to portray him.

The sets of the movie is very beautifully screened in Palaces along with rich apparels for all the characters. Sherwanies, Jackets, Lehngas it is a celebration of Indian traditional costumes. Sooraj Barjatya recreated the Sheesh Mahal, as an ode to Mughal-e-Azam which inspired him to be a film maker… a replica of the Sheesh Mahal in the Lahore Fort.

Even after so much goodies as above movie does not have much hold over audience because there is not much excitement as required at this platform in the initial stage till interval. After interval it paced up a little and gradually the emotional quotient which is searched by audience for Sooraj Barjatya’s kind of masala started flaming up. The entire movie is kind of narrated in songs and it is a little turn off for those who don’t like much songs in between the movie.

Bunch of matured actors are there in the movie and you can see some good chemistries like between Anupam Kher and Salman Khan, Deepak Dobriyal and Salman Khan… Then also I would say director missed using the most out of these fantastic characters of Anupam Kher and Deepak Dobriyal. As what Mr. Barjatya use to do like in Hum Aapke hai Kaun, there is a friendly chemistry between Salman and Laxmikant Berde (Laluu). What I guess is, if you compare the Hum Aapke Hai Kaun with PRDP you can find some similarities even though both of them are in a completely different platform. There is a football match in place of cricket in Hum aapke Hai Kaun, same kind of kitchen scene you can see portraying Sonam and Salman followed by song Jalte diye in same romantic way like Pehla Pehla Pyaar Hai.

Well, after interval it started a hold over audience by keeping you travelling through emotional highs and lows of various relationships of family like, in between siblings and parents etc. Even if you are in the category of hating the title song of “Prem Ratan Dhan Payo”, it is played in such a part of the story that it will cheer you up. I personally hate the kind of negative publicity of those people who doesn’t even watched it and spreading it in social media in terms of their hatred towards Salman or towards the 90’s kind of movies and songs. Like, I read a comment somewhere that “Watching PRDP is like I use to attend Pooja at my home forcefully”. It doesn’t mean that nobody likes Pooja. Some social media groups are making parody of movie parts and are spreading it all over the internet, people sharing it as they found it funny. If you go to watch a movie keeping in mind that it is a bad one, then it is likely very hard to accept yourself that it is good or average. I suggest to be neutral while going for a movie, reviews are good to read but don’t state that as yours too.

Watch the movie only if you like Salman Khan, or you like movies which only portrays family values with a kind of 90’s touch and songs. A simple clean and very colorful movie, which will definitely leave only some good impression over you and may also add some emotional quotient to a person towards their family.

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Pyaar Ka Punchnama 2 – Movie Review

October 16, 2015 prejithpillai Leave a comment

(3 / 5) – #pyaarkapunchnama2

A sequel from the same Director of Pyaar ka Punchnama 2011, Mr. Luv Ranjan is in the same track of the old one. Concept and story line is almost the same and trying to recreate the fun and magic created by the predecessor. In the initial stage, movie is slow and little lagging, which is very much expected and usual for this movie.

Three single friends discovering there love in different ways and then the relationship starts with the masala and fun happenings of every next relationship. The new faces which were not in the last movie are Sunny Singh, Sonali Sehgal, Ishita Raj, Omkar Kapoor and Manvir Singh.

I will say movie is good but not much as the first one may be because that one has set an expectation and standard in the minds of us the audience. Movie revolves around the quarrels, mis-understandings and various relationship funda’s of new generation youngsters. Casting is so beautifully done that everybody is look almost real and seriously the next door guys.

Nushrat Bharucha is in such an irritating character that even I felt sometimes in between the movie to breakup with her even though she is not my girlfriend (lol…). But it was the need of story and she did that perfectly.

Kartik Aaryan the face of Pyaar ka Punchnama is back with the same kind of long frustrated speech of a guy in relationship and this time it is not simple but added on

little planned and high-fi elements, not may be familiar to all guys. I felt this dialogue section little lagged but yes throughout it was enjoyable and will be viral again on social media.

Movie will end up in the same mode as like the old and finally I can say it is the same product again with new features and added on masala. It is fun watching it…

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Jazbaa – Movie Review

October 13, 2015 prejithpillai Leave a comment

(3.5 / 5)

“A powerful comeback for Aishwarya Rai Bachchan” is the sentence that depicts the strength of the movie Jazbaa. Ash is back, looking pretty as always, and we can see her hard-work put in to be back in shape after being a mother. You can see an excellent performance of Ash in this movie along with some serious intense emotional moments.

But have to say Irrfan Khan again stole the attention from his co-star as always by his seamless, effortless skills especially the dialogue delivery. Movie is full of catchy dialogues by Irrfan Khan. He is playing role of a Police officer who has been suspended for being corrupt.

He is also a good friend of top criminal lawyer of the country played by Aishwarya Rai as Anuradha Verma. Movie is in a platform of kidnapping Anuradha ’s daughter, compelling her to appeal for a case of brutal murderer and rapist of a girl. The abductor’s demand is to appeal for the culprit and the only way to free her kid is to save the culprit from the hands of law. You can also see Shabana Azmi in a mysterious surprise role and Atul Kulkarni as the public prosecutor fighting the case against Anuradha Verma.

Then the movie rolls over an exciting path of investigation and chase which really make a good hold over the audience throughout the two hour ten minutes duration.

Movie is dedicated to raise voice against the mishaps happening towards girls in our country. It portrays the power of women in a parallel way of Love and Hatred. A mother can go to any extend to save her child, and in the same way she can fight against the world to bring justice for her child. Director Sanjay Gupta beautifully pictured the whole movie in a different theme as always like his previous projects. His theme will be always dark and neon colored to give a different look to the ambiance.

Movie is a very good watch and don’t forget to see the last dialogue of Irrfan Khan…

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Talvar – Movie Review

October 7, 2015 prejithpillai Leave a comment

(3 / 5)

A dramatic re-creation, based on a true incident of Aarushi Talvar murder case also named as Noida Double Murder Case. It happened on March 2008 and is still a debate about who the murderer is. Though the parents have been accused as murders by court and are sentenced for life imprisonment. The first investigation report of CBI states the murderer to be a guy who is the compounder of Mr. Talvar and also friend of Talvar Family’s servant, who was also killed that night. However, the second investigation report states the parents are the culprit and as per movie the second report has been modified and drafted intentionally to prove the parents as guilty.

Talking about movie, Director Meghna Gulzar did a fantastic job and very beautifully carried the intensity of the story throughout the movie. Initial stage of the film is projecting the ridiculous way of operation of Police to investigate any case in our country. There cold behaviour and incompetency is portrayed in the character of a lazy and useless police inspector, who was the investigation in-charge of this case in the beginning. Due to his lack of responsibility and foolishness the case became complicated and a mystery in the history of our judiciary system. Movie seems lagging and little slow in the beginning but gained pace gradually after forty percent of its completion. We can see some real good interesting processes CBI follow in their investigations.

The characters of movie almost resemble the original people related to the real incident. It is one of the outstanding and awesome performance of Irfan Khan leading the movie as a CDI officer (CBI replica in the movie). Each and every character like Konkona Sen as Mother and Neeraj Kabi as Father executed the role so beautifully that the audience will really travel through the hard time actually faced by that family. How a happy going family reached to a tragic end overnight is really a shocking and intolerable event in the race of human society. The whole story passed through different kind of variations plotting various investigation reports claimed by officials throughout the case.

If we believe or we follow what movie wants to convey and if it is truth, this is a shameful mark on our law and order. Other than the justice over the case the whole movie depicts lot of evils and disgraceful things about our society like one of my friend Rashmi Aich expressed her views in Facebook:

“Read Avirook’s Sen Aarushi and watched Talvar over the weekend and it left me really shaken about the kind of world we live in. I was not raised in a metropolitan city but still our society in a much smaller town was far modern in our outlook. Why is it so wrong to be an educated and open minded person in this side of India? Why having a drink at the end of the day in the confines of your home a taboo? Why adolescents can’t have sleepovers without doing anything fishy? Why being attracted to people from other gender of our age during teenage is a bad mark on someone’s character? How it is ok to penalize a woman just because she is strong headed? Why should we generalize someone’s way of mourning? A family was destroyed just because they didn’t look the so called decent “backward” people, who would curb their child’s freedom just because she is a girl.”

As she expressed the movie is talking about the narrow minded so called proud middle class of our country, the kind of a category of un-educated youth those can’t differentiate between love and lust. Irony is that the reason behind this mind-set is due to their upbringing in such a kind of society who believe that our culture is the best one in the world and don’t want to think over the fact that what is good for them and what is bad, it is all about a knee-jerk kind of society in our country.

Movie ends up with an interesting debate between the two teams lined up by Investigation Bureau which clearly give a message to the society that how corrupted and how easy it is to manipulate our law those who are in power.

Movie is a must watch for everyone, to realize the truth that, how much unpredictable our life in this society is.

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Singh is Bling – Movie Review

October 6, 2015 prejithpillai Leave a comment

(3 / 5)

A Punjab theme based Movie from a South Indian Director, that is the Demography we have in our country. Movie is directed by Prabhu Deva and it is a colourful humorous piece of entertainment featuring Akshay Kumar as Raftar Singh a kind of Sardar Character as we read in Comics.

Film started with an awesome fling of Pind (Village) of Punjab along with a beautiful track Tung Tung Baje. First half is filled with nice humorous situations created by funny Raftar Singh along with the stunning actions of Beautiful Actress Amy Jackson. Amy even without speaking a single word of hindi did full justice to her role and different from these kind of movies where heroines are just for songs, you can see a good role by female lead here.

Movie is little lagging in its soul and become boring after the interval but gained pace reaching towards end with some catchy dialogues of Akshay Kumar raising emotions of audience by showing the grace and power of a Sikh. Lara dutta is also in the movie in a supporting role and looks like she has transformed a lot as a mid age lady. K K Menon is in the negative role with a clumsy bad guy look is not much impressive.

Overall it is a one time watch, nice light family comedy movie.

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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.