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.

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Bajrangi Bhaijaan – Movie Review

August 8, 2015 prejithpillai Leave a comment

(4.5 / 5)

Another blockbuster from Salman Khan for a 300 Crore Club race. This time Director Kabir Khan nailed it from Salman Khan making him doing some serious intense acting rather than the casual way of his performance which he usually does. I have always been thinking about Salman that he work generally with rookie directors and comedy oriented movie makers.

When he is clubbed up with talented director the kind of output we received is Kuch Kuch Hota Hai, Tere Naam, Wanted, Kyunki and Bajrangi Types of movies. This may be the best film of his career, I wish it should not as we are expecting more such kind of movies from him. India already became the fan of the cute little girl Harshali Malhotra the “Munni” of Bajrangi.

As I saw somewhere in facebook a line that without speaking a single word she conquered the hearts of audience with her expressions and looks.

Movie is all about a kind hearted and simple country guy from India on a race to Pakistan illegally to return a mute girl back to her home. Initial phase of movie is with full of beautiful landscapes of Kashmir and eventually travelling to the thick and crowdy Old Delhi showing the beautiful country side of our Old delhi population and culture along with a very beautiful projection of Hazrat Nizamuddin Dargah. May be some people can feel like the first part of the movie is little slow and lagging due to the way of flash back scenes they narrate but it all covered by the cuteness of Salman, Munni and Kareena.

Salman appears with an awesome energetic track “Selfi le le re” which brought the theater atmosphere to the heights. Following Bajrangi’s cute and kiddish activities leading an awesome track from Atif Aslam “Tu Chahiye”. Second Half starts with the rock solid performance of Nawazuddin Siddiqui as a reporter from Pakistan inspired from a real life character Chand Nawab, who became viral on youtube for his funny kind of reporting for a news coverage. There is an awesome track by Adnan Sami “Bharde Jholi Meri” which really mesmerize your soul with the pureness of Islamic Culture.

This is a film which really depicts the actual humanity laid in the people of Pakistan and Hindustan irrespective of the anti-national elements aiming to break this love and relationship. Bajrangi was a person who have only faith in his own religion and feels uncomfortable to being in a Mosque or being with a Muslim person and eventually he realized his shortcomings and enlightens himself with knowledge about what actually a religion is? And how pure Islam is? It is not about the religions… there is only one race and that is Humanity.

It is a must watch for every Indian & Pakistani to realize what we actually are… And for others please watch it for an excellent story and performance…

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ABCD 2 – Movie Review

August 8, 2015 prejithpillai Leave a comment

(3 / 5)

Dance, Dance and Dance… That is the review for this Movie. As expected it is a presentation of various forms of dance with beauty and excellent choreography. Very well directed by Remo D’Souza and awesome music by Sachin Jigar made this movie a journey of music and dance.

I am forced to convey that this is also the weak point of the movie, as you are constantly watching music and dance for complete 2.5-3 hours in between they have bundled up a different song to show off the chemistry between the leads Varun Dhawan and Shraddha Kapoor. As it is a Disney Presentation, you can expect outstanding 3D effects.

Emotional quotient they tried to give is not much efficient due to the poor performance of Prabhu Deva in the sense of acting (not about dance). You can see Varun Dhawan in a dancing avatar flaunting abs and his ripped body along with a really good moves of the art. I must say this film pointed out and projected the talent of Shraddha Kapoor as a dancer, she was outstanding and almost overpowered the performance of Varun in most of the places.

A great glimpse of the fantasy city of Las Vegas along with the blend of all culture into the form of dance. This time you can see a realistic end of the story even being a Bollywood movie. The original story is based on a Mumbai based dance group. In ABCD (1) they have a religious climax performance and this time they have a patriotic one.

Dance lovers can’t avoid this movie…

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Hamari Adhuri Kahani – Movie Review

August 8, 2015 prejithpillai Leave a comment

(2 / 5)

A kind of emotional movie from 90’s with a modern touch is the one liner definition for this film. I would say it is keeping an emotional quotient from the starting to end without losing it even for a bit. No doubt over the talent of Vidya Balan as she did a fantastic role as a women who fell in love with a billionaire owing an empire of hotels all over the world.

In between the beautiful love story of them, her past coming up is the entire summary of movie. Emraan Hashmi look stunning in the movie as a business tycoon,that any enthusiastic can admire his character and aspire to be like him in the life.

Raj Kumar Yadav the talented actor debuted by Ragni MMS in 2011 is playing the husband of Vidya Balan paid full justice to his role. Movie is portraying the artistic view of a flower lover or a florist with rich presentation of awesome Dubai. In spite of movie being little slow, it is covered up by awesome music and outstanding dialogues. Story is giving hell lot of messages to the society like… Marriage is not a liability it is the art of living but at any stage if it becomes a liability you should get rid of it.

It is not like being a women is to sacrifice her life for the sake of keeping a marriage alive. Love means to love the person and to see him/her happy with or without you. It is a message towards the Hippocratic society to don’t under estimate the power of women and not to exploit them in the terms of so called “sanskar” and “rituals”. Women power is something if she is determined she can conquer the world. Overall it is an excellent watch with a message

“Live your life, not a routine”… please avoid the movie who doesn’t like the 90’s era.

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Dil Dhadakne Do – Movie Review

June 6, 2015 prejithpillai Leave a comment

(3 / 5)

A high society family Drama is the one line description for the movie. Movie is a narration of story, surprisingly, by a Bull Dog named Pluto. It is all about the Hippocratic, emotionless and plastic high society Indian families. Again this is not a movie for the next person you know, it is a piece of art, a screenplay from the heart of director Zoya Akhtar. I would say it is an excellent movie in its kind of category, as I said family drama… please don’t compare it with Sooraj Barjatya’s films. This one is different level of our westernised family culture.

As expected, there are some similarities you can find in all the movies of Zoya and that is Travelling, kind of rich western music, high society culture and obviously excellent direction and screenplay. The movie will make you travel from Turkey, Istanbul, Greece and so and so fabulous places. There is always a quotient of motivation factor for life in all her movies.

This movie portrays power, rights and equality of women and most importantly the kind of Hippocratic nature of parents towards children in our Indian society. The way they pressurize children to be like what parents want and not even trying to know what actually the children want to be in their life. Whom to marry and what exactly their aims are… Marriage is not necessity, it is an option and that is not the ultimate aim of a woman in life.

Presenting clearly the relationships of the high society families that they don’t even know about each other. It is one of the truth of so called Indian Arrange Marriages that they stay together because either they don’t have other option or because of society or because of their elders or because it is too late to act for anything or finally may be they compromise with their lives.

Excellent and outstanding acting by Ranveer Singh. The performance and the kind of expression he delivers throughout the movie is awesome. It is a must watch for seeing Ranveer Singh in a new avatar. It is a bunch of talented actors together with a genius director obviously the fruit will be sweet and sober. Good to see Anil Kapoor back in such a good role. Priyanka Chopra, Anushka Sharma, Farhan Akhtar, Shefali Shah, Rahul Bose, all gave justice to their roles.

“Go and watch the movie if you like some sensible family drama”

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Welcome to Karachi – Movie Review

May 31, 2015 prejithpillai Leave a comment

(2 / 5)

From the starting itself you will get a feel that movie is little low budget and bit boring till the first 15-20 minutes. Some unbelievable animations like A big cruise boat get drowned in sea due to bad climatic conditions but a small rescue boat managed there.

Later on, the duo did a fantastic performance. Hats off to Arshad Warsi… a born actor and talented comedian. The way they portrayed Karachi and world war on the street of city between embassies of each country created so much fun. Very excellent picturization of Taliban area (Wazirastan). Jackie is playing the role of dump Gujarati guy who’s foolishness lead to so many problems and Arshad is a court martial-led Indian Naval Officer. You also get to see the beautiful girl of ABCD Part1 Lauren Gottlieb as Pakistan Intelligence.

Cheers to script writer, movie is rich with punches of Arshad and Jackie Bhagnani. It seems Jackie’s acting is getting matured day by day and I believe it is good for him to tie-up with senior actors like Arshad to prove his name in the industry. Both of the lead guys did an excellent job but the lacking point of the movie is some boring songs and last but the main point is no strong climax.But I assure, the movie is much give you some light chilling moments with the way they created humour in simple things.

Go and watch the movie if you have nothing to do at this weekend and enjoy some light humour.

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Tanu Weds Manu Returns – Movie Review

May 23, 2015 prejithpillai Leave a comment

(4 / 5)

Kangna Ranaut has emerged as a Brand in Hindi Film Industry (HiFi). She completely rocked the movie with excellent and outstanding performance. Movie commenced with casting on a regular video shoot as background like every next Indian marriage video looks like. There itself it gives you a feel that how creative the Director Anand Rai is. The Haryanvi Character of Kangna as Kusum is so perfectly played, I am unable find words to describe the feeling. She imitated the Haryanvi language in such a pace and accent that you gonna doubt isn’t she the same Kangna who is acting as Tanu in the movie.

R. Madhavan as always he is good there in the movie but felt little outside in comparison with the Kangna’s acting, sorry maddy she stealed the show this time. Movie is full of punches by Deepak Dobriyal (Pappi) and Mohammed Zeeshan Ayyub (Chintu – The lawyer). Chintu defines a category of boys call “Kandha” (Shoulder) who have mastery of giving shoulder to those girls whose relationship break up. Eijaz Khan as Jassi is having a dialouge in a punjabi marriage… He announce on stage “Jo nahi nachega, kal subah mata rani uski maa utha legi” lolzz… I promise you gonna enjoy every bit and byte of the film.

Jimmi Shergill as Raja Awasthi the villan of last movie is still on, but this time for a change there is no villan at all. He is in a comic character rather than as negative role. Though he played a very strong character in the last one, his role loosed that much strongness in this one.

Tried to portay the evil of Girl Child Killing, backward treatment towards girls as one of the lacking point of Haryana. The message has been well conveyed by the brilliant actor Rajesh Sharma (Kusum’s Brother). In the whole movie it is like a cultural union, you can get the feel of three different types of marriages – UP(Kanpur) Wedding, Haryana Wedding and Punjabi Wedding.

During the entire movie, I felt that what is happening in the movie is not correct, it is not the right justice… But this is what Director Anand wants the audience to feel. Watch the movie to know what actually happened as I never reveal the suspense and story of the movie in my reviews 🙂

“It is a must watch movie for everyone, and three cheers to Kangna for being in the Industry for making us feel proud about the Women Power.”

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Bombay Velvet – Movie Review

May 19, 2015 prejithpillai Leave a comment

(3 / 5)

One of the most hyped and most awaited Anurag Kashyap’s Bombay Velvet failed to impress audience even after it is one of the most beautiful piece of cinema in the means of direction, cinematography and acting. Lacking point of the movie for mass audiences was the pace and story , which became little slow and lagging after a great start. From the point of view as a cinema lover, I can say that the movie is awesome. But adding some pace and little spice masala overall can make it hit over Indian mass audience.

Movie starts with portraying the beautiful legend Raveena Tandon (Guest appearance) in a colorful gown. Very beautiful description of that old era of 50’s and 60’s showing Old Goa ruled by Portuguese, the culture, music from Portuguese and mixed theme of India and British.

Fantastic and outstanding performance from Karan Johar in a negative role proved his acting skills too. In the terms of looks and performance you cant outrage both the leads Ranbir and Anushka, they were just awesome on the screen. You can enjoy and learn the history of Bombay, the City of Dreams. How the city was born, filling the sea between various islands became a huge block of land transforming to a Mahanagar. Story of Nariman point and how the World Trade Centre came to Cuff Parade. The iconic Air India building of Marine Drive.

Story is all about the Mafias & smugglers flourished after the Independence of India exploiting the poor enthusiastic youth of the country. The so called corruption and politics starts just with our Independence and still the evil is ruining our country. It is a full packed bunch of perfect actors including K K Menon as a Crime Branch Officer and obviously directed by the most talented Anurag Kashyap.

“Do watch the movie if you love cinema, not for them who needs only Bollywood Masala.”