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Dear Zindagi – Movie Review

November 29, 2016 prejithpillai Leave a comment

(3 / 5)

A movie which is different from the league and truly shows a different prospective of life. Director Gauri Shinde nailed the concept and presented it in a very beautiful manner. The low part of the movie is first half which is little lagging and seems likes audience doesn’t have a clue that about what is actually going on in the movie and what is the story. It is after the interval that things lined up and the actual message they want to deliver started reflecting . It is not a movie for mass as surely it is not on the Bollywood masala category. Casting of Shahrukh is obviously grabbing more people to the theater but not everybody is happy with the movie. But it is a master piece which you should actually understand by going into the depth of the story.

Movie is all about loving your life and how to tackle the problems in your life with a positive node. It shows life of a person who is actually living with a scare inside or an insecurity which was driving the life of that person in a negative way. Eventually the movie will teach you how to overcome your fears and insecurity. On the other side, it is also showing the life of a child who was estranged by parents, to live with grandparents, and whose parents were not kind enough towards her childhood. If the love and care a kid needed was not provided at the right time and right age will really change the way of life ahead.

A fantastic performance by Alia Bhatt and she is delivering her best day by day. Shahrukh Khan is playing the role of a Brain Doctor who actually thinks in a different way for helping people to come out of the various mental issues. I don’t have to mention about the legendary actor, it is always awesome watching him with some real acting. You can find a bunch of actors like Ali Hassan, Kunal Kapoor in the movie as some meaningful character delivering good acting.

It is a must watch to learn something which probably help you in your life.

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Force 2 – Movie Review

November 20, 2016 prejithpillai Leave a comment

(3 / 5)

The ACP Yashvardhan is back again with Force 2, on the lines of 2011 release Force (Directed by Nishikant Kamat) but this time directed by Abhinay Deo and produced by John Abraham and Vipul Amrutlal Shah. The movie is packed with brilliant action sequences with an average story line but the pace and thrill was maintained in the whole movie which actually made it a good entertainer.

Movie is all about a cop from Mumbai Police department joined up with RAW agent KK to trapping down a master mind terrorist. In this mission, they are travelling around the Europe tackling various challenges. There is chase scene between ACP Yashvardhan (John Abraham) and terrorist (Tahir Bhasin), this kind of situation is repeated two times in the movie which was little lagging as per me. Some action scenes were awesome with various camera techniques, like playing a video game. In the last movie, you watched John lifting motorcycle with his bare hands and now he is lifting a car in this movie.

As always, he is beefed up with awesome muscles with eight pack abs and looking massive all over the movie. The role of KK is played by Sonakshi Sinha who is actually re-writing the persona of actresses in Indian cinema doing action movies like Aakira and now Force 2. Both John and Sonakshi did a fantastic Job in the movie and it was fun and thrill watching them throughout the two hours seven minutes.You can see Adil Hussain in the movie as a minister and a cameo role by Boman Irani and Genelia D’Souza flashing back the old Force movie memories.

Overall it is a onetime watch for some thriller actions!

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Rock On 2 – Movie Review

November 12, 2016 prejithpillai Leave a comment

(2 / 5)

Rock On (2008) was Directed by Abhishek Kapoor and now the Sequel Rock On 2 Directed by Shujaat Saudagar is a complete disappointment in the terms of entertainment. Movie is same as old based on Rock Musical Drama but this time the soul is not there, neither the music is good. Story is the culprit; it is not holding the audience to movie. Till the interval I was searching for pickup in the story line but it was lagging from the beginning till the interval. Exactly I want to say it was too boring till the interval. But it doesn’t mean that after interval it picked up, it was still in the same lag. In the last 30 minutes of the movie it looks like yes now something interesting will happen and was waiting for that. But the climax also was not much happening but at least better than the ninety percent of the movie.

No complaints regarding the actors, everybody did well as per the characters and the story demanded. The movie failed with the story, direction and music. The Rock On (2008) has set a certain level of expectation and standard, so this one should be above that. I believe even Farhan Akhtar also may be realizing after watching this movie that it is not up to the mark. Other than the previous cast Farhan Akhtar, Arjun Rampal, Purab Kohli, Prachi Desai the new add-ons are Shraddha Kapoor, and Shashank Arora. Kumud Mishra is there in the role of a famous traditional musician and father of Shraddha Kapoor and must say not used him as per his capability.

When we think about Rock On, it is all about the music. Now this sequel is with such music which is completely pathetic and with soul less story. In the climax they played the old Rock On title song for some minutes which at least brought some smile on the face.

Well, it is a disappointment from Farhan Akhtar.

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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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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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Haider – Movie Review

October 7, 2014 prejithpillai 2 Comments

(4 / 5)

What a movie… Brilliant is the word for Vishal Bharadwaj for this wonderful gift to Hindi Film Industry. It is a master piece of Film Art and Cinematography. The way of presentation includes Drama, Music and Colourful Dance with great Choreography.

Movie is based on the life of Kashmir from the past 68 years. The way of there living, the kind of adversities faced by the people living there. Torture by militants and Army towards common people.

“The film is inspired by Shakespeare’s famous play Hamlet but not 100%.”

Outstanding performance by Shahid Kapoor and K. K. Menon. It seems Shahid Kapoor is back with a Bang by beating Bang Bang on Box Office this week. Movie is not for very light hearted people as blood and violence is full coloured in the presentation. As expected mature acting from Tabu what add-on is the performance by bubbly Shraddha Kapoor.

Go and watch the movie if you want to know the ground reality of problems and the way of living of Kashmir People along with a excellent Directed performance from Vishal Bharadwaj.