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Happy Bhag Jayegi – Movie Review

September 4, 2016 prejithpillai Leave a comment

(3.5 / 5)

It is a family entertainer featuring a romantic comedy plot. Lead role is done by Diana Penty as Happy Kaur who is a happy go adventurous girl. As shown in trailer, happy was not so happy with her scheduled arrange marriage with Jimmy Shergill (as Daman Singh Bagga) as she was in love with a regular guy Ali Fazal (as Guddu). Just before the marriage she ran away from home and by mistake she jumped into a wrong truck which actually took her to Karachi, Pakistan. The craziness began there and Abhay Deol (as Bilal Ahmed, Politician of Pakistan) came in to picture. The movie will really take you to a comedy trip.

Excellent and outstanding performance by Jimmy Shergill. He is completely transformed into a method actor from the chocolaty guy we saw in Mohabbatien and Mere yaar ki shaadi hai. It is a must watch to see Jimmy Shergill in this movie. Diana Penty executed the role perfectly but some what I felt she was not the correct choice for this kind of role. No words to explain the excellent person Abhay Deol, a gem actor for the industry, he took the character to next level and I am sure the charming face will remain in your mind for long time after watching this movie.

Even after all the good efforts of above mentioned characters, I bet the life line of the movie was Mr. Piyush Mishra (as ACP Usman Afridi). He is completely crazy in the movie with his outstanding comedy acting and excellent dialogues in Urdu. He is the character who maintained the pace of comedy in the movie from beginning to end. He is an another reason to watch the movie.

Overall, it is a must watch, a family comedy entertainer!

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Rustom – Movie Review

August 13, 2016 prejithpillai Leave a comment

(4 / 5)

Rustom is a Crime Mystery thriller movie based on the Naval officer Cdr Kawas Manekshaw Nanavati (1925-2003). It is all about a happily married couple derailed from there life, because the officer’s wife started loving someone else when he was out for long sailing duties for months. When the officer confronted this truth he lost the temper and rushed to kill the person with whom his wife was into relationship.

The movie is all about a suspense which I ethically can’t explain here, you should experience the thrill in cinemas for this. Director Tinu Suresh Desai fantastically made up this movie with excellent cinematography. The way camera is rolling around and the angles used with awesome editing creativity is commendable. Movie was shown in the post-Independence era, i.e 1950’s. The way it portrays Bombay with vintage cars running on the road, men wearing trousers above lower abdomen with short ties. But Somewhere they failed in presentation while trying to show the Delhi Airport and Air India flight, that looked like cartoon animation, but it can be ignored.

Akshay Kumar as Cdr Rustom is outstanding on screen, he is looking dashing in the white prestigious Naval uniform. He is in the uniform throughout the movie and constantly kept a behaviour of a defence personnel with awesome etiquette. When it comes to a patriotic character or a defence character Akshay Kumar always take that to a different level. Ileana D’Cruz is playing the role of Mrs Cynthia Pavri looking beautiful in the 1950’s style dresses. She beautifully played the role of a lady who has been trapped into a mesmerized world where she slipped towards an extra martial relationship. Esha Gupta is playing an irritating high class women role, sister of Vikarm Makhija the victim who got killed. She was seriously irritating onscreen with the kind of attitude she carries throughout the movie.

Hats off to Mr. Kumud Mishra, how beautifully he gets into the character in his movies is commendable. In Sultan he turned as a Haryanvi speaking coach and now he is a newspaper owner and a Parsi. He was beautifully imitating the way a Parsi speak. He is a character in the movie who will remain in your mind for long time after watching this movie. Sachin Khedekar as opposition lawyer nailed the role with outstanding performance, no doubt he is a legend actor. I found the movie awesome ignoring a little bit lagging in between.

A nice crime-mystery thriller with fantastic performance of all artists.

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Mohenjo Daro – Movie Review

August 12, 2016 prejithpillai Leave a comment

(4 / 5)

When the Director is Mr. Ashutosh Gowariker, along with Hrithik Roshan, then no doubt it will be a magical presentation for your eyes. An epic fiction based on the ancient Indus Valley Civilization featuring their city Mohenjo Daro, it is the first commercial film in the world featuring this civilization. Movie runs in 2016 BC era where a farmer from a small village comes to the greatest city ever in that age for rescuing a beautiful lady along with the whole civilization. He fought against all the evil and stood with people of Mohenjo Daro till the survival.

Movie is very beautifully portraying the time zone and Director has taken care of every small detail to give it real look. Like, igniting fire by the friction of rocks, the kind of clothing material used for dresses, even the language they speak was different but beautifully converted to Hindi in a cinematic way that one should experience in the cinema. The kind of trading that was done at that time, the barter system, how horses came to Asia and how the gold trade began, everything is covered in this movie. Locations are carefully chosen where still we can travel behind from the modern things, like outskirts of Bhuj and Marble Rocks of Jabalpur along with Narmada River. Movie is followed by a huge research to write the script with various archaeologist working on these civilizations. Cherry on the top is the music of AR Rahman, that made it fantastic, especially the song “Tu Hai” was flowing from the beginning to end of the movie.

Brilliant and outstanding performance by Hrithik Roshan, this guy is setting up a different standard film by film. He is so much into the character that, nowhere you will get a feel that he is the same guy who lives in our time period. The beautiful Pooja Hegde looking gorgeous with kind of costume specially designed with lot of research. Kabir Bedi is there in the negative role, I must say he nailed it with such a rock solid performance. Arunoday Singh with his massive personality added up the evil part of the movie. Other cast is full of talented bunch of actors like Suhasini Mulay, Nitish Bhardwaj, Manish Choudhary and the list goes on.

A must watch for witnessing a great movie along with some facts of ancient civilization.

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The Legend of Michael Mishra – Movie Review

August 12, 2016 prejithpillai Leave a comment

(1 / 5)

A complete waste of money and time is the first thing you will realize coming out of the theater. I must say Director Manish Jha wasted the talent of actors Arshad Warsi and Boman Irani. They all are proven talented persons of our Hindi Film Industry. Movie started with awesome casting song and screenplay, a beautiful set of Michael’s Dhaba but after that I really want to say there is not even a single moment in the movie which is interesting.

Movie is based on an unrealistic story, even if I ignore it, as it is a so called comedy movie, but there was nothing to laugh or enjoy. What you experience are the crappy dialogues which will make you sick rather than laugh. But you may laugh at yourself like I did, that why am I watching this till end. Kayoze Irani son of Boman Irani tried his best and he was little bit good as compared to other cast. If talking about Arshad, I don’t know what happened to him as he was not able to take that character up. It looks like the story and direction went wrong which actually drowned this film. A jail with the name of Bhairavghat ki Kalapani, a temple scene exactly like what our Hindi Heroes did in 80’s and 90’s. A criminal escaped from jail is free to live openly as his criminal records got evaded, may be some with some magic.

The gorgeous heroine Aditi Rao Hydari is there in opposite lead, she is there throughout the movie misguiding our Hero Michael. Some not at all required songs in the movie will really shoot up your blood pressure in the cinema. The whole movie is narrated by Boman Irani to some travelers, the way he narrated, the intensity he brought there actually build up some expectations that something is gonna happen in the movie. But at last it felt like the narration part is much intense and better than the whole movie itself.

Overall, please watch it on your own risk.

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Madaari – Movie Review

August 12, 2016 prejithpillai Leave a comment

(3.5 / 5)

It is all about fighting against the corrupt system in an unethical way. The very talented Director Nishant Kamat and the legendary actor Irrfan Khan, when they meet up you can just imagine the intensity of the movie. As shown in the trailer it is all about a man who lost everything in a disaster, a flyover collapsed in Mumbai city, where his only son is crushed to death. He was his sole only family in this world.

This mishap made him to do something drastic which actually shakes the government of the country terrifically. Jimmy Shergill is in the movie as a Police Officer who is chasing Irrfan Khan throughout the movie. The film travels through a thrilling pace but in between it loses the speed and started lagging, which actually brought some boredom in the cinema. Somehow it picked the grasp again in the climax with a good node of ending.

Talking about actors, Tushar Dalvi is there as Home Minister of India, did complete justice to his role. Nitish Pandey playing the role of a famous journalist, who is now days loud on screen, hope you got about whom I am talking about.

Movie is intense, thrilling and a good watch

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Budhia Singh – Born to Run

August 12, 2016 prejithpillai Leave a comment

(3.5 / 5)

A forgotten hero is narrated again through the silver screen. A big applause for Director Soumendra Padhi for making this film and let the world know about the wonder boy Budhia Singh. The story is based on the boy who was only five years old when he completed 48 marathons. Budhia Awooga Singh was born in 2002 at Orrisa, an Indian boy and world’s youngest marathon runner. The legendary run of his life was from Puri to Bhubaneshwar at the age of four covering 65 kilometres in seven hours and two minutes.

His coach Branchi Das was the person behind this wonderful boy who discovered Budhia’s ability to run for longer durations. Manoj Bajpayee played the role of Branchi Das in the movie. Mayur Mahendra Patole is the kid playing the role of Budhia. Later, The Indian Child Welfare officials came into picture and made an accusation of exploiting the child by Mr. Das. They put a ban on Budhia’s running and the ban still continues. Budhia is now 14 years old and still living as an another odd child at sports hostel of Bhubneshwar.

Movie is filled with enthusiasm and thrill of Budhia and his coach. Manoj Bajpayee nailed the role of Branchi Das as always he does in his films. Shruti Marathe is there in the movie as wife of Branchi Das. Tilotama Shome is playing the role of Budhia’s mother. Technically movie is little slow around interval, audience was expecting a thrilling end at climax but as it was biopic and thus, nothing can be shown so much dramatically, so it is ignorable. The important thing is that we should not forget Budhia Singh and should support him for his career. As per late Mr. Branchi Das, Budhia is the person who can bring a gold medal for India in Olympics. He was keen to participate Budhia in 2016 Olympics but unfortunately it didn’t happen. Hoping this movie will lighten up the carrier of Budhia and he can bring back his glory and power for running marathons like before.

A must watch to know about a forgotten Hero

Actual photograph of Budhia Singh now.

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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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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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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.