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JAWAAN (2023) : review

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And finally the much hyped, much awaited Jawaan saw light of the day ! Big stars, big budget( humongous budget actually), big music composer, everything super large. But does it meet the expectations of the average viewer? No it goes not. Read on.  A decorated jawan locks horns with a criminal called Kaali, this is in 1986 ( the year movies like Aakhri Raasta released, just for reference). Kaali gets him eliminated and send the pregnant wife to jail. The baby born in jail grows up to become the hero (look alike of the father) and decides to avenge the misdeeds done to his innocent patriotic parents. Well, isn’t it a masaaledaar full on Bollywood- Tollywood drama subject ?  And then the director Atlee also borrows ideas and references from various retro movies, some idea from Sholay (1975) as the hero assembled a gang of jailed Qaidis in order to form a team to nab the villain, then there’s an entire episode borrowed from Dhartiputra (1993), and the basic theme is copy pasted ...
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SANJU - The review

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SANJU - (2018)  Directed by : Rajkumar Hirani  A much publicised , over hyped and overtly dramatised biopic of the official “bad boy” of Bollywood - Sanjay Dutt. An eminent film maker like Hirani chronicles the life and times of Dutt through his biased bioscope lenses !  The biopic deals with Dutt’s drug addiction, his involvement in the 1992-93 Bombay bomb blasts and his time spent in the jail. Throughout the biopic Dutt is projected as the proverbial victim, it’s unfortunate that a director of Hirani’s caliber who has directed such classics like Munnabhai MBBS (2003), Lage Raho MunnaBhai (2006) and 3 idiots (2009) has disappointed with his favourite hero’s biopic. In an desperate attempt to super glorify Dutt’s gigantic blunders Hirani fails in uplifting his film, this is undoubtedly his weakest film till date in terms of conceptualisation and story telling.  Very recently we had former Indian cricket player Mohammed Azharuddin trying to prove to the world that he’...
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VEERE DI WEDDING- review

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VEERE DI WEDDING [2018] Director- Shashanka Ghosh  The queen of Indian Tele soaps Ekta Kapoor & Star Daughter Rhea Kapoor join hands to produce this “Sex and the City” inspired chick flick even though the posters scream that it is not a chick flick, it certainly is one.  The story ( or the lack of it) is about an Australia based woman Kalindi (Kareena Kapoor) who has a commitment phobia and does not want to get married because of her parent’s broken marriage and a disturbed childhood, when her long time beau Rishabh (Sumeet Vyas) pops up the ring she gets into an imaginative ( over imaginative actually) frenzy and obliges only to please him. Her friends join in to attend the wedding leading it some hilarious and emotional situations.  Ghosh is terribly confused about what kind of a movie he’s directing, from a female bonding concept it suddenly slips into comedy and within no time into a tear jerk family drama, maybe a case of producer’s unwanted interference. Too man...
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VEERE DI WEDDING- review

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VEERE DI WEDDING [2018] Director- Shashanka Ghosh  The queen of Indian Tele soaps Ekta Kapoor & Star Daughter Rhea Kapoor join hands to produce this “Sex and the City” inspired chick flick even though the posters scream that it is not a chick flick, it certainly is one.  The story ( or the lack of it) is about an Australia based woman Kalindi (Kareena Kapoor) who has a commitment phobia and does not want to get married because of her parent’s broken marriage and a disturbed childhood, when her long time beau Rishabh (Sumeet Vyas) pops up the ring she gets into an imaginative ( over imaginative actually) frenzy and obliges only to please him. Her friends join in to attend the wedding leading it some hilarious and emotional situations.  Ghosh is terribly confused about what kind of a movie he’s directing, from a female bonding concept it suddenly slips into comedy and within no time into a tear jerk family drama, maybe a case of producer’s unwanted interference. Too man...
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