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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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CHAKRAVYUH : Review

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Directed by: Sajit Warrier  Streaming on : mx player  Cast: Prateik Babbar, Ashish Vidyarthi, Simran Kaur Mundi, Gopal Dutt, Shiv Pandit, Urvashi Sardhara, Anjali Shivaraman, Ayesha Kanga, Twinkle Tshering, Ruhi Singh, Rajesh Khera, Rohan Joshi and others.  If successful this series could turn into a franchise chronicling the adventures of inspector Virkar( Babbar). This particular season deals with cyber crime and sex racket. And how Virkar with his intelligence and wits unravels the mystery. That’s what we are made to believe.  There are a series of serial killings in Mumbai that give sleepless nights to the crime bureau. The beefed up inspector Virkar is assigned the responsibility to track down the serial killer. The victims are all young teenagers, it starts with the brutal murder of a young boy where he’s castrated and stabbed to death. Then another boy is murdered brutally and his eyeballs are sucked out of their sockets. The third victim is a young girl murd...
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AASHRAM 2(2020): Not Upto The Mark

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Directed by: Prakash Jha  Cast: Bobby Deol, Darshan Kumar, Anupriya Goenka, Sachin Shroff, Chandan Roy Sanyal, Aditi Pohankar, Tushar Pandey, Tridha Chaudhary, Anurita Jha, Adhyayan Suman, Rajeev Siddhartha, Vikram Kochhar & others.  Season one had it’s gripping moments with some unpredictability and authenticity, typically in Prakash Jha’s trademark pattern, somehow that’s missing in part two, and things look monotonous.  Spread over nine long elongated episodes and also very strongly hinting at part three this could’ve easily been wrapped up this time. Continuing from earlier season the fake Godman Baba Nirala(Deol) continues his power hungry game, when he’s not raping innocent women or campaigning for politicians he’s found playing with puppets in his grand bedroom. There’s a lot of focus on the political affiliations this time, and after a point it drags and appears boring, if you don’t yawn then you are used to such repetitive fare.  Jha is no doubt in great...
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(Temporary Backup) Raktanchal (2020) review

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Raktanchal (2020)  Director- Ritam Shrivastava  Cast- Nikiten Dheer, KrantiPrakash Jha, Chittaranjan Tripathy, Soundarya, Vikram Kochhar, Daya Shanker Panday, Krishna Bisht, Ronjini Chakraborty, Basu Soni, Pramod Pathak, Rajesh Dubey.  Right from the onset we can guess the inspiration for this gangwar webseries, it has to be the cult classic Gangs of Wasseypur (2012), high on violence, replete with choicest Hindi expletives it’s also got a good storyline.  Set in UP, the basic plot centres around two warring gangs, one led by the egoistic cold blooded Waseem Khan(Dheer) and the other by a simpleton turned gangster Vijay Singh(Jha), their mutual hatred for each other multiplies the dead body count where the two try outdoing each other notwithstanding innocent lives getting butchered in the bargain.  Direction is first rate, Shrivastava stays clear of making it another Mirzapur(2018) but the overdose of foul language and graphic violence could’ve been toned a bit...
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Mastram (2020) webseries review

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Hmm so you can fantasise about this, just think about a chilling serene hill station, some erotic tales and lots of cleavage and skin show on display ! That’s exactly what’s in store in this webseries based on the fictional porn writer Mastram.  Set in the lovely luscious hill station Manali, a young story writer adapts the pseudonym Mastram and pens erotic tales which sell like hot cakes at the publishing house. He does that discreetly as he’s not too proud of his porn writing skills and his immediate family (a bachelor uncle) and the pretty girlfriend (Tara Alisha Berry- cute) are unaware of his skills. He prefers being known as a struggling boring story writer. Inorder to enhance his writing skills and add heaps of erotica to his story telling he starts studying subjects from around him including a neighborhood sex starved aunty, a curious Bollywood starlet, a horny female cop, a buxom village belle and many others, every woman is projected as an “sex object” here.  The sto...
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