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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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30 YEARS OF KHILADI (1992)

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Revisiting The suspense musical thriller Khiladi (1992) as it completes thirty years of its theatrical release date today.  KHILADI (1992) ~~~~rewatched  Directed by: Abbas-Mustan  Cast: Akshay Kumar, Ayesha Jhulka, Shakti Kapoor, Deepak Tijori, Johnny Lever, Dinyar Contractor, Anant Mahadevan, Harpal Singh, Sanjeev Chitre, Sabeeha, Beena Banerjee, Kunika, Guddi Maruti, Tinnu Anand, Sharat Saxena, Amrutlal Patel & Prem Chopra.   This enjoyable suspense thriller was playing on tv yesterday and it just doesn’t get old, it’s so 90s. So what worked in its favour? It had a stale storyline, an unknown lead hero, the director duo and music composer duo were non entities, so what worked? The “freshness” is what u believe.  Four young college going fun loving friends play a prank that goes awfully and fatally wrong! A murder that needs to be investigated and the real killer should be nabbed before the innocent youngsters get caught in a web of mystery. A similar stor...
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DURGAMATI (2020): Review

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Directed by: Ashok  Cast: Jishu Sengupta, Bhumi Pednekar, Arshad Warsi, Mahie Gill, Anant Mahadevan, Karan Kapadia, Amit Bahl and others.  What did I just watch? Still trying to figure out what was happening in this alleged supernatural thriller. Supposed to be an amazon prime original which is remake of a South Indian hit, original remake anyone? Phew !! It’s nothing more than cinematic torture on screen.  The so called original story is based in Madhya Pradesh (beautiful location selected) where an IAS officer who’s also a murder convict is subjected to severe interrogation in an isolated apparent haunted Haveli. Sounds weird? If you watch the on screen proceedings then calling it weird would be an understatement. Things get complex when the accused gets possessed by the ghost of a slain queen who in some bygone era ruled that kingdom. Wow so original!  With a foolishly developed concept like that along with some idiotic political angle thrown in this is severe men...
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LAXMII (2020): no bomb 💣 here

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Directed by: Raghava Lawrence  Cast: Akshay Kumar, Kiara Advani, Rajesh Sharma, Manu Rishi Chadda, Tarun Arora, Ayesha Reza, Ashwini Kalshikar, Prachi Pandya, Adhvik Mahajan, Master Jason, Baby Grace, and Sharad Kelkar.  Now this one is an official remake of an over the top south movie, so you got to get used to the loud background score, superficial hamming by all artists, stunts defying gravity and the likes, if that’s not your cup of tea, well then you’ll have to skip this supernatural comedy, which unfortunately has nothing ‘super’ nor ‘comical’ about it.  Haven’t watched the original hence unsure whether that had any authenticity but the remake is awful and generously low on substance. The story (or the lack of it) is about a man who gets possessed by the revengeful ghost of a transgender who has to settle score with some evil conspirators. The screenplay is loaded with loopholes, you’ve to try really hard to laugh at the onscreen proceedings, the humour somehow suc...
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