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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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Hundred (2020) webseries

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HUNDRED (2020): Hotstar originals streams up a comic series which tries really hard to get a miniature smile on the viewer’s face.  So why is it titled hundred? Because a young girl working as a govt employee is suddenly diagnosed with a terminal illness and told very bluntly by a doc that she has only hundred days to live ! So it’s actually hundred days. The girl prepares a bucket list / wishlist and starts ticking the wishes she so wishes to fulfil before the doomsday. Interesting? Feels like it’s been dealt in many movies, tv series, etc etc true that.  There’s nothing entertaining in this series, most of the episodes are a total snooze fest. There’s an unrelated underworld track thrown in to create some ruckus but it only adds up to your yawns. And yes, there’s the mandatory Feminazi blah blah blahing which gets on the nerves. The makers were surely half asleep while directing.  Unable to understand why a female cop is expected to look and appear manly inorder to pro...
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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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