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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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Dhaakad- Review

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From Budapest to Bhopal you get to experience a torturous, terribly violent and eardrum shattering journey of good vs evil in Razneesh Ghai’s Hollywood inspired thriller Dhaakad!  Packed with punch, that fizzles out every now and then the story (or the lack of it) is about an agent named Agni (Ranaut) and her fight against a human trafficking mafia Don (Rampal). Dragging for over 131 minutes it’s a long and never ending boredom. Some of the scenes are stretched and dragged till you yawn, some flashbacks are so recurrent that you wanna catch hold of the director and request him to stop it right there !  It’s good to see the beautiful and unexplored city of Bhopal and some more lovely locations in Madhya Pradesh being beautifully explored in this movie. That’s the only saving grace, the lovely photography and scenic locales. The screenplay is weak, dialogues dull and storyline is a mishmash of 70s Bollywood trash combined with wannabe Lara Croft meeting kill bill.  Ghai’s ...
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And the National award goes to.....

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And the national award for best actress goes to.....Kangana Ranaut! Her fourth national award and third in the best actress category. A must to revisit some Bollywood heroines who’ve been awarded the coveted award in the past. Now these awards are awarded taking into account all the language films in the country and that makes it all the more tough to win it, but some of the winners haven’t been controversy free. Here’s a look at Ten Bollywood stars who won the National Award for best actress (also known as the Urvashi Award)  Magnanimously talented Nargis Dutt is the first Bollywood actress to have won the national award, she won it for Raat Aur Din(1967) where she portrayed a middle aged woman suffering from dissociative identity disorder wherein she’s a docile housewife during the day and transforms into a nightclub crooner at night.  Rehana Sultan an FTII graduate won the award for her very first movie Dastak(1970) where she played Salma, a newly married woman who shifts ...
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TAPSEE v/s KANGANA: Who is your curly favourite?

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Twitter explodes! Nowadays it’s all about having virtual online spat amongst celebrities. Whether you are an A lister or a wannabe starlet (or starlings whatever you call them) you are “in the news” if you announce your Twitter war arrival! So what about non entities like me who ain’t there on Twitter, just relax and enjoy the virtual war !  Kangana and Tapsee are two Bollywood celebrities who seem to have an opinion about almost everything, whether it’s their own field of acting or politics, science, current affairs, environment blah blah black sheep etc. And they make sure they’ve an difference of opinion between each other, always make sure they do.  So what’s common between these two curly haired talented Bollywood heroines? They are born in the same year, whoa! So they are the same age albeit different upbringing and background. Both are known for playing strong feminist roles in the movies, good good. And both are considered straightforward and outspoken. Very very good...
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