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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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THE BIG BULL(2021) : review

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Directed by: Kookie Gulati  Cast: Abhishek Bachchan, Ileana Dcruz, Samir Soni, Sohum Shah, Shishir Sharma, Saurabh Shukla, Ram Kapoor, Supriya Pathak, Nikita Dutta, Mahesh Manjrekar and others.  Streaming on : Disney hotstar  Well, the timing is all wrong. Last year in the midst of the horrendous pandemic lockdown we were treated to a perfectly conceptualised web series called Scam 1992( 2020) that streamed on sonyliv, that was almost flawless if you ignore some minuscule minor errors, and now we have a full fledged movie based on the same storyline, or facts. Frankly, even if we try to erase scam 1992 out of our brain we will still find The Big Bull (2021) terribly miscalculated and badly executed.  While the web series very boldly named names including that of a former prime minister of our nation, the film plays its considerably safe but not sound. No names are exposed, everything is given a fictional dressing, worse the lead character played by Junior Bachchan w...
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The Girl on the Train(2021): No spoiler review

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The Girl on the train (2021) directed by Ribhu Dasgupta Cast: Parineeti Chopra, Kirti Kulhari, Avinash Tiwary, Aditi Rao Hydari and Tota Roy Chowdhary.  So how does one ruin a best selling novel in its Indian cinematic adaptation? Hmm let me think, the direction is first rate, the screenplay-editing- technically everything is fine then how? Simple, just cast an incompetent artist in the titular role, goal accomplished. Story ruined, perfect case of imperfect casting. Can you imagine Neetu Singh as Umrao Jaan or Jaya Bhaduri in Satyam Shivam Sundaram or maybe Sonam Kapoor in Tumhari Sulu? Add Miss Chopra to that list.  The story is full of intrigue, for any mystery genre lover this is without a doubt a scrumptious buffet spread to binge on. A young woman battling alcoholism and amnesia along with recent miscarriage, divorce and an in active job finds solace in an voyeuristic obsession that turns complicated after an unexpected murder!  Now she has to not only prove her ow...
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THE WHITE TIGER (2021): review

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Directed by: Ramin Bahrani  Cast: Adarsh Gaurav, Priyanka Chopra, Rajkumar Rao,  Nalneesh Neel, Mahesh Manjrekar, Swaroop Sampath, Kamlesh Gill, Vijay Maurya, Master Vedant, Ram Diwakar and others  Incredible India ! That’s what you want to show to the world and what do you end up showing ? The filth, the grossly disgusted dirty slums, scavengers and slum dwellers? That’s the Indian bioscope that can earn you brownie points when displayed at international level, exactly what you see in this Netflix original film.  Balram is a jolly villager from the remotest village (dirtiest) in some corner of India, he’s ambitious and a viciously smooth operator. He makes his way into the household of a wealthy corrupt man and procures the job of his America returned son’s driver. Everything goes smoothly until a tragic incident that changes the entire discourse of his life!  If you’ve read the novella you’ll realise that some positive elements have been scrapped out in the mo...
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TRIBHANGA(2021): review

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Directed by: Renuka Shahane  Cast: Kajol, Tanvi Azmi, Kanwaljeet Singh, Mithila Palkar, Vaibhav Tatwawadi, Kunal Roy Kapur, Manav Gohil, and others  After watching TRIBHANGA there are two things I liked most about it, one the crisp length of just 1 hour 35 mins and secondly the supremely talented yet criminally underrated Tanvi Azmi.  Shahane’s directorial venture focuses on a dysfunctional family with three generations of women, when the oldest slips into coma the story moves into an emotional roller coaster journey wherein the characters reminisce the past, the bittersweet memories and bond over unbreakable womanhood.  Good concept? Certainly yes. And to give Shahane due credit she shows a spark in the director’s seat and one can expect far better and polished work from her in the near future, as for TRIBHANGA it’s a good opportunity lost. Shahane seems to have been an incessant hurry to wind up the project, the relationships between the characters don’t get deepe...
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UNPAUSED(2020) review

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Directed by: Raj/DK, Nikhil Advani, Tanishta Chatterjee, Avinash Arun and Nitya Mehra.  Cast: Gulshan Devaiah, Saiyami Kher, Richa Chadda, Sumit Vyas, Ishwak Singh, Lilette Dubey, Rinku Rajguru, Abhishek Banerji, Geetika Ohlyan, Master Pallas, Ratna Pathak Shah, Shardul Bharadwaj.  The dreaded corona virus and the unexpected lockdown! Nobody escaped it this year, nobody really saw it coming, and the human race is still discovering the nectar vaccine. ‘Unpaused’ is an anthology series comprising five shorts based on the pandemic lockdown theme, the characters therein are battling the dilemma and insecurities erupted during the lockdown.  Glitch - set in a futuristic set up in 2032 when scientists are still struggling to find the vaccine, though technologically the world has advanced and we see an “hypo” and a covid warrior warming up to each other on a virtual date! Things take an U-turn once tragedy strikes and their relationship needs an reinvention. Worth watching for D...
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