Movie Review : Baaghi 2

Baaghi 2

The thrill for action

Mystery, thriller, romance, dance and action makes a typical Bollywood movie. All elements included in Baaghi 2 takes it a notch higher in fact its actually a preview to how talented Tiger shroff  is. The movie rests truly on his shoulders. As we all are aware that he is capable of incredible action and dance sequences. Somehow he has always been underplayed with movies like  Munna Michale, Flying Jatt etc. With Baaghi 2 Tiger Shroff brings in class action and good acting. He playes an Army Jawan special forces named (Ranveer Pratap Singh urf Ronnie). Thus the military hair cut changes his looks to a dashing young man and his sizzling abs add to his action hero image.

The movie falls short in many domains like direction, editing, screenplay, dialogues. It is quite flawed that one doesn’t feel the connectivity as well as the feeling of watching something new and fresh. Except for the action sequences the script and dialogues are dull nothing that we haven’t  had heard before. Editing puts huge dent as different shots are clearly visible with poor connectivity from one frame to the other. Songs are dispensable and are too close to each other in the first half and why o why! Was there a need to take Jacqueline Fernandes to recreate Madhuri’s “Ek do teen”. The legendary song’s recreation is utterly bosh in terms of music and choreography. They should have put an original item song instead of a recreation. I feel sometimes song recreations in films are just to fasten the movie completion in absence of creativity. Some characters like Prateek Babbar are being wasted. He is a good actor and his negative role should have been enhanced more. The comic timing of Randeep Hooda gives us those laughter moments.

So watch this movie for Tiger shroff and its first half that goes well in creating the mystery and second half for Tiger’s action scenes. He is here and he has arrived. We surely will see him in amazing action movies in future that can blow our mind. Baaghi 2 will leave you asking for more of Tiger Shroff. The challenge while watching it is to ignore the rest. I will surely recommend this movie to go watch in cinema halls.

Movie Review: Raid

Movie Review

Raid 

As the name suggests the movie is about a Raid. An Income Tax Raid on a white house. Set in the 80’s this movie is based on a true story in lucknow of an IRS Deputy Commissioner who raids an MP. A great story telling by Raj Kumar Gupta who is accredited for his direction in movies like (No one killed Jessica, Aamir). Gripping story with good dialogues, acting finesse by Saurabh Shukla and Ajay Devgan. The biggest concern and driver of all economies through out the centuries since the upgrade from the barter system has been the “lagaan” the tax paid for the governance. This movie hence becomes special for the subject matter of honest working of IT department. An IT Deputy commissioner Amay Patnaik currently posted in Lucknow reputed to be uncorrupt and diligent towards his work with deliberate ignorance towards his humongous amount of transfers is played by Ajay Devgan. The raided MP Rameshwar Singh played by Saurabh Shukla exhausts all (Sham, Daam, Dand, Bhedh) avenues to ensure Patnaik fails his task of returning the confiscated tax evaded wealth into Indian govt treasury. The movie keeps you glued to the screen to see what happens next and to find out the person who tips Patnaik (Ajay Devgan) about the hidden stash of cash, gold, jewelry etc.

Watching the movie definitely gives a thrilling experience as it grips and entertains. The simple case of an extended Income tax Raid is smartly made into a 2 hour movie but the story is extremely gripping and performances makes you connect to the characters to always look forward to what next. Both the main actors are so well placed. Both actors Devgan and Shukla have great comic timings and to play the serious roles with the same excellence is extremely enjoyable and commendable.  Raid is a great movie to watch and should not be missed.

Movie Review : Qarib Qarib Single

Qarib Qarib Single

Verdict: QQS is about making yourself happy watching romance, comedy, little drama and lots of laughter in quirky style through a beautiful road trip. Irfan Khan at his best yet again.

It’s a conventionally unconventional movie. With all the story telling this year like Bareily ki Barfi, Shubh Mangal Savdhan etc this movie is a good story telling. The first half of the movie is excellent, the story flows smoothly like water, phrases and depiction of a single woman Jaya Played by Parvathi in 30s single (widow) with a good career living life in need of a companion with just a younger brother studying in a foreign university as family. She is controlled by false sense of proprietary to lead a single life as a widow under society scrutiny. Finally upon dramatic insistence from her friend’s speech of her turning into a revirgin dwells into online dating site to find a good companion from the cluster of perverts. Jaya is drawn to Irfan Khan urff Yogi’s online profile who’s hobby is poetry and has quite unique yet elusive communication style. Upon meeting him she is intrigued by his idiosyncratic, uncanny ways of life.  

An off-hand remark about Yogi’s ex-girlfriends turns into a road trip to meet all of them, and Jaya finds herself tagging along. As they meet the women who made up Yogi’s romantic past, Jaya finds herself drawn to this outlandish, whimsical man. There are many discoveries along the journey for both the chracters- Jaya’s unresolved issues with her friends, Yogi’s half-cooked romances – this is how the story enhances to fun instances and jealousy the final nail to the head to comprehend their heart’s feelings.

We are finally watching these movies and this sort of content is finally up. This movie is all about a tale of modern romance and is absolute pleasure to watch. The movie does take you to wonderful places like Gangtok, Rishikesh, Dehradun, Jaipur etc. Irfan is such a class actor that it will be a shame not to credit his acting skills every single time.  So more reasons to watch this sweet and sour romantic soup of a movie.

Movie Review: American Made

Movie: American Made

Who would have ever thought you could ever get enough of Tom cruise in an Air pilot uniform? The dash! Is back. This time it isn’t as highflying as Top Gun but a more subtle, roller coaster comedy crime thriller fictionalized story of Berry Seal who got into getting in and out drugs, money, weapons between Latin America and the US in the ’80s. Well Narcos, Breaking Bad  and movies on drugs, mafia, and violence have become somewhat the new favorite flavor.

The movie begins with a bored TWA pilot in 1978 who plays with the aircraft switches creating minor turbulence to rattle the passengers to derive some amusement at his flying job. One of those boring days he finds himself being recruited by a CIA operative to gather intel by flying over Latin American base camps and take pictures, which isn’t so easy with his craft being fired on by the resistance military. On one of these trips is where his life takes a turn smuggling drugs for Pablo drugs cartel to US soil. It is his intelligence and wit that makes him successful where others fail and gets away with it. All country politics have gray shades and so does the USA. He is tossed around in various missions sandwiched between the Pablo cartel and the CIA doing jobs for both and making shit load of money in return. He makes tapes of all the things he has done and under what circumstances. All this has to catch up with him somewhere in sometime.

The focus of the movie is more on the politics and back-channel shenanigans of that time. Liman the director has a particular fascination for the mechanics and realpolitik of modern spy craft. The movie is infectious. As is Cruise, who puts the entire film on his shoulders and nicely pulls it through. He pulls through a wife cast in the movie who is not only about 25 years his junior but also looks more like a bored supermodel than an innocent woman who never inquires about the many suitcases full of cash that just keep coming. This is Cruise’s show all the way, and he delivers with a performance that will take you higher than any airplane ever could. You will be entertained through out the movie. It isn’t a typical tom cruiser movie but its damn good story telling and great acting.

Movie Review: IT

IT

A typical horror movie is supposed to haunt, scare the bejesus out of us. We all have different horrors to fight against in life. This is not limited to us adults it starts from being a sperm through to the childhood, teenage, adulthood. We need to keep rising from the ashes all the time so that we turn into the best victorious ash at the end of our life. The movie is all about overcoming our worst fear, fight with all the courage, wisdom and never ever give up. IT is never over in life, there are endless battles to be won.

The makers have taken the most loved and funniest character for children a Clown and turned it into this scary shape shifting demon that can take shape of anything or anyone the child is most afraid of. If the child gets scared the child is dead. IT is definitely a bit overstretched new adaptation of Stephen King’s 1986 horror novel about a gang of kids trying to fight this Demon Clown. IT will try to petrify us with all its scariness to freak us out completely. Each kid will keep facing creepy, horrifying things happening. The children are these bunch of teenagers with equal fear of growing up, fear of sex, fear of failing in the society, fear of menstruation. The bunch wants to look like a loser club hanging out all summer long, dealing with loneliness, intense feeling of love and yearning, and are also in fear of their lives from satanic clown that wants to imprison them all forever in his horrendous den somewhere in the town’s sewage system. Each kid struggles to overcome its fear and deflate the demonic clown. They do succeed to an extant but IT doesn’t go away completely. That’s how they end this movie clearly indicating a second chapter. The children promise to return and unite every time IT comes back.

IT is definitely a movie to watch, be thrilled on the edge of your seat, and marvel at the message  to keep fighting your demons in life. I hope we keep successfully deflating our demons various shapes, forms and size whether mental physical or just superficially made up. Promise to fight and rise. Hope you enjoy the movie as much as I did.

Movie Review: Newton

Newton

This looks like to be the era of good acting for Bollywood.  Not only cricket but we have great talent when it comes to acting in India. The movie Newton is completely attributed to Rajkumar Rao. I don’t really know whose Idea it was to give him curls but that really made the whole look. He is acting the character of a government employee who is annoyingly stickler for rules, a text book follower. Most of his acting is through his expressions. There is no big-time dialogue delivery like Mr Big B, but the way he speaks with eye expressions is the key to his good acting.

I am sincerely surprised by the decision to send the movie for foreign film to Oscars. Newton could have been an excellent short film. I wonder why it had to be stretched to 2hrs movie? I should also mention the lead female actor in the movie Anjali Patil has acted phenomenally. She should really be praised for the role she has played. The simple roles are the most complex to portray she is good with it. The director has done a good job with the narration of the story. There wasn’t much of a story to tell and yet the director tells it with subtle style of normal story telling. The camera effect was the big mistake in the movie, since the movie had to be shot in jungle or shabby background there was way too much of bokeh or blurr effect, which was not seamless. One doesn’t remain gripped to the movie. It doesn’t ever deliver its messages precisely, one has to really look for them. I keep expecting the story to really turn and become something bigger or interesting but it doesn’t. Maybe that is the purpose of the movie, nothing great to say but just normal uninteresting story. Well it succeeds to keep me uninterested.

These days off beat movies do carry element of entertainment and humor, so does Newton. Yet I do not recommend this movie as a good watch simply that there isn’t a remarkable story to tell with no visual appeal to it. A short film is what it should have been.

Movie Review: Simran

Simran

Kangna proves once again that she is a Queen. Queen of Acting. If someone really puts their mind and soul to something it definitely shows. No amount of twist of faith or turn of events could have taken this away from her. She is definitely an actor. I know no male actor who can ever pull this off and in this style. The Movie is all about her and only her. It doesn’t matter what the story is what the script is. She Just goes out there and rules it. For a pahadi girl to play this gujju girl so convincingly was a shock to me. Never ever she lets any of the flows of the movie to dwindle any scene. She plays all the nonsense and eccentricity like its in her blood. I credit this movie solely to her. The director, writers and the production has only to gain from her strength and not the other way around.

The story telling is extremely weak. It looks like there wasn’t much to say and the story was ridiculously twisted and stretched. Kangna’s potential is not being completely utilized. Dialogues don’t match to the story. There isn’t anything interesting going on. The robbery scenes made to bring humor fail miserably. The NRI gujju dysfunctional family in US isn’t convincing enough. The side characters change their personalities too frequently for one to actually get the real sense of it. Her boss trying to gain her attention to later a monster who attacks her and molests her is so plain unconvincing. All this would have still made sense with proper story telling and good direction. The story line has been changed quite a bit from the real life story and still it lacks luster, has nothing amusing to offer. The movie fails to grip you for its entire run. After about half an hour I wanted to just stop watching it any further. The only fun thing was her name character name Praful Patel and that is never explained.

The only thing that this movie has is a fantastic, realistic acting by Kangna. Everthing else is just  a haze. I would avoid to watch this movie, yet if you are a real Kangna fan like my hubby don't miss it as it is one of her best work.