DILWALE

I intentionally decided to watch this movie on Sunday evening, the reason being , people had this big retaliation to sway off after watching the movie. The intensity is so malevolent that i decided to keep myself away from the hall where all such people had gathered and cluttered the auditorium with their responsive vibes about the movie. I did not want these vibes to cuddle up my thoughts before watching the movie. So, the aftermath of this movie provokes me to say few lines for the people who are busy commenting about the movie. It felt more like these people were all ready with the mouth full of words just to vomit it out and proudly smirk saying, 'That's my Vomit, Yeah!!' Offence is not meant to be delivered here, but what annoyed me was, the audience this Friday had an option for watching Dilwale or Bajirao Mastani; but the option was not to compare both the movies.Yes you may have different opinions about the movies but why connect a totally insignificant line that states nothing except being nonsense.

Dilwale, a multi genre movie or say a multi genre junk which is a bloated saga of cliches with series of Shetty's lame monologues of ridicule. No doubt it falls flat. The reason to only survive on the screens until next weekend is the chemistry between SRK & Kajol, though cliched, I couldn't resist to get more of it coming. The hold they have over the screen is the only speculating part that even Shetty might have counted on to. If you minus SRK & Kajol, the only thing you will be left with is an absolute oblivion. The story that forcefully tries to pull in between the romance or the vice versa, both fails to glue up and the fractured story finally collapses after 2 hours 38 minutes. Now the only thing that walks with you off the auditorium is the romance and the exchange of looks between SRK & Kajol. They are so easy and eye pleasing even today that your eyes will simply refuse to roll off.

Now coming to the oblivion part, that includes everyone except Mishra's comic timing. We also can add Varun & Kriti Sanon's performance to be average on the list, they don't disturb you thankfully like the King, who thankfully gets beaten up for his good at the end. Next part that can be summed up is Rohit Shetty's typical movie Gorgeous cars, those cars flying and rolling, the multi contrast houses in Goa and his silly monologues. So, i could not say this is a bad film, rather this is an average movie which i guess never promised anything above average either.

Final Word: For me it was worth one time watch, for the rest i would not comment anything, just a piece of advice for those audience who are in a retaliation mood to vomit and yeah the smirk thing and cannot watch an English movie until its Hindi dubbed version doesn't release, and grunting about a story line in Rohit Shetty's movie, please grow up!! (*Yes this advice was intentional)

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TAMASHA (2015)

''Tu koi aur hai, jaanta hai tu, saamne is jahan ke, ek naqab hai'' If this was the only statement you had to present in a form of a reel length feature film, what could be the best possible portrayal of it, is the film Tamaasha. Ali chooses his own way of expressing the theme, and he pulls you into the world that you already are living in, the frustrated you with your mundane life, strikes the chord with the character and his every note of performance goes in accordance of your mundane life and you now distinctly see the connection built between you and the director's idea behind the film. Next he strips layer by layer of the smeared frustration, and we envision the solemn problem.

I also learnt from the fellow moviegoers that the story line is a cliche, and i wonder what did they want to prove by the term cliche used here. Yes, the story line is nothing new, because in real life nothing new really happens everyday. The mirage that we create and fail to fathom, is the achievement that we bag and boast about it daily. Dramatically how we divide the life into two sections, childhood and adulthood and make sure the actions also in each stage should contradict the teachings that we have learnt. All those goody and fairy tales that you're preached in your childhood suddenly turn hostile when you enter Adulthood, and you find the complete new ABSURD generation sugarcoated with the layer of another ABSURDNESS and lead the life complaining. If the most absurd person is considered as Successful person, then we really need to stop the false preaching in the childhood. This is the total story that is enveloped in a beautiful package of fabulous scenic locations, and mind soothing songs. Rehman plays the perfect score to create the exact vibe that sets you in the appropriate mood.

Ranbir & Deepika together play the mundane tale in an extraordinary way that fulfills the character in total and are easy to connect with. The tit bits of the movie reminds us of Ali's previous films, which don't look clumsy. Also the love story part does not dominate the story, instead it acts the light that leads to the brightness, and has been meticulously placed into the movie. In a nutshell, Ali tailor cuts the total mundane frustrated routine and its intact outcomes of a mediocre person, who hides his true identity and is bundled up in a life full of pestering activities and the life where he certainly does not belong. Get lost in the abeyance, envision Ali's story & figure out the complexity in yourself.

Final Word

Ali once again masters the film, every bit of the film reminds you that its Imtiaz's movie and he precedents the society's most celebrated problem. When you watch it, don't judge it, instead judge yourself and let the magic he brings on the screen, turn your thoughts.

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SHAANDAR A magnificent tale of boredom.

SHAANDAR (2015)

Imagine the movie QUEEN with tons of glitches and sloppy scenes and sadly pathetic direction and a non-charismatic story writing. That would be difficult in imagining stuffs like that with the title being QUEEN, now the same people who brought us QUEEN coalesce for SHAANDAR, and delivers all those un-imaginable stuffs with a magnificent set and locations. All that could possibly go wrong with this movie, went wrong. This movie created a big discrepancy considering a film like Queen.

Let me pithy you the story. On paper, Shaandaar is the story of two sisters. One is the adopted child, the pretty one who struggles to find acceptance and is an insomniac. The other is good at heart, tubby and being used by her mother and grandmother to secure a deal with a business partner because the Aroras are almost bankrupt, why do 2 bankrupts try to mingle ,leads to a big oblivion. The story looses its grip on direction and soon the survival hopes are relinquished in songs which fail to hold it either.

So, the screen opens up with the anime character of Pankaj Kapoor (Bipin) and baby Alia who is adopted by Bipin. No one having a clue about why has she been adopted by Bipin, welcomes  her to the family with a dreadful mother who squashes the doll bought by Alia by riding her electrically operated chair over it, if that expresses the intensity of the harshness, shouldn't you be swallowing a lump under your throat. The next character is her mother who is deary to her daughter and care-free towards Alia. Now Alia has this strange insomnia thing, and she keeps herself up by googling stuffs about insomnia. The only dream of Bipin is to find her a person who could put her to sleep. With this the characters turn into flesh, with Shahid kapoor riding a bike and lighting his cigar bumps into Bipin's car who is with his family heading to marry his daughter. Thus everyone are introduced there. From post this scene where the movie should have actually taken a leap from the unusual crap, instead it lands into more deeper crap and gives you crumbs to the absolute stupidity of the characters. The sinking story crams towards the interval and relays the story to the weaker 2nd half.

The weaker second half has odd timed songs as its biggest asset. And the mention able bikini scene of Alia Bhatt (absolutely why do boys have all the fun) and her end to insomnia is something so great that it weighs bigger than the wedding. The lurking scenes with loose editing and story loosens its ultimate grip when the scenes start to arise questions like Why did that happen? You see Alia bhatt served with panties in the breakfast, to which anybody including the director himself have no clue about. So such lame scenes deprive you from taking the movie any further.

The only positive part that really can't be considered in the favor of the movie is Dharma Productions set design and Karan Johar's cameo. If its KJO's production, then it has to be picturesque, and character who has a limp wrist (yes you guessed it right, a gay!!), so he does show up in the movie to bid a farewell to his magnificent set, in which what happened no one has single clue, but still it was named SHAANDAR.

Words of Wisdom: Even if you have watched the morning show which costs the least, you know it all went waste. NOT WORTHY AT ALL!! Watch the trailer and feel proud for you saved your bucks. In a nutshell ( -Queen x infinity non-sense) = SHAANDAR.


Rating: 2/10

Pyaar ka Punchnaama (PKP2): A cliched tale of misogyny.

This is the most common act that happens with every next sequel. The very thought that has been trailing, sequels are always a step behind than its prequel, is proven most audaciously in this episode. Let me decode the math of PKP2; +2 new male protagonists, - liquid, rest all lays the same. Now with this if you are drawing the negative conclusion, then I guess you are not wrong at all. Luv Ranjan has surely upgraded everything apart from the story. Apparently the stale story has been garnished with the shorts growing shorter and the jokes going more off #*%@#! (beep). The pretentious attitude always fails to charm the audience and we don’t understand why that has to be put in with such a major space.

The scale of the movie follows an exact sinusoidal graph; it peaks on both the poles and goes moderate. An engineer who gets a hefty package of 3L.P.(M) yes that is 3 lakhs per month has got all the time to shop and listen the countless bills spent and the episodes of how to save the money and also very strangely he is not annoyed by any official calls but only her girlfriend; a blatant case of misogyny pointed. But, when we are here to watch the movie that is a sequel to PKP, you can’t expect it to be so technically practical, because we all know we are here to understand the female chauvinism that drills down the alpha males and their sound life into their worst nightmares. Certainly the entertainment level stands true and is managed appallingly, but the fact still remains the same that, why the same again? Moreover it is not a sequel at all, it’s all new nonchalance with more bold scenes and same story. 

The movie turns the head down when the female protagonists start peaking down their level of maturity and starts to dominate the matured men, again pointing misogyny, and this time it is risen to an extreme level where you are welcomed to the world where best friends of your girlfriend are the best enemies of you, because, the best friend has the privilege to enjoy all those perks that you availed alongsidedly minus the ‘you have to take all my shit attitude’. As I said the story doesn’t peak but the dialogues are absolutely commendable, and very well delivered. The mentionable 15 minutes long dialogue, as said everything is upgraded, and it drops like a laughing bomb and amazingly everyone is reminded and connected to the epic PKP dialogue and we all burst out laughing. Reaching the climax, the 3 guys have had it all and ready to dump their bag full of rage and the victim of misogyny. One of the protagonists recites the poem of I LOVE YOU, and summarizes how cheap swag these words mean to him and plants a good bye kiss on her girlfriend. The gag just before interval is also a big lash on the annoying cigarette kills commercial ad that pops in every theatre hall and the climax scene of the movie also scores a good point where the alpha males finally get the answer to ‘True love’ and close their account by concluding that, to lead a happy life, its necessary to marry our hand (sarcasm) and love our mom.

Final say: Fun is absolutely filled in abundance, but nothing surprisingly new in PKP2. Certainly worth a fun watch.

My Rating: 6/10

THE WALK: INSANE VERTIGO

With the release of the 4 minutes long trailer, this movie had said it all about its what’s and who’s. Little left to be justified was the impeccable Walk and its story rammed with it. We’ve seen many biographical movies and all have been exhilarating, because, the example stands right before us live today, but fewer are those which have done something lunatic enough as that being their dream and have set successfully been landed behind the bars. One among such is Philippe Petit, who chose to tightrope walk between the twin towers. Had if this movie been a fiction art, trust me it would have nudged your brain every time when he pulls that insane stunt over the tightrope. Amazingly here you have to believe it, because this is a real performance. The 2 liner plot about this movie is, the former part of the film just introduces you to his dream, and the post part shows how he achieved it.

If you were to hear him saying all through the movie that how did it all start and with the tiniest detailing, surely your interest level would have soon met the ground, and that happens exactly in the first half. The extra detailed stuffs are showered and made you realize that it’s a real big shit he is talking about. Zemeckis has majorly focused on building the effect rather than being original, but the film in its post half soon lands in the final act. Trust me it surely is a real big shit, every single breath counts on that rope. The insane vertigo makes you feel sick, and the confidence on his face releases you off that tension. All this pulled out in 1974 on a construction of two 415 meter towers. It just amazes you with all respect and you have nothing more to say except a feeling of fulfillment.

In a biographical movie the best thing is, you need not like the protagonist or the female protagonist for their character played, it is their story that needs to be apprehended and respected. The important part is, the person embodying the legend should have leave an appealing effect, and Joseph Gordon Lewwit here leaves no stones un turned in putting that up to it. The very-high-wire sequence is genuinely gasp-inducing. See it in 3D on the largest screen available.

You might not fall off the rope, but you certainly will fall for Philippe.

My rating: 8/10

FURIOUS 7

FURIOUS 7

The 7th installment comes with heaviest feelings binded with the movie, with the late Paul Walker's tribute section at the end leaves your heart heavy with the respect and proud. It wont be wrong to state that, the whole movie and the tribute to Walker in the end scene weighs equally. Furious series have always had its own competition to outrank the previous series, and here it comes with gravity defying and inevitable crash to death sequences larger than any series before. 

The movie starts spinning hard right from the word "GO", and never sets down the pace, and accelerates to a limitless level of enjoyable nuance, and you are supposed to like it or leave it because this is how an unbelievable stunt is performed. This movie has both the immensely dumb action and insanely emotional core to conclude one of the series beloved character. If we even compare this series with its predecessors, this one is cranked up to a million here. We are also introduced to a family bond with the heavy dialogue, " I don't have friends, I have a Family", we are not used to such dialogues, but when it comes to Vin diesel saying something like that, then it has to be serious. All through the film you embrace the variety of emotions perfectly bundled to make it an absolutely enjoyable, call it the work of James Wan or the characters life into the character or just your like-ability, it will quench your thirst efficiently. Now coming to the most savored moment of this movie, 'the end', it is surprisingly so emotional to the core, it walks you through the entire journey you had with your Paul, and bids a good bye to him. This is probably the best tribute to any late actor.

Overall it is a film that combines all it had gathered and pours down on you with an enormous velocity with a middle finger to laws of Physics. A never ending roller coaster ride to an emotional send off to our loving Paul Walker.

GO and be a part of this last ride.

PS:A small request, please avoid watching the teaser before watching the movie, it kills the excitement of experiencing the scenes that holds and drops you from the Everest.

FURIOUS: 7/10.

WHIPLASH A Journey from the SCRATCH to the BEST!!

WHIPLASH (2015)

Passion for something leads you to everything, but not unless you make that passion the only achievable goal in your life. However harder it might seem to be the best, the aftereffect is going to be the best too. Whiplash is an exhilarating movie about a Andrew Neiman who aspires to become a Jazz Drummer. To shape his aspiration perfectly comes in the mentor Terence Fletcher. He is tough abusive and the best. Now what is it that makes this film an exhilarating is to be said by me here.

Make few ground rules very clear before watching this movie. 

•  This is not one of those movies which will woo you by its outstanding musical concert performance at the end.
• Not one of those which shows the passion and your social life balancing.
• Its a movie to be experienced and this movie is worth experiencing.
  

The mentor Terence Fletcher walks in the first time when Andrew is practicing on drums, seeing him Andrew stops playing, to wish him. Fletcher asks him why did he stop, to which Andrew begins to play again till he is again interrupted by Fletcher asking him, that his question was WHY DID YOU STOP? , with this part we are introduced to THE FLETCHER, he has been terrifying teacher and he always wanted the best. Andrew however manages to get inside his academy and if this makes you think it was a great beginning then you're mistaken. The real trouble starts now. The strange tension inside the room when Fletcher walks in can be felt by you and your dried up throat. For the newbies he is soft for say like 10 mins and on the 11th minute he is the worst nightmare you've ever seen. You not only have to be the best but also have to be confident that you are the best. If you are shaken than you are welcomed with a flying chair thrown at your face and ushered outside the room like forever. You play good than you are grim ugly piece of sh*t, and if you play better than good you find yourself confident for the next hour. Now that was the introduction to Fletcher.By this time you can be sure about one thing that the survivals in his academy are groomed to become the best.

 

Now with Andrew it was a life with 2 options, 1. to become the best drummer like Buddy Rich, 2.Lead an ordinary life which everyone out there is already been doing. He chose the first one and also he chose to be one of those Fletcher's academy survivors. The practice sessions at his class makes you realize that how Fletcher pushes the student beyond the expected to turn them into the best. The core drummer of Fletcher's team is in itself a title, as this title comes not with just obeying his words but also your brainstorming practice, it bleeds, it hurts, it kills you down, but if you make it to the end you are sure to be a part of the core member of Fletcher's team, and if you are a part of the core team then you are just one step close to becoming the best.

 

Now coming down to the last scene of the movie. If this movie has worked its roots such hard than it has to give out the best, and you'll be pleased to see the best performance ever, and you will not resist yourself from clapping to the Fletcher's creation.

This movie is more than just watching. Go experience everything a passionate person has to deal with to become a legend. 

"THERE ARE NO TWO WORDS IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE MORE HARMFUL THAN "GOOD JOB".

My Score: 9.5/10