The Conjuring 2 (2016)

The Conjuring in 2013 a retro styled horror movie with the sumptuous story and terrific horror bumped everyone who had lost faith in the genre. After 3 years the ace director James Wan preludes this installment in Enfield, North London 1977.This one as well is excellently crafted and relentlessly boasts about the healthy horror that gives you the perfect bumps.

Ed & Lorraine Warrens investigating the infamous Amityville haunting, where Lorraine is terrified by a Nurse & envisioning her husband's death. She decides to quit her profession and continue with attending the lectures. Meanwhile in Enfield, a family of 4 is experiencing some malevolent activities at their home. The mother being the only guardian is unable to settle with the problem growing wilder every passing day. After the doctors and cops giving up upon the demonically disturbed family, the matter was reported to the priest who finds his shelter at Warrens who then are asked to attend the case, which being termed as "London's Amityville"

The girl who is infested by the demonic entity in the house is accused to be doing it all for attention. The family stands tough with the absoluteness about the satanic activities at their home, as everybody but the accuser has experienced the terrifying activities in the home. Wan manages it very perfectly to keep you at the edge of your seats as he doesn't let any moment to downhill the strength of the plot. The cinematography has been done pluperfect, it gives you the much wanted bumps aptly. The dedication with which Wan imbibes the need of the plot, is very justified by his direction, the brilliant acting to the brilliant music is all a part of the bead that forms the rewarding 2nd Installment.

Mr Wan with his other offerings like Saw & Dead Silence, Fast & Furious, has this one in his hall of fame as well. And to his brilliance there is an absolute resort that I will mention at the conclusion of my review. Now summing up the movie into one frame, we find the perfect horror with fresh sequences that really kills you. The performance by the characters is commendable and the must mention Janet (the infested girl) steals the show with her excellent performance. The movie is a dead silence without the background score, which is again filled so perfectly with the on goings to only pull you onto the edge. With all this said, it becomes a must watch and a perfect weekend plan.

Tribute to the Director: After the movie, I was walking out towards the exit and I happened to see the selfie ceremony had already begun. And there were 3 girls who were posing for a selfie, the girl in charge of clicking the selfie held the camera perfectly to frame in all 3 of them, and suddenly turns back and makes that one grotesque face with an eerie sound and laughs out loud. Mr James you made that happen. #Hats Off to Wan.

MY FEAR RATING:

FAN (2016)

The much awaited movie with quiet a few trailers and the revelations released today and dozens of people with clouded perceptions walked in but left with mixed reactions, which is oblivious, but all in all the movie takes you on very different journey, that triumphs doing the uniform justice to the storyline.

An obsessive thriller movie, that highlights the fandom of a stardom is a story of a simpleton guy from the city Delhi who is a super fan of the super star Aryan Khanna (SRK). He sets on a journey to meet Aryan just like any other ordinary fan, but, and I say the but in capital letters, this is just not any other ordinary fan. The obsession struck fan who sets out to meet his dream, and when the things don't exactly turn white according to him, he decides to turn black. An obsession would have been okay, but when the obsession meets black, they together brings a mess, a big mess. As I said you the story is not the one you might be prepared for, perhaps its the one that prepares the distinguished image of a FAN. 

If one had to write this very concept in words that could vividly explain the layers of the obsession of a fandom, then this is a flawless writing rooting the concept. With an ace acting to the apt dialogues, the movie perfectly shapes the word tension and drills it in you. The tensed you walks with an end that is not so welcoming, but it had to end. Now talking about the character performance part, its SRK who is playing the obsessive fan of the superstar SRK himself again. Laying this on a canvas you will see that, SRK in real has to play the part of the fan and the superstar as well. So its 3 characters involved, the real him has to play his real stardom life with an opulent family and lifestyle, and again the real him has to play the obsessive fan. So, when you watch it on screen, it pretty comfortable to see him sliding in and out of the 2 characters, but only when you understand the variations in the personality and behavior only then can you understand the level of focus that an actor needs to induce. 

                                     


With the rough chase between a Fan & the Star, its the Star who wins the race, but this winning is not a good memory to the actor, as the count of his Fan goes down by winning over him. A movie worth watching, but again let me remind you, this is not one of those feel good movie that you might expect with the SRK & YRF jodi. This one is the different and is totally worth a watch. The story length is 2 hours 22 minutes with zero songs to dress up the movie, its barely naked with only the story that will amaze you.

 
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NEERJA (2016)

The name Neerja means, the Lotus. Symbolically Lotus is associated with rebirth in Egypt. This is a consequence of it supposedly retracting into the water at the night, and emerging a fresh in the Sun the next day. Her character in the real life ensembles to reflect the same. We all by now have known Neerja Bhanot & her bravery, but this bravery needed a perfect homage in the hearts of this generation. Ram Madhvani succeeds in this attempt and celebrates Neerja's bravery over the silver screen with a million viewers walking out of the hall carrying a heavy heart. The facts about the Pan Am flight hijack and Neerja's courage, which saved 359 passengers off 379 is given and written all over, but the question was, will Sonam Kapoor be able to define Neerja?? The answer to this has come out to be a BIG YES with flying colors.

''Babumushai, Zindagi badi honi chahiye, lambi nahi'', a dialogue from the movie Anand, happens to be her favorite movie starring Rajesh Khanna. There are very few but strong enough points in her life that became the reasons for which we know her today. No soul can stand until it falls once. The director skilfully takes us to those wrenched parts of her life, which made her feel very low, and during these low times, how her family had been the moral as well as mental support to her. The timeline where the director has placed these scenes strikes the perfect chord and makes the character and her actions more believable. Else, this would seem un-natural and though the bravery demands the respect, it would have killed the motive. The movie picks up 2 hours prior to her last flight Pan Am. Like just another ordinary day Neerja getting ready to board the flight and departs from her home, demanding a Yellow Salwaar on her 23rd Birthday which she would be not able to celebrate with her family, as she would be on the flight starting from Delhi to Karachi to Frankfurt to Newyork. The hijackers invade the flight once it reaches Karachi, and the havoc begins. The turmoil conditions have been cautiously created, and more cautious is Neerja to deal with it. The petty things which proved to be a brilliant decision all fell in the right place and right time, ungratefully things went wrong with Neerja.

Till the last breath she held on to be brave, and her example of bravery is still inspiring the newbies. The terror when you put yourself into the situation, is fearsome. In such a havoc only thing that comes to our mind remotely is Help me, but for Neerja this was the post thinking, she put the lives of everyone aboard before her, and did the justice to the lives of 359 passengers. She could do little for her family but a lot to her country. Shabana Azmi playing Neerja's mother, portrays the affection and the sorrow in a defying manner and speaks the unspoken bravery of her child. How she never envisioned that she had a brave child, whom she never tutted to be one. Instead she always insisted her to be a self-centered, but to her utter surprise, Neerja had out done her daughter.

Last word:
This weekend pays the tribute to her bravery. A must watch, and a heartbreaking positive movie. The powerful storyline & Sonam's performance gives a perfect homage to Neerja. #Respect

My rating:

AIRLIFT : A FLIGHT WORTH BOARDING..

The director had the script to a real life incident and countable characters to play the role of the genesis of the riots in Kuwait, he could either fill the movie loads of patriotism and drama, or keep it realistic. He chooses to mock us by opting the realistic part, that too in Bollywood where the neighbor screen is playing the omphy movie Kya Kool Hain Hum 3, and guess what, he nails it perfectly. The plot is based on the true events, back in Aug 1990, Kuwait was invaded by Saddam Hussein, and the count of Indians that were stuck in Kuwait was 1.7 Lakh. Now when i write stuck, it has to be reckoned that what does it really feel like to be stuck in a situation. 

Menon here strips the true definition of stuck in a state of terror, he walks you through those tough situations where the only word your brain can think of is SAVE ME. Stuck in such a state where you are in a foreign land with your passports submitted to the regional government, whose employees have vanished into thin air, the only ray of hope is Ranjit, the business tycoon who detests to be addressed as an Indian.The peril environment has been very meticulously designed, a special care has been taken that some nuisance creeps in periodically such that the thin line of realization between the fellow hostages be highlighted. When the US force and the regional force decided to do nothing, the only shoulder that seemed reliable was the INDIAN GOVERNMENT. Ranjit holding the last inch of hope makes a call to the Indian government officials, and next part of the movie is how, the Indian Govt. made you feel proud by carrying out one of the most successful & brilliant execution ever by saving the lives of the stranded Indians in Kuwait. 

Now with all the brighter part been said, remains the darker side that certainly could have been easily striked out. The songs & Arabic dance paraphernalia could be ruled out, but maybe the pace of the movie was the point of worry for Menon, which forced him to add in the unwanted. With little turbulence the movie streamlines itself for its core part, the last scene, where the Indian Government finally arranges AIR INDIA flights to AIRLIFT the stranded Indians and pull out the most heroic stunt ever in the history. This very part of the movie had to be filled with patriotism and drama, and Menon leaves no blanks unfilled. Also with Akshay Kumar as the character, Menon had to be very confident that, Akshay does not play the role of the Hero, but a tycoon who nails the master plan, without screwing the realistic details of the script. That's where Akshay Kumar delivers a flawless performance and Airlifts the movie. 

                                                       
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An engaging movie with ground line being based on true events and presented with true manners. Surely worth an experience watch, and with 26th January heading up, it will certainly cloud your mind with faith in the Indian Government, in-case you have lost the faith. 

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