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My Recommendations:: Best Movies of 2016! The year 2016 has come to an end and we are entering the new calendar year, 2017 marking that our dear rock in the universe, Earth completed its one revolution around our beloved Star Sun like its been doing for billions of years. Well, as humans we are bound to celebrate such an occasion looking forward to a new year with renewed enthusiasm leaving the bygone year worries to the history for records. The cinema in 2016 saw some great moments and very dull moments as well. Recounting the best moments to step into the new year on a positive note, I am giving you the list of my best cinematic experiences in theatre for the year of 2016! I watch films from 6 languages mainly, English, Hindi, Telugu, Tamil, Kannada and Malayalam. Of all these Kannada is the industry I am amazed and impressed with the fast progress and different cinema it is encouraging and throughly disappointed with the lack of audacity to encourage freshness on the part of...

DANGAL - Wrestle the odds This year has been a mixed bag all together with several films being great like Pink and rest of them being disposable like Great Grand Masti. But every year you are in search of a film that makes you go gaga over the time it took for the makers to assemble it. The sheer brilliance that went into making a movie of such scale and perfection. For me each and every movie no matter what is the story needs such an effort and dedication from the makers whose ultimate goal lies in box office performance. Not judging their intentions but you do need some sort of reliability from the makers when you're investing your valuable time and money for almost 3 to 4 hours in travel and theatre for the sake of entertainment. This year I found my worth for every penny theatrical experience in DANGAL! Right from the word go, movie sucks you into its world and never lets you wander off. It never demands you to invest your intellectual energy at the same time it...

Befikre - Plastic Glory!! When you watch a movie you expect few things looking at the past and hoping for a pleasant present. While walking into an Adi Chopra film, one would expect the director of romantic movies like Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge, Mohabbatein and Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi to deliver if not a classic like DDLJ, at least a decent film with strong romance. Here the director falters big time with wafer thin plot line trying to make it edgy racy and new age.  Imtiaz Ali is a one of kind maker in India. His thoughts and scripting abilities are entirely on a different pedestal and he doesn't make a glaring mistake like casting two actors who after a point seem to repeat their actions and do nothing but look PLASTIC. In one word, you can describe Befikre as the depiction of Plastic emotions felt more plastically with an elastic screenplay that keeps on dragging for a bit and then some more, finally, delivering one big elastic fist pump that slaps you hard for walk...

Dear Zindagi - Past - Present - Future!  I always write my views as Observations as I do not really want to impose myself on viewers of a film with my ramblings. Not that I can but this is just a humble way to remind you that whatever you read here is the Blog runners opinion but not something written on wall and you should take it with a pinch of salt.  I am a fan of good cinema. For every film I enter the theatre with a belief that this film will be the greatest I am ever going to watch. Even the trailers may suggest otherwise, I do not really judge the book by its cover rather I wait to peel the content, embrace the feel a maker wants to deliver and then form my opinion about it. A story being said in silences and conversations, that is Dear Zindagi for you in a nutshell.  It is not trying to be overly smart, not trying to make you like its characters by hook or crook. It just keeps flowing on screen asking you to embrace the life unfolding in front of ...

Cast:  Henry Cavil, Ben Affleck, Amy Adams, Jessie Einsenberg, Gal Gadot Back Ground Score:  Hans Zimmer, Junkie XL Producer:  Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. Written by:  David S. Goyer, Chris Terrio   Direction:  Zack Snyder Superman and Batman are the two most iconic superheroes of the comic world. If one is an alien with 'godly' powers then the other is a human detective, who happens to develope smartest weapons on the planet. If one can destroy the entire planet in a second the other pledged his last breadth to save the mankind. If one is a combatant with no fear the other uses fear and disguise, with the help of darkness. Even though human is no match for the alien, he can still find a way to stop him. So, who will win in this battle?  Basic Plot: Aftermath the incidents of the movie, Man of Steel, where Superman fights with a legion of army from Krypton and finally twists the head of General Zod, humans are divide...

Rajnikanth, the small time bus conductor became an actor Rajni and then star Rajni and then Thalaivar Rajnikanth. In his journey, there were many milestones that helped him reach the pinnacle and stay on top even after so many years. If Basha is one iconic film of his long illustrated career, then Thalapathy in Tamil and Dalapathy in Telugu was a similarly important film in early 90's that took his craze much above any other southern star and put him altogether. Arrival of Mani Ratnam did not just change the making style in India it also changed the audience outlook towards the greats like Kamal Haasan and Rajnikanth. He gave many memorable films to actors like Nagarjuna, Prabhu, Karthik, Shah Rukh Khan,  introduced Aravind Swamy, Madhavan to screen and gave big hits to Abhishek Bachchan. Mani Ratnam changed the story telling style in South especially, from a dialogue bound style to visual based style. In his growth, he also gave milestone films to these alrea...

When all hell breaks bad and you are none but a commoner being who can only defend someone in their sleep with dream filled subconscious playing out the weirdest possible scenarios and triumph, you need some of those dreams to come into existence in real life. You want Superheroes, our mind constantly finds them in film heroes, army men, a crazy lunatic, comic books and so on. In the case of comic books we are engaged to the idea of their existence right from a very young age giving into their superpowers and thinking that saving world from earthly dangers is all bite a miniscule accomplishment so we need aliens who contact, surreal realms that are posing threat to our existence. Well, there you go with a cloak flying from one place to another and creating portals to mystic dimensions laced in pure magic and complex scientific equations. Let the Strange emotional dimension begin... There is no denying that we watch film for the purposes of entertainment and relaxation after ...

Cast: Shah Rukh Khan, Shah Rukh Khan, Waluscha de Souza, Sayani Gupta Music : Andrea Guerra Producer : Aditya Chopra Written by : Habib Faisal Direction: Maneesh Sharma Basic Plot: Can an obsession be good? Whatever form it takes can it make you an individual or will it just let you fall down even in your eyes? How much can you own a person? How lonely do you feel when the person you love doesn't reciprocate in the same manner? Doesn't being you yourself and then an admirer help you?? How thin is the line between a criminal obsession and an innocent admiration?! Gaurav Chandana (Shah Rukh Khan) is a die-hard fan of Aryan Khanna ( Shah Rukh Khan). He imbibes him so much into his life that for him thinking about Aryan is equal to living and breathing through every second. His obsession has no bounds. He is best impersonator of the actor and he is his look-a-like too. One evening on Dussehra he wins a best fan competition and likes to share that with his st...

JOHN WICK MOVIE REVIEW I know Keenu Reaves as Speed movie star and Matrix series Star. When I saw John Wick trailer, I thought oh another action film which supposedly a comeback of some sorts. I thought let's give this a try even though it looked completely formulaic and cliched.  The film tries to be true to what it is. An action film more about it's action episodes. The action episodes work out really well. They are bloody and at some parts are believably real. Nothing to be said about story. It just a film that helps you to enjoy the stunt choreography more than it's content. 

INTERSTELLAR-- an Observation I think most of you have watched this latest sci-fi offering from Nolan. Trust me when I say I am literally a devotee of Christopher Nolan. His strength in handling emotions, complex situations and writing a non-linear sequence with at most ease never seizes to amaze me. I am one of those who waits for his films to learn or make notes off. Somehow, even when many feel like an exercise sitting through his films I feel they are satisfying. Don't get me wrong, I am all in for simple yet satisfying experience that any film provides. But a Nolan film, asks you to involve in it, indulges you in it's complex web and makes you think and follows you after walking out the theatre. I find this aspect of Nolan's films very interesting and a fun exercise.  I am not any intellect or an astro-physicist, I am just a normal film enthusiast. What I am trying here is to convey the experience that I had watching the film and also my observations a...