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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...

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 ...

Kapoor and Sons Movie Review! Cast:  Rishi Kapoor, Siddharth Malhotra, Fawad Khan, Alia Bhatt, Ratna Pathak Shah, Rajat Kapoor Music:  Amaal Malik, Badshah Back Ground Score:  Sameer Uddin Producer:  Hiroo Yash Johar, Karan Johar, Apoorva Mehta Written by:  Shakun Batra, Ayesha Devitre Dhillon  Direction:  Shakun Batra Basic Plot: No family is perfect, but in a memory they pass on like a photography they could all look like a tight-nit one, happy and contend. Any elder member of the family would wish this kind of a memory to be passed on to his/her future generations.  Likewise, Dadu(Rishi Kapoor), who wants to attract attention towards him keeps playacting like he died on spot many-a-times in front of his son, Harsh Kapoor (Rajat Kapoor) and daughter-in-law, Sunitha Kapoor (Ratna Pathak Shah). One day he really falls prey for heart attack and the younger brigade of the family, Arjun (Siddharth Malhotra) and ...

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...

KILL DIL REVIEW  Another Friday for the Hindi Film Audience and another film hoping to sweep them off their seats has come into theatres hoping to create a magic spell on the Audience and score at the Box office.  The film name happens to be Kill Dil owing an homage, obviously in their heads, to Kill Bill series. Quentin Torantino might chase me down for even mentioning his classic series, but could not resist the temptation. A big Sorry sir! Now coming to this Shaad Ali directed, torture of 2 hrs12 minutes thanks for sparing us with the runtime, by the way. This film has nothing new to offer even in the form of performances except for Govinda, who is effective as Bhaiyya ji, a goon. 

We all need to satisfy that fantasy craving little boy in all of us which makes us watch the sci-fi adventures and superhero outlandish films with glee. We need someone to save us .. Some threat to destroy demolish and a hero who unites us and destroys the devilish plans and restores the humanity.  Hollywood has been producing a Super man, Batman, Spiderman, X-men and many more... Now it's Bollywood's turn to produce a desi- super hero, a genre which Indian hindi film industry infact entire Indian film industry as least explored. Except for many heroes trying to be super humans we don't have a proper super-hero to boost off. We do have Hanuman but we do need a proper one with cool costume and a mask, all the cool stuff you see.  With Koi Mil Gaya, Rakesh Roshan decided to give a super-hero to Indian audience, following the success he made Krissh and now after super success he is back with Krrish 3 ..(Don't ask me where is 2.. we were time travelling then) ...

Vishal Bharadwaj...the director who adopted great stories with conviction and presented them in his own style..now came back with 7 khoon maaf. I liked his work in Khaminey, and then saw his other films Omkaara, Maqbool and Blue Umbrella. Every film had his distinct touch and he was very true to the story. Even Kaminey, a formulaic story, looked real when he presented it.

వాట్స్ యూవర్ రాశి??? హింది సినిమా ముందు మాట:: జోధా-అక్బర్ తరువాత అశుతోష్ గోవారికర్ తీసిన సినిమా ఇది. తప్పకుండా మంచి రోమాంటిక్ కామెడి సినిమా అవుతుంది అని ఆయన బల్ల గుద్దుతున్నారు. ఈ సినిమాలో ముఖ్య విశేషం ప్రియాంకా చోప్రా పన్నెండు(12) పాత్రల్లో నటించడం. కమల్ హాసన్ రికార్డుని బ్రేక్ చేసేసింది. మరి ఆ పన్నెండు పాత్రల్లో కేవలం కనబడిందో లేక నటించిందో ఈ నెల 25 కి విడుదలయ్యే సినిమాని చూస్తే తెలిసిపోతుంది. అశుతోష్ రెహమాన్ ని విడిచి ఈ సినిమాతో సోహైల్ సేన్ అనే కొత్త సంగీత దర్శకుడిని పరిచయం చేసారు. అతను పాటలు ఎలా ఇచ్చాడో చూద్దాం.........ఆ..అన్నట్టూ ఇందులో పదమూడు(13) పాటలున్నాయి. రాశికో పాట. ఇంకో ఎక్సట్రా.............

ఈ సినిమాని నేను రిలీజ్ అయిన రెండో రోజే చూసాను కానీ అప్పట్లో రాయలేదు. ఇప్పడు మళ్లీ చూసాను.......రాస్తున్నాను. సినిమాని మన పాప్యులర్ మసాలా సినిమాగా చూస్తే అస్సలు నచ్చదు. అవ్వటానికి మసాలా కధే అయినా ఈ సినిమాని తీసిన విధానం కొత్తగా ఉంటుంది. కాస్త అస్తవ్యస్తంగా కూడా ఉంటుంది. అర్ధం అవ్వడం కష్టం. కానీ అర్ధమయితే మజా వస్తుంది. ఇదో ఇద్దరు కవలల కధ. ఒకరు తప్పుడుదారిలోనైనా తన కలని నేరవేర్చుకుంటే మరొకరు ఊహించని మలుపు వల్ల కలని వదులుకుంటాడు. మనకి ప్రతిరోజూ జీవితంలో ఇలాంటి వారు కనబడుతూనే ఉంటారు. ఇద్దరికి మాటాలాడటంలో తడబాటు. ఒకరు ’క’ ని ’ఫా’ అని పలికితే ఇంకొకరికి నత్తి. ఒకరి మార్గం తప్పు మరొకరిది ఒప్పు. కధ చార్లీతో మొదలై అతను కల నేరవేర్చుకొవడంతో ముగుస్తుంది. తమ్ముడి పాత్ర మధ్యలో వచ్చి సమస్యలు సృష్టించినట్టు అనిపిస్తుంది. కానీ కధ ఇద్దరిది. ఇద్దరూ ముఖ్యులే. ఒక పాత్ర కధగానే చెప్పిన విధానం వల్లే చూసేవారికి తికమక కలుగుతుంది. ఎవరి వైపు నుంచి కధని అర్ధం చేసుకోవాలో తెలియదు. గందరగోళం నుంచి తెరుకుని కధని అర్ధం చేసుకోవడం మొదలుపెట్టె సరికి సగం సినిమా అయిపోతుంది. విషాల్ భరద్వాజ్ ఇంతకు ముందు సినిమాల్లా ఇ...

8*10 Tasveer Cast:: Akshay Kumar, Ayesha Takia, Sharmila Tagore, Girish Karnad, Javed Jaffrey Crew:: Written & Directed By Nagesh Kukunoor Producers:: Bhushan Kumar, Elahe Hiptoola ANALYSIS:: Movie starts off well but doesn't maintain a decent pace which is required for these kind of thrillers !! I am not looking for a race but here the slowness harms the movie very badly! This thriller is dependent on a fictional element like "Going into a photograph" but it tries to be real and show that everything is happening in this world only and ends in a fictional manner!! We can call it a "FICTIOUS REALITY" Thriller film!! The slow pace and repetition of a same scene several times creates a kind of been there seen it all feeling towards the end and climax proves that and gives us a feeling that we saw it earlier!! About CAST & CREW:: Writer-Director Nagesh Kukunoor did a o.k. job!! He should have cleared those plot holes which hammer the film like anything!...

DEV D CAST:: Abhay Deol,Mahi Gill,Kalki Koechiln,Dibyendu Bhattacharya CREW:: WRITTEN BY Anurag Kashyap, Vikramaditya Motwani MUSIC BY Amit Trivedi, Toshi,Shilpa Rao DIRECTED BY Anurag Kashyap PRODUCED BY Ronnie Screwvala,UTV Spotboy productions ANALYSIS:: As we know, this film is a modern day adaption of the classical novel, DEVDAS, written by Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay. Film is dark and real in it's way of potraying the scenes and the situations. It shows the attitude and behaviour of the comtemporary youth with a different end from the original!! There is nothing new as far as the story is concerned till the pre-climax and climax(plz watch it to know) but the presentation and crude reality and imaginability of the writer-director Anurag keeps us engaged to the film! ABOUT TECHINICIANS:: Screenplay of the film is a major plus point!! As viewers, we know the story but still we were engaged to the screens as we were watching a new film! Kudos to the wr...

RAAZ- THE MYSTERY CONTINUES!! CAST:: EMRAAN HASHMI, KANGANA RANAUTH, ADHAYANAN SUMAN, JACKIE SHROFF WRITTEN BY SHAGUFTHA RAFIQUE CINEMATOGRAPHY:: RAVI WALIA DIRECTOR:: MOHIT SURI PRODUCER:: MAHESH BHATT ANALYSIS:: NO LOGIC!! ONLY MAGIC!! This phrase will suit perfectly to this horror flick!! It scares in some scenes and presents u the artistic beauty of a scene!! Kudos to director who presented this flick very well! I am stressing on the logic part because very horor flick need not be based on ghost stories!! The execution part was execellent and it keeps u glued till the last bit!! The story has a massage too! Like RAAZ-1 this is also a murder mystery and ghost fighting for revenge!!!! Here the cause is good!! SO, the film is the mystery of a good ghost!!! ABOUT CAST AND CREW:: Each actor gave a god performance and made this flick a real interesting one!!!!! Emraan hashmi leaving all his 'kiss symbol' behind acted every well!!!!! Kangana leaved up to th...

DELHI-6 CAST:: ABHISHEK BACHCHAN,SONAM KAPOOR MUSIC DIRECTOR:: A.R.REHMAN DIRECTOR:: RAKEYESH OM PRAKASH MEHRA ANALYSIS:: THE songs of this album are entirely different and that's what we expect from RANG DE BASANTI COMBO!! Once again a rocking album and different to what going in the market!! But few songs take us back to REHMAN'S YUVVRAAJ.............still the music is different !!!!!! A.R.REHMAN'S "GLODEN HANDS" ARE ON FULL FLOW ON THE KEYBOARD!!!!! DETAILED ONE............ 1 ) NOOR........... Album takes off on a real hight note with AMITABH BACHCHAN'S metamorphus voice saying the lines with ease and grace possible only to him!!!!! The lines in this small poem have really a deep meaning!!!!! 2) MASKALI............ Already this song is finding it's place in chartbusters!!!!!!! This song tempo is amazing never slides down till the end!!!!!! Really a great one!!!!! Music arrangements,voice,tempo everything is right on the button!!!!!!! "SONG OF T...

MOVIE: RAB NE BANA DI JODI(HINDI) CAST:: SHAH RUKH KHAN,ANUSHKA SHARMA,VINAY PATHAK. CINEMATOGRAPHY:: RAVICHANDRAN WRIITEN AND DIRECTED BY:: ADITYA CHOPRA PRODUCED BY ::YASH CHOPRA THE MOVIE PRESENTS A SIMPLE MAN'S LOVE STORY IN A CINEMATIC WAY! IT REPRESENTS A COMMON MAN AND SHOWS HIS LOVE TOWARDS HIS WIFE IN AN EXTRA-ORDINARY WAY! THE COMBO ADI CHOPRA-SHAHRUKH HAS GIVEN A DILWALE... , A MOHABATEIN AND THIS IS THEIR THIRD AND LATEST OFFERING AFTER 8 YEARS! ANALYSIS:: Asual a yash raj film has a thin story-line presented in a grand way! RAB NE BANA DI JODI showcases a simple man SURI SAHNI(SHAH RUKH) and his wife(ANUSHKA SHARMA) love story in a cinematic way! IT follows all the bollywood masala film rules and entertains for 2 hours 50 minutes! THE film has a good concept and energy of shahrukh is presented in a nice way! NO logic only magic is the usp here!There are many funny incidents and good dialogues but we feel something missing till end but once again at the end everything c...

GHAJINI(HINDI) CAST:: AAMIR KHAN,ASIN,JIAH KHAN MUSIC DIRECTOR:: A.R. REHMAN STORY-SCREENPLAY-DIRECTION::MURUGADOSS PRODUCER:: MADHU,ALLU ARAVIND THIS FILM IS A HINDI REMAKE OF SOUTH BIG HIT GHAJINI!THE MAIN HEROINE IS SAME IN BOTH!LUCKILY DIRECTOR IS ALSO SAME( IF AAMIR ALLOWED HIM TO DIRECT!) A.R.REHMAN-AAMIR COMBO HAS GIVEN GREAT ALBUMS LIKE LAGAAN ,RANG DE BASANTI AND A GOOD ALBUM JAANE TUH YA JAANE NA......!! SO THE EXCEPTATIONS WERE HIGH ON THIS ALBUM!!!! BUT THIS ALBUM DOESN'T LIVE UPTO THEM!!!! TWO SONGS ARE VERY VERY GOOD!! ONE IS PASSABLE AND OTHER TWO ARE NOT UPTO THE MARK! DETAILS........ GUZARISH......... This song is very good!!!!! THE trailers prove that this song was picturised well! THIS song gives the grand opening to the album!!!!! THE beats and lyrics are very good!! THE SONG OF THE ALBUM! JAVED ALI'S VOICE SUITS THE SONG TO CORE!! AYE BACHU..... This song for some extent ,mnainly in the beginning, is very good and beats are good too!!!!! BUT slowly the song...

SOME THING ABOUT THE MOVIE:: NAME: CHANDINI CHOWK TO CHINA(HINDI) CAST: AKSHAY KUMAR,DEEPIKA PADUKONE WRITTEN BY: SRIDHAR RAGHAVAN MUSIC DIRECTOR: SHANKAR-EHASAAN-LOY DIRECTOR: NIKHIL ADVANI PRODUCER: MUKHESH REJA,ROHAN SIPPY REVIEW: AFTER MIND-BLOWING ROCK ON!! SHANKAR-EHASAAN-LOY RETURNS WITH A GOOD ALBUM CHANDINI CHOWK TO CHINA!!!! THE MUSIC IS GOOD!!! IT'S AMAZING FROM WHERE THESE GUYS GET THE FRESH FEEL TO THEIR MUSIC FOR EACH ALBUM!!! GREAT JOB GUYS............ROCK ON!! EACH AND EVERY SONG IS UNIQUE AND GOES WITH THE FEEL OF THE FILM!!!!! ANOTHER THING NIKHIL ADVANI KEEPS THE TRACK RECORD OF SUCCESSFULL MUSIC ALBUMS ALIVE!!!!! THIS ALBUM CANNOT BE COMPARED TO THEIR EARLIER WORKS! S.I.D.H.U............THIS Song sung by KAILASH KHER has a good energetic beat going all through! THE lyrics present the lead character SIDHU every well! THE interlude in the song lifts it to greater heights!!!! CHANDINI CHOWK TO CHINA..........THE title song has a funny feel through out!!!!! THE mix ...

RAB NE BANA DI JODI:: THIS IS THE ONLY SHAHRUKH KHAN FILM TO BE RELEASED THIS YEAR!! BUT WE HAD SEEN HIM ON TV DURING IPL AND PAANCHVI PASS..... THE SECOND IMPORTANT THING IS THIS IS ADITYA CHOPRA'S THIRD DIRECTORIAL VENTURE! THE COMBO OF CHAK DE INDIA!, SALIM-SULEIMAN-SHAHRUKH-ADITYA CHOPRA IS BACK! THIS LATEST EDITION FROM YASH RAJ FILMS HAS PROMOSING MUSIC AS THEY ALWAYS DO! THE USP OF THIS ALBUM IS IT'S VARIETY! FROM SLOW SONG TO DANCE NUMBERS IT HAS EVERYTHING THAT A BOLLYWOOD MASALA FLICK PROVIDES! TOP SONGS ARE HAULE HAULE.........AND TUJH MEIN RAB DIKHTHA HEIN............ BOTH SONGS ARE COOL,ROMANTIC MOLEDIES AND HIGH ON LYRICAL VALUE! HAULE HAULE........... IS SUPERBLY RENDERED BY SUKHWINDER SINGH,THE SONG IS ALREADY POPULAR!HORMONIUM BEAT NEEDS A SPECIAL MENTION!!! GREAT JOB GUYS! TUJH MEIN RAB DIKTHA HEIN........ HAS TWO VERSIONS A MALE VERSION AND A FEMALE VERSION MALE VERSION IS RENDERED BY ROOP KUMAR RATHOD AND FEMALE BY SHREYA GHOSAL!!!!! FEMALE VERSION IS SWEET...