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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...

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 ...

First Word: There are many movies in Telugu that showcase talent of the makers, actors and the writers, individually and collectively. The films that have collective excellence almost always end up being classics.. Here are some of those, to be precise 15, of those classics, where everything fell into place and any movie fan or telugu film lover should watch before they die.   Seetha Kalyanam:  Seetha Kalyanam was directed by artistic and creative director, Bapu, many moons ago. The film majorly has excellence in visual effects created by Ishan Arya, using the techniques available those times. The film is a part of course work at the British Film Institute. Director Bapu himself took some classes about the movie.  Geetanjali:    Nagarjuna and Mani Ratnam's Geethanjali is a classic love tale, and an innovative film for it's theme and visual story telling. The train scene between Nag and Girija is still popular and spoofed in many love f...

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...

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 ...

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 ...

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...