Rocky’s Viewings (updated)

Khufia : I liked it a lot. The good thing was that it was not boring or give a feeling of stretched ( except maybe Tabu and her son’s scenes) .
Wamiqa after Jubilee , Charlie Chopra and now Khufia is emerging to be a Top class actor. Her solo dance performance in a Bikini ney dil jeet liya , by god kee kasam, kya curves hain.

the actor who played the mother is just too good, what a find. The BGM is very effective. I am so glad that unlike in Charlie Chopra VB did not recruit anyone from Naseer khandaan.
Overall, I was able to finish it in one setting with some single malt. Ending was satisfying, no artsy – woke type jhamela in this movie for a change.

Will add that the actor who played the role of mother will win several awards, I think Wamiqa should too. Tabu as cigarette smoking Raaaa agent is extremely effective. The movie has been funded by Government of Alberta. Recent events in Kanaddda have an uncanny resemblance to the event shown in the climax of the movie, i.e. if you swap Khalistani with Bangladeshi .

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Watched Jawan last night.
MAY CONTAIN SOME SPOLERS , BUT NOT REALLY !!!!!

Except for the scenes when Papa SRK is around this movie is only for SRK fans. Not one single memorable song or dialogue.
The just before pre interval scene is really good and gave me vibes of Kamal Hasan’s Indian.
SRK looks old and tired in the pre interval portions, the bald look makes him look cartoonish. I was getting irritated by his mannerisms.

The action scenes are good except for in the climax. and look similar to Jailer, a movie I just watched on Prime. Both are Jailers …lol

The father son theme is now in Gadar-2, Jailer , Vikram and Jawan. Just as how the Gadar -2 climax action scenes were hilarious, Jawan too they are way OTT. Bullets flying around and Father -Son ka milan ho raha hai !! Also, why are so many action scenes shot in the dark??
I had no issues with the plot but most of it seems to have been picked from the daily headlines with no effort to go into detail the reasons for it. (Case in point- allegedly China sponsored protest- ensured closure of the Copper mining in TN ). This movie will do wonder at the China BO. Also I don’t think a Sarkari Bank Babu would/ can behave the way the babu is shown to be behaving with a farmer. Kuch Zyada kar diya .
The women army is just for show, rescue hamesha SRK and men hee kartey hain. The music is loud and unnecessary with Masssy Massy Maasy being played in the background. Haan bhai, maasi hai, classy nahee hai. The set of the jail is so so fake .
Vijay Sethupati is very effective, but I think Arjun Rampal or Neel Nitin Mukesh would have suited the role better. Nayantara did not impress – her role also is so confusing – (uff tumahery usool – tumharey Adarsh). Deepika in a brief role shines. Priyamani and SRK’s daughter reminded me of The family Man web series.

Overall, I was not able to finish Pathaan beyond an hour, but Jawan IMO is much better .
P.S.- Akhshay Kumar ka naaam bhee chura liya !!! LOL
Rathore- VIKRAM RATHORE !!!!
P.S.- Sunil Grover has been criminally wasted in the movie.

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Watched The Vaccine War.
It is an extremely well researched movie based on book titled Going Viral by Padma Shri Dr. Balram Bhargava, Director General of ICMR.
Nana Patekar plays the role of Dr. Bhargava, and he excels. His climax speech gives goosebumps.
Pallavi Joshi plays the role of Dr. Priya Abraham, director of the National Institute of Virology, and she nails it too. There are several more women scientists who are equally shown to be responsible in developing the Bharat vaccine. it highlights the power of women scientists in a very powerful yet subtle way.
The movie itself is full of real instances taken from news cycle from 2020 to 2022.

The antagonist is Rohini Singh Dhulia (played brilliantly by Raima Sen) who represents all the “toolkit” media combined into one.
The dialogs are crisp, the direction solid and does not let the movie be too preachy or boring.
The only issue is there are too many technical jargons and a large portion of the movie has spoken English which could be a problem in interiors. I also wish they would have shown the seamless distribution/ administration of vaccine also.
Anupam Kher, the lucky mascot of Vivek has a small cameo in it too. I believe this movie should have tax free status all over India . It will motivate lot more people to choose this field.
The movie does not hold back punches in naming and shaming companies and people responsible to put road blocks in development of indigenous vaccine. I think it will be a big hit in the cities and small to medium towns.
Matlab Must watch hai !!!

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Back from Gadar 2.
Sunny Deol is terrific , Ameesha has a very small role, Utkarsh annoys, the guy cannot act. The villain just shouts and shouts and shouts., one misses Amrish Puri a lot.

Screenplay is a bit sloppy. Some parts are brilliant and some middle parts are extremely boring and slow down the movie, make you impatient. The action scenes are a joke but whenever Sunny is there you really don’t care. They can easily edit out two songs of Utkarsh which are within 30 minutes of each other.

The Pak army is shown as buffoons’ . They have touched upon the Bangladesh and Baluchistan issue a bit. Sunny’s dialogs are superlative.

The theatre was 80% full and there were Taalis at a few places. The handpump scene is brilliantly mounted and shot. Maza aa gaya .

Overall , Gadar-1 kee 50 percent hai, that too because of mainly the superb use of songs of Gadar 1, brilliant use of footage from Gadar 1, and Sunny Deol. He excels as Tara Singh.
Ek Baar theatre mein dekhna toh banta hai!

P.S. – Both my daughters disagree with that, they were like we could have easily watched this one on OTT.

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Watched Rocky aur Rani.
Enjoyed it overall.
The biggest winner are the subtitles. very apt and witty. When Ranveer says kkrazy- they appear as Krazy , and Alia’s of course as crazy. All other punjabish english by Ranveer has been subtitled brilliantly . ( except pencho has been subtitled as MF)
The second biggest winner is the beautiful use of old songs , maza aa gaya .

The two families are so so cartoonish. The Chaterjee house looks so fake and looks like a set. You can clearly see that the screenplay is by a bunch of SOBO kids with the sensibilities of KJO. Bengalis as classy ( my foot) and Punjabis as gaudy ( overdone)
The dialogs are top class however, Ranveer Singh excels in emotional scenes. Dharmendra is wasted , the few scenes he has , ussko mindless ajooba dikha diya, ek toh emotional scene dey detey ussko., Jaya ko gayab hee kar diya post climax sey ( actually good for us).

The movie itself is a bit boring in the beginning but once Ranveer gets serious it gets interesting . Alia Bhatt ka Khoobsoorat( Rekha) act in Ranveer’s house looks forced and not classy at all.
10% of the dialogs are in English which will not go well with B and C centers.
Saala Bra na ho gaya , wokeness ka medal ho gaya.
P.S – For all its wokeness, the last song in the movie about being of solah saal is so regressive . LOL !!

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Oppenheimer
Watched it. I did not get bored even for a minute throughout the movie. I enjoyed it thoroughly . The IMAX seats are pretty inconvenient for a 3 hour long movie but the explosion scene and the BGM made up for it. The theatre was sold out except for the front row. The audience clapped at the end of the movie.
I really liked the countdown like music coming from behind up to the explosion and then complete silence on the explosion , only visuals , and then the deafening sound. Maza aa gaya.

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Watched MI- Dead reckoning . Maza aa gaya. One thing I noticed that in the initial scenes India is given so much importance and is constantly mentioned at par with other super powers.
Yeh Naye Bharat kee haqeeqat hai.
# Modi Hai toh Mumkin Hai.

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Satyaprem ki Katha
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I liked the movie lot, too many songs though . Both my daughters and my wife teared up as well. It is an issue based film in a massy taam jhaam.
My two grouses were -1. – He should have not insulted his father the way and in the language he did in front of everyone., you don’t do that to a dad who has been your friend and your biggest supporter.

2.- The relationship between Kiara and her dad also needed some depth as well as some closure after the big reveal. I guess they stretched the movie so much that towards the end they kind of rushed everything .
P.S.- My elder daughter commented that He should have first taken Kiara’s permission in private and not surprise her the way he did in public.

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Adipurush
Overall letdown by the huge expectations from Om Raut and Manoj Muntashir Shukla.
In order to make it kids friendly they have created a joke of a movie. The songs, the BGM and some sequences ( like Shabri, Jatayu and the Lakhshman Rekha Kavach with Swastikas were nice touches.
Jai Shree Ram !!
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Finished watching City of dreams season 3. Good watch. Season 2 was the best IMO.

MILD SPOILER !!
Every season one Gaekwad family member tapak jaata hai !!

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Watched TKS. The theatre was full. It is a brilliant, well made, well acted. well researched and superb production values movie.
The BGM, the songs etc. are so well done that it does not give a feel of a sub standard or shabby movie.
It should be watched by everyone of all faiths , specially the kids with impressionable minds.
It is far from propaganda movie .
Baaki marzee aapkee hai ….

What was interesting was in the end credits it showed Vipul Shah as – “Producer and Creative director” and Sudipto’s was- A film by Sudipto Sen.

There is a superb scene in the movie where the daughter of a commie tells her father that part of the fault lies with you too, you taught us imported ideology but never taught us our own culture and sanskriti.
Hope it is a wake up call for the Johnys.

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Finished watching all 10 episodes of Jubilee . Overall it is a god watch. Thoda Buniyaad ka yaad dilaya . I am so glad that Vikram has moved away from the saaya of Khapshyap’s habit of mixing his politics in his movies.
This one is a pure bollywood drama .
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