Shivaay’s Viewings (Updated)

Ranneeti :
A thrilling and taut, well researched series on the events of Balakot & beyond. Finally a show that does not make the enemy seem like a bunch of buffoons and recognises them for the treacherous leech that they are. The CGI used for the air combat dogfights is passable but its the cat & mouse game of media narratives that keeps the viewer hooked on to each episode, assisted by an amicable cast of Jimmy Shergill, Ashish Vidyarthi, Ashutosh Rana, Lara Dutta and co. A few sequences of incoherence do slow the pace down however.

Krish’s Viewings

After Premalu, Manjummel Boys is another Malayalam Movie where superb writing towers over a simple story. This one is a survival thriller as much as it is a movie about friends and friendship. Based on a real life incident which happened in Guna caves in 2006, the movie uses the backdrop of Guna caves and the surrounding Kodaikanal and creates some beautiful imagery with some superb cinematography.

tonymontana on Amar Singh Chamkila

An in-form Imtiaz Ali shuts up his detractors by making an artist’s delight. Amar Singh Chamkila is a musical biopic propelled by songs lewd, titillating, provocative, political, and all-round brilliant.

The film simply cannot be reviewed without bringing its music into discussion. There are no two ways about it—the talent Imtiaz Ali has for song picturisation and using the screen to evoke the intended emotion is rare among today’s filmmakers.
Every Rahman original in the film hits the bulls eye, and its incredible how this director-music director collaboration continues to dazzle listeners with every subsequent film (Rockstar and Tamasha being earlier musical wonders).

Marcus’s Viewings (Updated)

marcus review on twitter :

Edited Review of #Article370 after 2 theatrical viewings…@AdityaDharFilms @AdityaSJambhale @yamigautam pic.twitter.com/f3Mmq2RXHy

— Marc (@Marc96919631) March 23, 2024

Krish’s note on Dunki

Saw Dunki finally. Dunki is a good family watch..it’s very old fashioned old school type of movie the kind Yash Chopra would have made. the biggest issue of the movie is there is no relatability..i couldn’t relate to anything going on the screen as that whole topic of immigration and going illegally is hard to understand for a person not facing such dire needs..the emotional scenes were good specially the last 20 mins and that Sonu Nigam song is lovely..the comedy I didn’t like much..emotional scenes were better i thought..overall good family watch and specially if you like old school romances and old style film making this is a good one for you…

Sam’s review of Dunki

May contain spoilers…

Saw Dunki at 1.30 pm showing in London. Finished half hour back.

First up, the movie is not as bad as some of the reviews I read in the early morning of today. Its not a bore by any means, it just isn’t Hiranis best, it’s probably his weakest but even then it entertains, which is testament to Hiranis (what looks like) ever diminishing ability as a director. PK wasn’t as good as 3 idiots, Sanju wasn’t as good as PK and Dunki unfortunately falls a bit short of Sanju.

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.

Naveen’s Viewings (Updated)

Mission Raniganj Review – ⭐⭐⭐⭐1/2

Watched MissionRaniganj FDFS in Australia

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ThreeWordReview SUPERHIT CLASS ENTERTAINER

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AkshayKumar is outstanding in this biopic about a common man’s courage and bravery to do extraordinary things.

MissionRaniganj is a civilised film.✍

Triumph of human spirit by finding a solution via engineering and not via ROPE trickery VFX.👨‍💻

tonymontana on Bawaal

Watched Bawaal.

I didn’t mind it. It’s sincerely made, and some scenes are shot wonderfully well. It also confirms the pattern or the style of filmmaking of Nitesh Tiwari that many successful directors do not follow, and that’s a good thing. He has kept his ambitions low key even after having achieved tremendous success with Dangal.

An Jo on Mrs. Chatterjee versus Norway

Mrs. Chatterjee versus Norway:

A fine but simplistic film, that does make sense in the way Rani’s character of an all-pleasing Debika – a universal galatic force that can take on her husband’s abuses and the challenges of her 2 young kids [which she thinks she is], goes for a toss when any quantity of Bengali Chai or sweets doesn’t satisfy the Nordic ‘high-standards’ of bringing up one’s kids. The Indian style? A pariah: Especially eating with your hands: The whities don’t want us eating with our hands, or wiping with our hands. Yet there is Salmonella, GERD, XXXXXX…list goes on. The Rishi Munishs must have done something right no, living under all weather conditions, barely surviving on tree-heated food, and drinking water from the holy waters. But somehow, spoons, forks, matter to these guys even if one is eating an idli, a wada, a dosa or whatever. Quite funny.

An Jo’s Viewings (Updated)

Promising Young Woman
Carey Mulligan becomes, indeed, a promising young actress with an astonishing performance that borders on longing and psychosis. An absolutely disturbing film, with Mulligan, shedding her, oh-I-am-so-coquettish act from her previous films whether it be ‘Far from the Madding Crowd’ or ‘An Education’, delivers a no-holds barred performance for the ages. As a woman lost, because she couldn’t stand up for another woman, it is a serve-up for twiterrati-wokes. Unmissable. NOT. FOR. THE. FAMILY.

Shivaay’s note on Amitabh’s legacy and Pink

Enough said about legacy, box office records, longevity etc. etc. etc. There’s a moment in every legend’s career when mere mega stardom transforms in Legacy. And that LEGACY for me as a viewer and childhood fan of Amitabh Bachchan was perhaps the best film of the decade of the 2010s PINK!

Raj5 on ‘Pathaan’

Saw the 9pm show of Pathaan last night in Chicago. The theater was about 80% full, and it was the 4th showing of the day in that theater. BOI is right, SRK is 1-10 overseas. I had friends join me who rarely watch movies in theaters, purely because it was SRK’s comeback film. You could feel the mass hysteria in the theater, and this was a normal Wednesday night! Everyone lost their minds at 1) SRK’s entry 2) John’s entry 3) **Spoiler** Salman’s cameo and the dialogues between the 2 Khans.

Krish on Pathaan

Saw pathaan, with family. Packed house. Personally i agree with what Z said. Maybe i over expected a bit. Movie is surely decent and watchable but there is a derivative feel about the movie. If one has seen FF series they have seen it all. There are some good scenes like the opening scene, a scene on frozen ice river, one scene with a virus leak and every single scene John appears the movie crackles with energy. The Salman cameo also plays well with gallery.

Shivaay’s note on Oppenheimer and Nolan’s return to character oriented cinema

Oppenheimer and Nolan’s return to character oriented cinema

As I watched (and rewatched) the teaser of Nolan’s next Oppenheimer, one cannot but help noticing the master film maker’s return to character oriented cinema, a brand of story telling that has made him one of the finest film makers of contemporary times. Not that films like Interstellar, Dunkirk and Tenet were mediocre by any yardstick (such is the genius of Nolan that even his underwhelming films are perhaps few of the decade’s best!) but the entire idea of building a plot around the central protagonist(s) is something Nolan seemed to have forsaken in exchange for larger than life concepts where characters fitted in as nothing more than pawns.