Movie Logs (Nov 13)

8th Nov - Krrish (Rakesh Roshan, 2013) - 6*
16th Nov - Tiny Furniture (Lena Dunham, 2010) - 7*
19th Nov - Chakravyuh (Prakash Jha, 2012) - 6*
21st Nov - Cocktail (Homi Adajana, 2012) - 6*
23rd Nov - Luv Shuv Tey Chicken Khurana (Sameer Sharma, 2012) - 7*
25th Nov - 10ml Love (Sharat Katariya, 2012) - 6*

Movie Logs (Oct 2013)

1st Oct - SHAUN OF THE DEAD (Edgar Wright, 2004) - 9*
             It is a quirky, fun, original zombie movie which has got the universal appeal.

2nd Oct - HOT FUZZ (Edgar Wright, 2007) - 8*
              Another amazingly fun movie by Edgar Wright. Nick Frost is such a joy to watch. First Kill List and now this, I am permanently scared of English country!

3rd Oct - THE WORLD'S END (Edgar Wright, 2013) - 9*
             What a super 3rd act! Cornetto is fun fun fun. Edgar Wright is going to be one of the best dir. of our times.

4th Oct - THIS IS THE END (Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg, 2013) - 7*
             Jonah Hill and brilliant dialogues from Seth Roger and Evan Goldberg makes it worth a watch. Though, it doesn't hold as much by the end.

8th Oct - THE LUNCHBOX (Ritesh Batra, 2013) - 8*
             The idea of romance has never been so original in recent times as this movie showed. Powerful acting from Irrfan Khan, Nimrat Kaur and Nawazuddin grabs your eyes throughout the movie, and movie lives with you forever.

17th Oct - LUCIA (Pawan Kumar, 2013) - 7*
                Best Indian Concept movie of the year. Based on a pill that gives a man other kind of life..life of his dream..which is actually a parallel reality. Songs were unwanted. But hates off to Dir. who made this on lowest possible budget 5 million INR; crowd-funded; made it release; and it grossed around 30 million rupees. WIN!

19th Oct - GRAVITY (Alfonso Cuaron, 2013) - 10*
                Best movie I have seen this year. It was 2 hour space ride. Finally a movie which gives viewers actual idea about what its like to be in space. I also loved the message of human determination that GRAVITY delivers.

21st Oct - WRECK-IT RALPH (Rich Moore, 2012) - 7*
                Heard a lot good thing about the movie so my expectations were little high. Story takes some times to settle in characters; their details; various games and after all this it was so well executed. It made me laugh, made me sad & made me jump over my seat. Good Fun!

22nd Oct - GOOD NIGHT GOOD MORNING (Sudish Kamath, 2012) - 8*
                 What would you expect from a movie based over a mobile phone conversation happened during a night til morning. Well..this turned out to be surprising original, candid & real. Romantic talks looks real very rare time but the way conversation kept engage me throughout the movie was very impressive. Great creative work by Writer and Dir.!

Photos from Centenary Film Festival, New Delhi

This was the first film fest that I attended and for which I traveled 250 Km. All I can say, it was worth it. First, I was excited hearing about Bombay Talkies screening, Panel Talk of some known faces of Indian Cinema and Satyajit Ray's retrospective. Later, I found one day before that Bombay Talkies screening is cancelled. But still the remaining schedule of fest was good enough for tempting me to attend it.

Here are the some images from Centenary Film Festival held at Siri Fort Auditorium, New Delhi :

TIME TRAVEL! Old way to watch movies. A makeshift Talkies named, Gulshan Mahal.

Talk to Dhritiman Chatterjee after the showcase of his movie 'Pratidwandi'(Dir.- Satyajit Ray, 1970).
You may  better recognize him as the one who played 'Bhaskaran' role in 'Kahaani'

Audi I of Siri Fort

Ingmar Bergman Photographed by Ray

Kurosawa Photographed by Ray

Steve McQueen Photographed by Ray

The Man whose work gave Indian Cinema respected place among World.

Dev Anand & Geeta Bali in Baazi (1951,Directed by Guru Dutt)

PYAASA

1996 movie, Dir. Shyam Benegal

Year 1999 movie, Dir. Jabbar Patel. This movie  was produced by GOI.

Mere Dad Ki Maruti (2013) Movie Review

Director: Ashima Chibber
Story, Screenplay: Shreyansh Agrawal, Neeraj Udhwani, Pooja Desai, Ashima
Cast: Saqib Saleem, Ram Kapoor, Prabal Punjabi, Rhea Chakraborti
Release Date: 15 March, 2013
Running Time: 1 hr 41 Minutes

Mere Dad Ki Maruti is the second film of Y-Films, under the flagship of YRF, with the purpose of targeting youth audience. This kind of movies heavily relies on the events, happenings and dialogues in the movie. And Mere Dad Ki Maruti gets it all.

MDKM is set in the backdrop of a Punjabi Big- Fat wedding in Chandigarh. Sameer (Saqib Saleem) is a
Chandigarh guy, who lives his life care-free. His father (Ram Kapoor) scolds Sameer about anything that he is not doing right according to him. One night, Sameer without asking, takes the recently bought car by his father, on a ride to impress his college dream girl. Further, the story is about how Sameer's life turns upside down when the car goes missing.

The first half is mostly about the life of Sameer and his adventures. The major fun begins after interval
when numerous unpredictable events takes place, which keeps audience engaged. The dialogues are quirky enough for good laughs. Saqib Saleem and Prabal Panjabi(Gattu) makes the mark as a witty, fun loving Chandigarh guy. Ram Kapoor comic timing is impressive.

Mere Dad Ki Maruti is a good fun movie. Family audience and youths will love it for sure.

Rating: 6.5/10

Gangs of Wasseypur Part 2 (2012) Review

 Gangs of Wasseypur Part 2 keeps the legacy of Khan family alive. And give audience more heavy dose of entertainment and violence than the Part 1. Whereas Part 1 was more indulged in character development through their act, this Part 2 is more involved in action. Because of the lesser new characters the director and writer gets more time to show the characters actions & acts through different perceptive.

Part 2 just continues from the end of the Part 1 and as the story follows we sees the vengeance getting new levels. First Danish Khan been killed by Fazlu (friend of Faisal Khan) and Sultan. Now, the revenge goes shifts to the Faisal Khan who takes up this on himself after his mother scolds him for not doing anything other than smoking gaanja this is the first time, when he delivers the dialogues in anger and pain that, "baap ka, dada ka, bhai ka sabka badla lega re tera faisal". From this scene a new Faisal borns. Later in the movie we gets to know that this isn't that path that he wants to follow in his life. Through out the movie Faisal Khan is stubborn about his motive. Faisal Khan has got his father's blood, he also kills his enemies in same stylish manner like when he founds the killer of his brother Danish, he gives him, his glasses and then cut- off all hairs makes him bald and then says before shooting him, "tu toh shaka lag reha hai". Such scenes makes the movie different from other gangs type of movies.

The new characters in the movie are Perpendicular, Definite & Shamshad. All of them is played very well and effectively by newcomers Aditya Kumar, Zeishan Qadari and LSD famous Raj Kumar Yadav. Perpendicular is a wannabe gangster and he uses his brother name to do illegal works like dacoity. On the other side, Definite plays a prime role in Faisal Khan's occupations.

There are numerous scenes in the movie which will be in memory forever like the satirical comment of Ramadhir Singh on 'Cinema'. Cinema is used as a medium to reflect emotions in the movie different times, this is very remarkable and exceptional way to draw situation.

On the whole Gangs of Wasseypur Part 2 is wholesome entertainment with full action as it promised. And we have got another remarkable character Faisal Khan which will be as immortal as Sardar Khan in our memories.

My Rating - 8/10

Gangs Of Wasseypur Part 1 (2012) Movie Review

    Director - Anurag Kahsyap
    Writer   -  Anurag Kashyap, Akhilesh, Sachin Ladia, Syed Zeeshan Qadari
    Cast      -  Manoj Bajpai, Tighmashu Dhulia, Nawazuddin, Hama Qureshi, Reema Sen, Richa Chadda
    Running Time - 2 Hours 40 Minutes

Gangs Of Wasseypur is Anurag Kashyap's first big budget and most ambitious movie compared to his all previous movies. And I can effortlessly say that, he has done it this time by maintaining a good balance between the kind of movie, he wants to make and commercial cinema that earns box office.

Gangs Of Wasseypur is the revenge story that spans through almost 50 years from pre- independence 1941 to 1990, which also shows three generations. Pre- independence, Shahid Khan (played by Jaydeep Ahlawat) loots the train by using the identity of in- famous dacoit Sultana. Sultana, who lives in same village called Wasseypur, where Shahid lives gets furious by his actions. One day, Sultana attacks the gangs of Shahid, while he was on the way to another train loot. Somehow Shahid gets saved and outcasts from Wasseypur after this. Then, he moves to Dhanbad and works as a labour in coal mines. Ramadhir Singh (played by Tighmanshu Dhulia) is the ambitious Coal mine owner, he uses Shahid to persuade labour by using power and his impression. Shahid has different motive against Randhir Singh and so, he goes killed. When Shahid's son Sardar Khan (played by Manoj Bajpai) grows, he has only motive of his life which is revenge.

Everything is this movie story/screenplay, narrative, cinematography, music and editing is near perfect. The movie is full of dialogue- baaji and that works amazingly. Apart from action s'd better say mara-kati there are many scenes that are laugh- riot. The movie casting is outstanding and completely perfect. Everyone does their job very impressively and no one overshadows anyone. Even, someone in a small role does it remarkably. It is Manoj Bajpai another career best performance, every time he comes up in such roles in Gangs & Political movies, it seems that it is his career's best performance and then he gives more best in his next movie. According to me, his last were, Rajneeti (2010) and 1971 (2007). Tighmashu Dhulia in his first movie as actor is as perfect at acting as he is at direction. Nawazuddin Siddique plays the son of Sardar Khan (Manoj Bajpai), it is his 3rd movie released this year and surely, he is next best thing among Hindi Cinema's actors. Not to say much about him, as all of you must have seen him as Gopi in Paan Singh Tomar and as Khan in Kahani this year.

Gangs of Wassyepur has the rigor and poise of coil mafia, change in social and political situation at pre and post independece times. Sneha Khanwalkar's music adds more charm to the movie. Every song looks fits to every situation, wherever the songs is played.

At last, if there is one word that could sum up this whole movie that must be, epic!! And I bet you will come out of theatre asking the question, "When will be Part 2 is gonna release?"

My Rating - 9 / 10

P.S - Don't leave the theatre until the end credit rolls because there is the trailer of GOW Part 2 is waiting to be played.

 

Ishaqzaade (2012) Movie Review

Director - Habib Faisal
Writer -    Habib Faisal
Running Time - 2 Hours
Cast -  Arjun Kapoor, Parineeti Chopra, Gauhar Khan
Release Date -  11 May


ISHAQZAADE is a cliched tell of love set in a fictional UP town. Parma (played by debutant Arjun Kapoor) is the Grandson of Chauhan, a political leader who is contesting for MLA election & have close competition from Aftab Quereshi. Quereshi daughter is Zoya (played by Parineeti Chopra), who goes to same college where Parma does. While campaigning for their respective parties, they cross each others path. After this there is a easy predictable love affair between them and the story unfolds as they struggles for their love against each others families.

But no, everything is not what you are predicting or guessing about the story. There is some good twist, turns and good races which won't let the movie goes down beside a old story.

This is Habib Faisal's (director, whose previous one was a National Award winning Do Dooni Chaar) second movie. He is more known for his witty and humorous dialogues in his movies as a dir. and writer. Here also, he gets success in this showing traditional dialogues in nontraditional ways.

There are some portion that are predictable. Movie is still very clear about its story or what it want to tell which is a love story against all odds of society, religion and politics. The chemistry between Parma and Zoya is very striking and passionate. Arjun Kapoor is looks impressive in his first movie. As everyone was expecting or to better say believing Parineeti does an charismatic acting. Special mention to Gauhar Khan (you may remember her from her last movie Rocket Singh where she played receptionist) for her small yet important role, she should get bigger roles now.

Watch this movie for two reasons, Amit Trivedi's music that is also choreographed very well and chemistry between Parma and Zoya. You won't regret it.


My Rating :- 6/10