Review: MANORAMA- SIX FEET UNDER

Waaow...! This  is some  real grasping stuff..! Hats off to the script-writer.

On one  hand, i was feelling pitty that I had  watched  race 2 , as  it failed  badly to even surprise me  to the slight, while  years  back, movies  like this are made, that leave  you completely awestruck.!

At first it felt as  if  the movie was going bit slow, but never  seemed a  bore. And  whenever  there

is any writer  stuff  involved , it makes  be  that little  extra interested  in it. And it was totally amazing, to see one  of  my favourite and a  very versatile actor, Abhay deol being cast as a writer, and  that too with that essence of philosophy in him. Just loved  him.!

The dialogues in the movie , though not punchy as  like  crappy shit of Dabbang, are  really good.

And the  picturisation is just fabulous. The scene where  he lays  stranded  in the  sand, after being hit badly and  robbed  by the two gundaas made  me capture  a screen shot of it.And  mentioning of dacoits, it makes  me  mention another  name that turned  out  to be a surprise  yet again. Nawazuddin siddique. Not having any major  role, yet he  never fails to make  his  screen presence  count, and  was  really surprised to see  him in his  typical –Faizalish ,so called ‘dominating’ character in the movie. The guy is a grasper.!

 A few scenes that contain hidden, philosophical messages  or  indirect indications  add  to the gist of the movie.  Vinay pathak has  performed  his role  of brother –in-law quite  fairly and  has  given great justice  to his role and  dialogues.  Gul panag too was  a sweet fit  as  Nimi, with typical house wife dressing and  the typical wifish nature that really sometimes  beats the  shit out of any husbands temperament. Just felt that, the Rohtak trip was  made  a  bit too long, and  Nimi’s  absence could  have  been reduced  by a bit.

 And  well, the rest of  the  journey tastes  best when served  undisclosed. :p

However , the movie was  greatly directed, and  was  bit surprised when such a  movie  didn’t get neither  any fame among people nor  box  office  collections. And it just frustrates  me  more  at times that why are  people still being engaged  just to sheer crap, that is neither  a  fairytale to amaze  you, nor  any great acting.. And  thats what works  as  the  killing pill, for  such brilliant scripting  and acting heads.  And once  again, full marks  to Abhay deol’s script selection.  A very subtle  script and so was the acting. Just loved  the dialogues  that he  said in the  background, though its credit goes  completely to the  writers, but Abhay’s  voice  and style  of delivering was  what added  to the  philosophy and  grasp to them.  As its said  in the film, “thodi si saavdhaani, zindagi bhar asaani”. Likewise  goes  with Abhay, a  little  care in choosing the scripts, and a  lifelong satisfaction to the self of having done a great deed and  justice  to his profession.! 

All in all a  beautifully woven story and script. And a  must watch...!!

My Rating : 4.23/5

By the 70mm Faizal Khan - Sidharaj Jadeja

Jack Reacher:  Movie Review

IMDB Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0790724/

Directed by Christopher Mcquarrie Starring: Tom Cruise & Rosamund Pike

An Open Letter to actor Tom Cruise

Dear Tom,

How r u doing?

Well,  watched the movie Jack Reacher just coz of you were there in the movie. In 90s you have given us many entertaining movies, while we were in college, and hence you stand to be one of the fav Hollywood hero of ours till date.

But look what you have done by selecting wrong projects since a long time to your fan following. War of the Worlds, Collateral, Knight and Day etc. were all okay kinda films. Still went to watch Jack Reacher coz you were there, our poster boy.

The movie, based on Lee Child‘s novel,  is about a soldier who leaves the army and gets some unknown identity and is missing since 2 years. One of his enemy is caught for killing half a dozen innocent people, who wants to meet Jack Reacher, and so you are back in the city. Is the person innocent or why has he killed those people?

Well, the problem with the film is that most of the suspense gets revealed quite earlier, and rest is predictable. The film doesn’t have much moments to remember it. The film runs quite well till the first half (yes in Hollywood movies too, our cinema owners keep interval to gain popcorn profit), but 2^nd half becomes quite ordinary and one leaves the film with unhappy mood.

You have again performed quite well, as you are used to do. Rosamund Pike looks beautiful and does a quite decent job portraying Helen. Alexia Fast as Sandy looks quite hot, has nothing much to do in the film though.

Hoping to get better films from you now onwards (hell, I show Van Helsing in the list… yuck..!!!)

2.5 cheers from 5 from me.

Regards,

The 70mm Rancho - Hardik Raychanda

Movie Review: Table No. 21

IMDB Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2229842/

Directed by Aditya Dutt Starring: Paresh Rawal, Rajiv Khandelwal & Tina Desae

An Open Letter to actor Rajiv Khandelwal

 

Dear Rajiv,

Hope you are doing fine. How about your film Peter to Gaya Kaam Se..? We are still waiting for it.

First of all, congratulations your work is appreciated in this film too. And for different gener lover filmi freaks, your presence in the film is being an assurance of a good script in the film. Yeah, you still have been a good selector of scripts, be it Aamir, Sound Track or Shaitaan it’s always something different.

Ok, back to film, the story is about Vivan (you) and Siya (beautiful Tina Desae) who are married since 5 years and are on free holiday to Fiji, sponsored by Khan (Paresh Rawal) who has different plans for you. He wants you to take part in a game, where you have to answer some questions and have to do some tasks, and can win you whopping 21 crores. Well, soon enough the game turns to be a nightmare for both of you.

Yes, the story is different for bollywood cinema, and nurtured decently by director Aditya Dutt (whose previous films, I haven’t seen yet, but have heard not much positive reviews for sure). The director here does, as mentioned, decent work but doesn’t lift the film at another level for sure.

The film does have some flaws, [READ THE PART WITHIN THIS BRACKET ONLY IF YOU HAVE WATCHED THE FILM, SPOILERS AHEAD]

1. If Khan, just wanted to realize your mistakes of pasts, why does he broadcasts all the things, which can prove him a criminal?

2. If he broadcasts the game, why isn’t police stopping him, though it clearly seems to be a crime.

3. If the game is just for making them realize, why someone at the starting falls from the terrace and dies??!!! 

4. Why don’t you, though being so intelligent, doesn’t recall about that ragging incident, though the tasks in the game is so much similar to the tasks you have given to akram while ragging?

[SPOILER ALERT RELEASE :P]

Those flaws could have been averted easily, as they didn’t matter with the story, the screenplay doesn’t pay much attention towards it, which is a bit annoying. Apart from those flaws, the film was very nice, gripping in most of the parts and had fresh feel.

Performances of Paresh Rawal and Tina Desae(who looks hawt!!) was fantastic and your performance is always the cream on the cake, but the one who impresses a lot is the actor (Sorry don’t know the name) who plays Akram in the film. Music by Neeraj Shrivastava was decent, BGM was good, lyrics – nice enough. Story screen play by the duo Sheershak Anand & Shantanu Ray Chibber is different, hoping to see their next movie ‘3G’ soon.

Overall, a decent one time watch for those who like different films.

3 cheers out of 5 from me.

Hoping to see more and more good movies starring you, boss.

Regards,

The 70mm Rancho - Hardik Raychanda

MONEY BALL: REVIEW By 70mm’s 72 singh

By 70mm’s 72 singh (Brij)

Yes. Again me after a loooong time. You think this year I will spare you from my reviews then you are wrong. I am starting it again and a better start will be from Movie Moneyball (As Khiladi 786 & Talaash are already written and no need to write now.)

Since from last year this movie was in my lappy and was not touched by me because it looked boring according to me when I overviewed it but movie proved me totally wrong.

Story:  Oakland A's general manager Billy Beane's successful attempt to put together a baseball club on a budget by employing computer-generated analysis to acquire new players. (Courtesy to IMDB)

Watched movie in three segments as wasn’t getting full time but I will advice you not to do like that. Movie is based on true story and it really made me felt sad for Oaklanders. (You will going to now only after watching this movie)

Director  Bennet Miller has worked a lot for this movie that can be noted by seeing his efforts in the movie. Every single frame and scene was very well crafted and worked out. I can say all the scenes were necessary in the movie.

In acting, there is no need to say about Brad Pitt as he always do great work (Hope you don’t want me to name his films!!). Best thing about Brad Pitt is he lives the character of Billy Beane and we feel that its really his story. And surprising factor was Jonah hill. I had seen him in comedy movies or in other crap movies but he did really well in this movie.

So in conclusion I can say movie is sure watch to now from where these calculations started in Base Ball games. Its really amazing to know about it.

My rating – 4.4/5

(Must watch for sports lovers and true story lovers.)

Dabangg 2 : Movie REVIEW By 70mm’s 72 singh (Brij)

By 70mm’s 72 singh (Brij)

What did you feel when you are tired and after traveling 2000 km you go to watch movie in theater in night at 11 PM and movie is all crap !?! (Don’t murmur  “I can understand”, because you are not )

Story: Chulbul Pandey is transferred and promoted to Kanpur. He is happily married with Rajjo. Kanpur witness a lot of criminal activities daily and kidnapping, rape and murders are done in broad daylight. The main antagonist/villain is Baccha Bhaiyaa, politician and a strong contender for the upcoming elections and Chulbul Pandey sabotages his political image by revealing his immoral activities to the public, media and police force. Chulbul Pandey takes Baccha Bhaiya head on & remains 'Dabang' as always

When you say about movies there are two kind of movies. One is crap movie and another is totally crap. (For this movie there are only this two kinds) And this movie falls below second one.

When there is name of Arbaaz Khan as a director you shouldn’t go to watch the movie as he simply copy the scenes and funny part is he copies from his previous movies only. So Beware from the name of Arbaaz khan.

There is no meaning to say anything about script or screenplay because story is nothing (Ohh even it wasn’t in dabangg. :P). Dialogues are simply modified version of Dabangg.

Here comes the time pass part of movie  – Acting. Salman Khan has done good acting as he has done in previous part. Sonakshi was ok. Vinod khanna at his best. About Arbaaz I can say “Why do you even try to act man.” Prakash raj was ok (good thing about him was he has not to do comedy this time.)

Music and song were also copied from previous part and modified. Songs were coming in between the movie like Food vendors come in the train. (No need but yet comes and fries our mind)

Finally I can say movie should start with such a warning,

“STATUTORY WARNING: THIS MOVIE IS TOTALLY CRAP AND IT HAS FULL RESEMBLENCE WITH ITS PREVIOUS PART SO ANYONE CAN DIE BY HEART ATTACK OR OTHER DESEASE WHILE WATCHING THE MOVIE. DIRECTOR OR ANY PERSON IS NOT RESPONSIBLE OF ANY KIND OF ISSUES.” 

My rating - 1/5

(DON’T GO TO WATCH IT EVEN IF YOU ARE FILMY BUFFS)

Student Of The Year - Movie Review:

directed by Karan Johar, starring Sidhdharth Malhotra, Varun Dhavan, Alia Bhatt & Rishi Kapoor

an open letter to Uday Chopra....

Dear Uday Chopra,

You might be surprised why I am writing the letter to you for SOTY instead of Karan Johar or Varun or Sidharth or Alia. It’s just I remembered you a lot while watching the movie. We would discuss the reason later but right now let’s discuss the movie.

When the first poster of the movie was declared way back a year or so ago, many of the fans including me were surprised about Karan’s decision for starting such project after making critically much acclaimed MNIK. The poster didn’t have any big name on it. But thankfully, it looked fresh and we expected KKHH kinda magic from the film, though our expectations were never much high. When the teaser  came out, it looked average kinda movie which had nothing new in store except the fresh pair. It didn’t excite us much, the only reason to see the movie was directorial credit of Karan Johar.

The film came, collected good word of mouth, went a hit as it was a low budget film compared to Karan’s other films. I wasn’t able to watch it as it didn’t release at my center and I was quite busy in our other idiot’s marriage function planning that couldn’t watch it elsewhere too. Finally watched it and found it ‘not bad’.

The movie is about a rich-popular-sporty-wannabe-rockstar boyfriend, a simple-high society-caring girlfriend, a middle class-ambitious-wanna be business tycoon-sporty-good looking-new entrant (offcourse who eventually falls for the girl and vice versa) and an over hyped-with strange rools-created by dean- traditional(since last 25 years or so)-competition-Student of the Year. Felt like JJWS? eh! It’s not.. it has the love triangle.. oh was that in JJWS too.. sorry man. Wait.. it has ameer-gareeb situation. Leave it..it was in JJWS too.. yeah.. there is a difference.. the ameeer-gareeb competitors are friends.. now that’s good. And yeah, KJo has tried to concentrated on that too apart from the glossy love story.

Your friend, KJo, has one quality. He can concentrate on many different topics in the single film going on parallel without creating havoc. Be it, the friendship – romance – college life – dean-coach gay romance – geek middle class fatty sudo track – sports – buttering middle class no iq jeet track – true friend turns rival shanaya’s friend track – preparation of SOTY track – the father track and many more. Kudos for that…

Performances of Varun Dhavan, Sidhdharth Malhotra and Alia Bhatt are decent. Not that good, not that bad also. Boman Irani’s son Kayoze marks a super debut as Sudo. Sahil Anand as Jeet is fantastic. Mansi Raachh as Shanaya’s friend is decent. Ronit Roy is compatible. It is Rishi Kapoor who wins hearts. Now here I reveal, why I remembered you, Mr. chopra.  You have been disrespected, thrown boulders for nonacting and everything always, as you are a star director son, and YRF has tried a lot to make you successful and we have heard after D:3, you are retiring as an actor. When I watched the movie, the statutory warning voice (I think it’s of Sidhdharth Malhotra) seemed like your voice, and that’s why through out the movie I thought about your career. You are nowhere less talented actor compared to the lead duo in SOTY. And you would have fit in any of the role if the movie might have made 10 years earlier. But it was you who got bad mouthed reviews coz you are a star director son. Anyways, it’s nothing in our hand, but it’s in your hand for sure, you can be here and do some good roles (they may be supporting ones) if you want, as we would want that. Many of the bad actors (e.g. Tushshar Kapoor) are still surviving in the industry, why cant you?

Anyways, getting back to the film, it starts well, ends well, passes the time well, makes you feel good quite well, but has nothing to be remembered.

2.95 cheers for the film out of 5.

Regards,
the 70mm idiot Rancho - Hardik Raychanda

P.S. - Music by vishal-shekhar is decent but not memorable. Dialogues are good but actors cant carry them well as they are needed.