Love Shagun - movie review

JD (Anuj sachdeva) is a young man, still a mamma’s boy. He is at an important stage in his life of choosing a life partner.

Like all mothers, his mom is persistent about getting him married. It appears like a plain situation which all youngsters go through, and JD is accompanied by an unusual combination of problems, prressure to get married and second of the astrological predictions surrounding them.

His astrological charts predict that this boy ought to get married twice. His first marriage would end in a disastrous situation, and if managed to scrape thorough it, his second marriage would bring him peace and happiness.

Caught in a fix, JD fights the battle with his three friends, Sandy, Sumit and Deepak who have their own definitions of love.

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Neerja – Movie review

Rating: ****
Review by Akshita Gupta

Neerja, as is known, is a biopic based on Neerja Bhanot (played By Sonam Kapoor) who was the head purser on the Pan Am flight from Mumbai to New York via Karachi and Frankfurt. The film is about the hijack of Pan Am flight 73 that took place on 5th September 1986.

The film starts with a closer look into Neerja’s life, her real character that of an ordinary girl with wonderful relationships with people in her life.

She is the apple of her father’s eye, the center of her mother’s universe as well as the darling younger sister of two brothers. The film then goes on to depict the incidents of “the day”, from the time Neerja gets ready for the flight till the end of the dreaded incident.

Even though the film is based on the hijacking that took place, it is much more than just that. The heart of the film lies in the mother-daughter relationship. The story goes beyond the incidents of just that day and gives further insight into Neerja’s life before the hijacking – her values, her rocky past and the beautiful relationships she had with the various people in her life. The story moves back and forth in time to depict these past incidents from her life to the time of the hijack which prevents the film from being monotone and provides an interesting change in storytelling and cinematography if not its pace.

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Loveshhuda – Movie Review

Love is complicated... But it's worth it!

A fresh, young take on romance, ex – Miss India World 2013 Navneet Dhillon debuts with Girish Kumar in Loveshhuda.

This rom-com has been shot in exotic locations in London and Mauritius .

An unconventional romantic story that starts in bed, it is about a man who wakes up one morning with a girl whom he does not know. While he gradually falls in love with her, he must choose between love and practicality.

Gaurav (Girish Kumar) is to get married and his friends come up with the idea of a bachelor’s night out and they indulge in the wildest of their behaviours which leads Gaurav to realise the next morning that he was in bed with an unknown girl Pooja (Navneet Kaur Dhillon). Pooja misplaces her top and departs with the shirt (gifted by the groom’s mother-in-law) that Gaurav hands over to her.

With the lead characters’ love-hate banter growing even as their chemistry is apparent, whether their bond, which begins in bed, ends as friendship and a life-long relationship.

Loveshhuda has no villain. The villain is circumstances in one’s life. The film tells us that we are our own enemy and incidentally we take certain decisions which have other repercussions leading a person away from being happy.

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Saala Khadoos – movie review

Saala Khadoos – movie review

Rating: ***

R Madhavan plays a failed, disheartened retired boxer who now, is a coach of women’s boxing for the Indian Boxing Federation. Being true to his profession and the country, this nutty coach has the uncanny ability to spot budding talent.

He comes up with a convincing and extremely realistic performance of a true and honest coach who puts all his efforts, time (and money) in nuturing raw talent.

Being a true boxing coach, he cannot accept anything mediocre in his budding women boxers. Nothing less.

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The 33 - Movie Reviw

The 33 bravehearts of the brotherhood

It is a true story about 33 miners who were trapped, lets say buried alive by the catastrophic collapse of a 100-year-old gold and copper unstable mine for 68 days in San José Chile.

Though a true story and based on the novel ‘Deep Down Dark’ by Héctor Tobar has a beautifully crafted narrative.

The 33 was filmed on location in Chile’s harshly remote yet breathtakingly beautiful Atacama desert just kilometers away from where the event took place, and deep within two mines located in central Colombia.

It opens with the miners a motley crew of family men, drunks and happy go lucky men celebrate the retirement of their loved old colleague.

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702 Dixit’s – Marathi film review

A small budget gripper from the Marathi stable

It could happen to you is the apt tagline. A day to day story a housemaid is thrown off the balcony of the flat 702 of Pune’s highrise Rosemary Society.

Kaavya (Gauri Nigudkar) and Yash Dixit (Vijay Andalkar) are a jet couple leading a blissful life along with their 10 yea old daughter Reva (Ruchi Jail).

Their perfect life comes to a grinding halt when the governess Asha (Anushree Junnarkar), they had hired a while back to take care of Reva, falls from their balcony and dies.

The man of the house has taken leave and is working from home. It is a point worth a wonder – It is a great boon or a bane of tech workers?

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DADDY's HOME - Movie Review

Rating: ****

Step-dad and biological dad’s one-up-manship brings laughs and life lessons in this family comedy film.

Brad Whitaker (Will Ferrell) is married to Sara (Linda Cardellini), who has 2 kids from a previous marriage to Dusty (Mark Wahlberg) who left soon after the birth of the second child. Will is ever longing to become a father and has always wanted to have his child too, unfortunately after an accident at the dentist’s, he is sterile.

Even though the kids convey hostility towards their step dad, but Will just sees the bright side to everything and keeps trying to win them over.

Mild-mannered radio executive Brad, working at a smooth jazz radio station, struggles to be a good stepfather for his wife Sara’s children Megan and Dylan.

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Monster Hunt - Movie Review

This 3D Fantasy adventure live animation film has become the highest grossing film across China.

Monster Hunt carries a message to understand and accept differences between people, communities and to see the world through others’ perspective which would foster more understanding between the people across the globe.

In a fantasy ancient world based on medieval China, monsters ruled the land. Then came human’s all-out war in an attempt to seize the land. In its final days, they outwitted the monsters and succeeded in driving them into the dark mountains.

Ever since, monsters were forbidden to step into the land again. If they were found, they would be captured and exterminated.


For all these years, the two races have lived in their separate worlds, until the birth of a new monster king who would reshape the balance of power and bring in the new world order.

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A masterpiece of love, and war, exploring the romantic side of a 18th-century Maratha general, Bajirao Ballal Bhat, a brahmin by birth and who fought and won 41 battles at a stretch against the Mughals with an aim to create a unified Hindu kingdom across India.

The glorious rule of the Peshwas, its grandeur, their culture, and the their large heartedness during those times takes us back to that era of righteous rulers which we have only learnt in our history lessons.

It opens with a Maratha emperor Chhatrapati Shahu (Mahesh Manjrekar) seeking nominations for the post of the Peshwa (a Prime Ministerial candidate). The brahmin youth Bajirao (Ranveer Singh) with his superlative display of his skill and wisdom lands him the title. History has a special mention about this Peshwa’s reputation as a warrior and statesman par excellence which is widely known.

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HATE STORY 3 (Movie review)

Rating: ***

An erotic revenge thriller, a third installment of the ‘Hate Story’ franchise, this one filled with love, romance, sex, betrayal, back-stabbing, revenge and suspense.

Hate Story 3 begins with the inauguration of ‘Vikram Dewan Memorial Hospital’ at the hands of Aditya Singh Dewan (Sharman Joshi) & Siya Singh Dewan (Zareen Khan) to establish that Aditya Dewan and Siya Dewan are large hearted philanthropists.

But the fact is otherwise as even once Siya is questioned of getting married to the younger brother of the person she was in love.

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TAMASHA – Movie Review

Rating: ***
(Ranbir Kapoor, Deepika Padukone)

Create your own myth, choose your own story. This is what the director tells us through Tamasha which has Ranbir Kapoor and Deepika Padukone in love with each other.

We have a fairy-tale romance of Ranbir and Deepika’s love story with the backdrop of picturesque Corsica bistros, dreamy countryside, sparkling blue waters. This could go down as one of the most complex love stories woven by Imtiaz Ali.

‘Tamasha’ tell you that one doesn’t need to be satisfied with the stories that one hears around.

Ved Vardhan Sahni (Ranbir Kapoor) is enchanted by stories, who grows up hearing them and expresses himself by performing them. Ved is a dreamer. A free spirited person who wants everybody around him to be happy.

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SPECTRE 007 – Movie review

Rating: ***

By Paresh B. Mehta

Genre: Thriller   Recommended: General Audience   Released: 20 November 2015 
Starring: Daniel Craig, Ralph Fiennes, Ben Whishaw, Rory Kinnear, Christoph Waltz, Léa Seydoux
Directed by: Sam Mendes - 

Daniel Craig’s fourth appearance as the fictional British Secret Agent 007 James Bond in Spectre was worth the wait. His earlier appearances as the British spy were that in Casino Royale (his debut as James Bond), followed by Quantum of Solace and then in Skyfall.

The 007 franchise is the longest running in film history with twenty-four films produced since 1962. This is the largest Bond film release across India exclusively in high-quality 2K digital format in 1250 screens in four languages – English, Hindi, Tamil and Telugu – and in 2D and IMAX formats.

Spectre comes across as a ‘mature’ Bond flick with an intriguing story with enthralling moments and more so with the life-like realistic situations, a special mention of the situation when the helpless 007 notices that the car which he runs off from the Agency wasn’t equipped with ammunition but he has to get rid of the baddies.

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Prem Ratan Dhan Payo – Movie review

Rating: ***

Set on a lavish canvas about Royals residing in palaces and forts, this film directed by Sooraj R. Barjatya is strewed with goody characters preaching ethical ways of living a goody life.

The family drama is about a dreamy world set in the era of Kingdoms and consisting of obedient sons, ‘agyakari’ women where Yuvraj Vijay Singh (Salman Khan) a prince of Pritampur, who is soon to be crowned as king and is engaged to princess Maithili (Sonam Kapoor). Does this awaken memories of Shammi Kapoor’s ‘Prince’ or the much later Anil Kapoor’s ‘Rajkumar’ and dozens of ficticious Raj Gharana Bollywood films.

It seems doubtful if this concept would work in the present times of fast paced lives of people who manage to be in touch with their own families with difficulties.

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RANBANKA - Movie Review

The Warrior

Rating: ***

Ranbanka is a Rajasthani word which means a Warrior. Manish Paul plays the warrior who stands up against the tyranny and treachery of Ravi Kishen who plays the local MLA’s brother. It is an action thriller is about a common man who is triggered to turn into a rebel.

The story is set in Mathura in North India, where till recently it was the rich and the powerful who would almost control the streets and the city with their might.

Rahul Sharma (Manish Paul) is an engineer who is just posted to Mathura. Rahul settles down in the Northern State with his beautiful wife Priya (Pooja Thakur) and their son Ayush (Avya Agarwal).

They are a happy family until one day the local MLA’s brother Raghav (Ravi Kishen) comes in their life. Raghav has terrorized the locals of Mathura, and he runs a parallel administration in the city, with most of the tenders awarded to his group....

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Kis Kisko Pyaar Karoon - Hindi movie review

Rating: ***

It is engraved in SRK’s (Shiv Ram Kishan) fate to get “married by accident”. Usually, people are accident prone, but here is the hero SRK (Kapil Sharma) who is “Marriage Prone”. If this amuses you, then the movie should too.

Kapil Sharma, now internationally known as the Comedy screen of small screen, debuts in Bollywood with this brainless comedy (reminds one of David Dhawan films). It used to be Govinda who could carry any brain dead scene on his own. Kapil Sharma has flashes of Govinda’s comic timing.

Successful suspense-mystery films director duo Abbas Mustan have competently entered the Comedy Genre. If one leaves logic behind at home, one is sure to enjoy this film.

Usually wise persons run away from marriage, while in this film our hero – SRK gets married not only once, but thrice and reluctantly in all the three ‘major instances of his life’.

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Chehere: A Modern Day Classic – movie review

Rating: ***

Chehere is a psychological thriller which revolves round the life of Tarana (Manisha Koirala) a Diva of yester-years. Tarana still leads a high standard of living and she has even called her sister Amanat (played by Divya Dutta), a poetess, to stay with her in a huge mansion in the UK. However Tarana shares a bitter relationship with her.

Amanat who was a singer also had starry aspirations, unfortunately she leads a crippled life and is confined to a wheelchair. 

The film also stars Jackie Shroff, Gulshan Grover, Hrishita Bhatt, Aarya Babbar, Bob Brahmbhatt, Rakesh Bedi, and Geeta Vij.

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Big Game – Movie review

The President has one small chance of survival

Rating: ***

Fate of the most powerful man in the world lies in the hands of a 13-year-old boy Oskari, a timid young lad yearning to prove his capability to the village elders.

BIG GAME is about the young Oskari’s determination to prove to his Village folk that he has grown up, that he is a ‘man’ and can fend for himself in the wilderness of the forest.

In the village in Finland, the tradition dictates that like his forefathers before him, the boy’s time has come to spend one day and one night alone in the wilderness. Armed with only a bow and arrow, he must return with a prize to prove himself a man.

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Mad Max: Fury Road – movie review

Extra-ordinary High Octane Road War

Rating: *****

George Miller has pushed the limits of contemporary cinema to re-imagine the beauty and chaos of the post-apocalyptic world he created and the mythic Road Warrior adrift within it.

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Tom Hardy stars as Max in the title role in the fourth part in the franchise’s history. Oscar winner Charlize Theron stars as Imperator Furiosa.

Haunted by his turbulent past, Mad Max believes the best way to survive is to wander alone. Nevertheless, he becomes swept up with a group fleeing across the Wasteland in a WarRig driven by Imperator Furiosa.

They are escaping a Citadel tyrannized by the Immortan Joe,from whom something irreplaceable has been taken. Enraged, the Warlord marshals all his gangs and pursues the rebels ruthlessly in the high-octane Road War that follows.

Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb - Film review

An entertaining adventure at the Museum

Rating: ****


A special SFX show showcasing with live acts from the museum exhibits including Theodore Roosevelt, Attila the Hun, Sacagawea, Dexter the Capuchin Monkey, and Rexy the Tyrannosaurus skeleton.

Suddenly things go out of control and guests scamper around to save themselves from the havoc created by malfunctioning of the SFX.

The fact is that the museum exhibits come to life during nights and in the process of following their rehearsed act, everyone runs amok. The reason being the gradual corrosion of the magic tablet. It comes to light that if this tablet of Ahkmenrah corrodes completely, then the museum exhibits would never come to life at nights, like it is been happening till now.

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Meinu Ek Ladki Chaahiye – Hindi movie review

Rating: ***

A qualified lawyer Govind (Raghubir Yadav) finally gets his first legal case after a lot of difficulties even though. Govind’s father is a renowned lawyer.

Govind, a jovial person does everything to save the accused. It’s during the investigation that Govind and Shishupul (Puru Chibber) come across some startling incidents. Shishupal is a romantic and energetic young blood who teams up with Govind to fight against the injustice.

Harshita is Govind’s dedicated wife, a loving mother and a principled woman. She leads a happy life but her world is shaken up by an unfortunate incident.

They have a daughter – Mishrita who is a fun-loving girl who’s an obedient child too. she makes a decision of choosing her mother over her father. That was definitely one of the worst days of her life.

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