Reviews

GOOD NEWWZ - If you have seen the trailers you know the story. It's basically a comedy of errors where Sperms of two males were mixed up because both of them have a similar surname BATRA and implanted inside the wrong wife (of the other BATRA in respective cases) who both were going through an In vitro fertilisation process.

Now it's a comedy film , where both the couple keeps on fighting with each other because of different reasons. But in between those funny moments the movie gave me glimpse of good emotional moments where both the couples stop fighting and tries to understand the situation of the other and those glimpse made me realize that in between these funny moments there lies a better movie where the same mixed up situation would have happened and instead of fighting both the couples would have understand the whole situation more practically which would have resulted in a scenario where all the four characters have gone through a period of 9 month pregnancy helping each other in a very unique situation. Now that movie although would have be less funny but a much much more mature , emotional and realistic film and I would have totally loved it.

But that's not gonna happen so let's talk about what we have got.

Like I said the emotional moments of the film were better than the funny moments. The biggest reason of that is that even if the actual jokes were really great they were very rarely organic to the situation. Most of the time a special situation was created to inject some good comedy so that the movie doesn't go out of steam on jokes. But if you really think about those injected scenes you would realise that those scenes doesn't contribute anything to the story as a whole. So what happens was that even if you laugh watching those scenes (because the dialogues were good) but after the scene finishes you realise that why exactly that scene was in the film. But that's just me. Any other person may feel that why the hell any comedy scene need to be justified with the story if it makes u laugh.

Now the acting wqs great throughout. From a Selfish Akshay to Sensible Kareena to an over-the-top Kiara and even more over-the-top (and sometimes doing little overacting) Diljit , everyone is pretty great. But if you ask to pick one then Kareena totally steals the show. And it was great to she her in a full fledged role where she gets the best scenes of the film.

The direction was not perfect. You can feel that the director is a debutant. He certainly knows how to direct a particuler scene but didn't have an eye to understand what scene was needed in the movie and which was not. Also the transition between scenes were not that great , rathers felt like singularly made small sequences which doesn't compliment the story as a whole.

Most of the songs were not needed in the film. Except MAANA DIL which perfectly conveys the mood of the situation.

One of the sideline problem I had with the film was that movie was not able to decide whether it wanted to be of old conservative thinking or new progressive thinking. Like the whole movie have a mood of progressive thinking but two times in the movie one of the character asks why the other character havnt thought about ADOPTION and the other character replies by saying that APNA KHOON TO APNA KHOON hota hei. Same conservative points have been made about ABORTIONS where a doctor show a woman to think before selecting the option of Abortion by showing her the heart of the child in that woman's belly so that she will get emotional and not select the option of Abortion. This whole mood of the movie felt a little conflicted to me. I was not able to understand what side exactly the movie was taking.

But as a whole I would say it was a fun time if not a great time. And as long as I have read the reviews of DABANG 3 which I have not seen , I think for the holiday season , Good Newwz is a better time pass for movie lovers.

6.9/10

by ANuP APu KuMaR

JOKER - For me i don't think there will any actor to top what 'Heath Ledger' did with the character of Joker (with a sufficient amount of credit to the Director Christopher Nolan) in THE DARK KNIGHT. That movie is not just my favorite Comic book movie , but my Favorite movie of all time PERIOD. And a major credit for that to happen goes to the portrayal of JOKER in it. Joaquin Phoenix was awesome in this movie. But for me, Joker is a fascinating character to be used in an intelligent way to elevate the material. When a whole movie is made based on him with him being in each and every scene of the film, somehow the character becomes less fascinating to me. But that's just me. It can be different for everyone.

Now i didn't loved this movie, as much as i wanted to. I liked it. but somehow it was not completely for me. the movie has been unanimously praised by the Audience (9.1/10 IMDb right now) and YouTube Reviewers. And has been declared below average by the 'Writing Critics' (58% on metacritics). I fall somewhere in between them. For me the movie creates a fascinating world which makes me more interested to what may come next than actually liking what this movie by itself was. Joaquin Phoenix famously turned down the role of Dr. Strange before it went to Benedict Cumberbatch just because Phoenix didn't wanted to be a part of FRANCHISE GAME. But this movie has been made in such a way (so many Batman References) that it screams for a sequel. Which brings me to the point that WARNER BROS has put themselves in a very difficult situation here. The fans are gonna want a sequel to this film , hell even i want a sequel and i didn't even loved it outright. Now this movie was set in 1981, when Bruce Wayne was just a child, which means for him being an inexperienced BATMAN the sequel will have to take place in late 90s , which of course can not be then connected to JUSTICE LEAGUE. We don't have any idea in which time the upcoming Batman Solo movie by Matt Reeves will be based on. But if you ask me, i would say if there will be only one BATMAN in DCEU then i would want him to be in JOKER UNIVERSE than JUSTICE LEAGUE UNIVERSE. Because BATMAN has always been a better hero when he works solo. I know its a long shot, but i sincerely want Matt Reeve's BATMAN to be set in 90s being a sequel to JOKER even if JOKER not being in that film and then we will get the showdown in the THIRD-INSTALLMENT. Yeah i know i am just daydreaming.

Now what good things i got from this movie ? 1. Some exceptional acting. Yes even if i think Joaquin Phoenix was not as great as Heath Ledger, he 100% deserves an Oscar Nomination. I wouldn't be sad if he wins either. Robert De Nero was actually great too in his very small but very effective extended cameo. 2.Beautiful Cinematography - Somehow my IMAX Screen filled totally which only happens when someone actually shot the movie with an IMAX camera. but apparently Lawrence Sher the cinematographer has shot the movie in a 1.85:1 ratio, which worked great. This movie didn't needed to look good, but i love when the filmmaker goes out of their way to make their movies gorgeous. 3. The background score (by Hildur Guðnadóttir) although very loud, works great with the unsettling feels of the film. 4. Every-time the movie stops being a character study and try to contribute more to the BATMAN MYTHOLOGY, it brought smile to my face.

This movie can be said as the most Distant Comic-Book movie ever made from being an actual Comic-Book movie. Except those contributions to the Batman Mythology there was nothing Comic-Bookish about this film. There was not a single action scene in the film. not a single scene which pumps your heart with taking you to the edge of the seat , getting excited about what is gonna happens next. Not enough comedy either, which is pretty shocking considering the fact that its being directed by the director of HANGOVER TRILOGY. And there is nothing wrong with making a good character study, where we only watch the things happening in one person's life. But it was not for me. At-least not 100%. I mean you can only watch so many times other people behaving badly with the lead character again and again and again until the temperature rises above the upper limit and the lead character fights back which by the way happened at the very last 25-30 mins of the movie, and even at that time the pace of the movie never rises. Then there were those artistic scenes where the character just dances with himself, talks to himself, laughs with himself siting alone in a room, without the story actually getting forward in those moments. Its too much artistic for its own good. Too much of a slow burn for me.

What i want is that now the ground work is done. And this movie is going to be a massive hit. And i want the same team of Director, Writer, Cinematographer and Composer to make a sequel based in this same universe but which will be more exciting, which doesn't feel like its not a Comic book movie. I mean Nolan did it best. His Dark Knight Trilogy was very serious, but never gave the feeling that you are not watching a Comic Book movie.

Also if you are determined to catch this film on big screen , then try to watch it in IMAX. Its Marvelous to look at.

7.3/10

by ANuP APu KuMaR

IT CHAPTER : 2 - Damn this movie was so satisfying and fulfilling. i loved it. It gave me a completion which satisfied my inner heart. A satisfaction almost on the level of completion what Harry Potter 8 and Dark Knight Rises gave me (well yes slightly less than those two movies , but you can understand what i am trying to say). Its has now became my most favorite Horror Movie of all time.

Chapter 1 was a really awesome movie by itself. And to top that was almost an impossible hurdle. And from most of the reactions and reviews it seems like the audience is not exactly satisfied with the film. I don't understand what they were expecting. For me the last movie in any series must give you the feeling that this was the way it must have ended. Just like Dark Knight Rises was not needed to be like Dark Knight. It had to be something altogether different because it was the concluding movie and it did that particular thing brilliantly. That same thing is now done by IT CHAPTER : 2 , at least for me.

OK first and foremost i am gonna address the things which has been criticized most about the movie by the reviewers.

1] Was it a movie too long than it actually should have been ? No. Not at all . I was never bored. Yes there were 1 or 2 scenes which could have been edited. But that would have shortened the movie by may be only 5 mins. Which would have been totally meaningless. In-fact i was so much involved in the atmosphere of the movie that i could have happily seen 15 more mins of this movie.

2] Was the D-Aging of Child Artists for flashback scenes too distracting ? Hell No. I wouldn't even has recognized those effects if i haven't read about the same thing in the reviews before watching the film.

3] Was the ending too bad? No No No. I don,t understand why the ending of this movie (which is also the ending of the book) has been disliked by so many people. Its good. Simple yet effective.

4] Lastly did the flashback scenes were unnecessary for the film? Are you kidding me. Those were some of the greatest scenes of the movie. So great that if those scenes would have been in the first movie instead of this one than the first one could been a better movie by itself. But that would have made this one lesser good.

So that's about wrap up all the complaints. Now about what i liked? The VISUAL EFFECTS mixed with PRACTICAL EFFECTS and PRODUCTION DESIGN was the top thing about this movie. Oscar nomination worthy. The 70m$ spent on the movie (doubling the budget of the first one) was clearly visible on the screen. And the money has been spent in a very innovative way. This one is also definitely the most Beautiful (in a horrific , scary and dark way) looking movie of all time.

Then obviously comes the Cast. Bill Skarsgård has made Pennywise so much his own as much as Heath ledger had made Joker of his own. There is nothing much to say about him. He was just out of this world in a very crazy way. But the standout performance of this film was Bill Hader. His comic timing, was 200% spot-on. There were so many awkward situation where the writer has given him the jokes that any other actor could have done wrong. But not him. I also loved the fact that neither the director nor James McAvoy & Jessica Chastain tried to use their Stardom too much. They both just mixed-up with the bigger assemble cast and never tried to chew the scenes anymore than needed. Not a single actor has done a job which is below good.

The background score was a little underdone than the first part. i would have liked more creepiness. But it was not bad at all. Same goes for the cinematography which goes perfectly with the movie but didn't stand out as the first movie did.

The last showdown ? O my my. It was so good. So great. Pretty long (in a very satisfying kind of way where you don't want something to end very quickly). i cant praise enough that particular act. It was heart crunching, in a literal way.

And than there was the extended ending. So emotional. Such a tribute to true friendship and nature of scarifies. Very very very fulfilling.

O yes, almost forgot (because i never watch Horror movies as just Horror movies), this one definitely had larger number (and better too) of horror scenes than the first one. I judged that by the number of screams i was hearing from the audience.

So just watch it

8.8/10

by ANuP APu KuMaR

MISSION MANGAL - With this film my unsatisfactory run continues on with 'True story based movie starring Akhsay Kumar in lead' including Airlift, Rustam, Toilet - Ek Prem Katha, Gold and Kesari with PADMAN being the only exception which i liked a lot.

This one is not your usual fact based movie (like almost every other true story starring Akshay). Because even if you don't know all the facts about the Mission (just like me), the way things happened in the film you can easily judge that No-Way in reality things would have happened in this way. So first suggestion would be Watch this movie with a lot of GRAIN OF SALT. For comparison i would say 'Parmanu: The Story of Pokhran' was a better movie made in a realistic and fact based way.

But this movie is nowhere bad or anything. Its a decent entertainment. Infact some may like it a lot or even love it, who just want to get entertained doesn't care much about to know the realistic ways of working in ISRO or doesn't mind OVER-SIMPLIFIED science. This movie makes you feel like the Mission was so easy to accomplish and the ideas were so easy to come by. For example in one scene Sonakshi's character just utters the word "Its Impossible" upon which she gets an Angry speech from Akshay to do her job rightly. And the next morning she came up with the idea to solve the problem. Its like the scolding was the magical thing to open a Scientist's mind.

Nevertheless, some things which i really liked are the portrayal of Women in the movie and the role reversal. There have been uncountable movies where we see Men doing important jobs and wife being at home sometimes being supportive and sometimes not. That role is totally reversed here. Which i really loved. It makes you realize that in this predominate world were it has been made Universal Rule that its just Mother's Job to nurture there child (Dialogues from a husband to her wife like - tumhe to bas job ki padi hei, bachon tumhare bigad rahe hein & ETC) how difficult it is for working Women to manage Work with Home. Much more difficult then its more Men.

Vidya Balan is in the front and center of the film. Infact i think its not Akhsay who should have been the big face on the Poster, rather it should have been Balan. I mean seriously , she literally had longer screen time in the movie then Akhsay. But you know Akshay Kumar sells ticket, so that,s that. But thankfully Women in this film got great characters, and i mean each and everyone. And every actress did really good job with her character even if some of them didn't got enough screen time.

The Direction in comparison is not so perfect. Again its not bad at all , rather the First Time director shows that he has good hands to control a film but he also shows that right now he is a little inexperienced. He couldn't made the scenes tighter, couldn't raise enough excitement which could have made this movie better. In comparison he handles the funny scenes pretty brilliantly.

The movie is long. And it takes almost 60-65% of the movie to finish for the actual mission to start.

It was just too Bollywoodised. The science was too simplified. the tension was not there. Rather it was a fun movie. And i didn't wanted the movie which was based on one of the Biggest Achievement of my Country to be just a 'FUN MOVIE'. I wanted it to be something more then that.

7.1/10

By ANuP APu KuMaR

GODZILLA: KING OF THE MONSTERS:- I don't understand , just don't understand why people are not that much into Kaiju (Big Badass Monsters) movies. Both GODZILLA (2014) & KONG: SKULL ISLAND (2017) were awesome movies , but both did just fine at the box office , just fine with the critics and just fine on IMDB page. Right now KING OF MONSTERS is at 49% on Metacritics and 6.9/10 on IMDB. Thats exceptionally low. Also KING OF MONSTERS just opened with lower numbers in comparison to both previous installment , and its actually better then both those awesome movie.

But lets just talk about the movie , not the box office numbers. Its literally grand , really grand in its scale. Easily the biggest movie of this summer , even bigger then ENDGAME. By the way, on side note, i liked it more then ENDGAME which had major loopholes in it. Now the writing in this movie is no OSCAR material. But there was no need for that. The writing was just enough to justify the fight scenes. In-fact sometimes it surprises you too. The theme was Dark too. Jokes were evenly spread. Not too much on the nose like some MARVEL movies. The concept of Environmentalism was SPOT ON. Very much makes you think , IS THE VILLAIN ALTOGETHER WRONG ? OR IF THERE IS SOME LOGIC IN HIS/HER ACTIONS ? I totally loved the motives of Human villains. They were never meaningless. Although the character of Charles Dance along with the dialogues given to him as the villain were pretty boring (in-fact i think he was the only boring or bad (whatever u prefer to call it) character in the movie. But the other villain which was almost spoiled by the trailers still i will not say it upfront did a SPOT ON (yes i am gonna use this particular adjective again and again in this review).

All the actors have done really fine job , and their characterization were decent too except again Charles Dance and Sally Hawkins to some extent. With Ken Watanabe and Vera Farmiga being the best. Ken Watanabe being one of the character returning from the first movie really got one exceptionally awesome emotional scene. His pain and happiness at the same time went right through my heart, it was almost poetic.

Lets talk about the CGI. It was just SPOT ON (yes for the third time now). Not a single bad effect. Not a single scene looked like its was not real. I mean even movies like ENDGAME , INFINITY WAR and AQUAMAN had some scenes where everything looked CGI-ed , but this movie had just the perfect CGI.

The creatures were great. I felt RODEN was used for a little less time then what was needed. But whatever he was used for they were great. Specially the Mexico chase, i mean WAOW. The CGI was very creative there. The creatures were shown to have their own brain instead of being just DUMB WEAPON OF MASS DESTRUCTIONS. When it comes to beauty , nothing can be more beautiful then MOTHRA. U are never gonna get to see a Giant creature as beautiful as her in that much of a size. She was a work of art. But then again , nothing in this movie can be compared to the fight scenes between GODZILLA and GHIDORA . I can see a whole movie without any storyline just these creatures being fighting. it was that great. The MOTION CAPTURE technique used (same as in case of GODZILLA 1 and KONG) really makes a difference with the character of GODZILLA. He felt much more real which makes the CGI SPOT ON (and there goes the 4th time).

Small thing to consider, Millie Bobby Brown's character was really good in the movie. Usually this kind of movies have dumb children to taken care of , rescued and always getting in troubled. but her character took some really important and brave steps in the film, becoming one of the most important character in the movie.

So basically for me , except the character of Charles Dance , the movie was SPOT ON (i know 5 times is too much). loved almost everything about it. A true blockbuster film with extraordinary action scenes , top notch CGi , decent characters and more than enough writing.

Also i watched it on a IMAX SCREEN. And believe me when i say it, U SHOULD DO THE SAME.

8.5/10

by ANuP APu KuMaR

SHAZAM - Wow they were able to hide so much in the trailers which the actual movie had. But we are not gonna talk about the spoilers.

I am gonna say this right away. the biggest problem (and pretty much the only one) with this movie was its low budget. Which makes this movie visually less arresting and the third act little sloppy and yeah the action scenes were just decent , not great. As a result this is not that kind of movie which is compulsory to watch on a big screen. Its a really good movie though , its just that there will not be any difference in your experience if you watch it at home in a small screen.

Now as i said , its a really good film. Not as good as AQUAMAN and WONDER WOMAN (again lack of good action sequence is the reason), But i will certainly say that the writing in this film is pretty much better then AQUAMAN. This one also had more heart to the storyline. And better lead actor to hold the movie.

There were a lot of things happening in the movie. Forster life , searching the birth mother, tackling bullying in school and then the whole superhero sh*t. But everything is so much well organized that the movie never felt too congested. Some story-lines got more screen-time and some got less, but you never feel anything being left-out or over-stretched.

Anyone who thinks this one is the counterpart of ANT-MAN from DCEU is wrong. This movie has its own DNA. Very unique in its tone, very childishly (yet mature) in portraying comedy. And injects some really good serious themes withing the story-line. Add to that some minor horror sequences which can scare the hell out of a kid below 7. What i mean to say again and again that its a very uniquely made movie. And a choice of HORROR director to direct this movie was a great choice. He saved the movie from being total childish & help it to push the boundaries of PG-13 rating.

Couldn't enough praise the actors. they were just game on having the time of their life.

The villain got a little back-story , which was a good touch too.

Like i said the first 2 third of the movie were just flawless. I don't have any major complaints apart from may be 5 more mins spent showing the life of the villain. The only problem remains that WB didn't spent 15-20m$ more to made this movie a little more refined and a bigger third act.

Couldn't wait to see the star-cast again, with the same director and a bigger budget.

7.8/10

by ANuP APu KuMaR

GULLY BOY - I almost made up my mind to rate this movie 7.9/10 just before the climax. But then something amazing happened which never happened with me before. Ranveer's character starts to sing "APNA TIME AAYEGA" and a small part of the audience in my theater start to clap on the song beat by beat in the rhythm. And although i was not one of them , but i was surely amazed with the fact that how much this movie and particularly that song has connected with the youth of this country. And i decided to rate it a little higher then i was going to.

And on that note i would urge every reader to spent some money and watch this movie in theater with as big audience as possible. Because thats the right way to enjoy this film to its full potential. But even if u watch it at home , convince at-least 2-3 friends of yours to watch it with you. because this movie cant be enjoyed properly watching alone.

Now i am not some crazy fan of MUMBAI UNDERGROUND RAP SCENE. But i don't hate it either. So my likeness or dis-likeness of the things in this film are not influenced by that.

This movie had a very basic story of a Underdog chasing his dreams. What made it interesting and different is the Slum Setting, the Rap Scene, the dialogues and most importantly the performances.

Zoya Akhtar (the director) and Reema Kagti (who co wrote with Zoya) have a tendency to make movies with deep research and deep understanding about the scenarios of there characters. About Film Industry in LUCK BY CHANCE. About friendship in ZINDAGI NA MILEGI DOBARA. And about rich lifestyle and rich peoples' problem in DIL DHADAKNE DO. But this one is the first time where they were making a movie about something which they must have known nothing about before doing research about it. And they did a fabulous job with it. You will never feel that you are getting a view of the lifestyle of slum from outside. You will always feel that you are there with the characters. Thats some strong Direction and Writing.

The dialogues were as great as they could have been. All of It fits perfectly with the setting. The one-liners were superb. You are gonna laugh big times , sometimes on really really awkward occasions. Although i would say the jokes were little lesser in quantity and quality if we compare it to ZINDAGI NA MILEGI DOBARA & DIL DHADAKNE DO. But thats OK , everything doesn't need to be perfect every-time.

The chemistry between Ranveer & Alia was amazing. And the intimates scenes were great. In those particular scenes Alia is even better then Ranveer , or you can say she was in more love with Ranveer as compare to the Vice-Versa. In-fact i would very much argue that Alia gave the top performance in this movie among the three leads.

But then again how can i forget Siddhant Chaturvedi. As MC Sher he was such a natural performer. From his dialogues to his dressing to his persona , everything about him was just screaming one thing - "SWAG". I think he could have a great career in Bollywood.

The songs in the movie never hampers the pace. Doori , Mere Gully Main and Apna Time Aayega had the most entertaining videos.

Cinematography deserves a special mention (and Nomination). As the movie looked really sleek and very rich . And thats something really difficult to do if 80% of you movie has a setting of SLUM.

Two thing which can be said bad about this movie were FIRST the length and SECOND the fact that Ranveer was playing a character much younger thyen his actual age. i mean from nowhere he looks like a college student. But thats just nitpicking in a really good film.

I am happy to see that rapping is finally getting more and more importance in India as an ART.

8.2/10

ANuP APu KuMaR

THACKERAY - Its inevitable. U just cant escape your own viewpoints on the actions Thackeray took in his life and enjoy this movie as just a movie. This movie was offensive , big time , at least for me. The movie just keep on justifying his actions and sugarcoating it. It makes u unstable.

For example in the beginning it was showed that People from other state were taking jobs in Maharashtra because of which locals from the state were left unemployed. But the movie never shows a single scene where a Local is more qualified(even equally qualified) then a person from other state and still that other person got the job and not the local. In fact it was indicated that, that was the exact reason for Local persons not getting job. There lack of literacy. Also in the second half the character of Thackrey clearly says that we have to educate ours brothers for them to get job. See i personally have zero knowledge about the political and social situation of Maharashtra in 60s and 70s , rather i am just saying everything on the basis of what the movie was showing.

Even after so much sugarcoating the movie never , i mean not a single time convinced me to like the character of Thackrey for his actions. He has been represented as Hitler, blamed for his dictator, even shown as someone against a democracy. How can u show a person in those lights and try to justify his actions.

Now enough about political viewpoints. If i put that aside and talk about it as just a movie. Yes the movie gives you some historical knowledge . Thats one of the good things about the movie. But many of them were hurried and sometimes incomplete. And the time jump sometimes feels like instead of getting the whole year of History Lessons you are just getting the mention of events in a Crash Coarse without knowing the internal happenings of those events.

The screenplay never rise to the extent of a movie like SARKAR. In fact i think Ram Gopal Verma could have made this movie better. He would have maintained the seriousness in the film. Instead we get to listen punchlines from Bal Thackrey in this film like - "DHANGO MEIN MERA HAATH NAHI PAON THA"

The acting is good all the way. Nawaz did a fine job. Although i found his character from this film a little smiler to his character from MANTO.

its was nice to see Amrita Rao after so many years.

For direction i would sad it was average. It was not a tightly made film.

It was lengthy too. 2hr and 18mins without any songs.

They already mentioned "To Be Continued" in the end , so there will be a sequel. I think if they have showed even lesser events in this first installment , it would have been better. Also with a better director.

There were claps after the movie finished in my theater. Not much , i guess two or three people clapped. So there is surely some audience for whom this could be a great movie. For me it was somewhere between above average and good.

6.9/10

by ANuP APu KuMaR

AQUAMAN - Before starting the review a little box office update. Right now Aquaman is forth highest grossing Superhero movie in China behind just Infinity War , Venom and Age of Ultron. And with this speed it will probably cross Age of Ultron and then Venom to take the 2nd spot , so i think the box office prospects of the movie are going to be good.

Now just for the sake of Comparison i think Aquaman is on the par with Batman Begins in Ranking DC movies behind Dark Knight , Dark Knight Rises and Wonder Woman. But just like last year's Thor 3 (being the most fun movie of MCU) this is the most fun movie of DCEU , which is not saying much actually because DCEU is not known for being fun and no the Jokes of this film doesn't go as high as Thor 3 but its still a movie as good as that one (another Comparison).

I mean this movie doesn't go dark ever. And honestly m not a big fan of this type of Superhero Movies . Its not like i dislike them , its just something which i don't prefer in comparison to the darker movies likes of Batman Trilogy and Man Of Steel. But in anytime i would prefer a good fun movie then an average Darker Film. And thats what Aquaman provides.

Honestly saying the storyline is pretty basic. There is not much in the writing section. Its very much like Fast and Furious films , having a basic plot and jumping from one location to another for one after another actions sequence not providing much when action is not happening. But we still love Fast and Furious films for its action and its gorgeous visual , and I loved Aquaman for the same.

The imagination and World building is on some other level (Oscar for Best Visual Effect written all over it). Far far far better then Black Panther (with which it also had some storyline similarities). Watching this movie in 3D (which i did) and if possible in IMAX(which i unfortunately didn't) is the best possible way. Its so grand and gorgeous that it will take another whole review to just discuss about ATLANTIS.

The action scenes ? They were HARD , i mean really really HARD. Another comparison to Fast and Furious movies. Every punch in the movie is like a Steel Punch, with Heart Pumping sound effects. U can feel the hurt that the person receiving the punch was feeling.

Unfortunately the only technical department which disappointed me was the music. Its good in some parts but weird in some other parts. Never unique , some weird song choices , i mean who needs songs in Superhero movies , there 4-5 of them in this film. Which is shocking because its the same composer who did Wonder Woman , which had exceptionally good music.

Them comes Jason Mamoa. Well he is a below average actor, but thats what we got. And he managed really well when tough scenes were not provided to them. He certainly looks the part and damn good in the action scenes. But that's it. And i am not complaining.

In comparison Amber Heard acted really well. I always liked her acting but she has always been considered a B Grade average actress with alot of bad movies in her filmography. I hope this will changer that thinking. Nicole Kidman didn't get much to do , but got one really small yet great action scene.

So its a step in the right direction for DCEU(a line many reviewers are saying because its true). Lets see what SHAZAM will have in its bag when it will release next year.

8.1/10

MISSION IMPOSSIBLE : FALLOUT - So for me , it's the 2nd best of the series. And came very very close to the best GHOST PROTOCOL. But both movies are far different. With Ghost Protocol it was total consistency. The movie was great thorughout all the running time. But in case of FALLOUT it's pretty average jn the first half , then start to get better and the last action set piece is one of the best , gorgeous and Realistic set piece ever made in the history of film making , which more then compensate for the average writing came before it.

Let me be clear - It's an awesome movie.

But writing was very very very repeatative. U r gonna see a lot of things happening in the film which happened in Rogue Nation. Infact a person says to Ethan Hunt in this film that 'if YOU WILL GO ROGUE HE WILL KILL YOU' This same dialogue was said to him in Rogue Nation too. in rogue Nation the Head of the CIA at the end of the film says that now he understand that there will always be a need of IMF. In this film too the Head of the CIA (Now changed) say the same thing at the end. In Rogue Nation the character of Rebecca Furguson chases Ethan Hunt throughout the film with opposite agenda , she does the same things in this movie too. But that doesn't mean that the writing is as average as Rogue Nation. No . It's better. And some new things happen too. It's just that this movie with so many action set pieces could have been the Best MI film if the writing has been better , but it didn't happened.

Some predictability hurt the film too . I already new the MOLE far before it was revealed. Also why Furguson was working against Ethan Hunt was pretty clear from the start too. But the again some small surprises were there which I was not able to see coming.

Hence time to talk about the actions. First and foremost the End Action set piece with Two Helicopters. O My My. Such a great action scene. Totally done in real. Breathtaking. Shown to be happening in KASHMIR but was half shot in New Zealand and Half in Norway.

After that two of the best we're BATHROOM FIST FIGHT (where Henry Cavell shines best) and 2nd was the LONDON ROOFTOP RUNNING SCENE(where Tom Again proves that no one can run more gorgeously in Hollywood then him).

Now when it comes to acting , I would like to start with Henry Cavell. Because I find him exceptionally average. He is good when he doesn't open his mouth. He looks stylish , fights great. But when he says , he clearly proves that he is no great actor , and I don't think he will be ever.

Do I have to say anything about Tom Cruise , no I don't think so.

Apart from Cruise who shines best for me was Vanessa Kirby(of THE CROWN FAME) playing White Widow. Who although had a small role but acted beautifully. And I think her character will continue to pope in future installments.

The music and Cinematography were very innovative. Infact I think there will be a high chance of nomination in Cinematography catogory along with Sound Effect and Sound Mixing.

I know I was late to watch the film. But at least I got the chance. And this was surely worth every penny.

8.5/10

ANT-MAN AND THE WASP - I think this is going to be one of my smallest reviews , even if i actually liked the movie. I just don't find anything much to write about it , it was just fun .

The first ANT-MAN was among my least fav MCU movies. Its just that i dont like comedy superhero films , not unless they go R rated like DEADPOOL or having extremely unique humor like THOR3. But ANT-MAN and The WASP is an improvement on its first installment. But the plot iwas very basic , like the first one. The only thing which improved was The Jokes , which i thought were just above average in the first one , but here they are good , and the facial expression of both Paul Rudd and Michale Pena were great. Paul Rudd is one of the best comic actor working in Hollywood , and ANT-MAN certainly gets benefit from it.

Like i said , the plot was very basic (although i don't write plot-points in my reviews but here as i don't have much to write m gonna mention some , also plot was no secret in the movie). First and most importantly Hope Van Dyan was trying to find her mother using Quantom Mechanics , then there was a villain called GHOST , who was trying to steal something from them to save herself , and then there was another villain to steal the same thing to sell it in the black market. Now the whole movie just shows that particular thing to be circulated between different character as its been stolen again and again from one or other . But the jokes just keep coming everytime in the movie , which makes u to just ignore that the movie was just jumping from one set piece to another without happening much between them, also the set pieces were really good . Nothing on the level of what Russo Brothers did with ANT-MAN in the Airport scene in Civil War but it came close.

The bad villain problem with MCU just continues with this movie.

3d in the movie was very effective.

Also i liked how they connected it to INFINITY WAR in the mid credit scenes.

So thats it , a fun and very entertaining movie , with a basic plot , good innovating but nothing extravaganza actions scenes , and superb comedic performance by Paul Rudd and Michale Pena .

7.6/10

ANuP APu KuMaR

SANJU - Any body who thinks this movie has been made to solidify Sanjay Dutt's image , then he is wrong , big time. Infact the whole first half of the movie show one after another bad decision taken by him in his young age. If this movie solidify anyone's image then it's of Sunil Dutt. As after watching this film I totally thinks he was a great man and even a better father. Infact if Sanjay Dutt would have got a father with lesser qualities he would have died a long time ago , well probably. Same goes for his friend Kamli(whom i don't know anything about in real life) , who played an exceptionally important role in keeping Sanju Alive.

I would like to state it clearly that I am not an expert on Sanjay Dutt's real life. Infact I don't have any knowledge about his life outside movies. So i am not gonna complain about what this movie showed right or wrong , because I don't have any idea. M gonna judge the movie just as a movie. And it's a good movie , although not on par with Raju Hirani's earlier movies (2 Munna Bhai films , 3idiot and PK). But I would also add that this was a tough movie to make. People were already predicting it to be a mash. It was a risk. But Raju Hirani crossed the river of fire without any demage. It's commendable.

This movie did a great thing. It says that media should be more serious with what they print or show. And also request the audience to not to believe what ever a newspaper prints or news channel says. When newspaper printed Sanjay Dutt was a terrorist , everyone started believing it. Because it's our nature. We don't question the media . Because the Mango People doesn't have anytime to investigate whether media is showing truth or not . We just blindly agrees it to be true. But it changes one person's life. Sunil Dutt had been called 'Terrorist ka Baap' in the streets. But in reality , Sanjay Dutt has been never charged of being terrorist. Infact the Judge himself said that he doesn't think him to be a terrorist (which this movie claims to have happened and m believing the makers) and charged him only with possession of illegal weapon. Now yes it is a crime to possess illegal weapon. And he was guilty of it. And I don't know why exactly he did it , the movie says it was for his father's safety because he was getting threats at that time , which his father himself thought was a very foolish thing to do . But in reality there can be other reasons , still doesn't make him a terrorist . Who are we to decide it , if court discharged him. We don't have any proof.

That being said the movie was fun. The whole first part shows Sanju Baba's struggle with drugs. It was a really bad time for him. And the director doesn't pull back any punches. It was clearly shown that he was a bad son. He was doing drugs in the corridors of the hospital while his mother was in Coma . And this first half was the better half of the movie. He made a new friend Kamli (Vicky Kausal in a starmaking performance) in a very unusual way. And he played a really big role to make him clear from the drugs.

Then comes the second half which was a little less better then the first. This part tackled with the whole terrerist scenario.

There were some scenes which didn't landed perfectly. Which was an unusual thing to happen in a Raju Hirani's movies. Also there were some scenes where you can feel that the comic facter shouldnt have been here. These scenes should have been more serious. The background score is little awkward. The theme music which the trailer plays , play like a comic tune but sometimes injected in serious scenes which hammpered the feel of some scenes.

Two songs Main Badhiyan Tu Bhi Badhiya and Ruby Ruby came as a hurdle to the pace of the film. But the Song Kar Har Maidaan Fateh really energizes the audience .

Ranbir Kapoor did an exceptional job in impersonating Sanjay Dutt , although his voice still seems like very much Ranbir Kapoor's voice. But we all know he is a great actor. And did a great job. Certainly worthy of award nomination if not a win.

As I said Vicky Kaushal gave a starmaking performance. It is noteworthy that Raju Hirani gave him some really meaty scenes where he raised himself even above Ranbir's character. Although his drunk acts were little animated.

Paresh Raawal as Sunil Dutt was perfect , and that also without impersonating Sunil Dutt at all. Ok may be the hair style has been maintained. There was a scene where he inspires his son to stop using Drugs with the lyrics of the song RUK JANA NHI written by Majrooh Sultanpuri. It was a tear-jerking moment. And made me remember somebody very close to me.

Manisha Koerala shockingly looked greatly similar to Nargis Dutt. And gave a too emotional performance in the small role she got.

Anushka looked gorgeous , well like always , and did full justice to the role she got , which didn't required her acting capabilities at all.

Dia Mirza and Karishma Tanna did fine too.

What to say about Raju Hirani. He is on a winning streak , and not feeling like stopping or faulting anytime soon. Man is a magician. It's like he doesn't know how to fail. Although this movie is a downfall but just from his own standards not from Industry's standard.

This is certainly going to be the biggest hit of Ranbir's carrier. And will land him in the group of three big Khan's box office area.

Although m not fully satisfied with the output , but I enjoyed , and certainly didn't came out dissatisfied.

7.3/10

Avengers: Infinity War- M gonna try to write this with as less as spoilers possible. But there will be some minor ones , so sorry for that.

Q. Is it the best MCU film overall? A. Yes. (not counting BLACK PANTHER , because i haven't seen it yet) Q. Does it has flaws ? A. Many. But its not the best MCU film by becoming perfect , rather the good things in the movie were so awesome , that you are totally gonna forget the bad things. Q. Is it the best written MCU movie ? A. Certainly not. If we consider just writing CAP AMERICA: WINTER SOLDIER takes the crown. Q. Does characters die? A. O YES. Much More in numbers then u r expecting. Q. Does they will be left dead ? A. Certainly not. MCU is no Game Of Thrones. There are million ways a character can reborn. And this time the movie hinted a way itself . Q. Does that affect the emotional effect of those deaths ? A. Not At All . Its exceptional. The movie will punch u in the gut , really really hard , many times but specially in the climax , after the last fight. M pretty sure this movie has the bleakest Climax any Superhero movie ever had. MCU goes beyond DCEU level dark with this movie. To the level of darkness Nolan use to provide in Dark Knight Trilogy. And although i don't think this movie to be as good as Dark Knight and Dark Knight Rises , but even those two movies didn't had such a sorrowful climax.

As there were few , i would like to start (yes the review starts now , above it , was just the background, sorry if it gets lengthy) with the bad things.

1. Jokes didn't worked always. I mean the characters throws jokes in between some serious scenes , which didn't felt good. They also throws jokes when someone is on the verge of getting killed. This has been a major problem for me since the beginning of MCU. But yes , majority of the jokes land very nicely.

2. There were too many things in the movie happening simultaneously . Which again didn't feel good always. For example i really loved the WAKANDA action scene , but that fight sequence was cut at-least four times to show whats happening on the other storyline. That irritated me a little.

3. Many characters in the movie didn't got enough scenes for themselves , unfortunately most of them were my fav - CAP AMERICA , BLACK PANTHER and the whole WAKANDA team , Black Widow , Winter Soldier . Hawkeye was not even in the movie. HULK , o my my , how can they not use HULK. Everyone loves hulk, but except the opening scenes where HULK fights THANOS for a very small amount of time , the rest of the movie gave us Bruce Banner because apparently he is not able to change himself to HULK anymore. By the way there were no AntMan or Valkyrie either , but didn't missed them at all.

4. Then there was a single scene where a character did a really really really stupid thing even after 4 other characters were asking him not to do that. And by doing that thing , they lost really nice chance to defeat Thanos. And that stupid thing was done by (yes m gonna name him) STAR-LORD.

So whom did i liked most in the movie. Ofcoarse it was THENOS. He is an awesome villain . Infact the 2nd best villain of any Comic Book movies after - Yes Heath Ledger's JOKER. He was strong . He was menacing . But he had very clear thought. Particular goals . Which he thought to be the right thing to do to cleanse the Universe. He is not a villain just for the sake of being villain. He just don't go on killing people . He only kills them if it fulfills his higher purpose. He is emotional too. Also cries on the loss of loved one. Yes Yes Yes , he is able to love. Stakes were really high with him. Our heres were never in control of the situation , they were getting being defeated again and again .Josh Brolin did a damn good job with the motion capture technique , to make THANOS really really expressive.

When it comes to heroes. Two of my favorites were THOR (who was as good as he was is Thor:Ragnorak) with his jokes and his new weapon (an AXE) and his lightening power AND DR STRANGE (who was so so so much better here then his stand alone movie) with his EGOISTIC war with equally EGOISTIC Tony Stark and also his awesome Magical Powers.

Others get there time to shine too. But i am specially disappointed with DRAX , who although got enough screen time , is not contributing to the team enough , and was there in the movie to just crack jokes.

Then comes the action scenes. Loved each and everyone. Weather it was the small fist fight between Hulk and Thanos or the big and crazily crowded fight in Wakanda.

So lets end it with some small footnote points. 1. I watched the movie in 2d , and totally loved it. So i dont know if its worth of the extra money to be spent on 3d. 2. There was an end credit scene in the very end , so wait for it , which establishes a connection with upcoming MCU film , for which i was not much excited but some how that end credit scene gave me excitement. 3. If in the early half of the movie u feel that its just good not the best , wait for the 2nd half as it gets better , and the end is totally mind boggling . 4. Last but not the least , this movie has the best cliffhanger ever for any movie to set up a next installment, even better then the whole KATAPPA SUSPENSE of BAHUBALI 1 .

So yes , now time to wait. Avenger 4 is coming on 3rd May 2019.

by ANuP APu KuMaR

RAID - Bollywood O Bollywood. Why can't u just keep the songs outside of a good movie ? Why You have to degrade the quality of the movie with unnecessary songs ? But again who am I kidding. BOLLYWOOD NHI SUDHARNE WALA.

Ok I will start with bad things because there were just two. 1st - There we're 4 songs in the movie , two of them were romantic songs , yes totally unnecessary , but thankfully one of them occurs in the very first 15mins of the movie , and the 2nd one happens in between the film but just for 1min. Then there were other two songs which tries to express the mood of the movie in two particular times. So the 4 songs not exactly hammpers the movie exactly , except the first song , yet the movie could have been even better then it was without those songs. Also it could have been 15min shorter.

Now the 2nd Problem , some of the dialogues in the movie were written as The Diaglogues of which happens in 'Singham' movies , but thankfully Devgan delivers them as realistic as possible.

And that's it. Everything else in the film is Fine , Good or Great.

The movie has been made by the director of No One Killed Jessica , so yes he is a No Nonsense director. But I guess here he tried to be a little more commercial then that film , because you know you have to deliver a hit movie otherwise you r not gonna get work , like which happened with him when his last movie GHANCHAKKAR flopped .

The movie starts directly , not much making base. Then it goes for a little backstory , to make the base. Which was nice , except again that one song. Then the RAID happened very quickly and the whole movie was about the RAID and how it happened.

There were a lot of nice twist , not brain scretchy but pleasurable.

Ajay Devgan Hooks the movie with you brilliantly. There were no unnecessary action from him. Infact this version of him requires police protection for himself also fear a lot of his and his colleague's saftly. He always speaks in a calm manner. Loves to remind the LAW to everyone. I just loved this version of Devgan.

Same Goes for Saurav Shukla. Awesomely casted as villain , he was a realistic villain too. No masala added to him. Yes he does some DIALOGUEBAAZI , more then Devgan's character but that's okay.

Illiana was nice in her small role.

A great thing about the film was the side character's also played nice roles. It's not like they were there for just standing without any purpose.

So yes , I liked the movie. And I want it to be a hit. Which is a little difficult because it's budget is 70crores. But I think it will cross it and become a hit. Or I think I believe it.

7.6/10

by ANuP APu KuMaR

PARI - Be happy Horror movie fans. For me PARI is 'the' very best Horror movie made in Bollywood ever. Again it's not conventional at all. It's very well researched , very detailed , very emotional , romantic , gory , violent , bloody , little comic and yes SCARY.

But to state first , this is an 'A' CERTIFIED film , and it's well earned. There were lots and lots of scenes which shouldn't be seen by children , weak hearted persons and specially pragnent women.

That being said , for the above points it's a very daring film. And m so thankful to Anushka Sharma for producing this film and also for casting herself in the great role. Also I am very thankful to the team for shooting the movie in Kolkata which looked gorgeaously Haunted .

Anushka Sharma as a producer has a Keen eye for unique projects . And this one is her third consecutive home run as producer after NH10 and PHILLAURI.

The director ignored all the clichè Bollywood and Hollywood horror movies have. Everything feels unique in the film. Same as it was in case of Phillauri. It was totally unpredictable. U can't expect what is gonna happen next.

Yes at first you get a little irritate about the fact that why a group of people are trying to kill Anushka's character , but you will get your answers in the 2nd half.

As I said before its not a conventional horror film. There were many things in the movie apart from the scary part. The love story is very emotional. Some social commentory too. Also some comic relief.

The violence is extream and there were many extream scenes of Exorcism too. The director didn't hold any of his punches , which made me very happy. It take guts to do such scenes.

Now the big question , Is the movie scary ? And the answers will be a Satisfactory Yes. It doesn't try to scare you always as I said there were other themes in the movie too , but whenever the movies tries to scare you , it does it successfully.

Acting performance were exceptional all around with Anushka giving one of the best performance of her carrier (Award Worthy Actually).

Direction is very controlled , which is rare in horror genre. Sound effects were very good. Keep you on the edge of your seat. And the cinematography was just waow.

One complained would be the forced song (just one) which was not needed. But it won't bother you because it's not too long.

You can't miss this film. Watch it on big screen.

8.6/10

By ANuP APu KuMaR

Justice League - Before, i want to talk about something else. Something i didn't liked , a step backward . And although my rating will not affect due to these points , but i don't want these things to happen again. As we know earlier this year Wonder Woman released. And it did something Hollywood hadn't done yet. It made a successful Female superhero film , with empowerment and without objectifying Woman . . I mean it really raised the interest of female fans. But this movie takes a step backward. And the twitter is full of such angry comments. 1. First the dress of Amazonian warriors were really revealing , which were not in wonder woman. Even in the short time you can notice it. 2. There were quite a few number of BUTT shots with Gal Gadot wearing tight pants , and camera took her pic from behind putting her butt in the middle of the screen. Thats bad really bad. 3. A lot of Sexist jokes. a)In one scene Flash fall over Wonder Woman his face right in front of her cleavage. b) Then while aquaman was talking about each and every member one by one , when reach to Wonder Woman at-last he says She is very attractive . What does that mean , he doesn't have another description for her apart from being eye-candy to the team . c) In Another scene where Gal Gadot was going to talk to Cyborg for the first time , Alfred says SEEMS LIKE U GOT A DATE . I mean why does he has to say it. He knows she is going to talk to him for joining the team. 4. And Lois Lane . Don't even talk about her. The movie doesn't even show her as a reporter , she is just a love interest of Superman , saying sentences to superman like U SMELL GOOD. Doesn't these Woman have self respect. These were some really bad things , which could hurt the female audience. And i don't want DCEU to move to this direction . Woman characters must not be objectified for the sake of producing Jokes. Thank God Wonder Woman has been directed by a female director. Only god knows what will happen to the BATGIRL movie which Joss WEADON is directing as well writing.

So that being said . i promise i will not rate this movie any lower for above reasons. Because i liked and enjoyed the film , in-spite of those points. This one is better then Dawn Of Justice not because it has a better story , infect the story is pretty simple and there were not much complications like it was in case of Dawn Of Justice , but because this movie is very safe and does few silly things.

But the movie was rushed . As WB ordered to cut it to under 2 hrs. That was a wrong decision creatively , but i think WB is pretty much business minded right now thinking of how much Dawn of Justice underperformed(it must have earned a billion which it didn't) and how Blade Runner 2049 get bombed at box office , length of the movie being a major reason.I hope we got to see the extended version when the bluray comes out. Also The whole JOss Weadon light hearted moments , although works sometimes and the audience did laughed a lot , more then me , but the movie could have worked better without them . I really wanted this film to be serious. Its different to get humorous sometimes. Even Nolan use to inject jokes in between Dark Knight trilogy , but those were so less in numbers and so much driven by the plot and characters that they never hurt the tone of the film. Its not the same here. It gets cheeky sometimes. I really don't mind the standalone movies to be light hearted , like it was in case of Wonder Woman , but when it comes to the team movie , it had to be serious , so that stakes could be felt higher.

But again , i laughed even i wanted it to be serious. And the action scenes works. Big time. Even the smaller fights. U will enjoys the fights.

Some more back stories would have been really nice, the whole team just came together too quick . We didn't get to know the character's personal life , specially about Aquaman. I really hoped more scenes of Amber Heard as Mera(yes i like her , even after her controversial divorce with Johney Depp and her flop carrier) . Hope that extended cut (if ever will come) can add some scenes of her.Or i will have to wait for the Aquaman movie.

Talking about Individual characters , Superman was the best thing about this film. And believe me i am a Batman fan . This Superman version of Zack Snyder is very conflicted , a lone survivor in an alien planet. And even being just in less then half of the movie , Superman really elevates the film. They did really interesting things with Superman. One of which is the competing fast moving power of Superman and Flash.

2nd will be cyborg . He is a real value addition . And at the time of him still finding out what he can do , its really interesting to watch him.

Danny Elfman must not get to give music in any DCEU movie again. He was very average . Like he was in Age Of Ultron. Junky Xl or Zimmer could have made this movie so much better.

7.7/10

by ANuP APu KuMaR

Thor: Ragnarok- THIS IS FUN . A REALLY FUNNY FILM. BETTER THEN BOTH THE GUARDIAN OF THE GALAXY FILMS(yes the first one too) WITHOUT TAKING BACK ANY CREDIT FROM THOSE TWO MOVIES. And thats totally because of Taika Waititi , the director who i think is far superior a director then James Gunn. And there was writing too. Not just senseless fun , like GOTG 2. Nor its kind of immaterial like Ant Man , or Heroes just having fun like in GOTG1. This movie have serious consequences , in the whole Marvel Cinematic Universe same as like Cap America 2&3 which makes it better then GOTG 1 & 2 , Ant Man and even Dr Strange , but because its never serious it falls behind Cap America 2 & 3. But enough of comparisons now.

The storyline establish itself without wasting any time. Just some background connection with part 2 , quick introduction of Main villain HELA , and Thor find himself in another planet captured and unwillingly fighting with HULK , who was very happy to fight anybody , without becoming Bruce Banner in last 2 years. In the subplot or you can the other parallel story Hela is trying to capture Asgard , and Thor want to stop her by freeing himself first.

The movie is like when you give an imaginative child a big and costly toy with a lot of abilities and he can do whatever he wants with it. The same happens here. Taika Waititi is a very imaginative director with a very very weird deadpan sense of humour(which i loved in his previous films). So when he got full control and a marvelous budget of 185m$ , the result is great. The close i can compare this movie to Pacific Rim , another movie made by an imaginative director taking control over huge budget and playing with it as he likes.

Jokes were the most important part of the film. They just keep on coming. And raise the bar so much that you find such scenes slight boring when comedy was not happening. Most of them which were with the character of Hela whose story got a little sidetracked , even after Cate Blanchett providing really good performance making Hela one of the best villain in MCU.

As there were whole bunch of jokes in the whole film , its impossible to mention them , but one of my favorite was when HULK beat THOR in the exact manner like he beat Loki in AVENGER 1 and watching this make Loki shout "SEE THATS HOW IT FEEL". It was hilarious.

I had a feeling before watching the film that this doesn't become an all n all comic film , and the action got sidetracked . But that doesn't happened. The movie is full of action sequences and each and everyone of them was great. When THOR becomes the true God Of Thunder , it will make u jump with happiness. The directer have done everything you would expect , he didn't pulled back anything. Its so nice to see that Taika Waititi can handle action scenes so nicely , as he will probably direct The AKIRA live action film for WB.

Also a small mention of DR STRANGE in one scene cameo . Taika Waititi make his powers look so much fun in his 10min role that scott derrickson was not able to do in the whole film. Which again makes me wonder that its more probably a chance that Marvel will give him Thor 4 to direct , but how much fun it would have been if he will direct Dr Strange 2. Because believe me , this movie have much more magic then Dr Strange had.

Oo and yes , how can i forget the music. A perfect blend of Retro , 80's Rock and 90's Trance. U are gonna love it. Again better then GOTG 1 . I think i have to say it at last , its not the best but probably the most fun MCU film till date .

8.2/10

by ANuP APu KuMaR

Although AAMIR KHAN - NAAM HI KAAFI HEI. But seriously this movie is so much more then just him..

Its a really simple story. Never trying to be something out of the box. Just trying to be a good , truthful and good hearted film by doing all the things right. And that it did, with some flaws , Yes.

Advait Chandan is a debutante director , and he is certainly not great. In fact he cant control his scenes from turning itself from Drama to Melodrama. So yes , there were some minor melodrama here and there.

That aside , the film is lengthy , a lot of songs ,which were not awesome , sweet but not awesome , not as good as i would like them to be for sitting extra minutes in the hall , that's a very average work from Amit Trivedi. But not all of them taste your Patience. Some are really good , MAIN KAUN HOON is an exceptional piece of compositions , And NACHDI PHIRAN is really melodic . Also songs are placed well . Its just that although they fulfill their purpose but not without slowing the film. Then again , its not a fast film by itself.

Some other faults were , the relationship between INSIA (ZAIRA WASIM) and SHAKTI KUMAR (AAMIR KHAN) is established too quickly which is hard to believe , when it comes to Music Industry.

But the movie had its heart in the right place. In fact it had its heart in more then one place (and all those places were the right one).

First and Foremost , its a movie about believing your dream and standing up for it.

But my favorite theme was the MOTHER-DAUGHTER relationship. The way Mother and her Teenage daughter talks in this film , the topic they discuss , all the way from childish things like making faces on LAPTOP CAM to all the serious discussion about the mother must give Divorce to his husband because she deserves better life , i have never seen such practice relationship between Mother and a Teenage daughter in any Bollywood film.

Then there is the Domestic Violence issue. Including how Woman in some part of Indian society doesn't have a freedom to live on their own terms and have to be submissive to their husbands. Its one of those topics which our society doesn't want to accept as a reality even after everybody knows its a truth , and the Bollywood also usually shy away from this topics . But we have seen this topic in few number of films. Its done in a slight subtle manner here , as its a movie about teenage Girl's dream , also u know , its a Diwali Film.

And lastly there was teenage love-story too. Which was also not the best i have seen in Bollywood films but believable enough..

The way Zaira Wasim have started her carrier in Bollywood with such strong two film , i don't think any other child artist have got such a launch. Thanks to Aamir Khan of coarse who in many interviews have said she is like a daughter to him, interestingly enough i can see his love to her in many scenes of the film too. But that doesn't take any credit from her. Zaira did a really fine Job. Even in the scenes where she had to act like a singer singing a song. Playing a singer is not that easy , even adult actors sometime do it wrong.

Meher Vij is a loving mother everybody wants. She has been shown as an illiterate woman , but it was shown very nicely that , its not the education you need to be a great mom, rather its good heart , love for your children , fighting for their dream and ability to sacrifice which makes a great Mom. Thankfully , i have got one of my own.

Aamir Khan was deliberately Overacting here. And he was hilarious. Every time he opens his mouth , will make you laugh. Which makes me wanting an out an out Comedy film from Aamir. We only get bit and pieces of Shakti Kumar's own life as he was not the central character. There was one scene where Aamir says to Zaira that they have a same kind of life , but he never completely explain her how. And yes there were some emotional scenes of him too . He was there in the movie exactly as much as required. It was not a cameo. Not even an extended cameo. More then that.

So that's it. Bear some melodrama , some cliché , some predictability , some unnecessary but well placed songs and you will get a movie which far better then Bollywood offers every Diwali.

7.6/10

By ANuP APu KuMaR

Blade Runner 2049 - Waoww. I have often stated that Roger Deakins is a master Cinematographer and often his Oscars were stolen by other cinematographers. Even after 13 nominations (highest by any Cinematographer in the history) and yet not a single win. This is the time. For the first time hi was working with an enormous budget of 150m$ and for the first time he was creating a futuristic world. And he has hammered the nail perfectly. He should and must win this time. And I am saying this after considering the exceptional cinematography done by Hoyte Van Hoytema in Dunkirk with IMAX camera , because even the word 'Exceptional' falls short what Deakins has done here. Each and every scene will make you 'Awe' towards it..

That being said , the movie is not doing well till now at the box office. Its opening numbers were very low and trade experts were saying the only way this movie could be not at loss , if only it will be saved by China , Japan and Korea , where it is still to be released .

The reasons for its box office failure in America were 1. U have to see the first part before watching this one. It a compulsory requirement. 2. The plot has been superbly kept secretive , which is great for the audience like me who were interested in the movie even before the trailer came out , but creates distance from the audience who wants to know about the movie before watching it. 3. It's very noncommercial. Too lengthy , very serious , less action scenes , very artful , which makes it vulnerable at box office.

But I don't want to talk about the box office , it's making me sad , as m very happy after watching the film , and it would be a very big lose for Hollywood if this film doesn't perform well. Because then no other studio will try to do this thing again. It's one of a kind film , I don't remember any other movie which priorities the AMBITION over its COMMERCIAL Prospect so much and still made with a budget of 150m$ .

The movie totally builds on the story-line of the first installment. Answers some questions from that film , raises some new questions , which will be answer in future movies if ever made.

But the best thing about the film(apart from Cinematography obviously) is writing. We don't get to see such brilliant writing in such a big budget film (again except Christopher Nolan movies). There were so many genuine surprises that you can't stop praising the writers. The surprises keep on coming. They never stop. And the movie end with giving you the feeling that you want more.

Acting wise there is only Ryan Gosline to talk about. He was the only character in the whole movie. All the other actors just come and go. Dave Batista got one scene , Jared Leto got two. Harrison For comes in the last 45min of the movie although utilized very nicely. Ana De Armas gave a very emotional performance . But Ryan get much more emotional and vulnerable , with each shock he gets in the film. It's such nice to see him in a big budget film. It would be so nice if it becomes a franchise.

The score from Hans Zimmer and Benjamin Wallfisch is heart pounding sometimes and goes total silence in rest of the part.

Denis Villeneuve is a very good director. One of the best working right now. I have liked his Prisoner , Sicario and Enemy , and liked Arrival a little less . People keep comparing him to Nolan . Which I think is wrong. Villeneuve doesn't have the business sense of Nolan. The failure of Blade Runner 2049 at the box office after such awesome reviews proves it. Nolan knows his audience and also knows how much budget he should inject in his film to make it a hit. He just don't goes on spending money without analyzing the commercial prospect of this film. That doesn't mean Nolan is not artistic. Rather you can say he is the artist who sales most . Villeneuve should learn this single talent from Nolan and then he could be as successful as Nolan in the Box Office.

Some more action scenes and slight editing here and there could easily had raised its commercial prospect . Also we needed some more scenes of Jared Leto as the Villain.

Like I said , m hoping that China , South Korea and Japan will save this film from drowning , and m also expecting this movie to bag almost all the technical awards in this Oscar like Mad Max: Fury Road did.

8.5/10 By ANuP APu KuMaR.

JUDWA 2 - Ask yourself . Did you liked the original Judwa. If the answer is no them you will pretty much hate it (unless you like Varun Dhawan a lot but then again there will be very few people who likes Varun without liking his Dad's movies from the 90s). And if the answer is Yes , then you have every reason to watch this.

But let me be clear first. This is not a sequel . it's a clear cut remake. The story-line is same , some of the Jokes are same , even two of the songs are same , hell the Lisping character of RajPal Yadav is just anyone's downed version of Rangeela from the original played by Sakti Kapoor. And of course Varun Dhawan is just doing the Salmaan Act (just like he did the Govinda Act in Main Tera Hero , and he did it very nicely in both these movies).

The jokes worked most of the time and didn't worked a few times. Then again if only you liked the jokes from the Original Judwa. But there was a comic scene where Three of the Ladies from the movie are being kisses at a time , and you would be amazed to see who the third lady is apart from the two lead actresses. Best scene of the film.

There is nothing to talk about the story-line. Like I said it's a remake , hence Two Judwa brothers get separated at birth , and after many years fall on the same city and the whole sequences of confusion starts on. And that's it. So please please please , leave your brain at home , because this is a Dusshera release with David Dhawan being the director.

Sajid Farhaad's dialogues were what keep the movie on track. I think sometimes , why they write good jokes for David Dhawan and write crappy jokes for Rohit Shetty.

When it comes to acting , as I said Varun Dhawan did the whole Salmaan Khan act , sometimes even using the same way of Dialogue delivery , and he really did well. But apart from him it's Rajpal Yadav and Tapsee Pannu who really shines. Truly there was nothing given to Tapsee , she was just a candy girl in the movie (Same as Jacqueline) but she really tried to act . You can see her performing , it's like she is in some other movie altogether , giving the movie more importance then it deserved. Even her dance step were awesome.

Talking about dance , The songs were exceptionally shot. Very entertaining , choreographer definitely deserve fool marks. The action sequences were nice too. And London looked pretty beautiful , which actually it always does. The whole movie has been shot with Digital camera instead of usual Film Camera , so it give it a different look for a change..

Salmaan Khan's cameo was not interesting to me. Pretty badly executed and not required for the story. at all. Also there were some emotional scenes which didn't worked at all.

This was not on the level of Humpty Sharma and Badrinath ki Dulahniya. But definitely better then Main Tera Hero and all the Recent Rohit Shetty movies. Including (I think) upcoming Golmaal Again whose trailer looks Horrible.

Watch it . It's a pretty nice festival film. And I was myself at least one day Late.

6.9/10 by ANuP APu KuMaR

IT - Anybody who is expecting a proper horror film without knowing about the source material (which i myself haven't read but have enough research on it) is going to get disappointed. Because its basically a 'Coming Of The Age' film with a very scary clown in it. But let me be very specific. Horror elements were only secondary in the film , Drama is the primary thing . And because i knew this before seeing it , i liked it a lot.

Its a different kind of Horror film. Its a R rated film , with pretty much a lot of violence, with kids being in the lead and a Clown who is killing them.

Director Andy Muschietti was not into the usual JUMP SCARE thing (Thankfully). There were no false dream sequence , no door shutting scares , no unnecessary loud sound design. Its actually very realistic . I mean as realistic as a horror movie with a scary clown can get. The characters in the movie doesn't do foolish things to get killed. I mean yes there were some foolish step taken by the characters but come on , they were just 13 year old kid, we have to give them that much freedom.

You can understand how much i appreciate the things this movies doesn't do , because Horror Movies have become very stereotypical in last two decades , but thankfully Warner Bros has taken a different root. They are trying to be realistic and sensible about it. They were doing the same thing in the Conjuring series , and they did the same here.

As much as the movie is about 7 kids tackling with a Clown with crocodile teeth , the movie has so many different themes. Every kid has his own demon in real life to tackle. Somebody is tackling with the trauma of Lost brother , somebody is tackling a father who sexually abuse her , somebody want to get rid of over protective mom , somebody want to tackle his father's high expectation. Someone tackles with racism And lastly the whole group is tackling the Bully seniors.

Even after all these problems the kids have a great time hanging out with each other , if only for sometime. The Jokes came in regular intervals . And Andy Muschietti masterfully juggled the serious moments with comic ones , even mixing them and playing at the same time.

The cast is exceptional , so much that you will feel bad about them being replaced by senior actors in the sequel . But dame i would be not honest if i don't say it , Sophia Lillis as Beverly Marsh was my favorite. Yes i know she was the only girl in the club , and it was very typical of me to select her as my favorite. But i cant help it. She was awesome. And also there has been many anticipations for who will be the actors to play these kids in the sequel , i just want two actors for now - JESSICA CHASTAIN as Beverly & CHADWICK BOSEMAN (black panther) as Mike Hanlon.

There may be some complaint with the movie not having enough scary sequences. And that's true. Many people had the same problem with Conjuring 2 . For me IT is even less scarier. But that doesn't degrade the film. It just stop it from being a great film. And this reason shouldn't stop you from watching this film.

The film has been set in the State of MAINE , USA a state we see very less in Hollywood , and also the state where Stephen King (writer of IT , the BOOK) . And the movies has a very different and fresh look. Its not too dark , cloudy or again stereotypical like usual horror film. Its like any other film set in Summer Holidays.

For the END i would like to add , the movie totally earned its R rating in America and its A certificate in India. It had a lot of blood , curse words (the actual way of 13 year old boys talking) , and a little theme of sexual abuse. Hence the movie is not for kids. At least not at all for kids under 13. I am saying this because i had seen a lot of parents came to this movie with extremely small kids and i don't know at all how they are gonna explain those kids that why the clown is eating the hand of a boy.

I am obviously looking forward to the sequel. Which i think will answer more questions which were raised in this part and haven't been answered.

8.1/10

By ANuP APu KuMaR

JAB HARRY MET SEJAL - A director on the Verge of becoming a flop Director meets an Actor on the verge of becoming a flop hero and make a familiar but More then just a decent film.

And that's absolutely true. Imtiaz Ali's Highway and Tamasha both got flopped. Although Highway was an awesome film , just lacked star power. Similarly SRK's FAN and Dilwale both got flopped before he got a minor but important hit with Raees. JHMS is not as good as SRK's last film Raees but is better then Imtiaz's last film Tamasha and definitely much more mainstream too. Because of which I think this movie will do decent business at box office , depending on it's budget.

JHMS is exactly the movie what trailer shows. I always keep my faith on Imtiaz , that he will try something interesting in his movies (even if the trailers seems simple) but he didn't do it in Tamasha , neither did he do it in JHMS.

The story-line was as simple as it looked. A girl met a tour guide , seek his help to find her lost ring , in between the Journey they fall in love . A little confusion what they should do and the movie end with an extremely simple solution .

The good thing was that , Imtiaz Ali could create moments , and there were some of those moments to melt your heart a little if not extremely. And the jokes landed nicely , not as good as Ae Dil Hei Muskil but better then average Rom-Coms.

And SRK did a very nice Job. A small comeback to his forte Romantic film. It's Ironic that Imtiaz Ali , the best director to direct a romantic film in Bollywood , took so much time to work with SRK , the most fav romantic hero of the country. Although I would have expected a much more hard hitting and electrifying movie from this duo (like rockstar or highway) , but the result in manageable.

Anushka on the other hand again steal the show with her performance. Her character was too similar to what she has done in her previous films except her awkward comic Gujarati accent which she sells perfectly with her performance . Still I am not bored at all watching her doing the same character. But there were scenes which seems too foolish. For example SRK's character has been shown as a Womanizer but he told Sejal that he don't think her as a girl with whom he would like to sleep , rather he would like to keep her and just watch her continuously . Which Sejal didn't took it as compliment and think he was not enough attracted towards her.

The whole Gyashudin Mohammad Qureshi AKA Gas segment clicked the right comedy notes.

I don't have much to praise about the movie. It's full of clichés. But somehow Imtiaz's direction , Anushka-SrK's performance , cinematography and Pritam's music gave me a nice pleasant experience.

Should have been shorter in length. Should have been less songs injected. Should have done something special. Everythingelse was right.

7.2/10

DUNKIRK - Talk about visual treat . Waaow. But I can't start my review before mentioning how much I Love Christopher Nolan . He is the living God of movie-making. Only he can does what he does.

Where I put Dunkirk ? - his 7th best , behind - TDK , TDKR , INCEPTION , INTERSTALLER , PRESTIGE and MEMENTO. That's pretty behind as per his standard but it's still the best movie of this year.

I was almost hopeless about getting the chance to watch this movie on big screen , but I got it , while I was on holiday , unexpectedly . One of those instances when God listens to your prayer.

Nolan had said that he had studied various movies before making Dunkirk. 2 of the major movies were Saving Private Ryne and Unstoppable. Just think about mixing two of such distinct directors - Spielberg and Late Tony Scott , and you could get what Nolan has brought to the table here.

Dunkirk is a fast movie , time ticking , nail biting (in a literal sense I was biting my nails) thriller . You can say Nolan has made his own Sub Genre inside the Genre of War movies. That's why you can't call it Nolan's Saving Private Ryne which people were calling it before release. Because it very unique and totally owned by Nolan. It's his own Dunkirk. Its not Inspired. It will inspire future movies.

But you must know about the movie and history behind it before watching it or it can confuse you. Don't worry I will make an exception for this film and give you a crash coarse .

It's about Dunkirk evacuation on a French Beach during WW2 , the biggest evacuation in the history of War. Almost 400000 soldiers were there in that beach and as per Wikipedia 338226 soldiers were saved . Thats the basic plot of the movie. But Nolan doesn't make movies that simple. He told the story with three prospective.

1st - THE MOLE - Telling it from the view point of various Soldiers on the ground (including former One Direction Singer Harry Style , performing very decently) showing a period of 1 Week.

2nd - THE SEA - Telling it from the view point of a Civilian MARK RYLANCE sailing to Dunkirk to help the soldiers , showing a period of 1 day.

& 3rd - THE AIR - Telling it from the view point of Aircrafts with Tom Hardy trying to save the Soldiers from above , showing a period of 1 hour.

All these stories run simultaneously , and get connected at the end. But it seeks concentration. If you will loose the concentration it may make you confuse.

It's a very short film (107mins) . And that was the aim of Nolan. He doesn't wanted to make a conventional war film. There was no politics , no backstories , no photos in the pocket of soldiers for emotional connection , no person shown waiting for the soldiers in the home. The movie shows the physical pain they have to tackle while they were within the war.

You see different emotions , fear , selfishness , unclear mind , hope , within the soldier. They would do anything to go home.

Two important things - Musical score and Cinematography were almost two characters in the movie.

The camera moves very swiftly. Specially in THE AIR section , you feel the movie like you are inside the Aircraft. But it's wonderful throughout the film. It's very bleak and grim . Showing hopelessness. No sign of Sunlight. Beautiful and Horrifying at the same time. Once you see beautiful sea water below the boat , after sometime in other scene you see dead bodies floating in the same water. It's worth an Oscar nomination. What makes it more gorgeous is the least use of Visual effects. I can't point out a single scene which didn't seemed realistic. Add the wide angles and clearity of IMAX camera to it. And it's perfect. Although I haven't seen it in Imax Screen.

But the real winner here is the musical score . You can't beat Hans Zimmer in Orchestral music. The intensity of the synthesizer mixed with the ticking clock is exceptional. Zimmer always saves his best for Nolan. The score is so complimentary to the film is that sometimes you can't even differentiate between the score and the sound of weapons.

Which brings me to Sound effect and Sound mixing department. Which are two guaranteed Oscar wins for this film. The effects were so perfect that the sound of bombs will make your heart jump outside your chest. Will shake your eardrums.

The editing is exceptional. On par with Inception. The transition between three time-line is smooth (if only you concentrate enough) and not a single unwanted scene. The movie keeps on moving every time. Never stops . No time for talk. The survival was continuous from the very first second till the very last second of the movie. I am sensing another guaranteed Oscar here.

But he faulted in some minor things here . Which doesn't happen frequently . There was a scene in the end when it's not shown clearly how Tom Hardy destroyed enemy's plane , it's just shown that something hit it and we have to assume it's Tom Hardy's plane. Also the whole 1week part was not shown correctly . What I mean that I only sensed two nights , and three days , it didn't show all 7 days which felt a little awkward.

This story couldn't have get a better treatment.

And yes , you must see it in the best possible screen available to you.

8.9/10 ANuP APu KuMaR.

SPIDERMAN HOMECOMING -Spiderman is back at home , and that's Marvel. Although it's wrong to say BACK because in movies he has never been at Marvel before.

At the start let me rank it among the other Spiderman movies . And it's just my personal ranking. Its third best for me after the best Spiderman 2 (which most of the people think is actually the best one) and Amazing Spiderman 1 (this one people may disagree). So you can say inclusion of Marvel gave mix results bending towards the positive side.

But I do think this movie felt more like a Marvel movie then the earlier Spiderman movies by SONY. Mostly because of the two reasons. 1st being the obvious one , inclusion of Iron Man and his Iron Manish Jokes. And the movie is full of them. Even when Iron Man is not their in the screen. And 2nd - casting of Tom Holland (for which credit goes to Kevin - the head of Disney and Russo Bros - the director of Cap America 2 and 3. And it's easy to say for me that Holland is the best Spiderman and fit perfectly with the tone of MCU. He looks exactly like a 15 year old school boy. And has a nice sense of humour.

This fact that Spidey is back in school gave the makers a chance to make the movie light hearted , full of jokes , lowering the stakes (I mean the world is not under any danger this time).

But then again the movie lacks Seriousness , Tension , Emotions , etc. No shock value. No edge of the seat scenes , no heart warming scenes like what I got in Wonder Woman. What I mean is that I had the usual problem I always have with the Marvel Movies. So that's just about my personal taste.

Also to add , about which I am not much sure but Spidey in this movie has been shown as pretty much incapable. Apart from the Climax fight , every time Iron Man has to come to rescue him . This may make hard core Spiderman fans a little disappointed. Just may be. Didn't bothered me. Because I am not that die hard fan.

The movie is too much crowded with characters. Not everyone get a meaty role having the running time of 133min. The best example is ZENDEYA , being just another student , having no real purpose , cracking dry jokes. May be she will get a little more important role in the sequel.

Being in High School , Peter was very immature . Apart from fighting street thugs he was tackling usual high school problems - bullying , failure to express his love to the senior girl , not having many friends and yes the most usual one BALANCING HIS PERSONAL LIFE WITH Professional , I MEAN SUPERHERO LIFE.

One of the great thing about this movie (which I think should be given credit to but I also think most of the audience will not be able to catch the fact ) is that how close the ambition of both the hero and the villain were in the movie. Both has been demoralized by Tony Stark and Both wants to prove something to Tony and to society. Yet both have a different way to do it.

Michal Keaton as vulture was good. For a change we got a nice villain in a Marvel movie. Again it's owned by SONY so it just half qualify as Marvel movie. Vulture is good , not great. He had a clear motive. He wants to do business. Trying to earn a standard lively-hood. Still I didn't find him enough menacing.

Action scenes were good. Not very unique creatively , but good. The broken ship pulling scene was very familiar to Toby Macquarie's train stopping scene from Spiderman 2 , but didn't reached the height of the tension which Toby's scene had done. No other complains from action. If only the climax scene had been done in the daylight instead of Night , would have been so much better.

The first half was very good. Extremely funny. But when the movie jumped to 2nd half the stakes should have been gone higher. Which never happens. Also whatever serious or sad scenes were there director was not able to make them gripping which is a shock because I loved the direction of John Watts in COP CAR.

There were some minor visual effects which looked more like Video Game scenes , but mostly visuals were great.

3d being always nice in Spiderman movies was good here too.

Robert Dn Junior had just the right amount of role neither overshadowing Spidey(if only we ignore the fact that he rescues him all the time) nor dissatisfying his own fans having a small role.

I love Marisa Tomei. She is extremely beautiful even at the age of 52 years. She is a perfect Aunt May. Would have been great if we had got some more emotional scenes of her with Peter.

Small thing to add. SHOCKER has always been one of my favorite villain from Spiderman Cartoon. And I always wanted him to be shown in movies. And I got it. Yes as a sidekick of vulture , not a very powerful villain but at least get a chance on big screen.

7.3/10 by ANuP APu KuMaR