The hits and misses of the week.
Slipshod direction and listless story produce a superfluous drama about how a judge turns into a murderer, notes Prasanna D Zore.
Vinod Mirani gives us his weekly verdict.
A spectacular Taapsee Pannu brings out the shift of a happy homemaker to a heartbroken woman most strikingly in her deeply affecting performance, applauds Sukanya Verma.
'I find drawing inspiration for characters from real life very limiting.'
Filmistaan is a story about hope.
'I haven't experienced such a thing ever. It was beautiful.'
The hits and misses of the week.
The hits and misses of the week.
At best, a serviceable buffoon with a flair for repartee, Kapil Sharma is awfully limited in his humour and screen presence to perk up this half-decent premise, feels Sukanya Verma.
'Article 15 is not the work of a hack, or of someone merely scooping a plot out of newspaper headlines.' 'It is a well-researched, clear-headed movie; but its findings have a purpose,' says Sreehari Nair.
Bangistan is not the political satire it claims to be, says Nishi Tiwari.
'I got a call from Shah Rukh Khan.' 'Gana leak ho gaya,' he said. 'Leak ho gaya, toh ho gaya. Nikal jayega,' I said. 'And that's what happened.' 'Chammak Challo went viral overnight!'
Rukh may be lit like a YouTube Short Film, and may have its share of other technical problems, but there's something disturbingly original about director Atanu Mukherjee's vision, Sreehari Nair feels.
De De Pyaar De is a Radio Play being passed off as a Motion Picture, says Sreehari Nair.
Aiyaary is a bloated, prolonged mess of misplaced purpose that digresses from military misdeeds to animal cruelty, feels Sukanya Verma.
Sukanya Verma looks at the various baap-beti equations depicted on the screen.
'I've played Salman Khan's friend. How can I play anyone else's friend?' Meet Sultan actor Anant Vidhaat.
'I think I have been lucky that I have found directors who take me for what I am and what they think I am capable of, rather than go on my previous films and see what I have done.'
'Chanting slogans, chest thumping, calling us big nationalists, but you don't stop at traffic lights.' 'What nationalism are you talking about?'
Rock On 2 does more for Meghalaya tourism than it does for rock music, feels Sukanya Verma.
'Mulk gets a lot of things right, including its vision of the country as a place where underneath the punctilious, forced-secular surface there are volatilities waiting to go off,' says Sreehari Nair.
'Even though the film focuses on caste discriminations in rural India, it is first of all a riveting police procedural, and one of the best made in India,' says Aseem Chhabra.
Lekar Hum Deewana Dil struggles to find its own voice, according to Nishi Tiwari.
Tiger Zinda Hai returns to the same moronic space where it's all about slow-motion Salman, his checkered scarf, his fleeting shirtless-ness, his unrealistically beefed up body and a taken-for-granted indestructibility, says Sukanya Verma.
Jolly LLB did well with its droll depiction of a small-time lawyer and how his guilty conscience encourages him in vindicating the downtrodden. In its sequel, Akshay Kumar does it even better, feels Sukanya Verma.
'Oh what a beauty Akshay's performance is. Old-school gallantry, contemporary tone, his measured delivery is the soul of and savoir in Airlift,' says Sukanya Verma.
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It has been 20 years since the Kargil War. Sukanya Verma look back at Lakshya, Farhan Akhtar's memorable film that was inspired by the war in the icy heights where young Indian soldiers fought tireless battles to evict Pakistani troops from our territory.
Director Ali Abbas Zafar relies solely on Salman Khan's drawing power and offers nothing novel in terms of storytelling, feels Sukanya Verma.
Filmistaan has a strong plot and well-developed characters, says Paloma Sharma.
'Even when toasting a true story, say our movies, a superstar is worth more than a real hero,' says Raja Sen.
'The uniform might be the most accurate thing about this film, however, a painfully tacky production where all the sets look like over-saturated cardboard,' says Raja Sen.
Sreehari Nair could not put up with turgid and self-serious ones like Super Deluxe and Gully Boy. His list of favourite Indian movies of 2019 contains just five names.
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