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Dolly ki Doli review: The film's fun but Sonam is plastic as usual
Rajkummar Rao is a serious actor.
Since his debut in Dibakar Banerjee's
Love s#x Aur Dhokha (2010), Rao has
shown he can pull our heartstrings,
be the boy next door and convince us
he's everything from callous to
charming, depending on what the
script and the director demand from
the actor. It turns out that this is not
the extent of his talents. Rao can
also match Malaika Arora Khan jhatka
for jhatka . In fact, he's a better
dancer than Sonam Kapoor. When he
leaps into the choreography of
"Fashion Khatam Mujhpe" in Dolly ki
Doli, you might just find yourself
ignoring Khan and being riveted by
how Rao busts the item-number
moves.
That song isn't the only instance
when Rao steals the show in
Abhishek Dogra's Dolly ki Doli . As
Sonu Sherawat, a sugarcane farmer
from Sonepat whose heart is broken
by his runaway con-artist bride, Rao
is both hilarious and lovable. He's got
the Haryanvi accent down pat as well
as the swagger. Although he's just
one of three men that Dolly (Sonam
Kapoor) has dancing to her tunes,
Rao's Sonu is the one who stands
out.
The film begins with Sonu and Dolly's
love story. She bats her eyelashes, he
shows up at her house to ask for her
hand in marriage and after a few
googlies, Dolly weds Sonu. By the
time Sonu wakes up on his first day
as a married man, Dolly has cleaned
out his family home of all their
valuables and vanished. Little does
Sonu know that he's joined a long list
of men who have fallen prey to the
woman whose exploits are recorded
in a police file labelled "lootera
dulhan" [the bandit bride].
True to the spirit of Bollywood, Dolly
ki Doli doesn't make much logical
sense, but it's a fun plot. A young
woman and her family of choice
traipse around north India, gleefully
fleecing nitwits. Her entourage
includes a pandit, who helpfully picks
convenient wedding dates, and a
photographer who makes sure Dolly
is not in any wedding photos.
There's
also a fake mother, father, brother
and a grandmother who is the the
desi version of Groot. What is true
about this collection of criminal
oddballs is that they're a team and
they love each other.
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Rajkummar Rao is a serious actor.
Since his debut in Dibakar Banerjee's
Love s#x Aur Dhokha (2010), Rao has
shown he can pull our heartstrings,
be the boy next door and convince us
he's everything from callous to
charming, depending on what the
script and the director demand from
the actor. It turns out that this is not
the extent of his talents. Rao can
also match Malaika Arora Khan jhatka
for jhatka . In fact, he's a better
dancer than Sonam Kapoor. When he
leaps into the choreography of
"Fashion Khatam Mujhpe" in Dolly ki
Doli, you might just find yourself
ignoring Khan and being riveted by
how Rao busts the item-number
moves.
That song isn't the only instance
when Rao steals the show in
Abhishek Dogra's Dolly ki Doli . As
Sonu Sherawat, a sugarcane farmer
from Sonepat whose heart is broken
by his runaway con-artist bride, Rao
is both hilarious and lovable. He's got
the Haryanvi accent down pat as well
as the swagger. Although he's just
one of three men that Dolly (Sonam
Kapoor) has dancing to her tunes,
Rao's Sonu is the one who stands
out.
The film begins with Sonu and Dolly's
love story. She bats her eyelashes, he
shows up at her house to ask for her
hand in marriage and after a few
googlies, Dolly weds Sonu. By the
time Sonu wakes up on his first day
as a married man, Dolly has cleaned
out his family home of all their
valuables and vanished. Little does
Sonu know that he's joined a long list
of men who have fallen prey to the
woman whose exploits are recorded
in a police file labelled "lootera
dulhan" [the bandit bride].
True to the spirit of Bollywood, Dolly
ki Doli doesn't make much logical
sense, but it's a fun plot. A young
woman and her family of choice
traipse around north India, gleefully
fleecing nitwits. Her entourage
includes a pandit, who helpfully picks
convenient wedding dates, and a
photographer who makes sure Dolly
is not in any wedding photos.
There's
also a fake mother, father, brother
and a grandmother who is the the
desi version of Groot. What is true
about this collection of criminal
oddballs is that they're a team and
they love each other.
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Baby review: Akshay Kumar's film is fast, entertaining but has a stpupid plot
Director Neeraj Pandey's films are a
mixture of old school Bollywood
formula, slick modern execution and
bouts of intense suspense with some
bombastic, social commentary. His
films don't have clueless id*ots with
walkie talkies pretending to be
commandoes. They have reasonably
realistic depiction of police work and
ludicrous 'holy cow that was
awesome' thrills.
His latest venture Baby is another
perfectly outlandish and white-
knuckled action thriller - a seemingly
intelligent but mindless piece of well-
oiled escapism that delivers several
crowd-pleasing moments of action
mayhem. And Pandey does it in such
style and a breakneck pace that one
can't help but enjoy the ride. Sure,
most of the plot points in Baby come
dangerously close to the utter
stupidity found in films like Holiday ,
but it's very entertaining. It's also a
rare piece of event cinema - because
how many Akshay Kumar movies turn
out to be anything besides awful?
Baby is supposedly based on real life
missions and characters, but the
disclaimer before the movie mentions
that all characters and events in the
film are fictitious. This is probably
Pandey pulling the prank that the
Coen brothers did in Fargo, but more on that later.
We're brought up to speed with the
help of a grave and grim voiceover by
Danny Denzongpa who plays Feroze
Ali Khan, the chief of a super-secret-
undercover-counter-intelligence-
rapid-action-surveillance-savvy-first
encounter-assault recon-I-spy-
antiterrorist unit named Baby.
Feroze
tells us that Baby has been the most
successful force against Pakistan-
based terrorism, and since 2008, has
dismantled several terrorist attacks in
India. The film chronicles Baby's final
mission, starring Akshay Kumar as
Ajay who's hunting down Kay Kay
Menon's Bilal Khan, an escaped
terrorist. Ajay's hunt for Bilal takes
him (and us) through seedy streets in
Bombay, the bylanes of Turkey, the
mountains of Nepal, and the desert
sands of Saudi Arabia. Also in the
mix is a nutty, India-bashing, hate-
spewing Mullah Maulana Mohammad
(played by Pakistani actor Rasheed
Naz), a not so subtle derivation of
LeT's Zaki ur Rehman Lakhwi.
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Director Neeraj Pandey's films are a
mixture of old school Bollywood
formula, slick modern execution and
bouts of intense suspense with some
bombastic, social commentary. His
films don't have clueless id*ots with
walkie talkies pretending to be
commandoes. They have reasonably
realistic depiction of police work and
ludicrous 'holy cow that was
awesome' thrills.
His latest venture Baby is another
perfectly outlandish and white-
knuckled action thriller - a seemingly
intelligent but mindless piece of well-
oiled escapism that delivers several
crowd-pleasing moments of action
mayhem. And Pandey does it in such
style and a breakneck pace that one
can't help but enjoy the ride. Sure,
most of the plot points in Baby come
dangerously close to the utter
stupidity found in films like Holiday ,
but it's very entertaining. It's also a
rare piece of event cinema - because
how many Akshay Kumar movies turn
out to be anything besides awful?
Baby is supposedly based on real life
missions and characters, but the
disclaimer before the movie mentions
that all characters and events in the
film are fictitious. This is probably
Pandey pulling the prank that the
Coen brothers did in Fargo, but more on that later.
We're brought up to speed with the
help of a grave and grim voiceover by
Danny Denzongpa who plays Feroze
Ali Khan, the chief of a super-secret-
undercover-counter-intelligence-
rapid-action-surveillance-savvy-first
encounter-assault recon-I-spy-
antiterrorist unit named Baby.
Feroze
tells us that Baby has been the most
successful force against Pakistan-
based terrorism, and since 2008, has
dismantled several terrorist attacks in
India. The film chronicles Baby's final
mission, starring Akshay Kumar as
Ajay who's hunting down Kay Kay
Menon's Bilal Khan, an escaped
terrorist. Ajay's hunt for Bilal takes
him (and us) through seedy streets in
Bombay, the bylanes of Turkey, the
mountains of Nepal, and the desert
sands of Saudi Arabia. Also in the
mix is a nutty, India-bashing, hate-
spewing Mullah Maulana Mohammad
(played by Pakistani actor Rasheed
Naz), a not so subtle derivation of
LeT's Zaki ur Rehman Lakhwi.
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Khamoshiyan Movie Review: Ali, Sapna, Gurmeet's KHAMOSHIYAN is a well-camouflaged horror flick!
Kabir (Ali Fazal) has been known to
run away from relationships and
people and leave work undone. He
plans to turn a new leaf and goes
back to his friend who he has let
down badly by taking advances for
writing three books but not delivered
any. He requests for another book to
be published. He has also come back
with the advances he had taken
earlier.
He wants to start life afresh after the
heady success of his first book. But
as luck would have it, when he goes
to Kashmir, in search of solitude to
write his book, he comes across
Meera (Sapna Pabbi) who is almost
morose. She runs the guest house
and he is the only traveller here after
a long time.
Soon, eerie things begin to happen
and instead of running away to the
safety of his home, Kabir, is
determined that this time he will
fight it out, because he has fallen in
love with Meera and now wants to
find out what the matter is with her
and help her.
KHAMOSHIYAN is a pleasant horror
flick with just the hint of a love story.
I say pleasant because first time
director Karan Darra has you jumping
out of your comfort zone with
genuine scenes that can be termed
as 'horrifying' or 'scary'.
And even though the plot does not
unravel to a nicety, the scenes do
hold together. Gurmeet Choudhary,
who makes his debut, belts out a
good role playing the villain to
precision. He injects that required
amount of calculated coldness into
his act.
Ali Fazal is soon turning out to be
getting into his own. The actor who
was last seen opposite Vidya Balan in
BOBBY JASOOS essays well the
confused character of Kabir who is
always on the run. Sapna too, comes
up with a convincing performance of
someone who has been dealt the
wrong card.
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Kabir (Ali Fazal) has been known to
run away from relationships and
people and leave work undone. He
plans to turn a new leaf and goes
back to his friend who he has let
down badly by taking advances for
writing three books but not delivered
any. He requests for another book to
be published. He has also come back
with the advances he had taken
earlier.
He wants to start life afresh after the
heady success of his first book. But
as luck would have it, when he goes
to Kashmir, in search of solitude to
write his book, he comes across
Meera (Sapna Pabbi) who is almost
morose. She runs the guest house
and he is the only traveller here after
a long time.
Soon, eerie things begin to happen
and instead of running away to the
safety of his home, Kabir, is
determined that this time he will
fight it out, because he has fallen in
love with Meera and now wants to
find out what the matter is with her
and help her.
KHAMOSHIYAN is a pleasant horror
flick with just the hint of a love story.
I say pleasant because first time
director Karan Darra has you jumping
out of your comfort zone with
genuine scenes that can be termed
as 'horrifying' or 'scary'.
And even though the plot does not
unravel to a nicety, the scenes do
hold together. Gurmeet Choudhary,
who makes his debut, belts out a
good role playing the villain to
precision. He injects that required
amount of calculated coldness into
his act.
Ali Fazal is soon turning out to be
getting into his own. The actor who
was last seen opposite Vidya Balan in
BOBBY JASOOS essays well the
confused character of Kabir who is
always on the run. Sapna too, comes
up with a convincing performance of
someone who has been dealt the
wrong card.
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Rahasya Movie Review: This one's a no brainer!
There's an urgency in RAHASYA that's
hard to define or comprehend.
Manish Gupta, the director, seems to
be batting like an out-of-form Yusuf
Pathan in a T-20 match, trying to hit
everything out of the boundary line,
missing every delivery.
Right from the first scene till the
last, the acting is almost plastic; you
can feel the dent as you keep your
thumb over it!
The police officer who comes into
the house of Dr Sachin and Aarti
Mahajan after their daughter has
been found dead behaves like he
owns the universe. He questions the
parents and those around in a rude,
arrogant manner. This is ridiculous.
Insane!
From here, what else can you
expect? But you do hope that with
performers like Kay Kay Menon and
Ashish Vidyarthi, things will look up.
It gets even worse, as Ashish appears
lost in his role, with no sufficient
inputs as to how to behave, while
Menon is given a small tiffin by
Gupta with walnuts in it. He has to
keep munching on it to keep his
sanity alive and remember his lines.
These are good for the brain, you
see!
Thanks to these brainy dry fruits,
Menon, who plays the CBI chief, is
able to solve the murder mystery.
This one's a no brainer!
Rating : 1/5
SarfaRaZ
There's an urgency in RAHASYA that's
hard to define or comprehend.
Manish Gupta, the director, seems to
be batting like an out-of-form Yusuf
Pathan in a T-20 match, trying to hit
everything out of the boundary line,
missing every delivery.
Right from the first scene till the
last, the acting is almost plastic; you
can feel the dent as you keep your
thumb over it!
The police officer who comes into
the house of Dr Sachin and Aarti
Mahajan after their daughter has
been found dead behaves like he
owns the universe. He questions the
parents and those around in a rude,
arrogant manner. This is ridiculous.
Insane!
From here, what else can you
expect? But you do hope that with
performers like Kay Kay Menon and
Ashish Vidyarthi, things will look up.
It gets even worse, as Ashish appears
lost in his role, with no sufficient
inputs as to how to behave, while
Menon is given a small tiffin by
Gupta with walnuts in it. He has to
keep munching on it to keep his
sanity alive and remember his lines.
These are good for the brain, you
see!
Thanks to these brainy dry fruits,
Menon, who plays the CBI chief, is
able to solve the murder mystery.
This one's a no brainer!
Rating : 1/5
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HAWAIZAADA Movie Review: Well shot & production designed but boring
This Indian filmmaker, like the
British and the Europeans, seems to
know the art and commerce of
making a low-cost period drama.
HAWAIZAADA is an example of how
you can make a historical film
without spending a fortune. It’s a
well shot and production designed
musical heavily inspired by Broadway
productions just the way Sanjay Leela
Bhansali’s films are. This proves to
be the undoing of the film, making it
obviously stagy and thus boring.
The film is set in the state of
Bombay of 1895 and is based on the
life and time of Shivkar Bapuji
Talpade a.k.a Shivi (Ayushmann
Khurrana). He is a kind of school
dropout, comes from a family of rich
zamindaars , and is a misfit genius.
His father disowns him for his
wayward unconventional ways. He
falls in love with a courtesan and
‘Tamasha’ artiste called Sitara (Pallavi
Sharda) and wants to marry her. She
too likes him but does not consider
herself fit to be his wife and leaves
him after a brief courtship.
A devastated Talpade takes to
drinking but a geeky and nerdy
scientist and inventor Pandit
Subbaraya Shastry (Mithun
Chakraborty) saves him from ruin,
and provides him with a reason to
live. He is developing an airplane,
the first one in the history of the
world, based on some ancient text
and drawings on avionics culled out
from one of the Vedas. The British
regime thinks Shastry is a
revolutionary and is into making
bombs. Shastry-Talpade combo
succeeds in developing a working
prototype with financial help from
the king of Baroda. They also give a
public demo of it. The experiment is
not fully successful. In the meantime
Sitara returns to Bombay. Shivi sells
the valuable treaties of Shastry Ji to
the British officer to have money to
pay off Sitara’s debt. The heart
broken Shastry dies and Shivi can
only redeem himself by making the
dream of his mentor, of inventing
the first manned flight, come true.
The basic ‘operatic’ structure and
mise-en-scène of the film makes it
look more like a fantasy than the
recreation of historical reality. The
filmmakers have used up all their
creative energies in decorating the
frames, filling it with artifacts and
props and stagy, over-dramatic,
caricaturish, and colorful characters.
The screenplay fails to identify and
develop the key scenes from
storytelling perspective.
Read More Here :- | SarfaRaZ
This Indian filmmaker, like the
British and the Europeans, seems to
know the art and commerce of
making a low-cost period drama.
HAWAIZAADA is an example of how
you can make a historical film
without spending a fortune. It’s a
well shot and production designed
musical heavily inspired by Broadway
productions just the way Sanjay Leela
Bhansali’s films are. This proves to
be the undoing of the film, making it
obviously stagy and thus boring.
The film is set in the state of
Bombay of 1895 and is based on the
life and time of Shivkar Bapuji
Talpade a.k.a Shivi (Ayushmann
Khurrana). He is a kind of school
dropout, comes from a family of rich
zamindaars , and is a misfit genius.
His father disowns him for his
wayward unconventional ways. He
falls in love with a courtesan and
‘Tamasha’ artiste called Sitara (Pallavi
Sharda) and wants to marry her. She
too likes him but does not consider
herself fit to be his wife and leaves
him after a brief courtship.
A devastated Talpade takes to
drinking but a geeky and nerdy
scientist and inventor Pandit
Subbaraya Shastry (Mithun
Chakraborty) saves him from ruin,
and provides him with a reason to
live. He is developing an airplane,
the first one in the history of the
world, based on some ancient text
and drawings on avionics culled out
from one of the Vedas. The British
regime thinks Shastry is a
revolutionary and is into making
bombs. Shastry-Talpade combo
succeeds in developing a working
prototype with financial help from
the king of Baroda. They also give a
public demo of it. The experiment is
not fully successful. In the meantime
Sitara returns to Bombay. Shivi sells
the valuable treaties of Shastry Ji to
the British officer to have money to
pay off Sitara’s debt. The heart
broken Shastry dies and Shivi can
only redeem himself by making the
dream of his mentor, of inventing
the first manned flight, come true.
The basic ‘operatic’ structure and
mise-en-scène of the film makes it
look more like a fantasy than the
recreation of historical reality. The
filmmakers have used up all their
creative energies in decorating the
frames, filling it with artifacts and
props and stagy, over-dramatic,
caricaturish, and colorful characters.
The screenplay fails to identify and
develop the key scenes from
storytelling perspective.
Read More Here :- | SarfaRaZ
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