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Kadhipatta – Marathi movie review

The film Kadhipatta can be described as a beautiful, heartfelt, and wholesome as well as extremely modern love story that is suitable for family viewing, with some reviewers even setting out to call it a must-watch. The movie, a modern couple love story, appears to resonate with audiences of all ages and is considered suitable for a family theatre outing. Kadhipatta is a romantic drama with a 'bittersweet love story' theme that explores a relationship with ups and downs. The story follows a couple's journey as they navigate their disagreements and unexpected circumstances, discovering hidden truths and the impact of unspoken affection on their connection. Basically, the film revolves around a feuding couple living together who discover unexpected warmth and a hidden act of love amongst themselves that sets out to transform their relationship, all woven through family life and day t ....
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Nishaanchi – movie review

Anurag Kashyap is back with a handful of his favourite actors Kumud Mishra, Monika Panwar and Mohammed Zeeshan Ayyub with the young ones Aaishvary Thackeray, Vedika Pinto and Monika Panwar. Nishaanchi marks Kashyap’s return to his recognizable grind, this time contending with a new ensemble while preserving his signature blend of grit and dark humor. The film glints in places, yet certain stretches linger and slow the pace. If you can overlook the drag, the performances and Kashyap’s keen eye for detail elevate the viewing, making it a worthwhile watch. It is almost a decade and a half that Anurag had come up with Gangs of Wasseypur which too was a gangster drama. He had bound a neat narrative for Nishaanchi. In 2006, the incident of burst of bank robberies involving 3 persons. There are twins and their girlfriend. Piyush Mishra is the inspector Kamal Ajmal. A story of twin ....
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Kuberaa – movie review

Kuberaa marks the first-ever collaboration between National Award-winning actor Dhanush and acclaimed filmmaker Sekhar Kammula. Without diving into too much detail, the film Kuberaa sets out to trace how a destitute man is drawn into the world of the ultra-rich before he rises to the occasion and begins to control the game. This trope is familiar territory in cinema, and while the writer-director uses it to his advantage, he also succeeds to refrain successfully from going overboard with Deva’s (Dhanush) heroism. Kuberaa, alias Deepak Nagarjuna) who is essentially a nice sleuth from CBI is forced to turn a high-level fixer for a corporate conglomerate (run by Jim Sarbh( Neeraj Mithra) and his father (Dalip Tahil), while Mandanna plays Sameera, a commoner girl (comically) dealing with life’s many struggles. Kuberaa understands the importance of these archetypes, but also takes care ....
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Kapkapiii – movie review

A group of jobless boys begin dabbling with an Ouija board just for kicks. At first, it’s all fun and games — until strange eerie events start to unfold. What begins as harmless mischief soon spirals into chaos, turning their lives literally upside down. By the way, Kapkapiii is a Hindi remake of the 2023 Malayalam horror-comedy Romancham, a story that talks about blind faith, and a rather unknown disease. Manu (Shreyas Talpade) and his friends Achyut (Dinker Sharma), Nanku (Jay Thakkar), Nirup (Varun Pande) and others are a bunch of nobodies sharing a room and doing all the aimless things out-of-work boys usually do. Things get mildly exciting when two young girls — Kavya (Siddhi Idnani) and Madhu (Sonia Rathee) — move in next door. However, when romance seems like a possibility, the otherwise story takes a sharp, spooky turn when Manu brings home an Ouija board. The film ....
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Krispy Rishtey – movie review

Karan (Jagat Singh) gives in to his father's wishes, breaking up with his childhood crush Natasha (Manmeet Kaur) and gets married to Anjali (Diljott) who is a traditional Indian family cultured girl who is committed to her husband. Yet Karan isn't attached to her and continues his lovey-dovey rendezvous with his childhood crush Natasha, a wild romantic girl. That's Krispy Rishtey for you. Things get complicated and messy when Vinod (Ronit Kapill) an old admirer of Anjali comes back into her life to pacify the homely girl and this results into a complex love quadrangle. Commitment to marriage, relationships, trust and sacrifice form the core of this breezy love story which positions itself in a bit different league in comparison to zillions of love stories in Bollywood. Taking back one's memories of 90s when films used to have 10-15 songs, Krispy Rishtey is laden with 15 songs wi ....
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Khel Khel Mein – movie review

As our lives get password protected with smartphones emerging as the third inclusive as well as encompassing person in the bedroom, relationships are getting knottier than before. In 2016, Italian filmmaker Paolo Genovese tracked the havoc smartphones can create in matrimony to create the comedy-drama Perfetti Sconosciut (Perfect Strangers). The film Khel Khel Mein is based on the same premise.. An interesting game begins when friends gather at night and it takes a dramatic turn when they agree to keep their phones unlocked, sharing every text and call publicly. One by one, their hidden secrets spill out, dynamics shift, and in short, lives are forever changed. Rishabh's (Akshay Kumar) Casanova personality, Kabir's (Fardeen Khan) personal struggles, Happy (Taapsee Pannu) and Harpreet's (Ammy Virk) marital issues, and Naina (Pragya Jaiswal) and Samar's (Aditya Seal) dark past tumble ou ....
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Khela Hobe – movie review

Khela Hobe is thriller that is directed by Sunil C Sinha, that begins as a drama which turns into a thriller when a single woman Shabbo (Mughda Godse) who avenges the atrocities imposed upon her family by the village Thakur. This could probably be the last film that veteran actor Om Puri has been featured and it has the glam girl Mughda Godse playing the simple woman small town, yet in a pivotal character in the story. Khela Hobe is set in a small town in Benaras and is all about the patriarchial society that still exists in several part of the interiors of our country. The narrow mindset of the locals, their attitude about the single woman Shabbo who runs a Beauty parlour and the superficial family values intertwined along with the hollow relationship of the locals and the powerful in this sleepy town are portrayed in this drama. Given an opportunity, the single woman Shabbo wh ....
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Kaho Naa… Pyaar Hai (2000)

The year was 2000 the beginning of a new millennium, this after the world had overcome the threat to its computers due to the Y2K bug. This was the year of the newcomers and rightly so as Hrithik Roshan burst on the scene like a breath of fresh air along with the very beautiful and elegant Amisha Patel in Kaho Naa Pyaar Hai. Produced and Directed by Rakesh Roshan, Kaho Naa Pyaar Hai was a launch vehicle for his son after Shah Rukh had refused the role due to dates issue, what a debut it was and rest is history. Kaho Naa Pyaar Hai was a lethal combo of a grand entry of Hrithik that too in a double role, alongwith a fantastic story and a seasoned supporting cast thus breaking all records in its stride. It was the second biggest grosser of the year behind the eponymous Mohabbatein, Yash Chopra's re-launch vehicle of none other than the Big B. Such was the adulation for KNPH that it e ....
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Khuda Hafiz – movie review

Khuda Hafiz is said to be based on or inspired by true events, also has shades of Liam Neeson's Taken. What were the true events - we were not able to verify. The story of a newly married Indian techie who loses his job in the aftermath of 2008 great Wall Street crash. As both husband wife are without job, though living with their family, Sameer (Vidhut Jamwwal- stone man expressions but great action) doesn't want to loiter around and after a three month of search lands at a seedy agent Nadeem's (Vipin Sharma) doorstep who promises the couple a first class job but the wife Nargis (Shivaleeka Oberoi- looks quite like a middle eastern beauty--period) needs to go first to some nondescript middle eastern country named Noman (rather a no man's land), with Sameer to join later. It so happens that the sex starved country recruits unassuming people for flesh trade, Nargis is caugh ....
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KISMET (1943)

This was the first blockbuster hit in the thirty year young Hindi Film Cinema at that time that Ashok Kumar's Kismet first to cross the threshold of Rupees One Crore an unheard of figure for film collection in that era. A record that was broken by Raj Kapoor’s ‘Barsaat’ a few years down the line. If one adjusts that for inflation and take gold as the standard for inflation then that amount would work out to a whooping Rs.1000 crores today (gold rate was Rs.51 per 10 grams in 1943 vs today’s rate of 51k per 10 grams). Kismet was also the first movie to show the hero with negative attributes like continuous smoking, drinking, gambling and of course robbery. The issue of unwed mother was also touched upon, despite these factors which had a shock value in a pre-independence conservative India, the movie still did roaring business and ran for over three years in a single talkies in ....
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