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NEWTON – Hindi movie review

A political satire, black-comedy that has been widely appreciated across several international film festivals is all about a day in the lives of election officials while conducting elections in the interiors of Chattisgarh state. Newton Kumar (Rajkummar Rao) is a presiding officer solely in charge of supervising the conduction of elections in the notorious troubled place. Newton follows the election commission manual strictly and primarily wants the electorate to come out and vote for the candidate of their choice. He has made up his mind to encourage as many voters to come out of their homes and cast their vote, one of the biggest pillars in a democracy. Newton faces an uphill task with other officials around him who are not keen on encouraging the tribals to cast their vote. There is an armed officer (Pankaj Tripathi) who happens to be the secutiry incharge for providing security t ....
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Thodi Thodi Si Manmaaniyan – movie review

Youth, music competition, rock band, street plays and the inner desire of today's youth to bring a change in the society. This sums up the gist of this breezy youthful drama.

One cannot tag it as a romantic drama as the director has skillfully and very realistically displayed the growing bond between Siddharth and Neha, which is usually rare in the present Genre of Bollywood flicks.

There is nothing over the top nor any larger than life characters. Just a simple story of Siddharth (Arsh Sehrawat), a young boy who is brought up by his single mother with dreams of settling abroad.

Like any other youth of his age, he is following the herd mentality of going abroad for further studies after his graduation in India. When will our Indians wake up and realise that we have best of the educational i ....
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Beiimaan Love – movie review

The Musical Thriller Beiimaan Love is the tale of a powerful business magnate who reaches the top after she is betrayed in love. Sunaina(Sunny Leone) is a beauty with brains who is a modern day woman and ambitious in terms of her career.She was unaware of the fact that she would end up slapping her boss's son Raj Malhotra (Rajniesh Duggall) when he misbehaves with her at a party. Raj is pleasantly surprised when he comes to know that Sunaina works in his office KK Exports as Business Development Manager.However, what follows in an intriguing discovery of love and deceit. Beiimaan Love is surprisingly a 'Sanskari'clean Sunny Leone film with family and corporate backdrop. Sunny Leone who is famous with single screen masses with her oomph and skin show has done a drastically different and less glamourised dignified role in Beiimaan love. She plays the role of a young, ambitious, ....
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PINK – Hindi movie review

Can't a working girl have a drink and dinner with her friends? What about those girls who stay independently, have a career and once in a while indulge in partying with their friends? PINK movie review... Surely, there is a drift towards the thinking of society towards independent minded girls. It is evident in the metros. Yet, a section of the feudal society still labels them as 'characterless girls'. Shoojit Sircar's PINK, a social thriller film depicts the story of three girls who share an apartment in Delhi. They are career minded professionals, the modern age females. National Award winning director Aniruddha Roy Chowdhury narrates the story of three Delhi-based girls, and a yesteryear's’ big league lawyer, and how their paths cross. The film also explores the dubious morals of today’s times. Amitabh Bachchan with Taapsee Pannu, Kirti Kulhari and Andrea Taring as th ....
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Waarrior Savitri – movie review

Niharica Raizada's action scenes are the highlights of this film which is a modern-day adaption of the fable in the Mahabharata about Satyavan Savitri. The fable says that Savitri is cursed since her childhood that whoever she marries, her husband would die. Defying destiny, Savitri undertakes various tough 'vrats' and emerges successful in dodging Yamraj (Lord of Death) eventually managing to evade her husband's death and the couple lead a happy mortal life thereafter. Waarrior Savitri is written and directed by Param Gill. The film stars the debutante Niharica Raizada, grand daughter of legendary music composer O P Nayyar and Rajat Barmecha of 'Udaan' fame who plays Satya (Satyavan) supported by veteran actors Om Puri who plays Yamraj and Gulshan Grover. Since her childhood, this girl Savitri is cursed that she won't have a happy married life with her husband who would die after ....
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Murari The Mad Gentleman – movie review

Superstition exists even today in the interiors of India. Murari the Mad Gentleman is an honest effort to showcase the blind beliefs of village people which can be detrimental to the honest efforts of straight forward persons and in this case the troubles caused to a happy go lucky man who hasn't brought any harm to anyone in the village, yet he has to face the wrath of people and made to suffer. The film hits hard on the superstitions present in the society through the comical situations in the life of a mental patient, based on things going on in Bihar rural areas. India’s rural states like Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and some rural states beliefs blindly exist without any research on superstitions are passed down from generation to generation. These faiths have sprung with an objective to protect from evil spirit, but in this story a character in village who is named as a 'mad per ....
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Bollywood Diaries – movie review

A tribute to passionate aspiring actors that chronicles the journey of three unrelated souls, who dream to make it big in Bollywood. The plot encompasses a guy working at a call-centre in Delhi, a middle-aged government servant from Bhilai and a sex worker from Sonagachi Kolkata. Vishnu Srivastava a 52 year old man wants to go to Mumbai to become an actor. All his life he has been an ideal husband, loving father who has just married off his only daughter and realizes that the time has come to fulfill his long, long cherished dreams. I have taken retirement from my job... Bollywood is waiting for me. The instant reaction comes from his wife that its too late in life for him to try it out in films. Vishnu justifies his action mentioning the examples of Amrish Puri and Boman Irani who were well past their 40s when they entered Bollywood. This was the extent of Vishnu Srivastava. The ....
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Bajirao Mastani – movie review

A masterpiece of love, and war, exploring the romantic side of a 18th-century Maratha general, Bajirao Ballal Bhat, a brahmin by birth and who fought and won 41 battles at a stretch against the Mughals with an aim to create a unified Hindu kingdom across India. The glorious rule of the Peshwas, its grandeur, their culture, and the their large heartedness during those times takes us back to that era of righteous rulers which we have only learnt in our history lessons. It opens with a Maratha emperor Chhatrapati Shahu (Mahesh Manjrekar) seeking nominations for the post of the Peshwa (a Prime Ministerial candidate). The brahmin youth Bajirao (Ranveer Singh) with his superlative display of his skill and wisdom lands him the title. History has a special mention about this Peshwa's reputation as a warrior and statesman par excellence which is widely known. ....
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JAATIWAD – Hindi movie review

JAATIWAD does deliver a strong message about how our legal system time and again fails to deliver justice on time. It is an action-drama film with a message to end the communal rivalries. "JAATIWAD" which means Casteism is the centre of the story of this film which is about two groups in the College elections, which are backed by respective Political parties. These wily politicians breed the new generation of Politicians right from their college years. This brings fresh force for them at a great bargain. A new set of party workers, who are more aggressive and obedient towards their seniors. The motive behind this is to manipulate these youngsters for their political gains. Director Sabir Shaikh and Producer Anand Kumar Gupta have managed to get a solid supporting cast for JAATIWAD high on drama with really over the top dialogues. First half of JAATIWAD is stands a tense, dark, toxic ....
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TALVAR – Hindi movie review

Irrfan Khan's performance, Meghna Gulzar's direction and above all, its story and crisp screenplay by Vishal Bharadwaj makes Talvar a must watch film. Talvar explores the socio-economic divides in urban India: the affluent doctor-couple, the Uttar Pradesh policemen with their regressive mindsets and rough methods of investigation, and the migrants engaged in lowly jobs. And the procedural protocol that exists in the Police System. A high profile double murder case in 2008 in Noida, India where a 14-year old Aarushi Talwar was found murdered at her home. The suspicion pointed out to the 45 year old servant who was missing from the house. The next day his dead body was discovered in another part of the building. Now the police suspected that teenage girl's parents had murdered her with the theory that the father must have murdered the two after finding them in an 'objectionable' positio ....
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