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Badlapur - Hindi movie review
A dark thriller with its unique story telling approach gathering momentum with its pace, BADLAPUR has its magnificent camera work and superlative performances from Varun Dhawan, Nawazuddin Siddiqui and Huma Qureshi. Yet another spine-chiller from Sriram Raghavan who earlier made a notable revenge drama - Ek Hasina Thi (2004) and an out-and-out thriller - Johnny Gaddaar (2007). Badlapur doesn't preach, has no message, it is just a plain thriller which has an unpredictable ending. Raghu's (Varun Dhawan) turns upside down when his wife Misha (Yami Gautam) and son Robin are shot dead (un-intentionally) by the thieves during a bank heist and who ultimately escape. One of them Liak (Nawazuddin Siddiqui) is apprehended by the police, but doesn't reveal the identity of his fellow mate, mentioning that it was the other person who shot the innocent at the bank. Liak claims that he hardly ....
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Nightcrawler, Hollywood film
An engrossing thriller about an unemployed, part time thief who rises to become an owner of the most competitive business in the American television industry. Every night, while the city sleeps, motley crews armed with fast cars, expensive video cameras and blaring police radios prowl the sprawling Los Angeles basin in search of a story. These freelance stringers, known as nightcrawlers, hunt for crashes, fires, murder and other mayhem in hopes of selling the footage to local TV news. Pin-balling from one police scene to the next, they are driven by a simple equation that converts crime and victims into dollars and cents. An unemployed man Loius Bloom (Jake Gyllenhaal) turns a petty thief stealing wire meshes and other metal scrap which he sells at half the price. This thief has the inclination to turn ethical in life. But who would give a job to a thief? Driving around the streets la ....
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Raja Natwarlal Movie Review
Emraan Hashmi is back in a character as a street smart conman which he played in Jannat and Jannat 2. His recent ones Ghanchakkar and Ek Thi Daayan were a complete departure from the commercial Emraan Hashmi films. They were for the niche audience. Raja (Emraan Hashmi) makes money tricking people in the Three Card Monte. He is aided by his friend Raghav (Deepak Tijori), who solicits 'targets' and induces them to bet bigger. Part of the money is used for helping kids to pay their school fees. Balance of the amount is 'blown' up on Ziya (Humaima Malick) in a dance bar. Raghav has brought him up in life and treated Raja like his younger brother. Raja's greed to make a quick buck lands him in a mess while trying their hand in a 'bada daav' (big game). Despite, Raghav's caution and warning that big money means big risk, Raja insists that they go ahead and rob a target of Rs 80 lakhs in a '4 ....
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Bollywood Villa
A dark thriller set in the backdrop of the Hindi film industry, well known as Bollywood. The movie tries to expose the film industry’s weaknesses but does so in a typical “Masala Manner” Bollywood Villa has Dillzan Wadia, Sonam Arora, Aroon Bakshi & Mushtaq Khan in pivotal roles and also features two special appearances by Christie Bourcq, winner of Miss Paris Adorable & Liza Brown, winner of Miss Best Smile Ukraine. This film, produced under the banner of Durgesh Paul Productions, is a crime suspense movie which revolves around the inexplicable murders during the shooting of a movie. And as the movie progresses, the story unfolds and so does the suspense. It begins with the first day of the shooting where the death of the lead actor leaves everyone on the sets confused and traumatized. The movie unfolds into a series of murders from here on. Slowly, steadily the c ....
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Ek Villain Film Review
An action-romance film directed by Mohit Suri featuring Sidharth Malhotra, Riteish Deshmukh and Shraddha Kapoor as the pivotal characters in this violent film apparently based on a Korean film. (Ek Villain - Film Review) Guru (Sidharth Malhotra) is a quiet, tough and ruthless boy, working for a local don, Prahlad. Guru has a dark past and its disturbing, recurring memories refuse to let Guru lead a normal life day in and day out. While being interrogated at the Police station, he gets the first glimpse of a sweet looking girl, Aisha (Shraddha Kapoor) and more than him it is Aisha who is intrigued, impressed with his persona. Aisha is the talkative, ‘ek joke sunoge’ types (which is a bit too much to bear at times). Aisha persuades him to do a favour for her, and in the process, he realises the happiness and joy of doing something good for other. He falls in love with her, his ....
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Tum Ho Yaara Film Review
Shiva (Ganesh Venkatraman) is a software engineer, in love with medical student Meera (Shobana). Meera’s Father Rajaraman (Thirumudi) is a don who taken law in his hands to provide justice. Tum Ho Yaara is a love triangle-cum-thriller starring Ganesh Venkatraman, Kalpana Pandit & Shobana, directed by Natty Kumar & Dr. Jay while J. Shiva is a witness to a crime, which he comes to know that his girl friend's father is the perpetrator. Shiva is planning to go to the US for bright prospects and so Meera is keen that before he departs, Shiva should meet her father and ask for her hand. On meeting the girl's father, Shiva instantly recognizes Rajaraman, who does not like Shiva. Taking advantage of the fact that Shiva is in love with his daughter, the father challenges Shiva saying that once he is in the US, he will forget Meera after 2 years since he would not be having any contac ....
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Godzilla
A thrilling 3 D action film featuring a fully computer-generated Godzilla. An impressive attempt to revive Godzilla who is shown battling the monsters and saving the mankind from a catastrophic destruction. The world’s most revered monster is reborn as Warner Bros. Pictures and Legendary Pictures unleash the epic action adventure, directed by Gareth Edwards. In 1999, scientists detect siesmic activities the Janjira Nuclear Plant near Tokyo, Japan. Plant supervisor Joe Brody (Bryan Cranston) sends his wife Sandra (Juliette Binoche) and a team into the core to look for damage. There is a sudden explosion in the plant and a radiation leak. Sandra and her team are not able to escape, and the plant collapses into ruin. The disaster, attributed to an earthquake, results in the evacuation and quarantine of the Janjira area. Fifteen years later, Joe's son Ford (Aaron Taylor-John ....
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Samrat & Co.
It’s a dark night, a car winding its way up the hilly roads of Shimla, reaches its destination at the sprawling Mahendra Mansion. Mahendra Pratap Singh is about to retire for the night, suddenly the phone rings. This sets in motion for a series of engrossing, edge of the seat moments in this crime-detective thriller. There’s a tribute paid upfront to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator of Sherlock Holmes. One of Bollywood’s finest whodunit detective thrillers in recent few years. Trees are drying out, the flowery plants are on a depletion mode and so is the owner Mahendra Pratap Singh who too, is on a deterioration state of health, so much so that he is shown jerking up even at the telephone bell ringing. A young, beautiful and rich girl, Dimpy Singh (Madalsa Sharma), approaches Samrat Tilakdhari (Rajeev Khandelwal), a private investigat ....
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Non Stop
Liam Neeson plays Bill Marks, a U.S. Air Marshal in this suspense thriller played out at 40,000 feet in the air. During a transatlantic fight from New York City to London, Marks receives a series of cryptic text messages demanding that he instruct the airline to transfer $150 million into a numbered account. Until he secures the money, a passenger on his fight will be killed every 20 minutes. Struggling with his personal demons has drained Marks of any passion for the heroic calling of his profession. He has come to view his important assignment as merely a desk job in the sky. However, another day at the offce becomes a high-stakes crisis when shortly into a routine transatlantic fight, Marks’ world is upended. Surrounded by only a couple of people he initially believes are trustworthy—including his fellow passenger, Jen Summers (Golden Globe Award winner JULIANNE MOORE of The ....
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The Monuments Men
An action thriller about the greatest treasure hunt in history, based on the true story of World War II. The Allied forces have over powered the Nazis and are making good progress driving back the Axis powers in Italy. The Monuments Men is an action-thriller focusing on an unlikely World War II platoon, tasked by FDR with going into Germany to rescue artistic masterpieces from Nazi thieves and returning them to their rightful owners. Frank Stokes (George Clooney) is directed to assemble an Army unit nicknamed the "Monuments Men" comprising musuem directors, curators, art historians and an acrhitect too. Victory will have little meaning if the art treasures of Western civilization are lost in the fighting, either as collateral damage in combat or looted. The mission of this group is to minimize that threat by searching for stolen art and return it to the rightful owners. It would be ....
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