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Assassins Creed movie review
Assassins Creed is a very popular video game which the legions of true gamers will vouch for the thrills they got playing it. Therefore it was but natural that it be turned into a big movie franchise, the idea though exciting left a lot to be desired from this movie enterprise which already holds a brand equity amongst the young. The basic premise is about the Apple of Eden which has been lost for five centuries and is the cuss point between the secret societies of The Templars and the highly trained, combative and sworn to their lives, the Assassin Creed. This war between these two factions has been going on for centuries as the The templars want to unleash the power of the Apple of Eden which contains the Genetic code for finishing the free will of the masses thus enslaving them. Cut to mordern day USA where a young Cal Lynch (Michael Fassbender - impressive and has come lo ....
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A Scandall, hindi movie review
Its trailer is thrilling, the film A Scandall is promising and gripping be that as it may the feature film tends to stray at leisure pace several times. What if a father who finds himself guilty for the death of his daughter, starts relating with her in day to day situations? Is he actually seeing her dead daughter or is it his way of dealing with his personal tragedy? What if a planchette session meant to invoke sprits brings out skeletons from past instead? A Scandall begins with a happy family of Manav (Manav Kaul) and his wife Anshu (Tanvi Vyas) leading a peaceful, content life at the scenic hillstation Nainital with their 9 year old daughter Kuhu, who drowns in a lake in Nainital. Soon after this incident, her father, Manav falls off a cliff but lives on to lead a strange life of hallucinations and complete metamorphosis. Eventhough it appears that the couple's life is a ....
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Airlift, hindi movie review
Airlift is about the plight of 170000 Indians stuck in Kuwait when Iraq's President Saddam Hussein attacked and annexed Kuwait. It is about one person's true grit of helping his countrymen escape from a hopeless situation in the war zone. Ranjit Katyal(Akshay Kumar) is a go-getter and ace negotiator, he hobnobs with the powers that be of Kuwait Royal family and feels and believes himself to be a Kuwaiti then an Indian. He lives a lavish life with his wife Amrita (Nimrit Kaur - pleasing) and his daughter. All this changes overnight as Iraq invades Kuwait and all his contacts in the royal family have fleed leaving the country to the Iraqi army. He is desperate to leave the country but the General in charge of Kuwait demands 100000 dollars, mean time seeing the plight of the people of Indian origin in his office and their relatives who have taken refuge in his office he has a ch ....
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A Decent Arrangement
Ashok Khosla, an NRI bachelor has decided to give a try to the arranged marriage concept. A decent Arrangement movie review... A Decent Arrangement is the story of Ashok Khosla, an Indian-American copywriter who journeys to India seeking an arranged marriage. The story revolves around a 30 something American-born Desi man Ashok (Laupus) who comes to India in search of a bride. A Decent Arrangement starts with the pivotal character - this NRI man using various modes of transport to reach the house of his older cousin (Shabana Azmi), who has taken interest in finding a desi girl for her brother. As his parents find him unsettled in life, Ashok is shown as a confused character who feels excited at the idea of arranged marriage, yet wants a life partner who could be comfortable with the life back in the USA. He more at ease with discussing the proposals with his neice (Shreya Sha ....
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Ankhon Dekhi
He believes only what he sees with his own eyes and negate everythine else which he hasn't seen or experienced. It is a story of a man who begins to think philosophically and feels within himself the reality of life of seeing and believing in those things which normally an average man wouldn't think of treading into finding realisim in several 'minute' issues like hearing the roar of a tiger, flying like a bird... Raje Bauji (Sanjay Mishra} is a man in his late fifties, living out a dreary but eventful life in a small house in old Delhi- where he lives with his extended family. An executive in a travel agency, head of his family lives a typical middle class, happy, content life with his younger brother's family. A random incident is going to change his life in a dramatic way, though he does not realize at the moment. Bauji’s daughter has been seeing a boy of ill repute. W ....
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This action film has it all – cops, goons, underworld twins, all the bollywood masala sprinkled with bombastic dialogues. It is a story of a family of Policemen... and a family of Gangsters. Atul Sabharwal's debut directorial feature has a strong lineup of talented stars like Rishi Kapoor, Jackie Shroff, Sikandar Kher, Amrita Singh, Deepti Naval, Tanvi Azmi, Swara Bhaskar and it also happens to be a launch pad for Sasha Aagha (Salma Agha’s daughter). Arjun Kapoor of Ishaqzaade fame plays a double role. The police have been fruitlessly pursuing the idea to nail a Gurgaon real estate kingpin Yashvardhan (Jackie Shroff). There isn’t enough evidence to nab him. Yashvardhan's son is Ajay (Arjun Kapoor), a gangster whose lust for power knows no bounds. Top cop Ravikant (Rishi Kapoor) stumbles upon a secret about Yashvardhan and comes up with a strategy where Ajay is captured. Th ....
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This romantic musical drama Aashiqui 2 is a sequel to the 1990 blockbuster – Aashiqui. Directed by Mohit Suri there is no continuity or resemblance to the 1990 film. Aditya Roy Kapoor and Shraddha Kapoor play the roles of Rahul and Arohi respectively. They have a common passion, it is their love for music. The film also explores the ups and downs of their romantic relationship, which grind through twists and turns, success and failure in their professional and personal lives. Rahul Jaikar (Aditya) is a popular singer. He is talented, hardworking and successful. He is addicted to alcohol, and this addiction leads to his downfall. It begins with a spiteful moment of drunken revelry at his concert in Goa, that Rahul leaves his show midway, and in a feeling of low self morale, drowns himself guzzling alcohol. It is late in the night, and he still desires for more alcohol, so he l ....
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A haunting journey of a single mother Maya Verma who finally starts her life afresh with her six year old daughter Nia in the film Aatma. Aatma is the story of a woman forced to face her fears and fight against a force over which she has no control and her biggest enemy is her own mind. Abhay (Nawazuddin Siddique) is a psychotic husband who at every given opportunity, abuses and harasses his wife Maya (Bipasha Basu). He even suspects his wife of having an affair with her office colleague. For Maya, her life has become a hell, and then she decides to get separated. Now comes the problem, the couple’s divorce is fine, but it is their subsequent fight over their daughter, Nia’s (Doyel) custody which sets out bitterness between them. The magistrate orders Maya to have custody of the child as the husband is found to be a psychotic person. As Maya starts to pick up the pieces o ....
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With the Russian underworld in pursuit, and battling a countdown to war, the two McClanes discover their opposing methods make them unstoppable heroes. A Good Day to Die Hard movie review... This is the fifth in the series of the action films Die Hard which began with Die Hard in 1988. In all the four previous films John McClane (portrayed by Bruce Willis), is a New York City police detective who finds himself fighting a group of terrorists. Bruce Willis is back as John McClane, an iconoclastic, take-no-prisoners cop, who for the first time finds himself on foreign soil after traveling to Moscow to help his wayward son Jack (Jai Courtney) – unaware that his son is really a highly-trained CIA operative out to stop a nuclear weapons heist. A high-ranking corrupt Russian officer in Moscow, Viktor Chagarin (Sergei Kolesnikov), plans on incriminating a political prisoner, a gov ....
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ABCD - Anybody Can Dance is a dance movie to release in 3D format in India. ABCD Any Body Can Dance is directed by Remo D'Souza who is a choreographer himself, it stars Prabhu Deva and Ganesh Acharya in lead roles. It is produced by Siddharth Roy Kapur and it provides an opportunity by giving a break in bollywood films to participants of Dance India Dance Competition. It is the story of Vishnu (Prabhudeva), a choreographer with an established dance academy headed by Jehangir (Kay Kay). There is a clash of their ideologies as on one hand Jehangir's focus is solely on trophies and the TRPs, while the dance teacher sticks to the basics of that of opting for 'performance' rather than packaging. Vishnu is ousted by this ambitious chief who has a yearning for the rich and elite students. Jehangir gives an upper hand to rich social status and material wealth of his students, rather than t ....
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