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Hrithik, Deepika, Anil Kapoor ins Fighter
Opening with a spellbinding air stunt by Squadron Leader Shamsher Pathania (Hrithik Roshan) that instantly impresses Squadron Leader Minal Rathore (Deepika Padukone), Fighter is a compelling watch right up-to the first half. With a mesmerizing air-combat sequence that is preceded with some awesome air maneuvers by the Airforce Pilots, Siddharth Anand's directorial venture comes up to the mark in the beginning. Anil Kapoor as the Group Captain Rocky is entrusted with the task of keeping the best of India's airforce pilots to their fighting best. Fighter promises excellent production values and captivating thrills in the sky. It definitely deserves appreciation for the effort to showcase the Indian Airforce as equally comparable to its counterparts of the west. Though the filmmaker makes it clear in it's disclaimer in the beginning that the film is a work of fiction, there are severa ....
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The Family Man Season 2
The much awaited and delayed series - The Family Man Season 2 from Raj and DK which set the OTT agog last year with its Season 1 with its superior storytelling and screenplay is here on Amazon Prime in its Second Season. Though it was shot as a web series, one always felt that The Family Man was cinema. After its stupendous success people were clamoring for the sequel series and though delayed it did not disappoint. In the words of the lead man Manoj Bajpayee, 'The new season is definitely bigger and better', that about sums up what to expect from the Season 2. Season 1 dealt with Pak backed insurgency in Kashmir, what with one rogue ISI mastermind Sameer perpetrating a near annihilation of our country's capital with a gas leak. The same guy rears his head again, this time in collaboration with the Tamil rebels of Sri Lanka. Though this theme will look a bit dated because Sri Lanka ....
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Fairr in Love movie review
Being mocked and jeered by a woman's mother-in-law for not bearing a child is the core of Fairr in Love which sees the Bollywood debut of Firoz Khan, Kanupriya Sharma, Dolly Arya. Fairr in Love movie review... Alpana (Kanupriya Sharma) and Dev (Firoz Khan) are a young happily married couple whose closest friends are Lisa (Dolly Arya) and Yash (Ashwin Dhar). Dev and Yash are childhood friends with Yash treating Dev almost as close to him as his brother. Lisa is a modern, outgoing lady who is in a live-in relationship with Yash, while Alpana is comparitively conservative and culture-minded. Despite the fact that Alpana and Dev cannot have a child due to Dev's infertility, Alpana loves her husband so much that she doesn't let it be known to the others in the society. In particular she doesn't even let her mother-in-law know about Dev's problem and prefers to be an i ....
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Force - movie review
Very rarely the viewer is treated with good action in a bollywood film. Force is such a film which has logical action and each of the stunts can be reasoned out. Unlike other bollywood flicks where the hero jumps in the air, travels a long distance and then kicks multiple bad guys and then he safely lands on both his feet. Thankfully, this film is devoid of such action. Force movie review... A stylized thriller among the new wave of Indian films paying homage to the seminal Indian action genre, ‘FORCE’ combines state-of-the-art fight sequences and thrills with an original romantic narrative, delivering an abundance of on-screen energy and vigor that will have audiences gripped from the opening sequence to the end credits. Directed by the critically acclaimed, Filmfare and National Award winning Nishikant Kamat ‘FORCE’ is a contemporary action romance and a Hindi reinterpret ....
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FALTU - movie review
F.A.L.T.U. - movie review A question to begin with. Consider life as a building where you have been stranded on the ground floor while all the lift doors leading to the floors of success have been shut on your face, what would you do? Well, our Faltus would create such a basement that the floors above look cheerless and dreary. Faltu is a story of coming of age of today’s youth. They don’t choose a different path but create one. Inspired by Mr. Nek Chand the creator of the famous Rock Garden in Chandigarh the film exhibits how the discarded waste of the society when channelized smartly can create a Rock Garden and become the pride of the nation. Faltu is a story about a group of friends that are considered a total waste. The cherry on the cake being that they take pride in the fact. These hard-working back-benchers are hardly seen working. They crowd up the clubs of the town ....
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Fruit and Nut, movie review
Fruit & Nut is a spoof on India's amusing socio-political state. Therefore a film of this genre should not be taken seriously as it has plenty of slapstick Govinda-David Dhawan type silly scenes. Fruit and nut movie review... Directed by Kunal Vijaykar, Fruit and Nut is one of those films that succeed in making you giggle intermittently as it is a senseless comedy with not too amusing absurdities here and there. The story of Fruit and Nut is about Jolly Maker (Cyrus Broacha), a simple, hard working middle class bachelor in search of love, money, friends and fame. He works as an accounts clerk in a greedy and corrupt builder named Khandar’s (Mahesh Manjrekar) office. This nerd Jolly Maker is an accident-prone character who leaves a trail of disaster behind him. One day in broad daylight, Jolly Maker's beautiful, sexy, smart and snobbish colleague, Monica (Dia Mirza), gets m ....
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Fast Forward, movie review
Fast Forward is yet another attempt in Bollywood to make an out-and-out dance film like Dirty Dancing or Grease, which have been all time super hits and have enthralled millions of moviegoers the worldover. Fast Forward movie review... It is a story of a friends, whose passion is Dance and about how they struggle to keep their passion alive, in spite of the varying circumstances. For them, its celebration of freedom; freedom to breathe, freedom of space and freedom of expression. Directed by debutante Zaigham Ali Syed, Fast Forward the film has some brilliantly choreographed songs and dances. The director has put in great efforts in filming the dance numbers while losing grip on the storyline. We have a story of two friends, Rishi (Rehan Khan) and Sunny (Akshay Kapoor), who are fantastic dancers. Sunny falls in love with Rishi's sister Jeel (Bhavna Pani), only to discover she wa ....
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Frozen, movie review
Frozen is a Black and White Hindi feature film shot entirely in locations in Ladakh at about 12,000 feet above sea level where the temperature range between -5 to -20 degrees. Debutant director Shivajee Chandrabhushan. Filmed entirely in black and white, it immaculately captures the cold and unrelenting hostility of the mighty Himalayas mountain range. The story of Frozen revolves around a small family living an almost hand-to-mouth existence up in the mountains. Their lives change when the army sets up their camp next door. Presence of the armed forces and the undercurrents of terrorism and war bring about a disparity in the neat backdrop of this region. Karma (Danny Denzongpa) a widower with a teenaged daughter Lasya (Gauri) and younger son Chomo (Angchuk) is burdened with looking after his family as well as earning his livelihood by the traditional seasonal business of apricot j ....
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Firaaq, movie review
Most films about riots are full of violence that they set out to critique. Actress Nandita Das has her debut in direction with Firaaq, which explores the fierce and delicate emotions of fear, anxiety, prejudice and ambivalence in human relationships during the riots. Firaaq is an Urdu word that means both separation and quest. The film is a work of fiction, based on a thousand stories.The story is set over a 24-hour period, one month after a carnage that took place in Gujarat, India, in 2002. It traces the emotional journeys of ordinary people - some who were victims, some perpetrators and some who chose to watch silently. As an ensemble film, it follows multiple narratives that are at times interconnected and at times discreet, yet all are united by their spatial and emotional context. A middle-class housewife Aarti (Deepti Naval) closes the door on a woman desperately seeking ref ....
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Fashion, movie review
Fashion is a story of the rise and fall of an aspiring supermodel Meghna Mathur (Priyanka Chopra). Priyanka has come out with a strong performance finding her own standing in an industry known for ruthlessness and fickleness. A smart aspiring model from Chandigarh, Meghna comes to Mumbai to pursue her dream of becoming a supermodel, against her dad's wishes. She leaves her house with dreams to strike it big in the modeling world. However she experiences some major difficulties in her initial days in Mumbai, auditioning several times and getting rejected. Luckily, she gets a good helping hand from an old acquaintance, Rohit (Ashwin Mushran) an aspiring gay designer who assists big shot designer Vinay Khosla (Harsh Chhaya). She keeps coming across another struggling male model, Maanav (Arjan Bajwa) who even helps her to share his accommodation. Rohit takes Meghna to a top designer†....
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