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The Jungle Book, movie review
Mowgli, an orphaned human boy who, guided by his animal guardians, sets out on a journey of self-discovery while evading the threatening Shere Khan. 'The Jungle Book' is an all-new live-action epic adventure about Mowgli (newcomer Neel Sethi), a man-cub raised in the jungle by a family of wolves, who embarks on a captivating journey of self-discovery when he’s forced to abandon the only home he’s ever known. Directed by Jon Favreau and based on Rudyard Kipling’s timeless stories and inspired by Disney’s classic animated film, “The Jungle Book” is an all-new live-action epic adventure about Mowgli (newcomer Neel Sethi), a man-cub who’s been raised by a family of wolves. Rudyard Kipling penned the collection of short stories, “The Jungle Book,” in the early 1890s from his home in Vermont. There are similarities in naming the wild animals as they are refered to in ....
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Shortcut Safari, hindi movie review
A jungle adventure film, that attempts to reconnect us with our roots through the eyes of seven children and showcase the natural world in contrast with the humdrum and chaos of daily city life. Directoral debut of celebrated cinematographer (DoP), Amitabha Singh, who has National Award winners Chillar Party, Khosla Ka Ghosla and India’s Oscar entrant in 2014, THE GOOD ROAD to his credit, the film is finely crafted except otherwise the CGI when the wild animals are shown moving around freely in the jungle. This adventure film traces the adventerous, exciting and even scary moments of a few school going kids who get stuck in a dense forest during their outing. Kids are kids, and when they insist that they reach their destination before the other vehicles, in an attempt to take a short-cut, their van gets stuck in the middle of the dense jungle. The driver leaves to reach out for r ....
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Bho Bho, Marathi film review
Vyankatesh Bhonde, an ex-policeman turned private detective is also an animal lover in the Marathi film BHO BHO. Marathi Cinema has made rapid strides in the recent times in the genres of drama, action and historical films. Here is an original character that of Vyankatesh Bhonde, a middle aged man living in the Mumbai chawls. Being an ex-policeman and still residing in a chawl speaks of his integrity. But what the story unfolds subsequently is that this middle-aged guy is an animal lover too. We have a locked flat and the police are here to investigate a murder. They hear a dog's bark from inside the locked flat, which when opened reveals a woman lying in a pool of blood and calmly sitting besides her is her pet dog. The police gather some evidences and then they decide that it is the case of a pet dog losing its sanity and attacking its owner and tearing her apart. Sandy, t ....
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Club Dancer, hindi movie
Rajbeer Singh (Hatim star), Judi Shekoni of 'Twilight' fame and the doe eyed Nisha Mavani feature in CLUB DANCER, an action thriller. The premise is honest, let down by the story telling and the editing. Judi Shekoni of the Hollywood super hit TWILIGHT fame is here for a few "spellbinding" moments. Nisha Mavani and Rajbeer Singh (enacted the title role in HATIM) the film comes from one of the oldest banners FILMALAYA which made the evergreen superhit films like Dil Deke Dekho, Ek Musafir Ek Hasina, Love in Simla, Leader, Ek Baar Muskura Do and Teesri Aankh to name a few. Ria (Nisha Mavani), a vivacious night club dancer in Mumbai is aware of her parents concern (Shakti Kapoor and Zarina Wahab) for her and hence she has concocted a story that she has already married a young man in Mumbai and is a house wife. One day her mother calls her informing her of her father's heart attack and ....
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Crime Affairs aur Badla, movie review
It is the story of a girl who gets involved in the world of Crime, falls into trap of affairs, only to be scroned and gets manipulated by the loves in her life. An innocent girl is been forced to commit crime in her life. It is the story of a girl's revenge. The story revolves around Kaynaat (Naina) who is the centre of the story. She was forced by her mother to get married to a politician and please his friends too. Managing to escape this situation, she manages to flee her native place with the help of a Bombay based businessman who brings her to this megacity, only to manipulate her. While in Mumbai, she has a silent admirer in the form of Sahil (Virendra Mishra) at the same time she is looked after so well by the businessman who rescued her, that she falls for him, only to be sold by him to the flesh traders in Mumbai. In the brother, she comes in touch with Kinjal (Neha Bansal) ....
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Murari The Mad Gentleman, film 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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Global Baba, movie review
Abhimanyu Singh plays a godman in this film which is based on spiritual babas of India. Global Baba is a social satire and craftily doesn't target any particular person or any religion. India could be the only country where hundreds of thousands of people (devotees) blindly surrender themselves to godmen. The film exposes such a godman who was once a hitman by the name Chillam Pehalwaan (Abhimanyu Singh) for a political party which used him as much as they could and once their dependence on him was over, they took the legal route of eliminating him in an enounter by Police Inspector Jacob (Ravi Kishan). Chillam Pehalwan manages to escape during the encounter but had taken 2 gun shots and was noticed in the nick of the moment by the saadhus on the banks of a river who nursed him to bring back to life. He is spotted by Damru (Pankaj Tripathi) who advises him to take refuge within t ....
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Jai Gangaajal, Movie review
A real life-like drama which makes you forget that you are watching a film. Unfortunately these incidents of lawlessness and wrong doings still take place in Central India. Jai Gangaajal is the story of a lady Superintendent of Police (S.P.) Abha Mathur (Priyanka Chopra) who takes charge in Bankepur in Central India. Her mission is to earnestly implement the law exactly in the same manner as the oath taken by her during the course of her Police training. Its prequel Gangaajal had Ajay Devgn who plays a cop and is the protagonist in a somewhat similar drama. Apart from the glamorous Priyanka Chopra as the central character, the director Prakash Jha himself debuts as an actor who plays the role of a Circle Babu (a senior Inspector). It is Priyanka Chopra's film as she pulls off action sequences realistically, underplays her emotions, extremely sensitive to the happenings in her area of ....
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Tere Bin Laden Dead or Alive, movie review
A sequel to Tere Bin Laden, this no-brainer comedy film has glimpses of the first part that craftily connects in this story of subsequent events with all its silly antics. This time, it's operation 'Osama Dead or Alive'? Set against Osama Bin Laden’s mysterious death followed by counter reports claiming he is alive, stirring the biggest controversy in the world. The US wants to prove to the world that they shot him dead while ‘Khalili ‘(Piyush Mishra) the terrorist arm dealer wants the world to believe he is alive. 'Tere Bin Laden - Dead or Alive' is a whacky comical satire that transpires in this desperate tug of war between US & the Terrorists. The US media seeks proof from the President about Osama's death, hence the US president sends his aide under disguise of a Hollywood producer to film the attack on Osama's hideout in Abotabad and capture his death. Stuck in ....
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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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