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Transcendence
A sc-fi techno-thriller loaded with interesting ideas. It is all about  Artifical Intelligence, Mind control and Robotics, this film appears way ahead of its time. Dr. Will Caster (Johnny Depp), the foremost researcher in the field of Artificial Intelligence, working to create a sentient machine that combines the collective intelligence of everything ever known with the full range of human emotions. His highly controversial experiments have made him famous, but they have also made him the prime target of anti-technology extremists who will do whatever it takes to stop him. Will Caster has a dream to make man as 'powerful as God' through this creation of Artificial Intelligence. He is shot at the presentation led by his wife and fellow researcher Evelyn (Rebecca Hall) to attract potential sponsors. Will Caster survives the initial attach, but then the doctors give him a month or so as ....
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2 States - Hindi film review
Love marriages around the world are simple. The boy and girl fall in love and get married. With its vast 'unity in diversity, it becomes a complicated issue in India. Based on Chetan Bhagat's novel - 2 States, it is a story of culturally opposite couple - Krish Malhotra and Ananya Swaminathan who are from two different states of India, deeply in love and want to get married. The film begins with Krish having a consultation with a pyschiatrist. He is contemplating to commit suicide as he "has Google-searched on best ways to commit suicide. He then begins with his story of how met Ananya while studying for a Management Degree. Both of them are pursuing for Masters in a prestigious management institute of India. Krish is a Punjabi, from Delhi and Ananya is a Tamilian brahmin from Chennai. Problems arise when their parents come to Ahmedabad to attend Krish and Ananya's convo ....
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Divergent
In the futuristic Chicago, society is divided into 5 factions, and DIVERGENT is a thrilling action-adventure film set in a world where people are divided into distinct factions based on human virtues. The film is based on the best-selling book series by Veronica Roth. The factions are - Abnegation (Those who are Selfless), Amity (Peaceful), Candor (Honest), Dauntless (Brave) and Erudite (Intelligent) As per the created system, each year the 16 year olds have to undertake a serum-based aptitude test that indicates which faction they would fit into. They are informed of the result and then they have to inform their choice at the Choosing Ceremony. Originally born into Abnegation, Beatrice 'Tris' Prior (Shailene Woodley) is idealistic, vulnerable, brave and compassionate. When faced with the biggest decision of her life, she struggles between choosing her family and her yearning desir ....
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Bhoothnath Returns
A sequel to 2008 film Bhoothnath, features Amitabh Bachchan as Bhoothnath in Bhoothnath Returns, the ghost who is mocked by everyone when he enters the Bhoothworld. He is questioned about his abilities as a ghost as he could not even scare a child when he was on earth. Bhoothnath is handed a token which will enable him to get life as a human being again on this earth. The only problem is that he has to wait for a long, long time. As per Hindu religion, a person after his death, get to live in any form such as an insect or ant or something that sort. But Bhoothnath was to live again as a human being and thats why the long waiting period. Humiliated and tired of the mockery in the Bhoothworld, Bhoothnath requests the incharge of that world to give him one more chance to come to earth as a ghost and he promises that he would be successful in scaring some children, and clear out the mo ....
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Jal - Water - Hindi film
With backdrop of water scarcity in Rann of Kutch, Jal tells a complex and intriguing story of love, relationships, enmity, deceit and circumstances that bring about the dark side of human character. Jal movie review... It is a high-octane, action- drama with a shocking climax. Shot on an epic scale, the film is a visual treat and has managed to capture ‘Rann Of Kutch’ like never before. Set in the Rann of Kutch, in Gujarat in Western India, the story of Jal revolves round a water diviner named Bakka (Purab H. Kohli), who tries to solve the drought problems in his village. Bakka has the sixth sense to detect water in the parched desert. Yet he faces unforeseen circumstances when he tries to help a female ornithologist Kim (Saidah Jules) to save the flamingos. Bakka is blessed with the ability of finding water in the parched desert. The film revolves around the drama surrou ....
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Main Tera Hero
A romantic action-comedy film Main Tera Hero directed by David Dhawan which brings back memories of his entertaining films with Govinda of the 90s. The difference here is that it is devoid of any double meaning jokes and aims to entertain the family audience.

Main Tera Hero - movie review...

It is the remake of the Telugu film Kandireega. This one is Produced By Shobha Kapoor & Ekta Kapoor. It is their first out and out masala commercial family comedy drama. It is an entertaining romantic drama lacks logic and is high on theatrics targeted at the masses, which takes Our Hero from the mountainous Ooty, to the fun college campus of Bangalore, and then to a beautiful mansion, in visitors paradise Thailand. Our Love Story begins with the Mischievous, Clever, Charming, a Daredevil and the HERO - Seenu (Varun Dhawan) who falls in love with Sunaina (Ileana D’cruz). How c ....
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Díhkiyaoon
Born in the upper middle class society, Viki had no mother and his father had no time for him. The cold loneliness of Viki's world left him weak and tainted from within. Absence of love and care pushed Viki to find acceptance in other places. One such place was just a road away from his plush apartment- THE GANGSTER‐LAND. Read Dishkiyaoon review further Nicknamed as Viki Kartoos (Harman Baweja) was often bullied at school. The adolescent Viki is impressed with Mota Tony (Prashant Narayan) and comes under his influence, and this is how he becomes a gangster. Viki finds love and acceptance, where bullets don't warn before firing. Interpersonal relationships are complex, situations are twisted. Ambitions break free, as Viki sets his eyes on the top‐spot in gangster‐land. He backs himself to de‐throne the existing king. Where people use might, Viki uses his mind. A game of dice ....
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O Teri
Pulkit Samrat and Bilal Amrohi are television journalists whose show is on a decline in popularity. They are warned by their female boss that they could lose their jobs untill they come up with something sensational, expose story of a scam or something. They share an apartment and move around in an old model Fiat car, supposedly a lucky charm as they bought it from a successful personality. The premise of O Teri is lifted from yesteryear classic, Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro, yet is fraction of it on entertainment value. Prantabh a.k.a. PP (Pulkit Samrat) and Anand a.k.a. A.I.D.S. (Bilal Amrohi) are investigative journalists who pick up a scoop here and there, the latest is that of a rare occurence of Adrak Ganesha (Lord Ganesha's form in a turmeric). Monsoon, the channel head (Sarah Jane Dias) instantly dismisses this story which these chaps had shot with dedication and their earnestness. Monso ....
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Sabotage
Members of the elite DEA task force thought they were invincible. But they were wrong. Arnold is back in Sabotage, a dark, violent crime, revenge action film. Based on Agatha Christie's 'And Then there Were None', Arnie plays John Wharton a.k.a. “Breacher”, the head of an elite DEA task force taking out drug cartels in the city of Atlanta. The mission of this task force is to bust durg cartels and ticking people off. Other members of his team are played by Sam Worthington, Mireille Enos and Terrence Howard. After a big drug bust, the mission in a cartel safe house leads to ten million dollars of the drug money in cash goes missing, members of the elite DEA task force find themselves being taken down one by one after they rob a drug cartel safe house. But someone has outwit them and the haul of ten million dollars is missing. The task force faces disgrace and disbandment. Doub ....
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Gang of Ghosts
A haunted mansion in Mumbai is to be demolished making way for a glitzy shopping mall. The gang of harmless Ghosts of different eras and social spheres residing in this house are to be dislocated. (Gang of Ghosts - Film Review) A late zamindar is the boss of the house residing with a British Lord of the East India Company era, a yesteryear actress, a spoilt rich girl, an unhappy rock musician, a Bengalee and a cab driver. These ghosts decide to fight their own battle against rampant development and win it. A remake of the commercially successful Bengali film Bhooter Bhabishyat, Gang of Ghosts comes up as mish-mashed comedy with sub-plots and undesirable buffoonery. The grand old mansions and mills of South Mumbai are being razed to the ground to make way for swanky condominiums, malls and Multiplexes. Some of these dilapidated disputed buildings were haunted by Ghosts who had ....
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