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All Family oriented Hindi films released

Laaga Chunari Mein Daag
Laaga Chunari Mein Daag is a fascinating blend of melodrama, feminist fairy tale and good music. Shivshankar Sahay (Anupam Kher), father of the two girls, is a retired Economics professor, who was denied pension, when he refused to accept some unfair terms. Its the story of fortunes of Badki (Rani Mukherjee) and Chutki (Konkona Sen Sharma), sisters from a 'khandani' Benares family which is saddled with money problems and predatory relatives. So the elder sister leaves to find work in Mumbai, eventhough having no diploma nor any work skills. Do all girls and boys all over rest of India think Mumbai as a sone ki nagri? If thats so, then each individual in Mumbai would have been declared a millionaire. Anyway, Badki experiences the harsh realities of life in Mumbai. Her aim is to make fast and big money, no matter even if she ultimately and knowingly falls in her own eyes and becomes ....
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Apna Asmaan movie review
Ravi (Irfaan Khan) and Padmini (Shobhana) are happily married. Apna Asmaan is about how they share a strained relationship due to their teenage son Buddhi's (Dhruv Piyush Panjnani) intellectual handicap. Buddhi, a mildly autistic slow learner displays his flair for art but his parents, with their middle-class insecurities, neither recognize nor encourage his talent. Buddhi is good at drawing but his mother wants him to be good at mathematics, as she was a gold medalist herself. Seeing her son is not like other normal children, she takes him to temples, churches and babas, hoping for a miracle. Driven by Padmini's social insecurities and Ravi's guilt for dropping Buddhi as a baby, the parents chase an unreal dream of seeing their son as a normal good student who, like others, must become an engineer or a doctor. While Dr Sen, the neurologist, tries hard to make Padmini accept ....
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Gandhi my father movie review
This movie is about Mahatma Gandhi's family - the father of our nation. It tells the story of Gandhi's eldest son Harilal Gandhi, who rebelled against his father and carried the identity of his father like a curse around his neck. Its a story of a principled father and an unfortunate son. (Gandhi my father movie review) Mahatma Gandhi's wife Kasturba (played by Shefali Shah) raised her eldest son Harilal all by herself when Gandhi left to study in London in 1888. Later, she gave birth to three more sons. The film shows Mahatma's (Darshan Jariwala) troubled relationship with his son Harilal - beautifully played by Akshaye Khanna. The film, without being biased to any of the characters, explores why it happened and narrates their differences which creep in when Harilal thinks that the Mahatma does not allow him to become a lawyer like him. Being rebelious natured, Harilal converte ....
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The Blue Umbrella movie review
There is an ideal scenic, lush-green small mountain village somewhere in Himachal Pradesh, where everyone knows everyone else. Having plenty of time around, Nandkishor (Pankaj Kapur), a shabby shopkeeper in this village - is lying on a charpoy, headphones plugged into his ears, listening to his fortune. (Blue Umbrella movie review). The mechanical voice assures him that one day he would be richer than the richest man on earth. He enjoys it... Biniya (Shreya Sharma), an eleven-year-old girl who finds a beautiful, blue umbrella, and everyone is enchanted by its form and beauty including the small shopkeeper Nandkishore Khatri. While the girl goes on flaunting her blue umbrella all around this small town, to her friends and everyone, Nandkishore has his plans to swindle the umbrella from her. Biniya, though ready to share her possession with friends, steadfastly counteracts any off ....
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My Little Pony review
Based on the television series My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic we have a charming animated musical comedy fantasy film aimed towards the kids - My Little Pony: The Movie that ought to please its dedicated fan base But the festivities are cut short when Tempest Shadow (Emily Blunt) and Grubber (Michael Pena) who are sent by the Storm King (Liev Shrieber) overtake the city and drive away the Mane 6. A dark force threatens Ponyville and the gang of Mane 6 - Twilight Sparkle, Applejack, Rainbow Dash, Pinkie Pie, Fluttershy and Rarity embark on an unforgettable journey beyond Equestria where they meet new friends and exciting challenges on a quest to use the magic of friendship to save their home. Canterlot, the capital of Equestria is buzzing with news of Twilight Sparkle throwing a huge Friendship Festival and Songbird Serenade (Sia) is performing. During their escape the ponies dis ....
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Ram Ratan movie review1
A social family drama with Daisy Shah playing the lead role of Ratan, a modern day girl with a forward thinking attitude and behavior but is still deep rooted in the Indian culture. The film revolves around her right till the end. Ratan is married to the boy of her choice - Ram (Rishi Bhutani) who seems to reciprocate Ratan's love for him. But this happiness seems to be short lived as Ratan gets to know that Ram is a playboy who flirts and dates other girls. Things reach to such a level that Ratan makes up her mind to give back to her philandering husband and for this issue she ropes in her husband's best friends who willingly oblige the lady to execute a plan where Ram meets with an accident and is taken to the hospital. This accident was preplaned in such a way that Ram is supposed to be hurt not to a great extent and it happens exactly the way they have planned. Further for such a ....
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Finding Dory, movie review
A sequel to the 2003 film Finding Nemo, Finding Dory focuses on the amnesiac character Dory, and explores her journey to be reunited with her family. Dory is a bright blue tang with a sunny personality and has severe memory issues (like Aamir Khan’s character in Ghajin), Dory only has short bursts of functionality before she forgets what she's doing, and the next moment she wonders what she had just learned. These memory lapses doesn’t upset her upbeat attitude until she realizes she is forgotten something big: her family. Though she has found a new family in Marlin and Nemo, but is haunted by the belief that someone out there is looking for her. The inspiration for coming up with an animated film like Finding Dory and its prequel sprung in the director Andrew Stanton’s mind from going back to his childhood, when he loved going to the dentist to see the fish tank, assumin ....
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Luv U Alia, movie review
'Marriages are made in Heaven, arranged by Kiran' is the tag line of Kiran, a young dude shown as a marriage consultant. Kiran has solution for any type of discord between a couple or obstacles faced by unmarried lovebirds wanting to marry but have hindrances in their love life. This movie is for all those who’ve been in love. Luv U Alia, is a story of modern day Society, where both parents are too busy making their lively hood. Shot in two languages, it was released some months back in Kannada, and now its hindi release. The heroine's friend faces such problem where the innocent girl cannot marry the love of her life because a local don 'Zulfi' or Selfiebhai is madly in love with her. Full one sided love. Therefore this model cum airhostess brings her friend to this marriage consultant Kiran and during the 'planning and strategising' of evading the local don's proposal, Alia's frie ....
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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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