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Slice of life realism based film

Grahan web series reviw
The latest OTT offering on Disney+Hotstar, GRAHAN is a police - politics drama about re-investigation of cases of anti Sikh riots of 1984 in the aftermath of the then Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi's killing by her own Sikh bodyguards. Set in Ranchi in 2016 Grahan revisits in intervening flashbacks to 1984 to Bokaro which was home to a small Sikh trading community who like elsewhere in India were a target of public frenzy whipped up by zealous politians for their own political interests. Grahan is loosely based on the novel 'Chaurasi' by Satya Vyas. It is a romantic story of the past in turbulent times and it's effect on current political scene. It is an eight part series with each episode approximately 40-50 minute duration. The series moves effortlessly back and forth in time without breaking the rhythm of the story and as each layer opens up with the progress of the epis ....
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Staying Alive - movie review
Sujit Sen, the talented script writer has come up with a fine black comedy Staying Alive, which borrows from real life. Staying Alive is based on a true story of a journalist Aditya (Anant Mahadevan) whose third heart attack sends him to the intensive cardiac care at a hospital. On the neighboring bed is an underworld kingpin, Shaukat Ali (Saurabh Shukla) whose love of kebabs has led him to his first heart attack. Aditya is a newspaper sub-editor while Shaukat Ali is a hardened gangster and ironically it is Shaukat who is petrified of dying, while Aditya scoffs at death. The “seasoned” Aditya scoffs at death whereas newcomer to-heart-ailments Shaukat is petrified. The two unlikely hospital inmates strike a love-hate relationship with Aditya relaying a few truths about life to Shaukat. Shaukat appreciates the joy of staying alive even in a life deprived of kebabs. Slowly a ....
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Gali Gali Chor Hai - movie review
Gali Gali Chor Hai is the story of a common man residing in the city of Bhopal in Madhya Pradesh in India. Bharat works as a cashier in a Bank, has a beautiful and homely wife Nisha and they reside in their ancestral house with their father. Bharat (Akshaye Khanna) also acts in the local Ram Lila in the character of ‘Hanuman’. He has a loving father Shivnarayan (Satish Kaushik) who values freedom and hopes to see a corruption free administration in the country. Gali Gali Chor Hai - movie review... Bharat’s wife Nisha (Shriya Sharan) isn’t comfortable of having a modern lady Amita (Mugdha Godse) as a paying guest in their house. To make the matters worse, she witnesses some instances which further raise the doubts in her mind about something cooking up between her husband and the modern minded girl Amita. But she is wrong as Bharat doesn’t have anything in his mind about the ....
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Dam 999 - movie review
Dam 999 is a film to watch in a 3 Dimensional format. Only disappointment here is that the 3 D effects are just peppered somewhere in between and then the special effects come to play in the last 20 minutes of this film. It is produced by UAE based BizTV Networks and the direction and script is credited to upcoming director Sohan Roy, who is primarily an established mariner with a Guinness Book record to his credit. Dam 999 movie review... The film is based on real life incidents bringing to life the memories of 1975 Banqiao Dam disaster in China which claimed the lives of an estimated 250,000 people. It is a movie with a social cause which describes the hazards dams can cause and creates awareness among the masses about the impending dangers of a dam collapse, if not attended on time. Dam 999's screenplay is now archived into the Permanent Core Collection of The Academy’s Margar ....
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Love Breakups Zindagi - movie review
Love BreakUps Zindagi is about an exploration that asks if opposites attract or repel? Is love an option or a choice? And what if The One is already with Another? The film Love Breakups Zindagi tries to answer the question related to love, breakups and life. Jai (Zayed Khan) and Naina (Dia Mirza) are almost “settled" in their life but missing something or someone who will complete them. Jai feels that magic and serendipity have passed him by. Naina has taught herself that a less than fulfilling life is enough for her. But is it? Govind (Cyrus Sahukar) has a colourful past and is on his way to another major, seemingly all wrong relationship. But what if this 'mistake' is the love he has been looking for all his life? Sheila (Tisca Chopra) has stayed single for a long time waiting for Mr. Perfect. When he does appear, will she take her chance at love, look beyond the od ....
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I AM - movie review
I AM is a film which has four different stories about four characters Afia, Megha, Abhimanyu and Omar shot in Kolkata, Mumbai, Bangalore and Kashmir. It is a new age bollywood film which takes up different stories about various characters and has a string that binds them together and this is what holds this honest film with fine performances. I AM is about issues and dilemmas that bruise the modern Indian society. Unraveling and exploring these tribulations, the film unfolds many a tale of individuals struggling to find their identity, and uphold their dignity in a world that is callous, cold and unsympathetic. Shot in four different cities across India, I AM is a fusion of stories where the protagonists share a common dream – a desire to regain their lives, to regain an identity which has been taken away from them. I AM AFIA is the story of a single woman who feels her identi ....
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Kaccha Limboo, movie review
Kaccha Limboo is Writer-Director Sagar Bellary’s genuine attempt of a journey into the mind and heart of an overweight and somewhat irritated child Shambhu and tries to reason out why the kid is always so distressed and lonely. Kaccha Limboo is a coming-of-age early teen flick which is largely shot in the real corridors and classrooms of a Mumbai School. The slice-of-life moments in the school life are a delight, like when the kid is trying to copy his parent's signature in his school calendar, and many other hilarious moments that have you in splits. It is a tale of Shambhu (Taheer Sutarwala), a fat and clumsy 13 year old boy who has everything going against him - fights with seniors in school, warning from principal and so he decides to run away from home. Oddball Shambhu just can't fit in... like desperately trying to be a part of a group of his school friends, but they ign ....
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Udaan, movie review
Udaan is the story of a school student who isn’t so happy going to his family during his vacation. This sensitive topic and its characters are handled with understanding and maturity. Director Vikramaditya Motwane’s film is not preachy as it may seem from its promos. A straightforward tale of a young boy and his relationship with his rigid father and helpless younger step brother told in the most simplistic way. Udaan movie review... Rajat Barmecha plays the role of an adolescent who has stepped into his teens and how he faces a tyrant father, a step brother he never knew existed and how he eventually breaks the shackles and frees himself from a world that's slowly suffocating him. After being abandoned for eight straight years in boarding school, Rohan (Rajat Barmecha) returns to the small industrial town of Jamshedpur and finds himself closeted with an authoritarian father (R ....
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Red Alert, movie review
The launch of a worthwhile revolution has to have a foundation of clear-cut objectives. And where the aim itself is not defined, what is the point of just running a parallel government type organization in the name of revolution? Red Alert movie review... This will lead nowhere, as it is deceiving yourself and cheating your followers who have put their faith in you. Director Anant Mahadevan has come up with an outstanding movie Red Alert which is based on a true story. It has a slick narrative and has turned out to be an edge of the seat thriller, which honestly presents both the sides of the conflicting groups - administration and the naxalites. Even the men in uniform stand exposed, exploiting their powers especially when an innocent girl is seen by them as their prey. 'Red Alert: the War Within' is based on the true story of Narasimha (played by Suniel Shetty), a poor farm la ....
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Raajneeti, movie review
Raajneeti is a story about Indian politics, the democracy and the general elections. It depicts just a few powerful people control the destiny of millions. Master director Prakash Jha who gave us hard hitting films like Apharan and Gangaajal has now come up with the story of people who understand power - and know how to wield it at will. He skillfully portrays their unstoppable ambition, and their bitter and violent battle to achieve it. Raajneeti movie review... It is a contemporary adaptation of politics of power and deriving its primary plot and central characters from the epic. More somewhat like Shyam Benegal’s Kalyug which had the character of Karna, here we have Sooraj who is trapped terrible dilemma where his loyalty to his friend threatens to destroy his own family. Sooraj (Ajay Devgan) is a leader who rose from the backward classes with anger in his heart and leadership on ....
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