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Officer on Duty – Malayalam movie review

Kunchako Boban makes a strong return with his highest selling Malayalam hit 'Officer on Duty, which, after its feat at the box office Is now getting the maximum number of eyeballs on Netflix. In Officer on Duty, the protagonist Harishankar is introduced as a hot-headed and haughty police officer, who returns to duty after being demoted. We get a hint about his traumatic past through a phone conversation where his wife, played by Priyamani, asks him about taking medicines To put it in a nutshell, Officer On Duty is a gripping film which revolves around a demoted police inspector who sets out to investigate a counterfeit jewellery racket, in the process himself becoming entangled in a dangerous web of crime that puts his life at stake. Written by Shahi Kabir, the film starts off brilliantly, with an almost near-perfect first half that not only sets out to engage the audience but also de ....
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The Diplomat – movie review

Kudos to John Abraham for producing and his realistic portrayal in The Diplomat, a film based on true events of kidnapping of an Indian woman to Pakistan and her struggles for seeking repatriation to her motherland. It's Sadia Khateeb who shines in this political thriller, while John Abraham has grown up a step higher in his acting profession, without any display of his macho image.

John plays the Deputy High Commissioner of India in Pakistan and truly succeeds in displaying diplomacy and personal conflicts of the character's role (Indian Dy High Commissioner) that of a father, a team leader and a high level Indian Diplomat. The film demonstrates Indian diplomat in Pakistan, J P Singh's superb maneuvering and accomplishment of sending back the Indian captive, actual efforts of the ex Foreign minister Sushma Swaraj's determination to bring back 'Bharat ki Beti ....
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Crazxy – movie review

Producers of the film Crazxy have marketed it as 'a film from the makers of Tumbbad' which raises the expectations form this one too, unfortunately Crazy lacks the scale, canvas and the engrossing storyline of Tumbbad. While the official trailer depicted it something like an out of the world film, this one-actor film turns out to be just a notch above other average films. Makers of Tumbbad have delivered a 'Paani kum chai' film, in comparison to the recent record breaking worldwide interest of their previous film Tumbbad on OTT platform, particularly as the filmmakers want us to believe. This solo actor movie centered around Dr Abhimanyu Sood (Sohum Shah) who finds himself into a high-stakes cat-and-mouse chase after receiving a chilling phone call seeking ransom for his kidnapped daughter. As he races against time, every road unravels shocking twists and turns, pulling hi ....
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Match Fixing: The Nation At Stake – movie review

Match Fixing - Nation at stake - movie review

Based effectively on Kanwar Khanna’s book The Game Behind Saffron Terror, the film Match Fixing: The Nation At Stake sets out to follow in detail a decorated army officer who finds himself embroiled in a deep political conspiracy and depicts in what way does it alter his personal as well as professional lives, in a really big manner. The intriguing film sets out to unveil a shocking conspiracy that shook the country. The story is based on Col. Avinash Patwardhan, a dedicated Indian Army Intelligence Officer, who finds himself trapped by both external forces from Pakistan and internal factions within the ruling political systems. covers the connections between various terror attacks and bombings across India and how his investigation sets out to take a grim turn when he finds himself becoming a pawn in a larger conspiracy which involves India’s then ruling party and the neighboring ....
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IC 814 – The Kandahar Hijack – review

The OTT series IC 814 - The Kandahar Hijack released on and made for Netflix on 29th August 2024 is concerning everything you wanted to know about the darkest chapter in aviation hijack history of India. As the credits say the series is inspired by real events and includes an adaptation of a book titled ‘Flight Into Fear’ written by Devi Sharan (the original captain of IC 814) and Shrinjoy Chowdhury. It throws light on the events that led to and ahead of the subsequent release during the hijack of Indian flight IC 814. As it is a true story which envisages the utter failure of the bureaucratic machinery and the series also depicts an equal apathy of the coalition government of the time. When the negotiations with hijackers or commando action could have been completed on Indian soil as the plane first landed in Amritsar, it was sent hopping first to Lahore, then Dubai and finall ....
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Khel Khel Mein – movie review

As our lives get password protected with smartphones emerging as the third inclusive as well as encompassing person in the bedroom, relationships are getting knottier than before. In 2016, Italian filmmaker Paolo Genovese tracked the havoc smartphones can create in matrimony to create the comedy-drama Perfetti Sconosciut (Perfect Strangers). The film Khel Khel Mein is based on the same premise.. An interesting game begins when friends gather at night and it takes a dramatic turn when they agree to keep their phones unlocked, sharing every text and call publicly. One by one, their hidden secrets spill out, dynamics shift, and in short, lives are forever changed. Rishabh's (Akshay Kumar) Casanova personality, Kabir's (Fardeen Khan) personal struggles, Happy (Taapsee Pannu) and Harpreet's (Ammy Virk) marital issues, and Naina (Pragya Jaiswal) and Samar's (Aditya Seal) dark past tumble ou ....
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Ulajh – movie review

A spy thriller, Ulajh focuses on the glorious achievements of a IFS lady officer who is entangled in a crafted conspiracy that could end up finishing her career, her father's elevation to the topmost foreign diplomat and a face-saving embarrassment for India. Going by the past films produced by Junglee Pictures, they had produced the flawless spy thriller Raazi and the crime thriller Talwar, while their highly anticipated their new film Ulajh falls below expectations with several loose ends, flaws and the illogical super-smartness of an Indian IFS officer over foreign ambassadors and bureaucrats. In her first posting out of India to Nepal, Suhana Bhatia (Janhvi Kapoor), the grand daughter of a patriot and daughter of a very senior bureaucrat Dhanraj Bhatia (Adil Hussain) is successful in blackmailing the ambassador of that country. While back in India, Suhana is too focused in her ....
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Khela Hobe – movie review

Khela Hobe is thriller that is directed by Sunil C Sinha, that begins as a drama which turns into a thriller when a single woman Shabbo (Mughda Godse) who avenges the atrocities imposed upon her family by the village Thakur. This could probably be the last film that veteran actor Om Puri has been featured and it has the glam girl Mughda Godse playing the simple woman small town, yet in a pivotal character in the story. Khela Hobe is set in a small town in Benaras and is all about the patriarchial society that still exists in several part of the interiors of our country. The narrow mindset of the locals, their attitude about the single woman Shabbo who runs a Beauty parlour and the superficial family values intertwined along with the hollow relationship of the locals and the powerful in this sleepy town are portrayed in this drama. Given an opportunity, the single woman Shabbo wh ....
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BEDAAD – review

Bedaad is a psycho-Thriller, a work of fiction inspired by short stories written by Anil Ramchandra Sharma that is streaming on TALKIEZ a new OTT platform launched on our 75th Independence Day. The web series attempts to unmask the so called respected who are supposedly leading an ideal life in the eyes of our society. Beginning with being felicitated with Best Couple of the Year - Adi Doctor by profession and his wife Apurva are confronted by a psychopath who traps them in their own house. During the course of experiencing being held as hostage in their own home, the couple begins to doubt each other about their past. While the wife thinks that the psychopath is either her husband's patient or has something to do about his past, the doctor doubts if the psycho is connected to his wife's past. The game of wits and one-upmanship takes place when the cops on duty reach their house. I ....
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The Courier – movie review

Just caught up with a superb spy movie inspired by real life incidents of the Cold War. The Courier is set in the world post the Second World War II when the world had been divided into two blocks the Western bloc led by USA and other western powers under the aegis on NATO and the eastern bloc known to be behind the The Iron Curtain which was a political boundary dividing Europe into two separate areas, it denoted the efforts by the Soviet Union (USSR) to block itself and its allied states from open and in direct touch with the West and its allied states. Those were times of cold war. It was called a cold war as it was a war which was never fought but there were a lot of aggression and rhetorical threat to press the nuclear button both by America and its counterpart the USSR. As the world moved from conventional warfare to nuclear superpower states. The movie captures the period in th ....
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