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Shoot On Sight, movie review
Shoot On Sight is a political thriller which deals with the difficult dilemma of mostly peace loving Muslims. The story is about these turbulent times, when a cosmopolitan society, especially London, is gripped by fear of Islamic extremism. There is rampant racial profiling and Islamophobia during the aftermath of underground bombings in July 2005. This is a fictional story based on Operation Kratos, the police "Shoot-on- sight" policy applied to suspected suicide-bombers after the 7 July 2005 London bombings. The film unfolds the turmoil in the life of Tariq Ali (Naseeruddin Shah), a Muslim police officer at Scotland Yard. Commander Ali, born in Lahore and married to an English woman, is tasked to investigate the police shooting of a suspected Muslim terrorist in the London Underground. Distrusted by both his superiors in the police, and his fellow Muslims, he finds his inquiry ha ....
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Hello, movie review
The film is based on the novel 'One Night at the Call Center" by Chetan Bhagat. Hello is the story of 3 Men and 3 Women working at a call center - Connexions, their lives, their work and above all their relationships. The story is told to a protagonist rock star (Salman Khan) by an unknown woman (Katrina Kaif) who narrates this story to him: The story of 'Hello' is a tale of a call center on a particular night. There are six characters: We have Shyam (Sharman Joshi) who finds that his girlfriend Priyanka (Gul Panag) is dissatisfied with his job that she might drop him as desired by her mother (Bharti Achrekar) and get her married to a rich NRI. Esha (Isha Koppikar) is an aspiring model who is a focused carrier minded girl, and there is Varun aka Vroom (Sohail Khan) who loves her immensely. The glamorous Radhika (Amrita Arora) lives at the mercy of her mother-in-law while her husba ....
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Kidnap, movie review
Vikrant Raina (Sanjay Dutt), new worth 51.7 billion dollars - richest Indian in the world. One phone call and his world crashes down around him. His only child, his daughter Sonia has been kidnapped. The kidnapper will only negotiate with Raina. Kidnap movie review... The kidnapper does not demand a ransom; instead he wants to play a game. A twisted game. It requires Raina to be on the run and complete a series of "tasks". He must follow the kidnapper's every order and completes every task successfully, his daughter lives, if he leaves even one task incomplete. And the kidnapper is watching the every move he makes... Vikrant Raina (Sanjay Dutt) is a master boardroom strategist who is used to giving orders. Always in control, always one step ahead. Beyond the money, the power, the status is his only daughter Sonia who has been kidnapped. And control has been snatched away from hi ....
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Ramchand Pakistani, movie review
Ramchand Pakistani is derived from a true story concerning the accidental crossing of the Pakistan-Indian border during a period (June 2002) of extreme, war-like tension between the two countries by two members of a Pakistani Hindu family belonging to the 'untouchable' (Dalit) caste, and the extraordinary consequences of this unintended action upon the lives of a woman, a man, and their son. The singular theme of Ramchand Pakistani is how a child from Pakistan aged eight years learns to cope with the trauma of forced separation from his mother while being held prisoner, along with his father in the jail of a country i.e. India, which is hostile to his own, while on the other side of the border, the wife-mother, devastated by their sudden disappearance builds a new chapter of her life, by her solitary struggle for sheer survival. Belonging to one of the lowest castes in Hinduism (on ....
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Drona, movie review
Hidden deep within the folds of our universe is a secret as ancient as time itself. A secret, which if unraveled, could unlock the destruction of mankind and the entire cosmos. Only one man today can protect this secret and save us from total destruction. Drona - The warrior. He who shall protect the eternal circle of life and death. The movie is a modern tale of one man's spectacular voyage through a maze of mystic myths and legendary legacies. It is about a youth’s journey that will force him to face his fears and make him the hero he was born to become. It is a tale of a clan of warriors who have been protecting the supreme secret of the elixir of life – the amrit (nectar) that was churned out by the Gods but has been sought by the asuras Aditya (Abhishek Bachchan), a young man unaware of his real identity, is brought up by a foster family in a faraway distant town. A rec ....
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Rafoo Chakkar - Fun on the run, movie review
Love life, enjoy life and live life to the fullest – that is exactly the mindset of 4 central characters in Rafoo Chakkar - Fun on the run. Pappu (Yudhishtir), Munnu (Aslam Khan), Millie (Nishal Rawal) and Jullie (Nauheed Cyrussi) from the upper crust of society. Though they belong to different towns and have never met, when forced to get married by parents they RUN AWAY... The film opens with the brothers gatecrashing a beauty contest dressed up as drag queens, with a sole purpose of getting near to indulging in some smooching with the pretty contestants. Unfortunately, their father is the chief guest at the function where one of them trips on the ramp and they are exposed. What else now, the dad wants to get them married, and these boys don’t. On the run, the good-for-nothing brothers Pappu and Munnu meet and get attracted to the cute looking Millie and Jullie not realizing t ....
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Hari Puttar, movie review
"He is only a kid..." is something that is heard ever too often. But when a kid displays the valour and wit that is no child's play and the presence of mind that belies his age, it certainly is no kidding matter. Hari Puttar is the awe-inspiring story of one such kid. Hari Prasad Dhoonda (Zain Khan) of Hari Puttar, as he is fondly called, is a bright 10 year old who has recently moved from India to the U.K. with his parents (Sarika and Zakir Khan). His father, Prof. Dhoonda is assigned to work on a secret project with the Defence forces at a remote location in the U.K. He has access to confidential information that is stores on a chip and safely kept at his house. Within days of their arrival in London, Hari's aunt Santosh (Lilette Dubey) and Uncle DK (Jackie Shroff) visit the Dhoonda residence with their own as well as DK’s Boss children. DK (Jackie Shroff) is a technology wiz ....
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Hulla, movie review
This energetic bittersweet comedy, more accurately perhaps - drama with a sense of humour, Hulla turns a contemporary eye on something that is taken too much for granted in Indian cities, especially Mumbai – private space. It’s about the clash between a stockbroker who is not allowed to sleep at night and a small-time trader who won’t let him (as the secretary of the building society they live in). This seemingly trivial, even laughable, problem eventually snowballs into disasters for both of them and their families, while unspooling the attitudes of people around them. Raj and Abha, a couple in their early-thirties, move into their new 2-bedroom flat in a Mumbai suburb. They are both very happy as only new home-owners can be in Mumbai. Since the flat is in a residential complex away from the bustle of the city and the main road, they both expect peace and quiet. Raj (Sushant ....
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Welcome to Sajjanpur, movie review
Set in a fictitious Indian village Welcome to Sajjanpur tells the humble story of the inhabitants of that village. The central character is Mahadev, one of the few educated young men from Sajjanpur. His ambition is to be a novelist, but finds it easier to make a living by writing letters sitting next to the Post Office. His ability to write persuasive letters makes him popular with the largely non-literate population of the town. Aware of this power, he soon uses his talent to manipulate people with amusing and sometimes not such amusing results. With this as the narrative frame, Welcome to Sajjanpur shows in an entertaining musical and comic way, characters and events that are at once hilarious and poignant. A delightful satirical take on a contemporary Indian village. Mahadev (Shreyas Talpade) is a young graduate from Sajjanpur village who lives with his widowed mother. She has a ....
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Saas Bahu aur Sensex, movie review
Saas Bahu aur Sensex's story has the Sensex as a backdrop to the lives of the most unlikely investors. Indians are terrifically progressive people and this film shows that in a light hearted way. The film has a multi-cultural neighbourhood, call center classes and fun. There is the saas-bahu part and share market excitements, women empowerment, and even a love triangle. Binita Sen (Kiron Kher) divorces her husband and leaves their comfortable home in Kolkata. She comes to the new environs of Navi Mumbai along with her daughter Nitya (Tanushree Dutta). Nitya drops her ambition to do her MBA in the USA, begins to work at a call centre. Facing difficulties in the new city, new job, she finds it a little easier however to cope with the situation, courtesy her newfound friend, Ritesh Jetmalani (Ankur Khanna) who is very caring and understanding. Nitya’s mother Binita Sen befriends th ....
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