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Neerja, movie review
At the first look and the trailer release of this film, there were great apprehensions, both in terms of curiosity to know about the incident as well as the skeptics wondering whether Sonam Kapoor really was the right choice to play Neerja. Neerja, as is known, is a biopic based on Neerja Bhanot (played By Sonam Kapoor) who was the head purser on the Pan Am flight from Mumbai to New York via Karachi and Frankfurt. The film is about the hijack of Pan Am flight 73 that took place on 5th September 1986. The film starts with a closer look into Neerja’s life, her real character that of an ordinary girl with wonderful relationships with people in her life. She is the apple of her father’s eye, the center of her mother’s universe as well as the darling younger sister of two brothers. The film then goes on to depict the incidents of “the day”, from the time Neerja gets ready for ....
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NH-8-Road-to-Nidhivan
NH-8 Road to Nidhivan is a para-psychic - Suspense Thriller film directed by Munindra Gupta is about 4 amateur film makers who have been offered huge amount which cannot be refused. This large amount is offered to shoot a documentary on the myth surrounding Nidhivan in Uttar Pradesh. The film is set against the backdrop of a road trip of four friends from Mumbai to Nidhivan, a place close to Mathura in Uttar Pradesh. Auroshikha Dey, Ravneet Kaur, Satyakaam Anand, Arjun Fauzdar play the foursome on a road trip to Mathura. NH 8- Road to Nidhivan is written & directed by Munindra, Produced by Sunil Goel & Niharika Jha, Editing by Prakash Jha lacks the crispiness and the DOP by Miles Rangaswamy appears tacky at several moments. It would otherwise have been a gripping film which is inspired by true stories of the mysterious conception of Nidhivan, a place near Mathura in Uttar Prad ....
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Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb
It is an evening of celebration in New York City at the Museum of Natural History with "special effects" to entertain the guests. A special SFX show showcasing with live acts from the museum exhibits including Theodore Roosevelt, Attila the Hun, Sacagawea, Dexter the Capuchin Monkey, and Rexy, the Tyrannosaurus skeleton. Suddenly things go out of control and guests scamper around to save themselves from the havoc created by malfunctioning of the SFX. Larry Daley, a security guard at the Museum of Natural History is overseeing a nighttime event with Dr. McPhee, the curator of the museum in attendance. It is not the Special Effects that have misfired. The fact is that the museum exhibits come to life during nights and in the process of following their rehearsed act, everyone runs amok. The reason being the gradual corrosion of the magic tablet. It comes to light that if this tablet of ....
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Nightcrawler, Hollywood film
An engrossing thriller about an unemployed, part time thief who rises to become an owner of the most competitive business in the American television industry. Every night, while the city sleeps, motley crews armed with fast cars, expensive video cameras and blaring police radios prowl the sprawling Los Angeles basin in search of a story. These freelance stringers, known as nightcrawlers, hunt for crashes, fires, murder and other mayhem in hopes of selling the footage to local TV news. Pin-balling from one police scene to the next, they are driven by a simple equation that converts crime and victims into dollars and cents. An unemployed man Loius Bloom (Jake Gyllenhaal) turns a petty thief stealing wire meshes and other metal scrap which he sells at half the price. This thief has the inclination to turn ethical in life. But who would give a job to a thief? Driving around the streets la ....
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Non Stop
Liam Neeson plays Bill Marks, a U.S. Air Marshal in this suspense thriller played out at 40,000 feet in the air. During a transatlantic fight from New York City to London, Marks receives a series of cryptic text messages demanding that he instruct the airline to transfer $150 million into a numbered account. Until he secures the money, a passenger on his fight will be killed every 20 minutes. Struggling with his personal demons has drained Marks of any passion for the heroic calling of his profession. He has come to view his important assignment as merely a desk job in the sky. However, another day at the offce becomes a high-stakes crisis when shortly into a routine transatlantic fight, Marks’ world is upended. Surrounded by only a couple of people he initially believes are trustworthy—including his fellow passenger, Jen Summers (Golden Globe Award winner JULIANNE MOORE of The ....
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Nautanki Saala
Rohan Sippy has come up with a romantic-comedy film starring Ayushmann Khurrana, Kunaal Roy Kapur, Pooja Salvi, Evelyn Sharma and Gaelyn Mendonca. Yet again, this story is about friendship and the bonding between Ram Parmar (Ayushmann Khurrana) and Mandar Lele (Kunaal Roy Kapoor). Ram Parmar tells his Psychiatrist about his personal problems that he is experiencing due to three break-ups in last one months. He begins his narration. Returning home after his performance in a theatre group Ram Parmar (RP) saves a man trying to commit suicide. This person is Mandar Lele who feels like a loser, as he has lost the love of his life Nandini (Pooja Salvi). Rejected in love, he has no desire to live. RP is a theater artist playing the role of Raavana. Having saved Mandar’s life, RP brings him home. Being a goody guy he is, RP tries to solve Mandar's problems and hence probes into his life. ....
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A model trying to make a few extra rupees on the sidelines by doubling as a bartender at a swinging party is shot at point blank range by a person who is refused a drink. No One Killed Jessica movie review... Reportedly, over the 300 people were present at the venue of Neno's and many must have seen this act of wanton criminality. 11 years and a feeble prosecution attempt later, all the accused walked away free on Tuesday, February 21, 2006. Set in New Delhi, the film No One Killed Jessica is based on the true story of the murder of a part time model Jessica Lall its directed by Raj Kumar Gupta, who had earlier directed the much acclaimed 2008 film Aamir. Vidya Balan plays the character of Jessica’s elder sister, Sabrina Lal and Rani Mukherjee is the TV reporter. The Saga unfolds with a late-night call to Sabrina Lall (Vidya Balan) waking her up from sleep – and she is told ....
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Director duo Abbas-Mastan have have in the past given us thrillers through movies like Baazigar, Ajnabee and Humraaz. Naqaab -  their latest offering matches their previous thrillers and the best thing is that it's just two hours long. The story is based on the scenic locales of Dubai. A middle-class girl called Sophie (Urvashi Sharma) meets Karan (Bobby Deol) belonging to the upper echelon of the society. Opposites attract, Sophie falls in love with Karan and gets engaged to him. While Sophie treats her friends post engagement in an Egyptian restaurant, the brash, awfully dressed Vicky (Akshaye Khanna) ends up dancing with her after being prompted by an usher who harps about Egyptian traditions and they dance to a Hindi song. This just-engaged girl shares a tremendously intimate song with the upstart, coming close enough to an actual kiss, and just then the spell breaks. Vic ....
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Naughty at 40 - movie review
Naughty at 40 falls below expectations of a Govinda film and more so, since its directed by Jagmohan Mundhra. The production values are fine and there are many lovely locales of Manali, in Himachal Pradesh, India and quite a few scenic locations in London. Naughty at 40 movie review... Bollywood ought to wake up and realize merely including some crude and double meaning jokes with some scantily clad women prancing around, it cannot be called a sex comedy film. Happy (Govinda) is a 40 year old man living in London with his parents Laxminarayan 'Allan' Kapoor (Anupam Kher) and mother – Maya (Smita Jaykar). 'Allan' Kapoor is the richest Indian in London and now the parents want their son Happy to get married. Everything seems fine in their life, except for the fact that their 40 year old son is still a virgin and sleepwalks in the nights. So Allan Kapoor seeks help of his employe ....
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