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Talvar, hindi movie review
Irrfan Khan's performance, Meghna Gulzar's direction and above all, its story and crisp screenplay by Vishal Bharadwaj makes Talvar a must watch film. Talvar explores the socio-economic divides in urban India: the affluent doctor-couple, the Uttar Pradesh policemen with their regressive mindsets and rough methods of investigation, and the migrants engaged in lowly jobs. And the procedural protocol that exists in the Police System. A high profile double murder case in 2008 in Noida, India where a 14-year old Aarushi Talwar was found murdered at her home. The suspicion pointed out to the 45 year old servant who was missing from the house. The next day his dead body was discovered in another part of the building. Now the police suspected that teenage girl's parents had murdered her with the theory that the father must have murdered the two after finding them in an 'objectionable' positio ....
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Talvar Irrfan Khan event

Three different viewpoints of Arushi Talwar Murder Case to be presented in ‘Talvar’ Recently, Meghna Gulzar launched the trailer of her next-‘Talvar’ in the city. The venue was set up like a crime scene, as the Film is based on the Arushi Murder case. The Film is written by Vishal Bharadwaj and co-produced by Junglee pictures and him. Lead actors…

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Qissa, Hindi movie review
When ever a film with a story based on 1947 partition is made, and more so if its a Love Story - the movie has created history with the recent examples of GADAR, PINJAR and many more. The partition of India and Pakistan is like bitter phase which has comes like a rlue but gets resolved with times. QISSA is a story of Umber Singh (Irrfan Khan) a Sikh who lives with his wife Maher (Tisca Chopra), three daughters & forth Son set in post- Colonial India when it was a part of Punjab in Pakistan. Umber Singh builds a new home for his family. As Umber Singh always yearned for a son who could grow his empire, he therefore brought up his fourth child (who is actually a girl) as his son. This child is named Kanwar and is played by Tillotama Shome. Kanwar discovered himself slowly as he grows up and Umber Singh sets his marriage with Neeli (Rasika Duggal). As Urban Singh could not get son fro ....
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Welcome 2 Karachi Mahurat

It was an evening unlike the typical filmy events. Rohit Shetty turned up to encourage his assistant on his film film. David Dhawan came to wish his friend Vashu Bhagnani, and Ramesh Taurani dropped in to greet his old buddy Vashu. What an evening it was. The Mahurat of Vashu Bhagnani and Ashish R Mohan’s next movie Welcome 2 Karachi…

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Gunday
Post 1972 India-Pak war, India humiliated Pakistan and the outcome was liberation of East Pakistan, which is now called as Bangladesh. Two orphans are sent to a Refugee camp in Bangladesh where they get shelter and food in return for (working) smuggling guns. Gunday - film review The kids - Bikram and Bala are exploited by the gun dealer and now there is a child molester wanting to keep one of them as his slave. The boys sense trouble and escape from there, flee to the other side of the border and arrive in Calcutta, India. Kolkatta was then named as Calcutta. Bikram and Bala start their livelihood by working in a small restaurant for some time, where the owner humiliates them, referring to them as 'refugees'. They get into a fight with him and leave his employment. Now they get into looting small quantities of coal, while it is routinely transported in trains. Their confidence ....
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The Lunchbox is the story of two strangers who fall in love over a lunchbox of letters. What is interesting to watch in this film is that do they ever meet? This one has Irrfan’s one of the career best performances playing a middle-aged man Saajan Fernandes. Saajan’s wife having died, having no children, he is a typical single man sort of character who is avoided by all around him. One day, it so happens that a lunchbox prepared by Ila (Nimrat Kaur) for her husband, by some error, reaches Saajan who shamelessly devours the food and leaves nothing in the empty lunch box which makes Ila realize about the slip-up. The least one would expect is a thank you atleast, this irked Ila, who sends sends him another lunchbox with a sarcastic note. This single fellow, shunned by others – responds and suddenly finds him sharing jokes, passion for food. Over a period of time, this gives rise ....
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After achieving rave reviews and accolades at Cannes, ‘The LunchBox’ takes it one step forward by holding a screening for Asia Society on the 15th of September in Mumbai. The screening would be held at 12 noon and would be followed by Q&A and lunch. With ace actors like Irrfan Khan, Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Nimrat Kaur featuring in the movie, ‘The…

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A sequel to the critically acclaimed 2011 thriller, Saheb Biwi Aur Gangster, this version has Jimmy Shergill and Mahie Gill, who reprise reprising their roles from the first part. Other pivotal characters added are that of Irrfan Khan and Soha Ali Khan. Directed by Tigmanshu Dhulia, Saheb Biwi Aur Gangster Returns is a romantic thriller drama about the royals fighting for money and power. Aditya Pratap Singh (Jimmy Shergill), a royal prince, is shown as a crippled, moving around in a wheel chair, trying to recover from the physical disability. Recovering from his wife's betrayal, he has the company of lover cum seductress Madhavi Devi (Mahie Gill). Aditya Pratap Singh manages the strategies and the play of politics of Madhavi Devi who is now an elected Member of Legislative Assembly in a northern state of India. As they are some four independent MLAs who hold the key to swaying of t ....
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Director Ang Lee (Brokeback Mountain, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon) creates a groundbreaking movie event - Life of Pi,  about a young man who survives a disaster at sea and is hurtled into an epic journey of adventure and discovery. While cast away, he forms an amazing and unexpected connection with another survivor…a fearsome Bengal tiger.   The film Life of Pi is based on the best selling novel by Yann Martel. It is an imaginative adventure story of a teenager - Pi Patel (Played by Suraj Sharma) and now he is grown up an adult (played by Irrfan Khan) who narrates the story to a young author in the film.   Pi Patel is the son of Gita Patel (Tabu) a mathematician Santosh Patel (Adil Hussain) who is the owner of a private zoo in Pondicherry (India) who decides to move to Canada, for a bright future. They have to surrender the zoo land to the local municipal au ....
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