Patiala House the film, is based in Southall – London where the Kahlon family has been living for the past 4 generations. Ruled by an autocratic and stubborn patriarch Bauji (Rishi Kapoor) the members of this household have no other choice but to adhere to his ways, his whims, his rules. Scarred by a racial incident that took place 20 years ago – an incident that led to the murder of his mentor and guardian, the senior advocate leader Mr. Saini, Bauji began hating the British and everything that the country and its people stood for. Patiala House movie review...
A hindi family drama with a background of cricket, the film is about Gattu (Akshay Kumar) who is living the life his father forced upon him. While young, our Gattu faced the racism problem which was a big issue then.
On one instance on his birthday, the Whites broke his home window and yelled "We don't want you in our c ....
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Ganesh Acharya who has choreographed the title tracks of Dabangg and Golmaal 3 and the Zor ka jhatka number in Action Replayy and directed films like Swami and Money Hai to Honey Hai has come up with this third bollywood movie Angel.
Angel has two debutant actors - Nilesh Sahay (Sanjay Dutt's nephew). Nilesh is the son of yesteryear's actress Zaheeda who was seen in the song Choodi Nahi Ye Mera Dil haai with Dev Anand. The other debutant is Maddalsa sharma (Television actress Sheela Sharma's daughter). Angel movie review...
Nilesh and Maddalsa are in lead roles. The story is about two people, a girl Sonal who cannot speak and a boy Abhay who speaks a lot. Its about how Abhay meets Sonal who he fondly calls 'Angel' and becomes her friend helping her overcome her disability.
Angel begins with a Abhay (Nilesh Sahay) being beaten by the police and who has just served a two year jail ....
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An unusual love story which unfolds into a thriller. The film Yeh Saali Zindagi is a sharp take on how far a man can to for the woman he loves, and how he feels when hat woman is in love with someone else. This man can go to any extent, do anything for the love of his life, only to discover later on that she is longing for the other man. Yeh Saali Zindagi movie review...
Sudhir Mishra is one of those new age talented film-makers who has come up with realistic films like Is Raat Ki Subah Nahin and Hazaron Khwaishen Aisee which are unlike the usual bollywood type flicks. This one is a romantic thriller based on love, betrayal and crime.
Yeh Saali Zindagi begins with a bloody-action sequence with thrills and excitement, moving in a brisk pace with twists and turns in the tale coming in rapid succession that is covers some minor hiccups in the story.
The story is about Arun (Irrfan ....
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Vinay Pathak, an established name in the ‘small’ films circuit plays a double role in this thriller Utt Pataang directed by Srikanth V. Velagaleti. Utt Pataang starts quite promisingly and is a thrilling comedy flick about several incidents occurring during a night.
Utt Pataang isn’t a brainless comedy as the name suggests. Yet it has eccentric characters, nursing broken hearts and desperately longing for love.
The film is basically an account of happenings on one particular night. Ram (Vinay Pathak) is a 35-year-old ordinary guy from Mumbai who has been ditched by his rough and foul-mouthed lady love Sanjana (Mahie Gill)..
Nandu (Saurabh Shukla) is Ram’s friend a rather clueless, inept detective. While having dinner at a restaurant, Ram and Nandu meet Koyal (Mona Singh), a small-town girl who has been betrayed by her boyfriend. The cunning Nandu hooks up Ram with Koyal ....
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Debutante director Vishal Aryan Singh’s United Six is an emotional action thriller based on the life of six girls who come from different walks of life and how they plan a bank robbery. A major portion of the film has been shot in Bangkok and Pattaya and the male actors who are just in supporting roles, are all from there. The movie is essentially about the six leading actresses. United Six movie review...
United Six is the story of six girls living in Bangkok and they are Shaina (Parvathy Omanakuttan), Jia (Daisy Bopanna), Maddy (Luna Lahkar), Tia (Mahi), Candy (Isha Batwe), Tootsie (Pooja Sharma). They are going through a tough phase in their lives. Their dreams have been shattered, their aspirations crushed.
In this situation, out of frustration and out of anger, they decide to rob a bank. One of the girls Jia is fired from the bank for refusing to please her boss with his per ....
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Dil Toh Baccha Hai Ji is a slice of life film about three men - Naren, Milind and Abhay and their encounters with love!
There is an apparent resemblance to the much-acclaimed Basu Chatterjee’s 1981 romantic comedy Shaukeen which had three older men trying to get naughty in their elderly age. Here we have three middle-aged men in a real life day to day situation, trying to explore the love and lust aspect of their lives. Dil Toh Baccha Hai Ji movie review...
A listless Naren Ahuja (Ajay Devgn), 38, working as a bank manager, is going through a divorce. He is going through a 'mid-life crisis". He has a job that he hates and a marriage that's falling apart. All he needs is some love to infuse freshness into his boring, listless life.
Naren falls in love with a vibrant and bubbly June Pinto (Shazahn Padamsee) who has just stepped out of her teens. June is a vivacious and impulsive ....
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Dhobi Ghat (Mumbai Diaries) is Kiran Rao’s first feature film as a writer and director. It is the story of four people from very different backgrounds, whose worlds intersect and leave them forever altered. As they find themselves drawn into compelling relationships, the city finds its way into the crevices of their lives, separating them even as it brings them closer. Dhobi Ghat movie review ...
One of the main characters - Arun’s life is drawn by Kiran Rao’s personal experience she has had as a tenant in Mumbai, having had to shift to a new apartment almost every year (due to short term tenancy laws). Every new apartment she moved to, she always felt a little warm from the last occupant, leading to the idea that she was in some strange way connected to the earlier tenants that had lived in the space before her. What if they had left behind something that revealed to her their ....
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Few Indians are aware of the number of suicides that occur in Indian Hostels as a result of the phenomenon termed as ‘Ragging’. This sadistic practice has become a ritual wherein students are beaten up, stripped, paraded naked, starved, tortured, molested and even raped by their seniors. Hostel movie review...
Since victims of ragging find it humiliating to report sexual abuse to their parents or others, most ragging-related crimes go unreported. Munnabhai MBBS and even 3 Idiots had a scene or two about this suffering which is called as ragging.
Thus, this cruel practice continues year after year and has claimed (and is still claiming) the lives and careers of innumerable students. The film ‘Hostel’ is a shocking eye-opener about this evil practice and is a wake-up call for all of us.
Karan (Vatsal Seth), gets into an engineering college and takes up lodging in the so-ca ....
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Vikalp is an action thriller which talks cyber crime, hacking and terrorism. The title – Vikalp, which means “an option” in English, is a film which could have been an edge-of-the-seat thriller, but it isn’t due to average editing and an amateurish attempt in direction. Vikalp movie review...
The film is about a docile, middle class girl from an orphanage, exceptionally talented Rishika Gandhi (Deepal Shaw) who is a sort of genius in the field of computer education. She works as a code developer in an established private IT (Information Technology) company in Mumbai.
There is a serious goof up and she has to resign from her job. This Marathi medium background girl experiences turbulent times in her personal life too when her boyfriend's parents accuse her of using their son for seeking financial security.
The self respecting girl is humiliated and heart-broken. Rishika c ....
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Aashayein is a story of a compulsive gambler who discovers new meanings of fortune and life through a dramatic turn of events. It is a tale of Rahul's journey from darkness to light. A journey about love, hate, life, death and above all hope. Aashayein movie review...
Rahul Sharma (John Abraham) is an angry, confused, compulsive gambler. Wishes to live the life he has been dreaming of.
Rahul proposes to his girlfriend Nafisa (Sonal Sehgal) who is a doting, loving and a loyal friend. She wishes that love always wins. She agrees and incidentally the next moment Rahul just collapses on the floor.
It is diagnosed that Rahul has lung cancer and only a few months to live. That night without informing his girlfriend Nafisa, he leaves for a rehabilitation centre for persons with such incurable diseases. At this sick home, he meets a number of people, who, like him have a sliding health, ....
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