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SkyForce movie review
Set during India’s 1965 airstrike against Pakistan, SKY FORCE the film centres on a daredevil maverick pilot, Squadron Leader ‘Tabby’ Vijaya (Veer Pahariya), his mysterious disappearance, and his Wing Commander’s (Akshay Kumar) relentless pursuit of the truth spanning nearly two decades. With the accent on emotional depth and expert storytelling, Skyforce is a war film Inspired by true events during the 1965 Indo-Pak War and follows the Indian Air Force’s daring airstrike on Pakistan’s heavily fortified Sargodha airbase. You should give 100 per cent credit for the wholesomeness of the film to the screenplay by Kewlani, coupled with A. Sreekar Prasad's precise editing, which ensures a tight narrative that maintains intrigue and emotional engagement, cinematographer Santhana Krishnan Ravichandran, along with action directors Craig MacRae and Parvez Shaikh, for the edge of th ....
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Airlift, hindi movie review
Airlift is about the plight of 170000 Indians stuck in Kuwait when Iraq's President Saddam Hussein attacked and annexed Kuwait. It is about one person's true grit of helping his countrymen escape from a hopeless situation in the war zone. Ranjit Katyal(Akshay Kumar) is a go-getter and ace negotiator, he hobnobs with the powers that be of Kuwait Royal family and feels and believes himself to be a Kuwaiti then an Indian. He lives a lavish life with his wife Amrita (Nimrit Kaur - pleasing) and his daughter. All this changes overnight as Iraq invades Kuwait and all his contacts in the royal family have fleed leaving the country to the Iraqi army. He is desperate to leave the country but the General in charge of Kuwait demands 100000 dollars, mean time seeing the plight of the people of Indian origin in his office and their relatives who have taken refuge in his office he has a ch ....
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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 giv ....
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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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