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Club Dancer, hindi movie
Rajbeer Singh (Hatim star), Judi Shekoni of 'Twilight' fame and the doe eyed Nisha Mavani feature in CLUB DANCER, an action thriller. The premise is honest, let down by the story telling and the editing. Judi Shekoni of the Hollywood super hit TWILIGHT fame is here for a few "spellbinding" moments. Nisha Mavani and Rajbeer Singh (enacted the title role in HATIM) the film comes from one of the oldest banners FILMALAYA which made the evergreen superhit films like Dil Deke Dekho, Ek Musafir Ek Hasina, Love in Simla, Leader, Ek Baar Muskura Do and Teesri Aankh to name a few. Ria (Nisha Mavani), a vivacious night club dancer in Mumbai is aware of her parents concern (Shakti Kapoor and Zarina Wahab) for her and hence she has concocted a story that she has already married a young man in Mumbai and is a house wife. One day her mother calls her informing her of her father's heart attack and ....
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Ghayal Once Again - Movie review
An action packed fast paced thriller, ought to appeal to the youth. This is what Ghayal Once Again is about. Ajay Mehra (Sunny Deol) is back after serving prison sentence for killing Balwant Rai. The film opens with flashbacks of Ghayal. Ajay begins a new career as a news editor of an independent newspaper. He doubles as a vigilante who assists the police with their hard-to-prosecute cases (including cases where the accused are prominent and influential members of society). Post his release from the prison, he suffers anxiety attacks with flashes of his painful past where his wife and family members are killed. Treated by a neurologist - psychiatrist Dr Riya (Soha Ali Khan), he returns to normalcy except that the fire to fight the system remains inherent in him. A small town reporter Renu is drugged and raped by her boss. She commits suicide as her innocent boyfriend is fram ....
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Bumper Draw - Hindi movie review
A hilarious film centered around two pivotal characters – Farooque a cabbie & William the conman. A third funny character Sunderlal (a villager) who comes to Mumbai in search of a job gets involved with them in a strange situation. This comedy drama has been shot in real locations in all over Mumbai which features Mahim slums and the Bhindi Bazaar in South Mumbai. The film begins with an old Parsi Man Pestonji who narrates his tale to a Television Channel, the adventure which begin with Farooque's taxi accidentally knocking off the old Parsi gentleman. The burden of getting him treated with First-Aid falls on them else, the crowd would run riot with the cab driver as usually it happens in Mumbai. As it is the taxi driver and William are having a hard day with William being duped of 10 Lakh Rupees by his girlfriend who vanished overnight with the dough. William used to organize a ....
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Jaatiwad - hindi movie review
JAATIWAD does deliver a strong message about how our legal system time and again fails to deliver justice on time. It is an action-drama film with a message to end the communal rivalries. "JAATIWAD" which means Casteism is the centre of the story of this film which is about two groups in the College elections, which are backed by respective Political parties. These wily politicians breed the new generation of Politicians right from their college years. This brings fresh force for them at a great bargain. A new set of party workers, who are more aggressive and obedient towards their seniors. The motive behind this is to manipulate these youngsters for their political gains. Director Sabir Shaikh and Producer Anand Kumar Gupta have managed to get a solid supporting cast for JAATIWAD high on drama with really over the top dialogues. First half of JAATIWAD is stands a tense, dark, toxic ....
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Janiva - Marathi film review
Mahesh Manjrekar's son Satya makes his debut in Janiva, a thriller drama Marathi film. Janiva, which means realization, is a story of a young boy, Sameer Deshpande (Satya Manjrekar), who is very sensitive and believes in working for charities and helping others. The film begins with Sameer, a teenaged college boy reporting of a murder at a Police station. Without any regrets, the cool headed lad informs the duty Inspector that he has committed the murder himself. Then the film goes into flashback and goes on back and forth narrating the chain of events why this young lad had to take this extreme step. Five teenagers lead a fun filled life, celebrating birthdays, frolicking around sometimes on their skate-boards. This bunch of five is a fun loving group owns a rock band who spreads social awareness through their new lingo songs and also raises fund for various social cause and with t ....
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Badlapur - Hindi movie review
A dark thriller with its unique story telling approach gathering momentum with its pace, BADLAPUR has its magnificent camera work and superlative performances from Varun Dhawan, Nawazuddin Siddiqui and Huma Qureshi. Yet another spine-chiller from Sriram Raghavan who earlier made a notable revenge drama - Ek Hasina Thi (2004) and an out-and-out thriller - Johnny Gaddaar (2007). Badlapur doesn't preach, has no message, it is just a plain thriller which has an unpredictable ending. Raghu's (Varun Dhawan) turns upside down when his wife Misha (Yami Gautam) and son Robin are shot dead (un-intentionally) by the thieves during a bank heist and who ultimately escape. One of them Liak (Nawazuddin Siddiqui) is apprehended by the police, but doesn't reveal the identity of his fellow mate, mentioning that it was the other person who shot the innocent at the bank. Liak claims that he hardly ....
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Rang Rasiya hindi movie review
Raja Ravi Verma had hiterto been an enigma to the common populace. For a child of all generations for over the centuries. His paintings on Gods have adorned many a temples and private mandirs in millions of homes across India. Raja Ravi Varma was a renowned Indian painter and artist in the late 19th century who achieved recognition for his paintings depicting scenes from Indian literature and mythology including the epics of Mahabharata and Ramayana. He is considered among the greatest painters in the history of Indian art and his paintings are considered to be among the best examples of the fusion of Indian traditions with the techniques of European academic art. The movie is about his life, which was as colourful as his paitings. The movie is recounted as a flashback and the narrator being is his brother, who has been through all his thicks and thins of his life. The movie charts t ....
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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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Humpty Sharma Ki Dulhania
It depicts the new generation and its instinctive reactions to various situations they experience. For the college going, this film would be welcomed. For their parents it would come up as a shocking revealation of the behaviourial attitudes of the present generation. Humpty Sharma Ki Dulhania movie review... The girl is in command here. The boy adjusts himself to whims and fancies of his sweetheart. There are moments where the father gives in to his daughters demand of having a Designer attire at her wedding, which costs the same value as a new car in the market. Then there is a situation where the boy announces of his 'birthday get-to-gether' where the girl outbeats him in gupling down bottles of beer. In fact, it is the female protagonist who is shown as outgoing and even more agressive than the boy. Here, the boy insists on seeking the blessings of the girl's parents before ge ....
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Citylights - Movie review
A touching film based on the life of Deepak Singh in Rajasthan who comes to the City of Dreams - Mumbai with his wife and daughter in hope of a better life. CITYLIGHTS - movie review... The film CITYLIGHTS is a remake of the BAFTA nominated British film Metro Manila (2013). Deepak Singh (Rajkummar Rao) was in the army much earlier. As he wanted to be with his family, he quits the job and sets up a cloth store in Rajasthan. Being unlucky, his debts go on piling on with compounded interest which finally leads to shutters down on the shop. He has nothing to do. Nowhere to go. When his life struck by a tragedy, he migrates to Mumbai, with his wife Rakhi (Patralekha) and young daughter Mahi, hoping for a better life. Being naïve, Deepak has only a single lead as a source, that of his  friend Omkar who had come to Mumbai, some time ago. However, upon arriving, he soon discovers ....
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