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8/10
Good experience but left me with questions
22 March 2024
Warning: Spoilers
Why would a mob boss not kill the girl (Naomi Watts) first ? Why go around killing other people and trying to hide the evidence. How difficult was it for the Russian ganglord to kill Naomi Watts ? She keeps going and meeting him. She screams that he is a rapist in public and yet he does nothing. He just tries to have other people around her killed. The movie is definitely good but this left me purplexed. The depiction of Russian Mafia is perfect and. Armin Mueller-Stahl as the boss looks very intimidating. The performances are spot on. The gore and violence is brilliant. It is not for the faint-hearted. If you like seeing throats being slit then this movie is for you.
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Obsession (2023)
8/10
Enjoyable watch. Excellent performances
3 May 2023
Charlie Murphy as Anna is mesmerizing. She looks the part. I would love to have an affair with someone like her and it would be worth risking everything. Richard Armitage gives brilliant expressions. He also looks the part and acts really well. The suspense unfolds slowly and there are a lot of shocking and thrilling moments. The characters are flawed and dark. Indira Varma and Rish Shah play their supporting characters well too and look beautiful. For me it was an enjoyable experience. The erotic scenes are shot very well and presented artistically. The nudity in the show never looks vulgar. It looks aesthetic and beautiful. The characters and their conversations are organic. They keep you engaged throughout the running minutes and it never gets boring.
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Modern Love Mumbai (2022– )
10/10
Sweet, breezy and beautiful.
7 June 2022
Episode 1 : Raat Rani, Fatima Sana Shaikh nails it, we can feel her freedom and happiness Episode 2 : Baai - Such a beautiful chemistry between Tanuja and Pratik Gandhi. Ranjveer Brar is brilliant too. The lovemaking scenes were a bit awkward.

Episode 3 : Mumbai Dragon . The best Episode according to me. So different and unique in its storytelling with such brilliant performances by Nasseruddin Shah, Meiyang Chang, Wamiqa Gabbi and Yann Yann Yeo. Vishal Bharadwaj directs beautifully and Anurag Kashyap cameo is the icing on the cake Episode 4 : Sarika and her exuberance of youth She looks effortlessly beautiful at this age and such a bold subject has been handled so gracefully by Alankrita Shrivastava.

Episode 5: Masaba Gupta is so natural in front of the camera and the story is so breezy and sweet.

Episode 6 : Arshad Warsi exudes such charm and he is so natural in this role. The chemistry he shares with Chitaraganda Singh is awesome. It's a relatable and practical story of a couple that carries on irrespective of their differences.

Such a beautiful show and I'm surprised no one is talking about it.
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Jersey (2022)
9/10
Beautiful film
25 May 2022
It is a beautiful film that shows a father-son relationship beautifully. The performances are excellent and the cricket looks authentic. Pankaj Kapoor is a legend and so is Shahid now.
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Wrong Number (I) (2003)
1/10
Don't waste your precious time
19 May 2022
Warning: Spoilers
Tumse Milke Wrong Number (2003)

Please tell me the meaning of the title if you understand it. It's quite deep I am sure.

People in this movie are either Paagal or Paagalon ke Doctor.

Ten reasons why you should waste your precious time on this

1) Rakesh Bapat is the hero. Yes, the same guy who died in the first 5 mins of Tum Bin,

2) Parvin Dabas, Richa Pallod , Rinku Ghosh and Vrajesh Hirjee are students in a college and they are studying to become Psychiatrists and help all the Paagals in need.

3) They constantly refer to mental patients as Paagal. Richa Pallod's father played by Benjamin Gilani is also a psychiatrist. He makes notes for his students by recording himself through a webcam on a CD. Rinku Ghosh then takes that CD for notes.

4) While recording his notes about Human brain on a CD, A paagal aadmi comes and kills the professor. He literally throws him of the roof and all this is somehow recorded on the CD. Now Rinku Ghosh is innocently watching the notes spoken by her Professor on the CD and she happens to see the Qatil.

5) You guessed it. One by One everyone is killed. If you see the Murderers face on the CD he comes to kill you almost immediately. He has superpowers to track who took the CD.

6)Rakesh Bapat has the meatiest role in cinema history. He is shown to be the hero throughout the running minutes of the movie only to be revealed as the Paagal Khooni in the last 20 minutes. He hams it up in the last 20 mins as Paagal. Covered in blood, his mannerisms change. He sniffs hard and tilts his neck (That's what paagals do I guess).

7) Kudos to him for behaving so normally throughout the movie as Benjamin Gelani tells him on his face that "You are a homicidal psychopath." I guess his English was good.

8) Wait!!!!! They have scenes of Rakesh Bapat with his mother who is asking him to bring her a beautiful bahu. Seriously, You know your son is a psychopath and you still want him to marry.

9) There are so many songs that just come unannounced as if the music videos were shot first and then they stitched some scenes around them.

10) Parvin Dabbas is shown to be the most brilliant student who always gets very high marks in his exams. They almost gave him a scholarship to study overseas. How did he not predict that Rakesh Bapat is mentally sick? How did they not use his expertise to solve this crime? They resorted to screaming Yash Tonk as the police inspector who is Richa Pallod's step brother to just be at the right place at the right time but just immediately after the murder. In the end he reaches on time as the lead actresses life is at stake He also informs her on the phone to be savdhaan with lines like "Humein abhi abhi pata chala hai ki Raj ek Paagal hai, jisne tumhare pitaji ka khoon kiya tha aur tumhare sabhi doston ko maar daala." But even after hearing this she confronts him by saying "Aur kitne jhooth bologe Raj, Main jaan gayi hoon ki tum ek Paagal Ho." and you guessed it Rakesh Bapat simply sniffs viciously and tilts his neck to transform into a villain. But dude you murdered everyone because you loved her. Anyways!!!

Watch it at your own risk because I am neither Paagal nor Paagalon Ka Doctor.
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The Batman (2022)
5/10
Long and Drags sometimes
28 April 2022
I went to see a Batman that could revive the same fun I had while watching the Christopher Nolan trilogy but sadly this one disappointed me. It is slow and it drags in parts. Highly predictable and in the end you keep checking the watch and waiting for the movie to end. Robert Pattinson does a great job as Batman but it is too sluggish and at 3 hours length it tests your patience. I did not enjoy it.
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Radhe Shyam (2022)
1/10
The Einstein of Pharmacy who believes in Flirtationship
26 April 2022
I was surprised that they spent crores to make this crappy film on a huge budget. But I will recommend you to watch this for a good headache in the stomach.

Prabhas (Bahubali fame) plays "The Einstein of Palmistry". His predictions never go wrong. He even reads the palm of Indira Gandhi and tells her that she is going to declare an emergency.

Sadly he does not have the love line in his palm so he becomes a flamboyant playboy and sleeps around with women. He says lines like "I am not the relationship type guy, I am the flirtationship type guy." He maintains a diary. But he does not write it in the past tense like us mere mortals. He writes about what is going to happen in his life today, in future tense. So if you read his diary you will come to know about the future.

Pooja Hegde has an equally crazy character. She travels frequently by train and when she sees random guys looking at her, she tells them "Can you handle my weight?" and then ties her dupatta around her waist and swings out from the train. The poor guy has to hold on to the other end of the dupatta to save her from dying. Then when she does not die she screams in orgasm and asks them for Coffee.

Our Einstein predicts that Pooja Hegde has a long life but the Doctor says she has a brain tumor and cannot be cured. So then it becomes a battle between Medical science and Palmistry and you may have guessed who wins. Science wins because they luckily suddenly find a cure for her disease. Coincidence ???

What does Pooja Hegde do after Prabhas says that he does not have the love line so he cannot love her and only flirtationship can exist ? She tries to commit suicide by running into a speeding car. Behen tereko itna mushkil se brain tumor se bachaya usne aur tu hai ki gadi ke neeche aake marna chahti hai, Well, In the end all is well because Guruji had told him that Palmistry is only 99% accurate and there is 1% chance that he will fall in love. So our hero marries the heroine.in the end.

Visual effects are great. The locations in the background are stunning The performances by Prabhas and Pooja Hegde are decent.

I personally do not believe that someone can read my palm and predict my future and hence I found the plot of this movie obnoxious. Although the fantasy genre demands you to suspend your logical brain and believe in the story.
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1/10
PreetiJhangiani plays white sari clad CGI Fireball throwing ghost.
26 April 2022
Cringe Level : 100 % (You will cringe in every scene)

This film is Produced and Directed by Manju Bharti , she also acts in this movie hence making her another Kangna Ranaut .

10 reasons why you'd love this film , if you like to binge cringe.

1. Preeti Jhangiani ( Mohabbatien Fame) stars in this movie as a supermodel who later turns into a white saree clad bhatakti Atmaa (Ghost)

2. The hero Mukesh Bharti who looks like a Sasta Suniel Shetty gives some epic cringe expressions while running his hands through his hair and his dialouge delivery is worse than Fardeen Khan and Zayed Khan.

3. Our Ghost girl chats with the hero on Facebook. Talks to him on the phone and regularly goes on dates with him but when they tell him that she was a ghost , he can't find her contact in his phone and even her Facebook ID disappears.

4. Sharat Saxena plays a modern scientific Bhoot Bhagane Wale Baba. He lives in a CGI cave with the latest computer gadgets to catch ghosts.

5. His CGI cave has doors that open and close automatically. The technology of his computers is so great that he can see the ghosts live and pull them out from their location into his CGI cave.

6. They use CGI to show how lust goes through the eyes of a character and effects his brain and he is compelled to rape.

7. Preeti Ghost Jhangiani kills a photographer by entering the lens of his camera. She shatters the camera and the eyes of the villian.

8. Preeti Ghost Jhangiani wears white Saree in the second half when we know she is a ghost but in the first half this ghost wears all kinds of dresses, does make up, has a phone, earphones and even drinks coffee.

9. In a scene inspired by Jaani Dushman. Manju Bharti turns into ghost Preeti Jhangiani on Suhaag Raat. But Sci-FI baba sees this on his computer screen and you know he can pull out ghosts anytime by touching his touch screen.

10. The final battle between Sci-Fi Baba and Bhootni Preeti is interesting. They move their hands like Dr. Strange and throw CGI fireballs at each other. Some fireballs are blue and some are green. When the fireballs hit Chui-Mui-Si Preeti , she screams in pain and Baba laughs. But then she disappears and suddenly stands behind Baba. Then she pulls out the Trishul from Kali Maa's statue and kills Baba with it .

If it was so easy to kill him why did they waste precious minutes of my life in a CGI fireball battle.

In the end she goes to heaven but before that they sing the title song of them movie "Kaash Tum Hote"

Manju Bharti and Mukesh Bharti have produced another movie called

Mausam Ikrar Ke Do Pal Pyaar Ke (2018) where they star as leads And Pyaar Mein Thoda Twist (2022) is in the pipeline. Kaun release hone deta hai aise ahead of times movies ko.
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4/10
A Domestic Help and Beggar woman's love story
26 April 2022
Directed by famous villain Ranjeet, this film stars Rahul Roy, Annu Agarwal , Deepak Tijori and Ranjeet himself. This is a violent love story of Naukar Babua (played by Rahul Roy) and a Kamsin Beggar women turned into Kamvaali Bai later (played by Annu Agarwal). The love story begins when Annu Agarwal is running away from Ranjeet who is trying to marry her for a change and not rape her but bumps into Rahul Roy's bicycle breaking his ande and ruining his tamatars..

It's commendable that just two years after Ashiqui, the lead pair took such a risk. Rahul Roy wore only Banyan, Dhoti and Gamcha and kept a thick mustache and Annu Agarwal played a hot beggar woman with a Hyderabadi accent

When Annu Agarwal goes shopping at the local sabzi mandi all shopkeepers try to look at her cleavage and are willing to give her everything for free but she reprimands them.

The Bihari accent picked by Rahul Roy and the Hyderabadi accent picked by Annu Agarwal are preposterous.

There is a comic fight between Rahul Roy and Ranjeet in which Rahul Roy outsmarts pehelwan Ranjeet by doing somersaults to escape his punches. He even slides down to a swimming pool with Ranjeet following him and screaming while sliding down. They continue this fight with a funny background score in a children's park where Rahul Roy again goes down a slide but this time when Ranjeet follows him he lands his bum on a wooden plank with nails sticking out. I don't know why such a dangerous thing was kept in a children's park.

Rahul Roy makes efforts to be rude to his Boss's children so that he changes their attitude. He helps his Malkin Tanuja's son Deepak Tijori to stop gambling away his father's money and saves Tina Baby from her lecherous boyfriend. He even fights with him using a hockey stick in another comedy fight where Tina Baby's boyfriend attacks him with his belt. Belt V/S hockey stick and an epic comedy background score which tells you that this fight scene is funny.

When Annu Agarwal is begging on the street in her designer Ghagra Choli, A man offers to take her to his Nari Niketan, but takes her to his bungalow in Mud Island instead and calls Dr. Batliwala and says this "Dr, Batliwala, Meri Batli mein ek Bulbul phasi hai, Mere Mud Island wale Bangle pe Jaldi pohocho ek double dose wala injection leke." (The contents of the injection are debatable) But his wife Guddi Maruti comes with their six children and ruins his plan.

The only sensible conversation they have is when Rahul Roy says that if he marries he will control his wife. She has to say it is day even if it is night, if he says it is day. To which Annu Agarwal replies " Aajkal Koi Poti apne marad se dabke nahin rehti, Ulta Marad ko ishare pe nachati." To which he replies "Aisan karegi to aise maarunga jaise dhobi apne gadhe ko marat hai." and a voke Annu Agarwal replies "Mera marad mereko martaa to main usko zeher deko marti"

The second half of the movie is about Rahul Roy and Annu Agarwal constantly quarreling and others like Maalkin Tanuja trying to resolve their conflicts. They get too violent and hurl abuses at each other and everyone thinks that they are perfect to be Miya Biwi.

She eventually asks Ranjeet for help and makes him her brother. Ranjeet gets emotional and Rahul Roy says "Tum Ee Gunda log ko nahin jaanat ho, Kisi ko Bhai yan Behen bana lewat hain to uske liye apni Jaan bhi de dewat hain."

Ranjeet gives them "Na Ladne ki Kasam '' and they both stop fighting and get married with Ranjeet's Ashirwaad. You get to see Ranjeet in a positive role.

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1/10
The Lead hero Manek Bedi's face couldn't make it to the posters
26 April 2022
Don't be misled by the poster- Ajay Devgn, Salman Khan and Suniel Shetty have only one scene each in the movie where Ajay Devgn plays Ajay Devgn, Bhoi plays Bhoi and Suniel Shetty plays himself.

The movie's lead hero was Manek Bedi (Son of director Narendra Bedi ). But they could not sell the movie with his face so the poor guy's face didn't even make it to the posters. The producers marketed this movie as a Salman Khan, Ajay Devgn and Suniel Shetty film and cheated the audience by showing them Manek Bedi and Nasseruddin Shah as leads instead.

Acting debut of Veeru Devgan. This was the one and only movie in which Veeru Devgan acted. He played the role of a movie director. He was actually practicing as one year later he gave us a gem called Hindustan Ki Kasam (1999)

Bhoi plays himself in an action scene and saves Gracy Singh from goons by running them over by his bicycle. Bhoi and accidents go hand in hand. The leader of the goons is Gulshan Grover. This is a movie within the movie being directed by Veeru Devgan. Manek Bedi is playing Bhoi Ka Body Double in the scene where Gullu puts fire on Bhoi's shirt and Bhoi says Jalaygaa Kya ?

Ajay Devgn has an action scene and a song. No, not two different things. He is a truck driver and It is a song in which Amrish Puri's goons attack his girlfriend who is a dhabewali and Ajay Devgn sings and fights with the goons at the same time. So much multitasking used to happen in the nineties. Singing and dancing wasn't enough in this scene they sing, dance and fight. Dishooom !!!! The dhabewali is played by Ayesha Jhulka.

Suniel Shetty has an action scene where he plays Commando Khan. He says "Us Mulq ki Sarhad Ko Koi Choo nahin sakta, Jis Mulq ki Nigehbaan Ho Aaakhen" This is interuppted by Kiran Kumar saying " Is Mulq Ki Nigehbaazi karne wali tumhari Aankhen hi nahin, Kaleja bhi nikaal lenge hum..To which Suniel shetty replies "Kalejaa nikalne waale... Kalejaa tham ke sun. And then speaks a long monolouge before fighting starts. So much patience Kiran Kumar had in those days.

The whole movie has 90s style action scenes with Sabzee ke thele falling all over the place.

Nasser Sahab hams it up in this one. His character has rainbow shades. It keeps turning 360 degrees. Good to bad and back to good.

Tiku Tulsania laughs during serious scenes and makes them laughable. He plays Madhoo's father. He says lines like "Meri beti ko phisslakar, Meri Tijori mein Phissalna chahte ho?" and "Bohot achi tarah jaanta hun tum jaise naujawano ko, Jo Chalte hain Pathar ki sadak par, Lekin Chahte hain Noton ki Sadak."

Manek Bedi's voice is dubbed very badly. Infact everyone's voice is dubbed badly. He has no job and his brother is in jail. He is desperately seeking a job so he just randomly walks into a movie set and speaks to the director and says "Kya yeh shot main de sakta hun. Main skating school chalata hun, Bachon ko skating sikhata hun." To which the director replies "Areh Waah Skating janta hai, Isko Tayyar karo shot ke liye".

Veeru Devgan has an action scene where he says to the goons "Amitabh, Akshay, Sunny, Suneil' sabko fighting sikhai hai maine. The goons reply "Sher ke mooh se niwala chenega" to which he replies "Cheene ko main tumhari Jaan bhi Cheen Loon, Ration Card se tumhara naam bhi cheen loon."

The main villains are Arjun and Mohan Joshi. They are known for hammy performances.

Because Mohan Joshi says "Ek bohot secret conference hai hamare faraamhouse par, Duniya ke kone kone se terrorist hamare faaram house par aa rahe hein. Duniya bhar mein Bumm Bilaasht karne ka contract humein milne wala hai."

Famous movie director Umesh Mehra (Soni Mahiwal, Sabse Bada Khiladi) makes a special appearance as Movie director

Director of OH MY GOD! Umesh Shukla makes an appearance as a corrupt cop.
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Agneekaal (1990)
2/10
Abbas Mustan's debut Hindi venture
26 April 2022
This film starred Jeetu Ji (in a special appearance ), Madhavi , Aashif Sheikh , Sonu Walia, Sadashiv Amrapurkar , Joginder, Kiran Kumar and Raj Babbar.

Special aspects in the movie are as follows

1) Raj Babbar is Zanjeer Wala Policeman who literally wears a Zanjeer around his waist . He hits the villians with that Zanjeer and then puts the Zanjeer around their necks to take them to police station. Sadly he makes an entry only in the second half of the movie.

2) Madhavi is stikler for Insaaf and Kanoon and her boyfriend is rich Industrialist Jeetu Ji. But fate has other plans, Sadashiv Amrapurkar's South Indian son who is also a cop wants to rape her. So when he tries, Jeetu Ji stops him but Jeetu Ji is killed and falls near the Indian flag. To take revenge Madhavi uproots the hoisted national flag and kills the Sasta Rajnikanth with it.

3) Sadashiv Amrapurkar and Joginder can only think about either rape or killing. The movie starts with Joginder killing a cop who has come to arrest him. Before killing him he puts newspapers mentioning all acts of bravery of this policeman on his face.

4) Joginder has a special scene. When his goons are beaten by Raj Babbar. He makes them all become murga in a line and then he crawls behind them to talk to them. His dog is sitting on his back while he crawls. He even crawls under them while talking to look at their face and scold them.

5) Madhavi goes to prison holding a tiranga in her hand. She fights elections from prison and wins against Sadashiv Amrapurkar but when she is giving a bashan after winning she is shot dead. After getting three bullets she still continues with her speech and encourages the mob to kill Sadashiv Amrapurkar.

6) The mob digs a grave and they want to bury him alive but Raj Babbar stops them and says Iska Insaaf Kanoon Karega

7) The famous garba song Pankhida is remixed with Angrezi beats and sounds terrible. The only respite being Udit Narayan's voice.

8) Performances - Madhavi is decent in emotional scenes. Raj Babbar looks good while talking but action scenes don't suit him in my opinion. Sadashiv Amrapurkar and Tinnu Anand Ham it up. But Joginder steals the show with his hamming.

9) Kiran Kumar plays a corrupt DSP. For some reason Kiran Kumar has a house with a Swimming Pool in Bharatnagar and his wife Kunika wears a bikini and swims in it. You guessed it right Sadashiv Amrapurkar and Joginder try to rape her but she chooses to jump from the terrace and die.

10) Just when you thought the movie will end, it ends. There is no twist. I was waiting for the twist since it was an Abbas Mustan movie but the movie ended. Also everyone who is dying actually dies and there is no double cross.

On a serious note it is a good one time watch if you ignore the hammy acting.
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2/10
The first 5 mins are really important.
26 April 2022
This movie took seven years to finish. They started shooting in 1987 and the movie was released in 1994. So you will see Shatrughan Sinha getting chubbier through the film and Sanjay Dutt getting bulkier through the film. Sanjay Dutt's hairstyle keeps changing in every scene. In fact in one scene he enters a party sporting short hair and leaves the party with long hair. Speaking of hairstyles - Gulshan Grover has a unique hairstyle in this movie. He has returned from abroad so he has coloured the left side of his scalp RED and the right side is Silverish but the hair at the back are BLONDE. Only Gullu bhai could carry such a hairstyle.

The first 5 mins are really important. If you miss them then you will never understand the family tree of this movie. I will try to explain it so that you don't get confused

Geeta is a widow. She has a curly haired tweenage son from her first marriage. She marries Kulbhushan Kharbanda now. He is a famous lawyer. He slaps his step son so many times that he leaves the house and says "Bada Hoke Lautoonga , Apna Badla lene"

Beena is married to Pinchoo Kapoor who is a judge. Beena's brother Kader Khan wants her to hook up with the young hotshot lawyer Kulbhushan Kharbanda. So Beena seduces Kulbhushan by offering him a drink and by touching his fingers while he takes the drink.

Then the famous Hasan Jahangir song "Hawa Hawa" plays in the party. Kader Khan gets Pinchoo Kapoor drunk while Kulbhushan and Beena do Koochie Koochie.

Now it's late at night. They drop a drunk Pinchoo Kapoor on the sofa and go to the bedroom to continue their Koochie Koochie. But for some reason instead of using the King size bed, they stand their the window and Wafadar Driver Kaka sees them in the act and goes and complains to Maalkin Geeta.

Geeta comes and rings the doorbell and Pinchoo Kapoor wakes up. He opens the door and she says "Mere Pati Ko Bahaar Bhejo". Pinchoo Kapoor replies "Aapka Pati Yahan kya kar raha hai" to which she replies "Woh mujhe nahin pata, Bas itna pata hai ki woh aapki Jawaan biwi ke bedroom mein hai."

Pinchoo Kapoor goes there with a gun and catches them half naked. But Kulbhushan is young and he snatches the gun and shoots Pinchoo Kapoor. Geeta comes running and says "Is badchalan aurat ke chakkar mein aapne khoon bhi kar diya?"

While saying this she takes the gun in her hand and Beena gets a brilliant idea to frame her for the murder. So Geeta goes to jail.

But surprise surprise Geeta was pregnant with Kulbhushan's child.

So she gives birth to a boy in Jail.. Then Driver Kaka adopts that kid when he is five years old. Driver Kaka has a daughter named Rani and this boy is called Raja.

So the boy grows up to be Sanjay Dutt. The Girl grows up to be Farha and the curly haired son of Geeta who left the house earlier becomes Shatrughan Sinha.

Shatrughan is an underworld don who hides from police under the garb of Dharmatma (a saint) Shekhar Suman plays a cop whose education has been sponsored by Sanjay Dutt. I don't know how he did that because his source of income is through Roadside tamasha where Farha walks on a rope and he shows magic and collects money.

Then there is Sonam. Sonam is driving in a flashy car with Gulshan Grover and they accidentally bump into Sanjay Dutt's Bicycle. Sanjay Dutt gets offended when Gullu bhaiya says "Tum Gareeb Log Hamesha Ameer Ka Gaadi Ke Saamne Aaata hai." (read it like Bob Christoe would). In anger Sanju baba single handedly breaks the windshield of the car with the bicycles handle and it crashes into pieces to which Sonam says "Pehli baar kisi mard se paala pada hai, I like you." So all those wannabe majnus , this is how you become a man. Try it next time you see a girl in a fancy car, break the windshield with your bicycle's handle.

Then Sonam invites Sanjay Dutt to her birthday party. But Sanju baba and Farha tell her that they are Badnaseeb Gareebs and they won't be able to mix in. But in the party they stop the western music and start singing themselves. The song goes like " Ek aur Do - Idhar Dekho.. Teen aur Char - Main hoon woh Naar. Paanch Aur Che- Nigahon Se , Saath aur aaath - Jigar do Kaaat (whatever that means)."

I don't know why I was still watching but then the movie becomes a love triangle between Sonam, Sanjay Dutt and Farha. There are few more unlistenable songs. Then finally the movie turns into a courtroom drama as Beena is murdered and Sanjay Dutt is arrested for her murder.

Sanjay Dutt and Shatrughan Sinha always enter places by jumping through a glass.. The glass pieces shatter everywhere but never hurt them. Also Sonam is Beena's daughter but she calls Kulbhushan Kharbanda as Uncle and not Step-Daddy , probably because they wanted to show her love triangle with Sanju Baba.

Now Sanjay Dutt is presented in court and Sonam is fighting his case. She tells the judge to give her 10 mins because Asli Khooni will reveal himself in 10 mins. They actually show the clock and everyone looking at their watches.

So who will be the Asli Khooni , Everyone is a suspect. I couldn't wait for 10 min as I fell asleep. You can find out.
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Karan (1994)
2/10
This was a launchpad for Vindu Dara Singh as leading man
26 April 2022
This stormy love of a warrior brought such a storm in Vindu's life that he didn't get a movie for 10 years.

The movie starts with our hero Karan who is a karate champion but he participates in a strange Karate competition where they are doing Kushti in Dangal style in a boxing ring.

I found it very difficult to name the sport. I looked like generic karate but Vindu would suddenly give a Dhobi pachadh to his opponent and when the opponent would fall, the referee would whistle and start counting to ten.

But anyways this championship is won by Vindu. The actress in this movie is Trishna who is popular in college because she is a rich Anupam Kher's daughter. The corrupt politician's (Prem Chopra) son (played by some sasta 90s ka Villian) fancies her and wants to marry her because she looks hot.

She has some bold scenes (for perverts ). She also showers under a waterfall. She falls in love with Vindu because he refuses to be her Dance partner in the college dance competition.

So she tries to seduce him with a song. The actual lyrics are "Mera Peecha Chodne ka tum, Kitna Rupaiya Loge ? " " Bolo Ek Rupaiya, Yan Do Rupaiya, Yan teen Rupaiya, Yan Poora Chaar Rupaiya" . Vindu actually dances with notes of 1 rupee. First one note, then two notes, followed by three notes and finally four notes.

And she replies " Pyar ko paise se tole, Tu kaisa Anari hai. Khel pyar ka na Jane, Tu kaisa khiladi hai... This song is sung by Kumar Sanu and Lata Mangeshkar.

Then he finally succumbs to her seduction. But she insults the minister's son by giving him a chamaat. Now minister's son wants to marry her. So she insults Prem Chopra when he brings rishta.

So Prem Chopra wants to plants drugs in Vindu's mom's hotel through Kiran Kumar and gets her arrested. But Kiran Kumar and Sasta Mohnish Behl kill her instead.

Now Vindu gets jailed in drugs case and in the jail he meets Dara Singh. Dara Singh plays two characters in the movie. He is the Police Commissioner and he plays a prison inmate too. He says lines "Jab tak Puls (Police) ki maddad nahin karoge, Puls tumhari madad kaise karegi. "

The prison inmate Dara Singh's voice has been dubbed by someone who sounds like Pran. So you see Dara Singh but you hear Pran.

Ashok Saraf plays a Sindhi businessman and he speaks exactly like bollywood think Sindhis speak with their lines starting with Vari Sai and ending Aao Nee and Jao Nee.

There are no surprises. Vindu escapes from jail and takes revenge with Raza Murad, Kiran Kumar, Prem Chopra and Sasta Mohnish Behl.

The climax is different because all main characters are tied up in the villian's den. (This sounds like a trope) . No, it is different because there is a running attempt to rape. Yes, the sasta Mohnish Behl tries to rape Trishna but she runs so he runs and keep tearing her clothes. It is followed by climbing stairs rape and finally stuck in balcony rape. The final try makes it easy to Vindu to save the girl who is hanging from the balcony and the villian falls over. In the end there is happy ending.

Anupam Kher has such a layered character that he is a good guy but pretending to be a bad gut throughout the movie.

Vindu Dara Singh was actually decent in comparison to the other actors in this movie but I cracked up at the dialogue where he almost kills Kiran Kumar but says this " Mere Jism par ab tak us Vaishi Darinde ne Kabzaa Nahin Kiya, Jiski Pyaas Insaan Ke Khoon Se Bujhti Ho." and let's him go.

In the end he still marries this girl jiske chakkar mein itna bawaal hua.
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1/10
Abla Naari's Cry fest that spread like a pandemic in the nineties
26 April 2022
This is not a movie. It is a cry fest. You can see Juhi Chawla laughing only in this poster, not in the running minutes of the movie. She cries throughout the movie and then mocks us in the poster. The plot is just showing us the sad story of a suffering and sacrificing woman. The only problem here is that this woman keeps finding a reason to suffer and give sacrifices. She does not take a moment to think that she has suffered too much. As an audience we are deriving sadistic pleasure if we are enjoying this movie. I am glad women don't watch such regressive content anymore, Wait!!!!! Ekta Kapoor's serials..... Dhin Ta-Na-Nana blares into my ears with Thisssshhhh Thisssssh soundtrack and a camera zooming in my face to capture my expression.

Well, You must have heard that some animals eat their own children somewhere. This movie reverses the plot. Here children are parent eaters. Anupam Kher is upset because Juhi Chawla ate her own mother while she was being born. "Paida hote hi, apni Maa ko Kha gayi."

He refuses to look at her because she brings bad luck. He remarries and the Atyachari Nari Bindu makes life hell for Juhi. The only respite is her half brother Deepak Tijori but he loses his left hand in an accident after she ties him rakhi on the right hand, that's unbelievably accurate occult science she is capable of. She gets beaten and cries the millionth time in the movie.

Then she gets married to Rishi Kapoor and he is a good guy but he is under parental pressure and he is an army man so he can't stay at home to protect her, he has the nation to protect.

Juhi is again mistreated and she cries.

Later she faces trivial problems that women face, pote ka mooh dikhao, Abhi tak bacha kyun nahi hua, Kahin teri bahu baanjh to nahin ???? . She gets pregnant but her same sasuma who wanted a pota, makes sure that she works without a break and suffers a miscarriage.

Rishi Kapoor now consults the doctor and knows that could be complications if she gets pregnant that she could die in childbirth. He chooses not to disclose this relevant information to his mom. He also adds insult to the injury when he gives in to Juhi's seduction. Juhi's sacrificing nature cannot be matched. She knows that she might die in childbirth but knowingly gets pregnant.. Her sasuma throws her out of the house and she delivers a baby in a barn. Then gives the baby to her sasuma and Rishi Kapoor reaches just in time for her to die in his arms. Juhi suffers and dies with ease because by now she is a pro at crying and suffering.

Moral of the story :All the women out there, Please do not follow her. She is in no way the ideal Naari. Don't be an abla, bajao sabka Tablaa. Crying and suffering is a thing of the past. Watch movies like Thappad for better results.
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Love Hostel (2022)
9/10
Brilliant casting choice to cast Bobby Deol as Dagar
29 March 2022
Warning: Spoilers
A brilliant casting choice to cast Lord Bobby as the menacing Dagar.

He nails the role. He was genuinely scary in the movie. He portrayed the shades of a psychopath and a fanatic brilliantly. His emotional turmoil didn't convince me at the end. Also his love for that specific dog because he killed another dog with a grin on his face. Probably because this specific female dog called Bijlee had some connection with Badal.

Problems I had with this movie.

1. The main policeman played brilliantly by Raj Arjun knows that Dagar will attack the Boy's family , the lawyer who helped them to get married and the witness. He even warns the witness and asks her to be safe. But there is not a single policeman present at their house for their safety. Dagar easily enters their house with a gun in his hand.

2. Dagar enters a safe house allotted by the court to the couple. There are so many policemen present. Dagar sits calmly and says his dialogues and the policemen don't even try basic self defense.

3. No one tries to fight Dagar, they simply give up and let him shoot.

4. The climax came out of nowhere. It felt abrubt and more like an after thought.

5. Sanya Malhotra is shown fierce but her reaction is the same when she sees Dagar.

6. They were running around with a bag full of money but they never thought about flying to another country or using that money to escape somewhere.

Bobby Deol was so brilliant that I absolutely hated Dagar.
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200: Halla Ho (2021)
8/10
Well told story but with lots of loose ends.
17 February 2022
Warning: Spoilers
I personally did not like the loose ends in the story. How can 200 woman run in and run out without being caught after a heinous crime in a courtroom. A man and his goons raping women for 10 years and still get away with it. This idea is too far fetched. Sahil Khattar played the psychopath really well. Why was there no investigation into the death of Barun Sobti's character. Why was the policeman who supported Bali let off so easily ? Too many questions and the ending was abrupt.
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Looop Lapeta (2022)
10/10
Brilliant
4 February 2022
Taapsee and Tahir Raj Bhasin steal the show. The script is brilliant. The characters are hilarious. The twists and turns keep you at the edge of your seat.
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Encanto (2021)
10/10
Full of magic
2 February 2022
I Love this movie it teaches us to love family and I love the special effects. I love the music 🎶. I love the characters especially the magical powers of all the characters. They have shown the magic so beautifully. I love the editing and the ending is superb too. It has a great message about family values.
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6/10
A Decent thriller
31 January 2022
The first installment was a psychological thriller. I was blown away by the movie and the premise. The twist at the end was brilliant. This one was fun to watch but it could not give me enough surprise elements. I could predict the movie and the end easily,
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1/10
I'm surprised by the high ratings
29 November 2021
I think Divya Khosla Kumar got to the T-series bots to notch up the ratings on this pathetic movie, Milap Zhaveri is dangerous, he needs to be stopped immediately. He is making trash and he lives in an alternate reality where he thinks he is making massy entertainment similar to Manmohan Desai. Entertainment is far away from this movie,. It is a cringe worthy ,chest thumping jingoistic patriotism. Please ban Milap Zhaveri or we will have two more sequels of this one with 4 and 5 John Abrahams consecutively.
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Mumbai Diaries (2021– )
8/10
Engaging but slightly over the top
10 October 2021
Some scenes are really over the top. The real life drama was so spine chilling that they could have kept it subtle. But they chose to over dramatize the events and make it like a daily soap.
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5/10
Too childish
10 October 2021
Jumpscares, Running, plotting to fight, running, Jumpscares, more Jumpscares.

The protagonists keep running throughout the running minutes of this movie. Disa pointing.
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High Crimes (2002)
7/10
The cliched climax
8 October 2021
Warning: Spoilers
It is engaging throughout but the climax ruined it for me. If her husband was really the killer who went on a rampage and his psychotic. Why was she being followed? Why did they come to her house to beat her up if they were not guilty? Why did they beat Grimes (Morgan Freeman) at the pub? Why did they attack them by splashing oil on their car and making them meet with an accident ? Why did the witness. Troy Abbott (Micheal Shannon) lie that he was forced to be a witness ? Too many unrealistic ideas

Finally why would he still try to kill Ashley Judd and have fresh charges of murder placed on him. He has just come out of jail.
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10/10
An Inspiring true story
17 September 2021
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind

When you watch this movie, you realize that we are all getting stressed over trivial issues. The real problems exist in these small villages in Africa. I was traumatized to see them fighting for food or counting the days they could survive without food. A windmill may not seem like a big thing to us as we are sitting in comfortable air conditioned offices and one day if the Aircon does not work, we start thinking about how stressful our life is.

But this boy who harnessed the wind against all odds to build a windmill for his village is inspiring millions to carve their niche and fight against all odds to be successful,
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Funny People (2009)
8/10
Not the usual Adam Sandler
27 August 2021
I was expecting another nonsensical comedy by these actors but this is a serious movie with lots of cool comic dialouges.

Lots of pop culture references and in the end you feel for the characters and their choices.
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