Reviews

Anil Kapoor, Harshvardhan, Satish Kaushik,Fatima Sana and others underplay their own characters and hits the bull's eye in this slow burner of a thriller. Excellent locations brings out the desolate, bleak and blazing milieu that the script demands of Thar,Rajasthan.

Matured handling of the principle content, this is a worth watch undoubtedly!

THE EKEN: Movie -------------------------------- A Review by Swami AD Nillanjan Nandy

No loose ends... Darjeeling captured in all it's glory... The plot definitely thickens.... Anirban and other junior cast also has done a great job in the newly released whodunnit THE EKEN, Directed by Joydeep Mukherjee... The title tugs at my purse strings to buy a roundtrip ticket to Bagdogra, and book a hotel around the Raj Bhavan Darjeeling.

Characters of Indra, Jayanta Biswas, Aditya, Bubun, Jiten comes out like Silver foil embodied on a statue, standing out all raised like hackles... The suspense is palpable...and the unseen unknown locations of Darjeeling, in drizzling rain and creepy darkness, are suuperb!

I believe, that Movies are entirely a directors medium: be it TRISHUL, KAALA PATTHAR, KABHIE KABHIE, JOHNY MERA NAAM, CHHOTI SI BAAT, ABHIMAAN, HUM KISISE KUM NAHIN, DEEWAR, BADDHAI HO, CHANDNI BAR OR ARANYER DIN RATRI.... HERE IN THE CASE OF A FUN FILLED COMMERCIAL FILM LIKE "THE EKEN" JOYDEEP MUKHERJEE HAS PROVED HIMSELF AS RISHTEY MEIN TOH HUM TUMHARE BAAP HOTE HAI.... IN FULL AND FINAL GLORY... HE GAVE US FIR IN THE PUJAS 2021, AND NOW THIS.... MY HEARTFELT THANKS SND KUDOS TO THE ENTIRE TEAM AND MY BRO, Joydeep Mukherjee !!!

RGV's AGYAAT of 2009 is still UNMATCHED in excellence till date!

Superb location, spine chilling moments and wonderful though very scary locations , makes up for this one in couple of decades SLICK and Fast Paced Movie, with No Nonsense!

The reviewers who are giving a negative publicity for this movie, should grab a producer and direct a movie which'll be a proof that they ACTUALLY KNOW THE ART OF FILM MAKING! HA HA, THEY'LL MAKE.a Movie which will at best will be a BEST TO BE FORGOTTEN DISASTER..

Before I even begin writing my review for INTERSTELLAR, let me take this opportunity to say that most of the viewers, perhaps many of them will not UNDERSTAND the film fully, I mean watching INTERSTELLAR and claiming it's title in your 'watched movie' list is one thing, and understanding this epic is another, an entirely different ballgame, really, since this film is practically layered with emotions so deep that in quite a few moments I happened to realize that I was holding my breath for so long that my chest cavity ached, and it's not because of only a few, but very effective stunning visual effects (which is a regular feature in Christopher Nolan's movies), it's because the subtle yet, very powerful emotions and moments of this film 'hits simply below the belt…' and where it really hurts! These kinds of a Movie comes once in a lifetime, and remember, it's not Jurassic Park, Titanic, Benjamin Button, Star Wars or Ben-HR, it's a simple story, a story which spans a century, spans entire lifetimes of people growing together and then again getting separated and then again coming together after many years when circumstances have changed…I cannot really put it in detail or maybe I don't know how to put it at all, but I felt a similar sort of grief and joy woven together deep inside me, when I was watching INTERSTELLAR, similar to the feeling I was having watching Forrest Gump years ago! This is basically a story of a father and his daughter and the end of mankind on Earth…of Human's search for another habitable galaxy, a story where Relativity, Time, Wormhole, Black hole, Space Travel and loss of dear ones are practically tossed, mixed and presented in the most delectable manner that I have ever witnessed! This movie is slow (2 hours 50 minutes approximately), going deep down into details, but relentlessly moving, stunning and heart-breaking at the same time. Mathew Mc Conoghuey as Cooper simply takes away all the adjectives in a vicious snatch from the critic! He's so good! Anne Hathaway and Michael Cain as both Dr. Brands along with a sinister character Dr. Mann played by Matt Damon simply add to the quality quotient of this movie; in a brief role as Copper's father, John Lithgow sparkles like a Dali sparkler. Love, Longing, Survival, Challenge and emotional ranges like Rejection, comes right out of the screen and hits the thinking viewer 'smack' in the face! This is my personal realization that Christopher Nolan purposely makes his films a little strange, hard to understand at least at one-go and bizarre- all at the same time but it's not that he constructs his films keeping in mind these attributes, it's his natural system that makes him a kind of director who makes films with multi layers and varied time- frame! A little Arthur Miller like time-play concept since his INCEPTION, MEMENTO, INSOMNIA or THE PRESTIGE! Another very important aspect of this film is definitely the music by 'Hans Zimmer' – a very thoughtful piece of work really which in-seams solo and somnolent pieces on the Piano, Stringed Instruments and different percussions and out seams with hackle raising Brass and String arrangements. INTERSTELLAR is an experience, and movie of a lifetime! A saga which will forever remain in the heart of the sensible and sensitive viewer!