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Adam clay(jason statham) is a former assassin returns from retirement for revenge of the suicide of an old lady whose earnings were all taken from a scamming company.

Clichéd story, predictable screenplay and boring characters. But what makes this watchable is jason statham in action. Whenever he comes to beat the villains or kill them, its engaging. Plus it has a very crisp runtime. The guy who played child roles in zathura and firehouse dog is the main antagonist and he was great. Jason statham is as usual jason statham. David ayer direction is good.

On the whole, the beekeeper is a perfect bee grade action movie.

Ghilli, a remake of Telugu film okkadu has lot of differences. In okkadu, the dad character supports the hero in kabbadi whereas in ghilli the father is against his son playing kabbadi due to which he secretly plays kabbadi matches. The climax is also tweaked.

Vijay gives all the expressions mahesh babu failed to give. Prakash raj reprises his villain role in the original but with a twist. In okkadu, he was a serious villain performing naturally, but in ghilli he's slightly comical and over the top. Still i enjoyed him as muthupandi than obul reddy. Ashish vidyarthi for a change plays a positive role.

Vidyasagar's foot tapping music, dharani's fast paced screenplay without any dull moment makes ghilli far better than okkadu.

Rohit shetty's Indian police force is a disaster in every aspect. Rohit shetty's style of making is for frontbenchers in theatres. Ott audiences are classy and mature people. If you present such substandard product to mature audiences, they will outright reject it.

Siddharth malhotra is siddharth malhotra. Thanks to his tall and lean physique, he looks convincing in police/military roles. Vivek oberoi was stiff and artificial. The guy who played the terrorist zarar can be called anything but a terrorist. Only sharad kelkar was impressive. The only fresh thing about the show is mukesh rishi playing an indian police officer who usually plays a terrorist or Pakistani officer in these movies. Nikitin dheer who played a terrorist in sooryavanshi is a police officer in this. The girl aakruthi who was raped and murdered in simmba plays the terrorist's wife. The actress who played kajal's mom in singham and ashutosh rana's wife in simmba plays the terrorist's mother in law. So much inconsistencies in a cinematic universe.

The only plus point of the show is that it does not have any previous cop universe movie connections which would be convenient for rohit shetty to disown this from his cop universe.

Some food is there when by just getting the smell itself, you would realize its going to be a delicious food. Similarly, before going to watch Batman the animated series, i felt that i am going to watch a great show and oh boy was i wrong? Not at all.

The tone is perfectly balanced. It has dark themes but presented in a kid friendly manner without going goofy or campy. Even adults can enjoy the show. If not animation, then i could say kevin conroy as the best Batman. In live action adaptations, we have seen many actors either being good Batman but not Bruce wayne and vice versa. But here kevin conroy captures the triple personality of Bruce wayne- one as bruce wayne the public figure, one with alfred and the batman perfectly through his voice modulation. Mark hamill gives a memorable voiceover as joker with his iconic laugh.

Only drawback i felt was the show format turns repetitive - a villain comes and Batman solves everything by the end. I doubt whether its worth binge watching due to the repetitiveness.

On the whole Batman the animated series is the best tv show of all time.

Aman(Sanjay dutt) an orphan and handicap befriends akash(salman khan). Akash's parents kader khan and reema lagoo adopts amar as their son. After growing up aman starts writing poems under the pen name sagar. While visiting ooty for a company work, he meets pooja(madhuri dixit). Pooja is a huge admirer of sagar and aman falls in love with pooja. But he sacrifices his love thinking of not being a burden for her. Akash who grows up into a playboy falls in love with pooja. Knowing this aman makes akash into sagar and introduce him to pooja. Both are in love and are about to get married. But what will akash and pooja do when they come to know the truth.

The main highlight of saajan is its innocence which today's urban romcoms in Bollywood is missing. Sanjay dutt who is famous for his macho roles was refreshing in a soft role like aman. Madhuri is beautiful and always brilliant in acting. Salman was very sweet and cute as akash despite playing the role of a Casanova. Nadeem-shravan's songs are all iconic.

On the whole saajan is a very sweet and innocent feel good love story. Its innocence helps you ignore any flaws it has.

Kapil(mammootty) is a jailer in women's cell. A woman jeeva(jayaprada) enters the jail serving life imprisonment for killing yashpal singh(raza murad) who murdered her husband Shiva(rishi kapoor). In jail, she gets pregnant and gives birth to a boy munna. All the prisoners love munna like their son. Kripal singh(danny denzongpa), yashpal singh's brother swores revenge for his brother's murder by killing jeeva and munna. How kapil saves jeeva and munna from kripal singh is the rest of the movie.

Mammootty is presented in the same way as if suppose this film was made in Malayalam. He dubs for himself in this film. Though sometimes the Malayalam accent is evident, overall he handled the hindi language well.

Dhartiputra is strictly for frontbenchers and mammootty fans.

Sadashivam(MN Nambiar), a hindu and Stephen(Nagesh), a Christian once used to live happily as a family. But when their children fall in love with each other and elope, they turn into sworn enemies. Years later, their grandson raja(vijay) enters the village. Though their sons disown him, the grandparents secretly shower their love on him. When his grandma's plan for his marriage, he lies to them that he is married to a girl named nirmala devi. Later, a girl(sangeetha) enters as nirmala devi. It is later revealed that she is the actual grandchild. Who is raja? Why is he trying to unite this family is the rest of the movie.

The biggest plus of the film is its lighthearted tone which vikraman constantly maintains. The humor mostly works well. There is not any fight scene which is rare for a vijay film. Mn nambiar and nagesh were very sweet and cute as the Grandpa's.

But the main highlight is the climax, where the hero walks alone without getting the girl. A heartbreaking moment for one side lovers.

On the whole poove unakkaga is a light vein comedy family drama. Though the film doesn't end on a happy note, you won't feel upset or depressed.

I didn't have much expectations on fighter. Firstly because its an aerial action film whose director siddharth anand's previous film pathaan received major criticism for its poor vfx. Secondly, its made in a time where top gun maverick set a benchmark worldwide for aerial action films. Unlike top gun, which focused more on practical effects where tom cruise actually learned how to fly a plane, makers of fighter would have to rely more on vfx.

The plot is inspired from the 2019 pulwama attacks and balakot air strike. The script is predictable with lots of clichés and the climax was unrealistic where our hero lands exactly where the villain is. But siddharth anand's direction keeps you engaged. Vfx is good compared to indian standards.

What to say about hrithik roshan? Be it dance,action, body, looks, acting he is just perfect. Deepika padukone is nice but unlike pathaan or even jawan, she has nothing to contribute in action. She also has a generic plot of women empowerment. Anil kapoor was standard as the air force leader. The villain is okay but in the climax he turns into a caricature. Music by vishal-shekhar is average with some songs being unnecessary.

On the whole, fighter has nothing new to offer because of its template script but its all well made which makes it worth a watch.

Abraham Ozler(Jayaram), a smart police officer's wife and daughter are killed by a drug addict arjun ashokan. Their body was also not found, which leads him to suffer from insomnia and premature aging. But, the police force still allows him to be in duty. A bunch of serial killings happen and the killer is presumed to be from medical field. Ozler and his team are hired this case and how they solve and catch the culprit is the rest of the story.

Midhun manuel made this film in a very engaging way. Making might remind you of anjaam pathira but unlike anjaam pathira which was a slasher thriller with lots of jumpscare moments, ozler is a medical thriller with lots of medical terms. I guess those terms will benefit common people in future. Performances of everyone is good. Jayaram as ozler performed very well. Another standout performance was jagadeesh with the most memorable scene is his conversation with Alexander where he throws back to back thug lines.

But the icing of the cake was mammootty in an extended cameo. Once he enters, you would forget that jayaram was the hero. The casting of the young actors in the flashback was perfect. Poomaname song was perfectly placed.

First half runs in an engaging manner, second half we get a very elaborate flashback of the killer which was pretty generic. The climax leads to a sequel.

On the whole, after several attempts jayaramettan finally registers a comeback in Malayalam through Abraham ozler. Though the writing offers nothing new, midhun manuel's making, performances and ikka's cameo keeps you engaged from start to end.

A young girl Theresa(Chaithanya) is raped and slips to coma. IPS officer harish madhav(Suresh gopi) with the help of the eyewitness salam(jagadeesh) arrests professor nishanth(biju menon). The court sentence nishanth for life imprisonment. 7 years later, nishanth is released from prison losing his family, career and dignity. Nishanth appeals to high court that the investigation was done hastily and wins the case by being the advocate himself. Nishanth wins back his family and starts working as a public prosecutor. On the other hand, harish who was retired is asked to pay compensation to nishanth for framing him. Where the whole world starts believing nishanth's innocence, harish is still adamant that he is not done a mistake. Rest of the film is harish trying to prove that he was right or not.

Story of garudan is interesting and first half was pretty good. But second half loses grip were suresh gopi turns alcoholic and stubborn to prove he was right. Climax was also a bit underwhelming as the killer could have been well explored. It could have been more creepy but makers tried to play safe.

On the whole, garudan is a decent one time watch.

Itty(alencier) is a bedridden head of the family been taken care by his son njoonu(sunny wayne), wife kuttyamma(pauly valsan) and daughter in law rosy(ananya). Itty is an extremely evil person despite being waist down paralyzed, he verbally tortures his family. Even the villagers due to the misdeeds he done in his heydays. All this make everybody around wished to be dead. But itty has no plans to give up. Whether itty dies naturally, his family or villagers kill him or whether itty wakes up from his bed is the rest of the movie.

Since, my father is also physically not well and has some oldie tantrums (definitely not like itty), appan became highly relatable for me. Its a pure character oriented movie with nothing much of a plot happening. Initially, one would say alencier was not acting but living his character. But after knowing his off screen controversies, one could say that he was just being himself. Sunny wayne plays a very challenging character and he was fine. Another standout was the actress who played sheela, itty's mistress.

Appan is not a film one must watch, but one must experience.

After rajamanikyam and pokkiri raja, its Shylock where we see mammuka enjoying in performing the role. Looking at his energy in the first half, it was evident that he was having a blast playing this cinema obsessed money lender. Though all the dialogues were borrowed from Malayalam, tamil films, its the timing of placing those dialogues which makes it enjoyable. First half was superb because of ikka. It was more like the second half of pokkiri raja where ikka each time defeats the villains using his wits.

But the second half gets ruined by a very clichéd flashback with a routine revenge story. After the flashback, it looked like ajay vasudev went short of ikka's date and rushed the rest of the film. It could have been 20-30 minutes where bose elaborately takes revenge on all the villains.

On the whole, Shylock would have been a huge blockbuster for ikka, if the second half was handled well.

Azad(srk) is a jailer of woman's cell. He gathers a group of women prisoners and does several vigilante works mainly targeting weapons dealer kaalee(vijay sethupathi) and names himself vikram rathore. Special officer Narmada (nayanthara) is assigned to catch azad. Meanwhile azad's marriage is fixed with narmada itself who is a single mother.

On their wedding night, kaalee's brother attack and kidnap azad and narmada. While they are being tortured, the real vikram rathore (srk) saves azad and kill kaalee's brother. Who is vikram rathore and how is azad related to him is the rest of the movie.

Before watching the movie itself, i kept in my mind that the film would be extremely predictable and a mixture of various films. Atlee this time instead of copying other films copied his own films. But the problem is unlike atlee's previous films, jawan fails to pack an emotional punch. Only the aarariraro song evokes some emotions. Vijay sethupathi is wasted as the villain. Unlike mahendran in theri and sj suryah in mersal, vijay sethupathi's performance fails to evoke any hatred towards him. First half provided some decent entertainment but second half fails to emotionally connect us and gets very lengthy. Sanjay dutt's cameo doesn't make much impact.

On the whole, watching jawan gives you a feeling of a vijay film. But the hero is srk. Looks like atlee wanted to make this film with vijay, but since vijay was not available he went to srk. Atlee thought that north indians would not have seen his films so he mixed all his previous films into this one.

Muthuvel pandian(rajinikanth) is a retired jailer, living a peaceful life with his wife, son, daughter in law and grandson. One day, muthuvel's son who is an ACP goes missing. After several investigation, everyone assumes him to be dead. Muthu comes to know that its varman(vinayakan),an idol smuggler behind his son's murder. Muthu goes on a revenge spree against varma using his underworld connections. But varma reveals that his son is alive and kept in an unknown place. To get him back varma asks muthu to steal a crown in Hyderabad for him. How muthu steals the crown and get his son back is the rest of the film.

First half of jailer is perfect with dark humor, mass elements, emotions blending well. We could see 80% of rajinikanth as an actor in first half. Interval bang was superb.

Second half goes weak due to the heist episodes. But the fan service in the last act backed by mohanlal and shivrajkumar's screen presence were a treat. The movie ends on an emotional note.

On the whole, jailer first half was like rajini acting in a nelson film and second half was like nelson directing a rajni film. Logic goes for a toss in second half. If muthu had all india underworld connections who can blast containers and kill people using sharp shooters, why didn't he try to trace his kidnapped son's location and save him? But, Nelson has rectified all the mistakes he did in beast with jailer.

Jagruti pathak(karishma tanna) is the deputy chief bureau of the Eastern age newspaper and is always successful in getting exclusives thanks to her sources that are top cops and also people from underworld. Her life turns upside down when she is arrested for conspiring in the murder of rival journalist jaideep sen. How jagruti proves her innocence is the rest of the show.

This show is based on the true story of ex journalist jigna vora. I had not read about the real life story, due to which i felt everything fresh while watching scoop. First three episodes, show how much workaholic and passionate jagruti is on her work that she doesn't find time for her son neel. The rest three episodes were about her trial and prison days in byculla jail where she is daily harassed by rambha matha's gang because she was responsible for her to be in prison. You would feel sorry for jagruti in those sequences.

Karishma tanna was perfect as jagruti. Zeeshan ayub as jagruti's mentor imran was also great who is the only one who stands for jagruti. Harman baweja(whose films i have never seen when he was a hero) was okay. Deven bhojani was also nice as jagruti's uncle.

On the whole, scoop is a must watch show.

Thallumala directed by khalid rahman and written by muhsin parari and ashraf hamza is one movie which is formed if Edgar wright and Matthew Vaughan have a child. Thallumala comes perfectly at a time when malayalam audience were waiting for an adrenaline rush action packed film which would attract youngsters.

This movie is technically brilliant in every aspect.

Direction, editing, cinematography, locations, colour grading, fight choreography, music, background score etc.

Tovino thomas is one of the most handsome and stylish actors in malayalam and thallumala presents him in the best way possible in that. Shine tom chacko as SI Reji is also another likable character. The performances of tovino's friends were also impressive who helped the film to never go boring. The theatre fight and the wedding fight was awesome. My favorite was the wedding fight.

On the whole thallumala is a technically solid film capturing the malabar culture well. If you don't mind, the lack of story in the film then you would enjoy it.

The russo brothers were on the top of the world after endgame. Their next project cherry left us disappointed. After cherry, their next project gray man was very much anticipated.

In terms of making, the gray man is very much in the lines of the winter soldier. The name of the location shown in capital letters reminds you of civil war. Story has nothing new to offer, screenplay is predictable, there are lot of action set pieces in which the plane sequence and prague shootout was impressive. The climax action sequence lacked the punch.

Coming to performances, its chris evans as the sociopathic Lloyd Hansen who carries the acting department on his shoulders. Looks like he had a blast playing this bad guy. Ryan gosling's job was to do action scenes well and he does it with ease. Ana de armas was not given proper chance to be badass. If you ask whether dhanush was used well or not then i would say yes and no. He's given two action scenes but to cast a two time national award winning actor for just two action scenes is not actually fair. If just for action, you could have cast vishal.

On the whole, if you loved winter soldier for its making and action scenes, then you may like gray man. But if you liked winter soldier for its plot and politics, then gray man would disappoint you.

Varisu is vijay's first billingual project. Even his die hard fans were not interested in this film as all of them are waiting for leo.

Plus points are thaman's foot tapping songs and vijay's dance in them. Some combination scenes between vijay and yogi babu were nice.

The biggest negative of varisu is that its so predictable. Each and every scene you can guess what will happen next and you will be right. The film is too long. Production designs are lavish but everything looks artificial. The drama is of serial level. Even though, dad character is played by sarath kumar, his mannerisms, getup and dialogue delivery reminded me of kamal hassan in vikram.

On the whole, watch varisu without any expectations.

Back in 2019 comic-con, when kevin feige announced thor love and thunder with taika watiti returning as its director, i got very excited because i loved thor ragnarok very much. My excitement got doubled when Christian bale was announced as the antagonist marking his comeback in comic book genre after a decade.

Coming to positives, the biggest plus point was Christian bale as gorr the god butcher but he got very less screentime. Natalie portman who was absent in ragnarok returns in love and thunder as jane foster and her comeback was meaningful. Some visuals were good.

Now the biggest issue i have is that despite having so many jokes and gags none of them made me laugh. Ragnarok had several laugh out loud moments but i didn't even chuckle once at the jokes. Thor character is being made a joke film by film underestimating his might. Taika watiti fails to balance comedy and emotions, hence the final product turns into a mockery instead of parody.

Episode 1 of the romantics is the biography of yash chopra where he started his career directing films under the banner of his brother B. R. chopra. After his marriage to pamela chopra, he decided to come out of his brother's shadow and direct films individually establishing yash raj films starting with daag which proved to be successful. Then he turned amitabh bachchan as the angry young man in deewar. In 80's, yash chopra was suffering a bad time as his good films like silsila and mashaal failed due to the emergence of action masala films with south indian flavor. Also the rise of vhs reduced the footfalls in theatres. Looking at the current trend, he made a multi-starrer action film vijay which its actors anil kapoor, rishi kapoor and anupam kher revealed that he was not happy during its making. And when the film failed, he decided to make a film which he believes in and that was chandni. Chandni was a do or die situation for yash chopra and its success gave him a huge comeback.

The second episode is my favorite which focussed on aditya chopra, who hardly makes any public appearances and media shy. Adi used to watch all kinds of films in theatre and when asked he used to say, i want to learn what not to do as a filmmaker after watching every film. The most shocking fact came where karan johar revealed that in childhood there used to be a dance competition where adi comes always first and hrithik roshan second. Adi realized that he would not be a successful filmmaker in India without knowing the pulse of the Indian audience due to his western upbringing. So, one day he took all his western music CD's and dumped them and brought all kinds of hindi cds to learn indian culture. He started his career as an assistant director in chandni, then in lamhe in which he was creatively very much involved and darr, which marked Srk's first collaboration with yrf. While the making of darr, srk developed a good rapport with adi and planned to do an action movie with him. But adi wrote ddlj and shocked srk because this was not the film he intended to do. Srk, who is today known as the king of romance at that time didn't believe that he had the charm or looks to be a romantic hero and always wanted to be an action hero. But adi saw that soft side in him and was constantly behind srk because he didn't say either yes or no to do the film. Then in the sets of trimurti, he agreed to do the film after an 80 year old said to him that why you always die or kill people in films(referencing his back to back negative roles in baazigar, darr and anjaam at that time), to which adi explained to him that you can be an indian superstar unless you are a son to every mother, a brother to every girl or a friend to every man. Then we see the making of ddlj for which adi brought karan johar and uday chopra as his assistants, how he and yash chopra had creative differences while it's making where yash wanted chiffon sari on the other hand adi opted for silk sari. Srk also shared that the climax fight was added on his request to which yash chopra agreed because he loved him very much. The main reason for its historic success was due to its respect given to parents as our hero won't elope but would seek the consent of the father. Another interesting fact was where sooraj barjatya revealed that when the initial screening of hum aapke hain kaun received a negative response, adi suggested him to remove two and a half songs which he did.

Third episode begins with a prologue where all nepo actors speak about their family background(nepotism) to which adi counters the topic citing the example of uday chopra where despite their efforts they couldn't make him a successful actor. In 2000's adi decided to expand yrf by producing films of multiple genre starting with mujhse dosti karoge in which he didn't believe it to do well but agreed just because his parents loved its script. And when the film failed, adi decided to back those films only in which he believed irrespective of its success. In 2004, yrf had three successes with urban romcom hum tum, action thriller dhoom which broke the yrf stereotype of yrf being only romance and classic epic love story veer zaara. In 2005, they made bunty aur babli which started the trend of small town films in Bollywood. In 2010, they launched a newcomer named ranveer singh without any film background(though now its revealed he is not an outsider fully).

In the fourth episode, when several Hollywood studios were tying up with Bollywood producers, adi was absolutely against it. In 2005, yash chopra opened yrf studios. Adi revealed that from 2007, yrf were facing many unsuccessful films which led him to direct rab ne bana de jodi and also he took a bold decision(which worked) to not shift its release date which was two weeks after 26/11. He was disappointed with the failure of befikre citing that audience were not ready to accept such kind lf film from him. He started to handover the production responsibilities with other capable starting with maneesh sharma turning yrf's producer for dum laga ke haisha. This episode also reveals the last moments of yash chopra who passed away one month before the release of his directorial venture where adi and uday said that he wanted to die always with his boots on. The episode concludes where adi reveals his future plans for yrf in which he wants to collaborate with various international companies, bring Broadway to India and start a theme park.

Only drawbacks i found was uday chopra's accent and lily singh who was just talking like some fangirl.

On the whole, its a perfect tribute to yash chopra and his legacy. Its great that despite various highs and lows yrf is still standing strong.

Gang-tae is working as a male nurse in okay psychiatric hospital and also takes care of his elder brother sang-tae who has autism. Ko-moon-yeung is a psycho author who falls in love with gang-tae. She is behind gang-tae but gang-tae rejects all her advances. Its later revealed that gang-tae and ko-moon-yeung were in love since childhood but got seperated. Gang-tae still loves her but is burdened with the responsibility of taking care of sang-tae. Rest of the show is whether gang-tae and ko-moon-yeung unite or not?

The show has a very fresh story especially through the character of ko-moon-yeung who is eccentric and also has elements of witchcraft. There also runs a suspension regarding her parents. Gang-tae also has a character arc. He is shown initially as the caring brother but deep down he desires a lot to live like a normal man. There are lots of emotional moments and one scene which made me moist-eyed was when sang-tae says to gang-tae that their mom used to order one food item for gang-tae. Till that time gang-tae was sad that his mom doesn't love him and gave him birth just to protect his elder brother. Then gang-tae weeps knowing his mother's love. The chemistry between gang-tae and ko-moon-yeung develop really well and it turns a delight to see them onscreen, such that i wished them not to get seperated but since its a Korean show nothing can be predicted. The second last episode had elements of a thriller with a twist regarding ko-moon-yeung's mother but soon that element fades out and gets back to the drama. The finale is fully filled with feel-good and positive moments with everything getting a satisfactory closure and in the end what sang-tae does for gang-tae shows him how mature he is ending the show in an emotional note.

The two issues, i had with the show is its length. Each episode are 75 minutes long. Also there are various subplots like the hospital director, the nurse who has a crush on gang-tae, the publisher of ko-moon-yeung and his assistant, gang-tae's best friend, the nurse mother whose house gang-tae and sang-tae live as tenants, love story between the publisher and nurse etc, stories of various patients there and ko-moon-yeung's parents track. Its not that i didn't like them but i was more interested in gang-tae and ko-moon-yeung love story more and these subplots i was not much bothered.

On the whole, its okay not to be okay would have been my favorite korean romantic drama series if its length and various subplots were reduced.

In 1984 London, an aggressive Pakistani student afreen(rashmika), burns the car of an indian philanthropist anand mehta(tinnu anand) for retribution of the burning of Pakistan flag. Her college dean insists her to either apologize to him or pay inr 10 million as compensation to avoid going to prison. Afreen refuses to apologize and returns to Pakistan in order to get the compensation amount from her grandfather brigadier abu tariq(sachin khedekar). But after returning she finds out that he passed away and his lawyer reveals to her that she will get her share only if she gives a letter written by indian lieutenant ram (DQ) to sita(mrunal thakur) in India. Rest of the film is afreen's journey to give the letter and find about ram and sita's love story.

As a romantic film, sita ramam is everything what radhe shyam was supposed to be. Its gorgeous looking with two charming lead pair with beautiful chemistry and while watching them audience develop the feeling of them to never get seperated. DQ was extremely lovable as ram. He looked more handsome in the rugged prisoner look in the final act than the otherwise clean soldier look. Initially, the makers wanted to cast pooja hegde as sita but thank god she didn't because she would have never been as graceful as mrunal thakur. This film has an ensemble supporting cast from tamil,telugu and hindi industry making it a pan indian star cast.

On the flipside, various subplots highly smells of mediocrity. Infact the actual love scenes only begins after the first 50 minutes. Also there is a sense of dejavu while watching sita ramam as it reminds you of films like ghajini and veer zaara.

On the whole, sita ramam is a heartouching epic and beautiful love story.

Once upon a time in Bollywood during late 90s and 2000s, lived a king. During this time, his popularity rose to a global level such that he became literally the face of Bollywood.

But in 2010s, his rule was put at risk. His competitors, aamir and salman starting competing for the king khan status through their film's box office performance. Young generation started giving him tough competition. At this time, whatever films he did backfired, be it safe bet commercial films(chennai express, hny,dilwale) where his quality of films were questioned, experimental films(raone, fan, zero) which failed due to some flaws in the writing and if he played his popular romantic roles (jthj, jhms) audience criticize him for being too old to play these roles.

All these factors led him to take a sabbatical for the last four and a half years. He patiently waited for the perfect project for his comeback and its now available for us.

The biggest positive of pathaan is definitely SRK himself. His charisma, screen presence is more than enough to make your paisa vasool. His six pack body at 57 and hand to hand action scenes is an absolute treat. Deepika was sexy and badass at the same time giving able support to srk. John Abraham returns as the stylish villain after dhoom and race 2 giving tough competition to srk on screen. Sallu bhai's cameo as tiger was another icing on the cake make this the best combo of srk and salman after karan arjun.

But on the flip side, story has nothing new to offer, script is cliché and predictable, there is no logic and vfx are poor.

On the whole, if you are a diehard fan of srk, then you will like pathaan. If you remove srk from the film then its nothing. Looking at the current lineup of srk, i am sure he is coming to reclaim his throne.

19(1)(a) is Vijay Sethupathi's proper Malayalam debut(though he had a cameo in marconi mathai as himself). There were some decent expectations on how this film would be despite having a direct OTT release. But the movie was absolutely a drag.

Vijay sethupathi plays gaurishankar, half tamil half malayalee writer and freethinker. He is assassinated before publishing his next book. It is given to nitya menon who runs a photostat shop. How nitya gets fascinated towards gauri and his writings is the rest of the movie.

Barring nitya menon and her friend character, none of the other characters are well developed. Vijay sethupathi was like an extended cameo. His character could have been well explored but looked like the makers ran out of his dates.

Absolutely flat narration, good they released it directly on ott.

The special begins with kraglin narrating how yondu ruined Peter quill's Christmas and after that Peter never got the chance to celebrate christmas in space. Knowing this, mantis(who reveals herself as quill's half sister) and drax decide to give quill a happy christmas by travelling to earth and abduct quill's childhood hero kevin bacon. Rest of the special is how mantis and drax give quill a best Christmas.

After the violent and vulgar the suicide squad and peacemaker, james gunn returns to pg-13 MCU and shows his flexibility here too. The highlight is drax and mantis friendship which is nice to watch. Mantis is shown doing some badass action too. In the end, we get once again how yondu loved and cared for peter. Nebula gifts rocket the winter soldier arm. In the end, the way Peter embraces mantis knowing she is his sister gives this special a happy ending. On the whole GOTG Holiday special may not be very funny but it successfully captures the feel good nature of Christmas.