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Jolly LLB 2 Movie Review: For It Ain’t A Jolly Good Story

There are times when one chances upon Damini, Kanoon or Waqt being broadcast on a TV channel or pops in the DVD or VCD of a movie like Yudh, Andha Kanoon or Shahenshah, and notes with amusement, the highly farcical nature of the proceedings in a courtroom. You have the crusading hero who prefixes every argument with flaring nostrils and an impassioned plea of Milord (or Milaaaawwwrrrd depending on who the hero is) or berates the court for making him stand up date after date, a sneering defense lawyer who only exists to object to everything in the most ham-handed way possible. And not to forget the extremely grumpy looking judge who looks like he would rather be home taking a nap, rather than watching the hammy proceedings in front of him.Continue reading “Jolly LLB 2 Movie Review: For It Ain’t A Jolly Good Story”

Nil Battey Sannata Movie Review: A Tale of Desires and Boundaries

I have often wondered how much do we know about the lives of the people doing odd jobs all around us. Be it a driver, a maid servant, a watchman etc, do we know anything apart from their names in the first place? They are the ones who ensure that our lives go on unaffected in the best possible ways.  But do we care to know what their desires are? Or what they would like to do for the people in their family? Sometimes people tend to care a lot for their pets but end up ill-treating the people working for/with them, how is this justified in the first place? No one voluntarily takes up a job which comes with low self esteem, it’s a function of fate and one’s helplessness that sees one take up an assignment like this. So it’s amazing to see people from socially and economically downtrodden backgrounds managing to remain hopeful of a better future and work their way towards the same. Continue reading “Nil Battey Sannata Movie Review: A Tale of Desires and Boundaries”

Piku Movie Review: “Bhaskar nahi, Bhaskor!”

Recently, I’ve been playing this game on facebook – in which I say my favourite thing about the people who ask me to. It is lovely, emotionally draining and cathartic. More relevantly, though, it has become a parade of me asking myself, why am I sad I’m not this person? Why can I not even conceivably be this person? And that is usually my favourite thing about that person; this is not an accident – Elementary‘s Sherlock Holmes agrees with me:

one of the things I’ve gained from our collaboration is a working definition of the word “friendship.” Friendship, I’ve come to believe, is most accurately defined as two people moving towards the best aspects of one another.

Not long after I played this game (well, began playing this game; I still have two people left), I was watching Shoojit Sircar and Juhi Chaturvedi’s Piku.Continue reading “Piku Movie Review: “Bhaskar nahi, Bhaskor!””

Piku Movie Review: ‘Motion Se Hi Emotion’ an Honest Tagline for an Honest Film

Imagine you are on a date with someone, perhaps this is your first date with him/her and unfortunately you go on to discuss things related to excretion and bowel movements due to some unavoidable reason right in front of the person. How do you think the date would work out? In Shoojit Sircar’s Piku there’s a scene when Piku (Deepika Padukone) meets a guy (Akshay Oberoi) on a date and later leaves the place frustrated along with her friend and business partner, Syed Afroze (Jisshu Sengupta). Piku confides in Syed that she didn’t like the guy whom she met for dinner and states reasons like he doesn’t watch Satyajit Ray films 🙂 etc to support her decision, while Syed only asks her one question-did she talk to her dad while her date was on? You will need to watch the film to understand why such a simple scene like this clearly conveys the crux of the tale so wonderfully.Continue reading “Piku Movie Review: ‘Motion Se Hi Emotion’ an Honest Tagline for an Honest Film”

Piku: A Quick Review

Piku PosterJust like the name is an esoteric movie. You can narrate its story in a moment as it doesn’t have a ‘definitive storyline’. Yet its story is the daily life of its characters- Dee’piku’, her constipated father -Bhaskor Banerjee (played by  Big B) and the taxi owner Rana Chowdhury effortlessly enacted by Irrfan Khan.Continue reading “Piku: A Quick Review”

Bhootnath Returns Movie Review: The Friendly Ghost Turns Socially & Politically Active

Bhootnath Returns PosterBhootnath (2008), directed by Vivek Sharma was a loose adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s The Canterville Ghost, which was reasonably appreciated for its engaging tale of a friendly ghost Bhootnath aka Kailashnath (Amitabh Bachchan), the lovable brat Banku (Aman Siddiqui) and his mother Anjali Sharma (Juhi Chawla). It was a slight departure for Bollywood where one usually associates the presence of a ghost in a film with out and out horror/supernatural thriller element and not with a supernatural comedy. Post Bhootnath the producer Ravi Chopra and his firm, the legendary B.R.Productions have been saddled with a series of health issues and financial and legal impediments respectively. Hence with the sequel to Bhootnath i.e. Bhootnath Returns getting announced, it was but only expected that there would be a lot of expectations from the movie. Would the sequel be able to appeal to the family audience and kids in particular like the previous film? Would the film be able to help Ravi Chopra and B.R.Productions to sort out most of their financial issues? And most importantly how does it feel to see the one and only Amitabh Bachchan in the centre stage in a movie after quite some time?Continue reading “Bhootnath Returns Movie Review: The Friendly Ghost Turns Socially & Politically Active”

Madras Cafe Movie Review: A film not to be missed, for anything, by anyone

Madras CafeIn the last scene of Madras Cafe, this week’s anticipated release, the lead character of the film recites a famous Rabindranath Tagore couplet that talks about a free nation. Save for this dramatic outburst, Shoojit Sircar’s fictionalized dramatization on the backdrop of real-life events in Madras Cafe, sticks to its guns and does not play to the gallery.Continue reading “Madras Cafe Movie Review: A film not to be missed, for anything, by anyone”