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Shamshera (2022)
Absolutely stunning. Needs more love than it got
I saw the dismal ratings of this movie but Ranbir Kapoor's name gave me the courage to give it a go. And i was thoroughly delighted with the story, production design and music too. Not sure what people are cribbing about but it has everything that hollywood fantasy fiction will have. Indians shoild really give more credit to our own industry when they try something like this without getting biased against it.
A Marvels movie with half of the strength in story or acting of Shamshera would be a superhit but when some of our own creators try it, we put them down. This is a classic son takes the revenge mo ie with fabulous locales/sets and an intriguing story that keeps you hooked with nuances.
More belivable than Bahubal while keeping the level of action as brilliant.
Worth a watch a revel in the evolution of Bollywood. Finally, we can tell our own stories and produce them with such panache.
The Great Indian Murder (2022)
Probably the best Indian work on OTT
A mix base of politics, religious, bureaucratic, and casteist with a sprinkle of good acting. This is better than anything you may have seen of Indian television.
Joker (2019)
Even Joaquin needs a story
The acting by JP is phenomenal but the disappointment from the movie is that that's the only thing to watch. Now you can understand that even Heath Ledger needed a Nolan and a Zimmer and Howard combo to make it legendary.
Avengers: Endgame (2019)
There is no word, and Epic doesn't cut it
So I had to create a word, TerrEpicullous. It bring closure while raising new questions. It's the justice all the fans needed and deserved. I hope they teach these phases in schools.
Albert Pinto Ko Gussa Kyun Aata Hai? (2019)
Take a bow Manav Kaul
A movie that stands out because of strong performances. Manav Kaul impresses with his arsenal establishing that he can take a full movie on his shoulders comofrtably. Of course, Mr. Shukla does what he is expected to do, add gravity to the movie and Nandita Das shines in all the hats.
I don't remember the original one so can't compare the two, but that's ok because I didnt want to compare the two.
Manav Kaul needs to do more movies so that I can watch more Hindi movies.
Bohemian Rhapsody (2018)
One good thing about the movie
I think one good thing about the movie is that someone else has a huge opportunity to make another Queen movie and still tell the story because this one gave absolutely nothing away.
Dirty John (2018)
Julia Garner is incredible after Ozark...
And everyone acted exceptionally well. To see these actors play the characters whom you would hate, dislike, and feel disdain from is I think the best achievement of the series. Watch it for the acting. I will specially watch out for Julia Garner in her next acts.
Paddleton (2019)
Are you guys serious? Too?
Both these actors have been phenomenal in comedy, especially Mark, who I have now watched in multiple roles, so to see them in such a brave act of spectrum revealing performance is ironically refreshing, considering the tone of the movie.
Watch this movie for powerful performances by both these brilliant actors and a story that makes you think about some serious issues related to your own loved ones.
An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power (2017)
A must watch, for everyone.
The most important movie of our generation, and for generations to come, if any.
Haider (2014)
Chutzpah - The audacity to promise excellence and delivering disappointment
When one tries to better excellence in their work, they often fail, take for example Christopher Nolan, who delivered quality in Batman Begins, excellence in The Dark Knight, and falters miserably in The Dark Knight Rises. Vishal Bhardwaj is one such movie maker from India who we are collectively proud of, in terms of the quality of cinema that he produces. His movies can easily be compared to a dark night of winters with background music provided by thunderstorm. Usually, either his characters are dark in their thoughts or the story is too dark or both, and it is carried beautifully forward by poetic dialogs and intricate relationships of those dark characters. Maqbool was pure brilliance, and adaptation of Othello in Omkara was excellence, but Haider (adapted from Hamlet) falters miserably showing signs of brilliance intermittently as if trying to justify the existence of the whole movie in those few moments. Where Haider fails is that it tries to deliver a message, a bit too strongly i would say, which was not the case with Maqbool or Omkara. When you try to make a movie close to reality, you often fail in fictionalizing its story and cease to take liberty in delivering a cohesive story. The message for me takes to much of time in the movie so that Mr. Bhardwaj was not able to fully form his characters. For example: Haider, (BTW Shahid acted brilliantly): Director was not convincing in terms of forming the reasons as to how much Haider truly loved his father and mother (in a sexual way, which is the pretext of Hamlet), or how could he eventually end up being mad which further befalls his characteristic of indecision to kill his uncle. In the original play, Confusion was the central theme of the protagonist, however, Haider was not able to establish strongly why he was confused, or whether he was really so confused about things. Compare it to Langda Tyagi in Omkara, he had all the reasons to hate Omkara, which were very well established and brilliantly portrayed by Saif Ali Khan (easily his life's best act). Langda Tyagi was as convincing as anything you can imagine but not Haider.
Ghazala Meer (again Tabu here was pretty awesome): The focus could have been easily distributed amongst these 2 characters of Mother and Son, as Director did with Langda Tyagi and Omkara, however, by adding such strong actors as Irrfan Khan and KK, you are bound to look at them, appreciate them, and eventually lose focus from the central characters.
Best Scenes comparison with Omkara:
The recitation of Armed Forces Special Act by Haider: This was a brilliant scene, well acted and well edited, and frankly there is no scene like this in Omkara. Hats off.
The Skull scene at Graveyard by Haider vs The mirror breaking scene of Langda Tyagi: The graveyard scene could have been the pivotal scene of the movie Haider, however, the unnecessary humor kills it as opposed to a few strong dialogs and the show-of-strength of the color red in the mirror scene in Omkara.
As said earlier and throughout, it was supposed to exceed Omkara in brilliance, form a strong story around even stronger characters, but it was not able to convince me for any of its strong performances. It was a disappointment.
Chutzpah was repeated several times in the movie, and eventually I felt like it, where the promise was the audacity and the deliverance led to disappointment.