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Vettaiyan (2024)
ABOVE AVERAGE
I saw the Hindi version which carried the title of VETTAIYAN. Although the movie had a good script,there was no challenging role for anyone in the movie including Amitabh Bachchan and Rajnikant and therefore everyone's acting at best was extremely ordinary if not very poor. As expected no one (except Rana)could land a punch on the Superstar RK. Even if a bunch of 25 men would surround him they would all approach him one by one so that he could punch them into oblivion. Armed men didn't matter as somehow at that moment they would just not use their guns. When they eventually did,they would miss,but he would hit his target on his first shot. At 2 hrs 43mins,this film was definitely too long and should have been trimmed by at least 20 minutes. Once again the songs were totally unnecessary. He is a South Indian Superstar and definitely very likeable,but he's an extremely ordinary actor. All in all an above average movie
6/10.
Berlin (2023)
ABOVE AVERAGE
BERLIN is a very slow,dull & dreary movie with competent performances by almost everyone except the main accused Ishwak Singh and Rahul Bose,with both giving very good and restrained performances. Aparshakti gave an above average performance with no one being particularly brilliant. Although the film at 2hrs 4minutes was not long as regular Hindi movies,it should have been trimmed about 15 mins more.
Although it had a fairly decent script its biggest drawback was its very very slow pace. If the pace was a bit faster and the movie could have been edited a bit more tightly and crisply it would have been a much better film.
6/10.
The Buckingham Murders (2023)
AVERAGE
This movie which was a Whodunit was an average movie with lots of twists and turns until the very end. These cat and mouse themed films can only be really enjoyed when everything is in sync viz.very good script,acting direction &editing as there is no glamour to help when another section is lacking Unfortunately this film ticked all of the boxes except the acting. Since this was a very low budget movie besides Kareena there were no other stars which was perfectly understandable &acceptable. However the acting of the junior staff was in sync with the budget,low or at best average! If they had some brilliant performances,it would have lifted the movie a great deal as it had a very good script but this did not happen!
6/10.
IC 814: The Kandahar Hijack (2024)
AVERAGE
The best part of this web series is that one was able to view the chronological sequence of events from start to finish of this terrible hijacking that took place 25 years ago.
However besides that, this series had no pulling power as the acting of everyone (except Nasserudin Shah and Arvind Swamy who were both very impressive) was very ordinary. In this series the hijackers were shown as being compassionate. It would have been really interesting to know if that was the case in actual life! Somehow I never felt involved while watching this web series;it felt like if you were watching a dry and lifeless documentary !
5/10.
Bhaiyya Ji (2024)
A DISASTER
BHAIYAJI(which is the name of this movie)is absolute,complete &total garbage &by far is Manoj Bajpayee's worst movie. In one scene he's so badly injured that he can hardly move,much less get off the bed and within a few scenes,he's back to his fitting best and bashing up the goons left right and centre without feeling any after effects from his injury. Everyone's acting including Manoj Bajpayee was completely totally and absolutely useless. How this movie was allowed to be released in the cinema theatres is a miracle in in itself.
Apparently this movie was even produced by Manoj's family!👎🏽👎🏽👎🏽
Everything about this film was a DISASTER!
0/10.
Vedaa (2024)
AVERAGE MOVIE
VEDAA-Same old wine in a newly shaped & modern looking bottle. The theme of the movie was the continuous oppression of the lower caste by the upper caste in the remote villages of India,&the former's never ending struggle to end this atrocity. We have seen this story many many times in Hindi cinema,so there was nothing new at all here.
Once again the songs were totally unnecessary. More often than not or generally speaking the lower caste/Dalits/untouchables are usually of a very dark complexion,so having the upper caste leader of the region being of a very dark complexion was a huge miscast. His uncle(another upper caste member) who was about 5 shades darker than him was a greater miscast. Everyone's acting was average with John(as expected) being exceptional in the action sequences. The movie at 2hrs 30 minutes was about 20 minutes too long.
5/10.
Savi (2024)
EXTREMELY DISAPPOINTING
SAVI is a C grade production with lots and lots of holes in its script. A housewife who has perhaps never seen a gun much less on how to hold one is able to almost single handedly plan an escape for her husband from prison. She's able to confront an armed &dangerous drug dealer singlehandedly without even knowing how to use a gun. The overall acting by everyone was substandard with very poor editing and direction. The filmmaker just kept on expecting the viewers to stretch their imagination and accept the unbelievable nonsense he was dishing out on screen. THE MAIN INGREDIENT LACKING IN THIS MOVIE IS BASIC COMMON SENSE AND TAKING THE AUDIENCE FOR GRANTED. THIS IS THE MAIN REASON FOR ITS LOW QUALITY AND RATING.
3/10.
Angry Young Men (2024)
INTERESTING!
A very interesting documentary on the professional and personal lives of these 2 great writers of many excellent Hindi movies. My 2 main takeaways were that once again extreme arrogance led to their downfall and neither of them till date has singularly been able to replicate their successes they enjoyed when they were together as a pair and perhaps more grounded and much much less arrogant. Furthermore their greatness lies in the fact that till date no single writer or a pr or a bunch of writers has/have been able to come up with such an excellent collection of splendid scripts as Salim Javed have done.
Stree 2: Sarkate Ka Aatank (2024)
DISASTER
The first part viz. STREE was very good but the 2nd part has turned out to be a massively massive disappointment.
While the first part focused on a very good and novel story with the right doses of comedy and horror intermixed,the 2nd part focused more on special effects,unnecessary screaming,shouting and overreacting and much much much less on the script,which resulted in this film falling absolutely flat! As usual the songs were completely unnecessary. In short this movie was an absolute,complete and total DISASTER with nothing at all being praiseworthy! At 2 hrs 27 mins the movie was a least 27 minutes too long
0/10.
Sarfira (2024)
EXCELLENT MOVIE
Inspite of the totally unnecessary songs and some loose editing in the first part of the movie,SARFIRA remains an excellent movie with outstanding acting by Akshay Kumar. This is easily Akshay's best movie and best performance to date in his career. The ladies who acted as his mother & wife respectively were also very very good. There were many parts in the film where you felt Akshay was really and truly feeling the anguish and pain that he was displaying on screen with the standout being the scenes when he was fighting hard to be by his dying father's bedside during his last moments.
9/10
Ps. It's extremely disheartening to accept that this movie(like MAIDAAN was) is a major flop at the box office!
Mano de hierro (2024)
DISAPPOINTING!
The English translation for this Spanish web series is IRON REIGN. It's all about gang warfare and a never ending family conflict. Actually the first 5 episodes were quite good but then(maybe because the maker had a contract with Netflix to provide 8 episodes)episodes 6 and 7 were filled with totally unnecessary and unimportant subplots which definitely reduced the quality of the web series to just about average at best. Even in the 8th and final episode of Season 1,lots of questions were left unanswered to make way for a 2nd season. All in all the 2 unimportant episodes made the 1st season a disappointment!
5/10.
Maidaan (2024)
EXCELLENT MOVIE
Besides 2 unnecessary songs the USP of this excellent movie was its almost flawless editing. Although the movie was 3hrs 1 minute long,i never never felt bored(except for the 2 unwanted songs)as it was always very interesting and captivating throughout. Although his role was not a challenging one at all,Ajay Devgn is always extremely convincing in these types of roles unlike comic roles where he's a total failure. Gajraj Rao's average acting was overshadowed by his ridiculous hairpiece which made him look like an absolute clown. The rest of the junior cast were average while all of the footballers were very convincing in playing their parts
This true story was very well scripted and the screenplay and direction were absolutely brilliant
9/10.
Crew (2024)
POOR MOVIE
This movie started off as a light breezy uncomplicated comedy with poor to average acting and direction. Tabu&Kareena are brilliant actresses but no role in the movie was challenging for anyone much less these 2,so they just waltzed through their respective roles. However about the 3/4 way mark,precisely after their employer absconded from the country,the filmmaker decided that we the viewers should stop thinking completely and just watch and digest the absolute nonsense that he dished out for us to see. The last 30 minutes of the film were unbelievably senseless and totally impossible to accept. This reduced the quality of the movie dramatically.
3/10.
Griha Pravesh (1979)
AVERAGE
The basic storyline was excellent but the movie trudged along at such a painfully slow pace that it became an absolute struggle to complete it. The 2hrs 23minutes long movie should have been trimmed by at least 30 minutes. All of the songs were totally unnecessary and should have been left out completely. Since it was a very low budget film the production values were extremely poor and very ordinary,alongwith the acting of the junior cast who were all totally unimpressive.
This was a very unchallenging role for the brilliant Sanjeev Kumar,who just went through the motion of acting, very disinterestedly.
Sarika besides looking extremely beautiful was very average in her acting.
Sharmila Tagore however gave an excellent performance as the subdued wife who went through emotional turmoil at the hands of her confused husband.
All in all very poor editing with unwanted songs reduced the quality of the movie dramatically.
5/10.
Merry Christmas (2024)
VERY POOR CASTING!
MERRY CHRISTMAS had a very interesting storyline,but the casting of the main leads was extremely poor. Katrina Kaif at best is a below average actress and yet again she was very ordinary in a very demanding role. Vijay Setupathi might be a very big star in South India,but besides his witty dialogues(which have to be attributed to the writer or whomever and not him)I find him to be very very ordinary in every way with no exception. If the filmmaker had taken Tabu/Vidya Balan and Pankaj Tripathi/Nawazuddin Siddiqui instead of the present two and trimmed the movie by about 20 minutes,it would have been brilliant as these actors and actresses would have lifted the film to greater heights with their superb acting.
Alas,the 2hrs 24minutes running time and very poor casting of the main leads diluted the very good story line of this film
6/10.
Killer Soup (2024)
VERY DISAPPOINTING!
"You get what you pay for"!
If you make a webseries like KILLER SOUP on a shoestring budget,you are going to get "shoestrings"and not "shoelaces"!
Besides Konkona Sen who was absolutely brilliant,everyone else and everything else was at best below average.
Almost everything be it the direction,screenplay,casting(expect KS)and editing was quite poor.
The plotline was quite good but the editing was terrible. This webseries of 8 episodes should have been trimmed to 6 episodes. The casting was extremely poor,and as a result most of the acting was really very awful
Even Manoj Bajpayee was very ordinary.
The only plus points were KS's brilliant acting and its good storyline which unfortunately was not well developed.
4/10.
Khufiya (2023)
ABOVE AVERAGE
After making such classics like HAIDER,OMKARA.and to a lesser extent MAQBOOL,Vishal Bhardwaj has definitely lost his magical touch when it comes to making excellent movies!
KHUFIYA is an above average movie that could have been much better if it was edited much more tightly. It's length of 2hrs 37 minutes was definitely too long and should have been reduced by at least 25-30 minutes. This spy based film because of its extra length began to really drag in many parts and this caused the quality to be diluted. The performances and direction were above average. There were about 2 unnecessary songs in the film. All in all a 1 time watch with no repeat value.
6/10.
Mission Raniganj: The Great Bharat Rescue (2023)
ABOVE AVERAGE
MISSION RANIGANJ is a sensible movie based on a true occurrence which took place 34 years ago. However since films like these have limited appeal at the box office the production values are often extremely low( as is the case with this motion picture)and so the focus in films like these is on the actual story and not the acting and direction which usually at best are very ordinary (again as is the case with this movie). In Hindi cinema the difference between A grade and C grade is very vast and as such the quality in C grade films is so very low(like this movie)that the viewer has to just appreciate the fact that the filmmaker was trying his very level best to present a true occurrence in the most palatable fashion possible. Basically this movie(like other movies in this mould) is a "feel good" film depicting a true story where the "hero" in the true sense of the word both in reel and real life executes a very noble act which is highly praiseworthy.
Besides this unique story,every other aspect of filmmaking takes a back seat!
6/10
Ps. A miner's dog had a relatively long role (although silent)in this film!
The Vaccine War (2023)
VERY GOOD MOVIE
As is the norm after TASHKENT FILES,the filmmaker Vivek Agnihotri, has once again made a hard hitting and sensible movie based on actual facts with competent acting by almost everyone.
The takeaway(for me) from this movie was that up today we have this dreadfully dreadful situation where many Indians(for various reasons) are hell bent on disgracing their own motherland India for their own selfishly selfish motives and in turn don't hesitate to serve the vested interests of foreign countries which are intensely jealous of India's successes in different fields.
This movie needs to be judged in a different light as it does not seek to entertain the viewer,but to enlighten us from an Indian perspective,on what really happened during the Covid 19 crisis
8/10.
Jaane Jaan (2023)
VERY GOOD MOVIE
JAANE JAAN is a good suspense and tension filled movie with twists and turns throughout the film. Kareena Kapoor has a very good screen presence and she matched this asset with very good acting alongwith Jaideep Ahlawat who was brilliant. All in all a good movie for those who enjoy Whodunits!
Ps. This film is definitely good enough to be seen in the cinema,but I guess when the filmmaker realised that uselessly useless Hindi movies( with very few exceptions)are striking gold at the box office this year, and a good film like GHOOMER flopped then it's better for him to release his motion picture on OTT!
7/10.
Retribution (2023)
GOOD MOVIE
A good,tension filled thriller that keeps you the viewer involved from start to finish. Liam Neeson as always is very convincing in every role and yet again he does the same. His movies are always very engaging and this one does the very same,keeping the viewer guessing as to what will happen next.
7/10
Ps. Recently i have noticed on a very regular basis,especially in American based movies(&this film)the children being extremely rude and very very insulting towards their parents who for reason or the other seemed to be totally incapable and/or unwilling to address the matter in the correct fashion. New way of life in the US?
Dream Girl 2 (2023)
DISASTER!
Buoyed by the success of the first part (which was a good movie)the filmmaker should have been encouraged to make a much better film than the 1st one. However he has instead made complete,absolute and total garbage with everyone's acting(except Annu Kapoor who was brilliant and to a lesser extent Vijay Raaz who was above average)being totally useless. Paresh Rawal was totally wasted and Ananya Pandey neither has any acting potential whatsoever,(at least in this movie)nor is she good looking. Besides a very very very few amount of funny jokes(mostly by Annu Kapoor) everything including the songs was terrible
1/10.
Ghoomer (2023)
VERY GOOD MOVIE
GHOOMER is a very sensibly written and directed movie with above average performances by the junior cast. Abhishek Bachchan,Shabana Azmi and Angad Bedi who did not have very challenging roles were their usual competent selves. However the girl who was the main protagonist and acted as Anina had a very physically challenging role which she pulled off very beautifully. Besides being very pretty with very luscious eyes she must be commended for handling the physical aspect of her role so very well as it was definitely not easy at all to enact that particular role. Amitabh as himself was like a breath of fresh air. All in all a very good movie that benefited from a very good script,editing and screenplay.
8/10.
OMG 2 (2023)
VERY GOOD MOVIE
OMG2 is a very well made movie that deals with a taboo topic in India viz.sex education. However this sensitive subject was expertly handled by the director, writer and others and so a result everything was top notch about this film. Pankaj Tripathi is an absolute natural when it comes to acting and once again as expected he did a splendid job. Akshay Kumar who had a very limited role in this motion picture was extremely impressive as Lord Shiva as he had the right physique,and height to pull off such a realistic look. Yami Gautam looks are much more "prettier" than her acting;however she was like the other star cast above average.
All in all this comedy drama is one of the best movies of 2023
8/10.
Gadar 2 (2023)
COMPLETE GARBAGE
Sunny Deol himself got it wrong, when he made GHAYAL 2 which was a massive disappointment when compared to his excellent GHAYAL. Aamir Khan himself got it totally wrong when he made LAL SINGH CHAADHA.
And now once again Anil Sharma and Sunny Deol have made a complete hash when they came together to make GADAR 2 after making such a good movie in GADAR 22 years ago.
Everything about the movie was completely totally and absolutely useless!
Besides shouting and screaming endlessly and showing his indestructible invincibility while ignoring his elderly age Sunny Deol had absolutely nothing else to offer.
The rest of the acting was totally useless.
This is definitely one of Sunny Deol's worst movies.
Anil Sharma's direction has plummeted to an extremely low level
0/10.