Tamasha Review Movie Review


Tamasha

Release Date: November 27 2015 (India)

Star Cast: Ranbir Kapoor, Deepika Padukone, Javed Sheikh, Nikhil Bhagal

Director: Imtiaz Ali

Producer: Sajid Nadiadwala

Production Co: UTV Motion Pictures, Nadiadwala Grandson Entertainment

Music Director: A. R. Rahman



There will be plenty reasons to watch this beautifully shot film. This is one of the good films of this year.

Shishir Gautam 


Throughout the promotions of Tamasha a simple question has been raised through the trailers - Why always the same story? In the film Imtiaz Ali takes that same premise, turns it on its head and then explains why the same story!

Right at the very beginning director decodes the very basis of some of the most epic lores from Ramayan to Helen of Troy, pointing at common elements. And this is the very base of not just the story of Tamasha, but also helps build his protagonist.

In structure Tamasha is no different from Imtiaz's Love Aaj Kal or any of his other films. Guy meets girl, they have time of their lives, depart, realise and get back. But he decides to deal with a couple of questions that are often seen in reel as well as real lives. The apparent 'change' that people go through after the initial honeymoon phase. Through Imtiaz's eyes, the mechanizing of lives as we get along with chores of life as love and passion take a backseat. And as he does it he even treads into the 3 Idiots space of following your heart rather being a part of a race which we cannot win.

Imtiaz places two of the most competent actors we have from the current generation - Ranbir and Deepika - on screen to put his vision in act. And he is not let down. Ranbir proves his mettle yet again, as he delivers remarkable emotions scene after scene. But it is Deepika, who seems to be only getting better. The film's most memorable scenes are with her. 
So Don and Mona darling meets in the distant French island Corsica. Sometimes Don turns into an interpol officers which Mona turns into someone else. For seven days on that island they never for once become what they actually are.Ved and Tara. And they depart. Love strikes only then..

Imtiaz uses AR Rahman to the best as some beautiful songs used to traverse time - the way Imtiaz has always done in his films. Be in with Sadda Haq in Rockstar or Main Kya Hoon in Love Aaj Kal. Considering Tamasha is set across quite a few years, the some method is using more than once. 

Of course at almost two and half hours Tamasha could be longer than what you are used to these days, but it never bores. If at all, it only makes you marvel at the director's ability to understand emotions and human behavior as well. And he displays it in quite a few scenes - Tara's excitement when she meet Ved again, Ved's reaction when he meets Tara first, Tara and Ved's breakdown at a cafe, Ved's reaction to a particular word used by Tara... list goes on.

There will be plenty reasons to watch this beautifully shot film [DOP, Ravi varman]. But let's not get into too many of them. Let's just say, this is one of the good films of this year. 



Source: (NOWRUNNING)

Prem Ratan Dhan Payo Movie Review


Release Date: November 12 2015 (India)

Director: Sooraj R. Barjatya

Producer: KAMAL KUMAR BARJATYA, Rajkumar Barjatya, Ajit Kumar Barjatya

Production Co: Fox Star Studios, Rajshri Productions Pvt Ltd

Music Director: Himesh Reshammiya

Star Cast: Salman Khan, Sonam Kapoor, Neil Nitin Mukesh, Anupam Kher, Swara Bhaskar, Deepak Dobriyal


Should you watch the film? The question you need to ask is "Are you a Salman Khan fan?" You will find your answer... like all those happy audiences did that poured out of the theaters alongside me after watching this magnum opus from Rajshri! Shishir Gautam
Source: Now Running


NH 10 Movie Review


Movie: NH 10

Cast: Rajkumar Yadav, Anushka Sharma, Deepti Naval, Neil Bhoopalam, Ravi Jhankal
Director: Navdeep Singh
Producer: Vikramaditya Motwane, Anushka Sharma, Krishika Lulla, Karnesh Sharma, Vikas Bahl, Anurag Kashyap
Music Director: Darshan Rathod, Sanjeev Rathod, Bann Chakraborty, Ayush Shrestha, Savera Mehta, Samira Koppikar

Movie review of 'NH10'. Anushka Sharma’s maiden co-production NH10 is a film to appreciate for many reasons. It is a well-written, deftly-directed thriller with a frighteningly brilliant performance by the leading lady. It’s a film so hauntingly real and credible that a viewer feels stripped of all sense of safety and security.

From the get-go, 'NH10' sucks you into its nether world of misogyny and patriarchy, a world where lawlessness is rampant and murder no big deal. It’s not a fictional world, but the one that exists cheek-by-jowl with the urban, so-called progressive India.

Into this dark, bleak and murderous scenario are thrown in two city slickers, Meera (Anushka Sharma) and Arjun (Neil Bhoopalam). As a working, married couple living in Gurgaon, the two have their first brush with the city’s ravenous underbelly when one night Meera’s car is waylaid and attacked by a bunch of hoodlums and she escapes by the skin of her teeth. The incident rattles Meera.

“Yeh shahar badhta bacha hai. Kood toh lagayega hi,” is a policeman’s explanation.

To help her get over the trauma (of the incident and not the cop’s apathy), the couple plans a getaway on Meera’s birthday. But this outing turns nightmarish when on the National Highway 10 they walk into the scene of an honour killing, and thus themselves become the target of the killers.

In a nutshell, 'NH10' is a disturbing, infuriating, blood-curdling indictment of a sordid side of our society. It’s an unpleasant reality, but the one we should learn to look dead in the eye. ‘NH10’ gives us that unvarnished, unsettling glimpse. Go for it.

Rating: ***

Source: Apun Ka Choice




Dum Laga Ke Haisha' makes Rs. 6 cr in opening weekend




The latest YRF release Dum Laga Ke Haisha grew from strength to strength in its opening weekend. The film could well be a sleeper hit.

'Dum Laga Ke Haisha' showed its dum at the box office in its first three days. Riding on a very positive word of mouth and glowing reviews by critics, the film starring Ayushmann Khurrana and introducing Bhumi Pednekar, drew in more and more footfalls with every passing day.

Since it’s primarily a multiplex film, the response was best at plexes in the metros.

Here’s the break-up of the opening weekend business:

Friday: Rs. 1.11 crore
Saturday: Rs. 2.12 crore
Sunday: Rs. 2.85 crore
Weekend total: Rs. 6.08 crore net at Indian box office.

Movie Review: 'Dum Laga Ke Haisha’ will win your heart

As you can see above, the start on Friday was pretty slow, but the business almost doubled on the second day and peaked on Sunday.

The film has got very good reviews and the newcomer Bhumi Pednekar has come in for a special praise. On top of it, a lot of celebs from Bollywood are showering compliments on ‘Dum Laga Ke Haisha’.

Good cinema doesn’t fail to get attention.
Source: Apun Ka Choice

Dum Laga Ke Haisha Movie Review


Movie: Dum Laga Ke Haisha

Cast: Ayushmann Khurrana, Bhumi Pednekar, Kumar Sanu, Sanjay Mishra, Alka Amin, Sheeba Chaddha, Seema Pahwa, Sanjeeva Vatsa, Shardul Rana, Chandrachoor Rai, Shrikant Verma, Mahesh Sharm
Director: Sharat Katariya
Producer: Aditya Chopra, Maneesh Sharma
Production Co: Yash Raj Films
Music Director: Anu Malik


Here at last is a YRF film with some real dum. Dum Laga Ke Haisha packs a wallop of a simple yet unconventional story told from the heart. It’s a film that makes you laugh, makes you cry, and makes you root for the protagonists as they discover love in an unexpected way.

The film is set in the 1990s, when Kumar Sanu was the king of playback singing, when audio cassettes were the staple of music lovers, when the antediluvian Bajaj scooters were the coveted ride, and when Limca was the surefire relief from acidity. In those times in Haridwar, lives a meek and timid school-dropout named Prem Prakash Tiwari (Ayushmann Khurrana), who harbours the romantic dream of marrying a svelte, jeans-clad girl but is married off by his overbearing father to an overweight girl named Sandhya (Bhumi Pednekar).

The marriage obviously doesn’t take off, as Prem is embarrassed of Sandhya every step of the way, even though she likes him.

Sandhya is a contrast to her husband in many ways. He’s thin, she’s anything but that. He’s academically challenged; she’s educated. He’s a pushover; she doesn’t take hurt lying down. The marriage comes to the point of falling apart. But then a sliver of hope and love shines through.

Dum Laga Ke Haisha is not the least bit burdened by the trappings of a big banner film. It eschews not just the mainstream clichés but also the ones we’ve come to expect from the YRF films set in small-town India.

This Sharat Katariya-directorial has its heart in the right place and it tells us that beauty isn’t skin deep. At the core of the film is a touching story that spreads its tentacles around you slowly and then devours you in a heart-warming climax.

The film recreates the milieu of the 1990s with much conviction, thanks to a swell job by the production designer Meenal Agarwal. The writing is pretty spot on and laced with wit. My only gripe is about a few unnecessary deviations the film takes in the second half.

Ayushmann Khurrana redeems himself after the forgettable ‘Hawaizaada’ with a very ‘unheroic’ performance that makes one sit up and take note. But it is the film’s roly-poly leading lady Bhumi Pednekar who walks away with a resounding applause for her very natural, effortless and yet immensely moving performance. This debutante surely knows how to make her presence felt in more ways than one.

The support cast comprising Sanjay Mishra (as Ayushmann’s father), Alka Amin (mom) and Sheeba Chadda (aunt) chip in well.

Kudos to director Sharat Katariya for telling a moving tale simply and effectively. Kudos to producer Maneesh Sharma for backing this wonderful project. And kudos to Yash Raj Films for supporting a good film.

‘Dum Laga Ke Haisha’ is the best thing you can find at the movies this week. Don’t miss it.

Rating: ***1/2

Source: Apun Ka Choice

 

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