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Gandhada Gudi (2022)
Heavens that Karnataka is...
First, let me tell a small story. In my town in Punjab, a very handsome, healthy young man suddenly started to meet people he did not meet for a long time. He even went on to make amends with the people he had some friction with. All of sudden he was no more. Talk of the town was that his soul knew he was going and it wanted him to be remembered nicely by the people.
Now, a reason to mention this here is that Puneeth Rajkumar had absolutely no reason to make this documentary. I did not know him at all but after watching this, I googled about him, and turns out he was a megastar and was so busy with his movies that a documentary that would not only consume a lot of time but can be of great risk to his life and health, do not fit into his schedule. There is no way such a person would walk on his feet all over the deep forests to make this documentary.
However, as evident from the documentary he loved Karnataka so much and wanted to present it in the best possible way to the world. I believe his soul knew he was going, so he had to stop shooting for 3 movies and took this project on priority.
This documentary is the best of the best ever made. I have watched 100s of documentaries on all kinds of subjects and a maximum of them being shot in the wild but I can not remember anything matching the class of this documentary.
It presents a side of Karnataka that can only be compared with the Pandora of Avatar movie.
The unbelievable hidden beauty of the state is on display here, however, this is not a documentary about wildlife and the nature of Karnataka but he very carefully made it about the character of Karnataka.
He goes on to visit the smallest of the villages in the forest area and meets the poorest of the people and you get to know that those small villages are heaven and those poor people are so amazing people.
This is must watch the movie for everyone to understand how to present your State/Country to the world.
Must watch and this will make you fall in love with Karnataka.
Avatar: The Way of Water (2022)
3 hours of what...
Fake crying, fake smiles, unnecessary moaning and random CGI shots that instead of taking the story forward make you forget that you are not watching a cheap documentary but a Sci-Fi movie...
There is not even one dialogue worth remembering for next 5 minutes, character building is so bad that director and writers forgot that biggest strength of Navi people was that they were disciplined and loved their culture. Instead James throws in some teenage drama queens as if the Human DNA of Jake has totally polluted the Navi DNA and now they are no different from the nagging and complaining people of New York or Tokyo...
Absolutely waste of time and total insult to the intellect of the viewer...
Three Thousand Years of Longing (2022)
Garbage
Total garbage. . Hollywood thinks they can package garbage in nice box and people are dumb that they would cheer for it ..
There is absolutely no story .. No logic... Infact there is not even a failed vision in this .. makers clearly just wanted to rely on cinematography and VFX... Only assumption behind this movie is that audience is dumb....
Dialogue seems to be written just before the science is shot... Actors just say stuff with convinction as it they said something inteligent while they keep throwing random words..
This could have been a good art movie provided someone was willing to put little hard work into the idea of telling the djinns side of the story...
Ended up being a lazy, pointless waste of.time...
Gargi (2022)
Do not watch this movie, live it...
Review is simple... Movie is absolutely perfect.
Sai Pallavi has given amazing performance.
Everyone else also did their role perfectly.
Women of this country must watch this movie.
Vengeance (2022)
More than a movie
No matter what your religion, caste, class is... This movie is for you...
Especially if you are an American...
Do not want to spoil by talking about it more than, this would open your eyes to lots of stuff you "must" pay attention to but do not.
Sher Shivraj (2022)
Great movie...
Perfect.
Extremely well made with lots of patience, there is no temptation to add emotional drama to encash on emotions of people...
Explores the strategical and analytical side of Shivaji Maharaj and his team.
The story shows how he was blessed with patience and never let his ego come in the way of his aim. He had no problem accepting where his weakness lies and from there he was able to find ways to overcome it...
Great character building of all involved, even the character of Afzal Khan is brought to life without making him look pure evil. He is shown to do all that we know he did but it's presented in a way that only defines him as a man on a mission, no matter how wrong that is.
Another great aspect of the movie is highlighting the role of Maratha women in the fight for Swaraj... Shivaji was all that his mother made him, there are moments when he goes undecisive but his mother and his wife are there to remind him that they are not afraid of losing him for the cause he was born to serve. There are other brave Maratha women who play their roles including fighting in the war.
Sadly North India's dominant narrative of History has kept us away from such great stories from the rest of India... Hopefully, such movies are made all over India and such stories reach all homes in this country.
The Northman (2022)
Wasteda good story...
Poor direction, bad dialogues and average performances have wasted a good story...
Everything is taken casually, no attempt to tell the story, just scene after scene shooting...
Not sure how its rated so high here....
Finch (2021)
Cringe...
No story, no ideas.. No good dialogues... Absolutely nothing...
At least writers should have made some effort to create a valid story other than they did not have budget to spend on anything after signing an expensive actor so all they left it to was his credibility to carry the movie..
Toofaan (2021)
Toofaan : Good opportunity missed for lousy writing..
First of all let me tell you positives about the movie, Farhan gave a good performance. Paresh Rawal performance a fantastic. Cinematography is amazing, screenplay is very good, direction is average.
About movie: Movie is about love jihaad (Words actually used in movie). How a couple in love has issues with "Hindu" father having this wrong impression that Muslim boys are after Hindu girls for love jihaad.
I personally have no issues with the subject, I do understand that this issue like any other valid issue has collateral damage where good people also suffer. But there is zero effort to develop a good story to make us feel that.
Aziz is a poor uneducated gangster and goes to hospital for treatment where he meets a doctor who works for poor people and refuses him treatment because of the criminal work he does. This was good chance to show that good person in him wakes up but intentions of writer were not to make a good movie but to create "Bigoted Hindus" and "Victim Muslim" so instead he goes on with his criminal life.
He is into beating people and while a visiting local boxing club run by a parasi man he gets inspired to box. That parasi guy tells him about a good coach(Paresh Rawal).
Development of the character of Paresh Rawal is the most confusing part in the movie, he is shown to have massive bias against Muslims. Literally says that "They are all terrorists" but when Aziz who is nobody and has zero knowledge about boxing goes to him for help, he immediately accepts him and not only works on his boxing skills but treats him like a son and works on developing his character as well. There is zero effort made to show what makes him like Aziz despite him being a bigot against Muslims but he is actually shown as a man who helps anybody who comes to him regardless of religion or financial status.
Now the doctor girl Aziz met is also the daughter of coach, important thing here is that her mother was killed in a bomb blast done by Islamic terrorists and there is no effort is made to show that this is the reason behind Paresh Rawal having negative feelings for Muslims, he is shown casually talking negative about them in just one scene right in the beginning while laughing about it.
Anyways, Aziz at this stage is a criminal and Doctor girl for no reason is all over him. He makes no effort, there is no situation developed to show that she saw something in him or he did something magical that she got impressed. In simple words she is an easy girl who just meets a Muslim guy and goes after him. He actually does not have to do anything and she all of sudden taking him places to see and ultimately starts kissing him. Absolutely no effort is made to show how she got impressed by this man. A big injustice done if intention was to show that Muslims are just like everyone else who do good things that other can like.
Later on few things happen, Paresh Rawal works hard to train Aziz and Aziz is rising in boxing then Paresh gets to know that Aziz is in relationship with his own daughter. To which he gets angry, now imagine girl is a Doctor, guy is nobody with criminal background and still living with criminals but somehow there is an attempt to make religion the most important issue.
Paresh asks his daughter to get out of relationship, she refuses and he asks her to leave his home. Just like that, no effort is made by girl or Aziz to convince Paresh in any manner. She just leaves home and starts to live with Aziz. She is like "Screw him mera Aziz hi mera sab kuchh hai"
Aziz to get a decent home for them fixes his match and gets caught. He is banned for 5 years from boxing. Doctor girl gets angry for it and then all of sudden she is like "Alright, lets forget it... " There is no situation developed to show that Aziz is able to show that he is sorry for what he did or even to show justify what he did in her eyes in any other way than "We needed money" and I do not know what they needed money so desperately for, after all she is an Doctor and has a job. There are plenty of male Doctors who have their spouse as housewife and they do alright. There is no situation developed to show desperation for money to justify what Aziz did other than he is always after easy money and there is no situation developed in showing how Doctor girl is convinced that he has changed before accepting him back.
Now they get married and have a daughter. 5 years are gone and Ban on Aziz is over and he can box again. During these 5 years girl makes zero effort to reconnect with her father whom she left over 2 minutes of dispute.
Then the Doctor girl dies in a bridge stampede and Aziz now wants to be a champion to fulfil her dream. Paresh Rawal comes back to coach him to fulfil dream of his daughter of seeing him a champion and he becomes champion.
I can not understand what exactly is the story idea here. Every one who is pulling Aziz down and trying to make him bad person is Muslim in the movie. Every single person who loves him and helps him unconditionally in life is Hindu but at the same time the first person who pulls him out of criminal world and puts him on the path of good life is a Bigoted Hindu who hates Muslims for no reason. Aziz literally has to do nothing to get their support other than he is in need of that support, including the girl who marries him without anything big done by him to convince her that he loves her and is the right person for her.
If we want to compare it with a comeback movie, then "Sultan" is what we can compare it with "Sultan" was very good movie where emotions were developed to show how he gets inspired to do what he does. There is zero effort made in Toofaan to do that. It just happens.
Criminal past and poverty was enough to develop a love story where father of girl is against the marriage but religion is made the main issue. As if the guy was Hindu then father would have agreed to marry his Doctor daughter to a man who was right hand man of biggest gangster around without him showing actual signs of revolutionary changes and what makes it worse that he again fixes him match and get caught and yet does not think he owes anything to that father who lived all his life for the game and is honest man who despite being a man of limited resources has dedicated his life to game.
Religion solely could have been made the issue but then it would have needed some story development to show how Paresh Rawal refuses to train him for his religion as well, where he takes no time to accept him as his student and not just teaches him to be a better fighter but put lots of effort to make him a better man as well.
Overall its an average movie, not bad because actors did their roles very well. Cinematography at least gives good feel to your eyes.
One thing most important for the subject were the fight scenes, but no effort is made there as well to make you connect with it. Hero just wins. That's it...
Looks like movie is made to target only the crowd that says "Anybody saying words "Love Jihaad" is bigoted but it fails even there because same people help a poor criminal to become a good person without him doing anything to change their mind about it.
Cruella (2021)
Very good story and Screenplay, But...!
Horrible Direction makes it a boring cliche to watch....
However actors gave their best, its director who had a chance to make something unique but went for tried and tested formulas and made a mess of it...
Without Remorse (2021)
Garbage
No story... Bad Acting and zero industry level action sequences... Bit of race bating... Nothing else....
Fatman (2020)
Garbage
I was actually excited about this one because story idea of hitman trying to kill Santa was a good plot for real fun movie...
But there was too much attempt to include leftist nonsense than to build a real story....
Total waste of time...
Borat Subsequent Moviefilm: Delivery of Prodigious Bribe to American Regime for Make Benefit Once Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (2020)
Seriously...
Movie is total garbage, nothing shocking or new... Just banking on profanity...
Story is absolutely predictable which it should not be for a borat movie...
Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga (2020)
Director worked hard...
Great Story, Great actors, poor screenplay, tasteless cinematography, flat dialogues and on top of it Director worked really hard to make sure its hard to watch.
The Hunt (2020)
perfect liberal bait
Liked the movie...
Trailer baited liberals into watching themselves being trashed all over in the whole movie...
I enjoyed it completely, dialogues are very good...
Betty Gilpin did amazing job and this should boost her career...
Thappad (2020)
Dont waste your time.
Unless you want to sleep in the theater... Movie has nothing to offer to people who visit theaters for entertainment or even awareness.
Too casually made and very badly written... Dialogues are meaningless words put together to sound like language
Danmarks sønner (2019)
Defending present day evil by creating a fake future evil.
Do not want to write spoiler but this is all this movie does, sympathies with terrorists cause something imaginary bigger evil might happen in future..
Jojo Rabbit (2019)
Good Story, Good screenplay and horrbile execution.
Good story, very well written screenplay but movie is disaster on two accounts.
01. Casting is horrible, except for the two kids everyone else is misfit. Including Scarlet, i adore her but its not role for her.
02. Poor Direction, just rushing through the screenplay, nothing else.
An opportunity missed... By the half way it become too hard to bear...
Semper Fi (2019)
Movie of the year so far...
Don't watch the trailer.. Don't see the ratings.... Just watch it...
I am from India so i have clearly no personal interest in saying this about the movie...
Totally unpredictable and extremely well made and acted.. Movies do not get better than this..
Deadtectives (2018)
Legit horror and legit comdedy.. Never overlapping each other ...
Legit horror movie where you would laugh in every scene but still there is no compromise on the horror part... Story is completely legit and would scare you and make you laugh at the same time...
Completely enjoyed it..
Ahlat Agaci (2018)
Bitter Sweet Lower middle class life...
No movie ever made in India can portray life of lower middle class in such wonderful manner.
Movie is made in Turkey but you can just change the name, dub it in Hindi, don't change a single word in the movie just exact translation and it would not give you a single moment that wont identify with a lower middle class life.
There is no acting in the movie, its almost like live streaming of a normal real family life. Its so wonderfully made that 3 hours went by like 3 minute for me, despite the fact that movie is slow paced and dialogues are just routing conversations.
If you watch it you would see how small things that happen everyday when put together over a period of time become so profound and precious that they seem more enlightening than all the literature in the world put together.
Imperfections of life and brutalities of reality that we live every single day without complaining and without knowing how just one kindness of fate would have changed everything for us.
Lower middle class life is such magical space where just one good day can change everything for you as you are just striving to move just one step ahead to make life better for you, that day does not come for 95% of the people on earth but its worth waiting and hoping for that day, sometimes generations wait for it and it never comes but hope never dies.
The Shack (2017)
Dangerous message conveyed
Good: You are just doing alright, nothing special...
Evil: Don't worry much, god does send you to hell, he would just redeem you...
Although attempt was to say "Forgive and move on"... But adding too much about gods inability to distinguish between his kids sends a very dangerous message...