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Movie Review: ‘Ek Yodha Shoorveer’, even in its dubbed, is literally like spectacular visual treat for cine goers

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Ek Yodha Shoorveer

Producer: Muvoz Creation & Glamour Still Presents
Director: Santosh Sivan
Star Cast: Prithviraj, Prabhu Dheva, Arya, Genelia D’Souza, Nithya Menon, Tabu, Amol Gupte, Alexx O Neal & Vidya Balan

Kelu (Prithviraj) wants to avenge his father’s death. His father is murdered by the famous Portuguese explorer Vasco Da Gama. His personal fight transforms into a war against the Portuguese conquest of India. Ek Yodha Shoorveer is a simple story about unsung heroes who have got lost in the pages of our history books.

Santosh Sivan’s direction is flawlessly picture perfect and adding to the bonanza is the entire seasoned actor’s towering performance, barring Tabu of course, as she has been grossly wasted in one inane dance sequence. Besides the lush filled greenery of Kerala landscape is a visual treat to the eyes for which full credit goes to its cinematographer.

Incidentally speaking Ek Yodha Shoorveer is a dubbed version of Santosh Sivan’s earlier Malyalam superhit film named Urumi. But being dubbed in Hindi has lost just a little bit of its charm as its Hindi dubbing is not as picture perfect as Santosh Sivan’s directorial skills.

Tail Piece: The dubbed version may have a restricted appeal but the overall word of mouth publicity may work wonders for Ek Yodha Shoorveer.

Movie Review: ‘Dirty Boss’ is like an old wine in a new bottle type of comic caper

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Dirty Boss

Producer: DJ Kanwaljeet
Director: Kesar Matharu
Star Cast: Raju Kher, Jasleen Matharu, Geetu Gambhir, Kalyani Thakkar, Kesar Matharu, Pinky More, Mushtaq Khan, Shahzad & Anil Nagrath

Actor director Kesar Matharu in his latest offering Dirty Boss has made a sequel to his earlier prequel movie namely Dirty Relations

Bhundi (Raju Kher) is a wealthy businessman who gests lured to the showbiz world due to his hidden lusty desires for an actress named Diana (Jasleen Matharu). A film director named Chaluji (Kesar Matharu) then contacts Bhundi and invites him to the sets of his film and introduces him to his heroine Diana and instantly Bhundi decides to produce a film. On hearing this Bhundi’s wife Satti (Kalyani Thakker) & her father tries to put some sense in him but to no avail. Satti then comes on the sets, and a big fight ensues between Satti & Diana. On the other hand Bhundi is such a lecherous man that he also has an affair with his maid servant Sandhya (Geetu Gambhir).

Dirty Boss is an eye opener for those people who are lured by the glamour of the film industry and then how they are taken for a joyride by a chosen few of the industry people who thrive on such suckers. Direction wise a little more control on the goings on was required and the same can be said about the performance of the actors.

The scenario of Dirty Boss could have been a little more taut. But the aam janta will definitely enjoy its double entendre dialogues which will certainly leave them in splits.

Tail Piece: Director Kesar Matharu’s earlier film Dirty Relations also treaded on similar grounds and now same is the case with his franchise Dirty Boss.

Movie Review: ‘Tera Suroor’ is a typical run of the mill fare

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Tera Suroor

Producer: Vipin Reshamiya & Sonia Kapoor
Director: Shawn Aranha
Star Cast: Himesh Reshamiya, Farah Kaimaee, Shekhar Kapoor, Naseeruddin Shah, Monica Dogra, Kabir Bedi, Shernaaz Patel, Sunil Dutt etc

Director Shawn Aranha in his latest directorial offering Tera Saroor has concentrated more on enjoying the locales of Ireland rather than focusing on any other aspects of the film and the result has been not so encouraging.

Tara Wadia (debutante Farah Karimaee), a singer and girlfriend of a gangster Raghu (Himesh Reshamiya) lives with her mother (Shernaz Patel). After having a little lovers tiff with Raghu she goes off to to Dublin to take part in a singing concert, but on her way to the venue she gets detained after being caught with packets of Drugs in a book cover. Tara then frantically calls Raghu for help and then Raghu too decides to help her and find Anirudh Brahman (Sunil Dutt), who had initially framed her to take his revenge. He was the same stranger who had earlier met Tara on Facebook and had also invited her to Ireland.

The directorial treatment of director Shawn Aranha has played the spoil sport in the entire movie. Yet the mainstay of Tera Saroor is of course the musical score topped with the breath taking locales of Ireland.

As for the performances of the entire cast the less said the better.

9 years ago Himesh Reshamiya had come up with Aap Ka Saroor, the prequel which was quite entertaining but now in Tera Saroor, the sequel which is no doubt packed with all the commercial masala oriented ingredients but yet you feel as if something is still missing as you walk out of the darkened auditorium.

Tail Piece: Tera Suroor is strictly recommended for its locales, styling & costumes, topped with its hummable songs and action sequences galore, but not necessarily in that order.

Rocky Handsome will prove to be a milestone of our musical career: Sunny Bawra & Inder Bawra

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Rocky Handsome

The latest music composer jodi to create ripples of waves on Bollywood’s musical horizon are Sunny Bawra and Inder Bawra. The music of their, just around the corner release, is John Abraham’s Rocky Handsome. The “Rehnuma” song of Rocky Handsome has already proved to be a chartbursting hit record in the entire musical arena.

How and from where did your musical journey begun?

We begun our musical journey with the small screen’s devotionally oriented mythological serials like Dwarkadheesh – Bhagwaan Shree Krishna, Siya Ke Ram, Meera, Devon Ke Dev……. Mahadev and many more. We do not hail from a typical musical family but our forefathers were indeed non – filmi singers in their own right so both of us decided to carry forward this musical journey on our own.

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We landed in Bombay nay Mumbai, the 1st & foremost thing we did was to adjust and familiarise ourselves with Bollywood’s music and the people around here. Then begun our long and arduous struggling phase and finally we landed in the Sagar camp, who are known to encourage new music composers too. And then onwards began our small screen innings as mentioned above.

And then how did the big screen began?

From the small screen Sagar camp we landed up in the big screen Bhatt camp. I think they really liked our small screen’s over all music. So we ended up composing music for two of their hit films namely Hate Story 2 and Hate Story 3. The music of both Hate Story 2 and Hate Story 3 was really appreciated by one and all including the rave reviews by music hardcore music critics too.

What are the highlights of the music of Rocky Handsome and how did you bag this prestigious assignment of your career?

First of all we are very lucky to have bagged this prestigious assignment of Rocky Handsome, a film from John Abraham’s home production banner namely JA Entertainment. The main highlight of Rocky Handsome is one of the song composed by us namely “Rahnuma” which has already hit the music circles with a million hit on YouTube channel. We have other songs too in Rocky Handsome, but we can’t reveal anything more about it unless they are officially released. But we are 100% sure that Rocky Handsome will definitely prove to be milestone in our musical career.

What do you think about today’s deafningly cacophonic especially the rock and the rap kind of music? Don’t you think that melody is seriously missing?

Yes! You are right. Melody is seriously missing in today’s music and as for your other point this are just the varied music which are like changing seasons which comes and passes away. And the music lovers taste too, changes like every turn of the season. That’s it.

Bollywood has seen many hit musical jodis like Shankar – Jaikishan, Kalyanji – Anandji, Lakshmikant – Pyarelal, Sapan – Jagmohan, Jatin – Lalit, Nadeem – Shravan etc. So do you think the Sunny Bawra – Inder Bawra jodi will also succeed in carving a niche for themselves?

First of all let us clarify one thing that we are not friends or partners but in fact real blood brothers. I think we are very near to carving a niche for ourselves. We don’t know if we will be able to succeed and become one more hit jodi of Bollywood or not like all the superhit musical jodis mentioned above. They are all legendary music composers. We have miles and miles to traverse on the musical road to attain their kind of success. But once again we would like to stress that come whatever may Sunny Bawra and Inder Bawra are here to stay. And if have to became one more hit pair of music directors like the others we might as well drop the Bawra, even otherwise we are not related to the legendary lyricist Gulshan Bawra, and become one more hit jodi of Sunny – Inder. What say! Anyways we are Just kidding!

Movie Review: ‘Phuntroo’ is quite an interesting science fiction oriented love story

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Phuntroo

Producer: Producer: Vandana Thakur and Ajay Thakur Producer: Vandana Thakur and Ajay Thakur
Director: Sujay Dahake
Star Cast: Madan Deaodhar, Ketaki Mategaonkar, Shivraj Vaichal,
Shivani Rangole, Ruturaj Shinde, Anshuman, Rohit Nikam etc
Genre: Sci – fi & Romance
Verdict: GOOD

Plot: Vira (Madan Deodhar) is a brilliant young engineering student who stumbles upon a peculiar gadget designed by one of his professors. A competition titled ‘Gadget Day’ has the students competing for the best new gadget and everybody is coming up with schemes on how to win. Anaya (Ketaki Mategaonkar) is the college’s secretary and a gifted student who catches Vira’s eye. He falls in love with her, but alas it’s unrequited. He goes on to develop the gadget he found and creates an Artificial Intelligence entity, a figure that resembles both in physical form and voice, his one true love, Anaya. Chaos ensues when he tries to hide it from his friends.

Aces: Director Sujay Dahake has made a very gripping science fiction thriller in which the younger generation of actors have put their best foot forward in their individual characters assigned to them and the best of the lot is of course the lead pair of Madan Deodhar & Ketaki Mategaonkar.

Minuses: Phuntroo is a love story based on a backdrop of a science fiction thriller which is quite new and perhaps unacceptable to the stereotyped Marathi audiences who are still fond of their staple diet of lavani’s and tamashas.

Last Word: Yet all said & done the multiplexes’ city audiences are definitely going to like this daringly different movie.

Movie Review: ‘Anuraag’ is emotionally very engaging

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Anuraag

Producer: Dr. Aparna Darak & RRP Corporations Pvt Ltd
Director: Dr. Ambarish Darak
Star Cast: Mrunmayee Deshpande and Dharmendra Gohil
Genre: Drama
Verdict: GOOD

Plot: Rishabh (Dharmendra Gohil), a successful businessman, has married Saumya (Mrunmayee Deshpande) after the death of his 1st wife and has a daughter from the 1st marriage. Saumya used to be his secretary and slipped into the new role comfortably. The 1st setback was the difficulties during her pregnancy, and the relationship spiralled downwards from that point. All this forms a part of the back-story glimpsed through some key flashback sequences. A majority of the film happens during their Leh visit, a last ditch effort to save the marriage, with a possibility for things to go either way.

Plot: Rishabh (Dharmendra Gohil), a successful businessman, has married Saumya (Mrunmayee Deshpande) after the death of his 1st wife and has a daughter from the 1st marriage. Saumya used to be his secretary and slipped into the new role comfortably. The 1st setback was the difficulties during her pregnancy, and the relationship spiralled downwards from that point. All this forms a part of the back-story glimpsed through some key flashback sequences. A majority of the film happens during their Leh visit, a last ditch effort to save the marriage, with a possibility for things to go either way.

Aces: The film is emotionally very engaging in fact director Dr. Ambarish Darak has made an extremely sensitive film on marital relationship which sometimes end up in marital discord and then the characters more often than not try reliving their happier moments through their memories.

Minuses: The film though inspired by Hollywood director Richard Linklater’s film Before Twilight lacks conviction in over all presentation. The fault lies mainly in its screen writing part.

Last Word: On the whole Anuraag reflects more of a serious kind of cinema and may appeal to the elite multiplex and fest circuit audiences, but it is hardly a common man’s cup of tea.

Movie Review: ‘Triple 9’ be prepared for extreme violence

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Triple 9

Producer: Keith Redmon, Bard Dorros, Marc Butan, Anthony Katagas, Christopher Woodrow & John Hillcoat
Director: John Hillcoat
Star Cast: Cassey Affleck, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Anthony Mackie, Aaron Paul, Cliffton Collins Jr, Norman reedus, Teresa Palmer, micheal K Williams, Gal Gadot, Woody Harrelson & Kate Winslet
Genre: Action & Adventure
Verdict: AVERAGE

Plot: In Triple 9, a crew of dirty cops is blackmailed by the Russian mob to execute a virtually impossible heist and the only way to pull it off is to manufacture a 999, police code for “officer down.” Their plan is turned upside down when the unsuspecting rookie they set up to die foils the attack, triggering a breakneck action – packed finale tangled with double – crosses, greed & revenge.

Aces: The only redeeming aspect of this movie is its power packed ensemble cast, all of whom have proved their histrionic brilliance without any doubt.

Minuses: Too much of mindless violence. Men are being shot at close range constantly with their heads blown of like pumpkins. That apart lots of F word is being used in every scene nay every single second.

Last Word: Strictly recommended only for action lover fans.

Pagalpanti Starring Krushna Abhishek Ready For Censors

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Krushna Abhishek

The Nivoriya Family Productions & Shivdevi Films Productions Presents Pagalpanti, starring well – known stand up comedian Krushna Abhishek in a leading role is now ready to go to the censors. Its release announcement was made recently in a grand event.

Pagalpanti, a rollicking message oriented comedy film has been produced by Sanju Rani Nivoria and Ravi Kumar Nivoria and written and directed by R. K. Nivoria. It has lyrics and music by Surendra Saathi, who has composed four melodious and romantic songs, and editing and mixing by Amit Garg.

The film stars Krusna Abhishek along with Ravi Mangal, Laxmi Verma, Bhanu Pratap, Manisha Singh, Sanjeev Kumar etc. Pagalpanti is all set to release all over very soon.

Movie Review: ’13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi’ is a thoroughly enjoyable spectacular film

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Producers: Micheal Bay & Erwin Shroff
Director: Micheal Bay
Star Cast: James Badge Dale, John Krasinski, Max Martini, Domnic Fumusa, Pablo Schreiber, David Denman, Toby Stephens & Freddie Stroma
Genre: Action Adventure
Verdict: GOOD

Plot: 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi follows 6 men as they are tasked with going to Benghazi to protect the men serving. Against all odds and against their jurisdiction, they must flee their site when an attack begins. After an American Ambassador is killed at a US compound, this crew tries to figure out exactly what is going on, while trying to stay alive and protect their people.

Aces: Directorially and even content wise the film is very strong plus all the 6 actors playing the main lead are very competent in the task given to them. They do look like perfect soldiers.

Minuses: Some of the war scenes are too tedious and oft repeated.

Last Word: This is one of the good war films seen in recent times and also better than watching not so inspiring films like Transformers et al.

Movie Review: ‘London Has Fallen’, which has action unlimited, is a must watch for one & all

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Producers: Gerard Butler, Mark Gill Danny Lerner, Matt O’Toole, Alan Siegel & Les Weldon
Director: Babak Najafi
Star Cast: Gerard Butler, Aaron Eckhart, Morgan Freeman, Alon Moni Aboutboul, Angela Bassett, Robert Foster, Melissa Leo & Radha Mitchell
Genre: Action Adventure
Verdict: GOOD

Plot: London Has Fallen is the sequel to the worldwide smash-hit Olympus Has Fallen. The story begins in London, where the British Prime Minister has passed away under mysterious circumstances. His funeral is a must-attend event for leaders of the western world. However, what starts out as the most protected event on Earth turns into a deadly plot to kill the world’s most powerful leaders, devastate every known landmark in the British capital, and unleash a terrifying vision of the future. Only 3 people have any hope of stopping it: the President of the United States (Aaron Eckhart), his formidable Secret Service head (Gerard Butler), and an English MI – 6 agents who rightly trusts no one.

Aces: Director Babak Najafi has maintained the suspense and the tempo of the film with some witty one – liners thrown in. Amongst the brigade of the actors Gerard Butler (who also doubles up as one of the producers) & Aaron Eckhart lend some credibility to the movie. But pray what was an acclaimed actor like Morgan Freeman doing in this part of London.

Minuses: Not much of a plot to follow, but it really doesn’t need one. Anyways the end result is that London Has Fallen is almost like a run – of – the – mill action fare.

Last Word: This entire trip to London is enjoyable to some extent. So don’t get your hopes too high and you won’t be terribly disappointed.

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