Anjaan - Without Jaan

RAJU Bhai as portrayed by Suriya is a silly boy, who kidnaps people for fun and releases them alarmingly to the audience. Director has this amazing capability of not letting suriya act. The movie drags the life out of you, you require to muster all the strength to even walk the hell out of the movie hall. Vidyut Jamval, when he tries to act, it's without Vidyut and you feel like Jamming his head into the Wall, I guess that explains Vidyut Jamwall. Samantha just smiles around here and there and travels to places with Raju Bhai, like a headless "Chick"hen trying to be pretty and dumb at the same time. Lingusamy not for me, "thanks for this death knell". Even Manoj Bajpai succumbs to the numbness of this dim wit storyline. The producer for me is the real Anjaan( fearless) and will become the the Hindi "Anjaan" (stranger), if UTV production continues to produce movies like this one in South. Remember the Delly Belly remake. If the genre were to be humour, I would've still asked the director to humour me. Anjaan is just "un" Jaan for me, wait for it to be Anjaan within a weak week. If you feel irate  because of the abundant use of the word Anjaan, then man up and watch it.

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City Lights - Re-View

A Devoted wife, married to a hard working soulmate, dances among salivating  foxes, to fend for innocence . While the soulmate of innocent ignorance  plays a humble and meek sheep amongst wolves, Finally conquered by animal instinct of criminality, ends up saving the family. City of lights lit at the end of innocence.
A mockery of a board that "criminals will be prosecuted" in the background, and the innocent with a hint of criminality will be persecuted, by the city that never sleeps.
Strong performances with music that melts yours senses - "sone do, Kwab bhone do, jaagenge phir thamenge koi waja jeene ki,sone do, Kwab bhone do " poetry that lingers, and the thought of sacrifice that makes you surrender to the thought that a mould could help your family to unlock the materiality of happiness . City lights definitely with a story line that makes you want to believe!

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Cuckoo -the movie - the review

Cuckooed by the cuckoo, the story of two differently abled lovers who love with blindness only in their eyes. I've heard of love being blind, today the director made me believe that if lovers be blind, that is the most sacred union of hearts. This love transcends all boundaries of the language of hearts, portrayed by the normality of vision and materiality mastered by most directors. This is a novel attempt at melting the hearts of viewers, who'd come out of the hall wanting to be loved blindly. Attakathi Dinesh turns blind this time around after playing a loafer in the past. The amount of refinement in his acting in only his second movie shows there are talented folks out there waiting to grab every chance with a scope for natural acting. 

The newbie portrays lady love to perfection. When the cuckoos comes calling  in the finality, your heart starts pounding faster. It pounds faster in a prayer for the coming together of these two soul mates. If  the directors Cupid arrows were even a bit more sharper, they would've made you celebrate Valentines day on a daily basis for this union, as you are bowled over by this flawless creation of an artist. Watch it, live it and celebrate it, for this love is as unique as it can get in the modern era.

Queen

A Queen in deed and at heart;

A kid at heart, with a quintessential cultural background and a traditional upbringing, pleasured by thoroughly enjoyable modern experiences, faced by rejection at the hands of a fiancée of the yesteryear school of thought flirting with disaster! She enjoys one hell of a honeymoon without her fiancée, feeling out of place at times, yet putting up a show of happiness! If Japanese and Russians can induce emotions, Indians can atleast squeeze a drop of tear out of you!!! Rather than putting it as Alice in wonderland, it's more Like Kangana Ranaut sorry ran"out"to wonderland  and owned the big stage like a queen. Beautiful cinematography, different songs, perfect comic timing!  She's the queen of the house of cards of Bollywood that wouldn't wither away from your memory in time to come! Portrayal of beauty without obscenity is something difficult to be shown to the audiences these days. Her character in the movie portrays the culmination of innocence and happiness brought about by a structured breakdown of sorrow, by freedom of thought, unshackling herself from traditional monotony of bounded Hindu love. Watch it and you'll believe every word of it! 

300, The rise of an em"pire" - Review

Three Hundred, hope this doesn’t go unread;
The rise of a nation;
Haunted by the blood of Leonidis and the 300 past,
This rise of an empire might be forgotten fast?
Yes, Indeed.
It lacks the sucker punch, yet remains thoroughly watchable owing to the screenplay and background score and the rationale that a person would never give up on the what could have been, as every second that passes by the movie runs amok, as Persians falter into the abyss, thanks to Athenian strategem.
The movie starts on a beautiful note – Quote “A mad experiment by Athenians againt the mighty Persians, all for an Athenian Idea called democracy, for a free greece”Unquote. Acting does not inspire, nor does anyone try. Eva Green as Artemisia flatters with her divine beauty, appreciated only by the greeks of the past, as her acting decieves and she falters into the waters of Greece, with the idea of freedom.
Xerxes feeds on the dead, grieves as his father falls, bathes likes a Greek God, walks and rides more than he talks. But his innate anger, the very reason for the desire to conquer, fails to inspire the vengeance that gave birth to the idea of conquering Greeks.
There used to be this feeling in 300, when Leonidis braves the persian messenger when he shouts his lungs out “This is Sparta”. That instantly sent shivers down the spine of the messenger, the audience would have clenched their fists to defend Sparta and avenge the audaciousness of Persian offering of tyranny. But As the 300 empire rises and progresses into the w hole , one feels whether this was the Sparta? – The same Sparta that portrayed the valour and believable courage of the 300, that braved the animosity of Xerxes, even when outnumbered by tyranny and deceived by one of their own, they fought on to attain the glorious death that provides the ammunition for the salvation of a warrior. The blasphemy of Leonidis’s death avenged too late by a queen that grieves a bit too late. The foreplay of Queen's vengeance isn’t consummated by the blood of Xerxes or his disciples. Themistocles as the main lead, leads, falls, rises, strategises and beds victory with ease, as Artemesia raves about his manhood and gifts death, as her Persian God looks away in  human loss.
300 Rise of an empire is as good as the Age of Mythology post Age of Empires for the Strategy Gamers - Geeky impulse, sorry. Simply Put, Ain’t as good as its precedent, No Pun intended.

Mr.Peabody and Sherman, a quickie

If the wings of imagination were to be fueled with the fire of creativity, history would’ve been far more interesting, like the one portrayed in the movie. Animated adoption, thought provoking screenplay, admixture of science and history, amazing Greeks and thought provoking geeks. The Sherlockish explanation for escapade is too mature for the young while an adult takes time to comprehend.  Though the climax dragged a bit, the WABAC machine travels back to the glorious past and brings forth the memories that remain unforgettable.  Hope its more of a Trojan Horse transmitted to the traditional way of teaching history oblique science that makes teachers take note. This movie has the ability to make the expressionless Monalisa smile to aid Da Vinci with the photoshop of future. Overall an interesting movie tempered with logic and creative magic that thrills. The smartest dog does succeed in grooming the intelligent kid, in a way that most humans would'nt.  Kudos to creativity and freedom of expression. Loved it. Watch it.

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American Hustle- The review

It's the American hustle, with the acting muscle to wrestle a script that doesn't surprise.

Carnal attraction for revenge to avenge, adopted affection, self inflicted loyalty, long thought infidelity, fantabulous star cast with ability to hustle;

There used to days when J Law would be unisexually known as Jude Law, but now it's Jennifer Lawrence. To quote -

She was the Picasso of passive aggressive Karate. She was better than any con artist id ever met including myself. She has me like nobody had me. You might say she was my karma for how I took advantage of people - unquote.

After the Silver Linings Playbook this was more like the gold etched effort of J Law to naturalise eccentricity. Her short playtime performance could bag all the accolades.
It's an "Arab scam" on us though, using the sheik word. To sum it up, it's eccentricity for Academy J law, The bellyaching Christian Bale, improvising Bradley Cooper who's more than just an eye candy, unfathomable Amy Adams should have done enough taking this found wanting script beyond just an all too familiar Hustle through their acting.
"I'm gonna have some fun, maybe it'll be contagious !" - yes it was . Please go watch it!
Still ruminating while leaving the hall, quoting some of the dialogues I liked -
"Again? You compliment me again. What is this rubbing salt in the wound?
You're nothing to me until you're everything!"
Who would dare missing out on Bradley Cooper questioning Louie C.K. about Ice Fishing.
Watch it !

Quotation Courtesy:- https://secure.sonypictures.com/movies/academy/media/americanhustle-screenplay.pdf

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