Inside Out

Profoundly intellectual at a kiddish level. Inside out makes you turn yourself inside out with joy . It's literally a trip down the memory lane whereby you end up thanking the geniuses behind this mammoth piece of art. A young girl is born into a loving family, her mental journey from having been a baby to being a kid along with her travel from her hometown to a new place and the way she feels alone in an all new world and tackles her want to escape into her past is brought out in this movie . The way her memories are captured by her mind and the depiction of joy, sadness, disgust, fear and anger as characters inside of your brain controlling ones action outside in reality in different contexts was a touch of masterclass. While Joy tries to claw its way back into the life of the host, its sorrow that brings back memories of togetherness with family.  This was a lesson on the functions of the brain so beautifully yet intelligently put across. You get a glimpse of the thought train, the long term memory, vanishing memories, the dream factory, an imaginary friend. All of which are bundled into a interesting dissection of how ones thought process is initiated and put into fruition by the reactionary mind to the external world. Watch this masterpiece that’ll educate you with loads of joy as you may tear up on learning what beautiful animation and intellectual freedom can do to movie making at its pinnacle.

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Dil Dhadakne do -

If you let it beat, you'll be beaten up and then will cave in to the demands of heart maybe:)

A family melodrama on a cruise  which ends with the comic voice of Aamir Khan alais Pluto Mehra , the dog of wisdom to humanity.

A wedding anniversary of a dysfunctional couple of upper social class necessitates the journey of celebration on a cruise wherein ;

We find

1. A Dad who has had quite a few affairs, business and marriage being the worst managed of them,

2. A Mother who couldn't manage an affair of her own,

3. A Daughter looking for divorce from her current to wed her past,

4. A Son whose passion is to fly but ends up grouded loving a dancer.

How is one to connect them all into a mess of a movie - we give it up to Dil Dhadakne do ......

Wherein the dad plans to make the latest addition to the family on the grounds of his business and emotional bankruptcy.  He plots for one of his friends to bank roll him out of business woes by relating his son to his friends daughter. 

When the plan goes awry, the son gradually manages to point out the flaws to his parents, only to end up swimming in the Mediterranean Sea to get back to his loved one.

Ranvir tries to belong to the upper class but his colours gradually wore off, as he returns to his original self. Priyanka does well taking a pill to erase her memories of her current dysfunctional relationship with her husband. Kudos to Anil kapoor, who carries the movie on his age old shoulders, the best actor the movie has to offer . Though Anushka doesn't pull off the dancer, she's still worthy of love in her moments of intimacy with Ranvir. Farhan ain't really starring in the movie so no comments.

Overall worthy of a watch with no expectations, If you could appreciate the humour and laugh it off once you get out of the movie hall. Zoya Akhtar," the director of luck by chance", has turned to commerciality on failure of appreciation for her intellect. She uses a dog to impart wisdom to some of us . God bless her with many more successes for Zindagi na milegi dobara!:)

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Piku

An outsider Pik s u from hell, experiences it on the drive and then drops you in heaven while being constipated and hilarious at the same time. When in anticipation, constipation is solved, one with the problem passes away to a better place and the ones left behind look at future with positivity. 

It's the story of a irritable family wherein a pessimistic and selfish dad shows excessive indulgence in bowel movement out of fear of repercussions of its outcome and the daughter has to put up with the tantrums of the dad, cometh the old age. An outsider comes up with a solution for the irritability with his practicality and charm. A take on how old age might blow out of proportion certain bodily difficulties and the irritability that comes along with it and how the same is dealt with the calmness of an outsider. 

Extremely funny without being overly profane  though one should enjoy cheap thrills and I admit I did. 

Big B plays the part of the oldie to perfection. Irfan Khan sizzles with his dialogue delivery and effortless  acting. Deepika subtle acting fits her role. Seems like a perfect cast. 

Watch it as Shoojit Sircar weaves the magic of humour with accomplished actors like Amitabh and Irfan, leaves you with his touch of practicality and provides an end of simplicity that is amicable to everyone. 

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Uttam Villain

Uttamamana Villana?

NO

This is the story of marvellous actor whose life is fading away with brain tumor. He has to make the most of the time he has left. He comes up with the idea of acting in a movie before he’s been ordained to pass far and away. He approaches his mentor  (“Balachander “)and the person who gave him his first chance at glory, to direct him.   They join hands to create a play named Uttama Villain – “The best of archer”.

The plot of the play goes as under and down under;

The Character Uttaman is made to be an actor who has supposedly gone through the ordeal of actually being believed to be dead more than once but has been brought back to life by fate.  He’s believed to be the person who has shook hands with the clutches of fate and is “Mruthyunjayan” – The Conqueror of Death. The one who is believed to be immortal, presumed to have drunk the secret elixir of life. On the other side of this play lies the Minister, who has pushed the ruling king into oblivion and has become the ruler,  who has been predicted a horrendous death by soothsayers. The former king has a beautiful daughter protected by a pet tiger.  The ruling king desires for this beauty while the beauty unleashes the beast in her to kill the ruler.

So ends the prelude,

The ministers suggest that the ruler should approach this Mruthyunjayan as he might have a chance at avoiding the prediction .  Uttaman is called for and passes the test of Conqueror of Death.  He’s believed to know a mantra which can help the ruler obtain immortality.  Owing to Uttaman’s demonstration of immortality, the king starts to believe that he has a chance to save his life.

As Uttaman extends his stay at the province, he suggests certain ways to the ruler to romance the beautiful princess and win her heart. His suggestion earns him the post of a minister in the court of the ruler.

The Princess meets Uttaman in the dungeon where she’s imprisoned for her act of insanity. She plots with Uttaman to create a play of Bhaktha Prahaladha to  assasinate  the ruler and succeeds. Kamal plays Hiraniyakashibu, The princess plays the part of Prahalada, The ruler plays the Narasimha avatar.

But here Hiraniyakashibu character (Uttaman) plots to kill  Narasihma Character(Rules) by poisoning the nails of the Narasihma Character. Uttaman makes sure that Narasimha character scratches himself by transporting a few irritable insects onto the body of the ruler. The poisoned nails aide the irritability caused by the insects, as the poison drains every bit life left in the ruler. The ruler is ruled out of his life and Prahalada survives. Uttaman turns out to be the ruler of the neighbouring land who wanted to kill the ruler himself.

Thus ends the play within the play with the hope that the audience have been played.

 Uttama Villain because Uttaman – Hiraniyakashibu turns out to be the Villain to the ruler (Narasimha Avatar) in the play (maybe). Also  because in bits and pieces manoranjan(kamal) tries to restore his image of a villain in all the erstwhile affairs of his past and that of his present in the movie. Also played well is the ensuing melodrama of his impeding flight away from humanity.  

Kamal tries to combine the art form of Villu pattu for story telling and Kathakali for enacting the story of Bhaktha Prahaladha. The colours presented to us in the art form are memorable. The historical bit enthuses and the art form enlivens the movie throughout. Except Kadhalam Kadavul munn, “bagabagabaga......”other compositions bugbugbug . Background score ain’t that good. The Screenplay could’ve been better as we walk away applauding this humongous effort of difference. Some of the tamil words used in the movie weren’t understandable to people like me who’ve migrated from Sangam/pure  tamil literature.   This is a puritan Kamal movie for Kamal Fans. But hats off to Kamal for the courage in difference.  Watch it as it ain’t mass and isn’t masala.  Not a short one .....Sorry.(Not so short as the blog name claims)

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Oh Kadhal Kanmani

Rarely do you lose out on your money with Mani. It's new and refreshing, but the lingo of the two actors was too apparent a struggle for a Tamilian. The message is that you either live with or without, living in and sampling a relationship doesn't hold up for too long when strong love is confronted by the institution of marriage.  Believable acting but lacking the level of portrayal of intimacy required to seduce one into marriage.  A flirtatious beginning to love that sizzles and then fizzles into an all too familiar marriage. Mani gets his lines right, with Carnatic music playing for all moods, with apt actors acting but not dubbing well enough. This might be one of those movies to be forgotten sooner rather than later  if one were to be a Mani Ratnam fan with Alzheimer's! 

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Hunterrr -re view

Hunterrr - Re view 

Hunt"her" themed hunterrr, isn't a movie portraying decency, for people claiming to be decent, who're ignorant, those of double standards and then actors :)

Orally explicit and visually implicit. Hunterrr hunts down cliches with adult rated reality. Manda might never be the perfect Ganda(partner in Kannada), it's just hormonal imbalance favouring perversion in his formative years of adulthood. When heart takes over, primal instincts are overcome by mind, citing requirement of permanence in a relationship for the welfare of the heart. Years and days start mattering more than minutes of intimacy. As maturity raises its ugly head, Adrenaline goes lower for bodily requirements temporarily, honesty sinks in, to make a life of love that concerns the part that beats rather than ........

Hunterrr is rare in its profanity and honesty. A brave attempt of combining the temporal requirements of a man and things of permanence that realisation could offer. Go watch it, if you could stomach the reality of perversion, many won't !

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Dum Laga Ke Haisha

You can pull any weight if your soulmate were to be upon your shoulders taking on every moment that comes by, with togetherness. It is about realising the potential of the heart, conquering all the imperfections along the way, beyond superficial judgement, 

Beyond preconceived notions of the mind with regard to the visual definition of beauty, beyond prejudices of the family and society. Sometimes it's beyond you whether you would ever come by this variety of perfect love rendered unconditional by the challenges posed by society. 

Dum Laga Ke Haisa is an emotional potboiler that sinks your heart in believable melodrama. It is a love of sorts that you'd dream of. It's a simple rendering of coming of age compromises in married days and of the coming to senses of an incompatible couple. 

Dum Laga Ke Haisha steals you heart dum laga Ke. Go watch it for the script, the performances, the backdrop and a sense of reality in whatever that ensues.

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