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I can’t believe this is the same team that made Bajrangi Bhaijaan. Save your money, and don’t go see Tubelight. So disappointed!!
The script is not good, and I was not moved at all by the story. Salman Khan and his brother Sohail are much too old to play the characters as written. Zhu Zhu is fine, but her Hindi not. The little child actor is the most adorable ever, but the whole movie just doesn't work.
The script is not good, and I was not moved at all by the story. Salman Khan and his brother Sohail are much too old to play the characters as written. Zhu Zhu is fine, but her Hindi not. The little child actor is the most adorable ever, but the whole movie just doesn't work.
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’m super excitecd for DJ now after seeing Arya (2004) and Arya 2 (2009) over the last 2 days. Only Arya 2 is the MUST see movie, but you should watch the
opening dance number of Arya, to get a sense what a great dancer Allu Arjun is. Arya was his breakout film, and the debut blockbuster for director Sukumar — the guy who directed 1: Nenokkadine!
Read and watch my full review here: https://moviemavengal.com/2017/06/23/i-watched-both-of-allu-arjuns-films-arya-and-arya-2-to-get-ready-for-dj/
opening dance number of Arya, to get a sense what a great dancer Allu Arjun is. Arya was his breakout film, and the debut blockbuster for director Sukumar — the guy who directed 1: Nenokkadine!
Read and watch my full review here: https://moviemavengal.com/2017/06/23/i-watched-both-of-allu-arjuns-films-arya-and-arya-2-to-get-ready-for-dj/
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Allu Arjun is charming
I'm super excitecd for DJ now after seeing Arya (2004) and Arya 2 (2009) over the last 2 days. Only Arya 2 is the MUST see movie, but you should watch the
opening dance number of Arya, to get a sense what a great dancer Allu Arjun is. Arya was his breakout film, and the debut blockbuster for director Sukumar -- the guy who directed 1: Nenokkadine!
Read the rest, and see a video review here: https://moviemavengal.com/2017/06/23/i-watched-both-of-allu-arjuns-films-arya-and-arya-2-to-get-ready-for-dj/
opening dance number of Arya, to get a sense what a great dancer Allu Arjun is. Arya was his breakout film, and the debut blockbuster for director Sukumar -- the guy who directed 1: Nenokkadine!
Read the rest, and see a video review here: https://moviemavengal.com/2017/06/23/i-watched-both-of-allu-arjuns-films-arya-and-arya-2-to-get-ready-for-dj/
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Romance Timepass
I didn’t LOVE Raabta as much as Margaret of Don’t Call It Bollywood did, but it was a welcome couple hours of escape for me this weekend. We have a family member that has just been put into hospice, and this movie took me away to beautiful Budapest for a bit. Several shirtless scenes of Sushant also helped very much, the first in the very first minute of the film.
As Margaret said, it’s Magadheera, but totally different. If you want an action film, go see Magadheera. But Raabta is a timepass romance with some angst.
Video review on Bollyfools: https://youtu.be/Y7GEmcHbdZc
As Margaret said, it’s Magadheera, but totally different. If you want an action film, go see Magadheera. But Raabta is a timepass romance with some angst.
Video review on Bollyfools: https://youtu.be/Y7GEmcHbdZc
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Wonder Woman – So Inspiring to Young Girls and the Lift We All Needed
I can’t review Wonder Woman like any old film. It shouldn’t be so momentous that a woman director has directed for the first time a superhero film, that cracked $100 million opening weekend. But it is. Patty Jenkins had directed an Oscar winning independent film, Monster, that cost $8 million, had garnered the Directors Guild Award for the TV Series The Killing — and yet…. the headlines said it was a “gamble” to let her helm a superhero film. It is maddening. When young male directors are given huge action or superhero films after smaller indie films, it’s not called a gamble. The Mary Sue called out this double standard misogyny.
I can’t separate my review of the film from what it has felt like to read about other women’s reaction seeing the film. It’s everything to see a woman centered superhero film, directed by a woman. And then there are the pictures of the little girls who dressed up to see the film, or got to meet their heroine. Gah!
Read the full review here: https://moviemavengal.com/2017/06/07/wonder-woman-so-inspiring-to-young-girls-and-the-lift-we-all-needed/
I can’t review Wonder Woman like any old film. It shouldn’t be so momentous that a woman director has directed for the first time a superhero film, that cracked $100 million opening weekend. But it is. Patty Jenkins had directed an Oscar winning independent film, Monster, that cost $8 million, had garnered the Directors Guild Award for the TV Series The Killing — and yet…. the headlines said it was a “gamble” to let her helm a superhero film. It is maddening. When young male directors are given huge action or superhero films after smaller indie films, it’s not called a gamble. The Mary Sue called out this double standard misogyny.
I can’t separate my review of the film from what it has felt like to read about other women’s reaction seeing the film. It’s everything to see a woman centered superhero film, directed by a woman. And then there are the pictures of the little girls who dressed up to see the film, or got to meet their heroine. Gah!
Read the full review here: https://moviemavengal.com/2017/06/07/wonder-woman-so-inspiring-to-young-girls-and-the-lift-we-all-needed/
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The movie is an momentous event. But I still feel characters like Sandra Bullock's in The Blind Side are the one's that really are "superhero" and not a CBM. Considering WonderWoman has a flag bearer of empowerment is same as considering Captain America as flag bearer of Democracy!! I think we got better & real characters to look up to in both cases. |
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Rarandoi Veduka Chudham (Come, Let's Watch the Spectacle) is an enjoyable family drama starring Naga Chaitanya and Rakul Preet Singh. This I believe is their first film together, and the first time I've seen Rakul in a film.
This film is put out by Naga Chaitanya's family banner, and he did well in the film, but frankly, I enjoyed his 2016 films Premam and Sahasam Swasaga Saagipo much more. The first half of this film is slow, but it's saved by the last hour or so of the film when the conflict comes to a head.
I also enjoyed seeing Jagapathi Babu again as Naga's father. He was Mahesh Babu's father in Srimanthadu.
Video review on Bollyfools:
https://youtu.be/oIAYKQImmI4
This film is put out by Naga Chaitanya's family banner, and he did well in the film, but frankly, I enjoyed his 2016 films Premam and Sahasam Swasaga Saagipo much more. The first half of this film is slow, but it's saved by the last hour or so of the film when the conflict comes to a head.
I also enjoyed seeing Jagapathi Babu again as Naga's father. He was Mahesh Babu's father in Srimanthadu.
Video review on Bollyfools:
https://youtu.be/oIAYKQImmI4
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Video review on @bollyfools with @moviemavengal and @mredlich21 of DontCallItBollywood.com
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFgdrT2Ro3o
Fun for Dulquer Salmaan fans. He has a kick ass fight scene, and there is a fun framing of the romance story with a dream sequence conversation with Karl Marx, Lenin and Che Guevera.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFgdrT2Ro3o
Fun for Dulquer Salmaan fans. He has a kick ass fight scene, and there is a fun framing of the romance story with a dream sequence conversation with Karl Marx, Lenin and Che Guevera.
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Infuriating!
In a word, infuriating! I want Arjun Kapoor to be in a good film, and this one isn't it. It's the script that I really have an issue with and not Arjun or Shraddha's acting.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYUUxRj_UUU&t
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Charming
Charming sweet film and I can't wait to see more films from debut director Akshay Roy!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgGjutsGzVY&t
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Under two hours is just not enough time for all the things this film wanted to be and do. I have been anticipating Noor for months and months, mostly because I heard comedian Kanan Gill was going to have his debut in a Bollywood film. If you're not familiar with Kanan Gill, he has a hilarious Pretentious Bollywood Review Youtube channel, and is extremely amusing on Snapchat [@kanangill].
Kanan Gill plays the character Saad from the book Karachi, You're Killing Me by Saba Imtiaz who is the childhood best friend of Sonakshi Sinha's Noor (Ayesha in the book). There are films that have improved upon the source novel, but Noor is not one of those films. Karachi, You're Killing Me at first seems like a Bridget Jones knockoff, but the unique thing about it is the city it's set in -- Karachi, Pakistan! In the book, Ayesha is a journalist with an incompetent male boss, and she covers everything from terrorist bombings to fashion shows. It gave you a true sense of her life in the city in all its variety -- how she had to get her liquor from her bootlegger --- and how she loves the city, but also yearns for an international life working for CNN. The novel reaches a real peak near the end when she and her boss are caught in a terrorist bombing, and her calm quick thinking saves her boss.
Noor the movie has some of the same fun light tone in the first half. Like Bridget Jones, Noor obsesses about her weight, snacks on junk food, drinks a bit too much, and feels that attractive young men are merely an "urban legend" in Mumbai. Changing the film's setting to Mumbai just inherently takes away what was so unique about the novel. But I think Sonakshi does a great job still in playing Noor. She's a modern young woman journalist, who cringes at doing a Sunny Leone interview when she really wants to be doing SERIOUS work.
Read the full review here: https://wordpress.com/post/moviemavengal.com/8735
Kanan Gill plays the character Saad from the book Karachi, You're Killing Me by Saba Imtiaz who is the childhood best friend of Sonakshi Sinha's Noor (Ayesha in the book). There are films that have improved upon the source novel, but Noor is not one of those films. Karachi, You're Killing Me at first seems like a Bridget Jones knockoff, but the unique thing about it is the city it's set in -- Karachi, Pakistan! In the book, Ayesha is a journalist with an incompetent male boss, and she covers everything from terrorist bombings to fashion shows. It gave you a true sense of her life in the city in all its variety -- how she had to get her liquor from her bootlegger --- and how she loves the city, but also yearns for an international life working for CNN. The novel reaches a real peak near the end when she and her boss are caught in a terrorist bombing, and her calm quick thinking saves her boss.
Noor the movie has some of the same fun light tone in the first half. Like Bridget Jones, Noor obsesses about her weight, snacks on junk food, drinks a bit too much, and feels that attractive young men are merely an "urban legend" in Mumbai. Changing the film's setting to Mumbai just inherently takes away what was so unique about the novel. But I think Sonakshi does a great job still in playing Noor. She's a modern young woman journalist, who cringes at doing a Sunny Leone interview when she really wants to be doing SERIOUS work.
Read the full review here: https://wordpress.com/post/moviemavengal.com/8735
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