Shivaay’s Viewings (Up to date) | SATYAMSHOT

ASUR 2 – Will get caught up in its personal absurdities and self indulgence to dish out a partly gripping, partly absurd and partly preposterous season. Whereas season 1 well used the idea of Karma, Aatma, Moksh and Dharma to weave a gripping plot round them, season 2 makes an attempt to make use of these ideas as an finish means in itself which oscillate the collection from the thrilling to the obnoxiously supernatural. 3/5

Hoping there isn’t a Season 3 now.

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Shaitaan – 2024
Watched it.. wonderful first half the place the story builds up properly and distinctive performances by the solid with Madhavan and Janki Bodiwala standing out whereas Ajay & Jyotika are stoic. The introduction sequence, the construct up & the sense of atmospheric nervousness might be felt for the protagonist & his household.

However identical to Bahl’s earlier Hit Tremendous 30, Shaitaan too nosedives within the second half with senseless gore & violence occupying a majority of the screentime. The climax is unintentionally humorous & exams your endurance by then, particularly since Maddy for all his efforts continues to be too nice to be handed off as a human sacrificing rakshas & his charming dialogue supply which did wonders in establishing the primary half finally ends up being the deal breaker within the last act.

One other a kind of city multiplex industrial movies from the trade, might be watched as soon as primarily for the primary half & Madhavan’s present stealing act.

3/5
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An exquisite movie to look at cinematographic-ally however an agonising, painstaking & fairly a boring watch past a sure level with a predictable plot and cardboard characters. Maybe comfortable sci-fi/fantasy isn’t precisely a favorite style (not like the superior large brother sci fi dealing in realism) however this might need labored higher in a GOT styled TV present. Undoubtedly extra partaking than its snooze fest of a predecessor and people blue bodied alien movies, however nonetheless a slog however.

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-Good stable political procedural thriller that asks for the viewer’s consideration & places your information of the structure to check.

-Most performances are on top of things. Arun Govil as Pm & Raj Zutshi as Abdullah stand out. Priyamani is stable, Yami Gautam is a bit eccentric & on character. Portrayal of the HM by Kiran Karmarkar is extraordinarily cartoonish although.

-Cinematography, camerawork, Bgm all prime notch. Dialogues are laborious hitting with out going ballistic.

-Movie does undergo from the Oppenheimer curse whereby it tries to slot in method an excessive amount of content material inside a brief span of two Hrs 45 minutes. Assessments the viewers endurance as a consequence of its size and reliance on drama/dialogue. Would have labored higher as a 6-8 episode internet collection for the quantity of content material it suits in.

-3.5/5

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Watched Fighter. Good stable industrial movie for essentially the most half other than an underwhelming climax which appeared extra like a Kabir vs Khalid second. The primary half is a rousing glory with exceptionally properly designed and shot aerial dogfights and cobra manoeuvres. The moments of staff bonding and goofing are nice however nevertheless, not one thing of a cup of tea for single display screen audiences.

Performances are par for the course, Hr dominates the display screen as common and Deepika performs her half properly. Anil Kapoor reminds of his olden days whereas Karan Grover shines as Jai.
Largest drawback with the movie is its gradual paced second half, pointless interpersonal relationship props, a second of puerile humor involving Sharib Hashmi and the truth that whereas the motion and cinematography could be very area of interest and up to date, a number of of the dialogues and the climax combat offers a Gadar really feel to the movie. The ultimate act finally ends up being a neither right here nor there mismatch of Uri meets Border (pointless for the reason that lots would anyhow received’t have an interest within the aerial fight motion).
All in all a great stable movie however that might simply have been a wonderful movie had the makers adopted their conviction and never fallen for the mass appeasing lure, particularly properly designed for its Vfx, motion & set items. 7/10

PS : If Hindi movie makers and stars are so keen on catering to the lots and budgeting their movies accordingly, they need to follow the Warfare and Pathan template and depart the likes of Fighter to the Aditya Dhar’s and Vicky Kaushal’s of the world. Or else observe conviction and finances the movie accordingly for city multiplexes alone. No level making an attempt the very best of each worlds and find yourself with neither.

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Merry Christmas has good performances, wonderful cinematography and spicy dialogues however a torpid screenplay and an underwhelming climax are the main drawbacks. Will get confused between being a black comedy or a thriller and finally ends up being neither. Strictly a one time watch, ideally on Ott, 3/5

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Accomplished. Good, stable docu drama movie the chronicles the life and occasions of Subject Marshal Manekshaw in a hagiographical format. His equation together with his IMA batchmates, his spouse in addition to ex PM Indira has been precisely & adequately portrayed with out an excessive amount of melodrama or shenanigan.
The movie excels in its portrayal of the varied regiments of the Indian Military in addition to the mutually admirable equation the Subject Marshal shared together with his Jawans & officers.

The principle complaints – Nothing about his childhood and college life. Its a bit problamatic to painting such a wealthy illustrious life in 2.5 hours however his early days, his equation together with his dad and mom & college life deserved to be touched upon.
Additionally, completely no actual life footage of the Subject Marshal by the movie regardless of sensible path of apt utilization of actual life footage in portrayal of the ’71 conflict.

Price Watching movie however. Kudos to Kaushal and Meghna in equal measure.

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THE SPY on Netflix –

Maybe a bit late within the day, however a backbone chilling, nerve wracking spy drama that when once more reinstates how properly espionage thrillers might be if made with the correct amount of realism and gradual burn.

Sensible efficiency by Sacha Baron Cohen, wonderful departure from his humorous man gigs. An ideal tribute to the “nation earlier than self”, “nation earlier than household” stone chilly method of the Israelis that defines and makes them what they’re within the put up WW-2 world (one thing most Indian civilians are incapable of even of their desires!).

Should Watch

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Watched Tiger 3 as we speak morning. Like I stated earlier, good script, needlessly prolonged screenplay that wasn’t crisp sufficient, wonderful motion sequences & stunts (esp by Katrina), substandard Visuals (persevering with from the place Pathaan left off), mediocre performances (Emraan did properly however his make up and shallowly written character didn’t assist, SRKs cameo being an entire waste of time on the identical traces as Salman’s in Pathaan), dialogues that oscillate between the hilarious, sarcastic to tacky.

Higher than Tiger 1, at par with Pathaan (general) however not a patch on Tiger 2 and Warfare.

5/10

*Displaying a Pakistan PM in good mild isn’t gonna go down properly with the audiences (rightfully so) however within the general scheme of issues I’d nonetheless take it since the actual villain of the piece, The Pakistan Armed forces and the ISI have been appropriately demonized together with a “mild” reference to the rogue insurance policies of Turkey and China.

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AN ACTION HERO :

Tremendous Enjoyable “popcorn” entertainer with excessive meta references and black comedy that’ll make you rofl and facepalm on the similar time. A movie inside a movie with water tight screenplay and spicy dialogues, its relentless tempo covers up for its predictable goof ups whereas the beautiful camerawork and stylized motion is a murals.

Performances from Ayushmaan and the ever dependable Jaideep Alhawat are image good for the job at hand and regardless of Ayushmaan’s lack of attraction within the motion style (one main cause why the movie flopped) he’s delivered one among his profession greatest put up Andhadhun and Vicky Donor.

7/10 – Price Awaiting its enjoyable tropes with a pun.

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Khufiya – One other mediocre common product by Vishal Bharadwaj. A script stuffed with potential and thrill will get entangled in a messy internet of obnoxious VB shenanigans (addicted semi bare housewife, a lesbian intelligence officer, a prime of the invoice double agent so dumb, he’d put havildars of Delhi Police to disgrace).

Performances by a proficient solid are the one factor going for this movie alongside some good cinematography and a handful of procedural scenes involving real espionage.

The standard irrelevant and predictable Bharadwaj anti nationalistic pandering about how nationality and borders are the basis reason behind all wars (yet one more toast for the commies after Jawan) that we’ve turn into used to since that terrible propaganda piece of writing from a Kashmiri militant that we name “Haider” doesn’t make issues higher.

Strictly a one time watch when you have nothing higher in your checklist.

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The Vaccine Warfare :

A properly intentioned movie general narrating the trials and tribulations of our scientists and their skilled and private struggles by the horrifying pandemic.

Clearly being a Vivek Ranjan movie there are events the place there’s subtlety of a sledgehammer in rightly calling out the crooked left wing media cabal and their NYC masters however I do want he will get a bit smoother and refined about it going ahead.

Its finally the scientific lab R&D and testing scenes (properly shot and edited) the place the guts and soul of the movie lies and superlative performances from Nana Patekar and Pallavi Joshi with admirable help from Girija Oak, Nivedita Bhattacharya, Sapthami Gowda and Anupam Kher solely rise the movies requirements.

All in all The Vaccine Warfare may not be an important movie however positively a vital movie and a befitting tribute to our scientists and virologists in addition to a powerful slap to deprave pharma cos like Pfizer and Moderna for his or her treacherous opportunistic insurance policies. Identical to the makers final, its a troublesome movie to look at and would have labored higher as a docu-drama format or a 5 half internet collection however kudos to Vivek Ranjan and Pallavi Joshi for presenting us this important movie. 8/10

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***A Haunting In Venice**

Extra of a tribute than an adaptation of Agatha Christie’s novel. That seamlessly blends in parts of horror and fantasy. Regardless of the gradual paced and partly torpid screenplay, simply the very best of Kenneth Branagh’s Poirot movies and a far superior improve from the lackluster Orient Categorical and Loss of life on the Nile. A great stable 7/10.

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Watching Jawan.. directionless vigilantism that results in extra chaos than order is all the time problamatic, be it Rang De Basanti or Gabbar and even Joker. Its totally different from unidirectional and private vendetta vigilantism like Indian & A Wednesday. The great stable Vfx & popcorn moments apart Jawan is kind of senseless enjoyable solely once you don’t attempt taking it too significantly. A concoction of too many characters & arcs, none of which have sufficient growth. 2.5/5

Solely somebody who really is aware of how you can smoke a cigar would know the badassery of the interval sequence btw.. 😜
Jawan is principally a mass interesting Tamil movie starring Srk & higher manufacturing worth. He would possibly as properly have chosen Ajith Kumar with ditto outcomes

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Executed watching OMG2. A good entertainer coping with an especially vital & delicate matter in an especially naive and preachy technique, akin to half 1. And identical to its prequel its unable to let go of a wholly weird climax involving considerable goofiness and suspension of disbelief. Akshay is simply being Akshay as common, sadly Pankaj and Yami are the identical. Pawan Malhotra is the present stealer (in step with judges in Hindi courtroom dramas).

A onetime look ahead to its theme and crisp presentation for the primary 3/4th of its period. 3/5

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Oppenheimer–

1. Nolan’s return to his roots. Sluggish burn screenplay that retains you engrossed proper from the primary body to the final regardless of its excruciating tempo & size. Torpid pacing is perhaps a flip off except you’re prepared to take a position your self utterly and are mentally ready for an exhaustive & informative narrative.

2. Heavier reliance on drama, dialogue and a non linear narrative with various color scheme.
3. Sound design is prime notch however not like Nolan’s theme based mostly narratives (since Inception) Oppenheimer has a background rating that’s extra inclusive as a part of the story telling course of than a press release in itself.
4. BRILLIANT dialogues, star of the present. Profession greatest performances by Murphy & Downey Jr balancing their flawed characters with a toned down aptitude you seldom witness. Emily Blunt is par excellence within the climax scene.

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Mission Majnu – Obscure, confused and fairly cheesy at occasions. A movie dealing with complicated Indo-Pak espionage relations with child gloves. Fairly watchable if you happen to want to watch a political/espionage thriller in a masala format with caricatured performances and infantile dialogues.

Sid Malhotra is respectable and charming as a confirmed Majnu, Rashmika does properly, Parmeet Sethi is okay as Kao whereas Zakir Hussain is totally wasted as a great for nothing sarkari oaf. The very best half concerning the movie is its no holds bar in exposing the treacherous traitor Morarji Desai, India’s biggest shame as a PM and one whose insurance policies are maybe a poster for the likes of Kejriwal, Stalin & Mamata. The harm performed by Indira’s self obsessive lapse in imposing the Emergency & the aftermath of the electoral defeat in 1977 had been felt proper till Siddharth’s final movie based mostly on the ’99 conflict hero Capt. Vikram Batra.

Ranking : 3* ; okay as a one time watch however not a patch on the likes of Mukhbir and Raazi based mostly on related themes.

PS : Evergreen Byomkesh babu Rajit Kapur has one other feather in his cap as Zulfikar Bhutto after enjoying Gandhi, Modi and Nehru. Some background.
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Barring the beautiful visuals and cinematography, Avatar 2 is an extended by no means ending snoozefest that appears extra like a celebration of America’s despicable expansionist & invasive insurance policies than about story telling and screenplay.

Since bombing continents and international locations isn’t sufficient anymore, time for the White home’s Hollywood stooges to go about bombing & invading fellow planets beneath the garb of movie making. As with nearly each main studio now, spending large bucks on visuals with zilch story telling & recycling the identical rubbish in a franchise format is the one factor left of Hollywood now, in occasions when Indian & Asian cinema’s making speedy strides. No surprise even nearly respectable stuff like Parasite & RRRs leaving them in awe.
✯✯ /5

Favorite motion pictures of 2022 :

Main : 9/10
Drishyam 2 : 8/10
Vikram Vedha : 8/10
777 Charlie : 7/10
The Kashmir Recordsdata : 7/10
Gangubai Kathiawadi : 7/10
Vikram Hitlist : 7/10
Jhund : 7/10
RRR : 7/10
KGF 2 : 7/10

Others : PS1, Bhediya, Runway 34, Karthikeya 2

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Avatar (2009) -A rewatch

Gorgeous visuals, distinctive cinematography and mesmerizing VFX in a wafer skinny plot (that’s Cameroon’s speciality proper from his Terminator & Titanic days) with a tinge of American propaganda about how they’re the one dwelling land worthy of surviving this planet & past (when the reality is way from it!). Hijacking an alien planet and waging conflict in opposition to the unprepared is staple American eating regimen, be it politics, diplomacy or leisure.

Count on Avatar 2 to be no totally different other than the truth that its 30 minutes longer in size and would possibly check your endurance (if not offer you a 3 dimensional migrain). ⭐⭐1/2

Ram Setu (2022) -OTT watch

A movie with its coronary heart in the precise place and desiring to rejoice Bharatvarsha’s timeless Dharmic legacy by the legend of Shri Ram and the Setu however utterly tousled when it comes to writing and visuals. The juvenile dialogues and inflexible performances don’t assist. Watchable just for the content material (if you happen to should!). ⭐⭐1/2

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Watched Chup -Revenge of the artist. The Guardian’s overview sums it up the very best : “Chup efficiently skewers not simply the tense film-maker/critic relationship, however is aware of completely the place to place its finger to greatest needle Movie Twitter: it calls out hot-take retailers, overly optimistic and corrupt reviewers, and this exalted calling’s self-importance.”

Regardless of the gradual burn screenplay and obvious loopholes, this can be a watchable movie particularly for Dulquer Salman’s stunningly menacing act and a surprisingly restraint Sunny Deol (shouts simply as soon as in your complete period of the movie!).

PS : Glimpses of the despicable Raja Sen in a movie about critics being chopped and slaughtered was essentially the most satisfying bit, a cameo from Saibal Chatterji and Anna Vetticad would have been the icing on the cake however anyhow.. 😛

3.5/5
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Executed watching Drishyam 2. The identical story as the unique however positively a tighter and extra taut screenplay this time regardless of the implausible twists and handy climax. Ajay Devgn sir is mesmerizing as Vijay Salgaonkar and maybe the one actor in Hindi cinema who might match Mohanlal sir on this function.

Tabu invokes the viewers wrath convincingly whereas Akshay & Rajat Kapoor add steadiness to the opposites. The dialogues and background rating is a winner. Regardless that this isn’t as much as the usual of its prequel, its nonetheless a pleasant thriller.
☆☆☆1/2

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Brahmastra :
Story -⭐⭐⭐⭐
Screenplay -⭐⭐
Performances -⭐⭐
Motion/Visuals -⭐⭐⭐⭐
Dialogues -⭐⭐

Good idea jarred by some substandard dialogues that sound straight out of a dubbed Telugu movie and really unconvincing leads whose ineffective chemistry fails the love story in addition to utterly sloppy physique language and physicality by Ranbir whose a misfit for an action-superhero function. Fortunately the movie’s saved by wonderful visuals and whistle worthy heroic cameos from SRK, Nagarjuna and Bachchan sir. Mouni Roy because the vamp is way simpler in her mannerisms and physique language than each Ranbir and Alia.
Ranking -⭐⭐⭐ (one time watch)

Minnal murali -India’s greatest superhero movie by a mile. An authentic screenplay a few superhero vs supervillain story created by way of love, ambition and commonplace masala father-son template.

Though there’s apparent Hollywood inspiration, the dialogues (English model), diction and cinematography give this film an entire heartland expertise. Ample humor coupled with good stable performances, a film for all age teams and a common viewers. The excruciating 160 minute being the one disadvantage ✯✯✯✯

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Vikrant Rona :

Nothing a lot other than visuals and cgi. Easy plot narrative in a needlessly convoluted method.

A particularly casteist movie as properly, the avengers being remodeled to rakshasas regardless of watching the decrease caste relations being killed whereas an higher caste Vikrant Rona rising a hero regardless of being an confederate in crime throughout his college days. DISAPPOINTING…

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Performances-⭐️⭐️⭐️
Dialogues -⭐️⭐️
VFX/Motion -⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Whole -⭐️⭐️ 1/2

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Revisiting Jodhaa Akbar :

For the primary time in over a decade I received an opportunity to revisit one among Ashutosh G’s most majestic large display screen extravaganzas Jodhaa Akbar,

Story & Screenplay : 7/10
A slightly simplistic story of a Mughal king desirous to forge an alliance with a Rajput princess with a view to increase his foothold throughout the Hindustani landmass. The screenplay (by Haider Ali and Ashutosh himself) nevertheless takes an especially labored and snail’s method (a typical problem with most Ashutosh movies together with Lagaan) which induces boredom and disinterest within the viewer occasionally. To cite from Austin Chronicle, the movie’s greatest victory is that “The music and dance which can be such hallmarks of Bollywood filmmaking are right here seamlessly integrated into the story slightly than making a pause within the motion.” https://bit.ly/3c2QMlm

Dialogues : 7/10
Good and efficient (wanting being nice nevertheless) for essentially the most half. Emperor Akbar and Jodhabai’s romantic exchanges are a pleasure to the ears whereas a younger prince Akbar setting apart Khan baba within the first quarter of the movie and setting his priorities straight have been written extraordinarily successfully. Akbar’s exchanges with Jodha’s brother in addition to his highly effective & emotional dramatic trade together with his foster mother (an brilliantly devilish Ila Arun) have been thoughtfully penned by author KP Saxena.

Performances : 7/10
Environment friendly and stable performances for essentially the most half. Each Hrithik and Aishwarya have been given ample scope to exude appeal and magnificient magnificence by their good-looking appears to be like and so they ship successfully on that entrance. Ila Arun as Akbar’s foster mother is prime notch and so is Sonu Sood as Sujamal Bhaisaab. The help solid led by Kulbhushan sir and others is satisfactory as properly. To cite B. Rangan on this “Hrithik occupies display screen house with such silent poise and regal bearing, it’s laborious to consider this is identical actor with the loosest limbs in Bollywood. And whereas Aishwarya’s magnificence is not any breaking information, she’s so luminous from sure angles, it’s as if the cinematographer lit her from inside.” https://bit.ly/3yTCT1O

Motion/Cinematography/Music : 6/10
The motion is the place the movie takes a little bit of a beating. Agreed the photographs didn’t have the luxurious of the VFX we witness in modern-day cinema like RRR however the haphazard stunt choreography and shut up motion photographs had been a significant let down. The lengthy distant battle sequence photographs in addition to the one to 1 climatic duel depart an influence however. AR Rahman’s music is pure genius Kiran Deohans’ cinematography is patchy is components (motion sequences) and environment friendly in others (specifically the dialogue and romantic sequences of the lead pair).

Closing phrases : An uneven but respectable watchable movie for essentially the most half the place the romance between its stunning leads together with the music works significantly better than the historic sermons and the motion.

Ranking : 7/10 (Price Watching)

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Kranti (1981)
Received a chance to look at this Manoj Kumar masterpiece on Zee5 final night time. A star studded industrial film about revolutionaries mutiny in opposition to the British with image good performances from Dilip Kumar saab, Manoj Kumar saab, Hema ma’am, Praveen ji, late Shashi Kapoor, Shatrughan sir amongst others. A real visible extravaganza in its precise sense, the RRR of the Eighties with higher dialogues and higher performances by its solid. No shock that KRANTI turned out to be Hindi cinema’s greatest and biggest blockbusters of the last decade. Sholay, Deewaar, Kranti, Karma and many others. are the kinda movies nobody in Bollywood’s able to making these days, the principle cause for the trade’s present disaster.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oecx7FyoFvw
A great deal of properly choreographed motion, oodles of intestine wrenching emotion (demise photographs of Manoj saab, Shashi ji and Shatrughan sir particularly), intense drama and dialogues that invoke claps, whistles and hair elevating moments as properly punctuated by a little bit of sprinkled humor and romance, Kranti is the close to good masala movie enterprise and alongside Sholay, this deserves to be a template in modern-day industrial movie making. The plain and monumental inspiration of each these classics on Rajamouli sir’s RRR is all however apparent.

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Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar
First time I’ve ever watched Mamootty sir carry out (because of my zilch understanding of Malayalam) however as for his portrayal of Dr. Babasaheb, its nearly pinpoint perfection (besides the Malayali accent that can’t be helped). At all times discovered Ambedkar the scholar a little bit of a myopic when it got here to his restricted understanding of Hinduism and its philosophies (which might by no means rise past the manusmriti) however received to applaud him for his relentless efforts in the direction of annhilation of sophistication disparity and girls upliftment in pre Impartial India. Its solely an irony (or maybe his hypocirsy?) that being a self proclaimed atheist he transformed to a different DHARMIC religion (Buddhism) afterward in life.

PS: The one chief in pre impartial India other than Bhagat Singh to have referred to as out the crafty british stooge Mohandas Gandhi for what he was!

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