Susan P M

The feeling of being hit by nostalgia- sharply and intensely- that’s Premalu. It’s so pure that I want youth - all the future youth generations- to get opportunities to live life with such fun, get genuine friends and above all fall in love. Premalu triggers such emotions that you start to see the beauty of the feelings we experience even when rejected. Joy and Pain, both come out the same way. Sachin (Naslen) dancing at the pub after Karthika giving him a reality test is the same way one would dance when love is returned. Who in the crowd knows if the dancer’s heart is breaking with pain or bursting with joy? Friendship shown reflect the reality. The tears we shed over unrequited love are wiped away by friends. It’s so private and then it’s quietly tucked away. Premalu with its realistic flavour has tugged heart, made us nostalgic and even shed a tear for the beautiful youth we spent.

Overwhelmed by emotions that I lost the count of how many times I teared up. There were exquisite and tear jerking emotional moments and it took me by surprise because I thought sniffing and wiping tears while watching movies are moments from my distant past. This movie is a balm to the soul yearning for a soft romantic movie where we also sway with the hero in anticipation for that moment he will get to hold SitaMahalakshmi's hands. I am so glad that today's youth have this romantic movie amongst the others as some point of reference of the depth of emotional Avalanche that a man and woman experiences when fallen in love. I am sure people of all age group will enjoy and reminisce the times of their first love. Anyway, back to the movie. It's crafted neatly. Visually, it was a treat and emotionally, all charged with feelings. Well, keep a napkin handy to avoid messing your sleeve and watch it with someone who loves you because you are going to be sniffing and rubbing eyes and will be coming out with red eyes. Let it be witnessed by someone you can freely be vulnerable with. Lovely movie and much thanks to the team who had the guts to do a romantic period drama in the era when cynicism leads!

Absolutely loved this film. I totally enjoyed the one liners. I cuaght myself laughing out loud in many such dialogs. Kunchacko, what an amazing upgraded performance! Truly appreciate the hard work put in bringing out an apt portrayal of a common man who is persistent in his goal. All the supporting cast, fresh faces yet perfectly blended with the character. I totally loved the no nonsense styled performance of all the three lawyer characters. I didn't see them as actors but as real lawyers and only when the movie got over, reality surfaced reminding me that wait, all those were actors. Splendid. There are many funny movements and poignant dialogs and fabulous work done by the supporting stars. This is one movie, where i booked ticket in advance fearing not getting a ticket OTC. If seeing the trailer and song deevadodar before movie made you suspicious whether the movie has anything else to offer, all those doubt will be dispelled. The song is the icing on the cake, the real bite into the cake is delicious. Fantastic movie, hilarious jokes, par excellence in acting (by all) and above all, a noteworthy message. More power to good movies!

The only thing missing from the bollywood plots these days was murdering women who say 'No'. Fantastic message for our budding youth and what a trailblazer for women empowerment!! It's with sheer anger I left the theatre after watching Ek Villan Returns. Mr. Suri wants the society to regress to such low with his epic stories. I am eagerly waiting to see how much further beneath he will go in his next venture. The days ain't far when someone puke in the theatre watching Suri's dramatic depiction of a mystery/thriller. I am not against cinematic violence and vamp stories but lay out some justifications as well. Rampant murders doesn't make a movie. Isn't it enough that we have to bear privileged 'I deserve everything' brats in real life? Why should we also have such personalities encroaching our leisure times? This movie offers the very characters we want to avoid in our daily life. This movie's messages to people are: 1. A girl or woman shouldn't say no to the advances she get from opposite sex. Saying no can be like striking a nail on her coffin. 2. With family money as protective cover, rich brats can run amok and do whatever they want. Not even eagle fly above money. (Great message to a country when the majority are struggling middle class and poor) 3. Stalking is the ultimate expression of love. It's not being caring, understanding or making your partner laugh or being rooted and progressive in life. Instead Just be creepy and stare at a girl and tada, your love is justified and true. In Malang also Suri said so and so died but in the end comes declaration "Fooled you, who you think as dead is alive" . The freshest twist of any plot, right? Just before theatres closed due to pandemic, this was the twist for thriller movie and then after two years when theatre opened, it's the same twist. We should just change the dictionary meaning of twist to ease the assualt on our brain. If you want to watch this movie, do so but don't buy any popcorn or food or pepsi. You will mistakenly blame the food and pepsi for being adulterated and distasteful while the real culprit will be the sleazy plot and story of this movie.

Is this for real? There is something critically wrong happening in the bollywood filmmakers' chambers. Why would anyone spoil Ranbir's life and career with such average movies? Now I am feeling sad wondering whether a day will come when I can say a Bollywood movie is great or masterpiece. Are those days behind us? My issues with the movie: 1. The misunderstood (absent) parent storyline... That is outright boring now. Also, to achieve all that the father failed to achieve is a narrative to be totally rejected. We don't accept such narratives anymore, our generation is not here to correct someone else mistake or to fulfill someone else's dreams. We don't buy this narrative at home and we are not buying it for our art, cinema and entertainment. With folded hands, I beseech don't bore us with such crony thought process if you still seek our opinion, money and time. 2. The cliched thin line between love and hate that bollywood toyed with for ages between a couple... How to say this without maligning the readers' eyes? Script writers can stop squeezing their brain for pseudo romance and courtship by just showing the couple are together from the start of the movie. It's ok. You don't seem to know how people fall in love so don't expose your idiocy through cringe evoking scenes. It's very distasteful. 2. Villan wasnt hateful enough that will make us long and route for his demise/defeat. If villan doesn't stick, the hero will not fly and here hero didn't fly much. The sets and color tone are decent, i can say it's good also but that's what you get for your money. If you were expecting thrills, suspense unraveling, emotional turmoil etc, then nope, this is not the movie. In fact i don't know when we will get such movie from Bollywood.

This was least expected but this movie is just an okay and nowadays being 'okay' is not enough. I thoroughly liked Vivek Oberoi's performances. Almost everyone's acting was good but technically there were many flaws. I am not going to compliment and glorify Prithviraj in this film because I expect his movies to be better than 'okay'. The sound was too harsh as if it was trying to hard to be a chest thumping high bgm movie. During the interval, a fleeting thought popped up, is Kaduva trying to be a KGF or RRR or Vikram? I never asked Malayalam movies to be over the top but yet I want it to make sense completely . Some of the major lows for me were- 1. Too much sound. This has to be a technical error or a complet lack of understanding about how music works. 2. The moves of villan were more smart and intelligent. I expected hero (supported by his teacher and lawyer friend) would show some crafty moves to counter the villian's moves. This didn't happen instead hero was just beating up people who smartly outwitted him. Strange! 3. The comment on the differently abled child, nope... That was absolutely unwarranted. Evern if that was the belief of protogonist, shouldn't say it in front of the parents. What's the message here? 4. Unconvincing supporting stars. 5. Potential interesting areas weren't leveraged well. If the movie was made to mint money and feed the greed monster, yes you got money .. for now.

I bought the ticket with Dil Dhadakne Do nostalgia and that's one family drama I enjoyed watching. But this JJJ is nowhere near that DDD. I don't expect all the movies in the world should connect with my heart but I wanted the movie to be entertaining for me where I am trying to stifle my laughter in order to catch the next joke, but no.. no such moments for this movie. Atleast some Bollywood style music and dance, nope.. not even that! How much can Anil Kapoor do to salvage a movie? Anyway.... Gone are the days of family entertainer from Bollywood. I wish instead of these wannabe family movies, the reruns of old classic entertainers were shown in theatres. Varun Dhawan cannot be Govinda. Not even Govinda can be Govinda anymore, those were the days with comedy, music and dance. Now it's just the same formula, same type of costumes, same location repeated incessantly as if we are on an infinite loop with no escape. Utterly boring!

This Saturday I and my husband's movie choice was completely different. I wanted to watch Samrat Prithviraj while he was leaning towards Vikram Hitlist. After some weighing and comparing, I managed to convince him to pick the 300 crore product. From that moment, my mistake started. First of all, Akshay Kumar looked like a joke. I could only hear Bala Bala Bala ringing in my head whenever his scenes come. From his body language he exposed his lack of class because not everyone has a royal demeanor. If my allusion is not clear, then hear this out loud: Khiladi is not a King material. I am not going to contemplate much on the political motive or any party's peregrination through this movie, nonetheless, to please whose mamma did the makers of this periodic drama claim they did a 18 year research to create this mess? I mean it's not enough to fail an examination but declaring it's sheer stupidity not lack of preparation the reason for failure just establishes my conviction to steer clear of any movie that rides on over endorsement by politicians who try to do the work of a movie connoisseur. Some of the facts were an absolute turn off for me, especially when I am revisiting the history in 21st century and honestly, I wish I didn't do a revision by seeing this movie. Firstly, why did an uncle sets his eyes on his niece for marriage? Today this will be classified as deviant behaviour and genetically a huge no no. It's no wonder the girl's dad harboured murderous thoughts which lead to the ultimate downfall of the uncle masquerading as hero. Secondly, dancing towards self immolation. As a woman, I can say with certitude that if suicide is the next actionable for a woman, she is not going to dance or sing. The makers should have parked aside few years from that 18 years to glance on some psychology aspects. Finally, if the makers of this movie was going to take creative liberty on who killed whom and when, they should have the decency to own up making such modifications. If the makers or producers of this movie reads my review, I want to share a few insights. 1. When you do sampling of demographics, you may conclude that literacy is low in our country and therefore, you can get away with shoddy performance and sub par movies by packaging them with larger than life statements, promotions and scripted interviews. But remember the people who will laugh at you will be the ones who have actually spent 18 years of their life studying and educating themselves. And these people have the money to pay for the tickets and the brains to critic. Their rejection is more costly than the acceptance of those in your pocket. 2. Purchasing power of people have underwent a change and therefore, theatre experience should be justified for them to spend time and money over any random show. People have learnt to choose and when there is no choice, they have learnt to walk away. 3. Credibility matters a lot. We are not here to give second chance, third chance or fourth chance to anyone. To conclude, to course correct my mistake of watching this movie, tomorrow we are going to watch Vikram Hitlist. Hope Kamal Hassan can remove the lingering distaste in my brain left behind by Akshay.

RRR is my first post covid theatre movie and I am absolutely glad to break the hiatus with a Rajamouli Film. This was just want I wanted to see in big screen in terms of grandeur and visuals. The background music had energy that it could build up the anticipation of what could occur next. In some ways, I can say the movie was inspiring, especially on the traits of courage, bravery, honor, self respect and values underlying relationships. If style is a termed automatically annexed to western culture and the like, then one has to revisit the meaning of style after watching this movie because through various scenes, this movie has depicted style and class in quite an Indian way and that's not even by showing royalty but through visuals of a common man who has just his inherent values as his styling accessories. I am satisfied with the movie and did earn a handsome ROI for my ticket cost.

I started watching the movie and somewhere into pre-mid of the movie, seeing Ishaan Khatter I thought 'is this some performance? what a joker this person is turning out to be'. Then, my mind trailed off to Joker, and I recalled I wanted to see The Dark Knight again and compare Heath with Joaquin. Khaali Peeli is such a drag, my brain says. It convinced me to stop mid way and go and watch The Dark Knight again. I did so and that was awesome. I watched Dark Knight again, and reveled in such relevance, such complexity in human nature and that boat scene, that hit me different level second time. Ya, The Dark Knight is a wonderful movie worth re-watch. That's what Khaali Peeli did to me. I stopped the boring drag and changed the course of entertainment by just switching to another movie. The least I expect from B-wood is keep me engaged, till end, whatsoever! So bad the movie Khaali Peeli yet I am grateful that it reminded me of good movies already in existence.