Amandeep Verma

really stupid film! As if some high school teenager wrote a script fantasizing to kill Kim Jong-un with a silly plot and irritating characters. Like Why was James Franco so lunatic and loud, it was so irritating! Some funny scenes and dialogues here and there otherwise the movie is really senseless and very lame!

Watching this series is not easy , it will make you question your own identity and may even leave you feel ashamed of sharing the same species as those rapists . The way things are described in Episode 3 is one of the most spine chilling scenes I have ever watched . This series doesn't focus on the victim nor does it aims to preach out . Its a fictionalized story of a real incident which explores the reasons behind that horrific act . Once you start watching , its difficult to stop . Acting wise , everybody was great except the lead . I felt she was overacting most of the times . Overall its really worth watching !

Brilliant!! Just brilliant! I saw this movie when it released in 2009. At that time I was 11 years old and this movie felt so boring to me that we shut it down in 30 mins, even my family members found it boring. Now, after 11 years in 2020, Iam 22 and I saw this movie again and my god what a movie it was! Movies like Delhi 6 reinstated my faith that indian film industry has a lot of talent and creativity and original voices, it's the audience that sucks. Coming to Delhi 6, just from the storytelling point of view, the movie was engaging. Roshan an NRI sees India as an outsider and his observations are something that immediately strikes the chord without mocking India. It will make you love fall in love if you can read the subtext and the high relevance it holds in 2020s India. The characters are well defined and relatable, the production design is accurate, neither too filmy nor very boring. There are many interesting metaphors in the movie, the obvious Kala bandar, masakkali the pigeon, the place Delhi 6 itself and much more. Acting wise, except the lead cast, everybody was on point. Had the lead pair been played by someone else, the story could have made more impact but Sonam and Abhishek work too, neither bad nor memorable. You should not miss this one at any cost!!

Pretentious This movie lacks soul and originality! The characters, the dialogues, the humour, it all seems artificial and forced as if they are forcefully created to evoke humour and not an organic one. Kareena Kapoor is playing the same Geet from Jab We met but this time it's totally unrelatable or likeable because the character doesn't seem original. Imran Khan is a seemingly dumb unexpressive guy in the movie being raised in an overprotective family. All through the film, he has a similar confused expression of inferiority, same from his first film. The main problem here, is that this film depends heavily on its characters ( most rom coms do ) & it fails there. There's hardly any significant change in any of the character's internal world, creating the film just a collection of a bad attempts at creating humour. Shakun batra has some problem with creating good characters. Kapoor and sons had a similar issue. It's like you see some 50 Hollywood movies and end up creating a desi version of it which turns out to be really stupid. The writing is weak and so does imran Khan's acting. At no point you feel emotionally invested in any character because there's no change in the narrative making it a bland and pretentious film. The humour of the film can also make you cringe at times and you can clearly see through the lame attempt of the writers to create humour. It feels all plastic and an uninspired attempt. The only thing good in the movie is it's climax, not a cliche like the rest of the movie.

Refreshing! Its difficult to create a likeable romantic comedy because of the strong chances of ending up a cliche. The main highlight of the movie is Kristen Stewart and her character. She is likeable, strong and a very realistic. Kristen plays it well too. She makes the whole story interesting and largely it does revolve around her more than anyone which makes the film refreshing. Jesse Eisenberg's character is also well written and is layered, not being a one tone just like Kristen Stewart's character. Their interactions, chemistry and the events unfolding around them makes it an interesting watch!!

weak script ruins everything! The theme of unrequited love is interesting and from someone like Karan johar, it was expected much more! The movie has moments, typical of a Karan johar movie and it delights you, coupled with great music and Ranbir Kapoor's strong performance but those moments are very few and they get diluted in an otherwise collection of scenes that felt like was written to please the younger generation. The major problem is the story, the Anushka and Ranbir's conflict is stretched too much and the final resolution is very underwhelming and a cliche. Also, the characters are one tone throughout the movie and by the end, you don't care about them in any way The final nail on the coffin is Anushka's cancer, like seriously, its the most cliche plot point of Bollywood and has been used more than anything else, expected something better than this in 2016. The movie was just badly written and could have been made a lot better if the story was a bit more thought out. Watch it only for some good emotional scenes, awesome music, and Ranbir Kapoor's performance but despite all of these, its really tough to like this film.

Sacred games hangover remains on Indian web space!! In india it's an old ritual to follow a trope that succeeds once to death. The current obsession in Indian web series space is the Indian mythology and the cocktail of religion, politics and ' system '. Maybe i have seen too many thrillers or the show was poorly written but I could not watch past 5 episodes. I just wanted to skip to the end to know the end of all of this because I invested time in watching five episodes! To be honest, the show seems to be made and conceptualised after the makers saw sacred games which was amazing in true sense. A troubled cop finding his self worth and digging away the complex socio - political system of India with a storyline of victims and masters. This show could have been wrapped up in max. 6 episodes, the writing is too slow to keep someone hooked who has seen some good web series before and things seem to be stale. The acting performances are very well especially Jaideep Ahlawat and Neeraj Kabi and the girl who played Sara. The guy who played hathoda Tyagi was a bad actor, he was overacting the entire series and he was just cringy to watch. This show explored the some good concepts like casteism, power structure and how victims are often exploited by the one at power but the writing was shallow and could have been more crisper! Overall, it's not a bad series but if someone has seen even some thriller international webseries before or even sacred games might lose interest very soon because this series lacks a voice of its own.

great message but weak storytelling Thappad has its intention at the right place and its clear about the message it sets to deliver and it aces at it completely. There is no doubt that one who sees this film would be forced to think many important questions in our society today and rightfully so but the film apart from its intent does not excel at anything else. Most of the characters are totally unrealistic. Amrita played by Taapsee Pannu is a woman so ideal that you will feel guilty not rooting for her. She is an ideal wife, ideal daughter, ideal daughter in law. She is almost Zen. On the other hand, the husband is totally selfish, is shown to be never caring for her at all, always talking about his own issues. I agree that there are much more insensitive and misogynistic husbands and much more idealistic wives stay in such marriages but when you are showing an urban couple as your central characters, its tough to get invested in such a black and white environment. The makers could have made the point of the movie stronger had the central character been more nuanced and not so black and white, with such unreal characters, you make the point null within the first hour of the film. Seeing Taapsee Pannu's character was like seeing early 2000s soap opera of Ekta Kapoor, where a woman was shown so ideal and righteous that you start hating anyone in real life who is not similar to them. leaving apart all the criticism, the movie does manage to put across its point and hence its indeed watchable!

Timeless! If you want to understand India at its core, watch this movie! Its dialogues have roots in India's core issues that remain unsolved even after 72 years of Independence. I am not shocked that this movie flopped at the box office, good movies rarely work in India. Shahrukh Khan is brilliant as Mohan Bhargav, emoting the helplessness and the genuine love Mohan feels for India, the subplots, the scene depicting the poverty of the farmer is so accurate and the monologue of Mohan over India's issues is spot on. If you are a genuine cinema lover, don't miss this one!

One time watch! Never had much expectation from the movie knowing it's directed by Amar Kaushik because I could not stand stree for more than 30 mins. This film fails for me at the same point as stree did, forced and exaggerated humour. I get that a film needs to be entertaining and humour is the best tool but a forced and exaggerated humour reflects lazy writing. It shows that the efforts put into scenes are minimal and are borrowed ideas of humour. Some dialogues and jokes do work and are funny but they are few in number. There is hardly any scene that you will want to watch again mainly because of the lazy writing. The other problem is the casting of Bhumi Pednekar. I mean you stop taking the film about self love and acceptance seriously when you see a fair skinned girl playing someone who is dark skinned in the movie. Even if that is acceptable considering her role was important and needed someone who has been around for long time, but her make up is so so fake. She seemed like a glossy chocolate and her complexion kept changing throughout the film. Performance wise, Ayushmann Khurrana seems same in all movies. I really liked the role and performance of Saurabh shukla, his expression and subplot was really engaging and I wished a separate movie on his subplot. Overall Bala is a one time watch.