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A 10/10 visually stunning, intellectually stimulating masterpiece by Makoto Shinkai with a perfect blend of tensed emotions,relations and the power of mother nature being a force to reckon with. I have been fortunate to watch this twice in theatres and I feel it's on another level itself considering his older works. The film just catapults itself to another level in the second half and the ending is absolute brilliance - probably the film of the decade, such movies come out so rarely we could count them on the tip of our fingers.

Should be renamed as Skip Game Absolutely horrible story plot and most actors fall miserably short of plain basic acting , madhuri dixit does a decent job along with the guy who plays the stalker fan. Had a lot of potential let down by a poor story acting , directing and script basically a complete let down solely relying on the names of Madhuri dixit and Karan Johar to hope for some turnover or appreciation.

I started watching this film because i was getting bored and was expecting a goofy super hero spoof movie, the premise made me think it would unfold likewise but it turned out to surpass all but albeit minimal expectations. SPOILERS AHEAD Portrayed in the early 90s setting of a village in Kerala, with video cassettes and tapes and a simple setting, beautiful cinematography and music scores show the dusty old village with brick houses and huts, outdoor banyan side schools where the antagonist longs for his love but her brother shoos him away. The protagonist is your typical mavali who is handsome and flirtatious, wearing a abibas tshirt and telling his friend he plans to go the US and make loads of money, they have duplicates for this also "adidas" it seems, that's when the witty script writing got me really interested. One day two men get struck by the same bolt of lightning, scratch free and gain superpowers, the symbolic meaning is surreal indicating light and dark, good and evil are two sides of the same coin. One a goofy handsome flirtatious mavali and the other a rather deplorable, pitiful character, dishevelled, untidy but as bane puts it 'Ah you think darkness is your ally? You merely adopted the dark. I was born in it, molded by it. I didn't see the light until I was already a man. Both given enough time to develop the character, the protagonist dad a stage artist hero who dies saving people from a fire, the other an orphan, let to die only saved by the girl he loves, but her brother won't let him marry her, and he has to get rid of him eventually as all he desires is her company to end his misery and darkness. Both find out each others identity eventually, and the supposed villian promises to leave the village once she accepts his proposal. The same town whose supposed innocent people while hunting down the antagonist end up killing his beloved right after she accepts to be with him, he breaks down into tears and smiles, his harsh childhood seems irrelevant to him, the murder a small price to pay This leading to a downward spiral of madness rage and chaos, portrayed no lesser than the joker in dark knight, with black rags and a untidy grim face, he smiles menancingly as the balloon he lends a child in the fair burts, portraying both meanness and a childish mischief, sinisterism With a half burnt face in the fire explosion, he maniacally laughs and sets ablaze the town fair, laughing with glee and dancing around swaying his hands wildly saying don't worry people, it's all right. At this point arrives the hero, saving the same people who ended up killing the antagonists beloved, in a costume like his heroic father, morally superior and out to save the needy from danger. At this point one ends up feeling bad for the antagonist, all he desired was her love and it was cruelly taken away from him snatched away just as her brother who shooed him in his childhood and her relatives telling her to avoid such kind of people, ridiculed depraved, alone and orphaned, but struck with the same bolt of lightning. The cinematography, music score are unmatched, with mild electronic influences in a rural setting, it's a brilliant fusion, something like the anime yasuke overall a 9/10 fabulous movie, brilliant acting and cinematography.

deep metaphorical and great action this anime isn't one for the newbies recommended for those who are seasoned anime watchers many will find it difficult to comprehend the obscure nature of the anime, the fusion of samurai era with modern techniques and some mutants and robots as assassins, I admired it even more the second time i watched it, it's a trip in itself through eras wars and consciousness.