Gurpreet Dhariwal

The central theme of the movie is the mysterious murder of a kid named Ishpreet. The child was adopted from India by Daljeet and Preeti and both husband and wife didn’t get along with each other. The husband was apparently abusive towards his wife all the time while having an affair with another woman. Police officer Jass has been placed in charge of solving the murder mystery of Ishpreet while she has been grieving the death of her own kid (Ekam) who was killed in a broad-daylight mass shooting. She shares a queer relationship with her father while he has been trying to help her but in return, she believes he has been adding more stress to her already existing problems. While investigating Ishpreet’s murder she gets doubted by her colleague, but her resilience doesn’t fade away, and she gets her hands on the criminal in the end. While some people have degraded the movie as similar kinds of movies are already made, I would still say this movie is a good watch for all those who like serious murder mysteries. I didn’t flinch an eye for a second. I was admiring the role of Kareena as she looked totally fantabulous in no or less makeup look. Her grief was quite visible on her face, and I loved the fact she was chosen for her role as she did complete justice to it. I certainly believe she acted as per her age with no drama and exaggeration of anything but simply marvelous acting. You can watch this out and I don’t think it will disappoint you. The script has truly impressed me a lot but then what else can you expect from Hansal Mehta? :)

I was at the movie marathon yesterday, so I watched three movies back-to-back. And Love, Sitara was the third one after Auron Mein Kahan Dum Tha and Ulajh. I sincerely loved its trailer and was waiting for its release. I loved it. Yes, it should be watched by all the elderly and younger and middle generation without an iota of doubt. Sitara is pregnant hence she proposes to her boyfriend for marriage. She slept with a different man during an event in London, but she doesn’t confess the same to her boyfriend. I know relationships are complicated but starting something on a lie means everything you build will be on the lies eventually. Anyways, her whole family is melodramatic, fake, toxic, and manipulative to the core. Even the boyfriend’s father seems to be an arrogant, brainless, and demonic human. Sitara comes to know that her mother’s sister was dating her father during her mother’s pregnancy. She tries to figure out the truth and now it becomes evident that Sitara’s aunt is dating and sleeping with someone else named Arvind. But her doubt on her about having a relationship with her father wasn’t wrong either. With many twists and turns, the truth comes to light. She eventually wants to tell her boyfriend about her own pregnancy too. He leaves her after knowing she lied to him. After many hues and cries, she visits him and asks for forgiveness. He forgives and they get married. I would have never done that. But the movie is not about me. This movie should be watched because it calls out on the hypocrisy of our society, culture, and damned relationships. How we are told to keep ourselves mum, or sometimes we turn our eyes blind because we cannot endure the truth, or sometimes it’s about keeping the fake peace in the abode knowing apparently that your own family is your enemy. Please watch it out and realize that whatever it is that you are enduring and accepting will become your identity. Hence, you must make better and more authentic choices in life. Thank you.

The movie could have been better in so many places, but it is still worth a watch. It started with Suhana being promoted to a new position in the London office from where her life becomes a living hell. She starts dating a demon who is pretending to be a Chef and a polyglot. But after a few days, he starts blackmailing her with pictures and videos in which they have been shown exchanging conversations and making love. Her every act is being controlled by him and now she has become his puppet. Although she doesn’t want to betray her own country, at times her own actions are not in alignment with what she wants. Some murders here and there and she becomes strong and brave enough to take revenge from the person who made her commit mistakes. She comes back to India along with another guy which the agencies were thinking about making the prime suspect. The Pakistani Prime Minister has been shown visiting India during Independence Day where his assassination was about to take place, but Suhana saves him along with her partner in crime. An enquiry has been set up and now she has been given an invitation to join a different agency. So many loopholes in the script because it jumps from one place to another. It could have been made better if Suhana’s character was shown as brave since scene one where she started getting blackmailed rather than taking a stand after losing so many characters in the movie. Anyway, it's still a better watch than those movies where they don’t do anything else except shake their legs. Thank you.

I don’t know about others, but I didn’t expect what I got to watch in this movie. In two words if I could sum up it is…sheer brilliance. When it started, it gave me Sapta Sagaralu Dhaati (Side B) vibes because the scenario seemed the same, but the story was entirely different. Krishna loved Vasudha like one should love someone. He worked arduously in his profession and got promoted to a higher role in Germany. He was about to leave when Vasudha was attacked by some goons and in the fighting scuffle those goons were killed. Now, Krishna has been shown behind bars for the double murders, but the truth is stranger than fiction. And I am not going to reveal it for you. You must watch this movie to cherish it layer by layer, emotion by emotion, and song by song. After serving the sentence of 23 years in jail, Krishna is released, and he wants to move to Dubai instead of spending rest of his life in Mumbai. But one last meeting was pending between him and Vasudha. She comes to visit him and takes him along with her to meet her husband too. How did her husband know about Krishna? For that, you have to watch the movie. Many scenes are going to take you back to the 90’s theme movies. The ones where emotions, dialects, love, and lyrics of the songs meant something. Those were the days when people didn’t have smartphones and lived more in imagination. Now there are swapping options and people have forgotten to love. This movie made me cry. This is what I will call a selfless and authentic act of love. Krishna’s body language conveyed to me more than what people exchange in their fake WhatsApp messages. If you truly wish to cherish a unique and beautiful love story, then watch it. I wish it had become a hit the moment it was released. Never mind, for me, it will always be special. Thank you.

Inspired by true events yet a work of fiction. I don’t know why they come up with such disclaimers. Anyway, let’s talk about this movie and what all it didn’t cover. The movie is inspired by Nithari Serial Killings between 2005 and 2006. At present, neither Surinder Koli nor Moninder Singh Pandher are in jail. Thankful to our illiterate judiciary that sets the criminals out of jail claiming there is no evidence. Coming back to the movie, Inspector Ram Charan Pandey is a police officer who wants to make changes in the system, but the system is hell bent on changing him. Until his own daughter was about to be kidnapped, raped, and murdered, Mr. Pandey was sleeping in his hole. Prem Singh (Surinder Koli) has been portrayed as the servant of Akash Khurana (Moninder Singh Pandher). He raped, killed, and cut off the limbs of the children. He even admitted about eating them. The call girl was the only adult he confessed about killing apart from children. In the initial investigation, Akash Khurana admitted about having sex with call girls at his abode and Payal was amongst one of those girls who disappeared one particular evening from his abode. His servant Prem admitted to the police about killing her and then tried to have sex with her. He even admitted about raping, killing and cutting off the limbs of the other 19 children. On being asked if his owner was involved in it, he skipped the question. In the end, they have shown that Mr. Pandey got access to one of the CDs in which the crucial details of the killings were recorded but the movie ended abruptly. I wish they would have showcased all the details more diligently than just delivering the story in whatever mode was possible for them. However, after watching The Karma Killings documentary on YouTube, I am sure Moninder Singh Pandher is not a saint. In one of the videos Surinder Koli admitted that one of the girls after the murder was in his toilet when Pandher was at home. How come he never noticed any voice or sequence of events that would have made him doubt Koli? Highly skeptical. In some other interviews, the victims' families have claimed that Pandher admitted about killing the children, but our high court said there was a lack of evidence. Like what does it truly take to punish the criminals? Or is the law only valid to put the poor and middle-class people behind bars? Although Deepak Dobriyal and Vikrant Massey have given national award-winning performances, the script lacked substance. It tried to portray the case but didn’t show anything related to Maya Sarkar who was one of the maids at Pandher’s house at the time of killings. All of a sudden, she vanished too. May God bless our politicians and judiciary. I have no hope in their way of giving us justice. They are deaf, blind and dumb.

I thoroughly enjoyed watching this awesome flick. I watched it because it’s based on the true story of Murlikant Petkar. Before watching this movie, I didn’t even know who he was but after watching it, I can proudly say that I will never forget his name. The child in him saw a dream of winning a gold medal in the Olympics and the adult in him with his unwavering spirit and courage made this dream come true Ofcourse in different circumstances. His life wasn’t a bed of roses rather he had to fight many fights, first against his family, second the village people, then bed-ridden life of two years (In the Kargil war, he got seriously injured with 9 bullets), then against the wheelchair that made him believe that he cannot fight anymore but his coach had a different take on it…His story will leave you inspired if nothing less. I wasn’t born in 1972 when he won the gold medal in the Paralympic Games, but I am glad that Murlikant Petkar never gave up and kept going no matter what kind of hurdles life brought to his doorstep. He is a fighter and a Braveheart in my eyes. I believe people like Murlikant Petkar should be introduced in the books so that students while growing up, if ever feel like giving up, get inspired by him to face life with the right attitude and spirit. I will be recommending this movie to all those who enjoy biopics and take some amount of inspiration from those cinematic experiences to real life. Thank you.

It’s truly an amazing movie but I didn’t want it to be based on a true story. When this movie started, I already knew that those two young men who left India for a better living in Saudi Arabia were fooled. Later on, they were taken to the different secluded places to become slaves. The way they were treated so ruthlessly and unkindly broke my spirit. I cursed the Arab who took them to different locations and treated them like lifeless humans. He didn’t know their language and fed them unhealthy food. Their departure from one another was the biggest jolt for their mind to bear as they had nobody else by their side in this foreign land. I truly admire the old man who treated Najeeb with care, affection, and love. He considered Najeeb a Bengali while Najeeb tried to communicate to him that he wasn’t a Bengali. When that old man dies all the responsibility of nurturing the goats and camels falls on Najeeb’s head and he does everything to survive the brutality of the Arab. Najeeb even tried to run away once all alone, but he couldn’t go so far. But it was a relief to my mind and bones when he ultimately did it in the end with the help of his friends Hakeem and Ibrahim Khadiri. I am still not sure if Khadiri was the real deal as he disappeared the moment Najeeb reached the road but then they showed his picture in the Jail amongst the wanted criminals so maybe he was a slave living illegally in the country. Whatever the circumstances might have been for Khadiri, he truly was a God sent human. Also, it wasn’t the right and legal way to treat two Indians like slaves away from their homeland by that cruel Arab. While two of them treated them like slaves, there was an angelic Arab who got Najeeb from that hell hole to city life. They have shown that Hakeem died while running away on the deserted land but that’s not true. Like Najeeb, he also came back to India on his own two feet. I would recommend this movie to all those who are planning to go abroad to make wiser decisions and not to trust the people looking estranged to them. Even though this case is from the 1990’s I still don’t believe that there are genuinely good people out there waiting for you. Be clever, smarter, and courageous, and don’t fall prey to such cunning souls who can take your spirit away. Thank you.

Well, I watched it last night and found it bold and beautiful. However, I didn’t love the character it’s based on. This movie is about a guy who was born blind, and his father didn’t wish to keep him because he was blind. Some of the illiterate and dumb native villagers even suggested getting rid of him because he seemed to be a burden. But fate had a different story to unfold. He grew up as a brilliant student. He wanted to study science hence he fought the case because there were no books for the visually impaired students at that time. He won the case and got the books introduced. Now, I won’t deny that many students facing the same challenges have access to education because he fought for the rights of all. He got the opportunity to study in the US and after completing his education, he returned to India to start his own business. First, he trained visually impaired students in computers and later on started his own business with a cheque that he respectfully received from Dr. A P J Abdul Kalam. Meanwhile, there is one more investor named Ravi who invests his money in Srikanth’s ideas, and they flourish abundantly. But, as his growth starts picking up the scale, he becomes arrogant, rude, and ungrateful. He starts disrespecting people and that shows how power and money changes people in the long run. He tries to join Politics but ultimately comes back to his senses after realizing that his teacher was right about what if someday, he falls in his own eyes. He apologizes to the people whom he has hurt and starts working on his dreams once again. He falls in love with a girl who loves him for who he is, and, in the end, they get married after a courtship of 10 years and are firmly blessed with a baby girl. What I didn’t like about his character is when I saw him in the podcast, he still sounded the same as if he was saying I wanted to give the job to people, so I didn’t want to work under someone else. But that tells me a lot about how much he must be respecting his own staff as they are working under him. As per me, he didn’t create jobs for them. Nope. He didn’t. He is just a medium by God placed in the right environment at the right time. Nobody does anything for anyone. When people started worshipping him saying you are a God for me. I was like. What the heck? Get educated and place your faith in God, not humans. You can help someone but if you are taking pride or receiving it from others, that’s not help. That will soon turn into something else as they have shown apparently in the movie too. But then again for this sort of thinking you need a lot of awareness about yourself and the environment you are in. You can thank people without considering them, God. They are not God. Period. *I liked the fact that he returned the award at the end because an idea can come to anyone as in Srikanth's words and visually impaired people deserve to be considered equal and not to be looked at with a sigh of pity. Thank you.

It’s an amazing movie. I watched it yesterday after reading lots of reviews on it. I had to watch it because it’s based on a true story. It’s about a group of boys who have gone on an adventurous trip to Guna Caves but one of them falls inside the cave. The whole enjoyment comes to a standstill and now everybody is shouting his name for them to know if Subhash (The friend inside the cave) is alright or not. Some of them ask the security guard and tourist guide to help them. Some of them visit the nearest police station where they get beaten up for crossing the restricted area in the cave. Ultimately, one of the officers accompanies them but still, he tries to manipulate them that their friend who has fallen is not alive. He must have died because the people who fell in the cave before him never returned. But after a day or so, Subhash cries inside the cave signaling the others that he is alive. While in the movie they have shown he fell somewhere 120 feet down the cave, in reality, I read it was 80 feet in height. Now, they make a plan to get him out of the cave and while some of the police officers hesitate to go inside, his childhood friend doesn’t flinch and carries on the cave operation on his own with so much bravery and audacity that it will move you. In the end, they have shown Subhash having nightmares while he is recovering from the cave accident and news gets published about their overall cave tragedy. The people start recognizing his childhood friend for the support he offered to Subhash and hail his name. This movie has shown me the true meaning of friendship. I am glad that those boys didn’t move at all and waited for Subhash to reach out to them. If they weren’t around nobody would have ever realized that he was alive in the cave even after falling from 80 feet height. The story needed to be shared with us, so I am thanking the director of the movie for giving the credit to the Manjummel Boys which they truly deserved since day one.

I watched this documentary last evening and since then my soul is not at peace. I ended up reading many stories about both husband and wife and some of the people blamed the wife for provoking her narcissistic husband to kill her and the rest of the family. I checked Shannon’s Facebook account and the page of prayers for her family. The comments left me stunned. Some of them were praying for her soul to be at peace while others were in shock. How did it happen? For those unaware of this case, Shannon was a mother of two daughters and pregnant with her yet-to-be-born son. Her husband was having an affair which she doubted at times, but she didn’t dare to confront him until the very end. When she did, he murdered her and the entire family. Then he started cooking up the story of his pregnant wife gone missing along with his daughters. The friend of Shannon doubted her disappearance because she was the one who dropped her a day before at the same house. She was the first one who raised an alarm about her disappearance. Otherwise, I believe this case would have taken many months to come to light. Her husband, Chris, failed the polygraph test and confessed to murdering his daughters and pregnant wife to his father. I was surprised to see that his parents actually offered support to him at the sentence hearing of their son. Amazing upbringing. No remorse for the murders he premeditated and tried to act so cool and caring. I am not sure what kind of wife Shannon was. I don’t want to victim blame the dead. She is gone. Yes, she was seeking a lot of answers, but narcissists don’t give those answers to you. They starve you the way her husband did. And his new girlfriend was as sick as his mindset. As many people commented on Shannon’s obsession with uploading videos every three minutes on Facebook tells me a lot about, they certainly needed help as well. That was her account. If you didn’t like or stand her, just unfollow or block. The majority of the people on different videos rejoiced at her murder. I was like this tells me a lot about how safe this world is. If someone is not right for you just leave that person. Why is there a need to kill them? I want Chris to rot in hell for eternity. I want him to pray for death every day, but God shouldn’t take his life away in a glimpse of an eye. He should rather suffer, feel miserable, and hear the last words of his daughter in his head loud and clear. Thank you.