Jayy Gosvammi

(Kung Fu Hustle) This isn't just an action-comedy movie… It is a beautiful story that beholds complex emotions from the beginning to the end. Sing, a young boy, gets beaten up by some bullies for trying to stop them from snatching a girl's candy. Confused, sad Sing thinks that bad guys always win, so he decides to go off the rails and aspires to be a gangster by joining the Axe Gang. Somehow, after multiple failed attempts, he manages to join the Axe Gang along with his friend "Bone". As an Axe Gang member, he eventually gets to know the dangers and life-threatening risks his job possesses. Subconsciously, he knows that Bone might get killed if he (Bone) continues this job. Following a bad encounter with the landlady of Pig Sty (a slum) and a fight with a bus passenger (in which he didn't use any Kung Fu moves), his willingness to save his friend from this dangerous job grows strong. To accomplish this, he playfully beats his friend and warns him not to follow him, implicitly disassociating Bone from the Axe Gang. During a fight in which the Beast gets grabbed in a submission hold by the Couple (Landlord and landlady of Pig Sty), Axe Gang Boss orders Sing to attack the couple. After being in a dilemma briefly, he rather chooses to hit the beast with a stick, reflecting his true nature of punishing the nefarious guy/s. Ultimately, he fights the beast one on one and defeats him (the beast) maneuvering The Buddha Palm Kung Fu techniques. As a gesture of compassion, he leaves the Beast alive, but trickster, ungrateful Beast attacks Sing with a metal Rose-like weapon which has a sharp needle at the front. Sing again neutralises his (the beast's) attack. In this instance, the beast gets blown away by the mightiness of Buddha Palm Kung Fu and surrenders to Sing. Afterwards, the soulful ending scene unfolds…. (Sing finds his long-lost love).. :)

1917 : "Thrilling, powerful, and breathtaking". In two words, "PUNK ROCK". This movie makes/lets you experience the dark, unexplored side of a war. Generally, war movies are based on WW2. This one is inspired by the WW1 stories told by the director's grandfather. Due to his short height (5.1"), he was usually assigned the tasks of delivering the messages, crossing German territory. Inside the German borders, the mist used to hang at about 6 feet, so he wasn’t visible above the mist. Thanks to the smart editing of the movie, it creates an illusion of the continuous shot. It leaves an immersive effect on spectators. You feel like you are also going inside the German borders with the two English soldiers. This movie is going to win three Oscars for sure : 1 Best movie, 2 Best Cinematography, and 3 Best sound mixing… and (Maybe, 4 Best director..) The story: "Two young British soldiers, resting under a tree, receive new orders. They are instructed to pass on a message to the troops at the front line who are planning to attack the Germans, who have retreated. The English command, however, gets to know that the German withdrawal is a tactic, an operational Trojan horse. The telephone lines are down. The two messengers must quickly traverse the dangerous ground and physically deliver the order to the fellow British troops who might charge directly into a German trap, thereby saving countless lives. Among those troops, one soldier is the elder brother of the messenger "Lance Corporals Blake". They go to a nerve-shattering journey: an unfortunate barbed-wire encounter, a mysterious bunker to contend with, a German warplane crash-landing, an intense clash with German soldiers during the night, and swimming through the blood-freezing water of a German river. In their dangerous mission, one of those two soldiers, Lance Corporals Blake, gets martyred." According to me, the most emotional scene is the conversation between the surviving messenger and the elder brother of the martyred messenger. There wasn't a single person in the audience with dry eyes when the elder brother of the martyred messenger asked the surviving messenger, "ohh!! My brother has also come! Where is he?".