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Movie Review: Amaran Some movies leave an indelible mark on your emotions, and Amaran is one such cinematic experience. This soul-stirring action drama delivers a heartfelt narrative that resonates deeply with the audience. While it doesn't redefine the genre, its honest storytelling and emotional depth make it a worthwhile watch. The performances by the cast are commendable, with each actor delivering a balanced portrayal of their respective characters. The cinematography captures the essence of the film's dramatic moments effectively, while the background score amplifies the emotional weight of the story. The direction is solid, maintaining a steady pace and keeping viewers invested in the plot. One noticeable drawback, however, is the Hindi dubbing in certain portions of the film. These instances feel slightly out of sync, detracting from the immersive experience. Despite this flaw, Amaran manages to engage its audience with a narrative that tugs at the heartstrings. Overall, Amaran is an emotional rollercoaster that blends action with a poignant storyline. It's a must-watch for those who enjoy heartfelt cinema, provided they overlook the minor shortcomings in dubbing. Rating: ★★★★☆

12th Fail Review: Epitome of Perfection 12th Fail captivates from its flawless start to its impeccable ending, serving as a valuable lesson for filmmakers on crafting engaging narratives. The cinematography is remarkable, particularly in the climax where we see Vikrant Massey's character, Manoj, first from the interviewer's perspective and later, interviewers from Manoj's viewpoint, skillfully conveying the pressure and responsibility in a systematic manner. The background music complements the emotional tone of each scene, and the sharp editing stands out as one of the movie's highlights. The screenplay is well-crafted, introducing places and characters seamlessly, blending comedy and emotional moments to create a strong connection with the setting and the characters' struggles. Every character in the movie receives proper justice, with each actor not merely performing but living their respective roles. No character feels extraneous; each plays a significant role in advancing the storyline, contributing to the overall importance of the narrative. A commendation goes to the director, Vidhu Vinod Chopra, and the entire crew for translating this inspirational story into a visually compelling piece of cinema.

Warning: This post might contain spoilers ⚠️ "Animal," Sandeep Reddy Vanga's third cinematic venture, delves into the affection of a young kid for his father, gradually reaching toxic levels. The first half of the movie lacks a linear storyline, while the second half adopts a straightforward approach to storytelling. The issue arises as the story seems simple and entertaining in the first half, but complexity arises in the second half, featuring scenes that feel like a break in continuity. This isn't an action movie; it's more of a drama where almost 90% of the content is dramatic. Every actor in the movie delivers a phenomenal performance. Some scenes, such as killing someone and engaging in a physical relationship suddenly with blood all over you, or dancing nude in public, are challenging to portray onscreen convincingly. The post-credit scene is also noteworthy, and I won't spoil it. Sandeep Reddy Vanga's cinematic framing is beautiful, and credit goes to the cinematography team. The background score serves as the heartbeat of the movie, flowing throughout and pleasing the audience. The only drawback in the technical aspect is the editing; some scenes, like the recovery scenes of Ranbir Kapoor's character, feel unnecessary. Certain characters are introduced but left unexplored, like the bodyguard beaten for being with Ranbir's character when he stood up against those who offended his sister. Despite Ranbir's character promising to remember him, the story forgets him. Shakti Kapoor's character remains unjustified throughout the movie. A significant complaint is the underutilization of Bobby Deol. He doesn't come across as an antagonist; although he looks villainous, his limited screen presence hampers audience connection. Despite a powerful backstory, his character is not explored enough, making this 3-hour-22-minute movie feel empty regarding his role. Despite these issues, I recommend this movie because Bollywood hasn't witnessed anything like this before. It takes courage to create such a film, and Sandeep Reddy Vanga executes it convincingly. Kudos to him. With the promise of a sequel, I hope the sequel will also maintain the same brutal honesty in storytelling.

Movie: Qala Director: Anvita Dutt Starring: Tripti Dimri, Babil Khan and Swastika Mukherjee Genere: Psychological period drama OTT: Netflix This isn’t a movie, this is an art which will be remembered for years and years to come. Every frame is a beautiful painting, I can’t remember any Hindi movie which was made so beautifully like a painting. This is a story of a girl who wants to be a successful singer so that she can make her mother proud but when she kissed success she is haunted by her own dark past. Is the success she always dreamt worth it ? Is she guilty ? Is her mother guilty ? OR is there someone else who is guilty ? Hands down to the director Anvita Dutt for bringing this beautiful story in motion picture. Even though we are familiar with these kind of stories Anvita Dutt’s way of telling the story is a perfection, she nailed it. The performance of actors in this movie is top notch. The way they express their situation with their facial expressions with out any dialogues is praise worthy. The way they sit, sleep, speak, smoke, dance, act takes us to 1940 of which the story is. There is not a single scene in the movie where the actors came below perfection. The cinematography of this movie is one of the best aspect of this movie. The way they decided to shoot this movie is something we rarely see in a Bollywood movie. Mirror scenes are captured so beautifully leaving us wonder how the cinematographer managed to capture the scene. Talking about the cinematography there is a scene where a guy is enjoying a sexual benefit form Qala and the scene fades out from a wall slowly showing us the facial expression of the guy and rotates around to stop in front of a statue with its mouth open. That was beautifully captured symboling us what was happening. The next beautiful thing about the movie was the music. In the time of TikTok, reels and shorts this movie is filled with classical music and background scores which will hit your heart directly. They are gem, every tone - every words in the songs are beautiful. Other aspects like editing, costume design and set design has its own pleasure. The editor knew how the director wanted to show every frame to tell us the story of Qala. The set design of this movie takes you to 1940 Calcutta. The fashion designer designed costume for every character reflecting their respective dominance in the story. This movie has its heart and soul in it. This is a perfect way to tell everyone that bad parenting can kill your kid mentally and also physically. This is an art movie which is of course not for everyone but if you have time, watch this movie because this movie hugely deserves your attention. ** HUGELY RECOMMENDED **

Move: Monica, O My Darling Starring: Rajkumar Rao, Huma Qureshi, Radhika Apte Director: Vasan Bala Genre: Neo-noir, Crime comedy thriller film OTT platfrm: Netflix This movie tries hard to impress and it succeds. The best thing in this movie is the performance performance by leading actors. Rajkumar Rao shines in is role so des Huma Qureshi as Monica and Radhika Apte as the police officer. Story is good but we have seen these kind of stories earlier too but while watching this movie I was going with the flow and I totally forgot the ovies with same storylines earlier. Kudos to the screenplay writers for this. The cinematography of this movie is catchy as well as the background score of this movie gives life to the scenes. Talking about the drawbacks, this movie sometime lacks logic. The comedy could have been better but its okay though. If you are free and you have access to Netflix then this movie deserves your time, give it a chance. #MonicaOMyDarling #MovieReview

#BhujThePrideOfIndia is undoubtedly one of the worst war movie ever made in the history of cinema. This movie is made so badly that I didn't even found even a single praise worthy point. Pakistani soldiers on a war field and they don't have guns I mean why would Pakastani soldier carry guns while trying to invade India. Indian soldiers are shown so dumb that when air raid siren blast soldiers instead of saving assets or going to bunker they keep on looking up to the Pakistani fighter planes as if suddenly after the siren Indian soldiers turns into statue. There are fighter planes flying near sonic speed fighting with Pakistani fighter planes and the pilots are talking about what they are going to do after the war. Their is a Punjabi soldier who is always so depressed and when his aircraft crashes to sea and the depressed Punjabi soldier swims to shore. He doesn't even bail out even when the aircraft crashes. There is war going on and you have information that the enemy are half their way to attack you but the Indian side got no chill, they come up with huge drums to sing song. The CGI of this movie is so childish, it looks as if it is not an A grade movie this is some kid's animated show. The leopard or the blast scenes every CGI portions looks very bad. This is a parody of a war movie where the main actress Sonakshi Sinha seems to be inspired by watching some cringe tiktokers that she acts like them. Dialogues of this movie are just cheeky and the screenplay is absolutely pathetic. It is clear that the makers were only tricking to sell this movie in the name of patriotism. This movie is a big NO from my side. My Rating: 0.5/5**

Comes with the usual army-movies cliches, Sidartha Malhotra as Vikram Batra in #Shershaah nails the character’s tone but also his quirky personality. Watch the end-credits, which has an interview of Vikram Batra & you’ll realize how amazingly well Sidharth has embodied him in the film’s same scene. Kiara Advani's cuteness gives her character Dimple an alluring touch. I am so happy with the supporting characters they won my heart. As this is a biographical movie of Captain Vikram Batra known as Shershaah in army, this movie takes you to a journey of a young filmy Punjabi boy who wants to serve his nation as an army officer, how he fell in love with Dimple, his journey from university to army and celebrates his bravery in army. The screenplay and direction of the movie is sharp and engaging. Usually I don't like songs in movies but the timing of songs in this movie, the tune, lyrics made me fall in the love with the songs too. This is probably my first time where I loved the romantic portion in a war movie. Kiara and Sidhartha's chemistry is something to praise. The VFX of the movie is so properly done that the blast scenes looks so real and the cinematography adds more beauty. I was so invested in the action scenes, the visualization of the movie that I wept out when Vikram was shot dead. There are also few drawbacks in the movie like its predictable, character's fake Punjabi accent and whenever a character talks about going home or his family he dies as it happens in almost all war movies. This movie undoubtedly deserves your time, watch it now on Amazon Prime. My rating: 3.5/5**

#SarpattaParambari is lengthy yet completely engaging, deep and political without breaking any clichés. Director Pa. Ranjith creates a world full of characters with flesh and blood. Sarpatta Parambari, is one of the best boxing films India has produced in term of story and screenplay. Arya nailed it as Kabilan, an amateur boxer who is prohibited to do boxing because of his mother. His physique, his performance is extremely eye catching. Pasupathy, as Kabilan's boxing coach is natural. Anupama Kumar as Kabilan's mother & Dushara Vijayan as Kabilan's wife are delight to watch. All the actors have portrayed their character very well. One thing I loved about this movie was the boxing choreography, the way camera moves makes us feel we are watching it live in the ring. The background score is extremely pleasure to hear. Street fight scenes are extremely well presented, hats off the the director and the editor. This is a watch watch movie if you are a sports movie lover. My rating.: 4/5**

From the horribly beautiful mind of James Gunn, The Suicide Squad is finally out and is a non-stop joyride from start to finish. The Suicide Squad felt like a love letter to DC nerds everywhere, willing to engulf its main cast in the wacky regalia of their comic counterparts, where many other films of the genre would typically shy away in favour of tactical jumpsuits. Talking about the performance, my darling Harley Quinn's character is portrayed once again by the Margot Robbie and she is always so freaking awesome. It seems as if she was born to play the character of Harley Quinn. Idris Elba, as Bloodsport is good. John Cena as Peacemaker is so dumb good and his chemistry with Bloodsport is extremely entertaining to watch. Daniela Melchior, as Ratcatcher is so cute to watch. The rest of the character are also very good. The background music, cinematography, action choreography, editing are of world class. The story of the movie is horribly beautiful just like the mind of James Gunn. This movie breaks the rule of plot armour and is a perfect standalone movie. This trash poetry of James Gunn, shows its R rating violence in a stylish and comedic way to justify the title of the movie The Suicide Squad. You may be wondering whether this is a remake of, or a sequel to, David Ayer’s 2016 Suicide Squad. It’s a reasonable question. But one which new writer-director James Gunn (Guardians of the Galaxy) answers by effectively saying: ‘Don’t worry about all that. Let’s just have some fun.’ Note: There is a post credit scene so wait for the end !! My rating: 4.5/5**

Jungle Cruise, is a typical Disney fantasy movie where protagonist as well as antagonist are in a journey to hunt treasure as they believe the stories told by the legends are real. I have seen Dwayne Johnson earlier in JUMANJI and this is nothing new for him. But, Emily Blunt after A QUIET PLACE II she did this with such a delight it was outstanding. [Huge fan of Emily Blunt] Jack Whitehall as McGregor is a comedic relief to watch and Jesse Plemons as Prince Joachim is okay. I didn't enjoyed the story of the movie that really, maybe because I have seen a lot of fantasy with with almost same storyline. There is a twist in this movie on who really is Dwayne Johnson's character Frank but that wasn't really enough atleast for me. As this is a fantasy movie, a lot of VFX is used and it is done in a good way, I really enjoyed the VFX of this movie. The background music of this movie could have been better. The runtime of the movie could have been shortened in editing. Talking about direction, the directorial aspect of the movie is okay. As this is a Disney's product and is targeted to kids and is rated PG-13, don't watch this movie with an expectation of seeing some violent action scenes. There are action scenes where characters get hurt and also die but are choreographed in a comedic way talking kids in mind. So, watch this movie if you have time and you are ready for one more Dwayne Johnson fantasy movie.