Sam Mensa

Aah the cringe is real. A Muslim becomes a terrorist because? Because? Naah, not because CIA trained them or they were taught in madarsas to blow themselves up to attain virgins in high heavens or not because Hafeez Saeed/ISI trained them. Because, rather, a normal working Muslim becomes terrorist only when he sees a bunch of clowns lynching two Muslims allegedly carrying beef. He gets so worked up, that he visits Syria, plans a whole terror plot against Indian state because he has a 'beef' with those who couldn't decipher two muslims carrying mutton - the propaganda here is so cringey, that I literally stopped the series there onwards, downgraded it to ONE STAR on IMDB, as much as it was looking promising to me. The creators can't even be original anymore, Sacred Games and now this Family ShitMan - same story - Muslims becoming terrorists because Hindus are forcing them to - feeding just what the terror handlers and LIBERAL swines ordered. 0/10

Mission Mangal is a virtue-signalling propaganda and a very badly made at best! Shows muslims as ever-suppressed minority but surprisingly show their practices like Namaz revered much. Talk about contrasting idiocies. Dumb script writing. Hindu practices like astrology, going to temple before anything big is shown as regressive but muslim practices are shown as progressive one. The feminine power figure Sonakshi Sinha is shown sleeping with random people before going to ISRO office and doing her bit. Since they couldn't show her as a straightaway woman doing her bit efficiently in office as per TW Feminism'69 rulebook. It would become too boring for audiences to remember how daring, empowered, self-made woman she was...Tch tch feminism, tch tch. What you have been reduced to. LOL! A team of over 350 people out of which 15 odd were women, and this somehow becomes a mission possible only due to women being in the team else there would've been no mangal mission. This movie doesn't even cover a fourth of what Mangal Mission was about. What an epic failure by Akshay Kumar. Spare yourself a headache, avoid this crapbag of a movie.

For a crime done by a caste, you can show another different caste totally unrelated to the crime, in a bad light in hope to get some brownie points for your probable political debut in near future. Distorting facts to defame the Jews of India aka Brahmins, Bollywood is not alien to that. Because representing the actual caste involved in crime in a movie allegedly "inspired by true events" would be pretty bad debut for a director in pursuit of a political sugar daddy, no? Anubhav Sinha - Naah, you haven't got anubhav enough, rather you are on the same old boring path of bringing down the topmost tier to unnecessary mud slinging. You clearly have no balls left to represent the actual turn of events, rather like a wimp show what brings you comfort and few sugar dads from left leaning parties. Ayushman is wasted, script is good but if you look at the actual rape case, where the perpetrators were from lower caste as well, point of having this whole movie goes down the same drain where logic took a piss while screenplaying and writing this one out. AVOID! NOT RECOMMENDED.

Andhadhun is a BLOODY hoot! A taut crime tale of a blind man and his artsy screw ups. This movie easily is one of the finest thrillers to ever come out of Bollywood and will go down as one of the best crime musicals, if there ever happens to be a genre like that. Ayushman Khurana has given a splendid performance as an experimental blind man who gets into so many things that it becomes a natural instinct of the audience to know and explore more about what happens to him. Sriram Raghavan is modern day Vijay Anand, as a master crime caper specialist, he knows how to present his taste onscreen extremely well. Vivid but small setups haphazardly spread characters but bound together, highly contrasted and colorized shots, few colorful characters and a pace that never lets you think away about anything else other than next frame. I forgot when was the last time I saw a first half in Bollywood that was as intense as this one. Mark my words - the way first crime scene is picturized while the blind pianist plays symphonies while being a mute and blind spectator to a crime, is nothing short of a pure gold class masterpiece and will go down as an instant classic in the list of greatest scenes ever filmed in movies. The explicit parallels drawn between two extremes in that scene is wholly on another level and shows the Raghavan class we have been familiar with since ever. This movie takes his definitions of the depiction of crimes on whole another level after a gruesome depiction in Badlapur and a high shock value execution in Johnny Gaddar. Musical symphonies often represent the mood and put you at unease. Scenes with Beethoven Symphony 5 as background score are a great example of what a fine musical taste can do to an otherwise great scene in silos, and exalts the overall weight of a scene many times. Old Bollywood style tunes scattered in beginning and jazz music with high tempo gel extremely well with the fast-paced scenes. The only weak point of the movie is that it disintegrates a bit towards the end where new characters are introduced and a new storyline gives albeit a good support to the overall story by the climax. It still lefts out few questions nonetheless but if you sum it all up - it is an amazingly well-done flick with nuanced filmmaking of Sriram Raghavan - the best crime master of modern age Bollywood and great performances of Tabu, Ayushman Khurana and supporting castes. 8.5/10 for me.

As much bigoted it may sound, it is true! RAW and other intelligence agencies don't hire Muslims. Feels like yet another liberal propaganda of showing Muslims in good light, by making a movie full of a spy who is a Muslim and who dedicated her life across border in hostile nation Pakistan collective evidences and supporting India. Nothing is wrong with the premise. What I despise is the execution. The story is pure fiction for all I believe. The novel on which the movie is based is written by some author who 'went and interviewed' an Army officer and wife who were involved in espionage, and they gave this author a full account of their rhapsodies throughout their career - this is ludicrous to believe. Espionage agents, field agents are notorious for not giving out an ounce of details about their work. I had a relative who worked in an intelligence agency and he used to tell us he was a clerk posted in foreign embassies being moved across continents. This movie is nothing but a puerile propaganda reeking nothing but preset narrative of making Muslims appear and look better patriots than rest in eyes of all - nothing else! 4/10 for efforts and fictional element. Indian spies were Muslims backing Muslim nation, snitching on a whole Muslim machinery working on orders of Hindu bosses seems too far-fetched a story to be believed given our agencies have stopped hiring Muslims as field agents or even part of agencies after some event, yet to be known.