Sayanti Dutta

A classic noir film. The suspense will hold you back to your seat till the very last scene. The characterization is unparalleled. Every single actor did an amazing job in their respective roles. The lead actor Vijay Sethupathi and Katrina Kaif were just mind blowing. They shone in every single frame. In small but important roles Vinay Pathak, Tinu Anand and Radhika Apte left their mark. The time period creation is amazing. Small details are so apt and connected the dots beautifully. Hats off to the director Sriram Raghavan for making this masterpiece. Also the dialogue writer deserves a mention. The dialogue " Anything fermented except dosa batter" is such a classic. It's a must must watch movie.

I loved the movie. But mostly because of the colourful history of the man and the brilliant acting by Vicky Kaushal. But I personally feel, this movie failed as a biopic. In a biopic it is not prudent to capture every single pahse and event of one's life. Especially like a person like Field Marshal Sam Maneckshaw. His life is so eventful that it will be an impossible task to cover all the events without given due importance to it. Which happened here. So many crucial events shown in the film failed to leave any impact apart from adding to the length of the film. Like the part in Manipur or the one in Kashmir. So to make a biopic interesting and thrilling, one has to take one key event and build the movie up to that event. The pinnacle of the general's life was his win in the 1971 war. So the story should have been built up till there and finished on the thrilling note and rest of his journey as climbing up till the Field Marshal should be given in an end credit. Loved the acting of Vicky Kaushal. He is so natural that it's unbelievable. The scene where he was named as Sam Bahadur gave me goosebumps. I watched it again and again. The supporting casts were also very apt and nice.

Hostages is a nicely made series. Loved the suspense and the mystery built. Acting of all the actors is mind blowing. Especially Ronit Roy and Tisca Chopra will floor you. The cool level headed surgeon with nerves of steel in adverse situation is brilliantly protrayed by Tisca Chopra. Ronit Roy portrayed is dilemma as an honest police officer committing a crime so truthfuly that I started feeling for him. My only concern about this series is that it's length. It could have been neatly wrapped up in 8 episodes. 12 episodes is a bit too long. Another concern was the authenticity of the motive. The makers got a bit too busy creating the suspense that the motive and the back story fell short in some of the places. One major drawback that after season 1 it becomes quite predictable and season 2 doesn't intrigued me any more and I dropped it after the first episode. Also the villains of the series are not scary enough.

Last night I went through an existential crisis... Don't know what came on me and I watched Raam Setu. That was the worst self inflicted torture I endured in a very long time. Censor board should ban this kind of political agenda driven movie. But keeping every political agenda afar... This movie is hilarious. God Ram must be cringing in heaven after watching this. A few key elements from the film which I can't forget anytime soon. You heard about guide dogs. Here they have a guide crocodile who takes the protagonists to the right location of the capital of Ravan. Forget visa.. Indians don't even need passports to work and travel around in Srilanka. A ship is sailing in the water which is so shallow that our main protagonist is walking on it actually. The rebels in Srilanka are the worshippers of Ravan. Standing in front of a mountain they can see the shadow of the mountain is pinpointing a location. A palm leaf manuscript which contains the map of lanka is the key piece of evidence here of course without any authentication. That is supposed to be rewritten every 400-500 years and to be handled by wearing a glove because of the brittle nature of the palm leaves. But it survived a copter crash and subsequent drowning. It is written in a script which is not fully deciphered yet. But the hero reads it like e newspaper in courtroom. Final conclusion.. Ram is in bigger danger from his believers than the non believers.

Series : Indian Police Force Rating : 2/5 So Rohit Shetty has made a Bollywood movie on television. Through and through it's a cliché and extremely predictable. After Special Ops and Family man it's so lame that I literally started browsing the phone in between. Instead of spending so much details and unnecessary car chases he should have put a little effort into the story and details. Such lame stories do not work on OTT. Come on man, it's not 1970, where a few blinking red and green bulbs will not convince the viewer about a high tech communication system. These days even the school kids know details like RAW, IB, CIA etc. So please stop showing things like people breaking the border gates of a foreign country with an SUV and walks inside the country. There are things like International Incident and foreign policies. Come on man.. Bangladesh also has a border security force. What were they doing? Waiting for cue from Rohit Shetty? Unimaginable arrogance of showing single Delhi police vehicle is driving past three Bangladesh intelligence team vehicles and they were also waiting for the cue from Rohit Shetty. Multiple serial blasts happened in three different cities. But IB is not involved. RAW doesn't have any clue or info on that. All captured terrorists identity and family details revealed and splashed in media within minutes of capture and while they are still investigating the case. The terrorist is repeatedly calling his girlfriend who is supposed to be on the train but she is responding sitting in Delhi Police headquarters. But not once did the guy feel there was a difference between a moving train and an ac office. There is no reason to think that we are a bunch of dimwits. It's so stupid a series that I already forgot half the episodes. Delhi police special brunch were doing an operation with bunch of terrorists involved in a serial blast without wearing vests. They were all wearing fancy hoodies which couldn't stop a bullet of a regular pistol from a distance of 15 ft. The bullet tore through the vest and punctured Vivek Oberoi's lung. Come on .. I understood he had only that much screen time. But atleast make it look plausible. A terrorist runs away on a bike and goes to another state to do another set of serial blasts. The police here never heard of things like roadblock or back up. Anyways .. the list is endless. Rohit Shetty just tried to hide is handicap on googling by flying cars and intermittent dose of emotions. The 2 is for the actors. They really tried hard to make it look remotely believable. Shilpa Shetty looks good. Vivek Oberoi is wasted. So is Nikitin Dheer and Sharad Kelkar. Siddharth Malhotra tried to pull off a very weak script on his shoulder. But he didn't have much opportunity. It was already beyond any kind of salvation. Wake up Mr. Shetty, you are trying your hands on a platform where the audience is much more intelligent than your regular Bollywood movies.

Absolutely brilliant show. It's a dark psychological thriller. First and foremost thing is the story. Brilliant story and equally brilliant story telling. After a very very long time, I couldn't anticipate the ending till the end. It is absolutely binge worthy. Actually to be honest, you can't leave it in between. The length is apt. No unnecessary dragging to increase episode count. The entire cast acted brilliantly. It feels as if they are not even acting. The screenplay and dialogues are brilliant too. Very apt and true to the reality. It's totally recommended and not to be missed.

Its beautiful work and a masterpiece. One of the best series made in the history of OTT. First and foremost the storyline. Since is based on real events, the story line was needed to be kept contextual and crisp. Which Hansal Mehta has done brilliantly. Casting is the hero in this series. Each character is looking like picked out of reality. They are so so closed to the real characters that you will have goosebumps when you see the epilogue with the real characters. No extra twist and turns added in the plot. The plot was kept closest to the real incident and those were dramatic enough. Lots of movies and series were made on D- Company and that turbulent phase or the later time. This one comes a close second after Black Friday being the best. Karishma Tanna is mind blowing. So is every actor. But her portrayal of the lead is so real that you will forget about all the glamourous characters and item numbers she did in her past. This lady deserves a bow. Prasenjit Chatterjee was wasted in that small role. But again the story was not about his character. But probably someday some makers will make a movie or a series on Jyotirmoy Dey and he should be cast in that role again. Mohammad Zeeshan Ayyub was as usual brilliant. Deven Bhojani brought tears to my eyes with his simple , innocent and honest portrayal of the father figure. Summary: Brilliant direction, gripping story and mind-blowing acting. A show must not be missed.

Fresh casting. Amazing acting. Good storyline. Good direction. In short don't miss. Finally a good period drama on Indian history and not the independence movement or sports or monarchies. A barely explored subject of Indian scientific achievements is the key plot here along with a brief glimpse of the post independence political situation of India. Indian Scientists were always neglected in indian cinema. So we knew about them and their achievements, only from the history books which is quite cut and dry. So learning about the great scientific minds of India Dr. Homi J Bhaba and Dr. Vikram Sarabhai and their life , their struggle, their pain , their success is an absolute delight to watch. Some flaws are there while creating the period and that can be ignored.