Alia Bhatt is an Indian actress and model who appears in Bollywood films. Born into a family where her parents, Mahesh Bhatt and Soni Razdan, and elder sister Pooja Bhatt were actors and filmmakers,
Rating : 3/10 Release Date : 29th January, 2016 Time : 107 minutes Director, Writer: Milap Zaveri; Co-Writer : Mushtaq Sheikh; Music : Various Starring : Sunny Leone, Vir Das, Tusshar Kapoor, Suresh Menon, Shaad Randhawa
All of us receive jokes via WhatsApp, thanks to the various groups we are part of. Take the 50 cheapest, crassest, crudest ones, string them together with the loosest possible storyline, ensure you show almost every square cm of Sunny Leone, take good actors and put them in ridiculous roles (Vir Das, Viveck Vaswani) and as cherry on the icing, you give Tusshar a prominent role
They say a picture speaks a thousand words� the following five pics leave you under no illusions as to what the makers had in mind when they hired their lead actress and gave her a double role
And these five pics give a compelling reason why you shouldn�t watch it - especially the first one and you can follow the same actor's expressions throughout the remaining photos
This film is a huge mistake and in bad taste � humour around sex doesn�t have to be sleazy (read my book Eighteen Plus, for a taste of something different) � fun is also poked at gays, disabled, animals, fruits � no one & nothing is spared, including the audience
Rating : 8/10 Release Date : 31st July, 2015 Time : 163 minutes Director, Writer : Nishikant Kamat; Co-Writer: Upendra Sidhaye based on an original story by Jeetu Joseph; Music : Vishal Bhardwaj (songs), Sameer Phatarpekar (background score) Starring : Ajay Devgn, Tabu, Shriya Saran, Rajat Kapoor, Kamlesh Sawant, Ishita Dutta, Mrunal Jadhav, Rishabh Chaddha, Prathamesh Parab
There are two surefire signs that I�ve seen a great movie. One is that I run through the entire plot in my head, asking �What would I do if I were in the protagonists place� and the other is that I write the review almost immediately.
So, at 230am, having just returned from a late night show of Drishyam, with three movies lined up tomorrow morning, here goes�
Ajay Devgn lives in Pendolim, Goa and has been there for many years, running a successful cable TV business. He is a film fanatic and is loved and respected in the community. His lovely family, comprises his wife, Shriya Saran and two daughters, the teenaged Ishita Dutta and the little cutie, Mrunal Jadhav. However, their idyllic life is soon shattered due to no fault of theirs�and they are soon hunted by the police, in particular, the top cop of Goa, Tabu �and even the cops from his local station, who�ve known him since childhood including Kamlesh Sawant, who hates his guts�
It isn�t easy viewing because of the content but incredibly gripping�and you await with bated breath to find out the next twist and turn. There are some fascinating sub-contexts too � much is made of the fact that Ajay is only educated till the fourth standard �while everyone around him, including his wife and the cops chasing him, are more educated. The running battle between Kamlesh and Ajay is fascinating too, a bit more than banter at first, but gets nasty soon enough. And there is a sly sense of humour too � even in the tensest moments (like Tabu�s outburtst when yet another witness says the same thing).
The beautiful surroundings of our favorite holiday state also make for the perfect backdrop to the tension and the drama. And the music, for a change, doesn�t intrude but adds to the atmosphere. Ajay Devgn works better when he is understated, as here. Tabu is fantastic too � balancing tough cop with vulnerable mom extremely well. Shriya was god but overacted just a little, while Ishita and Mrunal were quite good as their daughters. However, it was Rajat Kapoor, as Tabu�s husband, and Kamlesh, who really stole the show with their performances.
It�s rare to find a Hindi film that is close to flawless � there are niggles, little issues here and there, but overall, it just works � its nice and compact, for a change not going off-topic, and getting the mix of emotions, story and facts right. A real cat and mouse game, where for a change, you cant really figure out who exactly is the cat and who is the mouse�
Rating : 4/10 Release Date : 17th October, 2014 Time : 91 minutes Director: Jake Kasdan; Writers: Kate Angelo, Jason Segel, Nicholas Stoller; Music : Michael Andrews Starring : Cameron Diaz, Jason Segel, Rob Corddry, Ellie Kemper, Rob Lowe, Harrison Holzer, Sebastian Hedges Thomas
Ten years into marriage, sapped by kids and the humdrum routine of life, a couple, Cameron Diaz and Jason Segel, make a sex tape (film themselves having sex), in a desperate attempt to rekindle their sexual fire. However, now they�re faced with the prospect that a lot of their friends and associates, including the mailman, may have it on their iPads (thanks to an autosynch app). And it may even go viral.
The movie really works only till this point � and here are the top five reasons why
1. Ludicrous Situations : Most sane people wouldn�t go about salvaging the situation the way our lead pair does. Their clumsy attempts to retrieve the files, the behavior of the people involved, their dumb excuses, the cheap attempts to draw laughs via a canine displays a tendency to go for the easy route, a la Sajid Khan, rather than work on the script. The whole scene at Rob Lowe's, her future boss, probably the lowest point of the movie.
2. Indian Censors : The most you get to see are Cameron�s perky nipples poking through a white T-Shirt. Our beloved censors (and I include their political masters here), driven by a misplaced, hypocritical sense of morality, do not deem us capable of handling anything further, thus (probably) depriving us of the best parts of the film
3. Cameron Diaz : She has a great figure but doesn�t look hot anymore. Wrinkles, a certain haggardness and that famous smile that wears slightly thin implies that she is unable to carry the film on her once curvaceous frame, which would�ve been a no-brainer in her �The Mask� or 'There's Something About Mary' days
4. Gyaan from Jack Black : Nothing can demonstrate that there is something fundamentally wrong with the thought process and script, as when they have Jack Black, in a brief over-the-top cameo, actually come and dispense life changing pearls of wisdom. Apart from the innate silliness of the specific situation, I just felt they chose the wrong casting option.
5. Indian crowd : Especially in the late night shows, this film is likely to attract the worst kind of crowd, including groups of men, attracted like moths by the title, determined to have fun via cheap remarks, loud laughter and silly behavior. Probably better to wait for it to come on the tv
