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Pyaar Ka Punchnama 2
Rating : 6/10
Release Date : 16th October, 2015
Time : 136 minutes
Director, Writer : Luv Ranjan; Co-Writers : Rahul Mody, Tarun Jain; Music : Various;
Starring : Kartik Aaryan, Sunny Singh, Omkar Kapoor, Nushrat Bharucha, Sonnalli Seygall, Ishita Raj, Manvir Singh, Rumana Molla, Sharat Saxena
Disclaimer : I haven�t seen Part 1, just the video clip of the famous anti-women speech from the film (you can see it here)
Which guy hasn�t suffered at the hands of women? Danced to her whims, coped with her ever-changing mind and struggled in the never-ending battle to win her over and please her ? This, surprisingly good, movie narrates the story of three pairs and some immensely relatable situations�and does it without ever crossing over that fine line�
Kartik, Sunny and Omkar are great friends and room-mates. Each doing well, in their respective jobs, Omkar probably the best of all, and comfortable enough with each other to constantly take each others trip when the occasion demands (or sometime doesn�t even do so). Then they all strike jackpot, in the form of three gorgeous women, at around the same time. Kartik finds Nushrat (cute, bouncy), Sunny (the least predatory, most seedha of the three) finds the svelte Sonnalli (tall, lissome) and Omkar strikes Gold in the gym with Ishita (a gorgeous figure and she knows what to do with it).
Soon, though, and in no particular order, the following situations strike their relationship
An excessive preference for pink, dresses and selfies
Arguments about money � one woman always wants to pay for her half. Or does she ?
The dreaded debate about Facebook status, and then worse, a demand to know her mates password�
The three women not really getting along � sometimes making nasty remarks about the others
One woman is too scared to tell her dad about her relationship, always waiting for the right time, despite knowing the parents are �looking�
The entry of a woman�s best friend, a guy (Manvir Singh), who seems uncomfortably close to her
A woman can�t fathom the hisaab between the three mates. But, despite several appeal to not go there, wants to.
One woman listens too much to the advice of her two girl-friends
The cops get called by zealous, protective dad
The way a guy is used for odd jobs, pick up and drops by her and her family
A debate about the guy�s future plans, dreams � his desire to leave his job and set up a website
The refreshing part of the film was the non-judgmental way the women are shown to be very comfortable in their own skins, happy to drink, unabashedly wearing clothes of their choice, having no qualms about pre-marital sex (or if they do, that is not an issue). The guys are also reasonably straight-forward, neither behaving like a macho, khap panchayat or are just stringing the woman along for sex. Everything plays out quite normally, as you�d expect in real life, and is still so funny when presented the way it is. And, thankfully, the film-makers stick to their storyline and don�t clog it with back-stories or too many characters, sub-plots.
I was quite impressed with Omkar from a looks, acting skills perspective. Sunny was also quite good, as were Ishita, Sonnalli. Kartik was a little bit of a weak link � he looks a little sleazy, the chikna next door � and his expressions don�t always hit the right notes. The speech this time wasn�t as funny as the previous one and also didn�t totally relate to the situations in the film. But I loved the way the film ended � a good, gently sarcastic depiction of our men.
With each of the situations shown, you�re going to recall your own predicaments or those of someone you�ve known. The war of the sexes can be quite hilarious to observe. Unless you�re an involved party. And in this war, there really never is a victor�
Margarita With A Straw
Rating : 6/10
Release Date : 17th April, 2015
Time : 100 minutes
Directors & Writers : Shonali Bose, Nilesh Maniyar; Music : Mikey McCleary
Starring : Kalki Koechlin, Sayani Gupta, Revathy, Kuljeet Singh, Malhar Khushu, William Moseley, Tenzing Dalha
I�ve never liked films about disabled people � but that is probably just me, my journey through life, I guess. There are several enjoyable moments in the movie but equally was squirming uncomfortably at times
It�s the story of Kalki, who has cerebral palsy, lives in Delhi, and just wants to be treated normally. She goes to Ramjas College, has a good circle of friends, an extremely loving, supportive family, is a lyricist, and is also quite keen to explore her sexuality.
Her journey also takes her to New York, where, among others, she meets a gorgeous, blind Pakistani activist, Sayani Gupta and also the Brad Pitt kinda cute William, who volunteers to help Kalki write.
Kalki does a great job � having seen a lot of kids with cerebral palsy � she gets the mannerisms, hand motions, postures, expressions down pat. Kudos to her and the director for achieving this.
But the standout performances for me came from Sayani (beautiful, confident, sensuous) and Revathy (simply brilliant as Kalki�s mom � a South Indian married to a Sardarji).
Some of the moments that made the film for me
- a certain award-winning moment that gets ruined � the last thing anyone with a disability wants is condescension
- The relationship between Kalki and Hussain, college-mate on a wheelchair, including when they fall out and make-up
- The genial, Kuljeet Singh, the Sardarji Dad � always smiling � and the moment of the film, when he complains about getting veg food all
the time�and Malhar�s (Kalki�s brother) priceless intervention
- Revathy�s expressions, once in front of a mirror and another time when she opens up a certain website on Kalki�s laptop
- The music � fascinating blend of different genres � one OST I would love to own
I did feel there was a lot of focus in the film on Kalki�s sexuality, experimentations. Probably some scenes that were gratuitous�or maybe that was just me being squeamish. Wasn�t sure during several points in the film as to where this was all leading up � and the ending worked for me only partially in assuaging those thoughts�
But I did sense a thread of genuineness in the film, the story�confirmed for me by the director�s heartfelt quotations, dedications at the end of the movie�And I guess, in todays day and age, you cant ask for much more !
It Follows
Rating : 5/10
Release Date : 10th April, 2015
Time : 92 minutes (100 minutes in USA)
Director & Writer : David Robert Mitchell; Music : Various
Starring : Maika Monroe, Lili Sepe, Keir Gilchrist, Daniel Zovatto, Jake Weary, Olivia Luccardi, Bailey Spry
You get the atmosphere - the unmistakably horror film kind � where spooky, unexplained bad things happen. Where you watch almost every frame in anticipation of the next attack. Where the music plays tricks with you � building up a crescendo all too often, including for a few false alarms. But what you miss a credible story � where the mystifying events begin to make sense and get woven into a satisfying conclusion.
Something or someone begins to follow you, steadily, slowly but surely. Has the potential to do you great harm. Can come at any moment, will walk at a gentle, even pace but will make a beeline for you. Will not be visible to anyone else. And the only way to get rid of it is to have sex with someone. In which case it begins to follow your partner�but beware� in case it manages to kill him/her, it will circle back and begin to follow you again !
Its this evil that enters the life of Maika � unexpectedly and after some good sex, of course. It changes her, her life. And also the life of her motley group of childhood friends � Lili, Keir, Olivia. Lili and Keir are siblings, Keir has a huge crush on Maika, likes watching her secretly and they had also been each others first kiss� Daniel, a good-looking slightly older neighbor joins the circle a little later, to help save Maika, much to Keir�s underplayed disgust.
And so the movie goes�there are attacks, saviours, escapes and more attacks�Whatever it is that follows, does so relentlessly. There is some sex also that happens but the Indian censors obviously don�t deem us worthy of watching as the movie is 8 minutes shorter vs the US length�.Such movies work for me only if there is a satisfying conclusion, one where all the threads get neatly tied up�and unfortunately, that is not the case here�which lets the entire film down for me�
Rang Rasiya
Rating : 5/10
Release Date : 7th November, 2014
Time : 132 minutes
Director: Ketan Mehta; Writers: Ketan Mehta, Sanjeev Dutta; Music : Sandesh Shandilya
Starring : Randeep Hooda, Nandana Sen, Gaurav Dwivedi, Vipin Sharma, Paresh Rawal, Jim Boeven, Feryna Wazheir, Darshan Jariwala, Suhasini Mulay, Tom Altar, Triptha Parashar, Rashaana Shah
One day, we, in India, will learn to make biopics. Where we will be happy to take one or two defining moments in a person�s life and focus an entire film around it, rather than attempting to show someone�s entire sixty-seventy year old lifespan in a couple of hours
This one takes Raja Ravi Varma�s life, played by Randeep Hooda, and attempts to show us, in a quite episodic manner, his love for painting, his love for staying at the forefront of art, his desire to allow art, especially with the aid of technology, to transcend the otherwise physical and moral constraints faced by artists of that era. It also spends a large part of the film showing us his extremely colorful life, especially with various women � Nandana Sen getting the most attention and notoriety.
There is a lot shown in the film, historical fact, that most of us are probably not aware of. But it is a very jerky style of story-telling, where we skip from one episode to another, without really, consistently understanding the man, his thought process. The scenes involving nudity are quite aesthetically done � don�t seem gratuitous or vulgar.
If a society were to be judged for how liberal it was in its arts, there was a time when we would probably rank right up there but the sad part is, today, we would probably be scraping the bottom of the barrel. We seem to have been this way for the better part of the last couple of hundred years at least, and in some ways, maybe even regressed. Just for a great speech towards the end, delivered calmly, without histrionics, and the core idea � of letting art soar free from a judgmental society � am going to be slightly generous with my rating.
Tamanchey
Rating : 4/10
Release Date : 10th October, 2014
Time : 113 minutes
Director: Navneet Behl; Writer: Shailesh Pratap Singh, Bharat Ratan; Music : Various
Starring : Richa Chadha, Nikhil Dwivedi, Damandeep Sidhu
Someone got so excited with the idea of having two gun-toting lovers, the man a mild sort of UP-ite and the woman a foul mouthed firecracker, going around shooting stuff, robbing banks, and having sex at every opportunity�they forgot about the rest of the story�
There is a villain, Damandeep, huge, hulking, wooden, Richa�s possessive lover and kingpin of the drugs gang in Delhi but not much more. The entire film is just about Richa and Nikhil blowing stuff up � with guns or without. The dialogue is interesting, funny in parts but that�s about as good as it gets, with the highly predictable, stretched end just not working.
The best part of the movie are the sequences set to RD Burman�s classy music and Kishore�s voice from the song �Pyaar Mein Dil Pe Maar De Goli�. Nikhil delivers a competent performance, Richa looks every inch the patakha, in bed and off it, with many Indian style (censored) sex scenes (in a train, on tomatoes, in a car, in a bank locker room) thrown in to garner an audience but unfortunately, the rest of the film doesn�t really rise up to the challenge.
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