A recently divorced advocate, spends her time on the train commuting daily to a route. She recently had a miscariage which led her to be dependent on alcohol. But that’s what she thinks, the real reason is something totally different.
On the route her eye catches on a woman who she relates herself with. One day she sees a man with that woman who is not her husband and suddenly everything changes.
What’s to like about THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN?
Women lead film
A bit different from the original
Covers all the aspects like blackmail,betrayal, murder, vengeance and police investigation
Plot twist
Some questionable loopholes
It seems that after half time the movie seems to lose its trajectory. Some questionable things are that if Mira (Parineeti) did know Jimmy Bagga then how she seems to have missed who her daughter is.
What do we have to say about it?
We would like to give a ⅗ stars. Though it seems a full package but it still misses some things.
After her boyfriend breaks up with her Indoo (Kiara Advani) seeks for a new, perfect partner online and there she meets Samar (Aditya Seal) who is Pakistani. A terrorist is also on the loose in the city. This movie focuses on the friendships, the relations between India and Pakistan.
What’s to like about INDOO KI JAWANI?
India’s view from a Pakistani’s eyes and Pakistani’s view from an Indian eye
What are some problems with INDOO KI JAWANI?
It is very un-funny and stretched uselessly.
Lack of punch lines
Though the humor is missing but some lines border line silly.
What do we have to say about it?
We give this movie a ⅕ stars. From full-on Pakistan-bashing to half-hearted jingoism and from preaching about not judging a book by its cover to saying that all Indians are highly judgmental, ‘Indoo Ki Jawani’ tries to go everywhere and reaches nowhere. The film’s narrative seems a bit confused. It seems a total waste of time. It is too focused on mining laughs from the girl’s awkward attempts to lose her virginity.
Before jumping into the review can we take a moment to appreciate the wardrobe of each and every lead actress and even KJo not the less. I’ve seen many negative comments regarding this show but to be honest I found this show really entertaining. Though it has its own parts of monotonous and meticulously elaborated drama it was still very fun to watch.
The impact that the promo created was to show a glimpse into the inner lives of the wives of the Bollywood superstars but somehow it gave everything other than this. It seemed like an Indian version of “ Keeping Up With the Kardashians”. We cannot see a proper destination to where the mini television series is taking us too.
The women casting starts with Maheep Kapoor, then comes Seema Khan with Bhavna Panday and lastly enters Neelam Kothari Soni. We can see the women dangling with the personal growth issue aligned with their duties as their mothers. Their relationship with their husbands seemed super staged.
Maheep Kapoor is seen totally focused on the career of her daughter and how she should tackle things ahead as she’s leaping into the Bollywood business.
Seema Khan is battling between finding her new self, her passion and her children.
Bhavna Panday is seen giving her experiences and all together seen a bit off apart from her superstitious and a loggerhead with Seema Khan.
And lastly Neelam Kothari Soni is in dilemma about whether she should return to do movies or not.
The locations shown are mere distractions to the point that there is nothing much to carry on the story with. They go to Paris for the Le Bal and then they top it off with Doha. We can see many actors in the party hosted by Gauri Khan.
This series shows nothing but Glamour! Glamour! Glamour!
This is a show in which you can love it or hate it but you cannot ignore it.
These are our top 3 comedy Bollywood movies which we find that it makes us laugh our hearts out.
The Golmaal Series – This is a very fun series of 4 films which have a basic 4 orphans who grew up together and in each movie they have logger heads and the movie goes on. it has a very light comedy and a family film which everyone can enjoy.
2. Hera Pheri & Phir Hera Pheri – This is once again a sequel and light comedy. The trio of Akshay Kumar, Paresh Rawal and Sunil Shetty is epic and this movie is again definitely a must watch and for all ages. it just has pure comedy unlike the movies of the current era which cannot provide comedies without having double meaning jokes. If you are a Bollywood fan than you would have definitely watched this movie.
3. Chup Chup Ke – This movie is situational comedy with mistaken identities. This movie is highly under-rated one and also a must watch. It is Kareena’s and Shahid’s best work together. It is a slow movie but not a boring one.
I feel 2020 is Vikrant’s year. He did good work in Dolly Kitti Aur woh Chamakte Sitare, then even in Cargo he did a good job, and now with Ginny weds Sunny. He even has Mirzapur Season 2 in his pipeline. It seems this is his year to shine. We have seen him in many various roles and here he seems to be super let out and chilled.
So now about the movie, it’s super predictable. Boys like the girl, but she’s in love with another guy but then she starts falling for the boy and then after a lot of hiccups they get married and everyone is happy.
Yami and Vikrant did a good job. But their chemistry is not that pleasing to our eyes. It can also like so because Vikrant is seen in these types of fun roles like this. Yami as always is awesome and truly fit for the role. The role of Sunny could be more audience appealing if played by Ayushmann Khurrana or Rajkumar Rao.
The loving thing about this movie is the supportive families of both the sides. No matter how spoit the children are, the parents always supported them. There is a “I know my daughter well” mum who wants her daughter to get settled and have a family.
This movie can be described as Jab We Met but 10 times less fun and way too boring. This movie has some sloppy scenes which were not at all needed in the first place. It seemed they were trying way too hard to push the movie after the interval.
This movie can only be seen if you are a Yami or Vikrant fan. Or else it can be very boring to watch the whole film even when you just want to pass your time during the lockdown.
Produced by – Endemol Shine India, MAdhavani’s Ram Madhavani Films
Story Line –
After her pharma baron husband Tej Sareen (Chandrachur Singh) is murdered by a masked man, Aarya (Sushmita Sen) takes it upon herself to get to the bottom of the truth and bring the culprit to justice. While the family reels in distress, Jawahar warns Aarya about the danger they all are in. When she visits Sangram in the jail, a shock awaits her. Aarya is threatened by an unknown assailant, which ups her worry about her children’s safety, who are dealing with their own problems. But she finds an unlikely ally in Daulat. Danger strikes Aarya and her family once more, and the relentless Khan searches her house yet again. Fed up, Aarya decides to take the bull by the horns and meets Shekhawat. As Aarya dives deep into the business, she faces her first challenge.
In the meantime, Khan goes after Hina for information, while Jawahar and Daulat get into a scuffle. The worst has happened and Aarya goes looking for Jawahar. Distressed, she informs Shekhawat about a change in plan, only to find him uncaring. How will she keep her kids safe? Aarya shares with Veer and Aru the challenges she has been facing, and promises to end all the suffering with a master plan. Will everything fall into place? Despite losing the case, Khan is adamant to find the truth. As another tragedy strikes and the family is in the depths of despair, Aarya is left with a fresh dilemma.
Our Views –
First of all the plot set is amazing and some of the twists shown throughout the season are mind blowing. It focuses mainly on the extent to which a parent can go to protect its family. Sushmita really did come back with a bang. This series can get you hooked up very easily and you will complete in a weekend.
Though it has its own share of melodrama and fluff and sometimes it feels very predictable scenes but other than that its a much watch. The series contain of 9 episodes each of approximately 1 hour long so technically it would just take 9 hours to complete the whole series in a go ( if you are a binge watcher).
JL 50 follows a CBI officer, Shantanu Das (Abhay), who is tasked with investigating a plane crash. It turns into a top secret mission as they realize that the plane that crashed somewhere in northern Bengal took off from a Kolkata (then Calcutta) airport 35 years ago.
Our Views –
India doing a Sci-Fi movie with a good taste is really rare. But here they really went out of the way and created a masterpiece. JL50 talks about a very unique subject which is rarely talked about in any other Indian movie and that is Time Travel. Though the web series is based on a real story, they have very beautifully linked it with Time Travel.
Pankaj Kapoor says “Time never moves, Time is always present” in the beginning of the series and it seems on this basis they have explained the whole series. Pankaj Kapoor aka Professor Das appears to be very fishy right from the start. An airplane goes missing with some important delegates in it and in order to investigate it, a plane which was lost 35 years ago is recovered (with 2 survivors).
Abhay Deol aka Shantanu keeps the story rolling forward as being the lead CBI investigator. He is not a believer of time travel until all the other possibilities are not ruled out. He was left at an orphanage and he never got to get closure about his parents but due to time travel he got to know that the survivor of the time travel actually turns out to be his mother.
It explains a time travel mystery with the sources of the explanation which dates back to the times of Emperor Ashoka and later solved by a scientist in 1984. This web series is on Sony LIV with 4 episodes each and not more than 35 min each is easy to watch in a go. And it’s definitely highly recommended.
Produced by – Boney Kapoor, Mukesh Talreja, Sunil Manchanda, Gautam Jain, Naresh Agarwal
Story line –
Arya’s life changes when she is brutally gang-raped by a group of spoiled rich students from her school and two of their house helps. Her stepmother seeks justice and takes the help of a detective to teach the perpetrators a lesson. Devki, a biology teacher, seeks help from DK, a private detective, and vows to get revenge after her stepdaughter’s rapists are acquitted by the court.
Our Views-
The movie plays Sridevi as the central character. And it is a revenge based plot seeks by the rape victim’s mother (Sridevi) on the culprits. The story is like “PINK” but this movie does not show the faults in the justice system but how a common mother seeks revenge. Regardless the differences her 18 year old daughter has with her, still that does not stop her from taking revenge for her.
The best moments of the film are all the different ways she meets DK (Nawazuddin Siddiqui), be it in the art gallery of ‘Modern Art’ or be it at the metro station or any other place. The movie gives many messages and it focuses on how the whole family all goes through the trauma which the victim also goes through.
Thankfully there is not much melodrama unlike other typical bollywood films. And I especially liked the tactics Sridevi used to take revenge. Sridevi and Nawazuddin Siddhiqui has been flawless as ever but Akshay’s role could have given more depth being the main investigating officer of the case.
This movie was the last movie of Sridevi and she did an outstanding job. May her soul rest in peace.
Stars: Vidyut Jammwal, Shivaleeka Oberoi, Annu Kapoor
Genre – Action, Thriller
StoryLine–
Samir and Nargis get married but soon recession takes place globally.Sameer’s IT business shuts and Nargis also loses her job they apply for a job in Noman where both get selected while Nargis has to reach first.Before Sameer could leave he gets call from Nargis that she isn’t at safe place and needs help. Sameer takes the help of cops and flies to Noman where he is helped by a Pakistani Taxi driver Usman.Sameer manages to find Nargis but before he could take her he is attacked by goons where he creates havoc and gets imprisoned. But then he tells his story and is helped by Indian Embassy and was helped to find Nargis but then betrayed by the Omanian police. He fights with everyone and saves his wife.
Our Views-
It focuses on the hero more on the hero rather than the victim. Nargis was kidnapped and sold to prostitution yet the movie focuses on the way Sameer deals to get her back rather than the hardships she faces. It is not only an action movie but it also throws a romantic angle with the Sameer-Nargis love story. The side roles played by Shiv Pandit and Aahana Kumra are far more pleasing if ignored their Arabic lingo. The duo of Sameer and taxi driver Usmaan can also be seen as very important for the story to move forward. It can be watched for Vidyut’s acting during these trying times and the roles of the supporting characters.
Cast – Vidya Balan, Sanaya Malhotra, Jisshu Senugupta, Amit Sadh
Director – Anu Menon
Producer – Vikram Malhotra
StoryLine –
The extraordinary story of Shakuntala Devi, the world-renowned mathematician who lived her life on her own terms. While the film pays tribute to her genius as a mathematician, it also humanizes her as a woman and mother, in trying to capture her indomitable spirit. Told through the lens of her relationship with her daughter Anu, the film highlights their very different struggles and aspirations.
Our Views –
Like all her movies Vidya Balan did a phenomenal job with her acting. The story shows Shakuntala (VIdya Balan) playing as a kid as solving a maths problem and then her family realizes that she is a genius and starts doing maths shows. There cannot be a better choice of actor than Vidya Balan. She is just so perfect for the role.
The movie is all about mother-daughter relationships. The relationship of Shakuntala with her mother, the relationship of Shakuntala’s daughter Anu (Sanaya Malhotra) with her. It shows the dilemma a mother faces as she has to juggle between her child, her husband, her career and her dreams. She feels the fear of missing out as her daughter grows and the same fear strikes Anu after the birth of her daughter which draws a wedge between Shakuntala and Anu. The hatred between Anu keeps on piling up since her childhood. The life of Anu and Shakuntala goes on parallely in the movie and it seems like history is repeating itself. In all, it is a good movie and a must watch.
The story is about a child bride that grows into an enigmatic woman ruling over her household, hiding her painful past, as supernatural murders of men plague her village.
“Dear Bulbbul,
You taught us demons and witches are nothing but the demonic social practices in the patriarchal society and from the time we choose not to subdue to our fear, the demons we start winning and throwing challenges to them”
– Amrita Chakraborty
Our Views
Bulbul is a decent horror flick film which is very rare. It is not a perfect film, it’s very predictable and go-getting. The Bulbbul fits the physical description of the furious female spook of Indian folklore – beautiful, with long hair and feet twisted backwards. The story is from 1800’s and focuses mainly Bulbbul (Dimri), a free spirit who used to love climbing trees and plucking raw mangoes in her ‘maayka’, has to turn into an obedient wife to her much older husband Indranil (Bose), who lives in a big haveli, with his mentally challenged twin Mahendra (Bose again), Mahendra’s wife Binodini (Dam), and younger brother Satya. The plot revolves around a child bride married to a very elder Rahul Bose, grows and ends up ruling over a mansion. She experiences a painful sexual abuse and then leads to murders of evil men in her village. The names resemble very much with the famous Rabindranath Tagore’s “Chokher Bali”, the story is very different. Bulbbul focuses on the topics like child marriage,sexual abuse, domestic violence, murderand revenge and a beautiful way to depict them.
It shows the early era of all white attire widows with shaved heads and banished from the people of the village and forced to live in separate premises, the crisp dhutis and fabulous shawls of men, the horse carriage drawn by the servants. It is feminist, powerful and it shows the tale of a wronged woman told with a style and precision.
The movie starts with Kizie Basu played by Sanjana Sanghi and she narrates about her life in Jamshedpur and her thyroid cancer. And then comes the bubbly and extrovert Immanuel Rajkumar Junior played by Sushant Singh Rajput. Immanuel (Manny) has a false leg. He promises his friend JP that he will finish the film and release it if anything happens to him as he is suffering from eye cancer and has already lost one eye and could lose another eye too.
It starts with Manny nagging Kizie to work with him in a film with his friend JP and then that nagging turns to a friendship and then love. Kizie suggests to Manny a song which he initially hates but then he grows to love it. But the song is incomplete, they find the writer and to meet him they decide to go to Paris.
But before they could go Kizie’s health deteriorates and she is hospitalized. After that setback they go to Paris where they meet the writer, Abhimanyu Veer (Saif Ali Khan) but he couldn’t complete the song for them. In Paris, Manny confesses to Kizie that he has been detected with cancer and at last stage. It is very heartbreaking for Kizie.
They return back to India and Manny’s health starts taking a toll. He asks Kizie and JP to write eulogy for him while he’s alive so he could listen to them. Manny dies and leaves a letter for Kizie. It contains the complete song which with the help of Saif Ali Khan Manny leaves for Kizie
“Janam kab lena hai aur marna kab hai yeh hum decide nehi kar sakte, lekin kaise jeena hai woh toh hum decide kar sakte hai”
Our Views
Being the last movie of Sushant Singh Rajput and his fan following it is already a hit. And also the book already had catched a lot of teenage fans. I remember when I was young I read the book and was so much lovestruck with Augustus Waters and his personality. And I literally cried at the end of the book.
This movie catches and hits a part of your heart and leaves an impression. It is a combination of comedy and romance. It already has an IMBd rating of 10/10 on the first day itself.
At one point Manny tells Kizie that love makes everything okay. He then uses the word “Seri”, which confuses Kizie. She then asks him what the word “Seri” actually means. He then tells that “Seri” is actually a Tamil word that means ‘okay’. She then decides to make “Seri” their ‘secret word’, a word that will help them remember that everything will be okay in life.
“Seri, Kizie Basu?
Seri, Immanuel Rajkumar Junior”
This film gives a message to face death with a smiling face. In the end when JP and Kizie reads their eulogy for Manny that is the most emotional heart touching scene. And it leaves everyone tear eyed till the end. Manny will always be special to you and me, as it will be the last time we will see the stunning Sushant on screen, telling us a new story.
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