Movie Reviews

21 Bridges Story:   The manhunt for a pair of cop killers puts Manhattan on lockdown. 21 Bridges Review:   Andre Davis (Chadwick Boseman) is the NYPD detective tasked with the case of two criminals who kill several police officers during a drug heist. The deaths enrage an entire precinct, and the captain (J.K. Simmons) now has a bunch of trigger-happy cops thirsting for revenge. He decides to pair Andre with a DEA agent (Sienna Miller). But the incident also uncovers a conspiracy, and Andre doesn’t know whom to trust. He has just one night to solve the case and catch the killers before they escape the city of Manhattan. Chadwick Boseman’s rendition of Andre Davis is intense, and the actor has a commanding on-screen presence as well. He continues to display a lot of range in his acting repertoire to prove, yet again, why he deserves to be a leading man. J.K. Simmons is perfectly cast as Captain McKenna, who makes you really care about why the police deaths matter so much to him and

Story:   An out-of-luck youngster Raj Kishore (John Abraham) and his friends Junky (Arshad Warsi) and Chandu (Pulkit Samrat) are hired by gangsters Raja (Saurabh Shukla) and WiFi Bhai (Anil Kapoor) in a bid to recover their damages. But this is just the recipe for disaster that brings in more destruction. Review:   At one point in the film, John Abraham’s character Raj declares, “Zaroori nahi ki har cheez ka matlab ho.” This is perhaps the guiding light for the story, screenplay, dialogues and pretty much everything that goes on in Pagalpanti. The problem is not the fact that it is a slapstick comedy, but the fact that there’s little or no semblance of a coherent narrative. From the very first scene, the film is armed with loud action and dialogues trying to be funny, but far from that. And there are a lot of characters, one sillier than the other. While Anil Kapoor once again plays the flashy gangster with his trademark loudness, Arshad Warsi is the funny guy with witty one-lin

Motichoor Chaknachoor Cast: Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Athiya Shetty\ Director: Debamitra Biswal Stories of small-town domestic minutiae are currently the favourite subjects in our movies and Motichoor Chaknachoor follows the trend firmly. This time the premise is about Anita (Athiya Shetty) aka Annie whose deepest desire is to marry a guy living abroad so that she can give a fitting rebuttal to friends showing off their charmed lives on FB. Sounds like an issue plucked from our daily lives that signals delightfully funny possibilities right? And so the parade of potential grooms begins but the outcome on most occasions is not a happy one. Anita refuses many rishtas because the groom is not in a position to take her abroad. And then some of the reject her too. As the Chinese proverb goes, be careful what you wish for it may just come true, and so it does for Annie. As an answer to her prayers, enter Pushpinder Tyagi (Nawazuddin Siddiqui)-- the neighbour's son—who is

Story: Three criminals, serving a jail term for murder, are on the run.  They enter the house of ad filmmaker Rahul (Satyadev) and Vidya (Eesha Rebba), who are a married couple.  Much to their shock, the criminals find that Rahul has been murdered by Vidya.  On her part, Vidya is trying to hide her husband's death.   This is when she starts narrating her story to the criminals.  Rahul was a perverted husband who suspected that Vidya had an affair with Ganesh (Ganesh Venkatraman), her college friend.   The rest of the story is about what transpired between the husband-wife duo, how the criminals are tied to their story, and what role a cop (played by Srikanth) has in all this. Analysis: Some films don't take too long to reveal their brains (or the lack of a brain).  This one takes just 30 minutes to display its mediocrity.  Rahul, who is India's living legend (a character uses the word legendary to describe the ad filmmaker for real), refuses the proposal of

George Reddy is a film that many were waiting for eagerly as it is based on the life of George Reddy, the slain Osmania University Student Leader. Directed by Jeevan Reddy, this film was released today. Let’s see how it is. Story: George Reddy(Sandy) joins the Osmania University for his higher studies. There, he comes across many problems that the students are facing. He keeps quiet for a while but revolts after a particular incident. Seeing his courage, many in the campus support him and very soon, George becomes a hero. He starts fighting for the rights of the students and in all this, develops a lot of enemies. How did George Reddy deal with his enemies? What happened to him in the end? To know the answers, you need to watch the film on the big screen. Plus Points: The entire university set up is good as the bygone era has been recreated superbly. Sandy leads from the front and is superb in the role of George Reddy. His body language, screen presence, and dialogue delive

Adithya Varma Movie Synopsis:   The life of a brilliant doctor with anger management issues goes on a downward spiral after the love of his life gets married to another man. Can he redeem himself before it's too late? Adithya Varma Movie Review:   In the opening scene of Adithya Varma, we see an old woman (Leela Samson) talking about the obsessive nature of her grandson with pride to her friends. This scene gives an inkling into why Adithya Varma (Dhruv Vikram) is the man he is. His grandmother is just one among the people in his inner circle who have enabled his arrogant behaviour since childhood and turned him into the angry, rebellious, possessive and abusive young man who cannot take rejections. In his introduction scene, we see Adithya getting frisky with a young woman. But before they can have sex, the woman's fiance knocks on the door. While the woman, who had been a wilful participant until then, stops him, in a momentary fit, the enraged Adithya threatens her

About a decade ago, Noushad Ibrahim shone bright on stages across Kerala with his scintillating performance as ‘Thacholi Othenan’ in the eponymous play produced by Pookode Kalayalam. The play about the warrior from Kadathanadu was staged around 650 times over a couple of years. A well-written – by Jayan Thrirumana – and well-directed —by Manoj Narayanan — play, it is difficult to imagine if it would have been as effective without Noushad. One still recalls watching him transform into Othenan and bowling the full house over at the Town Hall in Kozhikode on a September night all those years ago. Noushad’s performance fetched him the Kerala Sangeetha Nataka Akademi's award for the best actor in 2009. He went on to enact more memorable roles in plays, like that of Mallan in   Nellu , all the while nursing another ambition - to make a film. That wish has now come true.   Odunnon , the feature film he directed is ready for release. “My original plan was to make a short