Showing posts with label Short Review. Show all posts
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Monday, December 29, 2014

Ugly | Short Review



एक कहानी जो बेहद आसान सी हो सकती थी... किसी का खोना और फिर धीरे धीरे मिल जाना, या मनमोहन देसाई नुमा फिल्म सा बड़ा होकर हीरो बन जाना...लेकिन हम अनुराग कश्यप को देख रहे हैं, सब कुछ सीधे सीधे नहीं होता न आसानी से. बहुत पहले ही हमें पता था की इस फिल्म की कहानी एक छोटी बच्ची के खोने की कहानी है....लेकिन कहानी इससे कहीं आगे की है... ये कहानी एक पुलिस अफसर की है जिसका दम्भ एक औरत को 'कीप' बनाता है, शारीरिक और मानसिक रूप से टॉर्चर करता है और जो अपने पास्ट में जी रहा है. एक औरत की है जो अपने प्रेमी के साथ भागने की गलती कर चुकी है और अपने एकतरफा-प्रेमी के साथ रह रही है. जो ज़िन्दगी से ज्यादा नशे में रहना पसंद करती है. एक असफल एक्टर की है जिसकी असफलता ने उसकी पर्सनल ज़िन्दगी बर्बाद कर दी. एक कमीने लड़के की है जो अपने बाप-बहिन को ठगने से नहीं डरता. एक दोस्त की है दोस्ती जिसकी जात नहीं है... और (साल्ले) सब के सब भावनाहीन और स्वकेंद्रित हैं. ये कहानी आज के महानगरीय समाज की है जो अंदर से सड़ा है लेकिन बाहर से बहुत सारा ताम-झाम लगा सुन्दर बनने की कोशिश कर रहा है. एक लड़की के गुम होने की चिंता न उसकी माँ को है, न उसके बाप को है (न शायद सौतेले बाप को ही ). सबके अपने अपने मकसद हैं और उसे पाने में जुटे हुए हैं. गुम लड़की का नाना जिस तरह अपनी जमा पूँजी लगाने को तैयार हो जाता है, और लड़की की माँ अपने ही बाप को ठगती है... ये ज़रूर दो पीढ़ियों के बीच का अंतर बताता है. शायद पीढ़ी दर पीढ़ी हम और भी कमीने होते जाने वाले हैं.... कभी न वापिस इंसान बनके आने के लिए.

अंत में मिली 10 साल को छोटी बच्ची की सड़ी हुई लाश हमारे अंदर के मरे हुए इंसान की लाश लगती है (सबके अंदर का इंसान कुछ कुछ मरा हुआ है, अपने अंदर भी ज़रा झांक के देखना.) और उसकी सड़ांध हमारे समाज की सड़ांध है. दीपक सौलंकी का लिखा अंत का गाना पूरी गाथा लगता है... और फिल्म का अंत देख सुन्न पड़े कानों में सच का शोर सा है.

अभिनय सबके लाजवाब हैं...लेकिन इंस्पेक्टर के रोल में गिरीश कुलकर्णी ने कमाल किया है.

Watch for Story, Acting, Anurag Kahyap.

Do not watch if you wanna miss year's one of best film.

My Rating: 83%

Tuesday, December 9, 2014

Fire In The Blood (2013) | Review

Medicine, monopoly and mass murder


Its a while since i  wrote any review here.. There is reason... My internet connection reached limit and we are surviving on KBPS speed. So, obvious that i am unable to watch any new movie. 'Fire in the Blood' was in my lappy since 2-3 months and as its a documentary so it took time to make mind to watch this film (or documentary whatever you say).
Its a documentary about AIDS-Drugs (ARVs ie AntiRetroViral Drugs) or more precisely about the battle between big pharma companies and global public health community. First AIDS drug was developed in 1963 (as Yusuf Hamied said ) but still in hands of big companies and due to high cost never reached pure Africans.
Documentary gives idea about, how big companies charging to much ($15000 per year) for ARVs since 1996 and poor Africans (and so south Americans and Asians/Indians) were forced to pay for that! 'The medicine to cure decease is where decease in not, and decease is where medicines are not!'
Yusuf Hamied an Indian and chairman of Cipla, (a man less famous than any outspoken Imam or RSS man in India ) helped global public health community by providing generic ARVs drugs for just $350 a year! at 45 times lesser prices!! Thanks to documentary, I got know about this great man!
Battle haven't ends here, government's laws in African country were not allowing generic drugs in the countries (influenced by US policies), but similar to declaring Anthrax as medical emergency in USA, here in Africa states started declaring AIDS as medical emergency and allowed generic drugs produced by Cipla.
Documentary ends at new discussion about regulations of TRIPS (Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights) and WTO's motives behind it.

* As of 2003 only 8000 people in Africa were able to get medicines of AIDS, after generic drugs, in 2010 8 Million people reached medicines.
* 85% of R&D on pharma sector is government funded (means, public-money funded). It means companies are investing less on developing new drugs and just earning!

Director/ Producer: Dylan Mohan Gray

Watch For : Many reasons.... To understand Global Public Health, To know struggle of people for medicine, Desmund Tutu, Yusuf Hamied, Zackie Achmat's efforts.

Do not Watch If : Its a must watch, there is no reasons to not watch it.

My Rating 100/100 (yeah, its 100%) !!!


"I was enraged as I watched, thinking of those years I spent as the Envoy, watching people die. [...] I rarely watch 'AIDS documentaries'; they're remarkably repetitive as a rule, largely uninspired and yielding almost nothing new. [Fire in the Blood] is in a wholly different category; a terrific, riveting documentary... dramatic, compelling, but most of all, wonderfully humane. [Gray is] a remarkably gifted documentary film-maker." 
-- Stephen Lewis (Former (2001–06) United Nations (UN) Special Envoy for HIV/AIDS in Africa)

Friday, November 28, 2014

Happy Ending | Review



Only reason to watch this film was ( even after critics declared it 'flop' ) its story. Its a story of a writer (best selling) who stop working coz he thought ki there is enough to enjoy so why should work! I thought, I ll gain something as writer but forgot that its a Krshna & Raj's film and they never add a single meaningful scene in their films.

Saif Ali Khan is in cool-guy avatar , is a single book wonder who is struggling to survive. Illeana D'cruz as new successful writer, who is enjoying her success. Govinda as typical bollywood hero, Ranvir Shorie as Biwi-se-Bachao character and Preity as Saif's ex GF, Kalki as Saif's current GF and Sif again as his alter ego Yogi. Overall cast is good and anyone can make a hit film from it except director duo. I don't know why they are here in film industry.

Illeana and Saif has common agent and they meet there. Saif gets new assignment as script writer for Govinda's film, hang out with Illeana and Ranvir and story goes on. Dialogue contain many urban dictionary words and few ma-bahen gali and sometimes make you laugh and sometimes you feel- why the fuck is gali is here.

Music is ok ok. None of the song will remain in your mind for so long.

Saif, Govinda and Ranvir did well, Illeana is good and looked bful. Preity is as always justified her small character.


Thursday, November 27, 2014

Lost in Translation (2003) | Short Review



Lost In Translation film is story of two american characters lost  in alien Japanese culture. But in addition, they are lost in their own lives and relationship. This leads to their blossoming friendship and growing connection with one other.

Bob Harris an aging actor, married for 25 years came to Tokyo to shoot advertisement for a good deal. Charlotte is just-graduated young wife of a celebrity photographer confused about her future. Both are alien to Japanese culture. They both meet in hotel bar and this leads to friendship. Bored due to his work, accepting offer from Charlotte, Harris spend quality time with Charlotte and her local friends. Many events happens and the affection between central characters increases. In the end Harris left from Tokyo sharing a kiss with Charlotte. (Watch it for the full story:P)

Film is directed by Sofia Coppola, daughter of very famous Francis Coppola (Director of The Godfather) and got Academy nomination for direction and won for original screenplay. So, screenplay is good, direction is also good. Music is the thing runs with the story. Some songs are very bful like 'too young', 'alone in Kyoto' 'are you awake?' Some scene from monastery, Kyoto and Harris-Charlotte kiss scene are bful and memorable.

This time I thought of writing a long review but this is kind of film where you end with explaining story.... so, keeping it simple ending here. Haan, Scarlett Johanssons as Charlotte looked very bful and Harris has a very good sense of humour.

Watch if you want to watch a simple-go story. for Sofia's direction. for Bill Murray's acting (as Harris).

Do not watch if you do not like simple-go stories. 

My Rating: 84%

Wednesday, November 26, 2014

Mulholland Drive (2001) | Short Review



Some films need to watch more than one to understand them, Mulholland Drive is one of those. A experimental mystery-film by Director David Lynch Mulholland Drive have Naomi 
watts as main lead. Music is a plus point as director himself has a good taste of music and screenplay is a plus point, may be coz of interest of director in literature. 

Story starts with and accident at Mulholland Drive in Los Angeles with character (Harring) survived from accident but lost her memory...... rest of the story im not telling here coz anyone can read from Wikipedia.....

Last half an hour of film is crucial.... you need to watch carefully to understand the story. The scene in opera is little pakau still need to watch... its a main part of the story... first i skipped it and later realized its importance.

Few scenes are very good in the film... the innocence on Watts's face is watchable. She looked bful as usual.

The first film i watched starring Laura Harring. She is bful and justified her character. 

Watch if you want to watch a different film. for Naomi Watts.

Do not watch if you don't want to take  headache of understanding story or if you don't like a mystery film. 

My Rating 83%

Tuesday, November 25, 2014

Prometheus (2012) | Short Review



In 2012 I thought of watching this film, when it was over hyped and people watched it again and again but after almost 27 months I got the chance to watch it. Prometheus is some kind of different film for Indians but a normal sci-fi for people there is USA. I don't understand why people  (at least Hollywood) there searching for origin of HUMAN, even Darwin 150 years back already said, we are derived from monkeys. This is one of same kind of story where Human in future (in 2089) found some evidence in Scotland and by logic combined it with approx same findings from other places of ancient civilizations got result that human came from a planet of another solar system having same conditions like earth! Finally in 2090s they reach that planet with one extra-smart human-like robot ( Michael Fassbender as David ). This was a privately funded mission by an about-to-die old billionaire Mr. Vickers who supposed to be dead.


So many things happened on that planet to run  the story ( like aliens DNA matched 100% from human! ) and finally they found that one alien is alive inside 'tomb'. Now surprisingly people found that, Mr. Vickers is alive and came here to get more life by requesting it from alien (So, It was a avarice of a billionaire to buy more years!). Atleast lead scientist of mission Ms. Shaw had logical query- 'Why they created us?' 


Story ends at killing that alien with 'tomb' (that was a plane actually), because they got to know ki alien's plan was to kill earth! Shaw revived injured robot and flied to aliens-real-land with another query- 'Why first they created than want to destroy us?' with possibility of another part.


So, there is story in the film but lacks in logic. As usual they came with good graphics and i think there would be good 3D effects. Music is average script is normal. 


Overall a watchable film at least for US kids coz they don't have fictions like Ramayana, Mahabharata or Jatakas.


Watch For Noomi Rapace and Michael Fassbender


Do not watch if you are fed up of alien-formula of Hollywood.


My Rating 74%

Saturday, November 22, 2014

Her (2013) | Short Review




I searched for top 10 sci-fi films of 21st century and 'Her' was on no. 3 in the list after Nolan's Inception and Interstellar. After watching it with expectations I can say, its just a watchable film with lengthy-boring conversations between a lonely guy and a voice of a Artificial Intelligent Operating System (AI-OS). 

A lonely guy getting divorce falls in love with newly designed AI-OS of his computer and even ignored real people around him, This leads to long conversations between guy and OS. Story is quite new and the issue related to AI was untouched, this makes this film different than any other sci-fi film.

" The heart is not like a box that gets filled up; it expands in size the more you love. I'm different from you. This doesn't make me love you any less. It actually makes me love you more."
     -Samantha

Watch for Story, Scarlett Johansson's sexy voice, Music and Rotten Tomato rating ie 94% 

Do not Watch if you don't like Joaquin Phoenix's acting/face coz you are going to watch this single face for next 126 minutes!, Lengthy conversations, weak acting

My Rating: 66%

Wednesday, November 12, 2014

Interstellar | Short Review



Christopher Nolan's name is enough to watch any film but 'Interstellar' is his best work so far.

Interstellar is a brilliant film talk about human fear, survival, things beyond 3rd dimensions. Idea of 'warm holes', possibility of black holes and things under holes, time shift phenomenon, gravity-time dimension relations and about strongest human emotion- Love. Love of a father to his daughter. Love and hope of a girl (Amelia Brand) for a dead astronaut and Love of a old-man for his race; for that he put everything on stake. Including his daughter, his prestige... everything, and faked one unsolved thing (equation) for 40 years!

If you have little interest in astronomy/ cosmology/ string theory/ or just sky then this film is more than just-a-film for you.

“May be we've spent too long trying to figure all this out with theory. Love is the one thing that transcends time and space.”
-Amelia Brand

Suggestion: Watch 1968 released '2001: the Space Odyssey' before watching 'Interstellar'. You will be able to compare the development in cinema, cinema technology; Development in physics/astronomy and most important the development of human fear.

My Rating: 96%