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ImMATURE
(2019)

Nice
The school-set show follows the travails of 16-year-old Dhruv, who faces hurdles big and small as he tries to get close to Chhavi, whom he has had on a crush on for years. His brothers-in-arms are his friends Kabir, who desperately wants to be a bad boy, and Susu, who is colourblind but doesn't know it.

The series has been created by Sameer Saxena (who directed TVF's Permanent Roomates and Yeh Meri Family). Prem Mistry is the director and Abhishek Yadav, Suprith Kundar and Nishaad Javeri are the writers. Omkar Kulkarni leads the cast as Dhruv. Rashmi Agdekar plays Chhavi and Chinmay Chandraunshuh and Visshesh Tiwari are Kabir and Susu.

Elden Ring
(2022)

Nice game
To set the stage, all you know from the outset is that you play as a "Tarnished" of no renown, blessed by grace, and are compelled to make the journey to The Lands Between and become an Elden Lord. What that actually means, how one might go about doing that, and what the deal is with that giant glowing golden tree are all things that you have to discover yourself. Like other FromSoft games, the grand story is hard to fully digest on a first playthrough, especially because there's no in-game journal to refresh you on the events, characters, or unique terms you encounter across dozens of hours. There really should be, but it is a story I nonetheless enjoyed trying to piece together for myself. I look forward to supplementing that knowledge with the inevitable painstakingly detailed lore videos that emerge from the community later.

Bajrangi Bhaijaan
(2015)

Nice to watch
Bajrangi Bhaijaan is Salman Khan's most daring film where Salman presents a beautiful performance - but allows the story to be the real dabangg. Pawan (Salman) aka 'Bajrangi' is a devout Shri Hanuman bhakt who meets a speech-impaired child (Harshaali) wandering alone, hungry and silent. Bajrangi decides to help the child, whom he calls Munni, return to her family - which is in Pakistan. Facing borders and biases, lacking a visa, called a spy, can Bajrangi get Munni home - and return to India himself?

With Bajrangi, you meet a whole new Salman - this is not the shirt-ripping, ab-flaunting, dialogue-maro-ing Khan but a simple, innocent and honest man, who fails, gets tricked and beaten up - but never shaken from his purpose. With gentleness and no gimmicks, Salman puts on a polished, luminous performance - and is matched by little Harshaali, whose vulnerability and warmth are amazing.

Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani
(2013)

Nice movie
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Yeh Jawaani Hai DeewaniUA31 May, 20132 hrs 41 minsHindi Romance 4.0/53.4/5Rate Movie 4 IIFA Awards INFOCAST & CREWMOVIE REVIEWAWARDSUSERS' REVIEWSNEWS Synopsis An alive, fresh vibe dominates Ayan Mukerji's Yeh Jaawani Hai Deewani invigorating you through it's entire run.

Cast & Crew

Ranbir KapoorActor

Deepika PadukoneActor

Aditya Roy KapurActor

Kalki KoechlinActor

Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani Movie Review TIMES OF INDIA The Times of India, TNN, Updated: Feb 9, 2016, 03.12 PM ISTCritic's Rating: 4.0/5 Story: Four friends take off for adventure sport and discover little-known personal aspects of one another. Years later they reunite and this time the equation is even more combustible.

Movie Review: Youth is a many splendoured thing. An alive, fresh vibe dominates Ayan Mukerji's Yeh Jaawani Hai Deewani invigorating you through it's entire run. The story is not novel, but the treatment is A-grade.

Ranbir Kapoor(Kabir Thapa aka Bunny), Deepika Padukone (Naina), Kalki Koechlin (Aditi) and Aditya Roy Kapur (Avi) go on a trek. While Bunny, Aditi and Avi have always been close, Naina, the staid, studious girl is a last minute addition to the group. The group just wants to live life king-size. Early enough in the film, Bunny announces-marriage at 25, children at 30, retirement at 50 and then waiting for death-is not how he sees his life playing out. He wants to travel the world, he wants to be free. Aditi and Avi share his thinking to a degree. But Naina is different. She is studying to be a doctor, believes in family and is a rooted young lady with traditional values.

Movie

The first half of the film is a fun-ride. Watching Madhuri Dixit do a ghagra number with Ranbir is a ceeti-moment. At intermission point, the film rightly leaves you yearning for more.

The first twenty minutes of the second half is mundane. But the action comes together again at Aditi's wedding. Against the backdrop of the big, fat Indian wedding in picturesque Udaipur, the friends unite for the festivities. But the chinks in the armour show by way of their mixed ideologies and changed priorities. Of course there's no battle big enough that friendship cannot surmount. So, between tears and cheers, Bunny, Naina, Aditi and Avi forge equations that are more real with one another and with the audience.

Ranbir is delectable and a true-blue superstar. This pedigreed actor dances like a dream, looks terrific and emotes effortlessly. Watch out for the scenes with his father Farooque Shaikh. Deepika is first-rate as is Kalki. Evelyn Sharma and Kunal Roy Kapur provide humour.

Dangal
(2016)

Superb movie
Aamir Khan has done it again. Dangal is the best film of the year. Without a shadow of doubt. This film is a thundering body slam of honest emotions and sheer hard work. Director Nitesh Tiwari's film has a firm grip on its narrative. It never falters, it always stays steady and sure footed like a pro wrestler. But the best part of the film is its subtle nod to true gender equality. Mahavir Singh Phogat's daughters Geeta and Babita have been depicted with the utmost respect. There's a constant dialogue about levelling the playing field for the girl child. And then you have the wrestling bouts which look like the real deal. Dangal is perfect in every sense of the word. Rarely do movies get so good.

Stree
(2018)

Nice one
Amar Kaushik's debut feature Stree and Sanal Kumar Sasidharan's much celebrated S Durga. Yet the most singular aspect about this week's release is its undertone that inverts the premise of S Durga while trying to score similar feminist points in a fun and fluffy way. With a mock-ironic touch it makes men go through the physical and mental trauma that women face in day-to-day life. A woman's fear, suffocation, lack of safety and constant degradation gets transposed to men. All of their own doing; disrespect for women after all, can only beget disrespect.

All these life lessons are offered in the guise of a horror-comedy. Tables are turned for four days a year during a religious festival when the men of Chanderi are unable to venture out in the dark, get advised by their wives and mothers to return home early and keep the doors and windows of the house locked and to not pay heed to stalkers and strangers. Sounds familiar, right? All the precautions owe to the potential danger of getting abducted by a mysterious female spirit who leaves only one clue behind - the clothes of the claimed men.

Sacred Games
(2018)

Worth to watch
All the episodes have something so unique that it's hard not to watch all of them back-to-back. After a long time, you get to see Saif Ali Khan, the actor and not the star. This is definitely his best performance in a no-nonsense role after a long time and he delivers on every front. Radhika Apte delivers as usual: realistic, believable performance. No doubt she's one of the best actresses we have in India. Nawazuddin... He has totally sunken his teeth and pumped life into the character of Gaitonde. Watch out for his emotional scenes and you'll be shocked by his excellence. Rest of the cast does it part extremely well.

Direction-wise, this series is splendid. Vikramaditya Motwane and Anurag Kashyap have done their part with perfection. Technically too, this series manages to impress given its not-so-grand scale. Dialogues have been written pretty well. Another round of applause for the action sequences; this series is loaded with intense action in every episode and every action sequence delivers white-knuckle fun.

Certain twists can come across as shocking, so be prepared. There is blood, sex, profanity etc everything which we could've never got to see as it is, had it been a theatrically released film. Sometimes the nudity aspect is overdone but it soon gets neglected with passage of time.

So if you want to see a powerful web series with plenty of story and loads of action, SACRED GAMES is just the right stuff for you. I watched this crime-action series just out of curiosity and now I will await its next season with a lot of excitement.

Kal Ho Naa Ho
(2003)

Superb
I don't think I've ever laughed so hard at a Bollywood film before. The dialogue, even with subtitles, is extremely clever and witty, which is hard to do when you have to read the words instead of just hear them. And the banter between the characters is quick and sharp, again, impressive considering you're reading everything. The first half of the movie is also very fast-paced, with the editing giving it the feel of an MTV video with quick cuts, different camera angles, and never letting the viewer get too settled in, which in this case is very nice. Most Bollywood films tend to slow down immediately, and you get rather bored after a while. Here, the first hour and a half flew by. What also made it work is that almost the entire film was shot earlier this year in New York, so the more American style fell in with the American setting.

The second half of the film, while still with the quirky visual style, fell back into more typical Bollywood. The twist is revealed, and the love triangle is played out, complete with the ever popular rain scenes (although this time, there was no song-and-dance routine in the rain), and the loud, banging gongs to signify a 'serious' situation. The second half will definitely appeal to the more traditional Bollywood fan, although for my tastes, it did fall off from the first half. What I did like though, was the fact that they still played up a lot more humor than I expected, continuing jokes from the first half, without casting them aside. Right up till the very end the characters were joking around with each other, so even though the movie got very serious and sad, it was still lighthearted enough to make it that much more interesting.

My Name Is Khan
(2010)

Fabulous movie
Khan is Rizvan Khan, who is on the road in a quest to meet the president of the U. S. to deliver this message: "My Name is Khan, and I am not a terrorist." In flashbacks beginning with his early life in India, where a doting mother helped nurture and give strength to a child (played well by Tanay Chheda) suffering from a form of autism, the film recounts its hero's journey up to this point.

A younger brother, who never felt as appreciated since he was a normal boy, emigrated to San Francisco and achieved success. Upon their mother's death, his older brother joins him but the two never really adjust to one another.

Against all odds - which more or less is the theme of most Bollywood stories - he woos and wins the love of a beautiful single mom (Kajol). Only one problem: She is Hindu. The brother cuts him off, but Khan basks in the love of his new bride and her young son.

Then Sept. 11 happens. The film pictures Americans as unable to tell the differences between Muslims and Hindus or Arabs and Indians. Which is not exactly wrong, when it comes to certain redneck elements, but locating these hatreds in left-leaning San Francisco demonstrates a certain lack of comprehension on the filmmakers' part as well. Perhaps they just liked the idea of cable cars in their movie.

So a somewhat predictable tragedy tears the new family apart. Worse, Khan's wife blames him of all people, an exasperating plot turn that lessens her as a character and makes no sense at any level.

The Hunger Games
(2012)

Very good movie
Like many science-fiction stories, "The Hunger Games" portrays a future that we're invited to read as a parable for the present. After the existing nations of North America are destroyed by catastrophe, a civilization named Panem rises from the ruins. It's ruled by a vast, wealthy Capitol inspired by the covers of countless sci-fi magazines and surrounded by 12 "districts" that are powerless satellites.

As the story opens, the annual ritual of the Hunger Games is beginning; each district must supply a "tribute" of a young woman and man, and these 24 finalists must fight to the death in a forested "arena" where hidden cameras capture every move.

Devdas
(2002)

Nice movie to watch
Sanjay Leela Bhansali's exquisite adaptation of Saratchandra Chatterjee's classic romantic tragedy leaves one with a feeling of elation and satiation. It confirms the director's faith in the power of the visual medium to create poetry out of melodrama and the audience's faith in Bhansali as one of the most gifted filmmakers mainstream Hindi cinema has produced.

Sanjay Leela Bhansali's labour of love Devdas is a larger-than-life, poignant and spectacular interpretation. Clearly Devdas is a work of art and heart. His penchant for colour, grandeur, heartbreak unspools throughout the film as it did previously in Khamoshi - The Musical and Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam.

The resplendent sets by Nitin Desai --- Paro's stained glass house before marriage, her towering mansion after marriage, Devdas' sprawling house, Chandramukhi's dazzling dance court, even the railway compartment --- are a treat to the eyes.

Ismail Darbar's rich compositions are mostly situation-based and aid the narrative. Thankfully, the music plays in the background and Devdas and Paro are not shown lip-syncing sweet nothings.

Tiger 3
(2023)

Nice movie
Nice movie to watch. And the action sequences were superb. Worth to watch for this diwali and deepam festival. Salman's acting was fabulous. The movie available with many languages as pan India movie. The lead actor's star power comes in handy, but Tiger 3 (like Pathaan and unlike War) is gender-agnostic. Katrina Kaif is allowed almost as much of the action as the invincible Tiger, whose death-defying feats return in the third instalment in a bigger and more brazen form. Latest Bollywood Reviews Regional Hollywood TV Web Series Photos Videos Trending Stories 1 World Cup Final: Deepika With Dad Prakash And Ranveer Fly Out To Ahmedabad 2 "Waiting For Them To Lift The Trophy": Salman-Katrina's Message To Team India 3 "You Gave Me My First Ever Hit": Abhishek's Tribute To Sanjay Gadhvi 4 When Ranbir Asked Rashmika To Choose Between Him And Vijay 5 Vignesh Shivan Wishes Wife Nayanthara Happy Birthday With A Famjam Pic 6 SRK Had This Much Fun With Anant-Radhika At Isha's Twins' Birthday Bash 7 Katrina And Kiara Lead Celeb Roll Call At Isha's Twins' Birthday Bash 8 Inside Anand Ahuja's Adorable Post With Wife Sonam Kapoor And Son Vayu 9 Seema Sajdeh's Son Yohan's Fan-Boy Moment With David Beckham 10 Kareena Kapoor's Post For Her "Hot Husband" Saif Ali Khan Is Everything View More Stories NewsMovie ReviewsTiger 3 Review: The Salman Khan-Katrina Kaif Show Stays On The Rails For The Most Part Tiger 3 Review: The Salman Khan-Katrina Kaif Show Stays On The Rails For The Most Part Tiger 3 Review: Katrina Kaif is allowed almost as much of the action as the invincible Tiger, whose death-defying feats return in the third instalment in a bigger and more brazen form.

ADVERTISEMENT Movie Reviews Saibal Chatterjee Updated: November 14, 2023 11:32 am IST RATING 2.5 Image was shared by Salman Khan. (Courtesy: beingsalmankhan)

New Delhi : It is overlong, overheated and over the top. But is that the end of the story. No. Who expects a Tiger to change his stripes? In his third outing as superspy Avinash Singh Rathore alias Tiger, Salman Khan, with aid of a story by producer Aditya Chopra and a screenplay from Shridhar Raghavan, proves that there is always a great deal of purchase from the spectacle of an irrepressible hero leaping off all kinds of perches and landing on his feet.

The lead actor's star power comes in handy, but Tiger 3 (like Pathaan and unlike War) is gender-agnostic. Katrina Kaif is allowed almost as much of the action as the invincible Tiger, whose death-defying feats return in the third instalment in a bigger and more brazen form.

By TaboolaSponsored Links Original Adidas Striped Men Black Track Suit With 75% Off Adidas India's Franchise Store It bears no repetition that the heroine, herself an agent with a mean streak, gets a major action sequence all to herself in a Turkish hamam attired in a towel as she goes head-to-head against a deadly Chinese agent and martial arts instructor (played by American stuntwoman-actress Michelle Lee). The two deliver loads of cool. If nothing else, the two spotless towels add an extra layer to the film.

The YRF spy universe is obviously not meant for those that look for realistic, close-to-the-bones espionage thrillers but for everyone else (whether you Salman and swag) there is a lot in here. For good measure, the villain in this film isn't just another scowling, growling Pakistani agent. He gives the hero a run for his money. The action in the first half of the film belongs more to the stunt doubles than to the two stars. In the second, things balance out and Salman and Katrina jump in - yes, jump is the operative word - and are joined by another superstar of the universe returning a favour that he received in his previous film of the thriving genre.

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