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Sacred Games
(2018)

Masterpiece from Phantom House
Phantom Films has always ensured to come up with quality contents and when you see two main pillars of Phantom Kashyap and Vikramadhithya come together in a single project with killer casting like Nawazzudhin Siddique, Saif and Radhika Apte then that is something not be missed and yes Sacred Games turned out to be on of the best series in recent times, raw, rustic, stylised series moving with an alternate flow of Bombay and Mumbai makes an extraordinary watch.

Godhi Banna Sadharana Mykattu
(2016)

Powerfully scripted craft
''Godhi Banna Sadharna Maikattu'' is one such movie among some recent releases that succeeded in gaining attention of a viewers and has all the potentiality to be remembered for very long time and attain cult status in future, what makes this movie class? and if you miss watching this you going to miss that nonpareil performance by AnantNag, people will remember this movie for his touchy and very much involved performance, no doubt AnantNag has attained cult status with his classy performances but with this act he will be remembered and praised by the present generation and the generations yet to come, Rakshith Shetty with his simple performance showcased his smooth character transition very effectively, from being careless and arrogant to the loving and caring son, his effortless though powerful rendition of an act shows his acting talent, Shruthi Harihran gave her best performance till the date, Achuta Kumar is another power packed performer that one must not miss to watch out, Vasishta Simha deserves the special applaud for his brilliant performance, his intense voice and mannerism, terrific act and overall he showed very good traits of being an awesome actor.

GBSM is one such powerfully scripted craft with pleasing lyrics and emotionally intense dialogues, with impressive cinematography and editing with proper syncing music the entire movie is one wonderful visual audio treat, another part to be specially mentioned and to be appreciated is the music, Charan Raj who dared to come out from conventional music flow and composed some soulful music that one will remember for long, Charanraj is a fantastic composer on whom Kannada audience could count on, Hemanth M Rao did an amazing work as a debutant, with his such a masterclass work in a reference no doubt his upcoming work will be most sought out by all those Kannada movie aficionados, Thank you Pushkara Mallikarjunaiah for supporting this beautiful work and giving such classy movie to KFI, GBSM is one good family entertainer that makes you to walk out of the theater with very emotional and sensible thoughts.

U Turn
(2016)

'Lucia' Director Pawan Kumar is back with new mystery thriller
'Lucia' Director Pawan Kumar is back with new mystery thriller cinema 'U-Turn', with its surpassing trailer and regular updates in social networking sites created good expectations among audience, Pawan Kumar is well known for creating lively characters with no much strain involved, including this new release and his previous movies he proved again that he is an expert screenplay writer, with neat presentation and edge of the seat thriller 'U-Turn' marks as the must watch movie of this month.

The best part of 'U-Turn' is its timely and funky BGMs, music given by Poornachandra Tejaswi carries the audience in the proper tone and succeeds in holding the audience in its phase, and cinematography team did the tremendous job, including Siddarth Nuni who previously held camera in Lucia along with Satya Hegde, Advaith Gurmurthy, especially the oner or the long take taken in the police station is handled very perfectly and neatly crisped later on the desk, Pawan Kumar's poetic and metaphorical usage is the plus point to the movie flow, that enhances the intensity of the character and the plot, U-Turn is one technically excellent movie among some recent releases, Pawan Kumar and team is an inspiration in making a quality movie in a very modest budget.

Shraddha Srinath performed very well who in preparing an article for a newspaper get entailed in series of murder mystery, Dilip Raj rendered his modest performance, Roger Narayan is a person who deserves appreciation for his finest acting, his screen presence and dialogue presenting are very unique, Radhika Chetan has improved very well in her performance compared to her previous work, as the mystery unlocks excitement on the plot also exceeds its height, Pawan Kumar is a new David Fincher in presenting such mystery thrillers in very effective manner and an unconventional film maker who dares to give a try in presenting story in a different way.

Wazir
(2016)

Best Casting
When two acting experts who had marked their name by setting milestones and redefining the acting in their own way are bought together to play two pivotal roles, it just adds extra fun to the flow, when the casting is made well then the half work is done, 2016 release 'Wazir' has perfect casting and its beautifully narrated movie that keep its viewers seated till the credit flow, with strong stiffen plot along with powerful characters this movie holds back its viewers and indulge them in the flow, though the plot seems bit obvious it upholds the quality by presenting the story along with play of chess which runs like a metaphor, the brilliance of blending the symbol with the plot gains extra standard shade to the flick.

Amitab Bachchan with his acting excellence presents himself as a full fledged quality performer, his character filled with pain, brilliance, mystery and with slight touch of fun creates a mark on viewers, Farhan Akthar as an ATS officer renders his best acting, his serious and tough shaded role suits him perfectly, John Abraham cameo has good prominence in the flow, Neil Nitin Mukesh with the dark shade tremendously presents himself, Aditi Rao Hydari with her strong performance fills the intensity of the flow, Farhan and Aditi chemistry worked very well, intense BGM glorifies the suspense of the plot and tunes the scene perfectly, editing is very sharp and crispier, director Bejoy Nambiar handled the work very perfectly and his attempt of combining two good actors worked very well.

Overall 'Wazir' is a worth watch with exemplary casting and powerful plot that for sure never disappoints the thriller movie fans, not too exaggerated with perfect start and proper end film seems very well made.

Bajirao Mastani
(2015)

Brilliant Art Work
Historical drama movies can easily get connected with the viewers because of its pre known facts about the events and personalities, the excitement to watch those characters on screen rise the curiosity among the viewers, if any director planning to make a movie with much vibrant colors, extravagant sets and wonderful music, dance then obviously the storyline with historical touch would be the good selection, Sanjay Leela Bhansali well known for his colorful movie presentation and lavish sets is back again with his typical film making style, ''Bajirao Mastani'' is the mirror held to this 'art' director's work.

"Bajirao Mastani'' narrates the story of a Maratha warrior and covers his act of valor and bravery in a soon start and focuses much on Bajirao and Mastani's relationship and the remaining plot revolves around the further building situations, Ranveer Singh with his carrier defining performance bewitches the viewers and gave a try in getting into a new form from his typical image, but he never missed in enchanting his typical charm in even such historical role, Deepika looks amazing and gave her wonderful act as Mastani, she provides full justice to her role, whether it might be in showing off soft side and affectionate part of the role or getting into the rhythm of actions and fights, she has given her best, Priyanka seems much convincing as Kashibhai, as it was much challenging and quite tricky role, she is to be appreciated for her tremendous acting.

Mr. Director Bhasali with his grandeur story narration bought another beautiful work on screen, every frame is a piece of art and a grand viewing treat to the audience, it might be the scene of showing Peshwa's glory in wars or presenting the emotions through dance and music he does it wonderfully, importance were given to each and every peculiar aspects in the frame, music are very good and syncs so perfectly with every frames, cinematography by Sudeep Chatterji is marvelous, dialogues and the character presentation on screen are honorable points of this colorful art.

Rathaavara
(2015)

Good attempt
''Rathaavara'' the most anticipated movie of the year, Sri Murali's roaring come back in his previous flick and Ravishankar in an antagonist role hiked the viewers expectations on this new release, seemingly convincing invitation with its crispy trailers and posters raised the level of curiosity among the viewers, no doubt you expect the rush of crowd into the theatres.

To speak about the casting, director had made a proper choice with hand-picked performers to play a toned role filled with aggression and rebel, no doubt that movie will raise viewers pulse with its powerful execution and protagonist's tremendous mannerism, Sri Murali tries to maintain his image and energy for once he is famed with, he steals the show with all his vigour and striking screen presence, Ravishankar a person to be appreciated for his terrific villainous look and tremendous performance, Rachitha Ram has good appearance but fail to create charm with her acting, her average and over acting seems bit irksome, Chikkanna with his comedic and best buddy shade makes convincing presence, almost every supporting actors provided good justice to their role.

Astounding Cinematography by Bhuvan Gowda and remarkable music and BGM by Dharma Vish and Ravi Basrur are the highlights, mass settings and choreography are some adding bonus to the viewers, with all these extra enhanced elements but poor script and repeating dialogues story seems like bit dragging, added comedy scenes in the flow screening Sadhu Kokila are very annoying and unnecessary, ''Rathaavara'' has quite different storyline with all those prodigious and powerful execution but seems like quite below average direction.

(500) Days of Summer
(2009)

Soft and beautiful narrative flow
''Before you uninstall any software from your system even it ask you the reason for your action and when all of a sudden a girl avoids you and says things are changing between us and I am not sure about our relationship, this leaves a boy in confusion, he deserves the answer and by recalling the days he spent with her, begins his try to figure out their awful change in relationship that made him loose his ardour'' very simple storyline with effective presentation and intense performance 2009's coming of age romantic drama ''500 Days of Summer'' surely leave a mark.

''Coincidences, that's all anything ever is, Tom had finally learnt there are no miracles, there's no such thing as fate, nothing is meant to be…'' the dialogues, narration and the intensity of the frame to frame presence pulls us totally into its flow, Joseph Gordon Levitt with his ardent performance as happy go lover boy and with an intense pathos shades steals the show, he casts the charm with his tremendous acting abilities, Zooey with her calm, simple performance gains the attention and mark her stand as a good actress.

Non-linear narration of the story and unique try in framing and presentation especially the frame of distinguishing reality from expectations are some honourable attempt that gains special attention, beautiful syncing background music are adding marks for its soft and realistic narrative flow.

Tamasha
(2015)

When experts come together there creates a miracle
Passion or Profession, follow your dream or have a piety job, the outer you or real you? These are some general conflicts seen among the youth in the phase of framing their carrier, doing a job that pays you good amount of money so you be its slave and work like a robot in the same time loop or just explore yourself, unveil the actual you within and find your passion and go in filling colors to your dreams, this beautiful message has been wonderfully portrayed with master class visualizing and tremendous performance in Imtiaz Ali's Directorial masterwork ''Tamasha''

When the team of expertise come together there creates a miracle, this is what happened with ''Tamasha'' beautiful storyteller Imtiaz Ali a person having good clarity regarding his craft as a captain carried out the plot in very intensely touchy way, his presentation of the content with artistic complexity and visual allure succeeds in building wonderful connection with its viewers, whether it is in selecting pleasant location for a shoot or else creating a striking sets, he always does it good, Imtiaz Ali knows the shade of his story and pulse of the viewers he always makes the perfect planning in binding the viewers with his intense storyline that creates a wonderful reverie, an extremely talented and a versatile actor Ranbeer Kappor provides full justice in igniting the role with life, his amazing double shade performance proves his acting endowment, Deepika impresses viewers with her lively performance, her intense acting shows her commitment to her role, every supporting castings are very perfectly made.

Music is another mentionable element of this wonderful work; the Maestro A R Rahaman has rendered some touchy tones that wonderfully intensifies the frame to frame presentations, lyrics by Irshad Kamil adds extra fuel to the music phase that elevates the movie watching flow, mesmerizing camera work is like a visual treat to the audience, movie has been beautifully layered and upholds the editing perfection, ''Tamasha is not a conventional love story, it moves beyond and make you get involved in the beautiful world of inner conflicts and way to come out from it with flying colors.

The Sixth Sense
(1999)

Brilliant making
Psychological horror flicks comes with exiting, thrilling plots with unexpected twists and surprises, the best part of these genre is that it never make its viewers to get diverted from the screen until credits flows on at last, the movie that seems to be running very normally with a linear presentation where viewers move with the plot being clueless about what happens next and all of a sudden the entire plot and shades turn off and gives you the surprising twist, leaving you astonished.

1999 Thriller ''The Sixth Sense'' is one such brilliant work on supernatural theme with wonderful twist is a worth watch for all those thriller and horror movie lovers, M Night Shyamalan showcased his ingenious film making talent with beautiful script that moves on in very simple and silent flow and he sets the mark of his unique movie presentation, Haley Joel Osment has done a tremendous job playing Cole a boy who is able to look at the dead people and believes that they want to accomplish their unfinished task through him, his naturalistic and full fledged performance depicts his acting brilliance, Bruce Wills well known for his action shades in most of the movies is also well presented himself as sympathetic psychologist and loving husband, this image makeover helped Wills to show his hidden acting potentiality.

''The Sixth Sense'' is one best script ever written and proves to be the standard Supernatural thrillers of all time.

Minority Report
(2002)

Best Film by the Best team
The advance technology where force of people who could foresee the future of crime and succeed in stopping it happen, this resulting in preventing the crime rate and dropping the case files to the drastic low level making city free from dark crimes, whether such wonderful imagination would become practically possible in reality or not but the story with such an amazing concept would rock the screen and defiantly has all the potentiality of giving a good sci-fi thrills.

2002 release ''Minority Report'' is a sci-fi masterpiece that narrates a story set in a near future surrounding around the character John Anderton where he is supposed to tackle various hurdles to get himself clean which leads to unravel the bitter dirty truth of some higher conspiracy, a movie with such a sophisticated plot would have just ruined if it wasn't handled perfectly, but when the master director Steven Spielberg is a person behind the work then anyone could expect the well crafted and beautifully presented movie in front of you, his directorial mastery is seen as the movie builds up and could see beauty in every bit of frame, when a perfect syncing actor joins this team then there is a miracle happening, Tom Cruise is made for John Anderton's character.

Beautiful camera work, precise editing and stunning VFX with those typical Hollywood sci-fi background tracks it serves as the best presentation by the best team.

Gone Baby Gone
(2007)

Mastery Direction
Mystery thrillers with its lots of turns and twists and edge of the seat elements keep its viewers stick to their chair until the mystery unveils, there is no chance of getting distracted in between the flow because of its transfixed contents, 2007 release investigative mystery thriller ''Gone Baby Gone'' is one such kind of good movie that astonishes the viewers with its enthrall storyline which gives you the roller costar experience with its unexpected twists and turns.

Ben Affleck well known for his mesmerizing and naturalistic performances, this cinematic genius is well perfect when it also comes to the work behind the screen, he proved himself to be the good director by presenting his first movie as a director in very mastery way, this movie is to be specially appreciated for its curious and particularly much naturalistic presentation, we never find any kind of over or exaggerated performance by any of the actors, Casey Affleck as a private detective Patrick Kenzie performed very well and he succeeds in beguiling the viewers with his ideal performance, Amy Ryan and Ed Harris are other two actors to be appreciated for executing their roles in perfect manner.

Technically this movie is well presented and could observe the brilliance in Cinematography, editing and especially the screenplay; such a beautiful mystery tale from an award winning screen writer really is like adding extra wining feather to his hat.

The Machinist
(2004)

Extraordinary Performance
To what extent does the fever of acting could take an actor, doing variety roles, breaking all stereotypes on sets to get into the character, appearance makeover, daredevil stunts whatever it is they do that to provide justice to their assigned role that shows their dedication and commitment to their profession that makes them unique among the masses and gains special recognition, here is an actor who went skinny down from being 173 pounds to about 110 pounds to fit into the character, Christian Bale well known for his acting versatility went to the extreme level for 2004 flick ''The Machinist'' and proved his dedication to the cinema.

This psychological thriller has good plot to present, though it seems having very sophisticated screenplay its non tedious and curious plot building makes its viewers to sit with full alert and making them exited as 'Trevor' goes in search of finding the cause and unveiling the bothering devil within, the typical haunting thriller background scores and frame to frame intensity of the scenes adds some plus points to the winning scores, ''The Machinist'' is to be viewed to watch its unusual storyline and for Christian Bale's extraordinary performance.

Fruitvale Station
(2013)

Powerful movie by a débutante
January 1st 2009 World was rejoicing in welcoming the new year but it was not a happy day to Oscar Grant who was brutally hurt and shot by Police officer in Fruitvale Station, California, this incident was captured in many cell phones and went viral in social media igniting the huge protest against Police brutality, this gained huge media converge and raised the sentimental voice in getting justice to Oscar Grant's unfair death.

Ryan Coogler took up this incident and made it into movie, 2013 release '' Fruitvale Station'' is a powerful presentation of Oscar Grant's last days and emotional narration of his connection with his family, Ryan Coogler as a débutant through this heart touching work gave a best reliable expectation on his next works, Michael Jordan as Oscar Grant presented himself so effectively and succeeds in fueling the life into the character, his simple and naturalistic performance is appreciable, the storyline that focuses especially the softer side of Oscar Grant that takes the soothing narration and reaches the terrifying end, scenes like Oscar with his daughter and mother are effectively framed and presents good emotional values.

The Butterfly Effect
(2004)

Surprising, exciting and beautiful
What if you had a chance of going back to your past and getting things right which had actually been messed up and had effected the day that you are presently living on? seems very interesting but, hold on your excitement, whatever the expected change you wanted to make may change the consequence of your present living and totally may alter your life events, bit frightening uh? Something like welcoming the unexpected in course of correcting the things, this is the one line plot of 2004 psychological thriller ''Butterfly Effect''.

With such an exciting and interesting plot movie surely hold its audience on edge of the seat with its non linear presentation and unique theme, this time travel, time loop has always been the favorite sci-fi topic that drags the viewers and could easily makes them to get with its flow, Ashton Kutcher with his crucial role succeeds in taking the plot in very appealing manner that convinces the viewers, it might be the frame of action, romance or confusion, this guy rendered perfect performance, its Amy Smart who deserves the appreciation for being depicted in different shades, bringing up the modest, rage, distorted and also loving girl in all one single flick helped her to show off her acting abilities.

Technically movie wins with its screenplay, theme and especially for its sensible twisting plots and timely background tracks, overall this movie never disappoints those sci-fi fans who love the theme of time travel and time loop.

Main Aur Charles
(2015)

Good Making
Dark Crime Drama that narrates the cruel and dark side of crime world or crime personalities has always been the fascinating subject of many Bollywood filmmakers and when the plan of making the movie on extremely infamous hiked psychopath who is known by his notorious serial murders and presenting himself stylishly in the delusion of being a celebrity comes in focus then its sure to be made into movie, 2015 release '' Main Aur Charles'' is based on the most spoken criminal of 1970's Charles Shobraj, his life which is not less than any thrillers on screen when made into movie obviously strikes the height of curiosity among the viewers.

Randeep Hooda in the shoes of Charles presented himself very perfectly with all those quirky style and suiting accents provided full justice to the role, a good role for an actor to prove his acting brilliance, Adil Hussain as an Inspector Amodh Kanth convince the audience with his ideal performance, in the team that had more good artists like Richa Chadda, Tisca Chopra and many more rendered their good act on screen, the flow of the movie which has non linear mode with slow phase narrative pattern seems to be much sober, movie with its timely perfect background scores hits the absolute pulse of the viewers, Prawaal Raman an ambitious director with his good narrative skills showcased his high class directorial talent, overall ''Main Aur Charles'' is more like the stylish representation of 1970's most hiked criminal 'The Serpant'.

Dallas Buyers Club
(2013)

Dedicative Performance
"The try for self survival then turn on to be the light to various other sufferers, there where lies the actual purpose of surviving'' – 2013 release biographical drama "Dallas Buyer Club'' is about Ron Woodroof who was told that at the max he may survive for next 30 days after being diagnosed with HIV, but his pursuit for survival took him in finding various alternative drugs to overcome his AIDS symptoms and improve his living in midst of various legal barriers, when he find relief in using them he begin to suggest and sell those unapproved drugs to other patients under Dallas Buyer Club, which takes him to have a legal fight against FDA, at last Ron dies seven years after being diagnosed with virus.

The all and all credits go to Matthew McConaughey and Jared Leto for their fabulous performance, both underwent drastic physical transformation to get into the roles, Matthew as Ron Woodroof a cowboy depicted so perfectly that he surely astonishes the viewers with his dedicated performance which bought him Academy Award for Best Actor, Jared Leto another person to be appreciated who played a transgender role and underwent drastic body altering along with so precisely perfectionist acting to which he deserved Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.

Overall this movie is full of life and the pursuit for survival with good presentation flow and technical brilliance.

TVF Pitchers
(2015)

Excellent
''If you want to recognize yourself special among many do something different or do things in different way'', this line perfectly suits those dedicated team who are working to give something interesting contents to Indian audience and this phrase can also relate to the plot of the story that this team made, it's all about 2015's viral Web series ''TVF Pitcher'', these group of people completely changed the perspective of Indian TV Drama Series, totally elevated, relevant and intellectual content presented in very sensible and perfect way.

All credits to Arunabh Kumar 'CEO' of TVF Lab who developed such a beautiful content and being responsible in gathering the best team to create best series, the response that these 5 Episode series received is of tremendous, ranking #21 in IMDb's best 250 TV Series to being hard favorite of Indian youths, the characters in this series are so well sculpted and casting are made so wonderfully that never miss to create an impression on viewers.

Speaking about technical part, the camera work showcased throughout entire series uphold the excellence of the team, Biswapathi Sarkar a man behind giving an exact shape to this work is a person to be admired, this series made way to the new possibilities of reaching people and proved that all such inspirational and innovative series always has the support of Indian audience irrespective of the medium it is being telecasted  .

Rain Man
(1988)

Sentimental, fun and modest
There are some movies that make you emotional, makes you think and to the greater extent it may also influence on one to change his attitude on some aspects, there are some characters which are filled with modesty, sympathy, humbleness that makes the audience to easily get along with the story and makes to fall in love with them, 1988 Drama 'Rain Man' is one such movie that truly make its viewers emotional with its essence of compassion and brotherhood along with unforgettable characters like Ray and Charlie.

Director Barry Levinson's extraordinary story telling abilities and along with perfect casting for the characters made this work a masterpiece, the phase where Charlie's role played by Tom Cruise being selfish, arrogant and rough man gradually turns out to be the loving and caring brother is so well presented, Tom Cruise's acting skills made him to play such a transforming character that has to show double shades, Dustin Hoffman as an autistic genius makes every viewers to fall in love with the character Ray played by him which is filled with modesty, brilliance and fun, he truly deserved the Oscar trophy for his magnificent performance.

Technically screenplay is the prominent highlighting factor in the movie that has very soft flow and appealing narrative line, camera and locations adds extra points to its beauty, overall Rain Man makes you feel happy and makes you emotional with its modesty charm.

The Walk
(2015)

Excellent !
Biographical Drama are always inspiring, exiting, motivating and guiding, this genre has been film makers favorite from very long time, such lively themes has that power to catch hold the viewers till the credit lines flow on screen, the beauty of biographical drama is that people rush to watch it with full of curiosity, what if the movie is made on the person who lead his life full of adventures, 2015 release 'The Walk' is about the high wire artist Phillip Patit who decided to do daredevil, crazy walk between WTC Twin tower, New York.

Robert Zemeckis is the best storyteller and the plot like this could truly bloom with beauty from his hands, his directorial mastery enhanced the viewing experience, the credit of brilliant visual effects and narrative presentation of the story in non strenuous way goes to Mr. Director, Joseph Gordon Levitt an actual hero with his perfectly toned French accent and tremendous performance cast his charm over audience, he provided full justice to the role, his acting in the shoes of Phillip Patit added him to those mastery level acting list, Ben Kingsley as Phillip's Guru as always showcased his perfect acting abilities, amazing camera work and usage of some classical tones as BGM added extra colors to this movie canvas, 'The Walk' is the must watch piece of work for all those adventure lovers.

Chappie
(2015)

Good Attempt
What happens when robots gain consciousness, and able to interpret emotions and behave like the humans, we have seen many movies on the robots in the force and things gets messy when its creator come to know that they are gaining control over them and then there you see the war between the robots and its maker, this seems so obvious in most of the movies where robots are in the lead but, 2015 release 'Chappie' is quite different and truly makes you to like that robot as much as you get to know about it in its phase of growing or you can call it as evolving/adapting whatever!

This science fiction is bit out of the box concept that has a good subject to present with, the best part of this flick is the way how that character Chappie is been crafted, as it gains its human cognitive abilities by its master and gradually try to get along with human behaviour and try to adapt all those new skills, practices that it is exposed to, the designing of Chappie is very much exiting the artificial intelligence and consciousness transformation all these aspects are the relevant subjects in discussions, this movie wins in its proper executing of such sophisticated concept in very appealing way, plot could had been bit more modified but fine to level.

Performance wise Dev Patel steals the show with his spellbind acting abilities, all the way in the movie he never seems to be weakened, Hugh Jackman as a bad man, tough guy seems appealing, overall its fun Chappie makes you laugh, makes you cry and totally holds you in that flow.

Taxi Driver
(1976)

Masterpiece on madness
The genre neo noir which came into force around 1950's has that special unique style of presentation that intensifies each and every scene on screen, the camera usage, the flow, the mysterious portrayal of the characters, unique props usage each and every thing in such flick gives the special flow to the movie, Martin Scorsese could be called as the master in creating neo noir, his 1976's all time best 'Taxi Driver' is the best example for his movie proficiency.

The role Travis Bickle in 'Taxi Driver' is once in the life time role and the perfect casting by Scorsese enhanced the quality of the entire movie into total next level, Robert De Niro an actor endowed with tremendous acting abilities got a good chance to show what he was capable of, that style, mannerism, dialogues, image that presented through Travis Bickle by Scorsese remain as all time unforgettable paragon, the phase of transformation of this insomniac, frustrated taxi driver character from being modest day bread earner to the insane, lunatic killer is fabulous, when the proper film maker and an actor with enormous dedication to his craft meet together then only such master class character is able to form.

The technical aspects like the camera flow and the synching music enhances the intensity of each and every frame, the epic line like 'you talking to me?' and those seriously hilarious line like 'I'm waiting for the sun' adds extra punch to the character, the mannerism and the style speaks lot than the plot, overall it is the must watch masterpiece.

RangiTaranga
(2015)

New Hope in Kannada Cinema
''RangiTaranga'' the Magnum Opus by extremely talented crew proved that Kannada Cinema has that potentiality to go beyond those stereotypical movie formula and win the audience heart, this piece of work never seems to be as the work of the débutante where there is sheer perfectionism and the ensemble artistic elements.

RangiTaranga is one among those movies that elevate the standard of an entire cinema industry and makes its viewers feel proud of their nativity, this movie has very beautiful narrative pattern and brings its audiences into its flow without any strain, mesmerizing cinematography by Lace Kaplin and William David makes every frame as the work of an art, another plus point of this flick is the fantastic BGM by Ajaneesh Loknath that enhances the intensity of the visuals and totally elevate the experience of viewing, technically it's the best among very few movies that made its mark in 'Kannada Cinema Rang', Anup Bhandari as the captain of the team had rendered his work so precisely and had showed all the possible quality of being the tremendous director that one could rely on giving good works, such a fabulous start had also increased the responsibility of giving good movies on Mr. Director, lyrics and typical Kannada songs are truly appreciable.

Nirup Bhandari is the new charm in Sandalwood and also has all those traits of being a good actor, there are slight few things that if he mould himself to the perfection then he moves to be the best, Radhika and Avanthika makes their debut with their good elegant performance, Siddu Moolimani is the person to be appreciated for his awesome on screen presence and comedic appearance, the actual star is Sai Kumar a person endowed with tremendous acting ability had provided full justice to his assigned role, in this phase Mr. Director made the proper selection.

Portrayal of Karavali Karnataka's Bhootha Kola along with syncing music especially 'Dannana' track is the highlight; wonderful locations are other special aspects that add extra beauty to its flow, overall this Kannada thriller stands as the synonyms to the quality and excellence.

Requiem for a Dream
(2000)

The work of distinction
Begins in search of pleasure and happiness and end up in having momentary bliss that has very dreadful consequences, the concept of Drugs always has the exiting stories to tell with attractive narrative pattern of awesome beginning to the awful ending, drugs intoxicates our body gradually that never let us to live properly or die happily, the obsession for such substances has very huge negative impact on an individual, 2000's 'Requiem for a Dream' is the master class work on drugs and drug addiction that perfectly showcases the overall effects and symptoms of the drug both physical and the social impacts. This movie clearly shows the self punishing act by slow poisoning our self with drugs, this film shows the unintentional attempt of the human towards self destruction.

'Requiem for a Dream' has very good narrative pattern that moves so effectively presenting the materials to its viewers and most specifically some extraordinary technical works in cinematography and editing had given the excellent impactive touch to the work, the scene of delusions by Sara, Harry's disintegrated journey that dilapidate his life, Marion's cravings makes her to end her life into the unpleasant and unwanted acts of guilt, every characters has been designed with each specific distinct traits of its own, Burstyn is the actual superstar of this flick she has rendered very wonderful performance as the diet buff, her expressions are very fantastic, Jarred and Jennifer had made the good act and gave justice to their role, the rapid scenes are the exclusive signature of this film, the bgm's are so perfect accordingly to the scene that intensifies the mood of the audience, truly this is the work of distinction.

Vaasthu Prakaara
(2015)

Work without logic by highly logical minds.
This year from Sandalwood there may be plenty of expectations from some well known film-makers but one among them is Mr.Bhat's ''Vaastu Prakara'', the reason why it was so anticipated because it is Yogaraj Bhat's work and another one is for Jaggesh- Raxith and Yogaraj's unique combination and some for its catchy tones and lyrics that made sound before its release.

Considering all this aspects did the movie work out to its expectations is the question and most of the answers may be 'no' this is because of total directorial failure of the film maker, let's begin it from 'Bhatru', this time Bhat seems to be worked less with the script and concentrated more on quirky dialogues and he seems to be very stint and stick with his movie making style where romance seems to be the highlight rather than the actual theme of the flick, Raxith proved again that he is the most anticipated but disappointing actor, he lacks good dialogue delivery style and he never seemed switched from his coastal Kannada accent and require much practice in expressions, Aishani Shetty had given her best performance, Jaggesh is the point of attraction, he had done his work perfectly, Yogaraj Bhat's dialogues suits very well along Jaggesh's image, Ananth Nag and Sudarani are okay with their acting, Parul Yadav is quite noticeable and had rendered her average performance.

Now speaking about the technical aspects, camera work would have been better, Harikrishna's tone and Yogaraj Bhat's lyrics seems to be suiting the flow, some unsynchronized voice dubbing makes bit uncomfortable, for all those who go to watch this movie with the intention of getting Bhatru's new perspective on Vaastu may get disappointed because it fails in making understanding the concept to its viewers, overall ''Vastu Prakara'' is the work without logic by highly logical minds.

Fight Club
(1999)

All time Best
What happens if you just go with all those rapid impulse that are shot by your ID without the control of your morality master 'super ego'? Answer is 'Total Insane' absolutely yes; all those crazy thing in you up to that last bit of it is squeezed out without any hindering, you feel as if you are in that wave, only later you find that something is wrong but at that point of time things are out of your control.

1999's 'Fight Club' is one such work that is made with full of highly insane, philosophical elements that ignite the new way of thinking within us, sicked with these regular time loop of corporate work has made you stressed up, tired, depressed and that makes a way to raise the alter ego of you being what actually wanted to be but didn't because of that stereotypical and fixed way of living style, this movie is so well made with all those special features that grab audience attention till the mega twist is given at the end, the beginning and the flow seems as if things are going beyond our perception but with quite good attention on the narration all get set to be involved in its interesting flow.

David Fincher is the best with such psychological thrillers, he had made this work memorable and great by shedding his full involvement and dedication to the work, Brad Pitt is full of awesomeness with his heightened performance as Tyler Durden, Eddie Norton is always best when it comes to play the role of a guy who move from the state of nothingness to enlightened and/or the role of dilemma, Helena is attractive with her bold and beautiful performance, the entire subject of the movie is special, enlightening and overall it's a must watch psychological thriller, this flick had inspired lot of work that made a big name later.

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