Q2 - End of Drought! 5 stars are back after a year!

2015 Top Performers -

Rules - scores will be posted with the reviews how many marks did each actor and director earn. These will keep getting added over the year and one will be crowned the "Actor / Director / Music Director of 2015".

Best Actors (Male) -

1. Nawazudin Sddiqui (Badlapur)
2. Ronit Roy (Ugly)
3. Akshay Kumar (Baby / Gabbar)
 

Best Actors (Female) -

1. Huma Qureshi (Badlapur)
 

Best Director -

1. Anurag Kashyap (Ugly), Sriram Raghavan (Badlapur)


2. Raj Kumar Hirani (PK), Neeraj Pandey (Baby)

Worst of the Quarter -

1. Om Puri
2. KC Bokadia.
 

• Ugly - 5 Stars.

Actors -  Siddhant Kapoor (+2), Tejaswini Kolhapure, Ronit Roy(+2), Pallavi Sharda, Vineet Kumar Singh

Director - Anurag Kashyap (+5)

Genre - Real / Thriller.

What a movie! You wanna get real and ugly! there you go, take this. Beautifully done ugly. Anurag Kashyap is a guy who can't do run of the mill to save his life. He just can't and thank god he can't. A regular guy's daughter goes missing and the thriller starts! Is she kidnapped? where is she? who took her? is it an insider job? Movie does a research in human psyche and how every human is dirty and ugly deep down. If you can't admit that you are also one and all of the characters somewhere inside you, you are faking it. Keep it up Mr Kashyap. Ronit Roy is scary bad and good, this actor knows his craft and so do others like Sidhant and Vineet. Ugly is beautiful.

• Roy - 2 Stars.

Actors - Arjun Rampal, Jacqueline Fernandez, Ranbir Kapoor
Director - Vikramjit Singh

Genre - Thriller / Romance

Ranbir Kapoor as second fiddle won't work in a movie. He is too big to be that. The movie is offbeat and working in 2 parallel universes. Director was aiming for the stars but did not get the stars right in casting. Though you sympathize with the director on his subject but any movie about an author and his struggles always ends up being boring. Only the authors are interested in their lives but really they are not that interesting.

• Shamitabh - 3.5 Stars

Actors - Dhanush, Amitabh Bachchan, Akshara Haasan
Director - Balki

Genre - Novel Concept.

Balki always comes up with a very novel concept and this is as novel as it gets. Very well thought, an entertainer needs a face and a voice. what if the voice and face don't see face to face! the problem is the movie never goes anywhere after establishing the concept and when it does in the end, it is a tad bit too late. Dhanush and Amitabh the 2 powerhouses are ok doing what is needed but something was amiss.

• PK - 4.0 Stars

Actors - Aamir Khan (+1), Anushka Sharma, Sushant Singh Rajput, Boman Irani, Saurabh Shukla, Sanjay Dutt
Director - Rajkumar Hirani (+2)

Genre - Drama

Everyone has seen this 'most successful movie ever'. I generally have low expectations of a popular movie, but the greatness of Aamir is he regularly comes up with movies which are not your regular fair but still entertains the masses. This movie was loved by all it seems, the movie does a great balancing act between lot of things. It doesn't hurt you but still proves it's point. Rajkumar Hirani movies tend to be didactic and it is expected. This one is done the best way possible. Religious leaders are on their way out if popularity of this movie is to be believed!

• Baby - 4.5 Stars

Actors -  Akshay Kumar (+1), Danny Denzongpa, Rana Daggubati, Taapsee Pannu, Kay Kay Menon (+2)
Director - Neeraj Pandey (+2)

Genre - Thriller

Now a days these 'Indian commandos given a dangerous project and they pull it off' kind of movies have become common place. They also are of vey high standard. Neeraj Pandey knows his 'thrillers'. this movie is so taut and well made it rivals many Hollywood thrillers! Kay Kay Menon is just awesome actor and Akshay Kumar is to thrillers like Govinda used to be to cheap comedies.

• Dirty Politics - 2 star

Actors - Naseeruddin Shah, Mallika Sherawat, Jackie Shroff, Ashutosh Rana
Director - K. C Bokadia
Genre - Drama

YESS... KC Bokadia!! Yess.... he is the director! I am guessing the movie was being made for at least 15 years or sitting somewhere in someone's closet. Mallika Sherawat is small time dancer who gets involved with politicians and then disappears! what happened and who did it. Politics around that is the theme of the movie. BUT the shocking part is Om Puri making out for one entire song in all sorts of dirty pose with mallika! it is disgustingly hilarious! it also is the crux of the movie. I don't know what Om Puri was thinking! or was he?

• Hawaizadaa - 1 Star

Actors - Ayushmann Khurrana, Mithun Chakraborty, Pallavi Sharda
Director - Vibhu Puri

Genre - Historic

I think this movie broke all records for how many sittings it took to finish this one off. It never engaged us. we knew the plot but normally ok Ayushman and Mithun just did not transport you into another era. It all looked like a cheap drama on stage. It is about the person who designed and flew the first aircraft but was never credited with it because he was Indian under British.

• Badlapur - 5 Stars

Actors - Varun Dhawan, Nawazuddin Siddiqui (+2), Huma Qureshi (+2), Yami Gautam
Director - Sriram Raghavan (+5)

Genre - Drama

Badla is probably the single most important theme for hindi movies. Revenge based movies are staple diet for Indians since 1960s. Revenge for Dad's killing probably made many careers. This movie is about revenge BUT it completely and totally flips the entire concept on it's head! Philosophically Sriram Raghavan has taken a leap like no other. He has created poetry. I don't have enough superlatives for Nawazuddin Siddiqui, this was HIS role. Huma is as always out of this world. Varun Dhawan has been given some crutches to stand on his own with these great performers. The dialogues are at a very high level. If you did not like it, come a discuss with me. Revenge has no where to go after this movie. It has been dismantled and put to rest by Mr Sriram Raghavan.

 

• Gabbar is Back - 3.0 Stars

Actors - Akshay Kumar, Sruti Hassan

Director - A. R Murugadoss

Genre - Action / thriller

Akshay has found his mojo to make stupid movies look better than they are. This is throw back 80s movie. A lone Hero fighting against the system. Nothing special but not boring either.