2016Top Performers -
Best Actors (Male) -
- Amitabh Bachchan (Te3n)
- Rajat Kapoor (Kapoor and Sons)
Best Actors (Female) -
- Deena Pathak (Kapoor and Sons)
Best Director -
- (Te3n)
Worst of the Quarter -
- Rishi Kapoor (Kapoor and Sons)
- Tushar Kapoor
Kya Kool Hein Hum 3 - 0 Stars.
Director - Umesh Ghadge
Starring - Tushar Kapoor, Aftab Shivdasani, Mandana Karimi.
Another sex comedy from this stupid franchise. they keep churning them out so I guess they have found a formula of making it cheap and getting enough money out of it. I never laughed in the movie, sat through it probably forwarded most of it. Tushar has gone down a notch on whatever actor he ever was, Aftab is one dude who is just living it up, he never had any talent never cared about developing it. I think I like that model. My complaint about this movie is - why can't you get any originality in even one scene! the songs are like rehashed music videos seen hundreds of times. I know it doesn't matter to your audience - whoever has decided to come in for the sex jokes will come in. BUT common... you are ina creative field ... at least try one thing creative, just for the heck of it.
Fitoor - 3.5 Stars
Director - Abhishek Kapoor
Actors - Katrina Kaif, Sidharth Roy Kapoor, Tabu.
A decent attempt gone wrong, it has a feel of Vishal Bhardwaj movie. Movie is set in Kashmir, and for some reason all Kashmir movies have a haunting feel to them. If you can survive the drag of the first half the movie becomes pretty interesting in the second half. Actors are a let down, I don't think they were ready for such a movie in their career. well.... Katrina is female aftab, she never tried and doesn't care, but someday Aditya Roy Kapoor may get another chance. He looks weird, with all his skinny muscular looks, he worked too much on her physique to look artistic and did nothing to feel the part.
The movie is about lot of fitoors, everyone has their own fitoor (obsessions) and it kind of get clear in the second half that beyond the obvious fitoor of Noor for Firdaus. There are many more entangled fitoors. Tabu has become a must in all haunted Kashmiri movies and she does not disappoint. ONE BIG PLUS for the movie is the songs..... oh they are beautiful and very much ingrained in the movie.
Neerja - 4.0 Stars
Director - Ram Madhvani
Actors - Sonam Kapoor, Shabana Azmi.
If you want to get scared and cry a lot, yes this is it. A documentary style movie on a real incident back in 80s when a plane was hijacked. How in real life doing small things can save many lives! the Hero of the movie did few subtle things that made a huge difference. Then there is Shabana Azmi, if you have not cried in the movie then she will guarantee to make you cry once you see her. She ash Neerja's mom steals the show, but even Sonam Kapoor is pretty good.
Kapoor and Sons - 4.0 Stars
Director - Shakun Batra
Actor - Sidharth Malhotra, Fawad Khan, Alia Bhatt.
A complete family drama with all the modern ingredients needed. A couple with problems after the kids left. Kids come back and they have their own problems and then obviously there is a girl. A dadaji..... who is pushing 90 played by or should I say failed to be played by a bubbly Rishi Kapoor. I have a few problems with this character, who does hindi films think that a complete lecherous and stupid behaving old man is cute? Dadaji's life is worse than teenage all he thinks and does is womanizing and looking at porn. We are supposed to laugh and find it cute. Also he is annoying and trying to give as much problems to loved ones as possible. Then Mr Rishi Kapoor probably listening to the script forgot that this character is a 90 year old, and his mannerisms remain the same as Rishi Kapoor has always acted, no slowing down of any motion. it looks like all they did was work on the makeup and nothing else. Anyway ... now that we are done with that.
The movie is pretty good. This blogger's golden rule never goes wrong - If a movie contains Rajat Kapoor then it has to be good. The movie opens to one of the funniest scene of 2016, the fight between the couple over random things with the plumber stuck in the middle. The 2 brothers are pretty good too. I would say Mr stone face SIdharth Malhotra is showing signs on coming to life, also at risk of getting hate mail from female customers of this blog, I thought Sidharth Malhotra is better looking than Fawad Khan. Alia Bhatt as usual plays Alia Bhatt. She has some ardrobe problems, being to casual all the time just didn't fit. She is good actor but she has problems, one of them is she looks like a 12 year old.
Shuruaat ka Interval - 3.5 Stars.
This should really be in the NETFLIX column because I saw it there. But anyway, this is bunch of short stories based on "Interval" all stories are about some or the other kind of interesting. Almost skits that are interesting to weird to down right bizarre. Nice movie to check out if you like this kinda stuff.
Katiyabaaz - 3.5 Stars.
Te3n - 4.0 Stars
Director - Ribhu Dasgupta
Actors - Amitabh Bachchan, Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Vidya Balan.
From the "Kahaani" team, the film is set in Kolkatta, and again they take some beautiful takes on Kolkatta. Kahaani was a suspenseful high voltage drama. This one is a pure suspense thriller. One track movie. there are some great moments, especially when you come to know whodunit. I like it that the script is original and very differently treated. the negative is Amitabh's character is a little too strong for what he supposed to be (a very average old man). Also, first time Nawazuddin is not interested in his role. He does not have much to do, and his character is not developed properly, I thought he was confused what he is. Vidya Balan also had little to do and had no punch. The entire movie is left on Bachchan and at his age whatever he does is good, but I would have liked other character to be stronger and better developed.
It is a great movie to watch rela and enjoy don't expect some awesome Hollywood-si twists and turns and fast paced thriller. It is Kolkatta paced suspense thriller about a grand child gone missing and grand dad trying to figure out what happened. I like these movies where you are shown everything in front of your eyes and still you don't know what's going on, but in the end you don't feel cheated.
Jugni - 3.5 Stars
Director - Shefali Bhushan
Actor - Sugandha Singh, Sadhana Singh.
It is a musical, so if you like music you should watch it just for the 2-3 fusion songs in the movie. Story is about the girl who comes looking for sufi singers in villages and finds a street singer. She takes the music of the village to the Mumbai film industry and takes a lot more with her. Some romantic problems occur due to love for music between unlikely couple. it is pretty good movie. watch it.
Mastizaade - 1 Stars.
Director - Milap Zaveri
Actors - Tushar Kapoor, Vir Das, Sunny Leone.
Another sex comedy from Mr Tushar Kapoor. It seems this market is pretty hot! lot of sex comedies are being made, and if they have an audience I think they deserve a little better than a movie that any college going kid can create in 30 minutes. I fast forwarded it to finish. sorry.
Jazbaa - 3.5 Stars
Director - Sanjay Gupta
Actors - Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Irrfan Khan.
If a movie's director is Sanjay Gupta, the movie is doomed for sure. Probably one of the worst directors of our times. He thinks making every frame stylish is his calling. Everything has to be tainted into some unreal colors and every frame has to be made unreal and cartoonish. I commend Aish to still try her best to put some emotion in the movie. Movie is a pretty good thriller about a Mom who's daughter is kidnapped and she is stuck between cops and the abductor. this one has good twists and turns. Watch it.
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NETFLIX - Top 20 Hindi Movies to watch on NETFLIX -
- Andaz Apna Apna - If kids my generation got one last day in Jail and are asked what you wanna watch? they probably will say one last time - AAA. If someone of my age can't finish a dialogue from this movie when I say half of it.... I judge him. So watch a few scenes.
- Detective Byomkesh Bakshi - Good suspense thriller about a home grown Sherlock in Kolkata.
- Holiday - Akshay Kumar at his best in a terrorism thriller.
- Ishqiya - If you have lived in UP / Bihar... then a must.
- Piku - Pretty good small movie with big cast.
- Maine Pyar Kiya - for the heck of it.
- Gangs of Wasseypur - Weird hackathon about goonda-ism in North.
- Revolver Rani - If you want to go even weird and twisted in goonda-ism.
- Shuruat Ka Interval - If in a artsy mood.
- Katiyabaaz - Documentary about Kapur's electricity problem, but very entertaining.
- Humpty Sharma Ki Dulhaniya - If you miss Karan Johar kinda movies. I will someday watch it too.
- Singh Is King - Best comedy from Akshay Kumar.
- Dum Laga Ke Haisha - Cute small budget movie
- Kabhi Khushi Kabhi Gham - If you want to check out what they call a typical Bollywood movie. 2 scenes I remember - थोड़ी पागल है.... पूरी पागल है। .... और कैसे सोच लिया तुमने वो हमारी बहु बन सकती है.... कैसे? (focus on that last Kaise? beautiful bachchan nuance, and first line is all about SRKs facial twists which were so romantic for many years).
- Taal / Pardes - Watch Taal songs and Pardes's dil.. deewana... and stop.
- Ungli - It was different movie, band of boys trying to fix the system.
- Boothnath - Ghost who come back a funny sensitive story.
- Hate Story 2 - Good 'Hate' with some sexiness. Don't watch the third installment though.
- Once Upon a Time in Mumbai - Remember it as a good experience of under world movie.
- Entertainment - stupid comedy .... but you will like it. You are on Netflix and it is free.
