Alekhya Das

Pather Panchali1955

Satyajjt Ray's mother had to sell her jewelry so that his son can make this movie because no producer was coming forward to produce this. Nobody went to the cinemas to watch this movie when it released in Kolkata. Then it went abroad, won a lot of prestigious awards and then all shows were going housefull. That's how India got it's BEST, i repeat, the BEST director till date. I'm too film handicap to judge this movie. This is a gem. Every single scene is looks like a million dollar pic. Absolute brilliant.

Jai Ho2014

Jai Ho has a good concept (copied though), but the execution is bad. Jai, an upright common man is fighting a retiring war against corruption and unfairness. Honest and incorruptible, he has made it his mission to help as many people as he can. The main theme is quite simple – help somebody and then request that person to lend a helping hand to somebody else – thus forming an ever growing circle of people helping each other. In his mission of creating a unity within a people he crosses paths with an influential political family. How Jai continues his assignment of serving others is the story of the flick. Just after I appreciate that Salman comes up with something new apart from his regular illogical movies, an army tank arises in the middle of traffic cutting off the hero from the bad guys to save his life. *FACEPALM* There are more sequences where he smashes, bites and screams like a tiger as if he inspires himself to become a tiger again, Ek Tha Tiger Returns The screenplay is the major weakness. The movement of the good deed piece has not been logically established. In other words, the build-up to the movement is not very effective. It is the film's backbone and should have been very wonderfully reputable so as to transfer the audience emotionally in the climax. A good screenplay is the major forte for such a film. Acting – Salman Khan acts better than his other films. Tabu does good work; she enhances charm to the show. Rest of the cast is Satisfactory. Direction – Sohail Khan does an average job. His direction in the dramatic scenes could have been better. Music - A big letdown. But Sandeep Shirodkar's background music is decent. Actions – Nothing new. Same old Salman Khan action. On the whole Jai Ho is a re-creation of the Telugu film, Stalin, which itself was inspired by the Hollywood film, Pay It Forward. So Jai Ho is concoction of normal Salman Khan Movie and an excellent Mimi Leder flick. So it's a moderate one time watch if you are a Bollywood fan or else I will recommend u to watch Pay It Forward

Yaariyan2014

WTF was that? Thank God i'm still alive over here. Those 145 minutes were a total waste!! I horribly regret the 68 bucks I paid for nonsense. The story was clichéd, phony and nonsensical. The new actors are pretty annoying -- even Uday Chopra seems Oscar- worthy in front of them. Deepti Naval was the plus point. Cinematography + Direction + Choreography + Script = belch!! My neighbor walked away halfway out of annoyance. I too wanted to do that but I had a tasty tub of cheese popcorn to hog up. It kinda kept me engrossed. The only good thing about the movie is the soundtrack! One of the worst movie I ever seen in my life. A total wastage of time n 700 mb data Don't dare to go to cinemas.

Non-Stop2014

Non-Stop just as the title advocates is strictly an around-the-clock action packed thriller movie. Non-Stop just as the title advocates is strictly an around-the-clock action packed thriller movie. Liam Neeson crews up with the Unknown director, Jaume Collet Serra. I am a huge fan of his action thrillers like Taken series, Unknown, The Grey, The A-team etc. He is in his sixties now but he looks great as always. The movie is set on a plane from New York City to London, when the protagonist being a former NPYD and a current Air Marshall gets coercions on his secured line about transferring $150 million in a bank account or a person deceases every 20 minutes. As time goes by, we get to more about his life and chain of increasingly improbable plot twists. It's truly a rock-hard plot as it is purely innovative and I haven't seen a story in the recent whiles. The opening minutes are firm as the director introduces us to the main characters that we will be spending the majority of our period with including Julianne Moore who was keen and a hostile traveler. The show goes pretty fine as it keeps the audience guessing till the pre-climax where we have some unforeseen twists and turns which was fairly bare. Though I enjoyed the climax but could have been more exciting like the total plot. The action is really incredible especially the climax gun shot. Acting – Neeson as Bill Marks is one of the greatest reasons for such a great victory of the film. He plays a role of bothered man who gets himself in such a situation. He verifies that he is indeed a great performer and an excellent action hero. Moore is more or less okay in her own way. The backup cast has done a pleasant job. Director – He has done a terrific job by generating a silence, nervous atmosphere throughout the whole flick. He preserved the movie's pace; leaving no room with needless plasters that tends to slog the story. There are a few plot holes here and there, but the stout performances relief a lot to keep the movie intense and attractive. Music – Marvelous Exertion! Flawless Soundtrack for such a movie! Largely a great 1 hour 46 mins journey filled with great suspense, thrill, action, tragedy and few gags. It was overall a fascinating experience with the strong acts creating it a must watch for all action- thriller lovers :)

Interstellar2014

Interstellar: "Expect the Unexpected" should be the tag-line of every Nolan movie. Same goes for this movie as well. Interstellar is a dazzling, striving, fascinating journey. Note: My Analysis and the real 'Nolan'/movie explanations may diverge. Abide with that. He is the monarch of all the mind-blown flicks. Interstellar is a smart blend of passions in a sci-fi movie. Nolan always adds scarce emotions to all of his pictures which make me tear up all the time, but this is his most sentiment betrothed movie for sure. He has perfectly combined the bond between a dad and his daughter. This movie proves that our love can truly surpass time and space; that no matter how remote that special someone be, they will always matter to our hearts against the cold milieu of survival. Plot: The world is getting shattered by drought and famine, making it unbearable for beings to endure. In the meantime, Cooper finds a surreptitious NASA epicenter and goes out for a voyage to save the world. A group of discovers must travel beyond our solar system in search of another planet capable of Humankind. In the expedition, they had to face a lot of footraces which coerce them to select between their family and the future of the human race. Now the movie goes quite clean till the first one and half hour. After that, The Endurance crew gets to know the actual enigmas of this entire trip. 1. The secret NASA center's Professor Brand has got two strategies of saving the civilization. First, he promises Cooper that he will solve a forward-thinking equation, which will help the NASA to take the Earth's surviving populace into the space by launching a massive space station. Second, if he fails in the solution, NASA has made plans of reaping a bank of fertilized human ova serving them to keep alive the humanity after earth gets wholly devastated. The Endurance's job is to find the flawless habitat for the subsistence of the embryos. They were to be located in artificial wombs and carried to term. Of course, the crew will devote the next 10-15 years taking care for a bunch of kids before using the next set. The population bang would be exponential since the next batch would be larger because there were more people available to take care of them. Later we got to know that entire journey was a swindle and Plan A was near to impossible. So plan B was the real plan. 2. Matt Demon (Dr. Mann)'s act was unforeseen. He proved that when you are in a dying condition, the only thing you care about is you and your family and nothing else. The climax comes next. I personally believe that the movie should have ended in a different way. The paradox they shown in the film and Murph's apprehension of who "the ghost" was, to Matthew's realizing what was going on, to that specific scenario in the black hole, to him finding his daughter and the full Murphy station sequence. I would have adored if Coop would have died entering the Black Hole. The earth would have died out and Anne Hathaway and Edmunds start a new civilization. This would have left a cult ending, but Nolan always wants a twisted finale to all of his flicks. Nevertheless, the actual climax was nice as well. Apart from this the other departments were bang on, Heart touching acts, Superb Soundtrack, Wonderful DOP work, fabulous direction, etc. I felt that there was a problem with the sound-mix. The subtitles assisted well though. Anyways, I loved this much, much, much more than Gravity. I hope Interstellar gets plentiful Oscars this year like Gravity did. Must Watch!

Marigold2007

OMG! This movie takes Bollywood some years back. The movie is full of clichés which gives a headache to me. Absolute waste of time. Proves why the movie was an absolute fail in the box office.