Omkar Joshi

Boyhood2014

One of the best movies in 2014. The movie seized me! "The movie shoot over period of 12 years of a boy named Mason", that thought itself is an award winning and appraisable. Huge thanks to the movie maker and team for bringing such a great concept over to cinemas. Now as far as story telling is concerned, the viewer will relate this one to himself or herself. If we think about our past, what things we will remember? …. Not all the things as they are PAST things, anybody is likely to forget those things. But everybody is aware of all "Important" , life changing, memorable, happy, sad, things happened and we will keep them, remember them for the rest of our life. That's all, this is the exact topic of this movie. All the things told, instructed, explained to Mason are directly or indirectly applicable to all of us. We can learn and make our life better through all of these experiences of Mason shared with us. I mean this movie was one the best example for our kids when they are turning into their teenage. Rating 5/ 5

Interstellar2014

LOST (again) in the SPACE and TIME after watching Interstellar! After all it's a Nolan's Odyssey. Simply we can call it as a Nolan's Zone. A zone created by Nolan brothers, which is a combination of reality, fiction and science. That thought will take you to watch it in any cost (at least it made me to go and watch on big screen). Also trailers and clips of the movie can prepare you for the amazing things you are going to experience in movie theaters. If it's going to be your first ever Nolan's movie! Then BEWARE and don't attempt it; because it will make you crazier and it won't make any sense out of it. And of course it is not for mass audience or as we call it as a Popcorn audience. There are two types of movies, one type of movies you will forget after some time. And another will haunt you for the rest of your life and that's why this movie will become Immortal in your mind. Interstellar is Second type of movie, which may lead you to many questions after watching it. If you get answers to those questions, it may lead you to some more questions (Latest example is Inception). Understanding this movie may differ person to person due to different approach to unfold it as it requires some homework and reading about scientific concepts like Wormholes, Black holes, space and time relativity, laws of gravity, etc. Nolan explained many things to viewers as story unfolds slowly. But many things have been left un-explained and kept hanging. That's the reason it can disappoint someone like me, who expects all questions answered. The most important thing is that, because of some flaws and loopholes in the story, it's not the Nolan's best one. This TAG still remains with Dark Knight Triology and Inception. Another thing is that, some people may compare it with last year's highly criticized flick Gravity, but it's not even similar by any means. The movie is all about finding a solution. The problem is that, in near future earth will become inhabitable place for a mankind. So the scientists from NASA expected a solution outside of our galaxy by inventing a habitable planet which will be earth like environment. And after finding it safe to live, mankind can travel and settle down there. Nolan "literally played" with Space and Time for finding this solution. And really he played it very well! Now did our protagonist found this earth-like place? What obstacles he may face during this journey? The movie is all about these things. Even after completion of movie, you may not find all the answers to your questions because it is Nolan's movie. That will lead to finding those answers in your own perception and understandings. As far as Nolan is concerned, we all know he doesn't like sequels. And after looking at closing sequence of the movie, it is clear that this movie will haunt me more; if they not make a sequel after it. It will make more unanswered questions. I had expected more "Space Scenes". Some may say it is Over-rated movie this year. But I have not find it Overrated, because, nobody gave it full 5 out of 5..

The Fault in Our Stars2014

It taught me how to deal with the most fearful point in life, Death! Once we start any Novel we cannot allow ourselves to stop it in the middle of it. We ought to finish it, but what happens with the characters after the end of the book? It's the same question raised by Hazel Lancaster, diagnosed with terminal thyroid cancer; who thinks that she is a Grenade as she is a cancer patient and it will kill her eventually and that's the reason she is not ready to involve in any kind of relationship. She wants to live a plain and simple life which will be without excitements. Then another cancer survival guy, Augustus Waters comes to change her perception towards life forever, to lover her, to care about her and to never to forget her.

Inside Out2015

Reviewing Inside Out! What will happen if EMOTIONS will have EMOTIONS? Inside Out is not just an animated cartoon feature film, it's a life lesson for all of us. The movie teaches us the way of living a life through the help of movie characters (which in fact are EMOTIONS inside our head!). It tells us an entertaining story so we can self evaluate us in difficult or unimaginable situations. It tells to stay Joyful in any situation, it tells us that sometimes Sadness is also essential but not more; just a tiny winy of it! It tells us not to make such decisions that will ruin our future! The movie revolves around FIVE characters (Emotions) such as Joy, Fear, Anger, Disgust and Sadness are living inside the area called Headquarters in a mind-area of a 13 year old girl named Riley. Based on their own discussions and actions, these emotions are controlling the actual actions of Riley. It is shown beautifully that each living person or animal is having the same kind of emotions in their own head. And each moment one of those emotions is having a control over persons' behavior. The screenplay then takes a turn and the two of Riley's emotions, Joy and Sadness goes missing in an area called Long Term memories which is located away from main Headquarter location. Then the story takes us on typical out-of-imagination journey of "Pixar Animated Marvel" and movie ends with Joy and Sadness returning to Headquarters area safe and sound. Pixar always tries to stretch our imaginations upto Horizon and beyond, with touching viewer's emotions and this time they have hit hard! Viewers will relate with the dialogues between 5 emotions in Riley's head with the situations they have experienced. It can give us strength to choose the right over wrong. The screenplay and dialogues are as good as any of the Pixar film. The story is so good, that we may feel that it should have more duration than it actual duration! It's a must watch for "Pixar Lovers"! P.S. :- Viewers this time will have lovely Pixar surprise as the musical short animated film named LAVA is attached before the actual movie. So all the people going in theaters, do reach on time and enjoy the short film Lava and feature film Inside Out both in one ticket!

Bāhubali: The Beginning2015

It's a multi-lingual Epic of year 2015 from first scene to last scene. The final-movie-product output after almost 2-3 years movie making process including pre and post production and amazing publicity, all resulted into a "Biggest Indian Movie Ever Made". The credit goes to Director SS Rajamouli and the entire team of actors and crew members. Baahubali – The Beginning is first installment from two-part movie saga made over 5 hours long. There were many special things worth to mention like an Acting by Prabhas, Rana Daggubati, Tamannah, Anushka, Satyraj, Nassar, Ramya Krishnan, etc. Every one person gave his 100% so it became really a product of great team-work. People will like Satyraj's (Kattappa) character more because of the character was given huge importance as a loyal servant of kingdom and Flashback-story-teller which helped to cherish the screenplay. The highlight of the movie was post-interval climax 30 minutes war scene (the details of war are spoilers and need to be experienced by you viewers in theaters.) The story and screenplay was engaging and keep viewers on the edge of their seats the whole time. Flashback comes at the right place and at the right time whenever it was required, so there was little wastage of time. Two of the songs come in bizarre way were actually unnecessary and targeted for Mass-Audience-Entertainment which slowed the flow of a story. The special effects looked amazing in natural light effect. But CGI effects in many places were husky and with the flaws which were recognizable. But the best effects surpassed the bad effects and viewers will come out of theaters with good effects in their mind. The grandness of Kingdom was given proper footage and special mention for the gigantic waterfall scenes in first half of the movie was "gasping" that waterfall was a part of Sivudu's (Prabhas) story as he tries to climb it many times during starting of a movie. The music was not so great and could have been better. Though the entire BGM was attractive and kept the screenplay gripping throughout the movie. Casting and Acting was flawless and perfect. Credit goes to all actors and Director who took out the best experience from all of the actors. The movie ends with the BANG (a twist) and will keep the viewers starving by thinking what will happen next. For this we have to wait till July-2016 as Baahubali: The Conclusion, the second part is scheduled to release that time. Overall it was a must-watch movie this year. This type of movie experience will not come again and again (unless Rajamouli is making it!). Don't miss the beginning and don't miss the ending! Enjoy this two-parter Epic Saga. Movie Rating - 4/5.

ABCD 22015

The place where Dancers turns out to be Actors and Actors can come out as Dancers! The movie will resembles with names like, Anybody Can Dance, Anybody Can Direct, Anybody Can Act. The highlight points in the movie are Varun Dhawan and Shraddha Kapoor and Prabhu Deva. It's a Dance-Movie which is a second installment in Choreographer-turned-Director Remo D'souza, story is more in quantity than the first movie. We all know that the dancers can dance seamless, but Actors like Varun and Shraddha proved themselves with their hard work and dedication towards dancing. All teamwork improvised the movie to great extent. I hate those people who compare this franchise with Step Up and other dancing movies. But they forgets that those are Hollywood movies showing Hollywood talent which is more at their side but people actually forgets that we are Bollywood and less I quantity as compared with them. We can't compare, we should not compare! The best is best at their own level! 3D was enough used and looks better in closeup shots. All the wide-shots during Group Dance sequences felt like 2D only due to camera is far from actual cast.