Khiladi 786 - Exclusive Movie Review

KHILADI 786 : Exclusive Movie Review 

Story & Music by Himesh Reshamiyya

Directed by Ashish R Mohan

Produced by Twinkle Khanna / Himesh Reshamiyya / Sunil Lulla

Creative Producer Rakesh Upadhyay

Starring Akshay Kumar , Asin , Mithun Chakraborthy, Himesh Reshamiyya 

Khiladi 786 - Movie Review by Sree Prasad Nair

Theater - Abu Dhabi National Cinemas, UAE

06/12/2012 - 10.30 pm

Occupancy - 100% (Sold out) 

2012 is an eventful-emotional year for Superstar Akshay Kumar personally and professionally. The actor had 3 BlockBusters in the form of Housefull2 (117cr), Rowdy Rathore (136cr) & OhMyGod (85cr) & became a proud father to a baby girl. But produced an epic disaster with his 100th movie Joker & lost his father-in-law Superstar Rajesh Khanna. 

Khiladi786 is the fifth Akshay Kumar movie in 2012. Khiladi 786 is touted as the biggest franchise of Indian Cinema & the return of Akshay Kumar in a KHILADI title film after 12years. Its been 23years of Akshay Kumar in Indian Film Industry, all thanks to his first hit film on 1992, KHILADI! And Khiladi786 is the 8th Khiladi film of the famous series. Khiladi films are always famous for actions.

Khiladi786 stars Akshay Kumar, Asin, Himesh Reshamiyya, Raj Babbar, Mukesh Rishi & Johny Lever. Director is debutant Ashish R Mohan, earlier worked as the assistant director of Rohit Shetty. Khiladi786

is a joint production of Akshay Kumar & HimeshReshamiyya and the creative producer of the movie is Rakesh Upadhyay. 

Story

Mithun Chakraborthy is a Mumbai don who is in search for a decent groom for his one and only sister Asin. Himesh Reshamiyya is a struggling wedding planner and unable to organize a single wedding. Akshay Kumar is from a Punjab family & desperate to get married, but not getting any bride due to his multicolour (multi-national) family background. And how Himesh manages to get Akshay and Asin married despite Asin being in love with In&Out-Prisoner Rahul Singh is the story of Khiladi786.

Positives Of The Film 

Akshay Kumar does a fantastic job. The actor continued his terrific form from Rowdy Rathore in Khiladi786 too. His comic timings and expressions are unmatchable and fit in the Bahattar Singh character very well. His dhamakedar entry with ‘Khiladi Is Back’ one-liner is a visual treat. Climax is a treat for Akshay Kumar fans with a BIG SURPRISE!!! Asin is looking gorgeous and acted well, in a limited role. Himesh Reshamiyya is SURPRISINGLY good in the film and got a meaty role. Not surprised since he is the story writer/producer/musicdirector of the film. Mithun Chakraborthy got a good role but had the shades of his own role in Housefull2. Raj Babbar, Sanjai Mishra & Mukesh Rishi are good in their roles. Manoj Joshi & Johny Lever are strictly ok in their small roles ditto are Akshay Kumar’s multi-national family. 

Another plus point of the film is the superhit music from Himesh Reshamiyya. Every single track is a chartbuster and picturized well in every 15/20mins of the movie. Be it Lonely, Long Drive, Saari Saari Raat, Balma & Hookah Bar at the end credits. Action scenes are well executed, even though some are over the top. Witty one-liners, punching Punjabi dialogues are sure to be appreciated by the audience. Director Ashish R Mohan made a good debut with Khiladi786. 

Let’s talk about the negatives of the film first :

Though Khiladi786 delivers as expected, the story of Himesh is meatless. Khiladi 786 is a total mash-up of Welcome, Namastey London & Singh Is Kinng. Some forced scenes are lacking fun & bit louds at times. Heart-broken Innocent Punjabi Groom Akshay Kumar, we have seen him in Namastey London, Welcome & in Singh Is Kinng too. And few over the top action scenes are bit hard to digest, yet passable considering masala as its genre. And Asin’s wedding followed by a stunt are getting repetitive in each of her film’s climax, be it Ready, Housefull2 & in Khiladi786. Mushtaq Khan and Bharti Singh suddenly becoming news reporters at the wedding stage is questionable ? 

Besides these flaws, Khiladi786 works big time for what it is targeted for, to entertain audience. On the whole Khiladi786 is a paisa vasool Akshay Kumar starrer which is surely turning out to be his 3rd 100cr/ 4th blockbuster (if not Superhit) for Akshay Kumar and fifth for Asin.

At the B.O the film is sure to have an extra ordinary opening especially in single screens & will be good in multiplexes. Since the budget of movie is 45cr, expecting the same for the weekend with an opening numbers between 12-15cr! A two open weeks till Dabangg2 (on Dec21st) is bountiful for the makers.

VERDICT – Fourth Akshay Kumar BlockBuster of 2012 ! 

Rating – 3.5/5 (3 for the film and .5 for Himesh’s Surprise Acting)

A definite blockbuster among the masses, and is sure to enter the popular 100cr Club!!! 

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Poppins - My Movie Review

Directed by     V. K. Prakash
Produced by     Darshan Ravi
Written by     Jayaprakash Kuloor
Based on     18 Natakangal by
Jayaprakash Kuloor
Starring    

    Jayasurya
    Meghana Raj
    Indrajth
    Padmapriya
    Parvathy_Nair
    Kunchacko Boban
    Nithya Menen
    Siddique
    Ann Augustine
    Shankar Ramakrishnan
    Mythili

Music by     Ratheesh Vegha
Cinematography    

    Jomon T. John
    Arun James
    Pradeesh M. Varma

Editing by     Mahesh Narayan
Studio     Dimac Creations
Distributed by     Central Pictures
Release date(s)    

    November 30, 2012

Country     India
Language     Malayalam

Expectations

The remake of a successful film, an anthology with a sea of stars, VKP after Beautiful & Trivandrum Lodge - All these were more than enough to watch the film FDFS

First things First - out of whatever things were shown in the film, i think the main story was that of a struggling writer waiting for a chance to make his debut in film field as Director & the remaining stories in the anthology consisting of his dreams or scripts or something else, seriously i didn’t understand a horse shit - May be becoz the film is crap or its way above my Intelligent & Entertainment Quotients.

If its a faithful remake i wonder how the original one became success and got much critical acclaim coz nobody in the theater understood what the film was about or what the director or writer meant. It was like watching an unedited raw film. the only time people were interested during the entire run length of 1.45hr was during the 'Saiju Kuruppu' episode and the 'Payasam' episode featuring Kunchako Boban & Nithya Menon.

Positives - liked the performances of Meghna S Raj, Kunchako Boban & Nithya Menon, some locations and sets were good. Camera work too was decent.

Negatives - I think practically everything else. A booklet of what the makers meant should have been distributed.

Christopher Nolan films used to leave viewers puzzled at the end, but VKP beat all of them hands down coz it’s a mystery from the very first scene/episode and still is...hope somebody help me out of the misery explaining everything in IMDB or WIKI.

Rating 1.5/5

Verdict: Waste of time and money

Box Office: Disaster

Final Word:

Must watch for every pseudo intelligent people and saviors of ‘brainy’ films out there - and for those with commonsense , who value their money, please stay away .......

NB: Hope Parle doesn't sue the makers for doing his to their premier sweet brand

PS: I am extremely sorry if you found the review harsh, non-sense etc....

Chettayees - Exclusive Malayalam Movie Review

 Directed by     Shajoon Kariyal
Produced by     Biju Menon
P. Sukumar
Sachi
Shajoon Kariyal
Suresh Krishna
Written by     Sachi
Starring     Lal
Biju Menon
Suresh Krishna
P. Sukumar
Sunil Babu
Miya
Music by     Deepak Dev
Cinematography     Vinod Illampally
Editing by     Bijith Bala
Studio     Thakkaali Films
Release date(s)   

    30 November 2012 (Kerala)

Country     India
Language     Malayalam

Expectations

The posters, teasers and the unique casting + the super hit song 'eru nottam' had created quite bit of expectations

Story

Story happens over two days and deal with the events that happens when 5 friends get together to celebrate a New Year's Eve.  John (Lal), a lawyer, Kichu (Biju Menon a percussionist), Roopesh (Suresh Krishna, an actor), Bava (P. Sukumar,  chef), and Babumon (Sunil Babu, a government employee) forms the 'Chettayees' gang and Merlin (Miya) Kicchu's wife.


'Chettayees' is pure fun to watch. Eventhough there is no proper storyline it offers plenty of entertainment to the Paisa paying Junta. The chemistry between 'Chettayees' are rocking where each gang member gets ample screen space to perform and deliver their quirky one-liners which are in plenty in the film. Lal leads the wolfpack with his drunken acts and over the top humor. Closely followed by Suresh Krishna, Biju Menon PSukumar and Babumon. Miya has done an incredible job as Merlin, a great outing for a Debutant (I think so, haven't seen her before). To get noticed in a mad film where the male leads are in an outlandish mayhem mood is quite commendable especially for a new comer

The scripting is intelligent funny interesting and entertaining. Direction was good, The 'Eeru nottam' song is the solo song in the film which is already a huge hit. Editing is neat and the film is fast and pacy with no lags with a runtime under 2 hours. Camera was also good, as most of the scenes were inside a flat doesn't have much scope to experiment.

No story, abusive language with cuss words [eventhough muted], nothing much for families can be said as the negatives, only if you want some. Personally I don't mind as long as its entertaining.

All in all 'Chettayees' is a Nice Entertaining watch

Rating 3.25/5

Box Office HIT

Go [with your friends if possible] and have a blast with these chettayees.....

Mammootty's Face 2 Face - Exclusive Movie Review

Face to Face
Directed by     V. M. Vinu
Produced by     M. K. Nassar
Screenplay by     Manoj Payyannoor
Starring     Mammootty
Roma Asrani
Ragini Dwivedi
Music by     Alphonse Joseph
Cinematography     Ajayan Vincent
Editing by     Samjith
Distributed by     Googline Productions
Release date(s)    

    November 30, 2012

Country     India
Language     Malayalam

Expectations

ZERO - yup had no expectations from the movie after a series of flops that Molywood's Mega Star gave us, but decided to watch it FDFS since it belong to Crime/Thriller genre, one of my Favourite.

Story

Story is about Balachandran (Mammootty) an angry cop who is always fights with people and constantly in suspension. One day a kingpin politician's sun is brutally murdered and crucified. Eventhough under suspension Balan starts his own investigation. Whether he nabs the culprit forms the rest of the story.


The first half was very interesting with plenty of one liners and moving entertainingly at a leisurely pace. Mammootty was in his elements and after a log time seems intrested in te proceedings with his uber cool suspended-cop act. But all hell broke loose in the second half. It is hard to beleive that the same guy wrote the 2nd half. Once again, after JOV, after a promising beginning everything gets ruined in the 2nd half.

If the 2nd half was better the film would have had better prospects at the box office.But now that's highly unlikely.

The supporting cast of Mamookoya, Mani, Siddique, the 4  teenage debutants where good. Heroine Ragini Divedi is a disappointment even in the 2/3 scenes she got

Dialogues were surprisingly good, there are many to please fans.

Songs were Bad. Direction was average, Editing was OK, keeping the run length under 2hr 10mins. BG was avg too.

Not disappointing, because there was no expectations, an average film for normal viewers, Fans can watch it for ikka's perfomance in the first half.

Rating 2.5/5

Box Office Flop


Final Word: So Close Yet SO Far !!!

Movie Review – TALAASH : The Answer Lies Within

Directed by Reema Kagti

Story/Screenplay by Reema Kagti / Zoya Akhtar

Produced by Aamir Khan / Ritesh Sidhwani / Farhan Akhtar

Starring : Aamir Khan, Rani Mukerji, Kareena Kapoor & Nawazuddin Siddiqui

Review by Sree Prasad Nair

Theater - Abu Dhabi National Cinemas, UAE

29/11/2012 – 8.00 pm

Occupancy - 100% (EXPECTED) 

An Aamir Khan film comes once in 2-3 years. And when it comes, it will be a special treat for all the movie lovers. His last few movies released, even though long back are great examples. Be it Lagaan / Dil Chahta Hai (2001), Rang De Basanti (2006), Taare Zameen Par (2007) & Unbreakable trendsetting blockbuster 3Idiots (2009) Aamir Khan films are exceptional. And his new film Talaash is coming after a long time.

Talaash is directed by Reema Kagti, who debuted as a director with Honeymoon Travels Pvt Ltd in 2007. And the story-screenplay of Talaash is a combined work from Reema Kagti & Zoya Akthar. Talaash also stars Rani Mukerji, Kareena Kapoor, Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Raj Kumar Yadav & Shernaz Patel.

Talaash is the story of Inspector Surjan Singh Shekhawat played by Aamir Khan and his search for the murderer of a film star in the movie. And this search turns into a life altering chase for him when he is forced to reel under the repercussions of a unsatisfying marriage with his wife played by Rani Mukerji and come face to face with his suppressed grief. Being on his investigational quest and fighting it out with personal struggle, he meets a prostitute played Kareena Kapoor who further adds shades of mystery to the puzzle.

Positives of the film 

Aamir Khan’s acting is top class. His screen presence as a honest cop is phenomenal ditto as the grief-struck father. Rani Mukerji is brilliant in a small role and really convincing as a no-makeup simple unsatisfied wife. Kareena Kapoor does not have much scenes in the first half, but her character is the turning point of the film, especially in the climax. She is charming and very convincing as a prostitute. But the real surprise and the standout performance of the film for me is Nawazuddin Siddiqui. Personally 2012 has been a sensational year for him. PaanSinghTomar,Kahaani, GangsofWasseypur 1&2, Chittagong & now Talaash. A great actor to watch our for!!! RaginiMMs fame Raj Kumar Yadav as AamirKhan’s assistant is confident too.

Another plus point of the film is its music. Ram Sampath’s music is impressive. Jee Le Zaraa is already a chartbuster and the scenes picturised in the same is really soulful and emotional. Cinematography by Mohanan is also good. 

Now Negatives of the film

For me, Talaash is not an ideal film for Aamir Khan after 3Idiots. Many people are going to disappoint with this new Aamir Khan movie. The script is strictly ok but many flaws with a slow pace. Also few scenes in the film are hard to digest and especially the suspense at the climax. Can’t Digest!!!

On The Whole Talaash is a Strictly Average movie(rarely happens with Aamir Khan movies) after a long time. And its targeted for limited audience. Film’s business at Multiplex will be phenomenal especially the weekend. Since its advance booking is great, may cross Rowdy Rathore’s non-holiday record of 15-16crs. But real test will be from Monday onwards as the reports are surely going to be mixed! Don’t think much takers in Single Screens for Talaash & also the chance of a long run (mostly Aamir Movies) is ruled out as two Giant movies are coming in the form of Khiladi786 next week & most anticipated of the year Dabangg2 on Dec21st. 

Verdict : Strictly Average 

P.S : If you are a diehard fan of thriller-suspense, Go and enjoy the movie till climax! If you are looking for entertainment, Talaash is not your cup of Tea! 

Rating – 3/5 (2 for the film & extra 1 for Aamir & Siddiqui’s acting) 

Review by Sree Prasad Nair (http://www.twitter.com/i_spn)

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