AnksReview - Top 10 Hindi Film of 2018

We are at the end of 2018 and here is the list of my Top 10 Hindi Movies released this year. The list is decided and ranked as per the overall experience of movie watching with more focus given to story & screenplay, direction and of course performance of lead actors in it.

1. Andhadhun

Andhadun is finely crafted crime thriller by Sriram Raghavan with the excellent story which will keep you on the edge and top-notch performance of Tabu & Ayushmann Khurrana made it a perfect watch. The movie is flawless with an amazing script and perfect in all sense. This is indeed the best movie of 2018.

2. Manmarziyaan

Manmarziyaan is a twisted love story by Anurag Kashyap with the unique flavor of tried & tested love triangle used in movies like Woh Saat Din and Hum Dil Chuke Sanam. Manmarziyaan makes it to the top list because of its rawness, amazing screenplay & characterization, brilliant performance by Vicky Kaushal, Tapsee Punnu & Abhishek Bachchan, perfect direction by Anurag Kashyap and not to miss awesome music by Amit Trivedi.

3. Raazi

Raazi is spy thriller by Megha Gulzar based on true story and adaption of Harinder Sikka's novel Calling Sehmet. This is another great one by Meghna Gulzar with the perfectly written screenplay and the excellent performance by Alia Bhatt and Vicky Kaushal.

4. Badhaai Ho

Badhaai Ho is coming off the age comedy-drama by Amit Sharma is a story about a Delhi based typical middle-class family where the middle-aged mother gets pregnant adds to disappointment to sons and people around. Ayushmann Khurrana has done such kind of role if being in odd situation in past and the movie also delights with you excellent performance by Nina Gupta and Gajraj Rao. Its funny with great story and direction.

5. Mukkabaaz

Mukkabaaz is action drama by Anurag Kashyap based on observations of several sportsperson's experiences in India. It's a story of underdog boxer who falls in love with local politician as well as head of the boxing federation and his struggle as a sportsman. The movie is a delight with the impactful performance of Vineet Kumar Singh, Zoya Hussain and the best one from Jimmy Shergill. Anurag Kashyap shows that he still has his mojo when it comes to action-packed romantic movies with rawness in story backdrop.

6. Pad Man

Pad Man is a drama by R. Balki Inspired by the life of Arunachalam Muruganantham, a social activist from Tamil Nadu who introduced low-cost sanitary pads. It's a well-written movie with a social message and excellent direction by Balki as well performance by Akshay Kumar, Radhika Apte, and Sonam Kapoor.

7. Pataakha

Pataakha is a comedy-drama by Vishal Bhardwaj based on Charan Singh Pathik's short story titled Do Behnein, a story about two sisters who share a difficult relationship with each other. The story set out in the small village in Rajasthan bring the rawness of Indian village and it's simplicity. It's a marvelous direction by Vishal Bhardwaj who is daring enough to make such simplistic movie. It will give you the flavor of Blue Umbrella where a simple story can make movie strong. One more great highlight of this movie is a flawless performance by newcomers like Radhika Madan, Sanya Malhotra, and Sunil Grover.

8. Sanju

Sanju is a biographical drama by Rajkumar Hirani based on a life of movie star Sanjay Dutt. The movie is about Sanjay Dutt's life from his perspective. It's a great entertaining movie with excellent direction and best performance of Ranbir Kapoor as Sanjay Dutt as well as Paresh Rawal and Vicky Kaushal.

9. Padmaavat

Padmaavat is an epic period drama by Sanjay Leela Bhansali, loosely based on the epic poem Padmavat by Malik Muhammad Jayasi. It's a typical Sanjay Leela Bhansali who presented the era of Rajput and battle in a realistic way. The movie is a well directed and great performance by Deepika Padukone and Ranveer Singh.

10. October

October is a romantic drama by Soojit Sircar about the life of hotel-management intern who discovers a strange attraction towards fellow interns who accidentally get into to coma and takes care of her unconditionally and unconventionally. It's a very complicated story presented in a beautiful manner and an excellent performance by Varun Dhawan.

So these are my best 10 of 2018, let me know about yours.

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Searching (5/5)

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Searching: Following the Digital Footprint

Searching is a thriller film directed by Aneesh Chaganty set almost entirely on smartphones and computer screens. The film starts with a creating of profiles in Windows 95 of a small happy family of David Kim (John Cho), Michelle La (Pamela Nam Kim) and their daughter Margot (Alex Jayne Go) where movie progress with timelines of important events in their life. As story progress, Pamela dies from lymphoma after which David and Margot kind of become distant.

They are living their lives until one of the night Margot goes missing from a friend's house where she has gone to study. David is clueless as he never interacted and knows any of her friends and finally report her missing to the local cops. To uncover the mystery of her suddenly gone missing David logs into Margot computer and phone records to explore what exactly happened to her. Her digital footprint unravels lots of facts which was unknown to David and David tries to find her by connecting dots from whetaver he gathered from her computer and online activities. The movie takes you through David's perspective on how he relentlessly tries to find his daughter. 

After a long time, I have seen a movie with such perfection. It's amazingly made movie in each its frame and keeps you on the edge with your mind running as fast as a David Kim in the movie. A unique thing which came out was the way movie is shot through the computer and smartphone screens was simply amazing. Whether it is acting, direction, story, editing ... this one is a perfect movie from all the aspects. It certainly shows that you do not need a high budget and the heavy star to make great movies. I will be very disappointed if this movie doesn't get shortlisted for Oscar. 

Everyone must go for this one without a doubt !!

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Madaari - [ Thriller / Drama ] - (3/5)

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Madaari - 

Madaari is thriller directed by Nishikant Kamat, it's a story about a grieving father Nirmal Kumar (Irrfan Khan) who lost his son in tragedy which is caused by negligence of government.

In terms of taking his revenge from system he kidnaps the son of home minister Prashant Goswami (Tushar Dalvi) and ask the Home Minister to use all his power to find out the tragedy in which Nirmal had lost his son and bring the culprit to justice in front of world.
Prashant hires Nachiket Verma (Jimmy Shergill) who is Jt. Director of CBI to use entire government machinery and catch Nirmal Kumar.

Nirmal being a smart and techie guy smartly plans the kidnaps and always on move which makes impossible for entire government machinery to nab him. He smartly makes his demand heard and also uses social media to spread the message why he is doing that and gets public sympathy.

The movie plays around on apathy a common indian goes through from our corrupt insensitive systems and shows what happens when same thing happens to powerful people like a home minister. It will give you kind of feeling of "Wednesday" kind of movie.

Nishikant Kamat has delivered good movies in past and try his best here however after a point movies looks very predictable and looses it's thriller flavor. Irrfan Khan has done superb performance and overall the movie is a decent watch.

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Udta Punjab - [ Drama ] - (4/5)

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Udta Punjab - Trippy and High

Udta Punjab is hindi/punjabi drama film directed by Abhishek Chaubey based on drug menace & drug abuse which is happening in the state of Punjab. The movie starts with packet of heroine flying from Pakistan to India border which is caught by nameless labouor from Bihar (Alia Bhatt) who works on farm field there and entire events unfolds how drug cartel works in Punjab which introduces several main characters of movie. It shows UK based pop artist Tommy (Shahid Kapoor) who is always on drugs and has big fan base especially youth who are inspired by him to be high. Its has Dr. Preet (Kareena Kapoor) who works tirelessly to help the youth and kids who are addicted to drugs and also works as a social worker to stop unauthorized sale of drug through pharmaceuticals shops. Diljit Doshan plays corrupt cops as Sartaj Singh who is okay to make cut from drug smuggling but get his conscience back when he sees his own brother addicted and nearly get a life from drug abuse. The movie explain the drug cartel over Punjab through these characters as well as politics of drug business in beautiful way.

Abhishek's way of presenting the story is terrific and keeps you interested however the movie lacks it's speed in certain parts. The movie already has a great star cast but its Alia Bhatt's great performance will win you over. I am so impressed by her portrayal as Bihari laborer and her flawless acting as a matured actor. She is simply suberb. Another great delight is to watch Diljit Doshan who steered his character with simplicity and Kareena is also absolutely perfect in her role. Shahid's offer variation and given another superb performance as Tommy however at certain point you will find him bit over board. Abhishek's direction and cinematography is excellent especially the way movie is summarised at the end.

It's a great movie and I am glad high court made it release without any cuts, you must watch it.

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Captain America : Civil War - [ Action / Superhero ]

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Captain America : Civil War - Avengers at conflicts

Captain America, Civil War is superhero movie, a third one on a series of Captain America timed at event post Avengers : Age of Ultron incident in Sokovia. The movie start back in 1991 in one of mission by Hydra operative brain washed soldier Bucky Barnes (Sabastian Stan) intercept a car carrying a case super soldier serum and kills it occupants. It comes back to current time where Avengers are trying to stop Crossbones (Super Soldier) from stealing chemical weapon at Lagos. When Crossbone trying to self destruct and kill Steve Rogers "Captain America" (Chris Evans) with explosives, Wanda (Elizabeth Olsen) diverts the explosives to next building killing 11 innocents people. The collateral damages done by The Aviators in past few incidents catches world's attention and US Secretory Of States decides to put Avengers under UN body which was approved by 117 nations. Steve and few of his supporters doesn't agree on this whereas Tony Stark (Robert Dawney Jr.), Natasha (Scarlett Johansson), Vision agrees to sign the pact to go under UN so that there will be proper control on Avengers.

The movie shows Sokovian Helmut Zemo (Daniel Bruhl) who plans attacks in UN convention at Vienna by killing king of Wakanda and implicate Barnes "Winter's Soldier" for same. Helmut also discovers codes to activate Barnes to do destruction and kill Avengers. Steve and Barnes confront each other and Steve finds the conspiracy to implicate Barnes and show Avengers in a bad light to world. He tries to convince Tony that its not Barnes who needs to be captured as according Barnes there is still a lab in Siberia which can activate more super soldiers to create more destruction in the world. Tony does't agree to this and asks Steve and his team to surrender and that's where Avengers gets divided in two teams and confronts each other. The movie is about Helmut's smart plan to make Avengers kill each other.

I never gone to any superhero movie with great expectations but this one surprised me with amazing story line and on top of that putting each characters in the situation of vulnerability. Somehow Marvel realised that movie is different from comic and it fed the viewer of great story apart from their just power. It's a very well made movie and I don't mid saying it is much bigger and better then The Avengers series. As usual Robert Dawney Jr. stands out and he was funny especially when he tries to recruit Peter Parker "Spider Man" (Tom Holland) in his team. It also introduced a new character Prince of Wakanda T'Challa "Black Panther" (Chadwisk Boseman) and yeah return of Ant Man (Paul Rudd) was awesome. The fight between Steve's and Tony's team was just amazing as you can't get that much of action between super heroes ever again especially with their powers as well as wits.

It was a great entertainment, must watch.

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Spotlight - [ True Event ] - (5/5)

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Spotlight - Not so Good Godmen

Spotlight is movie based out of true event happened in 2001 regarding investigative journalism of Boston's famous newspaper The Boston Globe about sexual abuse of children by priests which was overlooked by cardinal and churches. The Boston Globe hires a new editor Marty Baron (Liev Schreiber)  who discovers Walter "Robby" Robinson (Michael Keaton) heads the "Spotlight" team, a small group of journalist whose articles are investigative in nature, but can take upto a year to publish. Baron points out a small column in paper about a pedophile priest John Geoghan and a lawyer who claims Cardinal Law (Arch Bishop of Boston) knew that Geoghan have been sexually abusing children but did nothing to stop him. Baron asks spotlight team to investigate it further. By connecting dots and joining broken pieces the team finds out it's not a matter of one priest abusing children but there are many such cases which was buried by churches and it's people. With in depth interviews and investigation they finds out there could be around 90 such priest in Boston alone who have been molesting as well sexually abusing kids for years. The spotlight  teams (Michael Rezendes (Mark Ruffalo), Sacha Pfeiffer (Rachel McAdams) as well few other journalist), prepares a strong story, however Baron still pushes them instead of taking on individual priests they must take it against the entire system where Cardinals & bigger authorities let these abuse happen and don't take any action against such bad as well as corrupt priests. Spotlight team then work out and make a strong story which gets published in early 2002 which gets huge responses and uncovers thousands of such cases across the world.

The movie has a theme of investigation where director Tom McCarthy does a superb job on keeping you engage through out the movie. Having superb cast of Michael Keaton, Liev Schreiber, Mark Ruffalo, Rachel McAdams, Stanley Tucci etc there is no doubt all given great performance however Mark Ruffalo stands out with his fierce full acting. It's an amazing movie and chills you by thinking how in the name of god things happens where people at large suffer silently against power of churches. A must watch movie and I won't be surprised if it wins Best Film in Oscar.

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Minions - [ Comedy / Animation ] - (3.5/5)

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Minions : History Of Finding Great Villain

First it was Puss in the boots, Penguins and now it's Minions a most loved characters from a great movie Despicable Me. Minions is a movie about history of Minions who have only one purpose which is to serve most villainous boss. They successfully finds several bosses  in history from T-Rex Dinosaur, Caveman, Dracula, Pharaoh to Neoploeon and every time they screw up something, so they decided to Isolate them shelves and live the life in Antarctica. The lack of a master drives them into depression, so fearless lead Minion Kevin comes up with a plan to find a new one for his Minion-kind with another rebel Minions Bob and Stuart. The movie is about their plan to discover new boss and mis-adventures when they land after meeting Scarlet (Sandra Bullock).

As usual Minions makes you laugh and rollover with their extra cuteness and funny, however the story lacks it soul which they had in Despicable movies with Gru. Still it is fun to watch for the sake of our fanaticism with Minions.

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Jurassic World - [ Action / Adventure ] - (2.5/5)

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Jurassic World : Another Dinosaur On The Run

Just like previous Jurassic Park movies, the plot are nearly same. After twenty two years of accident at Jurassic Park, a theme park populated with cloned dinosaurs with more security. To get more funding for the park Simon Masrani (Irrfan Khan), owner of Jurassic World and Dr. Henry Wu (B.D. Wong), scientist on InGen creates a dinosaur called Indominus Rex, designed by using the DNA of several predatory dinosaurs and modern-day animals. This genetically designed dinosaur is not only is deadliest but also has intelligence to put a trap, kill for fun, communicate with other dinosaur, camouflage etc. With it's intelligence he breaks his cells and on the run by killing every moving things comes in front of him. There are also raptors which was trained by Owen Grady (Chris Pratt) which Vic Hoskins, head of InGen security, believes raptors can be trained for military use, but Owen disagrees.

With Indominus out on open which is threat to thousands of Jurassic World visitors, Owen and Jurassic World Operation Manager Claire Dearing (Bryce Dallas Howard) plans to kill Indominus by attacking it with trained Raptors. The movie is about how to finally kill the dinosaur to save humans which is created by humans only and finish it with great special effects & action sequences.
It is one of those movies which you can't avoid but know what to expect out of it. For me it's an average make quite similar to what we expect from our Indian 100 crore plus blockbuster movies. No wonder this movie is highest grossing movie worldwide with same logic.

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Dil Dhadakne Do - [ Comedy / Drama ] - (4/5)

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Dil Dhadakne Do - A Family High On High Sea

Dil Dhadakne Do is an ensemble family comedy drama directed by Zoya Akhtar. It's a story about a multi-millionaire family of Mehra's who is on the verge of Bankruptcy. Kamal Mehra (Anil Kapoor) is struggling with his business empire which used to be successful and has troubled relationship with his wife Neelam (Shefali Shah) but pretends to be great couple in the eyes of society. They have two children, one is Ayesha (Priyanka Chopra) who is self-made successful business woman but her success was always ignored by her father Kamal Mehra and her husband Manav (Rahul Bose) as they wanted her to do the duties of typical Indian woman and start family. Their another child Kabir (Ranveer Singh) who is expected to take a rein of family business but he has a dream to become pilot. 

In order to save their business, Kamal Mehra plans his 30 year anniversary bash in 10 days Cruise in European shores and the entire drama unfolds in that journey which brings this broken family together.

Zoya has unique style of storytelling through ensemble cast in the background of an exotic trip and she has proved her mettle with her third movie which keeps audience interested in the characters she builds in her story. The casting is done in superb way to make it believe story with it’s own shocking values with tinge of humour. As the movie casts best of the actors from the industry however according to me the ones who still stand among them are Anil Kapoor and Shefali Shah. Priyanka Chopra carries the emotion of new age successful yet suppressed woman with perfection and Ranveer Singh looks energetic with complete control of his character as young & confused rich boy. The story is funny and will pinch you about the reality as well as illusions in society we live in.

I loved this movie and yes, it was hat-trick for Zoya after Luck By Chance and Zindagi Na Milegi Dobaara. Go for it.

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Mad Max - Fury Road : [ Action ] (2/5)

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MAD MAX - FURY ROAD : Noisy Battle

Mad Max is an Australian movie setup in a future dessert wasteland where civilisation is collapsed after a nuclear war. Max (Tom Hardy) is a war survivor, captured by War Boys and used as Blood Bag for sick war boy Nux (Nicholas Hoult). The entire population of survived city Citadel is ruled by ruthless Joe (Hugh Keays-Byrne) who deprive his people of water & food and have few wives which are termed as breeders. Furiosa (Charlize Theron) is Joe's Imperator drives heavily armored War Rig to collect gasoline and goes off track. Joe's realises his five wives are missing and command his troop to capture Furiosa. Nux in order to get Joe's attention drives to capture her by tying Max in his armored vehicle. Max manages to escape and capture's Furiosa and War Rig and try to escape and in turns helps Furiosa & five wives to go to "Green Place".  The movie is about fully loaded action of the chase and fights between Max and Joe's army.

No doubt movie is full will marvelously done action sequence but I found it an ordinary movie, not much to the hype the way it was released. It has great sounds and stunts. Tom Hardy is tough as Max and the whatever the interesting thing in this movie, it belongs to Charlize Theron.

I know it is getting rave review, but for me it's an average movie and I am still wondering why this movie is termed as Feminist Cult.

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NH10 - [ Thriller / Action ] - (4/5)

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NH10 - Highway to hell

NH10 is a thriller drama directed by Navdeep Singh. This is a story about a working married couple Meera (Anushka Sharma) and Arjun (Neil Bhoopalam) who lives in posh circle of Gurgaon. Arjun plans a holiday where they chose to travel by road through NH10 and while on road they encounter a group of goons was beating a couple and abducting them where Arjun confronts one of the goon and get slapped. While continuing their journey they encountered the SUV of goons where Arjun finds them to execute honor killing. Arjun and Meera tries to escape and the movie about their struggle and behavior of police, villagers in belt where law stands nothing to anyone.

The movie was well made from beginning and all sequences are well shot. It brings ugly picture of North India where women are unsafe and crimes like shooting toll operator over toll takes place in daylight. It keeps on the edge and Anushka Sharma was excellent throughout. It is a good watch.

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Dum Laga Ke Haisha - [ Romantic Drama ] - (5/5)

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Dum Laga Ke Haisha - Big is beautiful

Dum Laga Ke Haisha (DLKH) is romantic drama setup in Haridwar city where Prem (Ayushmann Khurana) lives a mediocre life as cassette shop owner. He is a school drop out and his family arranges his marriage without his consent to an educated however over weight girl Sandhya (Bhumi Pednekar) assuming she can help family by doing some job. Prem never liked Sandhya because she was fat and try to ignore her and finally insults her among his friend in one of social function. Sandhya being an educated girl leaves him and files for divorce where court asks the couple to spend 6 months together to see if they can work it out. In the backdrop to save Prem's business from competition he was challenged to participate in race contest called DKLH where husband carries his wife on his back. The movie is about how they build their relationship from pieces which gets concluded in DKLH contest.

The movie is a master piece in terms of screenplay and the characterisation of each cast. The writer and director took bold attempt to break the cliche and brought the real life situation which happens in actual events across India. It celebrates the simplicity of love & relationships and also represent that how stereotyping personalities affects our lives. Ayushmann and Bhumi was superb in their performance which was also supported by entire supporting casts of movie in perfect manner and finally Sharat Katariya direction is just flawless.

It's a great fun and simply the best movies of 2015 so far, go for it. 

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Foxcatcher - [ Biography, Drama, Sports ] - (4/5)

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Foxcatcher - Death Of Sport

Foxcatcher is a biographical true story produced and directed by Bennett Miller. The film's plot is based on multimillionaire E.I. du Pont family heir and wrestling enthusiast John E. du Pont (Stave Carell) who is wrestling enthusiast and run a sport academy called Foxcatcher to train american wrestlers for Olympics. du Pont hires Olympic gold medallist US wrestlers Mark Schultz (Channing Tatum) and his older brother, Dave (Mark Ruffalo), to help coach US wrestlers for participation in National, World, and Olympic competition. The movie is about clash of personalities between Mark and du Pont where Dave tries to help his brother to not to let him broken by series of incidents between several Olympics matches and the conflicts among them which led to subsequent murder of Dave by du Pont.

It’s a very well made movie and it will shock you with it’s true storyline. Bennett Miller direction makes characters and incident more than a real and Steve Carell and Mark Ruffalo will delight you with their excellent performance. Channing Tatum who is well known for it’s commercial movies is fabulous in his role as Mark Schultz. It’s a great watch.

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Boyhood - [ Drama ] - (5/5)

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Boyhood - American Beauty Revisited !!!

Boyhood is an American drama film, written and directed by Richard Linklater which was shot over the course of 12 year period from 2012 to 2013. It’s a movie about a boy Mason Evans, Jr. played by Ellar Coltrane who is living with his single mother Olivia (Patricia Arquette) and older sister Samantha (Lorelei Linklater) and growing up around Texas where his mom is consistently moving because of her struggle as single mother. The movie is about realistic representation of life of a boy who is spending his childhood with different father that his mother comes across and his own struggle to become independent by himself. The movie also stars Ethan Hawke as Mason Evans who is his biological father and who keeps meeting Mason and Samantha but has his own independent life.

The uniqueness of movie is the perfection in which Richard has presented this drama about a simple story in more realistic manner. His passion to show this drama reflects in his work where he shot the movie with all cast for 12 years the time which was shown in the story. The cast is superb and Patricia Arquette and Ethan Hawke stand out as a great actor with their perfect performance. The movie is bit lengthy and goes bit slow in some places however it is a good watch if you have patience for such cinema.

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Whiplash - [Drama] - (4/5)

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Whiplash - Beaten up Beats

Whiplash is an American Drama film about Andrew Neiman (Miles Teller) who is a first-year jazz student at New York's prestigious Shaffer Conservatory music school. He aspires to become a great drummer and become a part of team conducted by Terrence Fetcher (J.K. Simmons) who is really a fearsome teacher and perfectionist to the core. The movie is about Andrew’s struggle to become the best and agony he goes through after repetitive rejection by Terrence which compels him to give the best solo performance as drummer.

It is a very intense movie and shows the passion of music artiste, it shows teachers apathy to get best from his student and push him to achieve what was never ever achieved by anyone. It’s a great movie with amazing direction and performance by Miles Teller and JK Simmons and not to mention the music which makes is one of the best movies ever made about music. Simply Superb !

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Nightcrawler - [ Crime / Thriller ] - (4.5/5)

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Nightcrawler: After Dark Breaking News

Nightcrawler is an American crime-thriller written & directed by Dan Gilory. The film revolves around Lou Bloom played by Jake Gyllenhaal who at the beginning of movie is a small time thief desperately looking for any corporate job and lands up in starting shooting video footage of local crimes, accidents, etc. as freelance videographer to sell it to local news channel. Dan is a fast learner and imagines himself as a head of corporation while working as a Nightcrawler (a term for late night freelancer videographer) and also hire a co-worker Rick (Riz Ahmed) who helps him to locate & navigate to crime scenes by listening to Police Radios. Lou manages to sell his footage to Nina (Rene Russo) who is morning news director at local TV News Channel and looking for gory, violent crime and accident footage of affluent neighborhood of Los Angeles. The movie is about how Lou creates news footage to move himself up to the ladder and finally create a corporation “Video Production News” with a team of Nightcrawlers.

It’s an awesome movie with amazing screenplay and the way they build up Lou’s character and his hunger to be a guy who is perfect in his job and head of corporation is outstanding. This is one of the best performances by Jake Gyllenhaal where he really makes you believe in his character. The dialogs, editing, cinematography of LA Nights is simply superb. The movie depicts dangerous journalism where media likes sensationalising violence and create fear to their audience to get the best rating. It shows the dark side of news reporting and showcase to what extent these professionals can go to make news sensational and scary.

It’s an awesome thriller and highly recommended to watch it. 

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The Theory Of Everything - [ Biography ] - (4/5)

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The Theory Of Everything: Ahead Of His Time

The Theory Of Everything is biographical drama of a great scientist or possibly most intelligent man alive Professor Dr. Stephen Hawkings (Eddie Redmayne). This is a story about his life as a scientist and the challenges he faced with motor neuron disease which will make his body muscles un-cotrollable however his brain will remain active. While suffering from his disease and struggling to survive his life with wife Janne (Felicity Jones) and family, Stephen continues his work to define the Time and solve the mystery of universe. This is story about his fighting spirit and humility of his work which is helping mankind to find the reason "why we are here".

The movie is really well made with excellent direction and the best delight of movie is Eddie's performance which makes you believe the character he played of Hawkings with his flawless acting and expressions. Instead of focusing Science and his achievements the movie focused on Hawking's personal life and his wittiness. It's a great movie to know about such a personality

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Big Eyes - [ Drama / Biography ] - (3.5/5)

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Big Eyes - What is in a name of Artist?


Big Eyes a biographical drama set in 1950s of famous artist Margaret Keane (played by Amy Adams) whose work of unique type of paintings which shows small kids with Big Eyes was fraudulently by her then husband Walter Keane (played by Christoph Waltz) and their divorce over name of paintings made by Margaret.

Margaret Keane was quite shy lady who was struggling from her previous marriage and was trying to find a work in San Francisco along with her daughter meets Walter who was freelance painter and real estate agent. They fall in love and get married and Walter being effective sales man try to sell the paintings done by him and Margaret. Margaret unique styling of making big eyes in all her painting creates phenomenon interest among buyers, where Walter claims that all her painting was done by him and rise the hype of publicity. The movie is about Margaret struggle as a artist, wife and a women where she decides not to take any more and file a lawsuit to claim the fame of all her work.

It's a great direction by Tim Burton and fabulous performance of Amy Adams and wonderful Christoph Waltz, a good watch especially if you like slow pace drama and art.

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Ugly - [ Drama / Thriller ] - (4.5/5)

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Ugly - The Dark Dirty World

Ugly is a movie directed by Anurag Kashyap is about a girl Kali who get kidnapped when she was with her father, Rahul Kapoor played by Rahul Bhat who was divorced from Shalini played by Tejaswini Kolhapure who is married to angry police chief Soumik played by Ronit Roy. The moment Kali gets kidnapped and Rahul lodges police complaint the movie unfolds series of drama and shocking truth from kidnapping, ransom and how selfish any person can go in their greed even with their closest family members and friends. 

Like other movies of Anurag Kashyap, Ugly is perfect in all aspect except few loopholes in story where the dots can't be connected logically. The most unique thing about the movie is the several characters shown in movie and which was perfectly played by each actors by giving most realistic performance. Apart from superb direction, thrilling story line, the main thing stands out is Ronit Roy acting as an angry self obsessed cops who is hated and feared by everyone. Another delight is to watch Girish Kulkarni who played inspector Jadhav and Vineet Kumar Singh who played friend of Rahul Bhat.

Its definitely good watch if you love thriller and good cinema making.

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Gone Girl - [ Drama / Thriller ] - (5/5)

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Gone Girl : Shocking Reality

Superb, Fantastic, Shocking and Fantastic movie which will last in your mind for quite sometime.

Gone Girl is thriller drama about a couple Nick and Amy played by Ben Affleck and Rosamund Pike where Amy goes mysteriously missing on her fifth anniversary. Her disappearance gets huge media coverage, as Amy was the inspiration for her parents' popular Amazing Amy children's books. Her missing investigation reveals the bad relationships between couple and evidence shows that she has been possibly murdered by Nick. In parallel Nick tries to find her whereabouts through clues she left for anniversary and realises that she has setup the whole thing to make him suspect of her planned murder. The movie goes through very complicated twist and turns any more revelation will be spoiler for those who has not seen it yet.

David Fincher is as usual shows his perfection in movie making and the way story is presented by going back and forth in timelines. As a director he proved he has capability to handle varieties of genres like thriller such as Fight Club, Seven as well as personality based drama like Curious Case of Benjamin Button & The Social Network. He has done superb and deserves an Oscar for this one. The another delight of the movie is Rosamund Pike with her exceptional performance as Amy and yes Ben Affleck adds to the perfection. This movie is unpredictable and make you jaw open out of shock the way it has dealt the relationship and conspiracy behind it.

Indeed this is the best movie of 2014.

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