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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Sultan - [ Drama / Action ] - (4/5)

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Sultan - King of the Ring

Sultan is movie about long forgotten wrestler from a small town in Haryana who was ex-gold medalist and world champion in wrestling.  The movie sets up in current time where Aakash Oberoi (Amit Sadh), the founder of a private mixed martial arts league, who was losing money on the sport and encouraged by his father to hire an Indian wrestler Sultan (Salman Khan) to save league popularity in India. Aakash travels to Haryana to make offer to Sultan which is bluntly rejected as Sultan retired himself from wrestling.

Aakash finds out the reason of Sultan's retirement through a flashback story narrated by Govind (Anant Sharma), where Sultan falls in love with Aarfa (Anushka Sharma), a state-level woman wrestler. The story goes back in days when Sultan was no one but get himself into wrestling to win's Aarfa's heart and getting married to her. Sultan's dedication makes him best wrestler in country and he wins all accolades which makes him bit arrogant about himself and he loses his newborn son because of anemia when he was in tour for world championship. This incidence breaks the relationship between Sultan and Aarfa and Sultan decides never ever to get back to ring and gets separated from Aarfa while doing fundraising for a blood bank so that no other baby dies with anemia in his town. Aakash learns this and convince Sultan that how his return to fight can help him to come over this guilt as well as help him his dream to build a blood bank in his town. Sultan decides joins back all new level of mixed martial art league which is quite a different from wresting and finds out he is not fit to fight such a unique sport. Aakash puts him with aggressive trainer Fateh Singh (Randeep Hooda) who prepares him to fight the league. Sultan fights the leagues against all odds and the movie shows his fighting spirit amidst the emotional turmoil he goes through.

Well, Sultan is amazingly well written movie with great direction from Ali Abbas Zafar. This movie completely belongs to Salman Khan with for a change his amazing & perfect acting as an ageing struggling wrestler. Anushka Sharma is brilliant and looked so refined with her performance. The movie is so well balanced with story line and all it's character. The real delight of movie is it's honesty, originality, music, thrills and amazing dialog delivery by each characters in movie.

After long time it's really a delight to see such a great hind film, its awesome entertainer.

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Deadpool - [ Action / Superhero ] - (5/5)

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Deadpool - Funny Man

Deadpool is superhero movie based on Marvel's comic character of the same name. It;'s the eighth installment of X-men series by adding one character in X-Men category.

Wade Wilson (Ryan Reynolds) is a former special forces operative who works as mercenary in New York City. He meets escort Vanessa (Morena Baccarin) and falls in love. He proposes her for marriage but realises that he has terminal cancer which can't be cured. A mysterious recruiter of a secret program approaches Wade and offers him cure to his cancer in liueu to hire him for some secret missions. Wade initially refuses but later agrees to go for this experiment by Ajax (Ed Screin) and Angel Dust (Gina Carano). Ajax injects Wade with serum design to awaken mutant gene and make him go throuogh days of torture to trigger the mutation. Ajax and Wade goes through ugly confrontation which makes Ajax put Wade in airtight chamber which raises and lowers level of Oxygen to dangerous level to torture him more which accidentally cures Wade's cancer along with mutation power of self heal, however it burns his entire skin badly. The movie is about Wade revenge from Ajax and him getting back to Vanessa.

On the surface it looks like simple and ordinary story but Deadpool's stands out remarkably on it's presentation with awesome screenplay. The characterization of each characters are awesome and Ryan Reynolds humor timing with non stop comedy punches always keeps you smiling through out the movie. This superhero movie is not about saving the world but more about it's own personality and that's what it makes it stand out in nearly similar plots of lots of superhero movies.
I enjoyed each frame of it, go have fun with Deadpool...... ya... also wait and watch small caption after titles rolls up.

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Manjhi : The Mountain Man - [ Drama ] - (5/5)

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Manjhi : The Mountain Man - Ain't no mountain high enough

Manjhi - The Mountain Man is a true story about Dashrath Manjhi, a low caste poor labourer who alone carved a path through a mountain using only a hammer and chisel. The movie goes back and forth in times through 1960s and 1970s about a life of Dashrath Manjhi (Nawazuddin Siddiqui), a poor labourer from small village Gehlaur, Bihar which is situated near small town Wazirganj across huge rock mountain hill. The villagers had to either climb across mountain hill or travel around to gain access to Wazirganj town for essentials and basic medical care. 

The movie start showcasing caste disparity in Gehlaur where land owner Mukhiya (Tigmanshu Dhulia) exploits lower caste villagers by making them his lifetime bonded labour. Dashrath refuse to be bonded labour and flees from his village during his teens and he returns back when he is all grown up. As per tradition he got married in his childhood and when returns meet his wife from child marriage Phaguniya (Radhika Apte). He loves Phaguniya passionately and was trying to make his own small world within the village till the time Phaguniya fell down from mountain and dies. Phaguniya's death and his inability to take her to closest medical aid in Wazirganj in time motivates Dashrath to break mountain and carve a path through it. Dashrath is being ridiculed by Villagers and his own father but his determination to see hope and dream to have a road through solid rock mountain hills makes impossible things possible.

The main character of the movie Dashrath is a small guy but has persona of larger than life. At one side it reflects real issues our country faces in villages especially for poors and low caste population and at the same time it shows strong human spirit to overcome such challenges. Ketan Mehta's direction is perfect with amazing cinematography and great dialog writing. The narrative sequence is done well to explain the story. Above all, this movie completely belongs to Nawazuddin Siddiqui with his great performance where he pulled the entire movie on his lone shoulder. He is perfect in each frame and you will be delighted with his performance.

I am giving this movie 5 star for it's attempt to put such a great story and irony of our country when even after 22 years of Dashrath's struggle it took indian government 30 years to build real road there. Its a story about triumph of Indian Spirit and Failure of our political system which is still nearly at same state.

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PK - [Comedy/Drama) - (4/5)

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PK - Alien's faith and fate

PK, is a comedy-drama film by Rajkumar Hirani about an alien (played by Aamir Khan) with a body similar of human body who lands on earth in search for another liveable planet and get stranded in Rajasthan because his remote device to connect to his spaceship get stolen. Just like a child who doesn’t understand language, norms he tries to learn from people around and try to find his remote control so that he can go back to his planet. While he was trying to understand the society and behaviour of people on earth he gets confused on a lot of behavioural aspects especially related to sexuality, religion and theory of god. His curiosity about finding god in all religion makes him interesting and famous character while he directly takes it against religious preachers through media.

Ok, Rajkumar Hirani has a midas touch to bring drama, humour and emotion in celluloid with a strong social message to take away with it. PK has strong characterisation and entire movie is carried on shoulder of Aamir Khan where he delivered probably best performance till date. Sanjay Dutt delights us in small cameo and Anoushka has mattured has an actror though we missed Boman Irani’s impact which he had in other Raju Hirani’s movie. The biggest drawback of movie is it’s climax especially a TV debate which raise your expectation and conclude as kid dish climax to such a grand movie. However overall it is a good watch, I am giving it 4 star because of it’s experimental subject and great performance and yes hardly we see big budget commercial movie in India which has little sense in the story.

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