Film Review: Madaari

Date: July 22 2016

Director: Nishikant Kamath

Cast: Irrfan Khan, Vishesh Bansal, Jimmy Shergill

Rating: 3 stars***

The film opens with a voice over questionning that presuming there’s a fight between an eagle and a mouse, who would win? If the eagle wins, the story becomes predictible. If the mouse wins, the story is unrealistic, so the third end is the story ofMadaari.

An ordinary man/Irrfan Khan kidnaps the son of a powerful man, Home Minister/Tushar Dalvi and throws him a challenge.

This is not a regular cop and culprit chase. The issue is not ‘who’ but ‘why’. Shot on varied and fast changing locations within the interiors of India, the characters walk the sands, tan in the sun, sleep on chugging trains, ride in rickety buses and walk hungry for days.

What works about the film is the premise, the message and the intention. Director Nishikant Kamath has always displaced radical choice subjects beginning with his award winningDombivali Fast, later Mumbai Meri Jaan on bomblasts and recently debate on right and wrong in Drishyam. This time Kamath knocks on your concience and exposes those in power.

The problem with Madaari is we have been throug similar journeys of the common man in AWednesday and Traffic and the plot is devoid of surprises. The narrative is slow paced and the story unfairly hero centric. One misses the involvement of Rohan’s school, classmates and parents, particularly mothers of other students.

The main problem is the exaggerated climax. Would any minister under any dire circumstances ever visit a common man to resolve a crisis?

Jimmy Shergill as the investigating cop Nachiket is effective but almost invisible. Child star Vishesh Bansal is bright and cheeky but the film belongs solely to Irrfan Khan. As the dishevelled, unkempt kidnapper always on the move, Irrfan is merculrial and sparkling.

There is just one song in the film composed by Vishal Bharadwaj and another from Urdu poet Faiz Ahmed Faiz in the endcrdits and both add to the story telling.

Moral of the story: it is not necesaary for either the eagel or the mouse to conquer each other if both are accountable and ethical.
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Film Review: Kabali                                                         

Date: July 22 2016

Director: Pa Ranjith

Cast: Rajnikanth, Winston Chow, Radhika Aapte

Rating: whatever box-office determines

Time has stopped still for Rajnikanth since he started acting in films because in Kabali he is still the dreaded gangster serving a long imprisonment in Malaysian jail. When he is finally set free, Kabali has to look for his estranged family but before that he has to settle scores with old enemies who turned his life upside down.

In the next hour and half, bullets fire in the air and blood flows like a valley like it did in his films of the70s, the 80s, the 90s and the 2000 in that sense time has stood still for the superstar. He still wears sqeaky shinning shoes and walks erect with his collars up. He still flops on the sofa his arms stretched and one leg resting on the other and he still throws his goggles in the air and whistles.

Some things have changed undoubtedly, this time he wears salt pepper hair and does not gyrate with his beloved but gets emotioal with his wife Radhika Aapte.

Traveling three locations Malaysia – Thailand and TamilNadu and sprinkled in three dialectsKabali is strictly for Rajni sir fans only.

No point of rating the film because the superstar lives by his own rules.

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Fiction Writing…is it magic or logic…art or craft…inspiration or perspiration…gift or prize! 

Demystify the process of story writing with practical techniques. Unleash the writer within you and explore the world of stories with confidence!

This Is An Era Where Creativity Rules!

This is a Writers’ Workshop that has…Innovative exercises for story building.

Radical techniques for plot development

Practical solutions to writers’ block. Dynamic methods for characterization

A bold new approach to the imaginative side of the mind.

A chance to get published in a forthcoming anthology.

Duration: 2 days
Age Group: 14 years and upwards
Dates: July 30 – 31 (Sat – Sun), 2016
Time: 10.00 am to 5.00 pm
Venue: Living Bridge Training Centre, Aundh, Pune
Fees: Rs. 4600/- only (Including Lunch & Tea)

18, Omkar, Runanubandh Colony, Kotbagi Hospital Lane, Next to Delhi Kitchen, Aundh, Pune 411007
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Krian Pictures produced aur Syed Ahmed Afzal directed Laal Rang kahani hai government college mein padhte hue Shankar aur uske dost aur saathiyon ki.

Shankar yaane Randeep Hooda blood bank mein duty karte hue, khoon ka dhandha karta hai aur iss jurm mein uska saath dete hain, uske saathi aur uske class fellow.

Film ka plus: film ka powerful subject, Karnal ke khoobsoorat nazaare, 70 ke dashak ke Anil Dhawan ki yaad dilate hue Akshay Oberoi aur  galat angrezi confidently bolti hui Pia Bajpai.

Film ka minus: film lambi hai, dheemi hai aur kuch zyaada hi bikhri hui bhi.

Laal Rang bohat achi film ban sakti thi magar director ne ek hi kahani mein bohat saari kahaniyaan jodkar asal kahani ko kamzor bana diya.

Kaash, kahani dosti, pyaar, pariwar ki galiyon se na guzarti toh shayad laal rang aur bhi nikhar kar aata.

Inn khaamiyon ke bawajood Laal Rang dekhni chahiye Randeep Hooda ke dilchasp kirdaar Shankar ke liye…

Laal Rang ko Big Entertainment Ratings milte hain 3 stars jisme se 1 star sirf Randeep Hooda ke liye hai.

Color Yellow & Jar Pictures produced Nil Battey Sannata kahani hai 10vi class mein padhti bohat hi zyaada tez aur natkhat Apeksha aur uski hasmukh aur bohat hi mehnati maa Chanda ki.

Film ka plus: film ki anokhi kahani, manmohak kirdaar, ensemble performances aur film ki nek neeyat.

Aam taurpar, ek film mein ek hi mudda hota hai, magar iss film mein, director kahani se na bhatakte hue, khel khel mein, kaii muddein uthati hain.

Jaise, education, parenting, girl child, working class aur sab se badhkar, dignity of labour.

Isse hum rishton ki kahani keh sakte hain, atma-vishwas ki kahani keh sakte hain aur swabhimaan ki kahani bhi keh sakte hain.

Film ka minus: mere hisab se kuch bhi nahi balke nuksan unka hoga jo ye film nahi dekh payenge

Kyon ki wo Swara Bhaskar, Ria Shukla, Ratna Pathak aur Pankaj Tripathi se nahi mil payenge.

Kuch filme humara manoranjan karti hain, kuch hume paath padhati hain aur kabhi kabhi, kuch filme humara nazariya badal deti hai.

Aisi saaf suthri, dil se nikli Nil Battey Sannata ki puri team ko, taaliyon ke saath Big Entertainment Ratings milte hain 4 stars.

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Dhai Akshar is a non profit organization registered with the charitable trust, a centre for learning for underprivileged children in Aram Nagar, Andheri West.

It believes in nurturing street children by inculcating good values through appreciation of art and culture in different forms which goes a long way in building their characters and aquiring them with self esteem both necessary for personal growth.
The NGO accomplishes this through various workshops in art, theatre, dance and excursions and ofcourse education.

Recently, Dhai Akshar launched a film appreciation workshop where experts exposed these children to good cinema, Indian and international.

The teachers and the group are able to do this and more because they have on board distinguished professionals who guide them in different arts and crafts.

If you are privileged and feel you can part with some money you make with these deserving kids  you may send a cheque of whatever amount to Nyla Masood Founder/ Managing Trustee Dhai Akshar Educational Trust +91 9820087571 nylamas@gmail.com projectdhaiakshar@gmail.com

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Purva Naresh will bring alive the various hues of a modern wedding sangeet ceremony and the complexities of familial relationships in her latest offering.The play, the third out of five plays that are being staged under the Aadyam banner, will be performed three times over May 7 and 8 at theSt.Andrews, Bandra. Aadyam is a cultural initiative by the Aditya Birla Group. 

 Ladies Sangeet opens with a household that’s buzzing with wedding preparations. The oldest daughter of the house Radha, 23 is about to wed to Manas, 28, a man from an affluent family. Everyone is happy and chirpy as the music-filled house resonates with joy and cheer. Radha is as nervous as she is excited because she has been dreaming of her wedding since she was 13 but apart from what she has read in books she has no idea of what it actually entails after the bonhomie.

Actress Madhuri Dixit is the brand ambassador of Jungee and is proud to support the seven day festival.

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