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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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.

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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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The Committee chaired by Shri Shyam Benegal submitted major part of their recommendation to Hon’ble Union Minister of Information & Broadcasting, Shri Arun Jaitley this evening. Following are the major highlights of the report –

1. An emphasis on certification over censorship (or so it claims)-CBFC should only be a film certification body whose scope should be restricted to categorizing the suitability of the film to audience groups on the basis of age and maturity except in the following instances to refuse certification –
   • When a film contains anything that contravenes the provisions of Section 5B (1) of the Cinematograph Act, 1952.
   • When content in a film crosses the ceiling laid down in the highest category of certification.

“A film shall not be certified for public exhibition if, in the opinion of the authority competent to grant the certificate, the film or any part of it is against the interests of [the sovereignty and integrity of India] the security of the State, friendly relations with foreign States, public order, decency or morality, or involves defamation or contempt of court or is likely to incite the commission of any offence.”

2. More categories of certification, more leeway-Regarding the categorisation of films, the committee recommends that it should be more specific and apart from U category, the UA Category can be broken up into further sub-categories — UA12+ & UA15+. The A category should also be sub-divided into A and AC (Adult with Caution) categories.
3. Curbing potential ‘reigns of terror’-The committee has also made certain recommendations regarding the functioning of the board and has stated that the Board, including Chairman, should only play the role of a guiding mechanism for the CBFC, and not be involved in the day-to-day affairs of certification of films.
4. The government will have no (direct) hand in appointing Examining Committee members, but will this work?-Regarding the Regional Advisory Panel the committee has laid down the criteria for appointment. All nine regions will have advisory panels comprising persons who are acquainted with the languages being certified by that regional office.
   • Members from all walks of life, recommended by the National Film Development Corporation to the Central Government – 25%
   • Members of the general public recommended by the FFSI (Federation of Film Societies of India) – 25%
   • Members recommended by the National Council for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) and National Commission of Women (NCW)- 25%
   • Representatives of the local film industry, as recommended by FFI (Film Federation of India) – 25%
   • Women to have 50% representation on each Panel.
5. The board will, once again, have the power of re-certifying films for TV-Recertification of a film for purposes of telecast on television or for any other purpose should be permitted.
6. The CBFC-certified version of a film will not be valid for posterity-“In order to preserve Indian Cinema, the committee recommends that every applicant be asked to deposit the Director’s Cut in the NFAI [National Film Archive of India] for preservation of Indian Cinema, instead of the certified version, in order to truly reflect the cinematic history of Indian cinema.”
7. Perhaps fewer films will be banned arbitrarily?-In the event that complaints are received by the Central Government, the same shall be referred to the CBFC. The Chairperson may, if he considers it necessary to do so, refer the film to a Revising Committee for examination once again, on account of alleged violation of Section 5B(1) of the Cinematograph Act, 1952.

Other members of the Committee are Shri Kamal Hassan, Shri Rakeysh Om Prakash Mehra, Shri Piyush Pandey, Shri Goutam Ghose, Ms. Bhawana Somaaya, Ms. Nina Lath Gupta, MD, NFDC and Shri K. Sanjay Murthy, Joint Secretary (Films) as Member-Convenor.

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