Informal Review

By Manish Surve The movie is a biopic of great mathematician Shakuntala Devi . The movie showcases her success of being a mathematician, astrologer and an author. It also showcases her family struggle of keeping her daughter together and with her troubling past. The effects used for maths during the movie are great. It connects us to the maths sums.  I don't have to say what character Vidya Balan is playing. You all know that. She is great as always. She is getting better and better by the time. Sanya Malhotra plays the role of Anu, daughter of Shakuntala Devi. Her acting is the highlight of the movie. Her character is the most difficult in the movie. She played it beautifully though. Her acting ability is really seen after the Dangal. Amit Sadh is having the best run of his career. This is his 3rd release and he is empressing in all his releases. Anu Menon did a splendid job in directing such a movie. She made the movie easy for all the audience by adding great humor in it. She...

 By Manish Surve 'Yaara' is the story of four friends who form a gang in the 80s named 'Chaukdi Gang'.The gang smuggles things between India and Nepal. It showcases friendship, politics and internal rivalry in a quiet way. The film moves backward in the story. The movie is a remake of French Movie 'Les Lyonnais ( A Gang Story)'. The movie picks up speed after 30 mins. The cast of the movie is star studded. Vidyut Jamwal plays 'Phagun' who is the leader of the gang. He is emotional and of course strong. It is quite surprising not seeing much of his flying stunts in the movie. Amit Sadh in the role of 'Mitwa' who is like brother to Phagun. He is childish. Vijay Verma as 'Rizwan' who is playboy and short tempered. Shruti Hassan as a love interest of Phagun doesn't get much time in the movie. Her character is underused in the movie. Sanjay Mishra gives a cameo in the movie. Tighmanshu Dulia as a director impresses but I expected ...

All the movie fans across the globe have seen or heard about the movie at least one time and the name of the movie is 'The Shawshank Redemption' . As l think it is the greatest movie ever made in the history of cinema. This movie makes you think what is right or wrong and it is hard to swallow. This movie got all the colours- friendship, betrayal, trust, hope, defamation, cruelty, innocence and many others. Despite all this the movie doesn't get any award at Oscars after getting nominated for 7 categories including Best Picture. Tom Hanks turned down the role of Andy Deufrane because of the conflicting schedules between his movie Forrest Gump. The movie was a box office failure because of the competition of Pulp Fiction and Forrest Gump. The movie became the first movie to be voted 2 millions times on IMDb. It is No.1 in the 'Top Rated Movies' till date. (There might be spoilers ahead if you haven't watched the movie but l don't think you haven't watch...

    By Manish Surve The movie resumes where it was left in the first part( So if you haven't watched it SPOILER ALERT!!!). Elle and Lee are now in senior year and enjoying the school's last year. Noah and Elle are struggling in a relationship due to long distance. Both of them get confused and a new boy comes into their life. The movie has all the elements that can be asked in a teen-romance. Most of the cast from the first movie is returned. Joey King as Elle once again impresses with her ability. Her playful character is the heart of the movie. Joel Courtney as Lee Flynn is the true friend. He always got Elle's back. His acting in emotional scenes dips down little. Jacob Elorid 's character as a Noah is changed from the first movie. His character is mature. He doesn't have much screen time compared to the first movie. Writing and direction of Vince Marcello is good. The screenplay of the movie is great but feels like the same old things we see in a teen rom-coms....

By Manish Surve The movie revolves around Kizie and Manny and their adventure with life and death. The storyline of the movie is different from the typical Bollywood rom-coms. The movie is a remake of 2014's 'The Fault In Our Stars' and loosely based on 2012's novel by the same name. I am not going to talk about any performances in this movie. The movie has its own emotion. The tragic event that happened is very sad and somehow it feels personal to me, maybe fault in our stars. So this is not a movie review . The movie is tribute to Sushant Singh Rajput so this review is. The feeling was different when I watched the movie. I felt the same when I watched Angrezi Medium after the demise of Irrfan Khan . This is the hardest review among all the reviews to write. The cast includes Sanjana Sanghi, Swastika Mukherjee, Sahil Vaid and Saif Ali Khan in cameo role. His cameo is one of the best cameos in Bollywood history.  Debutant director Mukesh Chhabra impresses you in h...

By INFORMAL REVIEW Kadakh is a film directed by Rajat Kapoor and the lead characters are played by Ranvir Shorey and Mansi Multani who are playing a couple named Sunl and Malti. Sunil has an extramarital affair and the woman's husband finds out. He comes to sunils house and commits suicide. The casting is spot on and each and every character nails the role, but the movie still feels a bit too stretched. The story had so much potential and the casting was great too, but the writing and direction was disappointing. The supporting cast includes some very big names like Manoj Pahwa, Rajat Kapoor, Kalki Koechiln etc.   The movie has so many layers but despite everything the film doesn't do justice to the initial buildup. The initial 15 mins and the last 15 minutes are the most exiting parts of the movie, but other than that the movie doesn't do much the expectation is raised as each supporting character enters the house. It’s a  film which i only 90 minutes long so its w...

By Manish Surve The movie describes Hugh Glass 's experiences in 1823. It showcases the struggle of Hugh Glass life. After he was attacked by a bear how he managed to survive is the main aspect of the movie. The movie has some layers of love, friendship, betrayal and vengeance. The movie is loosely based on the 2002 novel 'The Revenant'. Leonardo DiCaprio in the role of Hugh Glass nails it. His character barely has 10 minutes of dialogue in the whole movie. So it is all on his expressions. He earned 6th nomination for Oscars, winning it for the first  time. Tom Hardy plays the character of John Fitzgerald who is naive, short tempered and selfish. The role earned him his first Oscars.It is sad he didn't get the award. As some belive his performance was better than Leonardo DiCaprio . The supporting cast was also highly praised for their performances. Alejandro G. Iñàrritu directed this film phenomenally. He created a great environment for the movie. Most of the scen...