Golmaal Again

Golmaal Again

hindi   October 22, 2017

Ghost based comedy movie is Golmaal Again. Gopal (Ajay Devgan), Madhav (Arshad Warsi), Lucky (Tusshar Kapoor), Laxman Prasad (Shreyas Talpade) and Laxman (Kunal Khemu) are brought up in an orphanage, run by Jamnadas (Uday Tikekar). One day they find a little girl left in a basket at the gates of their orphanage, they name her Khushi (Parineeti Chopra). Anna (Tabu) is a librarian there and has a special power to see and interact with ghosts.

Years pass by and one day while playing cricket, Gopal (who is afraid of ghosts) hits the ball into a locked bunglow and kids ask him to fetch the ball as he was the one who hit it. While Gopal goes inside, other kids scare him and they all get into a fight. Jamnadas punishes them and they all leave the orphanage. Gopal and Laxman Prasad stick together and the other 3 separate. Kushi is told to have been adopted by a couple.

Years later, they come back to the orphanage for Jamnadas's funeral. Their they meet Anna and Colonel (Sachin Khedekar). At the funeral, they meet Vasu Reddy (Prakash Raj) who claims that Jamnadas had given him the right to manage the orphanage and that he is going to get this shifted to Bangalore from Ooty. No one has any problem but he cannot get Anna and Colonel to vacate and he needs to get that vacated to execute his Business plan as their bunglow is in an adjoining plot to the orphanage

Vasu Reddy sends his gang (Madhav, Lucky and Laxman) to get the bunglow vacated. They (5 heros) stay in the bunglow with Anna, housemaid and Colonel. Byt they do not know that the housemaid is Kushi's ghost. As the movie unfolds, Kushi's ghost explains the intentions of Vasu Reddy and Nikhil (Neil Nitin Mukesh) and how they murdered her and Jamnadas.

The team of 5 along with Kushi's ghost and Anna device a plan to get Vasu to confess and just when is about to confess, Nikhil enters the scene and explains Vasu that they are trying to get him to confess. Ghost shows its powers to Nikhil and gets the evidence to their police friend..

Verdict: Okay movie..

A Gentleman

A Gentleman

hindi   October 20, 2017

Gaurav (Sidharth Malhotra) is in Miami, US and works in Sales department of a Company. He has recently purchased a house and a mini-van. He seems like an ordinary person and parallely we see Rishi (Sidharth Malhotra 2nd role) who works with Colonel Vijay (Suniel Shetty) with others as part of Unit X - part of Indian Spy. Rishi has been doing this for quite a few years and wants to quit and parallely we are shown that one of his missions is to intercept and extract information from a person called Gaurav, who is bringing in valuable information, worth 11 million USD. While Rishi is going to meet Gaurav, we think that the 2 versions of the same looking actors on the scene but just now we understand that Gaurav and Rishi are the same. Rishi is approached by a member of NSC (National Security Council) and he tells Rishi that the last few missions headed by Colonel were rouge and were not approved by Indian Government. Colonel also comes to know that Rishi is going to double-cross him and he has his team kill Rishi once Rishi gets the data drive from Gaurav. But Rishi escapes and uses Gaurav's identity to travel to US.

In the rest of the movie is about how Rishi/Gaurav comes out of this mess

Verdict: The first half was a bit confusing, but it was executed very well.

Simran

Simran

hindi   October 20, 2017

Praful (Kangana Ranaut) and her parents live in Atlanta, US. She is one of the house keeping staff in a hotel. She tries to save money and buy a house in the US but her father is not into it. Her friend invites her to join her in Las Vegas for a weekend and while she is there, she gambles & wins $2,000. She instantly becomes fond of gambling and wants to gamble more and eventually loses all her savings (close to $8,000). Her friend literally pulls her out of the place and puts her in the flight back to Atlanta.

When she is back, the bank informs her of her poor credit history and that she has spent $8,000 in just one day and rejects her loan. Frustrated, she arranges for more money (from where!?!) and goes back to Vegas in an attempt to win back, but loses terribly again. She gets drunk and takes $32,000 loan from a private money lender against her Social Security Card (US's Aadhar Card) & Driver's license and loses that too

The private lender follows her back home and asks her to pay-back $50,000 with interest. She doesn't have that much money and tries her hand in robbing banks! She robs a total of 4 banks and collects $42,000 and keeps it in her workplace but due to lack of her focus on work, she gets suspended. The manager at workplace finds out that she has been stealing and takes all her money. The private lender gets impressed by her "smartness" and gives her a gun and asks her to rob another bank. She successfully robs $90,000 and on her way back, gets chased by police. She leads the police to the manager and gets him arrested and surrenders herself.

Verdict: Worst movie, I don't understand what is the message that's being conveyed in this movie !

Mubarakan

Mubarakan

hindi   October 20, 2017

"Confusion" is the mantra of this comedy movie. Karan & Charan (Arjun Kapoor dual role) are twins and their parents die in a car accident. They are raised separately, within the same family - Karan in London and Charan in Punjab. They both have a girlfriend and do not have the guts to discuss this with their parents, which leads to confusion after confusion to the extent that they both get engaged with each other's girl-friends.

Kartar Singh (Anil Kapoor), who plays Karan & Charan's uncle is the epicentre of all the confusion that is caused - just like the knots created by ear-phone in your pocket and finally he clears the confusion he had created and everyone lives happily ever after

Verdict: Funny movie, but with so much is happening in such a short time, it probably would not create strong impact.

Mersal

Mersal

tamil   October 19, 2017

The film starts where Vadivu (Vadivel) kidnaps a few people in an ambulance. This is investigated by Police lead by Rathnavel (Sathyaraj) and they find out where the hide-out is. When they come to arrest the kidnapper, they meet Vijay (Dr. Maaran). During interrogation, he narrates his flashback and tells Rathanavel that he is not Dr. Maaran but Vetri (Vijay, 2nd action). Dr. Daniel (S.J.Surya) who happens to see one of Dr. Maaran's interview on TV on why he charges only Rs.5/- from his patients, comes to meet Dr. Maaran, thinking he is Vetri.

The flashback of who Dr. Maaran and Vetri are, why Dr. Daniel is looking for Vetri reveals that Dr. Maaran and Vetri are brothers and Dr. Daniel was helping their father Vetrimaaran (Vijay, 3rd action) in the hospital that Vetrimaaran built in their village. Dr. Daniel, who is business minded, gets the hospital transferred to his name and Maaran's mother Aishwarya (Nithya Menen) dies soon after she delivers Vetri, who is assumed dead on delivery. Dr. Daniel tries to run away from the hospital and when Vetrimaaran tries to follow, Dr. Daniel's gundas kill Vetrimaaran. Now, Vetri and Dr. Maaran understand their past and join hands to avenge Dr. Daniel.

Verdict: Very average movie, nothing great - neither story nor screenplay

Goutham Nanda

Goutham Nanda

telugu   October 14, 2017

Gautham (Gopichand) is the only son of Vishnu Prasad (Sachin Khedekar), who is a billionaire. Vishnu appears on Forbes magazine and Gautham celebrates this with his friends. One of the old waiters spill something on him inadvertently for which Gautham slaps him, asking him if he knows who he was. The old waiter's question back to him as the response wakes his consciousness and he understands that he has not achieved anything and is living a luxurious life from his father's money only. He feels very bad and drives his car recklessly, trying to commit suicide.

He stops his car, just before he hits a person on the highway and to his surprise, the other person, Nanda (Gopichand - dual role), is a xerox copy of him. Nanda explains Gautham that he is committing suicide due to lack of money in his lower-middle class house. They agree to live in each other's life for the next 30 days, i.e. Gautham in lower-middle class home in search of meaning, emotions etc... in his life and Nanda in the luxurious house.

As events unfold, Gautham likes the lower-middle class love and affection and Nanda becomes addicted to money to the extent that he tries to kill Gautham along with his parents and his sister. How Gautham proves that he is Gautham and comes out of this is the movie

Verdict: Not the first of its kind, but very entertaining movie

Thappu Thanda

Thappu Thanda

tamil   October 14, 2017

This is a nicely executed suspense movie. Till the fag end of the movie, you'll keep wondering if the lead character (Vetri) is a double role or not

Vetri comes to his friend's house from his village in search of some job. His friend is working for the MLA and is helping him distribute a huge sum of money to the public before election. Vetri joins a 'Thief Academy' to learn how to steal from people. The students in that academy and Vetri make a plan to swindle the money in transit. Police finds this our and ceases the money. Vetri double-crosses the team, steals the money from the police and escapes.

Miller, the investigating police officer, from whom Vetri stole the money, finds another person who looks exactly same like Vetri so he takes him to station and thrashes him to get him accept the crime. But he repeatedly is able to see from media and other proofs that the captured individual is not Vetri but works in a BPO.

After the court trials, the captured individual is released but the MLA captures Miller and the innocent and has his men kill them

Till this time, viewers think that Vetri and the innocent individual are 2 different people but infact they are one and the same.

The core of the film is that the information or "news" shown in the media can be manipulated and can make public believe something that might not be true.

Verdict: Nicely executed movie. The cast might not have any super-hit people, but the content and execution was very nice. Worth the watch. However, the first half was a bit slow and could have been better.