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Raees Fails To Deliver The Goods     The film tells a fictitious story of a cruel and clever bootlegger, Raees, played by Shah Rukh Khan whose business is highly challenged by a tough cop Majumdar played by Nawazuddin Siddiqui. Although inspired by the real life story of the notorious Gujarat bootlegger Abdul Latif, the makers of Raees have had to deny that it was a film based on a true story after the son of   Abdul Latif, Mushtak, sent them a legal notice, asking how or why a film on his father's life was being made. He even demanded ₹101 crore as compensation. Set in early 1970's to 1990's Gujarat, Raees is about a boy with humble beginnings, who sets up an empire by smuggling contraband. All he has going for him are his wits and insatiable ambition. He has a loyal sidekick Sadiq (played by Mohammed Zeeshan Ayyub) who has been with him right from the time they were kids. The story explores how Raees' relationships and meteoric rise helped him build an en...

Kaabil Is A Predictable Revenge Drama   The announcement of Kaabil was a real surprise and totally out of the blue. Hrithik Roshan and director Sanjay Gupta both have different cinematic sensibilities so the idea of their coming together for a film occurred as farfetched. Their collaborative work Kaabil, a vendetta based action drama that is produced by Hrithik Roshan’s father, actor/director Rakesh Roshan is now out in the open. A revenge drama with the twist being the fact that the main protagonists in the movie are both blind in Sanjay Gupta’s Kaabil, based partially on South Korea’s Broken and Netflix’s Daredevil. The film opens with Rohan Bhatnagar (Hrithik Roshan) preparing breakfast. Instantly we know that he’s a magical man. Though Rohan can’t see, he can fix a kid’s bicycle, ride a bicycle, can sniff people apart, and believes that nothing is impossible if you have the confidence. Even more unbelievable is the fact that Rohan works as a dubbing artist an...

Coffee With D is like Decaf Coffee     Vishal Mishra’s “Coffee With D” was to originally release on January 6 but its release was deferred because of alleged threats from Dawood Ibrahim. Apparently, Dawood, the most wanted man in India was reportedly angry that a film that dared to make a spoof on him was made. It is not known whether the threat was actually sent to the makers of “Coffee With D” or just a publicity ploy to get some free mileage. Interestingly for some reason the makers of the film had complained that Sunil Grover the main protagonist in the film had refused to do his bit to promote the film.   So guess that its makers resorted to an unverified threat ploy from Dawood to get some free publicity.       But it seems the ploy failed to get the desired results for the makers of “Coffee With D”, a film   that would have otherwise met with a total silent death at the box office. The story is a oneliner. A celebrated journalist A...

Ok Jaanu Is An Unpalatable Fare.   Shaad Ali’s   OK Jaanu, an official remake of Mani Rathnam’s Tamil film O Kadhal Kanmani, is an unpalatable fare. It may be recalled that Shaad Ali had made his mark by remaking another Mani Rathnam’s Tamil film, Alai Payuthey. In an attempt to resurrect his Bollywood film career Ali chose to remake another Mani Rathnam Tamil film, O Kaadhal Kanmani. Unfortunately Ok Jaanu is a dish that is not only bland but inedible and indigestible too. The recipe for the film goes something like this. The chief ingredients of the recipe are Adi (Aditya Roy Kapoor) and Tara (Shraddha Kapoor) , a young live-in couple in Mumbai. On the face they do seem interesting and promising but and it is only after you taste the fare you realise how unpalatable it is. They just don’t attract your taste buds and fail to offer you a convincing dish. The film which is created or rather recreated by Shaad Ali fails to keep you engrossed. It is co produced...

  Despite Being Flawed Haraamkhor Is Worth A Watch Haraamkhor,   directed by Shlok Sharma and starring Nawazuddin Siddiqui with Shweta Tripathi in principle characters, had its first look revealed on 8 th   March 2015. But in less than a month after that a FIR was registered against director Shlok Sharma on a complaint by Balbharati, Maharashtra’s textbook bureau, objecting to striking similarities between its logo and promotion scenes from Haraamkhor. Later the Censor Board objected to the ‘bold’ content of Haraamkhor because they thought the Indian audience was not ready for bold themes. This forced the makers to take a legal recourse and appeal before the Film Certification Appellate Tribunal, which delivered the verdict in the movie’s favour. And finally Haraamkhor is out. The film can be said to be another prime example on how Hindi cinema is exploring new themes with assurance. Based on a bold theme Haraamkhor has a story/plot   that one can c...