Flight (2012)

Name: Flight (2012)

Genre: Drama

Cast: Denzel Washington, Kelly Reilly, Don Cheadle, Robert Zemeckis (Director)

Synopsis: Captain Whip Whitaker (Denzel Washington) of an airline wakes up in a hotel room in Orlando and was feeling very sleepy and with the affects of Drugs and alcohol still there. He boards his flight South Jet Flight227 as pilot. After a little turbulence disturbance and seeing the condition of Whip, Co Pilot Evans takes control while Whip mixes Vodka with juice takes a nap but suddenly wakes up after a massive jolt felt in plane. Seeing aircraft was going in steep down Whip starts giving instructions to Evans and lead attendant Margret and Whip gives instructions to roll aircraft upside down so that aircraft could be streamlined and become stable. During this incident Katarina in saving a child passenger lost her life. When Nicole was being taken out by paramedics from her home, she saw Flight 227 overhead upside. One of the engines of the plane fails and during that Whip realizes that he will not be able to land this on runaway so he with all his experience and knowledge makes a landing of the plane on Open filed in Clayton County, Georgia but during that bumping landing he lost consciousness and later on being taken out by a passenger.

Whip later on wakes up in the Atlanta hospital with some injuries. Charlie Anderson a friend of Whip and represents Airline’s Pilot Union told Whip that he was able to save 96 out of 102 people on board and 6 of them died as well out of which 4 were passengers and 2 were from Crew including Katrina. He also meet Nicole in hospital staircase and she promised that he come to meet him after that leaving the hospital. Later on Charlie and his attorney Hugh Lang (Don Cheadle) tells him that when he was unconscious in hospital NTSB performed a drug on him and which he was found intoxicated and that could send him to prison and alcohol, drugs charges. Hugh tells Whip that he will able to void the report on technical grounds but he has to take care of himself and he shouldn’t do anything stupid. Whip hearing this becomes angry and leaves from there.

He seeks out of for Nicole and finds her while she was having a tough time with her landlord but Whip gives him sound money and asked him not to pursue her again. Later on both of them become intimate. After attending the funeral of Katarina he meets Margaret and tells her that NTSB is on him and may ask her for testimony on that day. He asked her that she should tell them that everything was fine on that day and the incident our due to airplane technical problem but not by his drinking habit. He later on meets his co-pilot on that day and find that Evans is serious injured with both his legs and pelvis being crushed. Evans told that he knew that how you were drunk on that day but later on told that everything happens due to god will and its God’s will that he is here and he told that he will not tell NTSB anything about him being drunk on that day. Later on he with a bottle in his hand seeks out Nicole to go with him and they will leave this place and after being asked the true reason he told that he is afraid that NTSB is on him and his carrier will be destroyed due to that. Whip and Nicole had a fight during that Time. On next day when Whip was looking for Nicole, he reads a letter from Nicole and he came to know that she has left him and being in rage he destroys some there collective belongings and starts drinking again.         

Whip went to his ex-wife and his son but there too an argument broke between him and his son and he went from there media surrounded him and starts asking him questions but Whip somehow manages to get out of there as well. He went to Charlie and asked him to let him stay with him tell the NTSB hearing and he vows not to drink again. Before one night of hearing Whip was shifted to heavy guarded room in a hotel. At night his door starts banging and he finds his next door is unlocked. Next day when Charlie and Hugh came to his room and saw that Whip is fully intoxicated with beverages and they don’t know what to do. They call Harling to revive him from that intoxicated state to make him ready for NTSB hearing using cocaine. As the hearing starts Ellen starts explaining that the main reason of the crash was damaged jackscrew. She reveals that two empty bottles of Vodka was being found in the investigation of the plane. One of the crew members was found positive in the toxicology report and that was Katarina. Now Ellen asks Whip about his opinion that whether she has taken that Vodka. Whip on repeatedly asking same question couldn’t harm the good image of Katarina admits that he was the one who had drunk that Vodka. He is a regular alcoholic person and he had drunk on that day as well.

After 13 months he was telling his story to fellow people in jail and told him that he can’t say just one more lie which could let him walk out of that investigation unharmed but admitting truth on that day he feels free. He tells them now that he is a sober man and he is trying his best to maintain his good relations again with Nicole, his family and friends. In jail his son comes to meet him. He asks him to help him on a collage essay “The fascinating person you have never met” Whip asks him Ok. His sons starts by asking him question “Who are you?” to which Whip replied “That’s a very good question”.

Synopsis: One of the all time best movies of the Robert Zemeckis and Denzel Washington. An effortless and flawless performance given by Denzel Washington. Robert has brought the true direction which depicts the pin point. Story was absolutely brilliant and how it is directed was even more appreciable. Rest of the cast also good but more of the focus was given on Denzel’s character and he lived up-to that expectation damn well. Denzel performance in the movie has shown why this movie was dominated for Oscars for best actor although he didn’t won but his perform hell good. What makes this movie a whole different from rest of the others is the story which is quite different and as per the character Denzel brought his best performance suited to the character. This is a must watch movie for everyone and especially for those who are diehard fan of Denzel Washington.

Stars given: 4.5 out of 5.

Hachi: A Dog's Tale (Also known a Hachiko: A Dog's Story)

Name: Hachi: A Dog’s Tale

Genre: Drama/Family

Cast: Richard Gere, Joan Alle, Cary- Hiroyuki Tagawa, Lasse Hallstrom (Director)

Synopsis: A class full of young students was there giving presentations about their personal hero’s. Ronnie a student in the class was about to give presentation on his personal hero and he writes the name “Hachiko” and starts telling his story. Years ago Akita a puppy sent from Japan to America in a cage but his cage fell at the baggage cart and was found by a College professor Parker Wilson (Richard Gere). Parker liked the puppy but when he asked the station controller to have him and after his refusal he takes puppy with him. Cate (Joan Alle) didn’t like the puppy and insisted to leave him back where Parker has found it.

Paker kept waited the next whole day that someone will contact him about and will ask about the puppy but no one called. He takes the puppy next day to his college where a college professor Ken (Cary- Hiroyuki Tagawa) translates the Akita’s collar as “Hachi” which signifies good fortune. Parker stars calling the puppy “Hachi”. Cate was insisting that someone should adopt Hachi but looking Parker’s close with Hachi, she too accepted the puppy as a member. After few years, Hachi and Parker are very close to each other. But Hachi don’t do those thing which all the other dogs do like fetching a ball etc. He asked the same to his friend Ken and ken replied that Akita doesn’t do these things but if he will do then it would be for a very special reason.

One day when Parker was going to station for his work, Hachi somehow sneaks out of home and walks behind Parker. Parker finds that Hachi was following him to train station and asks him to go back to home. Hachi after Parker’s departure goes back home and in the afternoon hearing train voice around 17:00 hrs went to station and waited for Parker and seeing Hachi there Parker also finds it very interesting and happy. This continued for quite some time. But one day when Parker was going to work, Hachi suddenly starts barking at Parker and doesn’t go with him. But eventually at train station Hachi also comes there and again starts barking at Parker. Parker throws a ball and this time Hachi fetches the ball for the first time. Seeing this Parker also got amazed that Hachi has done this for some time but Parker leaves. Meanwhile Parker at college holding Hachi’s ball suffers a fatal heart attacks and dies there. Hachi on other side as basic routine came there at same time to see Parker’s return but he didn’t. Hachi kept waited there for night in the evening but Parker didn’t come. Parker’s son in law came there to take Hachi with him but net day Hachi again somehow went to that station again waited for Parker for whole day and night but he didn’t came again.

As the time moved ahead Cate sells the house and Hachi is made to go with her daughter Andy and Michael in their home. Hachi meanwhile manages to come back to their old but seeing new persons there he went to station and waited there at his normal position the whole day and night for Parker to come eating pieces of hot dogs given by a local vendor named Jasjeet near station. Andy came there and took Hachi with her. But within few days seeing Hachi’s grief she allowed Hachi to go and live his own life to do what he wants to do. For the next nine years, Hachi came there and waited for Parker to arrive over there. A local newspaper finds this story interesting and published in his newspaper. Reading that article, Ken came to that station and meets Hachi and offered some money to Jasjeet the local vendor for food for Hachi but he refused saying that he gave him food whenever it is necessary. 

Cate after ten years came back again to the town and at Parker’s grave he found his friend Ken. Ken takes her to station for a walk where Cate sees Hachi still waiting for Parker at the station even after long ten years and was stunned and shocked. She waited with Hachi for the next train and at night in home, Cate starts telling Ronnie the son of Andy her daughter about the story of Hachi and his grandfather Parker.

For ten years, a dog waited for his master who is dead, coming at the train station and waited for his master on the same spot for nine years showing such faithfulness and unconditional love. In the cold snowy day, he was waiting for his master where he was recollecting his enjoyable memories with Parker with his eyes closed. At last he sees that his master Parker came from station and Hachi jumps towards him and greets him again. Film again shows in the class where Ronnie tells the class that Hachi will forever be his hero and the class applauded him. Ronnie and his puupy dog that he too named Hachi walks on railway tracks spending time together.   

In the end revealed that real Hachiko was born in Odate in 1923. In the year 1925, his owner Hidesaburo died and Hachiko returned again and again at Shibuya train station for the next 9 years for his master. The real Haciko died in March 1934. A bronze statue of Haciko is kept at Shibuya train station is kept even today in his memory.

Review: One of the best movies the one will ever see in his life that makes it a once in a lifetime movie to be seen. Beautifully crafted movie made by Lasse Hallstrom. Absolutely brilliant direction done by Lasse. Richard Gere performance was fine and rest of the crew was average but as whole movie was based on Hachi the dog, most of the focus was on him and not the rest of crew causes it is a true story and a remake of the Japanese film of the same name. The dog how being filmed in the movie was awesome and the emotions shown in the movie was off the hook. As a whole it is one of the most dramatical movie, which will make you cry in the end and it is a must watch movie for everyone who loves movies.

Stars given: 5 out of 5. I want to give a 6 out of 5 but I can’t so it’s a 5 out of 5.  

The Perfect Storm

Name: The Perfect Storm

Genre: Adventure/Drama/Thriller

Cast: George Clooney, Mark Wahlberg, Diane Lane, Wolfgang Petersen (Director)

Synopsis: A boat used for fish catching as their profession named Andrea Gail after having a low and ineffective catch of fishes came to the ports of Gloucester, Massachusetts. Almost all the crew members of Andrea Gail are money broken and desperate need of that. Seeing this, Captain Billy Tyne (George Clooney) convinces his crew to go on for one more round of fish catching and being broken for money, they all have accepted for the same. This time to catch more fishes the crew moves ahead from their normal grounds but thunderstorms starts forming behind them. The crew of Andrea Gail straight to Flemish Cap and there starts catching more fishes. Soon after catching too much of fish and because of the height of their fishing expedition the ice machine breaks but as they have caught so much of fish the only way the captain seems to see is that head back to shore as quickly as possible. Meanwhile on other side the thunderstorm was becoming worse and worse. After debating with the crew, they all decided to move through the building storm rather than to wait it out.

As they move back to Gloucester port the storm was becoming even worse than before. Captain Linda Greenlaw (Mastrantonio) of Hannah Boden was trying her level best get the message of forming hurricane from thunderstorms to crew of Andrea Gail but she was unsuccessful every time. Soon Andrea Gail antenna broke down and from that point they stop receiving messages. Their at this point whole of the crew was fully confident that they will move ahead from this thunderstorm. Here Captain Linda called this a Mayday and alerting national cost guards and telling them the whole problem. An air National Guard responds to this mayday and sends a helicopter for the rescue but after a lot of rescuing of the other ships they were unable to refuel in the midair for the pursing the rescue any further due to bad weather the helicopter crew due to crashing of it jumps from the helicopter and later on rescued by the coast guard ship.

On other side to bad weather due to thunderstorm, Andrea Gail starts encountering all the problems. Deck was being to crash because of the repeated waves from the ocean, their stabilizer was broken and two of their men were thrown overboard by the waves. A rogue starts beginning to appear. Billy tells one of his crewmen named Bobby (Mark Wahlberg) to ride the wave with full force as they think they might able to do so but the wave stars growing bigger and the boat capsizes. As the boat was going down and rest of the crew being trapped in the boat, Billy decided to remain in the boat too as the captain of the ship but booby manages to move towards the surface of the ocean watching the boat, crew and bobby going down. But Bobby was not wearing any life jacket and as the weather was worse due to the thunderstorm, he didn’t have any chance of surviving this too. At Gloucester all the people were watching news regarding any information regarding their loved ones but there were no survivors of Andrea Gail crew.

Linda was at the memorial for all the people who have lost their lives in this hurricane especially for Andrea Gail crew followed by Christina, Ethel with tear in their eyes and consoling each other where Linda were telling in Billy’s view what swordboat captain is all about and how much he and his crew share for fish cashing.

Review: Really a great movie as a whole. Based on the true events the way movie is directed was really good. Director Wolfgang does shows in this movie not about this true incident but also how the problems is being faced by the boat crew who catching fishes for living. Performance of Clooney was good but performance of the Mark and rest of the crew were decent. Visual effects and sounds to be associated to the movie were great. In the movie it can be seen that the story is being filmed by Wolfgang pretty effectively but he failed to get the best out of the cast of the movie excluding Clooney. Overall a good movie to watch as this movie brings the actual problems the real life fish catchers faces in their life.

Stars given: 3 out of 5.

Shootout at Lokhandwala

Name: Shootout at Lokhandwala

Genre: Action/Crime/Drama

Cast: Vivek Oberoi, Sanjay Dutt, Sunil Shetty, Arbaaz Khan, Apoorva Lakhia (Director)

Synopsis: Brooms were used to clear the area around the Swati building and TVN reporter Meeta Mattu was reporting that a large police squad with heavy ammunition was used around a peaceful residential area of Swati building in Lokhandwala. In the office of Ex-chief Justice and now a private advocate Dhingra is having discussions with the three officers of Anti Terrorist Squad (ATS) on whom Human rights commission is massive angry and launched a heavy protest against them. These officers are additional commissioner of police Shamsher Khan (Sanjay Dutt), Inspector Kaviraj Patil (Sunil Shetty) and inspector Javed Shiekh (Arbaaz Khan). As Dhingra is having discussions asking questions from them, the movie went into flashback.

Shamsher Khan told Dhingra about how the ATS was formed as to counter modern day terrorism he got the idea from SWAT and form ATS from the best candidates from police including Kaviraj and Javed. There only motive was shoot to kill as modern day terrorist are growing more and more and trouble for public. He also tells how some people from Punjab after blue star operation came to Bombay in Sikh dominated areas and he did his best try to clear them out. Then he tells him about a man recently turned into gangster named Maya (Vivek Oberoi) and how he stars killing people and instigating fear in the minds of people and big businessmen in the city and that’s how he come under scanner of Dawood Ibrahim. He stars recruiting the best shooters in the city. Now at this point Maya and his men are on top of Bombay/Mumbai and reporting directly to Dawood in Dubai.

Khan and his men of ATS are focusing of eliminating Maya and his men in the city. A game of cat and mouse stars when Shamsher Khan and men kill some of Maya’s men and Maya on other side kills some of big businessmen and local people and even the police personnel many times. Shamsher Khan and his ATS men try to put pressure of relatives and families of Maya and his men to get them out but it too went wrong because Maya and his men do came out but at wrong time giving serious warning to Khan, Kaviraj and Javed to stay away from their families otherwise their families will to not be safe at all. Maya asks a builder named Wadhwani to give him ransom as protection money for his life to be safe but Wadhwani bluntly replied to him that he has direct connections to his boss in Dubai and he is nothing to him and he shouldn’t call him again or he will face dire consequences. As Maya was mad and in rage send his men to Wadhwani’s office and to comply to his demands or he will face consequences. Maya’s men took some token money from their and demanded the rest of money to be delivered to him within no time.

Wadhwani gave half the amount asked by Maya as told by Dawood but Maya asks Wadhwani to bring the rest of the money and take away his son and till that his son will remain with them. Fearing that, Wadhwani called Dawood and told the whole story and requested him to talk to Maya to release his only son. Dawood called Maya what is doing and he should release Wadhwani’s son immediately but Maya refused in doing that saying “its mine men pride and he can’t back off now at any cost to rule on Mumbai”.

Now comes the day on which this shootout took place. Shamsher Khan told him that one of his informers told him that Maya and his men are hiding in a flat of Swati building in Lokhandwala. Shamsher Khan with his ATS men with full ammunition and armory went to Swati building. Maya and his men were still holding Wadhwani’s son as hostage. One of Maya’s men who was outside the Swati building came to know that Police is surrounding the area around Swati building and looking for all of them with an intent to kill. Maya seeing that came to understand that too this time for sure something bloody will happen. ACP Shamsher Khan to reached the area and was soon welcomed by a RPG fired by Maya’s men but Khan survived. Soon the gun battle starts. People were warned to get out of the building quickly. Policemen stars going inside the building with full force. Empty bullet shells were everywhere. Soon all of them including Maya were killed by police in the shootout. Reporter Meeta Mattu covers this entire gunbattle between police and Maya and his men.

In the end, Dhingra in courts starts with the conventional defense for the officers of ATS including Shamsher Khan who were involved in this Shootout or gun battle. Khan and his men were released from the charges instigated on them by court.

Review: As based on original events from the rumors of the Shootout that took place at Lokhanwadala, the movie was beautifully crafted and made. Direction of Approva was good as he tried to put the whole shooting part into a well made action scenario with ease. Performance of Vivek Oberoi was great but for Sanjay Dutt it wasn’t that much effective as it should have been. Rest of cast performance were good and up to the mark. Music of the movie was average although some parts of the movie was being stretched unnecessary which could have been avoided. Sometimes it is also felt that went off track many times. But was great part of the movie was the climax. It’s great as how the gun battle sequences’ are being shot and the music related to it was just great. Overall it is a good movie to watch with a good amount of action and a decent amount of Entertainment.

Stars given: 2.5 out of 5.

Agneepath

Name: Agneepath (1990)

Genre: Action/Crime/Drama

Cast: Amitabh Bachchan, Mithun Chakraborty, Danny Denzongpa, Mukul S. Anand (Director)

Synopsis: Deenanath Chauhan is a school master in village Mandwa who has high moral grounds and is an honest man. His was teaching his son a poem named “Agneepath” the path of fire which everyone has to cross in his life. Deenanath is well loved and respected by the villagers. He wants that everyone including the child should be educated in the village and no one should be included in the bad deeds. But the Village headman doesn’t share the same opinion as he does. One day which playing with his friends and he saw a man named Kancha Cheena (Danny Denzongpa) arrives in the village meeting Village headman Dinkar Rao. He came to know that Kancha wants to make the village Mandwa into a drug trade centre as the village in not on the map of India and it will easier for him to do so. But he has to take down teacher Deenanath as he is the one who is causing hindrance in his plans. Dinkar Rao made a setup for Deenanath. With the help of the owner of the brothel he sets up Deenath and villagers seeing this beats teacher Denanath to death. His wife and both the child after so much humiliation went to Mumbai to start a new life.

He starts working on odd jobs for making his family living and as he grows old he came across the various harsh realities of life. One day when someone starts forcing with his mother his burns down his petrol pump. His bail is being given by four local goons who later on indulge him with themselves. Now Vijay (Amitabh Bachchan) has grown old and now he is a gangster with class, style and most of things he has values for the poor people. One day when he refused to indulge with the drugs business of those four of his bosses, they tried to kill him. But a man named Krishnan (Mithun Chakraborty) saved him. When Vijay was recovering from hospital he secretly killed 2 of them. But as now Vijay is a gangster he was not liked by his mother and his sister doesn’t know much about him.

Later he tries to strike a deal with Kancha to let him enter in Mandwa so that both of them can do business. Kancha agrees to that but warns him that if he ever tries to cut his way, he will not spare him and in return for their partnership he gives him his 3^rd boss. Vijay on his wife advice slowly starts taking down Kancha by taking out his men one by one and gathering proofs against Kancha and later on helped police in taking down Kancha. Kancha was arrested. Meanwhile the last of the 4 bosses kidnaps Vijay’s sister. Krishnan with his last breath effort too was there with Vijay’s daughter to save him from his last boss and the fighting starts began between both of them. Vijay hearing this news and seeing that police also is not able to enter the place where his sister is being taken went in with his men with full force and eventually saved his sister, Krishnan and killed his last boss.

In a festival, Kancha’s men tries to kill Vijay but Krishnan came in between and he got badly hurt. Vijay took him to hospital and saw that his most faithful men is being shot dead as well as the only living proof/witness to be produced against Vijay is also killed by Kancha. Commissioner told Vijay that his mother, sister and wife as well as his child is being taken hostage by Kancha but he will do everything in his power to save him. Finally Vijay went to Mandwa village by himself. Kancha had made the traps for him in advance. Being torn out and bad shape, Vijay finally confronts Kancha. Houses were exploded and whole of the path was filled with fire. Kancha challenges Vijay to come across and if he dares saves his mother, his wife, his sister and his son. Krishnan too arrives there and starts shooting at Kancha’s men. Vijay starts running towards Kancha from that path of fire. Instead of being shot twice he fights with Kancha and eventually kills him. Now Vijay as being not being able to move as he is already shot twice too passes away across his mother saying “Agneepath” in an emotional context. In the end his mother was saying “My son is not a Gangster.”

Review: It is always said, some movies are just made great and this is one of them. Everything fits in its rightful place. Direction of Mukul S. Anand was just awesome. The way he has directed the movie was just great. Some performances are ever green and Amitabh Bachchan’s performance is one of them in this movie. His character in this movie lived alive. And in no way credit can be taken away from the Danny Denzongpa which is absolutely brilliance and with class. In this movie the hero and villain how they actually should be looked in the movie looks that way. Music of the movie just mind blowing suits to the context of the movie appropriately. Dialogues of the movie were great and rest of cast performance is also very good. A great movie is one where all the segments of the movie fit to its rightful place and everyone plays its part with equal importance. This movie has it all. People say Old is Gold. This had it.      

Stars given: 5 out of 5.

Ghajini

Name: Ghajini

Genre: Action/Drama/Mystery/Romance/Thriller

Cast: Aamir Khan, Asin, Jiah Khan, Pradeep Rawat, A.R.Murugadoss (Director)

Synopsis: Sunita (Jiah Khan) is a college going medical student who is researching for a projecting on human brains in her class. Suddenly he came across a case of Sanjay Singhania (Aamir Khan). Seeing this case she became curious to take up the case but was rejected by the teacher because it is a case of criminal investigation. She asked about the case by her teacher and came to know that Sanjay has a disease called anterograde amnesia. Sunita decides to investigate things by herself. She came to know Sanjay loses his memory within 15 mintues and doesn’t remember anything after that. He uses photographs, notes and tattoos on his body to remember things and his only mission is to avenge the death of his lover Kalpana (Asin).  He starts killing people in a systematic manner to reach to his final target Ghajini whom he remembers his lover Kalpana’s last words. Ghajini (Pradeep Rawat) is a reputed industrialist of the city.

Police inspector named Arjun who was investigating the case of these murders tried to track down Sanjay and finally finds him and knocked him unconscious. He discovered two diaries from Sanjay’s home and finally in those diaries it was his past. Movie went in the flashback where Sanjay was the chairman of Air voice mobile company. He after a certain events came across a girl name Kalpana who is working in a small advertisement agency. First she used Sanjay name just for fun with her seeing that she will be given more importance by her advertisement agency but Sanjay after seeing her innocence and honesty doesn’t say anything to him and meets her with a new name called Sachin and later on falls in love with her. At the New Years Eve he proposed to Kalpana and Kalpana asks Sachin to wait for her reply next morning and the first diary ends there. Soon Sanjay woke up and and Arjun asks him that what happened the next day. Sanjay attacks him and ties in the cabinet. Sunita arrives there and sees that the door was open and went in there. Rescues the inspector but soon sees Sanjay there went out of there. Sunita in that hurry has taken both the diaries of Sanjay from his flat.

Sunita came to know that Sanjay will kill Ghajini and went to Ghajini and warns him that Sanjay is the man is trying to kill him. Ghajini also came to remember about Sanjay Singhania. Ghajini and his men went into Sanjay flats and destroyed all maps, snaps and notes in that flat so that he should not be able to recover his memory of killing him at all. At night, Sunita starts reading Sanjay’s second diary. She came to know that Kalpana has accepted Sanjay’s love proposal. Sanjay due to some emergency meeting has to go abroad so he tells Kalpana as Sachin a different story. Kalpana too has to go on an assignment but when she was travelling in train she find 25 children were trafficking and saved them and finds that Ghajini is the master. Ghajini came to know about this broke into Kalpana’s home. Kalpana too came to know about this that Ghajini and his men will try to kill her. Suddenly Sanjay too came there but Kalpana asks him to go from there. Later Ghajini hurts Kalpana very badly. Sanjay too came back to see Kalpana as he believes something is wrong. Ghajini hits Sanjay on his head very badly with an iron Rod and in his presence kills Kalpana by hitting her with iron rod again and again. Kalpana during her dying moments said “Ghajini” in Sanjay’s ears.

Now Sunita has been aware of truth of Sanjay went to the hospital where he was kept and told whole story to him. Being in rage after listening to Sunita asks Sunita to help him in tracking down Ghajini and rest he will take care himself. Both of them tracked Ghajini and Sanjay starts fighting Ghajini’s henchmen with full force and full strength. When he was able to pin Ghajini down he suddenly forgets his memory and forgets who Ghajini is. Seeing this as an opportunity he stabs Sanjay from behind. Later he hits Sunita with iron rod and taunts Sanjay that he will make him re-experience Kalpana’s death again by killing Sunita. Sanjay overpowers everything his pain, memory and takes down Ghajini and in the kills him the very same way he killed Kalpana.

In the end, Sanjay was in an Orphanage where Sunita came their giving him a gift and footprints of Sanjay and Kalpana to make their bonding again. Sanjay sees Kalpana at his side and Finally Sanjay finds peace.

Review: A good remake made by A.R.Murugadoss of his own Tamil movie of the same name Ghajini. Most of the remakes of the movies are not that much effective and good this time it’s an altogether a different story. Performance of Aamir khan was all together at a different level. Asin making Bollywood debut makes it with ease and comfort. Performance of Jiah Khan and Pradeep Rawat were also good. Music and songs of the movie were great and so can be said for some of the action sequences. Most of the movie was almost the same as Tamil remake of Ghajini whom Murugadoss has directed previously so in this he hasn’t made any new creativity. Also the core idea has been taken from English movie Memento. As a whole, movie is very good to watch full of entertainment, thriller with a mind blowing performance of Aamir Khan and Asin.

Stars given: 3.5 out of 5.

Brindavanam

Name: Brindavanam

Genre: Action/Comedy/Drama/Romance

Cast: NTR Jr., Kajal Aggarwal, Samantha Ruth Prabhu, Prakash Raj, Vamsi Paidipally (Director)

Synopsis: Krishna/Krish (NTR Jr.) is the son of a billionaire businessman. His girlfriend Indu (Samantha Ruth Prabhu) has a friend name Bhoomi (Kajal Aggarwal). Indu tells Krish her friend Bhoomi’s problem that her father Bhanu Prasad wants Bhoomi to marry her cousin suitor who is a goon and a rowdy whom Bhoomi doesn’t like at all and doesn’t want to marry him. Her grandfather tells Bhanu Parsad that Bhoomi has fallen in love with a guy in the city so that Bhoomi doesn’t have to marry that cousin rowdy. Her father tells he wants Bhoomi to bring her boyfriend to the village where he wants to meet him. Indu convinces Krish to become Bhoomi’s boyfriend as if he will go then he will make the thing right she is confident of that and to which Krish agrees.

When Bhoomi and Krish were going to Bhoomi’s village, Bhoomi tells Krish about every family member in her family and what type of person he or she is. When Krish reaches Bhoomi’s home he sees that her uncles’ are lazy guys and actual bonding in the family is missing. He also meets her grandfather who had actually made this plan and Krish told him too he will make the things right. He tries to change her uncles’ and rest of her family members and wins their hearts as well. Bhoomi’s grandfather told Krish that Bhanu Prasad and Sivudu whom he met when he was coming to Bhoomi’s village are step brothers and are rivals to each other from last 25 years. Druga Prasad married second time against the wishes of his child Bhanu and from his second wife Sivudu was born. Some people for their own gains tried to convince Bhanu that Sivudu was not good for him and he should break relations with him. So Durga Prasad lives six months Bhanu and other six months with Sivudu. Krish tells Druga Prasad he will unite both Bhanu and Sivudu and ultimately he succeeds.

After some incidents in the village Bhanu starts to get impress from Krish and accepts their relationship. Now seeing this both Krish and Bhoomi starts getting worried but finally they decided to tell the whole truth to Bhoomi’s father Bhanu Prasad. In the home Bhanu Prasad was sitting and talking to Bhoomi’s cousin suitor and his uncle that the marriage with Bhoomi is not possible now as Bhoomi like some other person and Bhanu too like him very much. Hearing this her cousin suitor becomes very angry and tells Bhanu that he will get Bhoomi at every cost and he don’t care about you or anyone and caught Bhanu’s collar but Krish came there fights with him and warns him never to come here again and seeing this Bhanu declares that Krish will be the groom for her daughter Bhoomi and also he is going to meet his brother and bring him back with him and successfully does that.

Further it was revealed that during a function that Indu is Sivudu’s daughter and both Bhoomi and Krish got shocked to see that. Sivudu asks Indu to bring her boyfriend to the village but Indu tells her father that her boyfriend had ditched him and had gone away. Hearing this Indu’s father told his men to bring Indu’s boyfriend to him. Upon hearing that her boyfriend is not there he asks his men to bring his parents to him. Bhanu also asks Krish to bring his parents to him so that their marriage date can be fixed. Seeing the things got mixed up Indu tells Krish he should bring his foster parents to which Krish agrees. Bhoomi’s rowdy cousin suitor men try to abduct Bhoomi but Krish rescues them. Krish bring his foster parents to meet them to Bhanu. Problem starts when Sivudu’s men bring real Krish’s parents in home and when they saw Krish there everyone was shocked. Krish tells them the whole situation and they all agreed to him.

Bhanu Prasad starts their engagement but now seeing everyone is happy Bhoomi starts falling in love with Krish too. Indu also starts realizing that. Mad and angry Bhoomi’s rowdy cousin suitor came to know about the real identity of Krish and their relationship tells Sivudu everything. He reveals the same to his step brother Bhanu and both starts beating Krish. Soon Durga Prasad intervened and told both of them that it was his plan to bring Krish and he was not at all lover of Bhoomi but to save Bhoomi from that Rowdy suitor. Even after the hardships given by both of them but he stuck here makes everyone happy and everyone has seen the results. Everyone is happy and together. He didn’t cheat Indu and it was Indu infact who had sent Krish as Bhoomi’s lover and also that now Bhoomi too loves him a lot. Suddenly they saw that Bhoomi’s rowdy suitor has taken Bhoomi forcefully with him. Bhanu tells Krish that she is yours and he alone have to save her. Krish got away chased them and beats the hell out of that rowdy suitor and saves Bhoomi.

Krish in the end in temple has to decide to whom he should marry and the elders let the decision leave the three of them that is Krish, Bhoomi and Indu. Krish starts praying to Lord Krishna and asks them to give him a solution. Lord Krishna appears and tells Krish it all part of life and suddenly Lord Krishna disappears.

Review: It’s a good movie made by Vamsi Paidipally. Direction was good by Vamsi. Performance of NTR Jr. was nice and he all together played a different role with ease. Most of the focus of the movie was NTR Jr. and Kajal Aggarwal. Kajal performance in movie was average and same can be said Samantha although the both of them look charming and gorgeous but Kajal role in the movie was more as compared to Samantha which makes him the lead actress too. Comedy scenes in the movies were hilarious and good. But dialogues in the movie were very good. Villain segment of the movie wasn’t effective at all and was even below average. Some of songs in the movie were really good. Overall it is a family movie and good to watch.

Stars given: 3 out of 5.

A Beautiful Mind

Name: A Beautiful Mind

Genre: Biography/Drama

Cast: Russell Crowe, Jennifer Connelly, Ed. Harris, Ron Howard (Director)

Synopsis: John Nash (Russell Crowe) arrives at Princeton University.  He is recipient of the prestigious Carnegie Scholarship for Mathematics. Nash meets a group of brilliant and promising graduate students of Math and Science which includes Richard, Ainsley and Bender. He meets a man name Charles Herman a literature student who was his roommate and their friendship begins. Nash wants to develop an original idea for his thesis and only after that he wants to publish it as he was under immense pressure to publish it. His inspiration comes at a bar where Nash and his fellow friends tried to approach a woman to have a conversation. Nash says that a cooperative approach will lead to better chances to have a success later that individuality and this leads to the idea of governing dynamics which later on he develops and publishes. After this conclusion he was offered an appointment at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) with Sol and Bender. After few years teaching in MIT, Nash falls in love with his Alicia Larde (Jennifer Connelly) and after some time they marry each other.

Nash was invited to crack the encrypted telecommunication of enemy and he was able to break the code mentally which astonishes the other code breakers present there. Seeing that, he was given new assignment by new supervisor William Parcher (Ed. Harris) of US department of Defense to look for new patterns in various newspapers and magazines to crush the Soviet plot. As Nash was being bored of his regular teaching in MIT he sees this very interested and becomes obsessive in finding the patterns. As he continues his work and whenever he tries put his results in an envelope and put up in the mailbox as told of William he believes someone is following him. Later on, Nash witnessed a shootout William and Soviet agents and seeing this he fears for his life but William pressures Nash that he should stay on and complete his assignment. At a guest lecture at Harvard University Nash tried to flee from there from Dr. Rosen and foreign agents. He punched Rosen and was caught and was forcibly taken to psychiatric facility. Rosen meets Alicia and tells her about the whole story and also that William, Charles and rest of the men as Nash is saying is only his imagination and not in reality. Alicia investigates the documents in the mailbox as told by Nash but all the documents were there and no one has taken or even opened the documents.

Later Nash was given shock therapy and after some time he was released. Nash starts getting frustrated from the medicine he was taking and suddenly stops taking that. This re-imagination starts again and he meets Parcher. Nash was bathing his infant son but in an incident he endangers his infant son and throws his wife Alicia away accidentally. Alicia in fear walks away from home with his child. Nash comes in front of Alicia’s car and tell her that “She never gets old” as he was referring this to Marcee. She looks the same age as he meets her years ago and admitted to Alicia that these are hallucinations after all. Both of them meet Dr. Rosen but Nash decided not take his medication and decided to deal with these hallucinations in his own way. Alicia supported him all the time. Nash Later on went to Princeton University he meets his old friend Martin Hansen, who is now Head of Mathematics department to work in and out of the library. Later on Nash taken a hold on himself and learns how to ignore those hallucinations of Charles, Marcee and William. He was also given permission to teach in the university again.

Nash was honored by his fellow professors for great contribution in Game theory which results in winning Noble Prize for Economics. After receiving the noble prize in Stockholm and when he was leaving the auditorium he sees Marcee, Charles and Parcher. Nash stopped and seeing that Alicia asks him that what’s wrong to which he replied “nothing” and both moved went out of auditorium.

Review: One of the beautiful crafted movies made by Ron Howard and one of beautiful performances given by Russell Crowe. How the biography was filmed on John Nash was mind blowing. Performance of the rest of crew including Jennifer Connelly, Ed. Harris and others were good. The movie went on with a steady pace and during the whole movie focus each and every aspect of the movie which includes romance, drama and how mathematics was involves in the movie was absolutely brilliant. This was the reason that the movie had won 4 Oscars and also received other awards as well. Hats off  Ron Howard, Russell Crowe and rest of the crew.

 Stars given: 4.5 out of 5. 

Cast Away

Name: Cast Away

Genre: Adventure/Drama

Cast: Tom Hanks, Helen Hunt, Nick Searcy, Robert Zemeckis (Director)

Synopsis: Chuck Noland (Tom Hanks) is a system analyst who works for Federal Express (FedEx) to solve their productivity problems. He lives with his girl friend Kelly Frears (Helen Hunt) with whom he had a long term relationship. On night of Christmas Eve Chuck was called by the company to resolve some problems in Malaysia. When going to Malaysia the plane in which he was travelling got caught by a storm and crashed it in Pacific Ocean. But somehow chuck was able to survive that crash and got hold of a life raft. After clinging to that he was left unconscious, floated the whole night in that raft and next morning find himself on an uninhabited island. Many FedEx packages were also there which got scattered during the accident and also find the body of the pilot of the plane and later he buried him there. He tried many times with his efforts and resources available to him to make a raft again and move from their but wasn’t able to clear the surf.

He finds some useful items in that FedEx packages and when he searched for food, shelter etc. He left one package unopened. Chuck now realizes that he has to make fire and starts making that but during his few attempts he wounded his hand and in anger he throws some objects from FedEx packages into the water and one of them was a Wilson sports Volleyball which later he make a face on that ball naming it Wilson and starts talking to him. Four years have passed till that crash and now Chuck is very much thinner, weaker and had lot of long hair. Now he is expert in catching fish and making fire. He remembers her girl friend every single moment all the time during these four years. He also talks very frequently to Wilson (the face on Volleyball). Chuck now again decides to make a raft to cross the turf again. He built a life raft with proper focus and attention in building that raft and wants to wait for the best conditions to cross the powerful surf’s of the ocean. During the optimal conditions he boarded the raft to cross the surf. After some time, storm appears on the sea and tears his raft to pieces leaving him lonely again with all hopes gone. When he was unconscious floating on the river a nearby cargo ship spotted him and saved him.

After returning to home, Chuck came to know that he has been pronounced dead and all his family, friends has made his funeral also Kelly has been married to Chuck’s dentist and has a daughter too. On initial stages Chuck doesn’t have the want to meet Kelly for not waiting for her but her husband told Chuck that she waited for him for quite some time and it can be helped as she was alone and needed some support. Chuck finally meets Kelly. They shared their feelings but they both new that had to move their separate ways as it will not be possible to stay together as Kelly has some responsibilities towards her family too. Chuck returns to the address to deliver the last package which he didn’t opened. The house was empty so he leaves the package there and writes a note that this package saved his life. As he moved back a woman came there and explain to him that where each of the cross roads leads too. Chuck notice that the woman in the pickup truck has written the same lines as it was written on the FedEx left package Chuck now starts looking towards each road and after wards starts looking towards the truck of the woman.   

      

Review: It is one of the most good drama type movies of the Hollywood where Tom Hanks has given one of his life time performances in the movie. The whole movie was solely based on the acting of Tom Hanks and he had kept the expectation pretty brilliantly. Screenplay and the movie were good and so do was the cinematography and the story part and for that he was also nominated for many awards and also won quite few of them. It is purely dramatically type of film where he has given his heart out in that character. Such movies are rarely made and are very much appreciated although the ending of the movie was a little low to the standards maintained by the movie all the time but Hat’s off to Tom Hanks. Also to Robert for such a direction that captures each and every emotion of the movie beautifully.

Stars given: 3.5 out of 5

Rocky Balboa

Name: Rocky Balboa

Genre: Drama/Sports

Cast: Sylvester Stallone, Antonio Tarver, Milo Ventimiglia, Burt Young, Sylvester Stallone (Director)

Synopsis: Around age of 50’s Rocky has retired from boxing for the last 16 years and was having a average going life with a restaurant in Philadelphia where he tells the past stories of his in his boxing carrier. He also has deals with his inner feelings of Adrian’s loss due to her cancer which makes him upset quite sometimes. Also his relationship with his son Robert (Milo Ventimiglia) wasn’t going on too well. Robert was going through a struggling period in the corporate world. Paulie (Burt Young) are still friends and it is going on. One night he was having a drink in the bar where he meets a girl after another girl said Rocky some foul language where little girl makes Rocky remember that she is the same little girl which also once had said the same to him and he accompanied her too home. But now she is quite older “Marie”. Rocky was very happy to see that. She also tells him that now she had a son name “Stephenson”. Rocky grows friendship with both of them later.

Around boxing area Mason “the line” Dixon won another match in his undisputed Title reign of World heavyweight Championship but people still doesn’t call him the real champion cause they still he is being tested with the best. ESPN broadcasts a computer simulation fight between Dixon and Rocky at the prime linked together and Rocky won that with a KO. Both Dixon and Rocky saw that computer simulation match. Rocky urges from inside to have a fight once again in that boxing ring. Later Dixon manager came to the TV and calls that a controversial computer simulation way too overrated to Balboa. Rocky goes to the boxing commission to renew his boxing license. First Commission didn’t agree to that but after seeing Rocky’s urge the provided him the license. Hearing the Dixon’s manager wants to have this as an opportunity for Dixon to make a name for himself goes to Rocky to have fight with Dixon and told them that they will be easy with him too. Rocky agrees to that and the exhibition bout will take place at Mandalay Bay Resort in Las Vegas. Hearing this news Robert came to meet Rocky and asks him to leave this fight cause people make a joke out of him and he will be included in that but in reality he was blaming rocky for his own failures. Rocky gives him some good advice's and in that he told Robert this too “It ain’t how hard you hit, it how hard u get hit and keep moving forward. How much you can take it and keep moved forward” Next day when Rocky was at Adrian’s grave, Robert meet him and told him that he has quit that job now and is now wants to be with him.

Rocky starts his training with Apollo creed’s Trainer Duke with his co workers and Paulie with Robert and Stephenson and his side too. Duke told Rocky that he is now old and have health problems too and too beat Dixon he has to get strength and his punching power should be incredible and Rocky starts training hard. Before one day of the fight, Rocky meets Dixon and Dixon warns him that he will be easy on him but if he tries some cheap shots or low blows he will go hard on him but Rocky doesn’t get intimidated. The day has come for the fight as HBO paper view. As the fight starts Dixon starts controlling the fight and Rocky was having trouble dealing with him. But in second round Dixon injured his left hand and Rocky after that starts hitting hard on Dixon even knocking him down once. After some rounds Dixon too fights Rocky but Rocky impress audience and everyone present there as how he is still taking punches of so much younger and champion boxer and he too fight back at him with full force. Rocky once in the last Rocky falls on his knee but Dixon but later he remembers that what he told to his soon he must prove to him now and fights back. During the closing stages of the last round both Dixon and Rocky starts hitting each other and the Spectators were on their feet cheering loud and out. Rocky appreciate Dixon that he is true champion and will go much further which he thanks him for that. Everyone was in Joy seeing this last performance of Rocky. Although Dixon won by the Split decision but Rocky Balboa has steal the show and thanked everyone as everyone there was appreciating it.

In the end Rocky was Adrian’s grave again and thanked her for everything and said “Yo Adrian, we did it again.” 

Review: One of the movies that came in the books of greatness once again. Sylvester Stallone once again proved that when he directs the Rocky movie himself, he gives his heart in that and he lived that character as ever. Every component of the movie was perfect. Direction was absolute brilliant, acting was classic. Fighting sequences were again at its level best. Bringing Antonio was a very good move which again bring freshness and energy of the modern day boxing style and he also played his part absolute best. The point which was considered most positive is the Story part. Stallone makes story in just a way that it fully justified the scenario of the Rocky series and he has to be given credit for that. Only two words for this “Absolute Brilliance”. Hat’s off to Sylvester Stallone for such a remarkable Rocky series to the world.

Stars given: 5 out of 5.