SANAM RE

SANAM RE: is a 2016 Indian Hindi-language romantic drama film directed by Divya Khosla Kumar  starring Pulkit Samrat, Yami Gautam ,Urvashi Rautela, Rishi Kapoor,Manoj Joshi & Bharti Singh.

PLOT: Aakash (Pulkit Samrat) is an ambitious young man who's always rebuked by his boss. The circumstances take him back to his small home town amidst snowcapped hills. His dadaji (Rishi Kapoor), a photographer had been a strong influence on him during childhood.Akash visits Canada to woo gorgeous and sexy Mrs Pablo aka Akanksha (Urvashi Rautela)  for a business deal.They attend a Yoga Camp of a lady Yoga guru (Bharti Singh).There he rediscovers his childhood love Shruti (Yami Gautam) whom he had dumped for a comfortable city life a few years ago. Circumstances make Aakash and Yami meet again. Akanksha started loving Akash & Akash proposes Shruti but Shruti doesn't reciprocate his feeling.Now what Akash should do?Why Shruti is avoiding Akash?What will happen to Akanksha?

PERFORMANCES: Pulkit Samrat is fine.Yami Gautam looks deliriously pretty and a perfect girl from the mountains.Urvashi looks beautiful, acts well and adds a solid oomph quotient to the film.

MUSIC:composed by  Mithoon, Jeet Ganguly, Amaal Mallik.Title track is very good & melodious."Gazab ka hai" & " Hua Hain Aaj Pehli Baar" are also good composition.

Divya Khosla Kumar has chosen some fantastic locations in Laddakh, Canada and Himachal Pradesh.Cinematographer Sameer Arya composes the frames that are far too good.

But the script,direction are not good.Quite boring also.Once the love triangle is established, the movie chugs on its inevitable path, featuring fat jokes, transphobia, one terminal disease and a couple of major sacrifices which are very common these days.The twists are too predictable for viewers.

Overall Sanam Re is not up to the mark film.You can miss this film.

FITOOR

FITOOR: is an Indian Hindi-language romantic drama film directed by Abhishek Kapoor features Tabu,Aditya Roy Kapur,Mohammed Abrar and Katrina Kaif,Aditi Rao Hydari, Lara Dutta.Its based on Charles Dickens' novel Great Expectations.

PLOT: Noor (Mohammed Abrar) a thirteen-year-old Shikara boy from Kashmir who lives with his elder sister and her husband. The innocent lad is born artist who sketches and soon finds his perfect muse in Firdaus (Katrina Kaif).Noor falls in love with her but Firdaus’ mother Begum Hazrat (Tabu) sent Firdaus away to London for education.erself being a victim of love’s flipside, she plays with Noor and Firdaus’ emotions as though seeking a revenge for her own lost love.After years,young Noor(Aditya) becomes art sensation in Delhi and it is there that he has a rendezvous with Firdaus who By this time is engaged to Bilal (Rahul Bhat), a Pakistani diplomat, but Noor's feelings have not changed and they begin a relationship.Will Begum let this love blossom?Will Noor & Firdaus be together?Rest of the story is all about.

PERFORMANCES: Aditya Roy Kapur as Noor Nizami gives quite a layered & steady performance.Katrina Kaif as Firdaus looks stunning. But when it comes to her act, she does not exactly give us anything great to marvel on or remember.Tabu as Begum Hazrat is clearly the show-stealer of the film. She owns the character of Miss Havisham and one truly feels the pain behind those dark circled eyes that have cried a thousand rivers. She is exceptional in the film with her attitude and her arrogant yet heart-broken tone.Rahul Bhat is seen in a supporting role as Bilal, Firdaus’ fiancé and he does a good job.Aditi Rao Hydari looks stunning as the young Begum.

MUSIC: is composed by Amit Trivedi.only 'Fitoor' and 'Pashmina' stands out.

The film is visually stunning.Kashmir is brilliantly captured by Anay Goswamy's camera.The costumes are attractive.The scene of the bomb blast seems so real and comes so sudden that it will surely give you a jerk.

Director seems extremely confused in his narrative of Fitoor.The screenplay is disappointing & confusing.There are many scenes in the film that do no good to the film, but only land up confusing the viewers

Overall,Fitoor is one time watch only for performances by the leading characters & great visuals.

GHAYAL ONCE AGAIN

GHAYAL ONCE AGAIN: is a 2016 Indian action film directed by Sunny Deol featuring Sunny Deol, Soha Ali Khan, Om Puri, Shivam Patil, Aanchal Munjal, Rishabh Arora, Diana Khan, Narendra Jha.The sequel to the 1990 super hit Ghayal.

PLOT: 26 years later after Ghayal, despite the fact that Ajay(Sunny) gets released from the jail, he still gets haunted by the flashes of the years gone by in his life,is going through treatment under DR. Riya(Sofa). Ajay, who now is the chief of a news agency named 'Satyakaam', fights for every bit of the truth through his newspaper.Meanwhile, Ajay's close friend Joe D'souza (Om Puri), who is a retired DCP turned an active RTI activist gets killed by the business tycoon Raj Bansal (Narendra Jha)'s short tempered son in a fit of rage. Unknowingly, the whole incident accidentally gets captured in the camera that belongs to Anushka (Aanchal Munjal), who is best friends with Rohan (Shivam Patil), Zoya (Daina Khan) and Varun (Rishabh Arora). And when Raj Bansal gets to know about the secret video tape, he tells his henchmen to eliminate the four children as they pose extreme danger to him and well as to the image of his gigantic empire.So all the four students are in danger.Ajay is the only one to stand between the bad guys and the innocent do-gooders.The rest of the film is about How Ajay saves those students & how he punishes the culprit who killed Joe.

PERFORMANCES: Sunny as a actor,does a sincere attempt & as a director, does a better than decent job. He manages to keep the plot believable and keep you involved in the goings on.Soha Ali Khan, who plays his doctor/love interest, doesn't get to do much while the four kids have done a decent job.Narendra Jha has put in an honest effort, but he lacks the menacing aura that the late Amrish Puri as Balwant Rai could project with a mere glance.

MUSIC: composed by Shankar, Ehsaan, Loy is no great show

What separates Ghayal Once Again from most other Bollywood franchises is that it is a genuine sequel to the 1990 super hit Ghayal and takes off from where the previous film left.Though not as emotionally engaging as the original, the sequel delivers what it promises on the action front. Skilfully shot, elaborate nail-biting chase sequences in the train and the mall leave you glued to your seats, gasping for breath. Heavy-duty fist fights are equally gripping but the helicopter actions scenes could have been either avoided or done in a better fashion.Poor work of CGI.

The biggest letdown in the film is absence of Sunny Deol's elements of trademark action and hard-hitting dialogues.

Overall,Ghayal Once Again is one time watch film.

SAALA KHADOOS

SAALA KHADOOS: is a 2016 Indian Tamil-Hindi sports drama film written and directed by Sudha Kongara starring R Madhavan, Ritika Singh, Mumtaz Sorcar, Zakir Hussain, Nasser, M K Raina.

PLOT: Adi(Madhavan) is a failed boxer, who- despite of being very talented- fell victim to the dirty politics in the boxing association. Ten years later, he is a coach for women's boxing teams but is extremely angry and frustrated with the partiality in selection. Due to his rift with the association head Dev Khatri (Zakir Hussain), he is falsely charged for sexual harassment and transferred to Chennai. Despite the very poor infrastructure, Prabhu manages to find talent in a road side fish seller Madhi (Ritika Singh) whose sister Luxmi (Mumtaz), part of the boxing team, is trying to get a police job with her sports credentials.Adi notices that Madhi is capable of and bears all her tantrums and fights to train her, to make her a champion.Adi dreams of finding and grooming a boxer who can represent India and bring home the Gold.The road, of course, is paved with more thorns. Will his dream come true is rest of the story.

PERFORMANCES: Madhavan looks every bit the disgruntled coach and totally takes the cake when it comes to hurtling abuses – if nothing else, his acting justifies the film’s title.He makes us believe he can play the entire opposite of the mellow, henpecked hubby in 'Tanu Weds Manu' series. Zakir Hussain also slips into his role as a lecherous, scheming and influential man. In comparison, Ritika Singh falls a little short in her debut performance, but even she has her moments but she is definitely a revelation and a find of Bollywood.Mumtaz Sorcar tries her best to get into the skin of her Laxmi & has got potential.

MUSIC: is composed by Santhosh Narayanan."Saala Khadoos" ,"Dil Ye Ladaku","Jhalli Patakha" stand out from among the rest of the songs.

Saala Khadoos is unable to rise above the predictability but direction,acting,screenplay are making this different from other sports related films & manages to engage through out the film.The camerawork is praiseworthy. Sivakumar Vijayan's cinematography is well-done.

Overall,Saala Khadoos is surely watchable for the performances by its cast.

AIRLIFT

AIRLIFT: s a 2016 Indian war thriller film directed by Raja Krishna Menon, and starring Akshay Kumar,Nimrat Kaur,Inaamulhaq,Purab Kohli,Ninad Kamat & Prakash Belawadi.The film is loosely based on the true story of how Indians were evacuated from Kuwait after the Iraqi invasion in 1990 during the Iraq-Kuwait war carried out during the reign President Saddam Hussein of Iraq.

PLOT: Ranjit Katiyal (Akshay), a construction tycoon,who has always seen himself as a Kuwaiti, rather than an Indian, living with his wife Amrita (Nimrat Kaur) and little daughter Shimu in Kuwait when Saddam’s forces drive into the streets, bombing buildings and randomly firing their weapons.Ranjit unknowingly becomes the man who all 1,70,000 Indians look up to for getting them out safely from Kuwait.How they, with the help of Ranjit Katyal, managed to survive the Iraqi invasion, and against all odds travelled a thousand kilometres across the border into Amman, Jordan is rest of the story.

PERFORMANCES: Akshay delivers a controlled performance for the most part.Probably he displays a range of emotions which he probably keeps reserved for these kind of films.Nimrat Kaur throws her lot behind Amrita and proves yet again.Her confrontation scene with Prakash Belavadi leaves one speechless. Belavadi, on his part, is fabulous as the irritable, always-complaining old man George. Purab Kohli strikes the right notes with his Ibrahim. Filmistaan star Inaamulhaq's Major Khalaf Bin Zayd is at once subtly menacing and somewhat pity-evoking.

MUSIC:composed by Amaal Mallik and Ankit Tiwari."Soch Na Sake","Dil Cheez Tujhe Dedi" & "Tu Bhoola Jise" are good songs.

The film is solidly plotted, well executed and well-acted but climax could have been better,more exciting.The last bit of the film looks hurried. It is almost like the filmmaker too couldn't wait to finish the film and get home,

Overall Airlift is the story of unparalleled courage and unsung heroes. From unknown names in the Ministry of External Affairs in Delhi to people who had their Indianness rearing its head from within just when it was required, Airlift is un-miss-able