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This blog for Indian Movies & Web Series Reviews and Suggestion List is dedicated to movie and web series lovers.
Sunday, October 19, 2025
Greater Kalesh (17 Oct 2025)
Saturday, September 20, 2025
The Ba***ds Of Bollywood (18 Sep 2025)
Monday, July 7, 2025
The Hunt - The Rajiv Gandhi Assassination Case (4 Jul 2025)
Friday, January 31, 2025
Sky Force (24 Jan 2025)
Genre: Action, Thriller, Military Drama
Duration: 125 minutes
It's a well made patriotic movie made by two good debutant directors (Sandeep Kewlani and Abhishek Anil Kapur), introducing a fantastic debutant actor (Veer Pahariya), well camouflaged by the mega screen presence and acting chops of a seasoned actor (Akshay Kumar).
Centred around Indo-Pskistani air war of 1965, the movie mostly comprises of death defying stunts & intelligent strategies deployed by Indian Air Force officials while flying their fighter planes and the then Wing Commander's defiant resolve to find the whereabouts (read 'for years') of one of his teammates, who did not return from Pakistan, post India's first air strike.
The movie is quite well made with it's heart in the right place and does manage to stir your patriotic emotions for the country and honest tears for martyrs and their families.
Jai Hind!
Friday, October 25, 2024
Vicky Aur Vidya Ka Woh Wala Video (11 Oct 2024)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Duration: 146 minutes
First and foremost, barring the nomenclature of the film, there is nothing adult about it, neither in terms of violence nor in terms of skin show or intimacy, unless you associate the presence of Mallika Sherawat with a testosterone rush!
Mallika, the yesteryear sassy siren appears in the movie rather late but full of confidence and good continuity in wardrobe and acting. She plays the hero's sister!
Another surprise package herein is wannabe siren Shehnaaz Gill, who appears in an item number, performs well but still looks more cute than sassy, even with noteworthy weight loss and toned body.
Shot around Rishikesh, the movie is packed with rustic UP flavor woven around two middle class families, a philanthropist bhaiyaji, a photographer, a couple of cops, a thief, chor bazar and a gang of goons consisting of a lady boss and two duplicates of yesteryear hero Suniel Shetty!
Contrary to what some may have believed, the movie is not just about a simple lost and found case of intimate suhagrat CD of Rajkummar Rao and Tripti Dimri, but a complex mesh of happenings around a stolen CD that finally leads to a longer (read much longer) than required climax filled with social awareness and never ending gyan!!
The chemistry between the lead couple is average. Better chemistry is prevalent between Mallika Sherawat and Vijay Raaj, who plays the senior cop.
Throughout the movie, the lead cast and a bevy of popular character artists try to bring in frequent laughs, some of their punches result in laughter while some fall flat.
The aforementioned seasoned artists are - Vijay Raaz, Rakesh Bedi, Archana Puran Singh, Tiku Talsania, Ashwini Kalsekar, Mukesh Tiwari, Mast Ali, Ishtiyak Khan and Mubeen Saudagar.
The cinematography by Aseem Mishra is good.
Look out for the item number that appears with the credit rolls at the end of the movie. For a change, herein the hero in his brand new avatar with designer beard & hair, gym trainer body and effortless dancing looks meatier than the heroine!
A few minutes before that, the Indian pop singer Daler Mehndi also appears in a song & dance number!
On the whole, the movie is a decent time pass, a good effort by the director, Raaj Shaandilyaa.
Friday, August 16, 2024
Stree 2: Sarkate Ka Aatank (14 Aug 2024)
Wednesday, May 29, 2024
Panchayat 3 (28 May 2024)
While the first two seasons were like a new love which was confused in a new arena, trying to find it's standing and undergoing a plethora of bitter-sweet experiences but overall having sweet fun, in the third season that love has matured, is now deep rooted with a solid sense of belonging and finally awakening to the hard facts of life around!!
Panchayat 3 is all about a flurry of incidents and accidents that take place at Phulera village before the panchayat elections wherein Pradhan ji aka Brij Bhushan Dubey's (Raghubir Yadav) core opponent inside the village is Bhushan (Durgesh Kumar) and outside is Vidhayak ji aka Chandrakishore Singh (Pankaj Jha), who plot & scheme in multiple ways to soil his name, so that he loses the upcoming election.
This keeps Pradhan and his team fully occupied wherein they resort to a series of rustic style out of the box thinking and succeed in failing all the mal efforts of the aforementioned duo.
Amidst all this, deep sorrow struck and utterly lost Upa-Pradhan aka Prahlad Pandey (Faisal Malik) whose son achieved martyrdom while serving the army (shown in season 2), recovers step by step from alcoholism and depression in a very organic manner, eventually turning into a selfless and stoic being.
Plus there is sweet & clean budding romance between Abhishek Tripathi aka Sachiv ji (Jitendra Kumar) and Pradhan ji's daughter Rinki (Sanvikaa), sans any kind of touching or even proposal. They know about each other's feelings and try to meet & spend time in each other's company, not directly but under various pretexts!
As usual, Raghubir Yadav as Pradhan (actually Pradhan-Pati) is a treat to watch with his signature dialogue delivery and comic body language. Faisal Malik has shown his full acting chops giving Prahlad an altogether new respective identity. Durgesh Kumar has well portrayed his grey shades and kept the series interesting. The rest of the cast has also performed expectantly well.
But mind you, the amusement factor in Panchayat 3 is considerably less than the last two series because as I have mentioned in the beginning, the love is no more new found, it has matured and the practicalities have started pouring in, including violence and body harm!
The series is 8 episodes long with the time duration of 35-51 minutes and is still a fine example of Indian story telling.






