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The Last Act (2012) - Movie Review


The Last Act’ is the first collaborative feature movie in Indian Cinema. It’s an Anurag Kashyap’s presentation who is a successful filmmaker in Bollywood. The filmmaker has been struggling to achieve the place where he stands today.
His fame indeed has the ability to lend his name to promote unconventional concepts in Indian film industry. 

‘The Last Act’ tells a story of a misdeed by a psychopath that leaves 12 signs around the dead body. The signs draw down to 12 different cities including Mumbai, Kolkata and Delhi. The movie has a sequence of 12 short films that show how the police solve out the murder mystery pursuing the 12 clues found around the body. 

10ml Love (2012) - Movie Review


With ‘10 ML Love’, Filmmaker Sharat Katariya projects a version of Shakespeare's famous comedy of errors, ‘A Midsummer Night's Dream’. Let’s find out if it works for Hindi cinema’s audience. 

‘10ml Love’ is about 6 different characters. Shweta (played by Tara Sharma) is a rich but unpleasant person who is engaged to Neel (played by Purab Kohli) but does not love him. She is in love with an unfortunate mechanic Peter Pareira (played by Neil Bhoopalam).
Neel has a childhood friend Mini (played by Keol Puri) who loves him and wants to marry him. Ghalib (Rajat Kapoor) sells aphrodisiacs in the narrow lanes of M. Ali Road. His married life is not good as he continuously doubts on his wife Roshni (played by Tisca Chopra).

The Collection (2012) - Movie Review


The makers of ‘The Collector’ and ‘Saw’ now present ‘The Collection’ which is a pure horror lovers’ movie. It is a sequel of the two mentioned movies and good for those who are brave enough to watch curdling and cruel mindless murders. The story portrays murder and tormenting maximum people in the most cruel, graphic and meaninglessly brutal means.

‘The Collection’ shows a guy who wears a large black-leather-mask. He loves to torture and kill people. He factually finds his victims and throws them in a red trunk once collected. Then brings them home, cut them into pieces and stitches them back together. He does not stop here as he then drains them into drugs, safe them in cages, follows them and frequently gets the results balanced in big fish tanks.

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012) Movie Review


The Hobbit: An unexpected Journey”, the movie is based on J.R.R. Tolkien’s book which was published in the year of 1937 to revitalize the customary quest legend in a wholly recognized fantastical world.
Director Peter Jackson and his team lucratively pressed the edges of cinematography with "The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey" as its complicated particulars are beautifully rendered in an occasionally harsh layout.  Moreover its narrative has been acted out with an outstanding star cast. 
By ‘The Lord of the Rings’ Mr. Jackson has presented his vision of Middle-earth and distinguishes Saruman from Sauron and Arwen from Eowyen. "The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey" has been stretched into three movies which bring beginners in luck.

Playing for Keeps (2012) - Movie Review

Gabriele Muccino‘s "Playing for Keeps" is a humorous family reunion excitement. Gerard Butler plays George Dryer in this movie who is an ex-star professional soccer player and a motivational dad to his young son, Lewis. His role is not too different from his previous presentation "Chasing Maverick". 

George wants to step forward as a sports commentator. He has a breakdown in his personal life. His family is not with him for a long time; besides this he does not have any money to pay his expenditures. He decides to go back to Virginia to patch up with his ex-wife Stacy and their son Lewis. He becomes conscious when he sees that his wife has moved in her life and engaged to get married at the present. She does not stop George to spend time with Lewis.

Hotel Transylvania (2012) - Movie Review

3D animated movies are in demand these days. Tartakovsky is one of those filmmakers who have attempted making movies of such genres. Although his latest film "Hotel Transylvania" has liveliness and can be a visual treat for the audience of all ages, however it is not thriving as a 3D animated film. 

"Hotel Transylvania" is about Dracula who is an overprotective father and aims on protecting his lovely daughter. Dracula had built a giant hotel named Transylvania to provide monsters with a good holiday away from human being. They say that, his wife was lost to a doubtful crowd while his daughter was a little baby. This hotel is now the most required after vacations purpose for monsters.

Killing Them Softly (2012) - Movie Review


Killing Them Softly,” is a stimulation of George V. Higgins’s novel “Cogan’s Trade”. This is a gruesome little offense film that directed by Andrew Dominik.  The movie begins with a fidgety boy (played by Scoot McNairy) who robs a mobbed-up poker game with his Australian associate (played by Ben Mendelsohn) and the entrepreneur (played by Vincent Curatola). The most important concern of “Killing Them Softly,” is the forceful fairness to be done by a sad man who does it after having some episodes of philosophical talks with different acquaintances.  

Even though Brad Pitt is there as the killer, with a sensible professional called Jackie Cogan, the film has a pleasantly petty mood. “Killing Them Softly” was shot in and around New Orleans but set in a broken-down Boston.

Talaash (2012) - Movie Review


Mr. Perfectionist, Aamir Khan is back with another remarkable performance in his new movie ‘Talaash’. He has been a darling of Hindi movie audiences and very selective in movies. Let's find out what his latest selection brings for all of us.  

‘Talaash’ begins with a bollywood star’s murder. Aamir Khan who plays inspector Surjan S. Shekhawat aka Suri has been assigned this mystery to solve. His has many secrets and lies in his past; moreover he is not comfortable with the bitter truth that he could not save his own young son from drowning. This anxiety keeps disturbing him and he gets further away from his life-companion Roshni (played by Rani Mukerji).

Rise Of The Guardians (2012) - Movie Review



“Rise of the Guardians,” is an unusual combination of rejoicing wide eyes and inexperienced bliss with ruining its individual intermittent wonderfulness. Peter Ramsey directs the movie whereas it is written by David Lindsay-Abaire. The movie is based on a tale by William Joyce.
Rise of the Guardians,” has a great deal of animated entertainment. It turns silly, over-sentimental and loud, with just an adequate amount of cleverness to make you longing it were better. The story depicts that Santa Claus and a group of other ecumenically fairy-tale life forms, mainly the Easter Bunny, the Sandman and the Tooth Fairy are the guardians of the mysterious state of early days. They are a cheerful group,

Red Dawn (2012) - Movie Review


Red Dawn” is on the subject of the 1984 John Milius war flick about a Soviet attack of the United States. The filmmakers have changed the invaders to North Koreans and have made his state a Hollywood nasty piece of work.
Keeping in the mind adults will discover a North Korean attack the matter of wing-nut dreams with children who like to see boys shoot stuff up is almost certainly what the distributor is getting on. Spokane, Wash.

The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2 (2012) - Movie Review


The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2 brings last episode of the series about love, conflict and grant immortality. The movie shows cheerful moments in time for Bella (played by Kristen Stewart). She has grown up invigorated, re-styled and stone-cold lifeless after dropping a new adding to the Cullen family.     These absolute vegetarian vampires nibble on forest creatures as a substitute of humans. In the last film, Bella’s husband saved her with stabbing her neck when she was almost departed her life in pregnancy, therefore at long last creation a vampire out of her.   
Now her baby Renesmee (played by Mackenzie Foy) makes three, she is the nominal pride and joy for the last film.  Bella was still alive as half-human and half-vampire when Renesmee becomes an instantaneous trouble baby.

Life of PI (2012) - Movie review

Ang Lee’s 3-D movie “Life of Pi” is inspired by a popular novel of Yann Martel. Irrfan Khan plays a middle-aged Pi in the movie. “Life of Pi” shows Pi telling the story of his earlier life to a Canadian writer (played by Rafe Spall).  Ayush Tandon plays the younger character of Pi while and as a teenager Pi, Suraj Sharma plays his part. Pi’s life is so smitten by speculate that those in the viewers who do not share his decency may believe that something is not right with Pi, or themselves. 
Pi has lived his childhood in a calm and pictorial city of South India that is known as Pondicherry. Claudio Miranda has magnificently filmed his early days in a bright background that gets some hint of exoticism by Mychael Danna’s score. Indian actors Adil Hussain and Tabu have played the roles of Pi’s parents and are attraction of “Life of Pi”. 

Kismat Love Paisa Dilli (2012) - Movie Review



Making a humorous movie is not a game of kids. One has to be really carefully between humorous and corny when making such genre of movie. Many Hindi filmmakers make an effort to valve the ordinary sense of humor of present generation. A humorous movie requires punches at the right time and good comic timing.

Chittagong (2012) - Movie Review



The year of 2010 was not a successful year for filmmaker Ashutosh Gowariker in bringing a new historical chapter of India as ‘Chittagong uprising’. The movie had Abhishek Bachchan and Deepika Padukone as the main lead.  Now in 2012, filmmaker Bedabrata Pain has brought his film on the same topic with the title ‘Chittagong’. Let’s find the possible impact of ‘Chittagong’ on the viewers of Hindi cinema.

Chittagong depicts a story of a small piece of British ruled Bengal that is not very much remembered in Indian history.  The story shows the year of 1930 when a school teacher Suriya Sen (played by Manoj Bajpayee) leads some young people to take on the British forces. Chittagong shows the revolution and rise of the youngest lanky fighter Jhunku (played by Delzad Hiwale) to the freedom fighter Subodh Roy.

Jab Tak Hai Jaan (2012) - Review


Yash Chopra is another name of romance. Nobody could portray love & romance than he did through his legendary movies. He knew how to show human feelings on the screen. He was the king of romance, human emotions and endless love. The decease of Yash Chopra is a great loss to Hindi cinema. His last directorial movie ‘Jab Tak Hai Jaan’ is now released for his countless fans. As the title says, it is a love story that centers around Shah Rukh, Katrina and Anushka. ‘Jab Tak Hai Jaan’ celebrates romance and unconditional passion that certainly brings lovers to the cinema. Let’s review the last romantic presentation of a great director of Hindi cinema. 

Ajab Gazabb Love (2012) - Review



Vashu Bhagnani is a senior and one of the successful producers in Hindi cinema.  It is always fruitful in Bollywood to have a father as a film producer. Many celebrities have launched their sons or daughters such as Rakesh Roshan’s launched Hritik Roshan, Vinod Khanna introduced Akhsay Khanna and many more are in the list.  However Vashu Bhagnani seems to be on the top of launching attempts so far, as this is third time; he is re-launching his son Jackky Bhagnani with ‘Ajab Gazabb Love’.

Luv Shuv Tey Chicken Khurana (2012) - Review

Anurag Kashyap‘s ‘Luv Shuv Tey Chicken Khurana’ is a sweet-spicy mix production. Anurag Kashyap is a big name of grainy and brooding films; he now intends to change his icon with a flavorful film for Bollywood movies lovers and viewers around the world.
Luv Shuv Tey Chicken Khurana’ is a story of Kunal Kapoor who is playing Omi Khurana in the film. He wants to stash for money but his outlook does not let him go far. Two big gangsters Shenty and Menty benefit from his courtesy and involve him in a mess of 50,000 pound mortgage. Omi does not find any way out to get rid of such situation. He plans to escape from London to Punjab where he could ask some moolah to help him pay off his massive loan. 

Delhi Safari (2012) Review


Delhi Safari, a Nikhil Advani film tells the story of a leopard cub Yuvi who used to have Mumbai's Sanjay Gandhi National Park as his home.  He is still grieving over the loss of his father who got killed when a human builder burned the forest in preparation for the construction of a high rise residential complex.  The young cub convinced the other animals of the forest to deal with the builder who is based in New Delhi by staging a rally in the parliament complete with media coverage.  So march to the capital they all went– Begum (Urmila Matondkar) Yuvi’s mother, Bagga the bear (Boman Irani , Bajrangi the chimpanzee (Govinda)

Chakravyuh (2012) –Movie Review


Prakash Jha is famous for executing political and social issues as his most favorite script in majority of his films.  His Gangaajal, Raajneeti and Aarakshan are legendary for portraying such subject in Hindi cinema that leaves massive impact on the audiences. ‘Chakravyuh’ is another presentation of Prakash Jha that focuses on the increased terrible issue of Naxalism in India.  Unlike his previous movie, ‘Chakravyuh; is a less popular cast movie where Arjun Rampal, Abhay Deol and Esha Gupta are in the lead roles.
‘Chakravyuh’ shows two friends Adil Khan (played by Arjun Rampal) and Kabir (Abhay Deol).  Adil is an honest police officer whereas Kabir is an argumentative failure of cop training. 

Janleva 555 (2012) – Movie Review

If you cannot immediately see the essence of the film through its title, then reading this review essentially becomes a must.  The film ‘Janleva 555’’s objective was to make people more responsive to the raising death toll due to snake bites.  Unfortunately it miserably failed to accomplish that.