‘Do Deewane Sheher Me’ is a Hindi theatrical adaptation of
the Shakespeare’s play ‘Two Gentlemen of
Verona’. Although Shakespeare had put many characters in his hit play,
Prof.Danish Iqbal(writer) handpicked only the four major characters from it.
On the 400th death anniversary of William
Shakespeare, Mahesh Bhatt has presented the theatre lovers with ‘Do Deewane
Sheher Me’.
The context of this play is simple, what would happen if the
old characters of the vintage Shakespearean play existed in the contemporary
world, what would their behaviors be, what kind of romance it would be and
which matter would spark the jealousy between the two friends??
This play was excellently adapted into a new version and was
well directed by Kalyani Hiwale and had justified every character in her play
properly.
Although the story revolves around the overly used context
of a love triangle, its comedy binds its audience together.
Overall, the audience had a good treat of laughter
throughout the play; also no visible flaw could be identified. This play is
just a onetime watch and does not have the strength to pull its audience once
again to experience it.
A.T.M review rating: 3/5
Directed by : Kalyani Hiwale
Written by : Prof.Danish Iqbal (originally by William
Shakespeare)
Produced by : Moonlight Films and Theatre Society
Presenter : Mahesh Bhatt
Duration : 1 hour and 15 minutes
Date : April 25, 2016
Venue : Sri Ram Centre of Arts and Culture , Mandi house
“Conjuring 2 sucks you into the horror you see on screen
making you run for cover in your mind.” – A.T.M reviews,
BASED ON A TRUE EVENT—
The story revolves around the Hodgson family living on the
green street, discovering strange occurrences
within their home. Janet (Madison Wolfe), the youngest daughter, is seen
sleepwalking and conversing in her dreams as two different people.
Eventually,
all siblings of the house and their mother Peggy (Frances O’Connor) witness
paranormal events occurring right before their eyes, forcing them to seek
assistance.
This is when the film
starts to pace up.
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For assistance when the
Hodgson family approaches the Priest, the Priest approaches the paranormal
investigators Ed(Patrick Wilson) and Lorraine Warren (Vera Farmiga), for the
Church needs some proofs of paranormal activities to interfere in a case, so Ed
and Lorraine were requested to become the eyes and ears of the church.
Meanwhile some news reporters
try to interview the siblings, as they(Siblings) claimed to be the eyewitnesses
of the paranormal activities. This is when family and the interviewers come to
know that Janet is possessed by the spirit of Bill Wilkins (Bob Adrian), the
previous owner of the house, who wants to claim his territory.
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While staying at the
Hodgson residence, Ed and Lorraine consult with other paranormal investigators,
includingMaurice Grosse (Simon McBurney)andAnita Gregory(Franka Potente), on the legitimacy of the case.
They also attempt to
communicate with Wilkins' spirit, hoping to convince him to leave the house.
Which further worsens the situation.
While this journey goes on,
there is an interesting twist in the story, I’ll not reveal it right now for it
will ruin the fun of watching this film, but still a little a clue from my side
I would say - ‘ the hunter is not actually the hunter’.
Now the readers might
understand what the twist might be. The audience really enjoyed watching this
twist on screen, hats off to the director.
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This film also shows the dilemma
of a wife (Lorraine) between her work and her love, as Lorraine once had a
vision that her husband(Ed) would die by being impaled by some sharp object while
solving a case, and towards the end of the film a lightning strike hits a tree
near the house, leaving a jagged stump resembling the object that impaled Ed in
Lorraine's vision which further scares her.
But how did she deal with
this dilemma?? What happened to the Hodgson’s family?? Which lasting impact was
left to this family?? Watch this amazing yet horrifying film to answer these
questions.
“Yet another mind boggling investigative film.”- A.T.M reviews,
TE3N(TEEN) is a remake of the of the South Korean thriller
film ‘Montage’ by writer-director Chung Kuen-Sup.
The film is set up in Kolkata where the granddaughter of
John Biswas(Amitabh Bachchan) gets kidnapped (which was quite obviously
understood from the theatrical teaser). But this film has much more to offer
for the audience.
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A suspense which is
too dragged till the end annoys a bit but the capacity of Amitabh Bachchan to
hold his audience’s curiosity together is commendable.
Since this is a suspense thriller I really don’t want to
reveal the story and its mind boggling incidents to spoil the reader’s fun.
A grand father who forgets most of the things but not going to the police station every day the inquire about any clue about his granddaughter's kidnapper till 8 long years, all of a sudden gets a small clue.
Here is where the story takes to charge up.
Every clue that this grandfather gets is nicely sewed up together, although some technical loopholes can be brightly seen. But while enjoying the film these technicalities will not popup into your minds, which is a huge thumb mark.
However I must say, Nawazuddin playing a cop(Martin) and a priest(Fr.Martin) is quite confusing. As he is not able to justify the guilt of a cop for not being able to help John
(Amitabh) in his granddaughter's kidnapping case. Also he tries too hard to fit in the role.
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Vidhya Balan’s role had nothing much to offer because most
of the investigation processes were done by either Nawazuddin or Amitabh. Still
there was some relevance of her role in the film.
The major essence of the film lies in the script which was
well directed by Ribhu Dasgupta.
A must watch for those looking for some intense
investigative film, although it will bore you in the middle a bit.
A.T.M review rating: 3.5/5
Directed by
Ribhu Dasgupta
Produced by
Sujoy Ghosh
Gulab Singh Tanwar
Hyunwoo Thomas Kim
Suresh Nair
Sameer Rajendran
Gauri Sathe
Ever thought what it feels like when you are trapped inside
something?? Or you get too dead scared to go somewhere new to you? Even out of
your house??
Well, Radhika Apte has done a marvelous job in bringing this
feeling onscreen! One of the most appreciable work of Radhika Apte is ‘Phobia’.
An artist,Mehak (Radhika Apte), who once gets molested by a
taxi driver at night goes through such a deep trauma that whoever she sees
reminds her of that fearful incident.
This fear takes over her so dramatically that even going to new places makes
her go pale and at times violent.
This is what psychologists’ term as ‘Agoraphobia’.
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While she goes through the early
stages of her fear she lived with her sister Anu (Nivedita
Bhattacharya) till Anu was frustrated from Mehak’s eccentric behavior and is
asked to live separately. Shaan (Satyadeep Mishra),
a close friend, takes Mehak to a friend’s house, on the assumption that it
might help her to live alone for a while.
But this worsens the situation as she starts
hallucinating things and incidents. But why does she starts hallucinating?? This
twist in the story can only be enjoyed watching the film in theatres.
The famous quote “Fear is our biggest enemy” is justified
and proved well on screen by Pavan Kirpalani
(Director). In this film each and every character has an importance as it
connects the film from one point to another.
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But the audience could
find some loopholes in the film, for instance-
A girl who has this serious psychological illness, is practically never
left alone at a home, whatever be the reason. But considering it just a film adding
to it the superb performance of Radhika Apte, such loopholes can be easily
ignored.
Overall, this film is a
great entertainment and study material for all age groups, for it has the technicality
and powerful performance.
“Risk your common sense and then watch this movie” - A.T.M
reviews,
A father (Boman Irani) who does not want his three beautiful
daughters to be married comes across a day when his daughters confess the truth
about their boyfriends.
‘Aakhri pasta’(Chunky Pandey), the old character of the
series, is approached by this ill-fated father for help (this is where the
story begins to unfold), Aakhri Pasta dons a costume of a pandit to fool the
three daughters that it was a life threat to their father if their boyfriends even
Stepped, Spoke and Saw their father.
For this problem the only solution left to these three
boyfriends was to mimic as blind, mute and differently abled respectively.
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The only reason you can laugh in this film is Akshay Kumar
who has not disappointed the viewers. But the rest of the cast seem to be of
not much use in the film. Sajid- Farhad falter, for they are less convincing in
developing scenes in the film like the Akshay-Jacqueline relationship and not
so necessary entry of Urja Nagre played by Jackie Shroff .
If the audience have watched this movie minutely, they can
easily relate that some of the incidents and scenes in this film were as same
as the prequel ‘Housefull 2’.
This is perhaps a film that should have not been made, for
the expectations of the audience with capable actors like Ritesh Deshmukh and Boman Irani
were high.
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The irritating English phrases conversion into hindi by the
three daughters like ‘nimbu ki roshni me aa jao’ later when asked explaining it
as ‘come to the lime light’ really annoys the audience for it continues
throughout the film.
Taking an example of the comedian Kapil Sharma - simple one liners are enough to make the viewer laugh..., thus, a bit of meaningful comedy could have made this film one of the best comedy films ever for it had all the capable actors!
Sohail
Sen Mika
Singh
Sharib-Toshi
Tanishk Bagchi
Milind Gaba
Cinematography
Vikas Sivaraman
Edited by
Steven Bernard
Production
company
Nadiadwala Grandson
Entertainment
Distributed by
Eros International
Release dates
·3 June 2016
Running time
134 minutes
Saturday, 4 June 2016
Sarabjit : Movie Review
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What happens when a normal rural man crosses the India
Pakistan border accidently??
The whole movie answers this question. Right from the
brutality to the inhumane activities that the Pakistani soldiers do to this
Indian villager pinches our heart and a guaranteed emotional attachment starts
budding up for audience towards the main protagonist, the credit goes to Omung
Kumar who had beautifully tried to convey a tragic yet inspiring story of
sarabjit to the audience.
A man living a simple and a very normal life ends up into a
trap when he accidently while being drunk crosses the border of India and
enters into Lahore(Pakistan). A so called border irritates me because some
milestones put in a line is designated as a border instead of atleast attaching
some wires in line around them.
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The whole story starts from the so-called border crossing of
Sarabjit while being drunk singing the ‘Jai Jai Shiv Shankar’ song who is then suddenly captured and is tossed
into the Pakistani prison.
The very convincing acting of Randeep Hooda makes you
realize the pain and brutality that Sarabjit went through.
Now the story revolves around Dalbir (Aishwarya), sister of
Sarabjit, Sukh(Richa),wife of Sarabjit,
and two little girl’s plea for the Indian Government to take some action and
fight against the same government for not taking any action in Sarabjit’s case.
The flow through which the film takes its audience is
commendable.
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In Pakistan during the same time Sarabjit is forced to
accept that he is Ranjit Singh Mattoo, an Indian accused of terrorist attacks
in Pakistan. Sarabjit unwillingly agrees that he is the man named Ranjit who was
behind the terrorist attacks in Pakistan although his subconscious didn’t want
to accept that but his conscious knew about the physical pain the body was
going through. When the accused surrenders no
better proof is required, a death sentence is declared for Sarabjit by
the Pakistani court, conforming the spark in the adamant sister to take her
brother back home.
How she deals with this situation?? What do the Pakistani
plotters have in mind for Sarabjit?? How misinterpretations lead to
psychological breakdowns to the family??
Watch this emotional yet inspiring story of Sarabjit and come out with a full
paisa vasool feeling as a viewer.
