Iron Man Rises?

Tony Stark,a genius,philanthropist,playboy,multi billionaire is back with his yet another super hero avatar.Yes  trailer of Iron Man 3 debuts in Youtube this week.By looking at the trailer anybody can say that it is inspired from Christhopher Nolan's final Batman movie The Dark Knight Rises.Robert Downey Jr. is back as Marvel comic super hero Tony Stark/Iron man and Ben Kingsley as Iron man's archenemy Mandarin,thats interesting!!!!So is it a clash of Titans?

Drama

Guess What?!!!,Bhat is back with his new movie Drama!!!!It looks like a teenage thriller.His favourite cinematographer Krishna who worked with him in epic Mungaru Male is back in his team.Here is the first look.Film stars Yash,Radhika Pandit and veteran actor Ambrish in an important role.

Long ago i read a novel called Confessions of Sulthana Daku written by Sujit Saraf.It is the story of a bhagi or rebel who terrorized British India.But never knew his family maintained his so called legacy and followed Sulthana Daku into a life of crime.

Well, i remembered the novel when i watched this amazing movie called Gangs of Wasseypur which tells the story of coal mafia that reportedly existed in Dhanbad, Bihar of Northern India.British started the coal industry and after independence some powerful  Jamindar's continues the business which gives birth to some of the most powerful gangster families.This movie is all about the journey of mafia families from 1940's to present day,a five hour biographic movie which will be released in India into 2 parts roughly 150 minutes each.This movie is not for entertainment seeking audience but for people who actually care for cinema and who believes cinema is more of an art than a just a business.I believe people who admires the work of great film makers like Martin Scorsese,Quentin Tarantino,Sergio Leone,David Fincher,Coppola or even Akira Kurosowa will watch this Indian master piece.I have always been a fan of Anurag Kashyap,liked most of his movies but this one is epic,a magnum opus.It is not regular craps like Ready,Dabbang or Rowdy Rathore which is insulting people's intelligence,this cinema can be compared with the likes of Godfather or any other such landmark films.This is not a local Indian masala cinema,this is a true world cinema made in India.

Anurag's style of film making has a similarity to Quentin Tarantino's style of film making,his use of raw locations,dark humor,violence,sex hard hitting dialogues,detailed characterization,and the way of story telling is very much similar to Tarantino's films.I love this kind of film makers or people who swims against the tide.When whole of Bollywood is busy making masala films,this guy dared to swim against the tide.

Manoj Bajpayee,a product of Ram Gopal Verma's Factory(Even the director is a sisya of RGV) gave a stellar performance yet again.I remember his great performances in Sathya and then in Shool,Pinjar and very recently in Rajneeti.Not just him every single actors in the movie breathed life into the characters.No wonder most of the actors in the movie are stage actors.Personally i liked the performances of Richa Chadda(again a theatre actor),who played role Najma,foul mouthed wife of Sardar Khan played by Manoj Bajpai.It needs lot of home work and guts to play an uneducated village girl from Bihar.Then there is Tigmanshu Dhulia  as Ramdhir Singh,another great performance in the movie.Reema Sen as Durga,too gives stellar performance.And eagerly waiting to watch Nawazuddin Siddiqui in part 2,who has won accolades for his performance in this film.

Finally,this movie is for people who is fed up of watching typical Bolly flicks where hero flaunts his 6 pack abs and where heroine shows her cleavage (who cares porn is just a click away) and who is fed up of heroines saying i kissed the hero so many number of times in the movie and it was so hard(as if they deserve Oscar for kissing)People who watch movies just for time pass can stay away from the movie.

Agneepath- My Review

"Vijay Deenanath Chauhan, Poora naam, baap ka naam Deenanath Chauhan, gaon Mandwa".Amitabh Bachan immortalized this line in 1990s cult revenge drama Agneepath directed by late Mukul Anand.Revisiting the classic is always a bad idea since it draws many comparisons to the original.And also its impossible to recreate the magic of Amitabh Bachan' voice,his screen presence or the man himself.But when i watched the 2012 version of the movie is completely different and more realistic compared to the original.

Biggest asset of the movie is menacing Sanjay Dutt as Kancha and Rishi Kapoor in a negative role as Rauf Lala.And Hrithik Roshan also did a tremendous job but unfortunately he is not man enough to carry the role of a gangster.He looks tiny and looks like a boy in front of Sanjay Dutt but the movie is all about men,muscles,revenge,action.Hrithik was very good as a sophisticated English speaking hi tech thief in Dhoom 2 but he almost failed to carry the role of a local ruffian.


The original bad boy of Bollywood, Sanjay 'The Hulk' Dutt is as good as legendary Gabbar Singh and iconic Mogambo.He brought back the memories of all the menacing,merciless screen villains of 80s and 90s.His evil smile,bald head,philosophical dialogues and his menacing 'gollum'ish looks will surely bring nightmares to women and children.




The surprise package of the movie is Rishi Kapoor,lover boy of 80s.He gave a convincing performance as a drug dealer,flesh trader Rauf Lala.All these years i thought he is just a mediocre actor but he proved me wrong and also surpassed my expectations. 


In recent times Bollywood filmmakers are trying hard to copy Hollywood and on the way they are losing their own identity.In most of the movies characters will be Indian but that character behaves,speaks and dresses like an American.(Americans are dominating the world both politically and culturally)But this movie is an exception.The lead actor dresses,behaves and talks like a common Indian.Lives a middle class life,prays Lord Ganesh,goes to temple.We can easily identify ourselves with the lead character.The writer and director did a awe inspiring work.I hope at least this year main stream Bollywood film makers start to think beyond foreign locations,six packs,bikini,glamour and concentrate on doing good movies.