Film Review:- Darna Mana Hai

Director:-  Prawaal Raman
Producer:- Ramgopal Varma

Written by:- Atul Sabharwal
                     Abbas Tyrewala

Starring:-      1. Saif Ali Khan

                      2.Nana Patekar

                      3.Sunil Shetty

                     4.Sonali Kulkarni

                     5.Boman Irani

                     6.Aftab Shivdasani

                     7.Vivek Oberoi

                     8.Shilpa Shetty

                     9.Sohail Khan

                    10.Sameera Reddy

                     11.Isha Koppikar

                    12.Kiku

Language:-Hindi

Budget:-3 Crore

Story:-

It has six short stories in it. It begins with a journey of 6 six friends travelling for vacation. They get stuck on the unknown road in the night. They find the shelter in some mysterious place cum house at night. They get settle together at that place around night. Their one friend is sitting ideally in a car waiting for the other vehicle for the help. Six friends are sitting together in the car they began to amuse each other with the supernatural and haunted stories and the film begins.

The first story is on the way. One couple is driving at night. At the sudden moment, their car gets stopped in the middle of the road. She sits in the car and he drops down and the story begins….

The second story is about the no-smoking. One fashion photographer is driving in the evening. He visits the hotel on the highway. That Hotel is different from the others. There is not a single staff working in the hotel. Hotel is handled by  the 60 year old man. Fashion photographer visits the hotel and he checks in the room. He notices the board no-smoking. Suddenly he gets alert from the 60-year-old man who comes in his room and he grabs his smoking packet. That fashion photographer argues with the 60-year-old man for the smoking but he stops him and he keeps on telling him about the smoking habit. Angry photographer leaves the hotel at the night but an old man stops him at the entrance and blocks him. Here the story begins.

The third story is about homework.

The fourth story is about the mystery about the apple.

The fifth story is about the man who is driving the road at night. He meets the 65-year-old man on the road. He asks for life and both of them travel together. Here the story begins as driving man is someone else.

The last story is about a boy who is 30 years old.  He has the power to stop the man and the things at the place and move them as per his wish. This story proceeds further until we see the other biggest twist.

This is one of the brilliant attempts in the Indian Cinema for its direction and script and acting performances especially by Vivek Oberoi and Nana. We don’t see the typical story and the flow in this film. This film completely succeeds in pinching the fear in the mind of the audiences. All the six stories and script are strong enough to spread the fear in the audience's mind and the word “ Darna Mana Hai”

Ramgopal Varma…Plz, come back with this kind of master films.

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#Film Review#Dombivli Fast#

Film Review:-  Dombivli Fast

Release Year:-2005

Total Timing:-115 Min

Star Cast:-

·         Sandeep Kulkarni in as Madhav Apte

·         Shilpa Tulaskar  as Sandeep Kulkarni’s wife

·         Sandesh Jadhav in as Insp. Subhash

·         Srusti in as Madhav Apte’s daughter.

·         Ashvini Apte

·         Shashant Bawkar

Story:- It is the story of the middle-class man Madhav Apte. He is the man who is living his life with his family in a normal way. He is a bank employee. He is a straight forward a person who follows the simple paths of truths. He is a law obedient and honest citizen of the country. He keeps on noticing some unavoidable things in his daily life. He watches many people who are breaking the law and making money. He wishes everyone should follow the law and live their life. But things get changed after a while. He gets frustrated with the injustice and corruption which is filled in his daily life. This causes his mental harassment. Being frustrated with the continuous negativity and injustice around his day to day life he gets ignited and agitated. He turns into a violent man who didn’t even think of violence in his life. His changing attitude causes trouble in his family. He starts arguing and later on this argument turns into a physical fight. His mental breakdown causes many curious cases against him which changes his life forever.

The story focuses on the harsh realities that are been faced by the common man in his daily life. At the corner of the point, we see everyone is frustrated and irritated with the daily unjustified things and illegal things. Our daily life is filled with the non-other than a small war kind of a thing. We run to our life living our family behind. Our family keeps on caring in the home. They keep on calling again with the caring questions. In this war kind of life, we see many illegal proceedings. We see the illegal man and power is getting bigger and the man who follows a law is thrown at the corner of the road. But we are busy living in our daily life hence we don’t react to such situations. We tend to adjust to these situations since we want to live with our family. We see many odd; illegal; corrupted things in daily life. But we don’t dare to speak against it since we have been told since childhood that such things are controlled by the money man people and the politicians. Although this thing is the true fact that we want to live a life where straight forward man is been given respect; all the illegal things and the corrupted things are been stopped forever.

Story and screenplay is a masterpiece written by Mr.Nishikant Kamat.   The Story is the USP of the film. He has focused on the life of the common man. Also, he has focused on the life of the man who gets ignited and fights with all illegal powers which change his life forever.

Each and every actor is not just an actor but they have embedded in the role.

3 cheers to all the actors of the film especially Sandeep Kulkarni.

This film pinches the heart.

Never miss it

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Kaushik

Ichalkaranji

Film Review :- Ashi hi Banva Banvi

Movie Review:-  Ashi hi Banva Banvi

Cast:
·         Ashok Saraf as  Dhananjay Mane
·         Sachin Pilgaokar as Sudhir
·         Laxmikant Berde as Parshuram
·         Siddharth Ray as Shantanu Mane
·         Supriya Pilgaokar as Manisha
·         Ashivini Bhave as Madhuri
·         Priya Arun as  Kamla
·         Nivedita Joshi as Sushama
·         Nayantara as Lilabai
·         Viju khote as Bali
·         Sudhir Joshi as Vishwas Sarpotdar
 

Story:

 The story is about 4 brothers. Elder brother Dhananjay (Ashok Saraf) is working as a salesman in the cosmetic store in the Pune city.  He is living on the rent at the Landlord Vishvas Sarpotdar( Sudhir Joshi’s) place.  He is a strict landlord who doesn’t allow many people to visit his rented places. Dhananjay Mane is joined by his brother Shantanu. Despite the warning and the strict rules of the Vishwas Sarpotdar, Dhananjay and his brother allow his friend Parshuram and Sudhir to stay at his place. They continue to stay together in smart ways. But they 4 are caught by the Vishvas Sarpotdar and they are kicked out of the rented home. Dhananjay Mane starts searching for the new home. In the search, he finds one bungalow where 70-year-old women are staying. But she puts a condition to Dhananjay that she wants to give the Bungalow on rent to married people but not to the bachelors.  In order to satisfy the conditions of the 70-year lady, Dhananjay and his brother convince Parshuram and Sudhir to live as their wife. They come to live in the bungalow and fun begins.  

This movie is one of the epic blockbusters in the Marathi film industry. What it doesn’t have? Though it is a remake it is a full furnished movie in terms of the acting and timing and the script and story. It has even blockbuster songs. It is a big tribute to the theatre artist BAL Gandharv.

Ashok Saraf:- He is the king of the timing and expressions. He plays the role of a perfect salesman who works in the women’s Shop. No one can even match his comic sense and timing. He gets better with every movie in his acting skills. His dialogues in the film are even been watched with the intense comic humour. In one word he is the master in the acting.

Laxmikant Berde:- Who can forget this man? He is one of the best comedian and actor blessed in Maharashtra. He has a natural acting ability which cannot be thought in any school. He plays the role of Ashok Saraf’s Wife. In terms of acting, he is the Giant and Ashok Saraf is the master. No one can match their changing expression in the same scenes. The scene where Laxmikant Berde suddenly enters in the room of Dhananjay and he asks the Question,’’ Dhananjay Mane ithech Rahatat ka” is the milestone scene in the Marathi film industry.

Sachin Pilgaokar:

Ashok Saraf is master in acting; Laxmikant Berde is giant in acting, and he is the road-runner in the direction;acting. He can do anything in a wise way in his style. He doesn’t get flew with the Ashok Saraf and Laksha’s Acting.

Nivedita:- She is Ok

Sudhir Joshi:- He is the  best who plays the character of a typical man who leaves in the Sadashiv Peth in Pune.

Ashivini bhave:- She is elegant.

Siddharth Ray:- He is Ok

Priya Arun:- She is best.

So... I won't do much deep. Purchase the movie and don’t miss the fun of one of the biggest blockbuster in the Marathi industry.

*Unlimited Stars*

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Kaushik Shrotri

Film Review:- Bhoot

  Starcast:-
·         Urmila Matondkar as Swati
·         Ajay Devgn as Sanjay Thakkar
·         Rekha as a Sarita
·         Nana Patekar as Inspector Liyaqat
·         Tanuja as Mrs.Khosla
·         Seema Biswas as a Bai
·         Victor Banerjee as Dr Rajan
·         Barkha Madan as a Manjeet Khosla
·         Shabbir Mastani as a Watchman
 Written by: - Ram Gopal Varma
Directed by: - Ram Gopal Varma
Music: - Salim-Suleiman

Story:-  The story is about the Vishal(Ajay Devgan) who is already married to Swati (Urmila Matondkar). They are in search of the house in Metro City. In the search, they find out one flat at the top of the building. As soon as they enter the house the caretaker of the house warns the Vishal about some odd incident which had happened in the past in the flat. But Ajay Devgan ignores that incident with the view in the mind he doesn’t believe such things and he hides the same incident from the Swati (Urmila Matondkar). Both of them shift together in the flat and some tricky events start taking place. Swati (Urmila) gets fascinated with some things in the building which changes their life. Suddenly one member of the building gets disappeared..and things continue to go on.

The story is the second attempt by RGV after his first superhit Raat. This again holds the nerves much tighter. In terms of the script, this story is just the same concept which is being displayed in many movies. But he is a master in the presentation skills which makes this movie another masterpiece from his factory again. His own style of camera angles…lights…and that slow..but nerve shivering music…Night shoots…makes the audience much frightened. RGV is a master in developing the characters and narrative which are too here in the movie.

Urmila Matondkar:- She is the winner. She plays the role of a wife who later on gets fascinated by the spirit of a Women. She is at her best in the role. Her eyes are much more frightening in the entire film. She will take care to terrify the entire audience until the end of the film. She has involved soo deep the story that sometimes while watching the film we may feel that is she really haunted by the spirit?

Ajay Devgan:- He plays the role of a frightened and caring husband who tries his level best to find out the real problem. He has nothing to do too much in the story since the entire USP is Urmila.

Seema Biswas:- She plays the role of typical houseworker(Bai) who is always in the doubts and fear in the mind.

Rekha:- She is a surprise entry. She plays the role of women who find out the solutions for the haunted spirits.

Fardeen Khan:- He is just OK.

Nana Patekar:- He is a COP.

Meanwhile, I will say the soul of the story is repetitive in most of the movies. But in this movie, RGV has represented it in the scariest way and he is again successful to make the audience shiver again.

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Film review:- Kaun

Film review:- Kaun

Starcast:-
  1.Urmila as an unnamed female

  2. Manoj Vajpayee as Sameer A. Purnavale 

 3. Sushant Singh as Inspector.

Written by:- Anurag Kashyap

Directed by:- Ramgopal Varma

Story:- Again it is a masterpiece from the factory of RGV. 

On a stormy and rainy evening, one announcement is made on the television regarding one serial killer. A serial killer is roaming free in the city. This makes women much alert and anxious. This woman is living alone in her bungalow. Suddenly a bell rings on her door. Women finds out one stranger is waiting outside her house. This makes the situation much more complex and terrible. He enters the house with some other name. As he enters inside the house he notices some unusual things in the house and the events start falling into the place in a rapid way and one more man enters inside the house in some unknown circumstances and the story begins…

The entire movie was shot in just 15 days with 90 minutes of the duration. While watching the end I bet everyone will get punched and ignited as it is the biggest twist in the story. This kind of writing is totally different and unique. I personally loved the climax of the film. It was something that no one even I didn’t expect.

Anurag Kashyap is again a master in writing the psychological thrillers and chasing stories. He has placed the situations and twist and turns in unique ways. It's not at all a typical psychological horror film. The most interesting part of the story is that this story has just only 3 characters shoot in a single house. It's much interesting and unique way to make a film with less budget and present it. Each and every situation is different and unique. Camera angles are in different ways. Music and the direction kick's everyone's asses while watching the movie.

Urmila…:- She plays a character of unknown Mam. It is the first time that a leading lady is not having a character name but she is identified as just a Mam. She plays an effective role of a lady who is afraid and frightened inside the house. She is always curious and nervous. She keeps on looking here and there for the fact that some unknown person has entered the house. She scares you instantly. She is a USP and winner at the end of the movie.

Manoj Bajpayee:- He is too an antique character in the movie. He has many hidden shades with him. He enters inside the house with the name Sameer. As he enters the house some unexpected events start falling into the place.

Sushant Singh:- He plays the role of an Inspector. Though he is not an inspector in the movie, he is someone else who enters inside the house.

Ramgopal Varma is a masterman in the storytelling. This is the ultimate film in terms of creativity. In each and every film of RGV, we see something unique and different things. He should make such movies again and again.

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Kaushik Shrotri