UGLY

Dear Anurag Sir,

Thank you for revolutionising indian cinema with films like Dev D & Wasseypur. With Ugly, you continue the tradition of giving meaningful realistic cinema, but Ugly is a small step in the right direction rather than a giant stride.

The story revolves around a 10 year old's kidnapping but the main plot is about the ego trip and greedy nature of people involved in the case which leads to a gruesome climax. All the characters in the film have a personal evil agenda. (Basically a more realistic version of Race). 

But the film is a little lenghty and the first half runs on a loop without making headway in to the story. The second half gets more interesting and pacy. The climax has a minor loophole - How did the smell reach the cops conviently at the same time they were searchin after a week ? No one living around the area reported it ?

but the loophole doesn't take the shine off this well made film which is brilliantly shot. Its essentially not a kidnapping film at all, its about how people ignore obvious things in their attitude. If the cops werent so busy tracking rahul bhatt, they could have easily located the girl in a day.

Performance wise, Ronit roy is superb. How can a mediocre actor in his youth become such a phenomenon today, is beyond imagination. Kudos.

Rahul 'Heena' bhatt can act which is a surprise in itself. He plays a flop actor perfectly.. Naturally. 

Vineet Singh is brilliant as the cunning casting director. Super actor for super role. 

Surveen chawla gives you an erection.

'Jinxed' kohlapure finally gets a release and its worth the wait. 

But, its marathi actor Girish Kulkarni (Inspector Jadhav) who brings the house down and is the best part of the film. Watch out for this quirky actor.

Finally, Ugly is good but not great cinema. Its not black friday but its better than any other film relased recently, so its worth a watch. Between, its about time Anurag sir gave us something light because too much reality gives the audience a mirror they don't want to see. Waiting with anticipation for AK to make a comedy. Till then enjoy this dark gritty thriller.

Rating - *** half

P.K.

Dear Raju Hirani,

Its blasphemous to review a film made by u since you are the master of cinema and perhaps one of the best directors of our generation. But this hype surrounding your name has made ur new film PK, as a pale comparison to your previous bests. 

PK's plot is about Aamir landing on earth as Jaadu and then going on a god-bitching trip like paresh rawal from OMG. 

Interesting concept but raju hirani fails to play on his biggest plus point - Human emotions. While Munnabhai & 3 idiots had many scenes where you cry your eyes out. ( remember the jimmy shergill scenes in munnabhai) PK seems dry gylcerine in comparison. Also the narrative screenplay is repetative and monotonous, hence u hav aamir blaming god for everything for about most part of first half and thn finding a solution in the second. Also its not entertaining or fun. The films resemblance to paresh rawals brilliant OMG takes the shine of this 133min movie.

Special mention to the music director and songs in the film - YOU SUCK BABAJI KA THULLU. The music is so bad that you just want to smoke outside the theatre even though you are not a smoker.

The loopholes in the story is as big as Aamirs space ship. 1. If anushka and sushant broke up just by reading a letter then y cant they call each other god dammit, who sleeps with someone in a foreign country without taking their ghar ka number. 2. And if you dont have their number then hirani ji we live in the facebook generation, just a message would have done the trick. 

3. How come Sanjay dutt diagnose correctly that the thief must be in delhi ?

4. And why o why does Aamir get a bhojpuri prostitute in a gaav of rajasthan ?

Aamir does a wonderful job. The perfectionist who was lost in a money making chit fund called Dhoom 3 has returned with a superlative performance.

Anushka looks like a cute hyper duck-lipped lesbian. Why would u give her such a hideos wig.

Saurabh Shukla is superb

Overall, PK is a strictly one time watch from raju hirani standards. I prefer watching Koi mil gaya, OMG or any of hiranis past works than this half baked alien adventure.

PK is just OK

Rating - **half

INTERSTELLAR

Dear Nolan saab,

   

I love your films. They are like the bible of filmmaking (apart from the third batman film, which was in other words - Chutzpah) But, with Interstellar, you break new ground so deep that it seems like a BMC operated road.

The story is about a farmer who suddenly stumbles upon a NASA facillity who immediately decide to send him on a last moment mission which was being prepared for many years. Which can be the only hope for mankind to survive (Huh?? Now thats super convenient)

The film is superb in bringing out human emotions especially the father-daughter relation. The water planet & spinning reattachment scenes are cinematic ecstacy in itself. 

But, in the climax Nolan goes bollywood and brings the hero in the blackhole of bhiwandi. Then from gods grace, people from future find him floating in space (jaako rakhe sahiya maar sake na koi). Those physics mumbo jumbo makes your head spin and all you want is some story buddy. Physics is like ishant sharma dude, you hate it but have to live with it

Mathhew makhanhoel (makhanhoel in marathi for wanted butter?) is superb. Anne hathway is good but seriously needs to grow some boobs. 

Overall, Interstellar is great and would be counted in modern classics but from Nolan's standard, you want something more meaty. And yes, less confusing because we simple cinema lovers still believe E=MC2 means E=madarch** tu. For now, i wil still prefer Gravity from last year to this confusing magnum opus. 

Rating - ***half