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#PicksAndPiques #JohnsonThomas #filmmoviedoumentaryreviews #internationalfilmfestivalcircuit Film: #AjayWardhan Cast: #RomilChoudhary #PihuSharna #KshitiPatwardhan #AbhimanyuAryan #YogeshVatts Director: #PragatiAgarwal #PrasidhEklavayaEntertainment @everyone #AltairMedia Runtime: 96 mins Rating: * A pointless biopic about a supposedly impoverished farm boy becoming a reputed dentist by dint of hard work and perseverance, the narrative of this film fails to highlight the grit and gumption high-points of that yeoman effort and instead wallows in a ridiculous love story with an #ArjunReddy like aside. This is a rather indistinct, routine and lacklustre telling.

Shark Tank India Season 2 promises to be challenging and engaging with their new mantra, “Ab pura India business ki sahi value samjhega!” The highly anticipated reality show continues to attract various sponsors and advertisers Launched in 2021, Shark Tank, World’s popular business reality show, anchored its position in the Indian market. The show created a significant impact on Indian culture, helping to promote an optimistic view of entrepreneurship. Shark Tank India introduced an entirely new genre to audiences and within no time became top on popularity charts. Taking the franchise ahead, Sony Entertainment Television and Sony LIV are all set to bring in the second season of the show for the viewers. Produced by StudioNEXT, second season of Shark Tank India will begin airing on 2nd January at 10 p.m. on Sony Entertainment Television every Monday to Friday as well as will stream on Sony LIV. This new season promises the viewers fresh and new business terminolog...

#PicksAndPiques #JohnsonThomas #filmmoviedocumentaryreviews #internationalfilmfestivalcircuit Film: #Cirkus #UniversalCommunicationsPR #RohitShettyPicturez #TseriesFilms #BhushanKumar #RelianceEntertainment Cast: #RanveerSingh #JacquelineFernandez #PoojaHegde #VarunSharma #SanjayMishra #JohnnyLever #SiddarthJadhav #VrajeshHirjee #SulbhaArya #MukeshTiwari #AshwiniKalsekar #MurliSharma #AnilParamjeett #DeepikaPadukone #SaurabhGokhale #BrijendraKala #VijayPatkar Writers #SanchitBedre(dialogue) #VidhiGhodgaonkar(dialogue) #YunusSajawal(screenplay) Cinematography: #JomonTJohn Editor #BuntyNagi Director: #RohitShetty @everyone Rating: * Runtime: 132 mins This super-saturated candy-coloured offering, borrowing heavily from #ComedyOfErrors #Angoor #Hungama, etc is dangerous to your eyes and brain. Rohit Shetty has obviously run out of tricks as he continues to use the same old tired formula to woo the audience already beleaguered by thankless #Bollywood fare. To add...

#PicksAndPiques #JohnsonThomas #filmmoviedocumentaryreviews #internationalfilmfestivalcircuit Film: #Blurr Cast: #TapseePannu #GulshanDevaiah #KruttikaDesaiKhan #AbhilashThapliyal #SorabhChauhan #NityaMathur #SumitNijhawan #Zee5 #AvianWE #ZeeStudios #OutsidersFilms #EchelonProductions @everyone Director: #AjayBahl Writers : #AjayBahl #PawanSoni Runtime: 126 mins Rating: * 1/2 Taapsee Pannu's first project as a producer, a rather inept attempt at #horror #thriller, this official remake of the #Spanishfilm #JuliasEyes like the #Marathi remake #Adrushya that came a few months before it, fails to drum up interest mainly because both films miss out on integral - the psychological portrait of an ordinary Everyman serial killer that the original film managed to put forward so brilliantly. Multiple plot threads haphazardly put-together strain credulity to breaking point and Tapsee’s enunciation of the helpless betrayed woman who also happens to be losing her sight an...

#PicksAndPiques #JohnsonThomas #filmmoviedocumentaryreviews #internationalfilmfestivalcircuit Film: #Vadh #SpicePR #LuvRanjanfilms Cast: #SanjayMishra #NeenaGupta #DiwakarKumar #AbhitoshSinghRajput #ManavVij #UmeshKaushik #TanyaLal #PranjalPateria #SaurabhSachdeva @everyone Directors/Writers : #JaspalSinghSandhu #RajeevBarnwal Runtime: 110 mins Rating: * * 1/2 Hindi cinema is now literally obsessing about the #Dexter ( International TV Series) way of disposing-off dead bodies and we see that translating in real life too (if newspaper reports are anything to go by) but are such macabre methods really required in a story where murder is an act of rage or accident? Well, Vadh ( translated as vanquishment/slaughter/Assassination of evil in cinema terms) would like you to believe it is…A crime thriller that borrows the #Drishyam construct rather simplistically, this one is about a geriatric brahmin couple, hapless and timid, who find themselves in the crosshairs of a...

#PicksAndPiques #JohnsonThomas #filmmoviedoumentaryreviews #internationalfilmfestivalcircuit Film: #Freddy #SpicePR #NarendraHirawatProductions #DisneyHotstar #AltairPR #BalaiMotionPictures #NHStudioz #NorthernLightsFilm Cast: #AlayaF #KartikAryan #KaranAPandit #SajjadDelafrooz #JenifferPiccinato #HarshikaKewalramani #TriptiAgarwal Director #ShashankaGhosh Writer: #ParveezSheikh #EktaKapoor #ShobhaKapoor #JayShewakramani #GauravBose Cinematography: #AyanankaBose Editor: #ChandanArora Music: #ClintonCerejo #Pritam Rating: * * 1/2 Runtime: 124 Mins The makings of a Psychopath. Dentist Freddy Ginwala has no social graces, makes toy planes as a hobby, and gets distracted by women's bust lines while making his oral checks. Marriage dating sites have failed him and then he falls prey to a married, young, attractive damsel in distress. And his life goes from being colorless to blood red all the way through! The main character arc doesn’t hold good here. The dramatic ...

#PicksAndPiques #JohnsonThomas #internationalfilmfestivalcircuit #filmmoviedocumentaryreviews Film: #LIFEisGOOD Runtime:100 mins Rating: * * * Cast: #JackieShroff #RajitKapur #DarshanJariwala #MohanKapoor #SunitaChaya #Saniya as Misthi (6 Years) #Ananya as Misthi (13 Years) #Ankita as Misthi (older) #SaanandVerma Director: #AnanthNarayanMahadevan Producer: #AnandShukla Music:Abhishek Ray OriginalStory: #SujitSen Background Score: #AjitVarman Director Of Photography: #AlphonseRoy #AltairMedia #AshwaniShukla @everyone #ShyamSharma How heartache, loneliness and hopelessness gives way to hope when a young chirpy orphan girl enters the lives of lonely individuals - this film is a postcard for going it alone -so long as you make the effort to bond with the people around you. Consummate, non-showy performances in a narrative that blends nuanced sentiment with tempered craft, this film set in beautifully captured Mahableshwar and Panchgani is a heartfelt ode to non-conformist human relat...

#PicksAndPiques #JohnsonThomas #filmmoviedoumentaryreviews #internationalfilmfestivalcircuit Film: #IndiaLockdown #Zee5 #AvianWE #PEN Cast: #PratiekBabbar #SaiTamhankar #ShwetaBasuPrasad #AahnaKumra #PrakashBelawadi #HrishitaBhatt #AishaSAiman #SatwikBhatiya Director: #MadhurBhandarkar Rating: * * 1/2 Runtime: 117 mins There’s nothing hard-hitting about this attempt by Madhur Bhandarkar to document the travails and woes of some sections of the Indian citizenry following the unprecedented and unforgivable lockdown announced abruptly, soon after the corona pandemic began to spike. The four mini-plots are inspired by true stories but are treated with his typical lascivious gaze. Pratiek Babbar goes overboard on the facial expressions, Prakash Balewadi is irritatingly over-the-top but Shweta Prasad, Aahna Kumra, Sai Tamhane, and the bit players do a valiant job trying to give this effort some grit. Unfortunately, this is a very sterile attempt at an expose. There’s no attempt made...

#PicksAndPiques #JohnsonThomas #filmmoviedoumentaryreviews #internationalfilmfestivalcircuit Film: #AnActionHero Cast: #AyushmannKhurrana #JaideepAhlawat #AkshayKumar #NeerajMadhav #HarshChhaya #MalaikaArora #NoraFatehi #VaqarSheikh Director: #AnirudhIyer Rating: * * * Runtime: 123 mins #TSeries #ColorYellowProductions #RaindropPR Poor PR fails this spiffy entertaining spoof surrounding a typical Bollywood action hero and his tryst with murder.Anirudh Iyer’s creation has all the makings of a cult hit but the pre-release publicity was so ineffective that getting people into the theaters is going to be an uphill struggle all the way. Iyer’s narrative takes pot-shots at all things Bollywood and also scores much bigger hits on the media circus (Loud channel newscasters better described as toons) which highlights its own ineptitude by tagging it as breaking News. The plotting is a little wayward and characters may seem to be functioning in an unreal world…but then that’s mainstream ...

#picksandpiques #JohnsonThomas #internationalfilmfestivalcircuit #filmmoviedocumentaryreviews Film: #Bhediya #MaddockFilms #UniversalCommunications #DineshVijan #Jiocinemas Cast: #AbhishekBanerjee #VarunDhawan #PaalinKabak #DeepakDobriyal #KritiSanon #SharadKelkar #SaurabhShukla Director: #AmarKaushik Rating: * * ½ Runtime: 156 mins This film, a #creaturecomedy may not give you a howling good time but it is fairly entertaining nevertheless. While the use of creature horror films like #JaaniDushman and #Junoon help shore up the believability of the werewolf folklore, far too many questionable set-ups squeeze chunks out of the overall enjoyment here. The human-to-creature transforms (CGI post-production work) are fairly believable. Bhaskar, begins by setting out to destroy virgin forests of #ArunachalPradesh and then (after the werewolf bites a chunk out of his butt cheek), on sight of the full moon, gets transformed into a completely contradictory werewolf - setting out to right the...

#PicksAndPiques #JohnsonThomas #FilmMovieDocumentaryReviews #internationalfilmfestivalcircuit Film: #Drishyam2 (#HindiRemake) #Tseries Cast: #AjayDevgn #ShriyaSaran #Tabu #AkshayeKhanna #RajatKapoor #IshitaDutta #KamleshSawant Director: #AbhishekPathak Rating: * * * Runtime: 145 minutes #UniversalCommunications Like in #JeethuJoseph’s original #Malayalam sequel, this official Hindi remake also takes the story forward seven years later. Vijay Salgaocar and family have managed to stay out of the Police radar following the disappearance of top-cop Meera Deshpande’s son. Her friend/batchmate ( Akshay Khanna) is now the new cop in town and has reopened the investigation- putting the Salgoacar family back in the police crosshairs. Debutant director Abhishek Pathak tries to make this experience slightly different from the original by shuffling some scenes around and unnecessarily extending some – but the result is not as engaging and gripping as the original. It’s serviceable though....

OTT series Review/ Zee5 Johnson Thomas Jump-happy and not so thrilling espionage story Title: Mukhbir: The Story of A Spy 8 episodes/35-45 mins each Cast: Prakash Raj, Adil Hussain, Zain Khan Durrani, Barkha Bisht, Zoya Afroz, Harsh Chhaya, Satyadeep Mishra, Dilip Shankar, Atul Kumar, Karan Oberoi, Sushil Pandey, Suneel Shanbag, Ujjwal Chopra, Nadeem Khan, Veena Mehta, Natasha Sinha, Bimal Oberoi, Karan Mehat, Sushil Dahiya, Shriram Jog, Tanushka Vishe, Ashwin Dhar, Jaya Swaminathan, Vijay Kashyap, Avantika Akerkar, Ikhlaque Khan, Elisha Mayor DOP: Dimo Popov/Jay Bhansali Screenplay: Arshad Syyed Dailogues/Lyrics: Vaibhav Modi Editor: Kunal Walve Series by : Shivam Nair Victor Tango Entertainment Original Background score: Abhishek Nailwal Story inspired by : Mission To Pakistan by Maloy Krishna Dhar Directors: Shivam Nair, Jayprad Desai Rating: * * ½ Directed by Shivam Nair and Jayprad Desai, ‘Mukhbir – The Story of a Spy’ is inspired by the b...

Global Desi Records brings you a desi masala party song ‘Chhori’ featuring Tanmay Ssingh and Nikki Tamboli! For the single "Chhori," a desi masala party song, Global Desi Records in their very first musical offering, put together an incredible casting and signed Nikki Tamboli of Bigg Boss fame who’s been a fashion icon and a supremely talented actress and popular actor Tanmay Ssingh. The teaser of the song had fans excited as Nikki Tamboli and Tanmay Ssingh team up for this high-octane dance single that is sure to get you on your feet, marking their first on-screen collaboration. The song "Chhori," written by Danish Sabri, who has written the music and lyrics for several Salman Khan and Varun Dhawan movies, features vocals from Sonu Kakkar and Vee Kapoor and is directed by Aslam Khan and Ravi Akhade. The lavish production was shot against a colourful backdrop to reflect the song's upbeat mood and features the leads in completely different avatars. ‘Chh...

#PicksAndPiques #JohnsonThomas #FilmMovieDocumentaryReviews #internationalfilmfestivalcircuit Film: #Kartoot #KaushalyaFilms #AnupJalotaFilms Cast: #MadalsaSharma #SahilKohli #PiyushRanade #AnupJalota #DhirajRai #HimaniShivpuri #ShubhangiLatkar #UtkarshaNaik #PragyaMishra Director: #AnilDutt Music: #Anisadh Rating: * * Runtime: 113 mins A beautiful young girl from a poor family is lured into marriage and prostitution by a city slicker claiming to be a businessman. The girl, now a wife doesn’t put up much resistance but after years of being under his influence finds a way to turn the tables on him. Supposedly inspired by a true life event, this sort of story is old hat. The scripting, though it had noble intent, seemed rather strip-happy and piecemeal. It’s a woman-oriented film and as such gives Madalsa Sharma scope enough to act but she prefers to look pretty and sweet rather than get down and dirty. Television-style performances, sloppy editing, and copious melodrama affect...

Thai Massage #PicksAndPiques #JohnsonThomas #FilmMovieDocumentaryReviews #PicksAndPiques #JohnsonThomas #FilmMovieDocumentaryReviews #internationalfilmfestivalcircuit Film: #ThaiMassage #ReliancePictures #ImtiazAli Cast: #GajrajRao #DivyenduSharma #AlinaZasobina #AnilCharanjeett #VibhaChibber Director: #MangeshHadawale Rating: * * #RukeshHandaPR Runtime: 122 mins Neither dramatic nor humorous, this moralistic tale about a small-town resident, an aging typing artist going on a secret trip to Thailand for sex (egged on by village idiots and tempted by a naked foreign babe on a calling card), plays out in rather unbelievable fashion. Even a ‘#Shaukeen’ with three lascivious old men salivating over a young nubile #RatiAgnihotri, had much more humor to offer – this one doesn’t move beyond the impractical, obvious, tedious, and boring. Gajraj Rao may have made some progression in career choices by moving from the role of a 50-plus middle-class man becoming a father to an u...

Planman Motion Pictures turns 20 and announces plans to start three new projects in the coming year!! Circa 2002, a group of enthusiastic professionals who consult blue chip companies on various aspects of management and policy, want to bring about professionalism in the world of cinema and start their journey. Helmed by Management Guru, Dr. Arindam Chaudhuri of IIPM, with pure love for cinema and tempered with the discipline of an institution and a consulting organization marched into the domain of spotlights, studios, cameras and celluloid. The rest as they say is— Entertainment. Planman Motion Pictures (www.planmanmotionpictures.com) was born with the release of their first film Strokes and Silhouettes (Saanjhbathir Roopkathara) on 8th November, 2002 exactly two decades back. Due to the management background of the Founder Dr. Arindam Chaudhuri, he became one of the initial leaders & core group members of the corporatisation movement for Indian Film Industry even before...

#RohitVerma #BlackToTheFuture #NatashaSingh #DaisyShah #DheerajDhoopar #BubbleCommunication #TrueTrammTrunk #Juhu #JohnsonThomas #SandeepSoparkar Ace Fashion Designer Rohit Verma presents his collection ‘Black to the Future’ in an event all about inclusivity in fashion Mumbai: Rohit Verma, ace fashion designer, known for his undaunted sense of style and creativity, launched his new collection in a fashion show in Mumbai recently. The collection was an ode to people of colour from all across the world and was called ‘Black to the Future’. Featuring renowned actress Daisy Shah as the showstopper, Tinkesh Kaushik, a triple amputee fitness trainer and model on the ramp, the show was hosted at the Uber chic True Tramm Trunk in Juhu. Actor and Model Dheeraj Dhoopar and Miss and Big Boss 16 fame Manya Singh opened the show. The event witnessed the footfall of the crème de la crème of the entertainment and fashion industry; actors, models, stylists, fashion influencers and enthusias...

#PicksAndPiques #JohnsonThomas #filmmoviedocumentaryreviews #internationalfilmfestivalcircuit Film: #Banaras (Kannada - also releasing in dubbed Hindi, Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu versions) Cast: #ZaidKhan #SonalMonteiro #SujayShastry #AchyuthKumar #BhargavPolara #Devaraj #BarkatAli Director/Writer/Choreography: #Jayathirtha. Runtime: 140 mins Rating: * * Producer: #TilakrajBallal #NKProduction Cinematography: #AdvaithaGurumurthy. Editor: #KMPrakash #1HMedia #AltairMedia A film that plays around with time must have a solid foundation to make that challenging concept believable but this one doesn’t. The overly long runtime makes the ensuing melee of multiple plots heading in different directions (without any coherence or cohesion), rather off-putting. There’s also only so much scientific mumbo-jumbo that an audience can suffer through. This one takes the cake! Trying to fit in a ‘Run Lola Run’ construct into a prank-powered romance set in the city of piety, Banaras, Director ...

Puranjay Khanna’s Debut collection Of Poems 'Second Star' Released by Ambassador of the Republic of Estonia in India Her Excellency Ms. Katrin Kivi It's no exaggeration to say that reading has been a lifeline for many throughout the Covid-19 pandemic. With the world on pause, many found themselves reading more than ever. While pandemic led to increased readership it also gave rise to many writers. One among them is this young boy, Puranjay Khanna who’s debut book titled Second Star got released yesterday amid renowned dignitaries. The Chief Guest of the book launch event was The Honorable Ambassador of the Republic of Estonia in India Her Excellency Ms. Katrin Kivi. Even the Guest of Honour, Mr. Sumit Mullick, the Chief Information Commissioner of Maharashtra was present at the event. The book launch event also saw guest performers, Mr. Denzil Smith and Captain Alwyn Saldhana. Puranjay Khanna was born in Delhi but raised in Mumbai. The young writer studied in Bombay ...

#PicksAndPiques #JohnsonThomas #filmmoviedocumentaryreviews #internationalfilmfestivalcircuit Film: #DoubleXL #TSeries Cast: #SonakshiSinha #HumaQureshi #ZaheerIqbal #MahatRaghavendra #JimmyShergill #ShobhaKhote #KanwaljeetSingh #DollySingh Director: #SatramRamani Runtime: 130 mins Rating: * * ½ #CommuniquePR Producers: #BhushanKumar #KrishnaKumar #VipulDShah #AshwinVarde #SaqibSaleem #HumaQureshi #MudassarAziz Co-producer: #ShivChanana Celebrating Corpulence in hollow fashion, this dramedy has good performances and a fairly ok feel-good factor to interest the audience. The script, detailing the facile journey of two plus-sized, 30-something women - Rajshree Trivedi from Meerut and Saira Khanna from New Delhi, is rather contrived with a pan-India marketing angle to it. So the pair-up of the wannabe sportscaster with a fledging south-Indian cameraman appears forced and so does the pairing of the Kashmiri line producer settled in London with that of a north Indian wannabe...

#PicksAndPiques #JohnsonThomas #FilmMovieDocumentaryReviews #InternationalFilmFestivalCircuit Film: #Kantara Cast: #RishabShetty #Kishore #AchyuthKumar #SapthamiGowda #PramodShetty Director: #RishabShetty #HombaleFilms #ViayKirgandur #SpicePR Rating: * * ½ The film in the news for its remarkable Box-office run, #Kantara is a typically regressive south offering showcasing molestation as a pathway to love/romance in addition to many other old-fashioned, long disposed formulaic tropes – including a shrieky mother who looks as young(or old) as the portly hero. The natural tribal rights versus forest laws confrontation is rather underdeveloped and the main plot serves merely as a vehicle to venerate yet another God from the Hindu pantheon. The prologue about an unhappy King temporarily renouncing his throne in search of happiness is an obvious lift from ancient texts. The rowdy hero who later on gains redemption is not an arc that is validated by a believable storyline. This is a rath...

#PicksAndPiques #JohnsonThomas #FilmMovieDocumentaryReviews #internationalfilmfestivalcircuit Film: #ThankGod Cast: #AjayDevgn #SidharthMalhotra #RakulPreetSingh #KanwaljeetSingh #SeemaPahwa Director #IndraKumar Rating: * * ½ Runtime: 126 mins Producer #BhushanKumar #KrishanKumar #AshokThakeria #SunirKheterpal #DeepakMukut #AnandPandit #MarkandAdhikari #Tseries #UniversalCommunicationsPR Writer: #AakashKaushik #MadhurSharma Cinematography #AseemBajaj Editor: #DharmendraSharma Music: #AmarMohile #TanishkBagchi #RochakKohli #AnandRaajAnand #ChamathSangeeth There’s nothing to thank god for here. While this film may be a harmless piece of fluff, it doesn’t have what it takes to entertain. Billed as a comedy, this film just about manages to gain a few titters before disaffirming with a #KBC kind-of quiz show held in a heavenly arena with the victim vacillating between life and death while answering moral and ethical riders relating to his own eventful life. The outrageous b...

#PicksAndPiques #JohnsonThomas #FilmMovieDocumentaryReviews #internationalfilmfestivalcircuit Film: #RamSetu Cast: #AkshayKumar #JaquelineFernandez #NushrrattBharuccha #SatyaDev #PraveshRana #Nassar Cinematography: #AseemMishra Writer: #AbhishekSharma Dialogues: #AbhishekSharma #ChandraprakashDwivedi Editor: #RameshwarSBhagat Director: #AbhishekSharma #HypeMedia Rating: * ½ Runtime: 144 mins Abhishek Sharma's film has Akshay Kumar playing a 40-something atheist archaeologist, a wannabe Indiana Jones sort (with stupidly wigged black hair and grey stubbly beard), setting out to prove that Ram Setu predates Ramayana - but gets so conveniently swayed by predicative nonsense that he not only sheds his atheism, he also believes that RamSetu was built by Lord Ram – just because he discovers the fake remnants of Ravana’s Palace. Our desi Indiana Jones looks and sounds stupid and lacks credibility. No doubt, this is the propagandist’s ( its afterall Akshay’s home production) way of su...

#PicksAndPiques #JohnsonThomas #FilmMovieDocumentaryReviews #InternationalFilmFestivalCircuit Film: #KahaniRubberbandKi #AltairMediaPR #AshwaniShukla #SanjayMishra #RomilChaudhary #MoonHouseProductions Cast: #ManishRaisinghan #AvikaGor #ArunaIrani #PratikGandhi #Paintal Director: #SarikaSanjot Cinematography: #FaroukhMistry Rating: * Runtime: 119 mins Set in Benaras, with sutradhar voice introduction by Sanjay Mishra, this film, that hopes to put across a social message deviates from context, gets deplorably sexist, regressive and suggestive ( even in a courtroom) and ends up becoming a mockery of what it was trying to say. The script lacked coherence and was terribly amateurish, the treatment was weird, the dialogues stupid and the performances so out of sync with the message that you feel like shutting this out before it can warp your brain! And what can I say about Manish Raisinghan’s whiny dialogue delivery??? Such ineptitude is certainly not becoming.

#PicksAndPiques #JohnsonThomas #FilmMovieDocumentaryReviews #InternationalFilmFestivalCircuit Film: #CodenameTiranga #ParagDesai #UniversalCommunicationsPR Cast: #ParineetiChopra #HarrdySandhu #SharadKelkar #RajitKapur #DibyenduBhattacharya Director: #RibhuDasgupta Runtime: 137 mins Rating: * * A misguided attempt at pop-patriotism, this film follows a female RAW agent as she guiles, glides, jump kicks, shoots and fights her way through a mean bunch of terrorists, directly and indirectly responsible for the 2001 Parliament attack. This attempted action thriller loses it sting because of an unlikely and unviable romance between the female spy and a local Turkish Doctor. Spies going rogue and being found out – is a standard ploy and fails to garner interest. Then there are portly ageing spies still in the thick of things and that’s pure baloney if you ask me. While the action choreography is crusty, the story and narration seem a little out of sync with the overall purpose of creat...

#PicksAndPiques #JohnsonThomas #FilmMovieDocumentaryReviews #InternationalFilmFestivalCircuit Film: #DoctorG #SpicePR #JungleePictures #VineetJain Cast: #AyushmannKhurrana #RakulPreetSingh #ShefaliShah #SheebaChadha #ShradhaGautam Director: #AnubhutiKashyap Runtime: 125mins Rating: * * * Debutant Director Anubhuti Kashyap’s Medical campus comedy film proffers gender parity, zestful levity and fluid craft. The subject may be outdated but the light-hearted treatment allows for a great deal of involvement, gamesmanship and fun. Set in a PG Medical college Hospital ( Bhopal Inst. of Medical Sciences) this film tracks the many hindrances in love and work that Uday Gupta faces in his attempts to make do with a PG Gynecology seat while still aiming for an Ortho seat in the next attempt at PG NEET. Obviously an inept, almost unwilling and neglectful male Doctor examining a female patient’s reproductive organ is cause for a great deal of consternation and strife. Screenwriters #SumitSaxen...

#PicksAndPiques #JohnsonThomas #FilmMovieDocumentaryReviews #internationalfilmfestivalcircuit Film: #Goodbye Cast: #AmitabhBachchan #RashmikaMandanna #PavailGulati #AshishVidyarthi #NeenaGupta #AbhishekhKhan #ElliAvram #SunilGrover #HansaSingh #DivyaSeth #ShayankShukla #SanjeevPandey #SahilMehta #SaraswatiTelefilms #BalajiTelefilms Writer/Director: #VikasBahl #UniversalCommunications Rating: * * Runtime: 144 mins This is a daring experiment gone bad. A montage based, post death and funeral nostalgia trip, this film is sorely lacking a proper script. There’s no story worth telling either with actors adlibbing in stilted conversations about contentious generational issues which lose bite in the sentiment dripping and conversely, rather un-affecting malady called ‘Goodbye.’ Frankly, this is not a bad concept but a little more development of the plot and characters might have helped make this unconventional non-conformist attempt more attractive. Rashmika Mandanna with her distin...

Film Heritage Foundation Announces The Amitabh Bachchan Film Festival To Celebrate The 80th Birthday Of The Living Legend India, 30th September, 2022 - To mark the momentous occasion of the 80th birthday of the legendary actor Amitabh Bachchan, Film Heritage Foundation announces a unique film festival titled ‘Bachchan Back To The Beginning’ in partnership with PVR Cinemas. Slated to be one of the grandest film festivals that celebrates an icon through his landmark early films, the four-day celebrations will be conducted from the 8th – 11th October 2022 in 17 cities, covering 172 showcases and 30 screens across 22 cinema halls all over India. The not-for-profit organization founded by filmmaker and archivist Shivendra Singh Dungarpur has meticulously curated a bespoke collection of eleven blockbuster films that gave birth to one of the biggest superstars of the nation who continues to shine as brightly over 50 years since his debut on the silver screen. Audiences across citi...

Indian Creative Industry Provides Opportunities for Expansion & Leaving a Global Footprint of the Country: Justice Prathiba M. Singh MUMBAI, 28 September 2022: Hon’ble Justice Prathiba M Singh, Judge, Delhi High Court today said, “There are enormous opportunities that the Indian Creative Sector provides for expansion and leaving a global footprint of the country.” Addressing the two-day ‘FICCI FRAMES Fast Track 2022’ on strengthening India’s IP Ecosystem, Justice Singh highlighted, “There is a need for a unified central agency for enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights that will help strengthen the overall IP ecosystem.” While addressing the low turnover of the Indian movie industry as compared to other countries, she highlighted that USA produced less than half the number of films and generated 8 times more box office revenue while China produced almost half the films, yet the box office collections was nearly 7 times of India. Similarly, in the Indian music in...