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#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...