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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 ...