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#PicksAndPiques #OTTseriesReview #JohnsonThomas #internationalfilmfestivalcircuit Title: #Kafas Cast: #MonaSingh #SharmanJoshi #VivanBhatena #MikhailGandhi #TeaswiSinghAlhawat #ZarinaWahab #MonaVasu #PreethiJhangiani Director: #SahilSangha Writer: #KaranSharma Rating: * * 1/2 Runtime: 6 episodes/ 35-45 mins each #Sonyliv #MoesArt #ApplauseEntertainment #Madiba #everyone Everyone @everyone An official adaptation of the British series #DarkMoney, This fictional series tackles the social problem of pedophilia within the film fraternity. A film-obsessed family begins to implode when their young teen son, a wannabe actor who bags a leading role in a big production opposite a superstar confesses to having been a victim of sexual misconduct perpetrated by the superstar. The treatment is rather sensational and doesn’t allow for a rehabilitative angle. The idea is to shock and awe the audience by hyping melodramatic turns and avaricious twists. The actors do a good job but the narrativ...

#PicksAndPiques #FilmMovieDocumentaryReviews #JohnsonThomas #internationalfilmfestivalcircuit Film: #TikuWedsSheru #AmazonPrime #ManikarnikaFilms Cast: #NawazuddinSiddiqui #AvneetKaur #Rahoul #SureshVishwakarma #VipinSharma #MukeshSBhatt #GhanshyamGarg #ZakirHussain #MukeshTyagi Director/Writer: #SaiKabir Co-Writer: #AmitTiwariAnand @everyone #everyone Rating: * * Runtime: 112 mins A bad plot makes for a thankless movie. This #KanganaRanaut production misses the bearable mark by a huge margin. Fashioned as a #TanuWedsManu sort of rom-com, this film has little to laugh about. The script is ridiculous…makes humans look stupid. Imagine a bride’s family falling for empty boasts of a junior artist cum pimp? Well, that’s what happens here. The only good thing about this movie is its lead couple and the fairly decent background score. The rest is pure drivel. Both Nawazuddin and Instagrammer Avneet do a bang-on job but the really horrifying finale sequence having Nawazuddin in drag and...

#PicksAndPiques #JohnsonThomas #FilmMovieDocumentaryReviews #InternationalFilmFestivalCircuit Film: #Adipurush Cast: #Prabhas #KritiSanon #SaifAliKhan #SunnySingh #SonalChauhan #KrishnaMenon #VatsalSheth #TejaswiniPandit #DevduttNage Director: #OmRaut Rating: * * Runtime: 180 mins @everyone #everyone #Tseries #CommuniquePR The marketing was passionate even when the trailers were disappointing. So the expectations were not very high, to begin with. A pathetic, disappointing, rather tame, inert, and overly toonish enactment of the Ramayana myth, this Rs 700 crore, T-Series produced Om Raut directorial fails to evoke piety or adrenaline rushes. The ineffectual and poorly created VFX/CGI-laden narrative, riven with silly-sounding dialogue, ridiculous action, dark unappealing cinematography, unremitting sets/production design, and cardboard cutout performances, fails to entice the viewer even when the dramatics moves to the all-out war that Raghav/Ram ( in all-out #Bahubali form) wage...

#PicksAndPiques #JohnsonThomas #internationalfilmfestivalcircuit #IndianOTTSeriesReview #FilmMovieDocumentaryReviews Title: #SarvamShakthiMayam Cast: #PriyaMani #SanjaySuri #SamirSoni #AshleshaThakur #Subbaraju #AbhaySimhaReddy #KushitaKalappu Director: #PradeepMaddali Creator: #BVSRavi Creative Consultant: #HemantMadhukar Producer: #KaumudiKNemani #Ankit #VijayChada Rating: * * * Runtime: 10 Episodes /29-35 mins each #Zee5 #ThinkinkCorporation #ChaseIndia #everyone @everyone A failed businessman and his dysfunctional family embark on a self-discovering journey across India and Sri Lanka visiting the 18 Maha Shakti Peeths believed to be created by Lord Shiva. En route they meet up with an agnostic, a successful author from America, taking a similar route, in his efforts to prove that God does not exist.There’s no prizes for guessing what happens along the way. The series in docu-drama format is basically for those who ‘believe.’ The storyline is obviously contrived but the pe...

#PicksAndPiques #JohnsonThomas #internationalfilmfestivalcircuit #FilmMovieDocumentaryReviews Film: #BloodyDaddy Cast: #ShahidKapoor #RonitRoy #RajeevKhandelwal #VivanBhatena #DianaPenty #SanjayKapoor #AnkurBhatia #ZeishanQadri #MukeshSBhatt #SartaajKakkar Writer/Director: #AliAbbasZafar Co-Writer: #AdityaBasu Rating: * * * Runtime: 119 mins #Jiocinemas #JioStudios #PRPundit @everyone #everyone #AAZFilms #OffsideEntertainment This film, an official remake of French film #NuitBlanche, narrates an episode set just after the lockdown, in Delhi’s Connaught Circle. It looks like a robbery and leads to the kidnapping of a young boy - the son of one of the cops involved in the stealing of Rs.50 crore worth of drugs. Then comes the clinker. The top line of the ACB are all in it and have ties with Sikander, a hotelier cum drug supplier. Fast-paced, funny, edgy, brutal, and bloody, this action-packed ‘kill me if you can’ run-a-round in a 5-star hotel has all the ingredients of an all-out en...

#PicksAndPiques #FilmMovieDocumentaryReviews #JohnsonThomas #internationalfilmfestivalcircuit #IndianOTTSeriesReview Title: #Asur2TheRiseOfTheDarkSide Cast: #ArshadWarsi #AnupriyaGoenka #BarunSobti #VisheshBansal #RiddhiDogra #MeiyangChang #BarkhaBisht #AmeyWagh #GauravArora #AbhishekChauhan #PawanChopra #AdithiKalkunte #AtharvaVishwakarma #KulpreetYadav Director: #OniSen Rating: * * 1/2 Runtime: 8 eps/48- 60 mins each Writers: #AbhishekGarg #AbhijeetKhuman #GauravShukla #PranayPatwardhan #NirenBhatt Producers: #BhaveshMandalia #SejalShah #GauravShukla Editor: #CharuTakkar #ShadabKhan DoP: #SayakBhattacharya #BombayFablesMotionPictures #RelianceEntertainment #PRPundit #JioCinema #JioStudios #everyone @everyone This second season of the truly creative indigenous thriller merging Indian mysticism with High-tech criminality has a strong enough lure for an audience already heady with the sinister twists, turns, brutality, and violence of the well-loved first season. This season t...

#PicksAndPiques #FilmMovieDocumentaryReviews #JohnsonThomas #internationalfilmfestivalcircuit Title: #Mumbaikar Cast: #RanvirShorey #BrijendraKala #SachinKhedekar #HriduHardon #SanjayMishra #VikrantMassey #TanyaManiktala #VijaySethupathi Director: #SantoshSivan Rating: * * Runtime: 122 mins #HRPictures #ColorsCineplex #jiostudios #riyashibuproduction #PRPundit #everyone @everyone #JioCinema JioCinema’s Mumbaikar is an official remake of Lokesh Kanagaraj's far superior #Maanagaram (2017). Don’t know why they bothered to do that because the original film is already available in the Hindi dubbed version. This film about intertwining lives in a megapolis and a kidnapping gone horribly wrong, is dull, boring, and terribly soulless. Doesn’t seem like a Santosh Sivan film at all. The film also marks the Bollywood debut of Tamil star Vijay Sethupathi but his role and performance are such that he is imminently forgettable. Vikrant Massey, Sanjay Mishra, Brijendra Kala, and Ranvir S...

#PicksAndPiques #FilmMovieDocumentaryReviews #JohnsonThomas #internationalfilmfestivalcircuit #IndianOTTSeriesReview Title: #Taj2ReignOfRevenge Cast: #NaseeruddinShah #AashimGulati #ZarinaWahab #AditiRaoHydari #Dharmendra #ShubhamKumarMehra #SauraseniMaitra #PadmaDamodaran #SandhyaMridul #DigambarPrasad #RahulBose #AayaamMehta #JianshAgarwal #MitanshLulla #PankajSaraswat #AnushkaLuhar #ShivaniTaksale #MirSarwar Director: #VibhuPuri Rating: * * * Runtime: 8 Episodes / 43-55 mins each #ChaseIndia #ThinkinkPR #ContiloeDigital #everyone @everyone #Zee5 #AbhimanyuSingh #RoopaliKadyan #RonScalpello The succession drama, a desi ‘Game of Thrones’ based on Mughal reign in India from the time of Akbar, designed to mimic ‘House of the Dragon,’ continues to spew its standard issue rigors of decadence, vendetta, betrayal, lust, murder, mystery, action, and twists and turns that literally confound. The fictionally imagined and historic recants merge so well that it all seems so real. It’s a ...