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#PicksAndPiques #JohnsonThomas #FilmMovieDocumentaryOTTReview #internationalfilmfestivalcircuit Film: #PatnaShukla Rating: * * Better suited to be a ‘short’ this feature has a threadbare plot with no surprises in store. Even Raveena Tandon’s assured performance, Chandan Roy Sanyal’s canny flamboyance and Satish Kaushik’s compassionate magnanimity fail to overcome sloppy beginnings and poor craft. Cast: #RaveenaTandon #ChandanRoySanyal #AnushkaKaushik #SatishKaushik #RajuKher #AmitGaur #JatinGoswami Director: #VivekBudakoti Runtime: 124 min #ThinkInkCommunications @DisneyPlusHotstar @RaveenaTandonOfficial #ArbaazKhan @staymanav @satishkaushik8034 @chandan.roysanyal @jatin.goswami.50 @reelanushkaofficial #AmitGaur @Rajukherofficial #ArbaazKhanProduction #VivekBudakoti @ajay.chabbria @Nehapartimatiyanidop #ShardaSingh @samuelakankshamusic #RedAmeise #VivekBudakoti @sammeer.arora #FaridKhan#AmitGaur #JatinGoswami Director: #VivekBudakoti Runtime: 124 min #ThinkInkCommunications @Di...

#PicksAndPiques #JohnsonThomas #Internationalfilmfestivalcircuit #FilmMovieDocumentaryOTTReviews Film: #YesPapa Rating: * * A bare-bones production, largely in stark Black & White, with ‘incestuous child abuse’ as it’s cause, this underwhelming film that skirts around the issue, could have done with better treatment. It felt as though the ‘Stigma’ around the issue was preventing the filmmaker from portraying this ‘crusade’ in a more potent, cogent and elaborate manner. Cast: #GeetikaTyagi #TejaswiniKolhapure #AnanthNarayanMahadevan #SaifHasan #DivyaSeth #NanditaPuri #SanjeevTyagi Director: #SaifHyderHasan Runtime: 120 min @everyone #everyone @everybody #everybody #followers @followers #AbhishekPillaiPR #AraadDreamsProduction

#PicksAndPiques #JohnsonThomas #internationalfilmfestivalcircuit #FilmMovieDocumentaryOTTReviews Film: #Aadujeevitham #TheGoatLife (#MoesArt) Rating: * * 1/2 A messily dubbed Hindi version, this overambitious saga of survival - kind of a ‘Castaway’ merged with a reverse ‘Dunki’ gets your ‘goat.’ Actors show the pain of surviving in the desert but there’s feeble attachment because of a ‘mirage’ like story, melodramatic treatment and an over indulgent runtime. Lustrous cinematography and actors’ rigor are pretty much wasted here. Rahman's music sounds passe. Better watch a subtitled version. Cast: #PrithvirajSukumaran #JimmyJeanLouis #KRGokul #RikAby #AmalaPaul #Talib Director: #Blessy Runtime: 154 min #VisualRomanceAnimation #Benyamin #SunilKS #KUMohanan #ASreekarPrasad #ARRahman

#PicksAndPiques #JohnsonThomas #internationalfilmfestivalcircuit #FilmMovieDocumentaryOTTReviews Film: #Crew #SpicePR Rating: * * 1/2 Fasten your seatbelts for a bumpy, jerky, tackily serviced, airkissed ride. A dilettantish chick flick aiming to lure the audience in with a hackneyed storyline about 3 air hostesses seeking payback by pulling off a heist on their airline boss, is buttressed by double entendre dialogues, remixed Ila Arun numbers and dependable performances by an A list cast. This one is no showboat. It’s passably entertaining though. Cast: #KareenaKapoorKhan #Tabu #KritiSanon #SaswataMuherjee #RajeshSharma #KulbhushanKharbanda #DiljitDosanjh #KapilSharma Director: #rajeshakrishnan Runtime: 124 mins #EktaKapoor #AnilKapoorFilmCompany #Balajifilms #RheaKapoor #ShobhaKapoor #NidhiMehra #MehulSuri #everyone @everyone #everybody @everybody #followers @followers

#PicksAndPiques #JohnsonThomas #FilmMovieDocumentaryOTTReviews #internationalfilmfestivalcircuit Film: #MadgoanExpress Cast: #DivyenduSharma #PratikGandhi #AvinashTiwary #NoraFatehi #UpendraLimaye #ChhayaKadam #VipulDeshpande #YashBhojwani #Remo #ManojJoshi #KunalKhemu Director: #KunalKhemu Rating: * * Runtime: 140 min #ExcelEntertainment #SpicePR #everyone @everyone #everybody @everybody #foloowers @followers Mad-cap slapstick comedy attempt manages to score a few laughs but it’s mostly hare-brained tom-foolery around druggies paradise Goa & by concentrating on skimpy clothes & spaced-out antics, it makes a mockery of the talent it wields. We’ve seen better from #KunalKhemu and team. Can't blame him for hoping to get a 'Hit' from sheer nonsense.

Prime Video had a Special Screening of its upcoming global series, Fallout. Post screening there was a live discussion with series Director Jonathan Nolan and lead actress Ella Purnell Set in the world of the best-selling international video game franchise, the post-apocalyptic series is executively produced by Johnathan Nolan and stars Ella Purnell, Aaron Moten, Walton Goggins, and Kyle MacLachlan. The Amazon Original series will exclusively premiere all episodes on Prime Video on April 11, 2024.

#PicksAndPiques #JohnsonThomas #FilmMovieDocumentaryOTTReviews #internationalfilmfestivalcircuit Film: #AeWatanMereWatan Cast: #SaraAliKhan #AlexxONeill #EmraanHashmi #AbhayVerma #SachinKhedekar #SparshSrivastav Director: #KannanIyer Rating: * * Runtime: 133 min #DarabFarooqui #DharmaticEntertainment #AmazonPrime #KaranJohar #everyone @everyone #everybody @everybody #followers @followers A worthy Pre-1947 resistance story lost in insipid creative choices. Unsung hero #UshaMehta’s singular contribution using underground radio #CongressRadio as an instrument of rebellion in aid of #MKGandhi’s #DoOrDie call is brought to the screen - but without much potency or heft. Flat & uninteresting studio look mars the experience, camerawork is dull & bland, dialogues sound dispirited, performances lack intensity & bite. Fails to evoke nostalgia, emotion, patriotic fervor or sentiment.

#PicksAndPiques #JohnsonThomas #internationalfilmfestovalcircuit #FilmMovieDocumentaryOTTReviews Title : #Lootere Cast: #RajatKapoor #VivekGomber #AmrutaKhanvilkar #ChandanRoySanyal #AamirAli #AnantNarayanMahadevan #MauriceCarpede #LesleyMaasdorp #SiyabongaXaba #AbhishekKhan #AvinashPandey #GeetanjaliGill #KhemchandVerma #KrishnenduChakraborty #MayankGarg #PawanSingh #SonamStobgais #GauravKSharma Director: #JaiMehta Rating: * * * Runtime: 35-50 mins/Eps(8 Episodes) #KarmaMediaAndEntertainment #HansalMehta #SuparnVerma #DisneyHotstar #ThinkInkCommunications #ShaaileshRSingh #AchintThakkar #everyone @everyone #everybody @everybody #followers @followers A mid-sea hijack thriller, this series goes from sedentary to thrilling within a few episodes. The weak dialogue & sometimes iffy score notwithstanding, Surprising Twists & turns, blistering action, gritty performances hightail this thrilling world where survival means navigating a deadly web of crimes. The African actors do ...

#PicksAndPiques #JohnsonThomas #internationalfilmfestivalcircuit #FilmMovieDocumentaryOTTreviews Title: #XMen97 (#animation) Cast (voice): #JenniferHale #RayChase #ChrisBritton #GeorgeBuza #JPKarliak #CalDood #AlisonSealySmith #LenoreZann #IsaacRobinsonSmith #MathewWaterson #AJLoCascio #HollyChou #AdrianHough Director: #JakeCastorena #ChaseConley #EmiYonemura Rating: * * * 1/2 Runtime: 3 Episodes/30 min each (total 10 eps) #MarvelAnimation #WaltDisneyStudios #DisneyHotstar #MIRStudio #RuderFinn @everyone #everyone @everybody #everybody #Followers @followers This sequel to #FoxKids #XMenTheAnimatedSeries of the 90’s, remixes &reintroduces classic storylines conveying the core ethos of #Marvel’s flagship, infused with an unforgettable theme song. In a direct continuation the series uses old-worldly, much cleaner animation driving home nostalgia and new age charm with equal effect.It plays out serious, funny, witty, & characters are drawn with distinct individualized persona...

Sanket Mehta and Unnati Malharkar fashion, lifestyle and Dance influencers wa;lked the ramp at Lakme Fashion Week. Sanket, rocking Four Figr's bold designs, and Unnati, dazzling in Geisha's 'Elementary Symphony,' proved that influencers have also become the face of the fashion world. It's fascinating to see how people now look up to creators for everything. They've transcended beyond social media and become much more than just influencers. "Sanket Mehta, made a statement at Lakme Fashion Week by closing the runway in stunning Four Figr attire under the 'All You Can Street' event. Four Figr innovative designs and bold style redefine fashion norms, earning him a well-deserved spotlight on the runway." Abhishek Gandhii the founder & Yash Shetty the co-founder of AYCS has build India’s largest platform for homegrown brands,Music, Art, Fashion and culture. All you can street (AYCS) looped in the top most fashion influencers/a...

#PicksAndPiques #JohnsonThomas #internationalfilmfestivalcircuit #FilmMovieDocumentaryOTTReviews Film: #MurderMubarak Cast: #KarismaKapoor #SaraAliKhan #PankajTripathi #VijayVerma #DimpleKapadia #TiscaChopra #SanjayKapoor #AashimGulati #PriyankTiwari #BrijendraKala #DevenBhojani #VarunMitra Director: #HomiAdajania Rating: * Runtime: 141 min #AnujaChauhan #GazalDhaliwal #SuprotimSengupta #DineshVijan #Netflix #everyone @everyone #everybody @everybody #followers @followers Loosely scripted, weakly plotted, badly edited, sloppily executed with inane dialogue and garbled performances, this whodunit- a Hercule Poirot wannabe, can really put you to sleep. There’s no tempo or tension. It’s neither whacky nor funny and the nuances are totally missing. This murder mystery is tedious, strange, absurd, disappointing, dull and boring right to its unsurprising end.

#PicksAndPiques #JohnsonThomas #internationalfilmfestivalcircuit #FilmMovieDocumentaryOTTReviews Film: #Yodha Cast: #SidharthMalhotra #RaashiiKhanna #DishaPatani #TanujVirwani #RonitRoy #SunnyHinduja #MridulRajAnand #KritikaBharadwaj Directors: #SagarAmbre #PushkarOjha Rating: * * 1/2 Runtime: 133 min #HypePR #DharmaEntertainment #AAFilms #HirooJohar #ApoorvaMehta #Everyone @everyone #everybody @everybody #followers @followers Implausible, rocky & bumpy ride through the skies, this film aims to fly high but barely makes it to a secure landing thanks to a chaotic, impractical script. The editor has done a great job splicing together two helmers’ seemingly contrary efforts, lending this scrappy hijack thriller a modicum of excitement and tension. Sidharth is earnest, robust and assured, Tanuj Virwani makes his presence count, Raashii manages to carve out an amiable space for herself while Disha Patani’s action effort looks fairly credible. The pop-patriotic elements are tediou...

#PicksAndPiques #JohnsonThomas #internationalfilmfestivalcircuit #FilmMoviesDocumentaryOTTreviews Title: #Maharani3 (8 eps) #AvianWE #SonyLIV Cast: #HumaQuereshi #AmitSial #PramodPathak #KaniKusruti #VineetKumar #AnujaSathe #DibyenduBhattacharya Created by #SubhashKapoor Director: #SaurabhBhave Rating: * * #everyone @everyone #everybody @everybody #followers @followers 3rd season of this revenge-drama digs deeper for comfort food midst the political landscape of Bihar continuing with its twists & turns with little respite.The pacing is uneven, the storyline feels stale, the political shenanigans seem obvious and the socio-political commentary is superficial given the convenient depictions of power and morality in a world of deception and betrayal. The performances are just about bearable.

#PicksAndPiques #JohnsonThomas #internationalfilmfestivalcircuit #FilmMoviesDocumentaryOTTreviews Title: #Showtime (4 Eps) #DisneyHotstar #MoesArt Cast: #EmraanHashmi #MahimaMakwana #MouniRoy #RajeevKhandelwaal #ShriyaSaran #NaseeruddinShah Director: #SumitRoy Rating: * * #KaranJohar #Dharmatic #everyone @everyone #everybody @everybody #followers @followers Vacuous, filmsy, cliched, stereotypical and unsurprising, this underdog story barely skims the surface of Bollywood’s internecine conflicts & face-offs with media - film critics in particular. ‘Posh’ ‘Poo’ aesthetics & libidinous entanglements fail to up the entertainment. Flighty characterizations, middling dramatics, profile posturing, filmy dialogue and poor writing mar the show. Actors are sincere and cinematography is lush but that effort is wasted here.

Celebrities Shine Bright at the 6th Edition of Critics Choice Awards The show opened with International Drummer/Musician Ranjit Barot's semi-jazz drum performance Karan Johar Made a witty Keynote roast on film critics and criticism in India. Neha Dhupia was the Emcee for the evening The 6th Edition of the Critics Choice Awards witnessed a dazzling array of stars gracing the red carpet, making it a night to remember. From seasoned veterans to rising talents, the event was a celebration of excellence in cinema and fashion. Meenakshi Seshadri emerged from her self-imposed exile making a splash at the event looking as young, cool and beautiful as she did in her heyday. Maybe she is looking for a comeback of sorts... Renowned personalities such as Karan Johar, Anil Kapoor, Vidya Balan, and Kalki Koechlin lit up the red carpet with their presence, exuding elegance and style. Their charisma was matched by the likes of Vikrant Massey, Jackie Shroff, and Kabir Khan,...