#Tamasha #HindiBollywoodFilmMovieReview #JohnsonThomas Rating: * * 1/2
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#Tamasha(Hindi) Rating: * *1/2 Oblique fairy-tale. A
flighty, fanciful romance that never touches ground reality –even while it’s
supposed to be about getting in touch with your true self. #ImtiazAli’s attempt
to serenade the audience with yet another facet of romance and heart-break
falls flat. But #RanbirKapoor and #DeepikaPadukone’s performances and achy
chemistry keep you ensnared..just-a-bouts.
#SpicePR #ImtiazAli
#SajidNadiadwala #NadiadwalaGrandsonEntertainmentPvtLtd #RanbirKapoor
#DeepikaPadukone #ARRahman #UTVMotionPictures #RaviVarmanISC #IrshadKamil
#Acropolis #DilipSubramaniam #MukeshChhabbraCSA #AkiNarula
##AnaitaShroffAdajania #TSeries Runtime: 139 mins
#Creed(English) Rating: * * * Taking the ‘Rocky’
series to younger fresher ground, this sports(Boxing), new-gen Studio movie
spin-off uses nostalgia to power-up yet another long-drawn success story. It’s
a mainstream formulaic effort and expends excessive runtime to eke out a bond
between a former great Rocky Balboa and a young upstart wannabe Adonis(Donnie)
Creed. With both talking in monosyllables and without much expression it’s
quite a hard nut to crack. You need a lot of patience to get to the payoff
here. Despite the melodrama and the fantasy fulfillment plotting, it’s fairly
worthy. #WarnerBros #SylvesterStallone #MichaelBJordan #PhyliciaRashad #TonyBellew #AndreWard #RitchieCoster #GrahamMcTavish #WoodHarris #BrianAnthonyWilson #RyanCoogler #IrwinWinkler #RobertChartoff
#CharlesWinkler #WilliamChartoff #DavidWinkler #KevinKingTempleton Runtime: 122
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#TheHungerGamesMockingjayPart2(English) Rating: * *
* There’s not much hunger left for the finale rendering of this successive and
copiously repetitive Young Adult thriller-adventure series but the sincerity of
purpose still comes through and the emotional connect continues to stay strong
despite the sameness . It’s mainly the performances that do it here. #JenniferLawrence #SpicePR #PVRPictures #FrancisLawrence
#RelianceEntertainment #JoshHutcherson #LiamHemsworth #WoodyHarrelson #ElizabethBanks #JulianneMoore #PhilipSeymourHoffman
#JeffreyWright #StanleyTucci #DonaldSutherland #TobyJones #SamClaflin #JenaMalone #NatalieDormer #GwendolineChristie #EugenieBondurant #MichelleForbes #MahershalaAli
#SuzanneCollins #Lionsgate Runtime: 136 mins
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#TheHungerGamesMockingjayPart2(English) Rating: * *
* There’s not much hunger left for the finale rendering of this successive and
copiously repetitive Young Adult thriller-adventure series but the sincerity of
purpose still comes through and the emotional connect continues to stay strong
despite the sameness . It’s mainly the performances that do it here. #JenniferLawrence #SpicePR #PVRPictures #FrancisLawrence
#RelianceEntertainment #JoshHutcherson #LiamHemsworth #WoodyHarrelson #ElizabethBanks #JulianneMoore #PhilipSeymourHoffman
#JeffreyWright #StanleyTucci #DonaldSutherland #TobyJones #SamClaflin #JenaMalone #NatalieDormer #GwendolineChristie #EugenieBondurant #MichelleForbes #MahershalaAli
#SuzanneCollins #Lionsgate Runtime: 136 mins
#Creed(English) Rating: * * * Taking the ‘Rocky’
series to younger fresher ground, this sports(Boxing), new-gen Studio movie
spin-off uses nostalgia to power-up yet another long-drawn success story. It’s
a mainstream formulaic effort and expends excessive runtime to eke out a bond
between a former great Rocky Balboa and a young upstart wannabe Adonis(Donnie)
Creed. With both talking in monosyllables and without much expression it’s
quite a hard nut to crack. You need a lot of patience to get to the payoff
here. Despite the melodrama and the fantasy fulfillment plotting, it’s fairly
worthy. #WarnerBros #SylvesterStallone #MichaelBJordan #PhyliciaRashad #TonyBellew #AndreWard #RitchieCoster #GrahamMcTavish #WoodHarris #BrianAnthonyWilson #RyanCoogler #IrwinWinkler #RobertChartoff
#CharlesWinkler #WilliamChartoff #DavidWinkler #KevinKingTempleton Runtime: 122
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Hindi Film Review
Johnson Thomas
A myopic romance
Film: Tamasha
Cast: Ranbir Kapoor, Deepika Padukone, Javed Sheikh,
Vivek Mushran
Director: Imtiaz Ali
Rating: * * ½
Runtime: 139 mins
While the opening credits are on. the audience is
subjected to a pantomime act between a clown and a robot and then comes the
blending of the past into the present in a series of shots that take us back in
time to Shimla where Ved(Ranbir kapoor) was born and brought-up. The younger
Ved(charmingly essayed by Ranbir’s nephew- sister Riddhima’s son) is fascinated
by the local story-teller , creeping out of his house, against orders from his
father, to immerse himself in the fictional lives of his heroes and heroines.
Juxtaposed against this backdrop is his adulthood, a product of
responsibilities, expectations, parental straight jacketing and worldly cares,
seeking relief in a holiday in Corsica
,France , where he allows himself the levity of living a dream. There he isfree
to be flamboyant, do the Dev Anand step and serenade a girl , Tara(Deepika),
the old-fashioned way without really revealing his identity. In fact that’s a
promise they make to themselves when they meet. How convenient you might think
and I did too. But Imtiaz Ali has a thing or two up his sleeve.
The onscreen twosome have a fab time living in
fool’s paradise and once they get back to their ordinary lives, it’s the same
boring routine all over again. Ved is a
product manager in a large firm while Tara has a similar sounding high-faluting
job. It takes them four years to meet-up again – but this time it’s as
their designated selves. The chemistry is the same, they fall in love all over
again and Ved is just readying himself to propose when Tara decides to
back-foot. Till then the pace is slow but the visuals are emblematic and the
plotting has a lazy, unhurried air to
it.
Once Tara back-foots, the fault-lines begin to
appear. Why did she take so long to realize that the Ved she’s been living it
up with is not the Don of her heart? Ved is of course not amused. He is hurt
but doesn’t wear it on his sleeve. He prefers to grin and bear it. Gets back to
routine life till a chance meeting with n auto-driver triggers his deeply suppressed
yearnings once again. Needless to say, he finds his true self and love all in
one final salvo.
While both Ranbir and Deepika appear to be enjoying
themselves playacting through the foreign locales, it’s when they revert back
to earth, that they make for sublimity
and connect. Their performances feed off each other and both are a joy
to behold. While Ved’s transformation gets justified fashionably , towards the
end, Tara’s expectation appears to be a lark. It comes out of nowhere and
doesn’t even play out realistically. Imtiaz wanted Tara to be the reason for
Ved’s transformation but a hackneyed ideology doesn’t seem reason enough.
The script appears unfinished and lacks clear-cut
definition even as it achieves it’s flaky goals of finding one’s true self and
the usual happily ever after. Unfortunately it’s fragmented and non-riveting in
approach. While the initial bit of romance plays out breezily the contrived
dramatics and the eventual coming together doesn’t really satisfy. There’s not
much clarity in perception here either. Ved wants to be a storyteller but what
profession is that? As depicted on screen he appears to be a pantomime artist,
a dance ballet sutradhar or tells people stories in groups. Doesn’t seem like a
paying profession that one can bank on. So even if he is following his dreams
where is it going to lead to? But the main problem with the film are it’s
characters. While Ved is just about believable, Tara is not and Ved’s father(Javed Sheikh)’s sudden
turnaround also seems unlikely. Even A.R. Rahman’s music lacks distinctiveness
while Irshad kamil’s lyrics are imminently forgettable.
Other than the two
expressive lead performers and some sublime make-believe moments of romance
augmented visually by Ravi Varman’s magnificently textured lensing, there’s not much here to engage you. Given
that Imtiaz Ali is good friend to both the principal players who were former
lovers in real life with an ugly break-up to contend with, it does seem like
this entire effort was undertaken to give them some sense of closure. Can’t
figure out why he needed to make a film for that though. Convoluted reasoning
anyone?
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