Mardaani

Director: Pradeep Sarkar
Actors: Rani Mukherjee, Tahir Raj Basin

Rating: 3 / 5

Building strong characters, small or big, is always the most important characteristic for movies of this genre. This was expected and was delivered here. Started very nicely without taking much time introducing the characters and still did that in a legitimate way. I liked the way it proceeded to reach the actual story. A substandard story, of which the support was not really needed. First half ended just perfectly to keep you at the edge of your seats although second half made it little slow. Despite being reluctant in the later part, it was never pointless. It has its share of good dialogs if not overwhelming. Lastly a very enriching ending that augments the feel good factor.

Performances of all the characters are applaudable. I'll give credit to both director and the actors. Rani Mukherjee had an amazing comeback with nearly unblemished acting. Tahir Raj was superb and I'd really want to see him in another good role in near future. All other actors were above average and supported well.

I was not a big fan of Pradeep Sarkar but he has certainly done a very good job here. He deserves credit of a smooth story flow and was also responsible for designing all the characters well. Music was not of any hindrance and together with the background score, it felt good at the end.

Overall a good package with strong characters that gives a feel good factor in spite of its genre.

Singham Returns

Director: Rohit Shetty
Actors: Ajay Devgan, Kareena Kapoor, Amole Gupte

Rating: 1.5 / 5

Riding on a same theme as it's previous version, it was expected that it would have something exclusive to offer. It had a decent beginning with few punch lines and exciting scenes that keeps you waiting for something unique throughout the movie. Unfortunately that's not the case and very swiftly it starts to bore in the end of first half. It has very few good dialogues that are just not enough. These types of movies generally have enough comedy liners that keep viewers going. That was the case with Singham but not in this sequel. Second half was almost a replica of first half that had exactly the same flow that gives an impression that no effort has been made to even find something unique and appealing. The way interest is lost towards the later part is that nothing looks good.

Ajay had to do same things. He might be feeling that he has travelled time and shooting for the first part again. Kareena had a short role and she was decent. Although she was over excited but it didn't looked bad. All other actors were below average.

Rohit Shetty surely didn't struggle much in making of this movie. It looked like he was completing a formality to make a sequel and get away with decent money. Despite that, I'll appreciate him for not having foolish scenes at least in this flick. Also the songs didn't bother the movie flow.

Overall it was neither exciting nor foolish and nothing unique.

Entertainment : Review

Director: Farhad, Sajid
Actors: Akshay Kumar, Tamannah Bhatia

Rating: 1.5 / 5

Pardon me for keeping my expectations low because of obvious reasons but whenever a movie starts, viewer automatically comes to ground zero to get entertained. Entertainment had a good start with very interesting innovations on few comedy scenes. I'll appreciate writers for their hard work, as just because of them, this movie was tolerable. Many hilarious dialogues were written with good effort and research. The sad part is that it didn't stop the director from including silly things unnecessarily. It loses sheen very fast and gets trapped to standard foolishness. I don't understand why this is done deliberately in these kinds of movies. I'd say it was stupid but little bit entertaining. The way film was executed; I'd like to see it as a series of drama episodes rather than a full-blown movie.

Actors didn't have anything to do although everyone was decent in whatever was asked to do.

I'll blame this completely on two debutant directors who didn't bother to put effort on direction albeit the writing part was done in a better way. Farhad and Sajid are involved in writing of such movies for a long time now. Direction is certainly not their cup of tea at-least at this point of time.

Sachin and Jigar were excellent in merging useless songs so well that they sounded good. Movie flow was already broken so songs couldn't do that anyway. Despite that the music was above average and in fact gave some breathing space.

Overall it was a decent writing but horrible in other aspects.