Pyaar ka Punchnama 2

Director: Luv Ranjan
Actors: Omkar Kapoor, Kartik Aryan, Sunny, Nushrat, Sonali, Ishita

Rating: 3 / 5

Everyone is aware of the movie flavor as first part saw a good success among youth. Although my first reaction towards the first part wasn't that good, it was always great to relish few awesome moments that the movie had. Fortunately, the case was different for this one. Movie is consistently enjoyable and specially the first half leaves a good commanding impact. It has great starting dialogues that never fades. It consistently gives amazing moments at-least for the first half although second half also works according to the theme. Script writing is apt, specially the epic dialogue by Kartik Aryan that repeats again. Double sized dialogue this time and trust me, triple mazaa. Film reduces its sheen in the second half but for this theme, they have made a good cut.

Surprisingly acting shines throughout. New actors have nailed the timings and screen presence in the movie. Girls haven't left any mark but all the boys were just amazing. Omkar Kapoor out of all deserves a special mention here. His performance throughout was perfect.

Luv Ranjan who has considerably improved from his last two ventures, does a good job here. He has appropriately directed the movie and has taken good care of cinematography.

Music by Hitesh Sonik is a turn off this time but that doesn't affect the movie at all.

Overall, great acting, good script and certainly double the mazaa from the earlier one.

Talvar

Director: Meghna Gulzar
Actors: Irrfan Khan, Tabu, Konkana Sen Sharma, Neeraj Kabi

Rating: 3.5 / 5

Most moving part of the movie is when you realize that whatever you know has been shown in the first ten minutes only. That's how it's justifiable that it was so important to bring this story to everyone. A lot of hard work has been done for showing the fine grains of this plot. Around 50% of the movie is what no one is aware of and that's how all false perceptions were developed in these years. I'm sure the perspective towards this case and its family will completely change after this. Known fact about weak policing has been showcased in a very good way. Although we have great police officers but they constitute very few and are present only in the top level. Sympathy to girl and his family will again rise in the minds. Now the best part comes when all these details are shown in a beautiful cinematic way. Perfect kudos to the storywriter and producer Vishal Bharadwaj for putting great efforts in bringing this forward wonderfully.

Meghna Gulzar is back after many years and she showed that the trusted potential in her was not incorrect. Rising above all, this was the ultimate directorial venture. Nothing rises above the effort that is seen in her work. Although a lot of credit share also goes to the veteran editor Sreekar Prasad. Their partnership did the real wonders in this flick.

Acting of all the actors were above average where no one really blasted the screen. Irrfan was certainly better than all as he portrayed his usual amazing skills.

Overall, a directorial treat where great efforts have been put to portray the fine grains of this plot.