Angrezi Medium
Directed by : Homi Adajania
Imdb link -> https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8907986/
Aadmi ka sapna toot jaata hai na, toh aadmi khatam ho jaata hai.
Champak Bansal (Irrfan Khan) will leave no stone unturned to get his daughter Tarika Bansal (Radhika Madan) get admission in a good university of London is the basic premise of Angrezi Medium. There are some lovely moments in starting portions of movie when Champak tries to convince Tarika to study in India only, a scene where he tries to see if she would cheat when handing the exam paper or when he is happy that she got 85% knowing that means she won't have to go to London before the phone call of principal spoils the fun for him. He basically plays a dad that wants to make her daughter happy but doesn't want her to go far away from him either, the kind of confused state he himself says he always has been since childhood. The drunk scene where Tarika tries to cover it up by blaming it back on her dad was very funny. Unfortunately the light fun moments come in way too many gaps, something that wasn't the case with 'Hindi Medium'. What really lets down the film is there are too many sub-plots that make no sense or the drama just never engages you. For instance, the court-room sequence over the shop name dispute, Ranvir Shorey that suddenly comes then vanishes and then returns in narrative, the daily midnight daaru talks and conflict involving Manu Rishi Chaddha. Deepak Dobriyal and Tillotama Shome who were main highlight of last movie, looks so pale in comparison here. Even Dimple Kapadia-Kareena Kapoor feel wasted except for that one scene at the dining table. Pankaj Tripathi is funny in his single scene cameo. Very much like 'Jawani Jaanemann', the father-daughter relationship is left unexplored, rather we get bits of Tarika's new lifestyle or a non-funny Pakistan cricketers name angle. I specially would have wanted more out of Radhika Madan's character who is such a fine actor. Still a decent film but since its the last film of Irrfan Khan, you would have wished it was better than what we get. Having said that, the last shot of Irrfan with his smiling face out of car window, may just get you emotional.
My Rating : 6/10
Baaghi 3
Directed by : Ahmed Khan
Imdb link -> https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8366590/
Mujhpe aati toh main chorh deta hoon, mere bhai pe aati toh main phod deta hoon.
Spoilers ahead..
Ronnie (Tiger Shroff) travels to Syria to find his brother Vikram (Riteish Deshmukh) who got kidnapped while on his assignment as a inspector to catch terrorist Abu Jalal (Jameel Khoury). When you see the start of movie, the bits of Ronnie as a kid, the kind of fake acting you can clearly see through, that is how the entire movie pans out. As grown-up now, Ronnie is always saving Vikram whenever he is in trouble, and yet its Vikram who becomes a cop when insisted by Ronnie. Its like sending your own brother in hell, knowing one day he will have to fight himself and probably die. But then thats how this script of film is, we do in climax get a scene where Vikram gets superpowers and kills Abu Jalal. The first scene of movie shows Ronnie shouting in pain name of Vikram suggesting maybe he got killed before we go into flashback. That was one well directed shot because I did buy into it, and later when the truth of that scene was revealed, I wanted to see if Vikram does eventually die in the climax or not. That was my only bit of interest in the whole film, and for a moment when they try to show Ronnie dead at the end, I thought damn they took a big leap of faith but nah, there Ronnie gets up and finished Abu Jalal totally. The action scenes are total ridiculous, not one scene I can label as even decent. Vijay Varma in a small cameo and Jaideep Ahlawat are only saviours in terms of acting in the movie. Background theme is good but its old one only and one can hear it on youtube rather. This was already a very average franchise from the 1st movie and its only getting worse with every new film that comes out. And I fear for Tiger Shroff who is teaming up again with same director for his Heropanti2 whose poster was rip-off from John Wick. Nothing more to say for a film that is guranteed to feature in my worst movies of 2020 list..
My Rating : 1.5/10
Directed by : Homi Adajania
Imdb link -> https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8907986/
Aadmi ka sapna toot jaata hai na, toh aadmi khatam ho jaata hai.
Champak Bansal (Irrfan Khan) will leave no stone unturned to get his daughter Tarika Bansal (Radhika Madan) get admission in a good university of London is the basic premise of Angrezi Medium. There are some lovely moments in starting portions of movie when Champak tries to convince Tarika to study in India only, a scene where he tries to see if she would cheat when handing the exam paper or when he is happy that she got 85% knowing that means she won't have to go to London before the phone call of principal spoils the fun for him. He basically plays a dad that wants to make her daughter happy but doesn't want her to go far away from him either, the kind of confused state he himself says he always has been since childhood. The drunk scene where Tarika tries to cover it up by blaming it back on her dad was very funny. Unfortunately the light fun moments come in way too many gaps, something that wasn't the case with 'Hindi Medium'. What really lets down the film is there are too many sub-plots that make no sense or the drama just never engages you. For instance, the court-room sequence over the shop name dispute, Ranvir Shorey that suddenly comes then vanishes and then returns in narrative, the daily midnight daaru talks and conflict involving Manu Rishi Chaddha. Deepak Dobriyal and Tillotama Shome who were main highlight of last movie, looks so pale in comparison here. Even Dimple Kapadia-Kareena Kapoor feel wasted except for that one scene at the dining table. Pankaj Tripathi is funny in his single scene cameo. Very much like 'Jawani Jaanemann', the father-daughter relationship is left unexplored, rather we get bits of Tarika's new lifestyle or a non-funny Pakistan cricketers name angle. I specially would have wanted more out of Radhika Madan's character who is such a fine actor. Still a decent film but since its the last film of Irrfan Khan, you would have wished it was better than what we get. Having said that, the last shot of Irrfan with his smiling face out of car window, may just get you emotional.
My Rating : 6/10
Baaghi 3
Directed by : Ahmed Khan
Imdb link -> https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8366590/
Mujhpe aati toh main chorh deta hoon, mere bhai pe aati toh main phod deta hoon.
Spoilers ahead..
Ronnie (Tiger Shroff) travels to Syria to find his brother Vikram (Riteish Deshmukh) who got kidnapped while on his assignment as a inspector to catch terrorist Abu Jalal (Jameel Khoury). When you see the start of movie, the bits of Ronnie as a kid, the kind of fake acting you can clearly see through, that is how the entire movie pans out. As grown-up now, Ronnie is always saving Vikram whenever he is in trouble, and yet its Vikram who becomes a cop when insisted by Ronnie. Its like sending your own brother in hell, knowing one day he will have to fight himself and probably die. But then thats how this script of film is, we do in climax get a scene where Vikram gets superpowers and kills Abu Jalal. The first scene of movie shows Ronnie shouting in pain name of Vikram suggesting maybe he got killed before we go into flashback. That was one well directed shot because I did buy into it, and later when the truth of that scene was revealed, I wanted to see if Vikram does eventually die in the climax or not. That was my only bit of interest in the whole film, and for a moment when they try to show Ronnie dead at the end, I thought damn they took a big leap of faith but nah, there Ronnie gets up and finished Abu Jalal totally. The action scenes are total ridiculous, not one scene I can label as even decent. Vijay Varma in a small cameo and Jaideep Ahlawat are only saviours in terms of acting in the movie. Background theme is good but its old one only and one can hear it on youtube rather. This was already a very average franchise from the 1st movie and its only getting worse with every new film that comes out. And I fear for Tiger Shroff who is teaming up again with same director for his Heropanti2 whose poster was rip-off from John Wick. Nothing more to say for a film that is guranteed to feature in my worst movies of 2020 list..
My Rating : 1.5/10
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