Movie Analysis : NightCrawler

Directed by : Dan Gilroy
Imdb link -> http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2872718/


Jake Gyllenhaal is exceptional in this must watch movie, if you  like creepy-unusual character oriented movies. 

Read at your own risk, spoilers ahead… 

Louis Bloom (Jake Gyllenhaal), is desperate to find work and when he lands himself into crime journalism, he forgets the ethics and starts working his way up the ladder. He is helped in it by Nina (Rene Russo), a T.V news veteran who accepts all the videos he brings up to her.


There’s a certain creepiness in Louis Bloom character, kudos to the way Jake shed weight and made this possible. You can easily notice it in his long eyes whenever someone said something that wasn’t as per what he wanted to hear, specially in night car scenes.

Plenty of dark humor, how Louis tries to find his way in into any profession he could, his amazing learning things quickly talent which you see as the movie goes on. At almost no point we see Louis show emotion to any human being, even the conversation he has with Nina in mexican restaurant is more of a wanting someone to have sex with plus making use of his work that had made Nina’s recognition increase at news channel with rise of their ratings. Only time we see Louis care about someone, is when he is watering his plants at his home.

Notice how Louis is ironing his clothes while watching a comedy show on tv, and suddenly he gives a creepy laugh looking at other side as if there was some other person present there to share that moment with him. The ending dialogue of Louis during the long conversation with Nina at restaurant was hilarious too. Also, when Nina doesn’t agree to pay better amount to Louis, how he stamps his authority over her with Nina stand-still listening to all he is saying, was one of best scenes of movie.

The way Louis interviews Rick (Riz Ahmed) makes you think he must had applied for some job in past where the interviewer presented himself the way he is doing now. The salary negotiation scene in latter half of film is superb. There is a certain creepy tone even in the way Louis talks or the dialogues he has, but the one that I loved, and he made sure of emphasizing it more while saying to Rick ‘What if my problem wasn’t that I don’t understand people but that I don’t like them?’.

There are many more moments where you feel scared of meeting a person like Louis in real, like the scene where he brakes fail a fellow competitor and then shoots his video, love the way director pans face of Louis looking at him. Another is the end scene, where Louis wants to get rid of Rick and traps him into death and once again shoots his video instead of helping him survive. Even in one of the crime scene house, he didn’t care to help a old man who was still breathing. Or in a scene when asked if there was a baby in the room, Louis sounds disappointed not to find one.

Only flaw I found in the film was, Louis got away too easily in the end. How about he finds a harder way to get out of police and detective after him for breaking laws.

The screenplay is tight and pacy, most of the time we see the movie through point of view of Louis, getting to know how it would be to do the wrong thing and yet enjoy it. The director keeps the proceedings engaging and not easy to predict, you never know what might come up next. Also, he presents the ugly side of news presentation, like in the scene where Nina proves her point right saying people should see blood shed reporting at breakfast so that they can talk about it later on and it would that way stay longer with them.

He even builds sexual environment between Louis and Nina wonderfully. Infact the last video we see Louis show her, it felt like Nina was getting seduced watching a video which may make her channel and tv show so popular. And I liked the idea of not showing anything physically to viewers between them, keeping us to guess.

Dialogues were very well written, ‘A Friend is a gift you give to yourself’ always cracks me up.

Jake Gyllenhaal delivers excellent performance. He makes you hate his character and yet enjoy the weird activities he does. I would be surprised if I don’t see him make a oscar nomination next year. Yes, his character was kinda of one dimensional, we never see his past life or family or any sensitive part of his life. But I felt that was well done, otherwise it would had made resemblance with De Niro from Taxi Driver. It was good that Louis was always un-caring in entire movie.

Rene Russo does her supporting role very well too. She does actually look beautiful enough to make Louis say to her ‘I like older women’.


If you are into creepy and unusual character movies, then you gotta watch Jake Gyllenhaal in this movie, more than likely you will enjoy it a lot.


Verdict : 4/5 

Movie Analysis : Happy Ending

Directed by : Raj-D.K
Imdb link -> http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3017412/


Fun of a cliched rom-com format and narrating story itself as same rom-com with happy end. Not possible to like such narration of story… 

Read at your own risk, spoilers ahead… 


When you saw the trailer, and the starting dialogue then you expected a movie that would ideally show what real ‘Happy Ending’ stories have in reality unlike the movies (fantasy ones). But, unfortunately and very surprisingly, a film that tries to make fun of typical rom-com we see ends up in the end to be one of the same league itself.

Yudi (Saif Ali Khan) realizes that his 1st written book about 5 and half years ago, didn’t end to be successful as he had thought. Now, he is desperate to get work and he gets a offer to write a movie script for fading star Armaan (Govinda) who asks him to copy best dialogues and scenes from Hollywood movies he gives to him. But, Yudi can no longer get the inspiration to write somehow. His new rival as well friend Ileana D’Cruz (whose latest romantic novel gets lots of praise) becomes the turning point of his life. But, Yudi has many things to deal with, one is his commitment issues, other is his ex gf Kalki Koechin who isn’t ready to leave him at all.


We have seen Saif in uncountable movies now doing this role where he is confused, comical, searching for answers, not ready to accept love etc. Despite that, Saif has got amazing comic timing that you still like him doing all of this once again.

But Raj and DK fail to deliver as director duo this time, they were amazing in Shor in the City and Go Goa Gone (my personal fav), for keeping the humor tone simple and yet very funny. I couldn’t understand why they decided to make fun of rom-com movies and its plot initially, and then do narration of movie in similar manner leading to same cliched end. How about if they ended the movie when Ileana says ‘I don’t love you’ and follow with a funny line by Saif about how different reality is indeed.

Another unusual aspect of film was the alter ego of Yudi, i.e Yogi played by Saif himself. At places he was indeed funny, but mostly he came more of a irritating personality to me. Could had worked a lot more on his character and dialogues.

What works the most is Ranvir Shorey (playing friend of Yudi) and Yudi bonding, and Kalki’s funny performance, love the scene where she tells Yudi about a app she has installed in his phone or when she gives Yudi heart-attack about her being pregnant.

Among Cameos, Kareena was good.. but Preity who got a longer role did really well as the matured ex gf of Yudi. The advices she gave to him, without making them look too much preaching was good to see.

Ileana didn’t really play her role well, she is like saif in terms of her way of looking at love but you never really see that kind of attitude when she is with saif. She does look lovely, and has two very good scenes, one when she puts music on while they drive to a certain place, was surprised to hear loveria from raju ban gaya gentleman, and bharo maang literally made me laugh loud. And other when they stay in hotel, and she makes him sleep in opposite direction, liked the conversations they have at that time and where it leads to. Ileana character would had appealed more, had we told a lot more about her..

Govinda is great in two initial scenes where Yudi meets him at his place for discussion on script. Apart from that, I didn’t really enjoy his performance despite being a comic role.. strange but true.


Even the music was disappointing, not a single song that I found worth listening again.


The best moment of the film is when Govinda tells Yudi ‘tu kitna bhi hatke likh le, logo ne baith kar hi dekhna hai… 300 rs mein unko jeena mat seekha, entertain kar.'



Happy Ending is at best one time watch, atleast its not slapstick and bad humor. But if you go to watch movie based on Raj-DK past films, then you gonna be highly disappointed like me.


Verdict : 2.5/5 

Movie Analysis : Kill Dil

Directed by : Shaad Ali
Imdb link -> http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3380264/


Poor cliche gangster story, avoidable movie. Shaad disappoints. 

Read at your own risk, spoilers ahead… 


It was a movie I had great expectations from, the day its cast was announced with Shaad as director, S-E-L & Gulzar teaming up (same as Jhoom Barabar Jhoom), and a fantastic 1st trailer, followed by 1st song promo of title which was peppy and addictive.. but after that all went downside with poor promos and the real picture got revealed, not everything that appears good initially is actually good.


Two gangsters, Dev (Ranveer Singh) and Tutu (Ali Zafar) work for Bhaiyya Ji (Govinda) who raised them in their childhood and gave them guns to play with instead of reading books. They now kill or scare anyone Bhaiyya Ji wants them to. Enters Disha (Parineeti Chopra) into the story, Dev falls in love and now he has to choose between his love or the life he has been living till now.


This is such a cliche story. Why do we have to see a gangster film where the gangster has to be forced to stop doing the bad work he is in which he loves a lot.  Funny thing is Disha is shown as a person who works on criminal history people and make them live good life instead. In the entire movie she is never seen helping anyone, what we see instead is her rich spoilt girl life, her swimming scenes or going for parties. And still if we agree that Disha does actually do the ‘samaaj seva’, then why the hell she decides to give up on Dev when Bhaiyya Ji tells her who Dev was once i.e a killer, and who Dev is now i.e. a improved guy. If she improves criminals, then here was a person who did it by himself for her and yet we see Disha abandon him and do all the un-necessary emotional drama. Why was the need for Dev to record a video and tell her the truth, does Shaad Ali wanted to say that how dumb this girl was ? I just hated Parineeti Chopra in this movie, for a change sadly.


The other sad part of this movie was the screenplay. Shaad Ali it looks like forgot how to form a narration, we see characters all of sudden killing, then joking, then the terrific ka ka ka kill dil bg used unnecessarily in worst possible manner. Infact, they end Bhaiyya Ji character also so lamely. Also, we never see any police activity in the movie, its like these gangsters never ever get to face them.. they are too smart or stupid writing, eh? And what was that scene where Dev tries to show his good side to Disha by asking small kids to eat food with them.


There are some good dialogues in the movie, one of it that standsout is BhaiyyaJi telling a person who has got gun on his head ‘Goli maarni hai toh maar-de, yun ghoor ke mera time waste mat kar’.

Best part of movie was, Tutu’s friendship towards Dev, firstly when he shows concern towards Dev asking him to remember who he is and who Disha is plus that they work for Bhaiyya Ji. Then the scene where Dev tells him that he thought Tutu would understand him atleast. Or when Tutu tells how he will manage Bhaiyya Ji on his own now.  Ali Zafar did a fairly good job, of course could had been much better if the script had been well written.

Ranveer Singh is full of energy, and very lovable once again..  The entire scene where he meets Disha for first time, talks while she rides bullet or his touching the hot sizzler food with hands directly. And the funniest scene of course, when he asks Tutu, what is meaning of Lol. Wish Shaad didn’t overdo it with Rofl though..

Govinda in a villain role, is something you don’t really expect from him but right from trailer it looked he had perfectly nailed it. Unfortunately though, he gets very few scenes to shine, once again for bad writing. Two scenes to watch out would be, one where he forces his orders onto Dev, and other when he plays a great chess move with Dev’s life. He does gets most of the best lines in movie though.


S-E-L music is decent. The title song stands out, but not used the way it should had been in movie. Love the way they film the 'Daiyya Maiyya' song. ‘Sajde' is totally misplaced fantasy song in the narrative, would had made for a better end credit song instead. If I remember right, they didnt use 'Baawra' ? It was 2nd best song of movie for me.



Kill Dil ends up as my first Shaad Ali movie that I disliked. There’s no emotional connect, a cliche gangster story and narrative that looks like arranged together with bits and pieces without much meaning or style quotient. Its only the performances of all 3 male leads that keeps you hold on to the end in a movie that you can easily avoid watching.



Verdict : 2/5 

Movie Analysis : Haider

Directed by : Vishal Bharadwaj
Imdb link -> http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3390572/

Not perfect adaptation of Hamlet, but a worthy Vishal movie nevertheless. 

Read at your own risk, there may be spoilers ahead.. 


An adaptation of Hamlet, the plot deals with Haider/Hamlet (Shahid Kapoor) returning back to Srinagar after studying at Aligarh. His father Dr Hilal (Narender Jha) had been taken away by Army for keeping militants in his house. When Haider comes to know that his father has been killed, and the murderer is none other than his own uncle Khurram/Claudius (Kay Kay Menon) who was helped in it by his mother Ghazala/Gertrude(Tabu). He immediately seeks revenge, and goes insane in his acts as he witnesses the murderer.


If I compare Haider with Hamlet, then one major difference is, how well Vishal Bharadwaj develops Kashmir and its political angle as the backdrop of the plot. He could easily had started the movie from the point when we see Haider returning to Srinagar in that bus shot, just like in Hamlet happens. But, we get to see how and why Dr Hilal disappears (even though we know who is behind it). He lets the connect happen with the Ghazala-Haider sequences including flashbacks, my fav is when they walk together alone and talk where Haider accuses her to be always thinking from her own point of view and never caring to see other’s views. For me, the mother-son relation was the best part, even that phone call by Haider to her later in the movie..

There are 3 changes however that didn’t go well for me. One is Horatio isn’t there in Haider, instead Arshia/Ophellia (Shraddha Kapoor) is given the role to act both as love and best friend of Haider. Whether it was to do with monotonous feel people would get with the friendship angle of Shahid-Chandan in Kaminey or it was deliberate attempt to keep narrative shorter with one less character, only Vishal would know. The reason I felt he was a key character is, many times in Hamlet you see him talk to Horatio about things he won’t talk to anyone else because he was the only one loyal and friendly to him whereas Ophellia was always more loyal to her father.

Second is Arshia’s  father Parvez Lone/Polonius (Lalit Parimoo) who is again completely changed by Vishal. In Hamlet, he would be extra-caring towards both Arshia and Liyaqat/Laertes (Aamir Bashir), and give various funny moments with his long speeches and non-understanding nature. But in Haider, he is a typical father, who uses his daughter to save Khurram from Haider.

Third is Liyaqat who is totally wasted in Haider. He only has one scene at start just like Hamlet, but in the climax sadly he is again limited to two small scenes, instead of giving a longer screen time where a fight between him and Haider would make him realize that Haider’s revenge is right too just like his revenge against him is.


Now talking about Haider, and keeping the comparison away.. the film still works for me a hell lot, but could had been easily a classic if and only if Vishal did one thing i.e increase the madness of Haider, show more scenes of him acting like insane, he only shows two scenes : one is that terrific monologue of Shahid ‘Hum hai ke hum nahi’, and other when he sings the same song which Khurram was seen singing earlier to Ghazala. He could had shown a sequence with Vishal Dadlani's Aao Na as background that told what Haider is aiming for now, is to act insane and meanwhile find out whether Khurram is in real the murderer or the story told by Roohdaar/Hamlet’s Father (Irrfan Khan) was fake. Even with gravedigger, he gets just two small conversations, ‘kiska janaaza hai?, kisi murde ka hai’, more dialogues like these would had been so wonderful’. There should also had been a scene where Haider before narrating Bismil song told Arshia to notice Khurram throughout and see if his eyes show guilt (yea its from hamlet where Horatio did it for Hamlet, but this would had made the proceedings doubly special). And yea, there was no need to show Liyaqat in a conference getting sad news, could easily had cut direct to Arshia home scene and Liyaqat coming there, as why would you even for a second divert from the Kashmir backdrop. And one last complaint, why did Arshia act normal when Liyaqat returned home, and in next scene she is shown gone mad. She should had been shown mad right at the moment Liyaqat enters, why the delay…

Vishal handles the Oediplus complex probably keeping Indian audience in mind, and for my liking it was perfectly done as you do get the sense in some scenes as to what relation they might be having even though you never see any of that.

The cinematography is brilliant, special mention to the shots before Roohdar makes a entry, and also Irrfan Khan is given a terrific entry scene. Background score is special too, my fav was the Ghazala-Haider one, Aao na theme used at certain places and also the revenge one which is inspired from Moby’s extreme ways (also used in Bourne series).

Also, commendable to see the dialogues having the kashmiri effect including the english they speak..

Music from Vishal Bharadwaj is among the best of this year, the version of 'Aao Na' which they use in film is so haunting. ‘Jhelum' shows the situation of Kashmir in 1995, with plenty of half-widows and missing people. While 'Khul Kabhi' might be not that well placed in narrative, it does help in giving weightage to Haider-Arshia romantic track. But, the song of movie (Aao Na by vishal is my personal fav but not used in film) is easily Bismil, what special choreography. And for me the way Shahid emotes in that song was as good as I saw Richa Chadda do in ‘Taar Bijli’ of Gangs of Wasseypur2. The feeling of pain and revenge at same time were so much visible in his eyes, and since he is a good dancer he made it look one of best choreographed songs of the year.


One may argue about the ending, the message given.. I for one would had preferred to see Khurram die and Haider take revenge but the moment you saw ‘Inteqam se sirf inteqam paida hota hai’ dialogue in 1st half, you very much know its gonna be key part of Haider’s revenge part too. Good thing however was they did make Khurram lose his legs, and thereby plead to Haider to kill him and not let him live this life who already had guilt feeling inside him for killing his own brother Hilal.


Salman1 & 2/Rosencrantz & Guildenstern (Sumit Kaul & Rajat Bhagat) was a brilliant idea to add humor, both playing mad fans of Salman Khan. Love their first scene dancing to Maine Pyar Kiya song, did any of Salman fans recognize that dance when Haider trailer was out was a question that came to my mind.


In performances, Shahid Kapur doesn’t disappoint in his portrayal of Haider, the helplessness he feels while finding his missing father, to see how his mother is attracted to Khurram (love that scene where he keeps staring at her when she is singing), his two insane sequences, when he breaks down after a laugh with Arshia at end of Khul Kabhi song, his violent attack at Salman’s or the confusion in his mind when he is about to kill Khurram but voices of both his father and mother’s words keep going inside him together. Easily among his best performances of career, would be good to see Shahid-Vishal work together in near future.

Tabu actually gave the performance of the movie, and finally she got a film which used her talent to full potential. Whether its the first scene where she is worried to see a militant in her house, her unexplained love towards Khurram, or her motherly love towards Haider. Love her expression when Haider says to her in climax scene ‘kyu aap apni jaan de dengi kya’. Why don’t rest film-makers offer her good roles, that is the question…

Kay Kay Menon for a change wasn’t flawless, at some places felt he was hamming a lot. Also, I felt Vishal should had not let him over-try to show how much he cares about Hilal to Haider.

Shraddha Kapoor has the same old problem, she got great looks and looks wonderful in Kashmiri mode but her acting is again upto the point, nothing extra added by her. Arshia was meant to be innocent girl, so she was kind of apt for role (maybe Alia Bhatt was also another worthy actress for it), but she fails to attract you with her acting skills and this has to stop sooner or else I may have to think her of being Sonam Kapoor Part2.


Narender Jha and Lalit Parimoo are very good in their supporting roles, and so is Kulbhushan Kharbanda in his small cameo appearance.  Aamir Bashir was totally wasted.

Irrfan Khan is terrific despite having a extended cameo role at best. His entry scene with that bg is awesome, and so is his humor with Arshia and then the person who he helps go inside his home.



Haider is an intense drama that must be seen, it had in it to be Vishal’s best till date but didnt miss by too much. Easily one of best movies this year for his direction and Shahid-Tabu performances.


Verdict : 4/5  

Movie Analysis : Happy New Year

Directed by : Farah Khan
Imdb link -> http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2461132/


Farah Khan-Shahrukh jodi fails this time, still watchable for Deepika and supporting cast. 

Read at your own risk, there maybe spoilers ahead.. (as if it matters )


The opening scene of a dance competition, a wide camera shot of event with some great visuals that attract you and then move to the flashback, introduction scene of Shahrukh who spoofs his own hit dialogues and now you come to the understanding that Happy New Year here onwards should be seen without any kind of expectations of Main Hoon Naa or Om Shanti Om (atleast its first half was entertaining) from Farah.

The movie is about losers named Charlie (Shahrukh Khan), Nandu (Abhishek Bachchan), Tammy (Boman Irani), Rohan (Vivaan Shah), Jag (Sonu Sood) who plan to take revenge of the betrayal Charlie’s father (Anupam Kher) face by Charan Grover (Jackie Shroff). Their plan is to execute the biggest diamond heist ever in world for which they have to enter a World Dance Championship and thereby need Mohini (Deepika Padukone), a bar dancer to help them reach main stage at the most so that they can steal the diamonds and run away without giving a damn about dance competition.

The story is in no-way exciting, and then the time Farah takes to move to the heist sequences doesn’t help either.

All the 5 losers are given a special intro-sequence and surprisingly only Nandu one worked for me to certain extent.

Its hard to understand why do our film-makers believe in slow-motioning a shirtless guy (mostly salman, in this film’s  case shahrukh) or in case of actresses when they wear bikini or some similar kind of shots. Makes me think that either the director is a big time perv or is of opinion that majority of indians are like that.

Then there’s a irritating cameo of Sajid Khan whose scene made me actually think if that is how he in real directs his own films.

Logically (avoid reading this paragraph if hny = watch without logic for you), there’s certain things that will come to mind, main one is how come Charan Grover never notice the duplicate of his son Vicky Grover i.e Nandu roaming around in dance competition. Then, why does Charlie need Mohini to train them in dance or even forget that why did they even need to practice if during audition round he was going to get selected with that blackmail video and Rohan was there to hack votes for next round. They actually never needed to give any importance to dance. Another imp blunder was, why didnt they steal the diamonds by entering to the place directly where Jag goes to change oxygen and water pipes. Oh wait, one more is there.. in entire movie we are shown how bad the 5 losers dance and yet Farah being a choreographer didn’t want his losers to go away from dance competition losing. Forget 3rd position or runner-up, she makes them win the competition…Sigh.


But But But… Farah’s touch is visible in quite a few scenes, like the Damini spoof or Mohini’s hilarious 6 minute (or was it 7) speech lifted from Chak de or the reaction of Mohini when Charlie speaks a long english dialogue about her beauty with a great sense of humor or when Nandu has to remove his clothes to reach out a point on top of a wall, or when Tammy sarcastically answers Charlie ‘I am the king of the world’ when Charlie asks him if he remembers a dialogue of Titanic,  and of course the main heist at the end which was easily the best moment of movie.


Vishal Shekhar’s music for a change didn’t work here, with film they were definitely good to ears but none is gonna stay in memory for too long. Farah tries way too hard to make ‘Indiawaale' look very patriotic but it turns out to be pretty mediocre. While 'Manva Laage' is a Shreya song that would easily put me to sleep with a deja vu of her umpteen old songs. ‘Lovely’ also doesn’t work  except for its tunes. The song that I loved was ‘Satakli’ specially the line ‘raadhe raadhe bolo jai kanhaiyaa laal ki’ and Sukhwinder Singh’s voice, he should be asked to sing one song for Shahrukh in every film.

The background score was decent, except for that unwanted theme used where Charlie fights Korean guy.


In performances.. Shahrukh disappoints, except for some moments like ‘horny’, ‘english lines to Mohini’, he over-acted a lot specially scenes where he had to show his anger. Not to forget that irritating ‘kismet kutti cheez hai’ line which I lost count of how many times he repeats. I think he has reached a age where atleast to me he won’t appeal anymore in these masala movies. Either he has to do total romantic film (like JTHJ) or hatke movies (like CDI) or negative roles (like Don2).

Deepika Padukone is so lovable in the movie, despite again having a weird diction. It was great to see her shine so well in comical scenes one after another  with such comfort, even her mannerisms were perfect. And good that her emotional scenes were very few. She looks simply Wow in that Indiawaale outfit, even the Chammiya one.

Abhishek looked like to be so much enjoying this role, which was quite impressing even though it was just a supporting role. While Sonu Sood except for the overdose of body exposure, did well in both serious and comical situations. And loved Boman Irani’s child at heart yet a matured guy character, plus his dialogue delivery. Infact all three of them were real jaan of movie after Deepika.

Feel bad for Vivaan Shah, after 7 Khoon Maaf I never expected him to be doing a Farah Khan movie and he hardly has anything in the movie to speak of. Wonder how Naseeruddin Shah would had felt about his choice of film.

Jackie Shroff is good in villain role, though his character isn’t given much screen time unfortunately.

Among Special appearances, it was surprising to see Dino Morea from the days when he used to try his hand at lead roles unsuccessfully and now doing a anchor role at a dance competition. But not as surprising as it was to see Anurag Kashyap play a gay character, I mean what on earth made him accept the role, for a person who is either associated with hard-hitting movies or sarcastic humor at best. This was definitely quite un-expected for me.

And it was first of a kind to see a special appearance credited as ‘Emotional Apperance’ for Anupam Kher, whatever that meant.


Happy New Year is tolerable unlike Chennai Express, whether you like Shahrukh or not (I didnt) you most likely will like performances of Deepika and the supporting cast. There will be some entertaining moments and the final heist scene to enjoy.

And if you are interested, then there’s a lovely Abram shot in the final end credit sequence.


Verdict : 2.5/5 

Movie Analysis : Annabelle

Directed by : John R Leonetti
Imdb link -> http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3322940/

Avoidable horror movie, no where near to the magic of Conjuring. 

Read at your own risk, there may be spoilers ahead.. 


John Gordon (Ward Horton) and his wife Mia (Annabelle Wallis) house is invaded by members of a satanic cult on one night, who attack them. Both survive the attack as the cults get killed but after that incident, a doll that John had brought as gift for his pregnant wife, starts to show supernatural behavior.

Unlike Conjuring or even Insidious, what lacks in Annabelle is a good plot. The scares aren’t bad to be honest, though they are very few sadly. Most of the times what director does is show situations where we see close up of doll or any other suspicious object and we expect something will happen, but nothing happens.

There should had been lot more activities related to doll, which isn’t the case. Also, the plot no where resembles the real story of Annabelle incident. I am assuming (correct me if I am wrong), that the ending showing a lady buying doll for a birthday gift for her girl is the actual story which means there has to be a Annabelle Part2 that shows it, and of course Warrens didn’t get doll locked in this film which is another clue that there has to be another part to the film.

The fire scene is brilliantly edited with a bg that builds the nervousness, also the scary scene where a girl comes running towards the door and the elevator one is the scariest of all. Unfortunately, the climax was a big let-down, just when you thought that okay the movie till now didn’t have that wow factor but we may get it at the end, but not so. Perfect ending would had been, either the scene where Mia mistakenly kills her daughter thinking it to be a doll, or she killing herself to save her daughter. Instead there’s a happy ending that for me totally sucks.

Even performance wise, there’s nothing to talk about. All actors do a decent enough job but not worth to remember.


Annabelle as a horror movie gives few jump scare moments, but still its very much avoidable movie. I would suggest wait for 2nd part if its in making, I got a feeling that would be much better and I hope James Wan directs it.



Verdict : 2/5 

Movie Analysis : Bang Bang

Directed by : Siddharth Anand
Imdb link -> http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2905838/

A bad remake of already average Hollywood movie ‘Knight and Day’. 

Read at your own risk, there may be spoilers ahead … 


When you remake a movie that itself was at best one time watch, you expect the film-maker to work a lot on script and do major changes. Siddharth Anand and his team didn’t believe in it, not only do they keep plenty of stuff same, the changes they make only makes the original Hollywood movie ‘Knight and Day’ look far superior to it.


Right in the first scene, Siddharth spoils the entire movie where he lets you know clearly that Viren
(Jimmy Shergill) who is dying has a brother Jai (Hrithik Roshan) who would revenge his death. Instead of keeping Jai’s character full of suspense, we are given the typical stereotype revenge story. Not to forget, Jimmy Shergill is given the smallest possible screen time, sadly for the viewers who are thereafter left to find moments to enjoy which are far and few.

Even Hrithik Roshan’s comic timing looks out of touch, what works is his stunt sequences and his first meeting sequence with Harleen (Katrina Kaif).

Watching Katrina Kaif after a long time, and you wonder what happened to her improving hindi diction, her dialogue delivery looked completely unbearable. Also, unlike Diaz in Knight n Day, Katrina’s comic timing is awful. Its only her looks that is likable in the movie at best.

The action is also so disappointing, nothing like jaw dropping at all.. not even one stunt scene.

The rest cast is totally wasted, as most of screen time is given to Hrithik and Katrina only. They get a extended romantic plot which only weakens the already going no-where movie.

Songs are certainly good break from the movie, giving some pleasant moments, specially Meherbaan which is my fav.


Bang Bang is a movie that is best avoided unless you are a die hard Hrithik or Katrina fan. Else like me you are gonna feel you wasted time watching this movie which gives very few entertaining moments.


Verdict : 1.5/5