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Baaghi (2016)

got to love the masala films, those days when you so bored and burned out when you just need some film to consume while keeping your mind blank give masala film a try.

Baaghi revolves around the journey of a rebel boy (Tiger Shroff) learning the art of martial arts to hone his skills and learn discipline. while he is in training he falls in love with up an coming actress (Shraddha Kapoor) and so does the martial arts masters son (Sudheer Babu Posani). the son kills his father as he was against his son forcing the girl to marry him. this all leads to the protagonist into trying to take revenge for his master and rescue his girl……….. honestly a plot line seen multiple time in one form or other.

I would recommend this movie only to those lost souls who have the brains numbed due to better movies and are in need some simple easy to consume movie where u don’t need your brain.

now I do accept the action martial arts scene in this movie is much better choreographed that most Indian films. and Tiger Shroff really did a good job in these scenes, but the story by itself just wasn’t fun enough. but this movie has spawned a franchise with the 3rd part in the makes so hope that be some improvement there.

well, 7 movies down…………493 to go.

see you soon

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Aquaman (2018)

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I really don’t know where to start……

I have been a DC fanboy since I was well a boy, I grew up on the tv shows comics and stories of these heroes and getting a chance to watch them come to life was like a dream come true but nope of the live action movies seem to let me have that dream turn to reality.

the story of Aquaman is a very generic hero story where the main character Author curry (Jason Momoa) is the son of an Atlantian queen and a human. who has to come face to face with his destiny to be the king of Atlantis, for which he has to find the scared trident. but believe me, even this simple storyline gets messed up in this movie at no point did the story allow me to get attached to the characters or their decisions it’s just felt as if that it and I have to take it so. I know it’s just a superhero movie no need to take it so seriously but no matter the number of chances given to the DC it just never seems to get it right.

now I do need to give the movie credit where it is due, the director
James Wan did a great job in this movie, the actions sequences, camera movement and transitions were one of the most fun things about the movie. my favourite scene from this movie is the time black manta (Yahya Abdul-Mateen II) fights against Aquaman and Mera (Amber Heard) fights against the henchmen.

honestly, this movie could have done so much better if the script was better or at least focused on one main antagonist rather than having multiple villains of Aquaman in the movie to hype the movie up.

6 movies down……..494 to go

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goodbye.

The Sound of Music (1965)

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now I need to get this out of my chest I have never been a fan of musicals, I don’t have anything per se against them but I just don’t particularly like this genre. that being said the song My Favorite Things is one of the songs I really enjoy.

the story revolves around a woman a free-spirited song loving lass (Julie Andrews), who is trying to become a nun in an Austrian convent, but due to her hard to control behaviour she is asked to act as a governess to the seven children of a Naval officer widower. her pleasant demeanour and jolly attitude charmed the children who had a habit of scaring away the previous governesses. seeing the happy children their father (Christopher Plummer) has a change of heart about the governess who he wasn’t so fond of and finally, him falling in love with her.

in very blurred hindsight, I would call this film so similar to the masala movies of Indian cinema as this movies also has songs, dance, comedy, romance, drama, suspense, and villains in form of Nazi. now don’t get me wrong comparing them like that isn’t any regards trying to say little about this film as its one of the great films of the medium. they were just my humble observations.

now the film is based on real life as the last part of the film show the escape of the family from the Nazi occupation f Austria. which was the only time this movie took me off guard as I wasn’t expecting a development in a movie which I guessed as only being a simple musical.

I did enjoy the movie and would recommend it, mainly as its a classic of the film industry but I am not sure if it would be to everyone’s liking.

5th movie………495 to go

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Auf Wiedersehen

Sarkar (2018)

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to those who are no well versed in Hindi,
The term “Sarkar” (pronounced “sur-kaar”) is a title, used in Hindi, to address someone of authority. It is also the Hindi word for government.

Sarkar (2018) is a Tamil movie (Kollywood), which has a story revolving around successful businessman (Joseph Vijay) coming back to India to cast his vote in the election only to realise his vote has been illegally cast by someone else. seeing the corruption of his homeland he embarks on a quest to get rid of this party that has been causing the problems, and form a Sarkar truly of the people, by the people, for the people.

now like most Tamil movies this one also is a masala movie at its core with songs, dance, action, drama, romance all in one package that the industry always sends out. but at its core, it tries to send a message especially to the concept of democracy that all vote matter, as one of my fav quotes from this movie summarises.

elected politisian hold power for 5 years, but the individuals voting only hold it for that one day.

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Sundar Ramasamy (Joseph Vijay)

waking up in the morning on a holiday and watching my guilty pleasure, the masala movies is one of the joys of life. and would rate this movie at 6/10 and recommend it to all the masala movie lovers.

this was my 4th movie……496 to go.

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The Mammoth Task

So I have had a crazy idea one fine day, why not watch 500 movies in a year with a minimum a movie a day and just to make this task even more ambitious than it already is as I will be writing a review of sorts on them. I know what craziness.

I have never written a blog before this so, this article is the 1st one (and hopefully not the last one). so keeping it short. good luck to me for the 500 reviews that are gonna be coming this way in the next 365 days, and other silly content, just to amuse you and me.

See you soon.

Adios.