Tuesday 12 April 2016

Hamari Adhuri Kahani (English: Our Incomplete Story)- Indian romantic drama film

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Hamari Adhuri Kahani (English: Our Incomplete Story) is a 2015 Indian romantic drama film directed by Mohit Suri and produced by Mahesh Bhatt under the banner Vishesh Films and Fox Star Studios. The film stars Emraan Hashmi, Vidya Balan, and Rajkummar Rao. It is based on the love story of Bhatt's parents, Nanabhai Bhatt, Shirin Mohammad Ali and his stepmother. The film was released worldwide on 12 June 2015 receiving mixed-to-negative reviews from critics. Despite having above average collections, the film was rated flop by Box Office India and Koimo.


The movie opens with a woman Vasudha (Vidya Balan) getting off from the bus. At 15 km before the Bastar district, she stumbles and falls down after walking a few steps. An elderly man, Hari, sees a psychiatrist about hallucinations of his wife. He is then recruited by his daughter-in-law, who takes him to his wife's funeral. There, he steals her ashes and leaves a diary for his son.

The story then jumps to the past, where Vasudha, is a florist and a single mother whose husband is missing for five years. Bound to traditions, she has been waiting for him since he left her. Vasudha meets Aarav Ruparel (Emraan Hashmi) in one of his hotels, where she works as a floral arranger. He creates a mock fire drill in order to watch the capabilities of the security department. Vasudha comes to save him. He offers her a job in his hotel in Dubai, which she refuses. Despite her refusal Aarav asks her to reconsider the offer. Vasudha gets to know from the police that her husband Hari (Rajkumar Rao) has murdered five American journalists and he is a member of a terrorist group. The police asks her to inform about Hari if he ever visits her. Worried for her son's future, she accepts the offer given by Aarav.

Despite knowing about Vasudha's past and her son, Aarav falls in love with her. Aarav tells Vasudha about his mother, who was a cabaret singer and a single parent and how she fell in love with a man who tried to commit suicide for failing to save them from poverty. Vasudha shuns his feelings saying that she belongs to someone else and leaves. Vasudha meets Aarav's mother on his request where she accepts Aarav's love and both unite. They both spend romantic moments together. Aarav gives a divorce paper to Vasudha before dropping her home. Vasudha then encounters Hari at home, and tells him about Aarav. Hari then storms out in anger where he is arrested by the police and later jailed for being a wanted criminal. Vasudha asks Aarav to save Hari as he is innocent. Aarav tries to save Hari by bribing the chief minister who reveals that Hari himself accepted his crime. Vasudha refuses to marry Aarav because Hari's action tells her that he sacrifices his life for them to be together. It is then revealed to Aarav that Hari deliberately accepts his crime so that Vasudha will live in guilt as she will think Hari sacrificed himself for their love. In order to free Vasudha out of her guilt, Aarav travels to bastar where Hari is accused of killing, to prove Hari's innocent. Aarav meets Father Dayal who explains what happened with the journalists and reveals Hari's innocence. On the way back to Mumbai, Aarav smells the scent of the same flowers which first caused him to meet Vasudha. Following the scent, he goes into the jungle, not knowing that the place has mines. He accidentally steps on one of the mines. Realising his predicament, Aarav smiles just before taking his foot off the mine. Vasudha receives the news of Aarav's death and is shattered. Vasudha leaves Hari, who searches for her for two years. After finding her, she reveals to him that she knows about his fake sacrifice and tells him that she is not afraid of any traditions and boundaries. He warns her that she will come back to him one day. Hari waits for Vasudha twenty-one years in vain.

Back in the present, it is now clear that the woman who gets off the bus is Vasudha and she wanted to be reunited with Aarav where he died. In the end Hari takes Vasudha's ashes to scatter them at the forest of Bastar where Aarav died. Thus Aarav and Vasudha reunite after death.

Tamasha (English: Spectacle)-Indian romantic drama film

The backdrop on the upper part of the poster are paintings of historical romance based fictional duos as well as it has Ravana with his ten heads, a face that resembles Hanuman, and another one of Lord Shiva. A jinn, two lovers and a woman in Yogi attire also appear in the art. The digital image shows a man and a woman who are laughing and walking with intertwined arms on an art-wall street. Film title, the names of director, producer, film score composer and the release date appears at the bottom.Tamasha (English: Spectacle) is a 2015 Indian romantic drama film written and directed by Imtiaz Ali and produced by Sajid Nadiadwala under his banner, Nadiadwala Grandson Entertainment. It features Ranbir Kapoor and Deepika Padukone in lead roles. The film score and soundtrack album was composed by A. R. Rahman, with lyrics from Irshad Kamil.
Filmed briefly in Corsica, Indian cities–Shimla, Delhi, Gurgaon, Kolkata; followed by two-day schedule in Tokyo, Tamasha tells the story of character Ved Vardhan Sahni (played by Kapoor) who loses his self by living according to the social conventions expected of him. The film portrays Ved's life in three stages–as a nine-year-old child, a 19-year-old adolescent and a 30-year-old adult in a spectacle-based non-linear screenplay. Tara Maheshwari (played by Padukone) identifies herself more with Ved's life, helping him to come out of his split personality and become a spectacle-oriented performer. The story is based on the central theme of abrasion and loss of self resulting from a constant attempt to fit in oneself back.

The film was released on November 27, 2015 to mixed reviews by film critics.However, they praised the performances of lead actors but criticised the unsatisfactory togetherness of the plot. The film received nominations for direction, music and performances of the lead actors, notably Kapoor being nominated under Filmfare Award for Best Actor category and Irshad Kamil winning the Filmfare Award for Best Lyrics for his lyrical work to the soundtrack album of the film.
The film opens with Ved Vardhan Sahni (Ranbir Kapoor) as an adult and Tara Maheshwari (Deepika Padukone), who are in a spectacle which shows of the monotonous life of a person in the corporate world. A scene in the spectacle turns to a flashback in Shimla where younger Ved Vardhan Sahni (Yash Sehgal) and his father (Javed Sheikh) return to home from school. As a child, Ved is fascinated by the stories narrated by a road side story teller (Piyush Mishra) who keeps mixing up his characters.

In the present, the film moves to Corsica where Tara meets adult Ved. However, they have a verbal pact to keep their real identities undisclosed. They explore the island together. They make conversations as "Don" and "Mona Darling". Running out of money, they put up a spectacle at an expensive restaurant. As Tara is set to leave for India, she is lovelorn despite a romantic friendship with Ved. The story flashes back to young Ved who questions the story-teller about the reason for happy times ending up quickly.

Tara returns to Kolkata in India and her routine life is shown through the song "Heer To Badi Sad Hai". Tara's father (played by Nikhil Bhagat) hands over his tea business to Tara so that she starts a line of tea boutiques, taking the company ahead. She is off to Delhi for work and four years have passed. Once upon a day, Tara surprisingly meets the adult Ved, who is now a product manager. They reveal their original identities. She makes an attempt to move ahead of the unrequited love by fixing a dinner with Ved at a Japanese restaurant. She expects him to talk like the days in Corsica but Ved talks about business. She calls Ved up home to be intimate. Ved leaves for his home and next morning Ved wakes up on time, completes the morning chores, wipes the car, ignores the eunuch on the way, lets a female colleague into the lift—all this happens on his way to the office. He fixes a plan for meeting Tara again in the evening. The evening to evening incidents repeat monotonically.

It is Ved's birthday when he proposes Tara but she is unhappy with a changed Ved after his arrival from Corsica. She declines the proposal. Ved leaves for his home by an auto-rickshaw driver (played by Ishteyak Khan) who narrates how his dreams of becoming a singer were crushed.

The film goes in flashback, scene in Shimla, where Ved tells his weakness in Mathematics and doesn't wish to do engineering. His Dad narrates him that he had to give up his interest for flute playing to support his family after they moved to Shimla from Lahore post the Partition of India.

The film comes back to present day Delhi where he starts telling his life story to some local people in search of answers and certain flashback scenes of Shimla are shown where Ved leaves Shimla to pursue engineering. Ved, due to his split personality ends up upsetting his boss by non-sensical business meeting performance. The story returns to Tara's door where Ved puts up his frustration at Tara. Tara promises him to help him come out of his divergent behaviors but he leaves.

The next day, Ved continues his office routine with a change, now giving the diamond ring to the eunuch. Ved comes back to Shimla and revealing his joblessness. After a quarrel with his father, Ved gains introspection from a reflection in the mirror where he realizes that to complete his own story, he needs to meet the same story-teller. The story-teller criticizes Ved's regression, compelling him to complete his own story. Ved narrates his life story to his family members. Moved by this, his father lets Ved pursue his interest.

Ved returns to Delhi and takes the diamond ring back from the eunuch. Tara, after finishing a business meeting at Oracle in Tokyo, she heads for refreshment where she finds a note titled "Don Returns". Perplexed about Ved's presence, she moves around the office campus where Ved draws her attention as the disguised "Don" in Corsica.

The film goes into a flashback and shows scenes from Shimla of a free spirited-young Ved, a college going Ved and an adult Ved. The film returns to present day (first scene of the film) where Ved and Tara complete the process of putting up a show on stage (in continuation of the opening scene of the film) through the spectacle which is the complete story of the film on presented on the stage.

Saturday 2 April 2016

Eega (English: Fly)- Indian fantasy film

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Eega (English: Fly) is a 2012 Indian fantasy film written and directed by S. S. Rajamouli and starring Sudeep, Nani and Samantha. The film was produced simultaneously in Telugu and Tamil (as Naan Ee) (English: I am a fly). The film is presented by Daggubati Suresh Babu (Telugu version and Hindi dubbed) and Pearl V. Potluri (for Tamil version) The music of the film was composed by M. M. Keeravani. cinematography was handled by K. K. Senthil Kumar, edited by Kotagiri Venkateswara Rao, art direction by Ravinder Reddy and dialogues written by Janardhan Maharshi (for Telugu), Crazy Mohan (for Tamil) and Anuj Gurwara (Hindi dubbing only).


The live action animation and visual effects were supervised by Rahul Venugopal, Adel Adili, and Pete Draper of Makuta Effects.The Telugu version Eega and Tamil version titled Naan Ee with dubbed Malayalam version titled Eecha were released on 6 July 2012 with over 1200 prints, grossed ₹1.25 billion (US$19 million) worldwide. The film was subsequently dubbed into Hindi as Makkhi. As of December 2012, the film has been reported to be dubbed in Thai.A Chinese dub titled Kung Fu Housefly was also reported to have been planned as of June 2013.

The Telugu version was screened to critical acclaim at L'Étrange Film Festival.The Tamil version Naan Ee was screened at the 10th Chennai International Film Festival.The film has garnered the Best Feature Film in Telugu and the Best Special Effects at the 60th National Film Awards 2012.The Telugu version has also garnered awards for the Most Original Film, Best Special Effects, Best Comedy, Best Fights, Best Film to Watch with a Crowd, Best Editing, Best Villain and Best Hero at the 8th annual Toronto After Dark Film Festival.

The Telugu version was premiered in the Marché du Film section of the 2013 Cannes Film Festival, the Panorama section of the 16th Shanghai International Film Festival, and Puchon International Fantastic Film Festival. The film has received Best art direction award at the Fantaspoa film festival of Brazil. Also it is nominated for six awards including Best film, Best Cinematographer, Best Special effects, Best Music Composer, Best Editor and Best supporting Actor for the "Madrid International Film Festival". 

STORY 
Nani is a young man who specialises in making fireworks. He lives in a house opposite micro-artist Bindu, who runs Project 511, an NGO. Nani has been in love with Bindu for two years and has been constantly showing his love for her. Though she is interested him, she hides her feelings and silently flirts with him.

Sudeep is a multi-millionaire industrialist and an womaniser. He marries for money and later kills his wife and inherits all her wealth. He gets obscessed if he sees a woman he likes and goes to any extent till he gets her. One day, Bindu goes to Sudeep's office to see if he would like to donate money to her NGO. Sudeep sees Bindu and immediately lusts for her, and calls her into his office. Bindu, unaware of Sudeep's true intentions, tells him all about her NGO, he donates ₹1.5 million (equivalent to ₹1.5 million or US$23,000 in 2013) to it. Bindu thanks Sudeep, who invites her for lunch.

At the restaurant, Bindu sees Nani and his friends installing fireworks across the pool. Sudeep notices that Bindu keeps staring at Nani and becomes jealous. Later, when Sudeep and Bindu stop at a market, Nani also comes and walks with Bindu. Sudeep follows them the whole time. That night, Bindu works late and she needs an escort to go home, so she calls Nani who comes to her office and walks her home. At this point, Nani gives Bindu an idea to help finish a necklace she was working on and Bindu is finally ready to confess her love for Nani. But just in front of Bindu's doorstep, and just after Nani drops her, Sudeep kidnaps him and takes him to a graveyard, where he beats him mercilessly. He tells Nani that he wants Bindu. Nani tells Sudeep that if he goes anywhere near Bindu, he will kill him. Enraged, Sudeep strangles Nani, right after Bindu tells Nani she loves him through a phone call. After hearing that Bindu loves him, Nani dies. He is then reborn as a fly.

After adapting to his new life, Nani comes across Sudeep, then recollects his past life and wants to take revenge on Sudeep. He keeps following Sudeep around, irritating him repeatedly. Meanwhile, Bindu is grieving the death of Nani, and Sudeep is still trying to make Bindu love him.

One day, Sudeep calls Bindu to her office and asks her to come to Delhi with him to meet the education minister, who is planning to nationally recognize Bindu's NGO; she agrees. Nani notices this and causes Sudeep to meet with an accident while he is driving to the airport. Sudeep, lying injured, sees Nani write "I will kill you". From that point, Sudeep becomes paranoid about the fly, and tries all means to ensure Nani does not enter his house.

Later, Nani comes across Bindu, who is crying. Nani uses Bindu's tears on her desk to write out his name. He then shows Bindu that it was Sudeep who killed him, and that he was reborn as a fly. Bindu realises Sudeep's true nature and teams up with Nani the fly, using her skills as a micro artist to make Sudeep's life miserable. Bindu discreetly allows Nani to enter Sudeep's house, and Nani wreaks havoc on him, including burning all of his wealth. A terrified Sudeep then consults Tantra, a sorcerer, who tells him that Nani, whom he had killed, was reborn as a fly and is planning to kill him. Tantra performs a homa in Sudeep's house to kill Nani. But Nani escapes and causes a short circuit, leaving Tantra dead and Sudeep unconscious.

The next morning, Sudeep discovers that Bindu and Nani are working together to kill him. Enraged, Sudeep brings Bindu to his house and starts abusing her. He also clips Nani's wings and stabs him fatally. A dying Nani then sacrifices his life by jumping through a lighted matchstick, inflaming itself and entering a loaded cannon, which fires up and kills Sudeep.

Bindu, grieving the fly's death, makes a necklace using the only remainder of Nani the fly - its wing. While going to work, an eve-teaser irritates her, only for a fly to attack him. This fly is revealed to be Nani, again reborn to protect Bindu forever.

Vettam ( English: Light)-Malayalam romantic comedy film

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Vettam ( English: Light) is a 2004 Malayalam romantic comedy film directed by Priyadarshan starring Dileep and Bhavna Pani. The starting of the plot is loosely based on the 1995 American film French Kiss. It is the remake of Bollywood film Pyar toh Hona Hi tha. A police officer (Radha Ravi) is on Gopi (Dileep) trail. Gopi is a petty thief and he had stolen a precious chain and is on the run. While on the run Gopi meets Veena (Bhavna Pani). Veena is on her way to break the marriage of her lover to a tycoon's daughter. Due to a certain circumstance Gopi has to hide the chain in Veena's bag but later discovers that it is missing. Gopi suspects that the chain is still with Veena and so he accompanies her in her journey.


Their journey comes to a halt when Gopi is forced to jump off the train, because of Veena. Veena had gone to get some water and she missed the train. Veena realises that place was Gopi's hometown. When Gopi's sister (Sona Nair) realises that Gopi was in town, she comes and informs him that his younger sister's marriage is fixed. Veena's opinion of Gopi changes when she realised the reason why he was a thief. Gopi calls off his younger sister's marriage when he realised that there was a catch in it. Gopi promises that he will find a better groom for his sister and he just needs more time. Gopi realises that Veena didn't have the chain with her at all.

In order fulfill his promises, Gopi sets off to find some money to fund his sister's wedding and to regain all the lost family properties. Veena proposes a bargain and Gopi, once again, sets off with Veena in order fulfill Veena's wishes of marrying her lover. At the same time, Mani Kalabhavan Mani runs away with his lover and all of them meet up.Both Veena and Gopi stay at the hotel in Ooty where Veena's lover Felix is staying and plans to get engaged. Then there is series of funny events among the other guests of the hotel. Gopi talks to Felix about Veena and how much she loves him. He promises Felix a large sum of money which he will pay off from the necklace's price. He does not reveal this to Veena. He develops feelings of love for her, but does not express them to her. Veena comes to know of Gopi's sacrifice for her despite having his own big problems. Veena calls off her wedding with Felix as she realises that he only longs for riches and money and does not love her. Gopi proposes to her and she agrees. Both set off to start a new journey of their life.