Coupling (season 3)

*ing : Jack Davenport, Gina Bellman, Sarah Alexander
Created by : Steven Moffat

Tagline : The naughty new comedy about nothing...but SEX!

I don’t hv much to add from what I did last 2 times I reviewed the show. It’s a british show (accent helps) abt 6 friends (like american show Friends) who wants nothing bt sex. There are certain relationship issues bt they are mostly related to sex only. A few episodes are mildly funny, rest are just Okayish. Nothing special.
Rating :
** & ½

Fukrey

*ing : Pulkit Samrat, Manjot Singh, Ali Fazal , Varun Sharma
Director : Mrigdeep Singh Lamba

Fukrey is one of the funniest movie I have seen in recent times. Fukra is a delhi slang which loosely translates into ‘good for nothing slacker’. Its about 4 guys named Honey, Chucha, Lali (soo delhi and soo Punjabi names) and zafar. All of whom needs some money for their respective problems and how they hv a brush with a local (female) gangster played by Richa Chhadha.
Film is full with delhi humor and lingo, and that’s wat the its biggest problem is. Cause if u are not from Delhi or if u are not aware of the culture, u wont just get the jokes. Film also has a superb soundtrack which I discovered soo late. It’s a super fun movie and a must watch. Loved it. my favorite, chucha. He is riot.
Rating :
****

D-Day

*ing : Irrfan Khan, Arjun Rampal, Rishi Kapoor
Director : Nikhil Advani

Tagline : Ab Hamari Bari hai

D Day
I wasn’t expecting much but D Day is surprisingly good spy movie by a director who has made pathetic rom-com and drama movies in last few years. Film is a fictional account of Indian spies in Pakistan trying to bring Dawood Ibrahim to India. Film looks real, is gritty and has some edge of the seat moments. Acting is over all good with even arjun rampal pitching in with intense performance. Huma Querishi is miscast and she just doesn’t fit the role. Irrfan Khan leads the cast with stellar performance. Rishi Kapoor as Dawood just wasnt chilling enough.
Couple of song, specially Alvida and Ek Ghadi are beautiful. Alvida is also shot with soo much sadness it brings tears to ur eyes.

Rating :
***

Iron Man 3

*ing : Robert Downey Jr., Guy Pearce, Gwyneth Paltrow , Ben Kingsley
Director : Shane Black

Tagline : Prepare for a heavy metal!

"Iron Man 3" does what most third entries in movie franchise don't do, turns in a great movie. This holds up very nicely next to the previous 2 installments, and I'd say it's probably better than "Iron Man 2" and about the same as the first movie. Here, Tony Stark(Robert Downey Jr.) is haunted by the events of the Avengers and finds himself obsessing over creating and perfecting new suits. He is constantly trying to figure out new way to protect his lady love Pepper (Gwyneth Paltrow), and make the suits better and better. Then he placed in the cross hairs of a terrorist called the Mandarin (Ben Kingsley). Very unconventional super hero movie, which is great because it's a true breath of fresh air. It's not your typical good guy vs. bad guy movie in a lot of ways. All the performances are great, and it really leaves you with a sense of "how are they gonna do another one?!"
Iron Man is one of my most favorite superhero. He is funny bt when I saw the first promos, I thought they are going to make a dark Iron Man movie and I was really apprenhensive. Bt the film is has enough humor to keep u entertained. And don’t even talk abt action scenes, I was jumping on the seat and my mouth was wide open. Only regret, wish I cud see this movie on IMAX screen.
Anyways, do stay after the credits, it's pretty awesome too..

Rating :
****

Now You See Me

*ing : Jesse Eisenberg, Common, Mark Ruffalo, Morgan Freeman, Michael Caine
Director : Louis Leterrier

I'm not wholly sure why I don't like this film, but I really don't. I think that it tried too hard to be clever, and I clearly didn't 'get it'

There is nothing wrong with the cast, I like them all and there's no one I would single out as having an 'off day' or providing a poor performance. There are many twists and turns in the script, which I would normally approve of but I'm not sure that the lack of a story is the problem. The main story is unnecessarily convoluted with a condescending need to re-cap events and explain how you were misdirected the first time you saw this. When the director keeps showing me something and then saying that wasn't what happened it doesn't take long for me to stop caring about what just happened. The result is a film that's much too long and takes far too long to get to the point so that when the final twist did happen I just didn't care anymore.

I was intrigued by the great trailer for this film, but it over-sells the actual film which was very disappointing.

Rating :
**

Ghanchakkar

*ing : Vidya Balan, Emraan Hashmi
Director : Rajkumar Gupta

Tagline : Remember, Not to forget.



Ghanchakkar is attempt at some dark noir comedy bt the sad part is it doesn’t make you laugh. The film had tremendous potential I must confess. Emraan hashmi, with two others rob a bank and decide to divide money after 3 months. Unfortunately he meets with an accident and looses memory. Now other two are after his life and want to know where money is. Film deliciously plays well where viewers are confused whether hashmi is playing all of them or he has actually lost his memory. Then there is his loud wife played by Vidya Balan who acts mysteriously as if she has a role in all the game. Saddest part is the lame climax where things end rather stupidly and as a viewer u are left exasperated.
Rating :
**

Man of Tai Chi

*ing : Tiger Hu Chen, Keanu Reeves, Karen Mok
Director : Keaunu Reeves

Tagline: No Rules. No Mercy. Pure Fighting

It’s a bad bad film. I saw the trailer and liked the concept bt the film is soo boring and has soo much bad acting its hard not to sleep. Moreover the film is directed by Keanu Reeves, thought he d hv some sensibility and not make such crap movie. The lead hero is sooo boring and soo wooden wish he was killed in the first fight itself. Please don’t go by the promos. Avoid.
Rating :
*