12th Fail #PicksAndPiques #JohnsonThomas

#PicksAndPiques #JohnsonThomas #internationalfilmfestivalcircuit #FilmMovieDocumentaryOTTReviews Film: #12thfail #SpicePR #SpiceBhasha Cast: #VikrantMassey #PalakLalwani #MedhaShankar #SukumarTudu #SanjayBishnoi #PriyanshuChatterjee Director: #VidhuVinodChopra Rating: * * * Runtime: 147 mins #everyone #everybody @everyone @everybody #VinodChopraFilms #ZeeStudios

A ‘Tarrific’ #VikrantMassey takes #VidhuVinodChopra’s long-winding but sensitive directorial effort, based on #AnuragPathak’s novel, to emphatic new heights! His performance has nuance, myriad expressions and layers that keep you gripped throughout. Trust Vidhu Vinod Chopra to get back into auteur groove with this story that goes from the deepest depths of the Chambal to the venerated, glorious and rarefied heights of Indian Public Service!

Sajini Shinde Ka Viral Video #PicksAndPiques #JohnsonThomas

#PicksAndPiques #JohnsonThomas #internationalfilmfestivalcircuit #FilmMovieDocumentaryOTTReviews Film: #SajiniShindeKaViralVideo Cast: #NimratKaur #RadhikaMadan #Bhagyashree #SumeetVyas #SohamMajumdar #SubodhBhave #ShrutiVyas #RashmiAgdekar #LeenaSharma Director: #MikhilMusale Rating: * * Runtime: 114 mins #everyone #everybody @everyone @everybody #HYPEPR #MaddockFilms #DineshVijan

‘No one wants to die. They only want to kill the pain’ -Making a mystery out of travesty, this film hyper-ventilates in 307/309 zone as it tries to find the whereabouts of Sajini. The set-up and dialogues sound alien, the narrative feels misrepresented, the twists and turns appear contrived and forced, the zealous lady cop’s efforts seem out-of-place and the end-play comes across as rather tame and mystifying after all that brouhaha.Not quite the ‘Happy Teachers Day’ scenario we envisioned. It’s great to see #NimratKaur in a badass cop role on screen, though!

Tejas #PicksAndPiques #JohnsonThomas

#PicksAndPiques #JohnsonThomas #internationalfilmfestivalcircuit #FilmMovieDocumentaryOTTReviews Film: #Tejas #SpicePR #SpiceBhasha #RSVPFilms Cast: #KanganaRanaut #AnshulChauhan #VeenahNaair #VarunMitra #RohedKhan Director/Writer: #SarveshMewara Rating: * Runtime: 118 mins #Everyone #Everybody @everyone @everybody #RonnieScrewala

This film tries to fly high on #KanganaRanaut’s persona of a brash, cavalier, fake pop-patriot given to daring, jingoistic, disconnected verbosity, tedious sermonising and faux valor aided by tacky VFX and immature helming and inevitably, it crashes and burns in a bonfire of all her vanities. Do we even dare to wonder why our nation is under threat???

Yaariyaan 2 #PicksAndPiques #JohnsonThomas

#PicksAndPiques #JohnsonThomas #FilmMovieDocumentaryOTTReviews #internationalfilmfestivalcircuit Film: #Yaariyaan2 #CommuniquePR #DivyaKhoslaKumar #YashDaasgupta #PearlVPuri #AnaswaraRajan #MeezaanJafri #PriyaWarrier Director: #RadhikaRao #VinaySapru Rating: * * Runtime: 160 mins #everyone @everyone #everybody @everybody

This friendship/bonding story between cousins fails to make it to entertaining. The actors lack presence and the direction is too wayward to curry favor. Even the music doesn’t have the same attachment as the first!

Maujaan Hi Maujaan (#Punjabi with #English Subtitles) #PicksAndPiques #JohnsonThomas

#PicksAndPiques #JohnsonThomas #FilmMovieDocumentaryOTTReviews #internationalfilmfestivalcircuit Film: #MaujaanHiMaujaan (#Punjabi with #English Subtitles) Cast: #GippyGrewal #BinnuDhillon #KaramjitAnmol #TanuGrewal #JimmySharma #HashneenChauhan #YograjSingh #NasirChinyoti #BNSharma Director: #SmeepKang Rating: * * 1/2 Runtime: 110 mins #1HMedia @everyone @everybody #everyone #everybody #OilPicturesLtd #RribadaFilms #SRRPictures #AmarinderGrewal

A silly, rather stupid comedy that makes disabilities the butt of its jokes with loud, exaggerated fervor and overdone performances. This one’s funny enough. It’s also colorful, has a candy colored palette and a bearable runtime.

Ghost Kannada film with English Subtitles #PicksAndPiques #JohnsonThomas

#PicksAndPiques #JohnsonThomas #FilmMovieDocumentaryOTTReviews #internationalfilmfestivalcircuit Film: #Ghost (#Kannada film dubbed in Hindi) Cast: #ShivaRajkumar #AnupamKher #PrashantNarayanan #MGSrinivas #Jayaram #ArchanaJois Director: #MGSrinivas Rating: * 1/2 Runtime:110 mins #CommuniquePR @everyone @everybody #everyone #everybody

A stiff #Jayaram, Shadowy #ShivaRajkumar, MIB aping #AnupamKher in a Scrambled narrative about a heist from jail, with loud, showy, unbelievable, sloppy action and confused dubbing make this production prime for a drubbing at the Box Office.

Sultan of Delhi #PicksAndPiques #JohnsonThomas

#PicksAndPiques #JohnsonThomas #internationalfilmfestivalcircuit #FilmMovieDocumentaryOTTReviews Title: #SultanOfDelhi (9 eps/35-45 mins each) Cast: #TahirRajBhasin #MouniRoy #AnjummShharma #VinayPathak #NishantDahiya #AnupriyaGoenka #HarleenSethi #MehreenPirzada Directors: #MilanLuthria #SuparnSVerma Rating: * * #DisneyHotstar #HotstarSpecials #Dreamers&Doers #RelianceEntertainment #ThinkinkCommunications @everybody #everybody #Everyone @everyone

This Gangster drama series set against the backdrop of the 60’s era, comes at a time when we are up to our ears in gangster dramas. It’s definitely not the worst but it tends to go through the same rigmarole we’ve seen before. Save for the cast, the rest is passe. Based on a book by #ArnabRay, there’s not much intensity, pace or gritty realism to be had here. Feels like a 70’s hindi film in sepia tones minus the entertainment value!

Guthlee Ladoo #PicksAndPiques #JohnsonThomas

Guthlee Ladoo #PicksAndPiques #JohnsonThomas Guthlee Ladoo #PicksAndPiques #JohnsonThomas #PicksAndPiques #JohnsonThomas #FilmMovieDocumentaryReviews #internationalfilmfestivalcircuit Title : #GuthleeLadoo Cast: #SanjayMishra #DhanaySeth #SubratDutta #KalyaneeMulay #HeetSharma Director: #IshratRKhan Rating: * * 1/2#GuthleeLadoo Runtime: 104 mins #AltairMedia #AshwaniShukla #everyone @everyone #everybody @everybody

It’s an antiquated story about caste oppression and denial of education to manual scavengers’ children and not without flaws, but the performances by kids #DhanaySeth, #HeetSharma, parents #SubratDutta, #KalyaneeMulay and sure-footed helming by #IshratRKhan makes this gritty empathetic outpouring against unfair discrimination worth a watch!

Loki Season 2 #PicksAndPiques #JohnsonThomas

#PicksAndPiques #JohnsonThomas #FilmMovieDocumentaryReviews #internationalfilmfestivalcircuit Title: #LokiSeason2 (2 out of 6 episodes/35-40 mins each) Cast: #TomHiddleston #OwenWilson #SophiaDiMartino #WunmiMosaku #EugeneCordero #KeHuyQuan #RafaelCasal #GuguMbathaRaw #TaraStrong #JonathanMajors #KateDickie #LizCarr #NeilEllice Director: #DanDeleeuw Rating: * * 1/2 @everyone #everyone @everybody #everybody #DisneyHotstar #LokiS2onHotstar #ThinkinkCommunications #RuderFinnIndia

Season 1 was intriguing but Season 2, the 2 episodes so far, have not really picked up the pace. There doesn’t seem to be much of a mystery going on either. Kang as the villain is so wishy-washy that there’s no drama to be had. Loki’s magic also appears to have lost its charm. I am sure there’s a lot more coming in the future episode releases but so far it's been a case of taking it forward rather plainly!

Hum Tumhein Chahte Hain #PicksAndPiques #JohnsonThomas

#PicksAndPiques #JohnsonThomas #internationalfilmfestivalcircuit #FilmMovieDocumentaryOTTReviews Title: #HumTumheinChahteHain Cast: #JanmejayaSingh #RituparnaSengupta #GovindNamdev #AnupJalota #RajpalYadav #ZakirHussain #AnusmritiSarkar #ArunBakshi #SurendraPal #TinaaGhaai #AnilNagrath #KaushalShah #SangeetaSingh #HiteshSampal Music: #BappiLahiri, #RemaLahiri #BappaBLahiri, Directed: #RajannLyallppuri Rating: * Producers: #GovindBansal #RemaLahiri #SRGFilmsInternational #ParulChawla #PictureNKraft @everyone #everyone @everybody #everybody

A biographical drama, old-fashioned love triangle tragedy this one lacks craft, has a storyline that is stale and unappealing and actors that just don’t register their presence on screen.An easily forgettable experience this !

I Killed Bapu #PicksAndPiques #JohnsonThomas

#PicksAndPiques #JohnsonThomas #FilmMovieDocumentaryReviews #internationalfilmfestivalcircuit Film: #IKilledBapu Cast: #SameerDeshpande #RajeshKhatri #AkshayVerma #NageshMishra #ZaffarKazmi #MukeshKapani Director #HyderKazmi Rating: * Producer #SarlaASaraogi & #RahulSharma Legal Advisor #AshokSaraogi Writer- #AdeshKArjun #VikasProduction #ParulChawla #PictureNKraft #SanjayBhushanPatiyala #HungamaMedia

This film that claims to present convicted murderer #NathuramGodse’s point of view is an insult to our collective intelligence. Consisting of long-drawn courtroom monologues the film which openly sympathises with the felon’s point of view is a tedious bore. The writing lacks basic logic and the understanding of history and context is sorely missing.

Dono #PicksAndPiques #JohnsonThomas

#PicksAndPiques #JohnsonThomas #FilmMovieDocumentaryReviews #internationalfilmfestivalcircuit Film: #Dono Cast: #RajveerDeol #PalomaDhillon #KanikkaKapur Director: #AvnishBarjatya Rating: * * Runtime: 156 mins

The #GenNowRajshriScion goes #oldschool in his attempt to keep the #weddingVideoCinemaFamilyTradition going. It’s tiresome and futile even with some fairly good music and performances - save for #RajveerDeol who gets his expressions right but fails in dialogue delivery badly. Don’t know why the Deols or the Barjatyas did not think it necessary to get him some voice training? #communiquePR #RajshriPictures #SoorajBarjatya #SunnyDeol #everyone @everyone #everybody @everybody

Thank You For Coming #PicksAndPiques #JohnsonThomas

#PicksAndPiques #JohnsonThomas #FilmMovieDocumentaryReviews #internationalfilmfestivalcircuit Film: #ThankYouForComing (#SpicePR) Cast: #BhumiPednekar #ShehnaazGill #ShibaniBedi #DollySingh #KushaKapila #DollyAhluwalia #SushantDigvikar #AnilKapoor #PradhumanSingh #NatashaRastogi Director: #KaranBoolani Rating: * * Runtime: 118 mins

Raunchy, crass, extremely crude, smutty and punny sex comedy where Kandu Kanika goes bedding men in search of the big ‘O.’ It’s totally illogical, irreverent and distasteful - neither funny nor likeable! With Bhumi’s unflattering close-ups staring you in the face, you’ll find it difficult to think of this as an amiable exercise in female sexual liberation. Even the redux version of #SunitaRao’s iconic #PariHoonMain can’t save this film from a drubbing at the Box Office! #everyone @everyone #everybody @everybody #SpiceBhasha #EktaaKapoor #RheaKapoor #AnilKapoorFilms #BalajiTelefilmsLtd

Mission Raniganj The Great Bharat Rescue #PicksAndPiques #JohnsonThomas

#PicksAndPiques #JohnsonThomas #FilmMovieDocumentaryReviews #internationalfilmfestivalcircuit Film: #MissionRaniganjTheGreatBharatRescue Cast: #AkshayKumar #RaviKishan #KumudMishra #ParineetiChopra #DibyenduBhattacharya #PawanMalhotra #RajeshSharma Director: #TinuSureshDesai Rating: * * 1/2 Runtime: 138 mins

Despite over-stating the obvious, this filmed version of a dramatic true story of an evacuation from a collapsed underground mine, delivers some fair moments of entreaty. There’s no subtlety here - just gung-ho heroics and hyperventilating emotions on display. More Melodramatic than thrilling, this one might have found an audience if the producers had made a sincere effort in promoting the film! #SpicePR #SpiceBhasha #everyone @everyone #everybody @everybody

Mark Antony #PicksAndPiques #JohnsonThomas

#PicksAndPiques #JohnsonThomas #FilmMovieDocumentaryReviews #OTTFilmReviews #InternationalFilmFestivalCircuit Film: #MarkAntony (#ReliancePictures) Cast: #Vishal #SJSuryah #AbhinayaVedhavalli #RituVarma Director: #AdhikRavichandran Rating: * * Runtime: 120 mins #AyngaranInternational #everyone #everybody @everyone @everybody

Antiquated quirkiness buffooning around as a 70’s south- styled masala potboiler, this film has elements that can be laughed at but it’s a little hard to appreciate something that is so tacky and unaccomplished in structure and design. Toonish performances add to the misery here.

Fukr3y #PicksAndPiques #JohnsonThomas

#PicksAndPiques #JohnsonThomas #FilmMovieDocumentaryReviews #OTTFilmReviews #InternationalFilmFestivalCircuit Film: #Fukrey3 #SpicePR #SpiceBhasha Cast: #PankajTripathi #PulkitSamrat #RichaChadha #VarunSharma #ManjotSingh Director: #MrighdeepSinghLamba Writer: #VipulVij Rating: * * Runtime:147 mins #FarhanAkhtar #RteshSidhwani #ExcelEntertainment @everyone @everybody #everyone #everybody

Distasteful, tasteless, irksome antics gets passed off as slapstick comedy in this threequel that plays out like a humourless comic strip and eventually comes unhinged in its attempts to score laughs. #VarunSharma gets tiresome, #PulkitSamrat continues to ‘pout’ nonsense, #RichaChadha and #ManjotSingh are bearable while #PankajTripathi is the only one who shores up the narrative with some wily timing and wit.

The Vaccine War #PicksAndPiques #JohnsonThomas #FilmMovieDocumentaryReview

#PicksAndPiques #JohnsonThomas #FilmMovieDocumentaryReviews #OTTFilmReviews #InternationalFilmFestivalCircuit Film: #TheVaccineWar Cast: #NanaPatekar #PallaviJoshi #RaimaSen #GirijaOak #NiveditaBhattacharya #AnupamKher #MohanKapur Director: #VivekAgnihotri Rating: * Runtime: 160 mins @everyone @everybody #everyone #everybody #SpicePR #SpiceBhasha

This film supposedly based on the book by Prof #BalramBharghava of #ICMR is more interested in tom-tomming highly questionable Govt efforts than in praising the Medical professionals and researchers involved in preparing the indigenous #CovidVaccine. What else can one expect from the chief propagandist of the current Govt? It’s a long-drawn saffron wash all the way through and there’s no hiding away from the straightforward anti-media, pro-govt bias depicted here.

Tum Se Na Ho Payega #PicksAndPiques #JohnsonThomas #OTTFilmReviews

#PicksAndPiques #JohnsonThomas #FilmMovieDocumentaryReviews #OTTFilmReviews #InternationalFilmFestivalCircuit Film: #TumSeNaHoPayega (#DisneyHotstar) Cast: #IshwakSingh #MahimaMakwana #GauravPandey #AmalaAkkineni #GurpreetSaini #ParmeetSethi #MeghnaMalik Director: #AbhishekSinha Writer: #NiteshTiwari Rating: * * 1/2 Runtime: 120 mins #StarStudios #RSVP #RoyKapurFilms #EarthskyPicturesProduction @everyone @everybody #everyone #everybody #ThinkinkCommunications

This feel-good light-hearted piffling comedy has a message for aspirational youth. With competent, likeable performances from its lead actors #IshwakSingh and #GauravPandey this film manages to make its conflict regarding challenges (career and love life ) youngsters face today, worthy, but the ‘Business’ end is a little flaky and simplistic. Worth watching for its amiable approach