#Picks&Piques/SnippetFilmReviews/JohnsonThomas26Sept2014

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#CharfutiyaChhokare(Hindi) Rating: * * Being serious about nothing. Noble intentions but confounding logic and inconsistent continuity. There’s no tension or narrative currency to be had. #SohaAliKhan #SeemaBiswas #MukeshTiwari, #ZakirHussain #ManishHarishankar #NR2media



#MeinuEkLadkiChahiye(Hindi)Rating: * The most irascible film experience ever. Wayward, clueless narration make this fake-rape story seem like a herculean puzzle that’s impossible to put together. #AshwaniShukla #RaghubirYadav #AltairMedia #BVMFilms #AbhishekBindal



#3am(hindi) Rating:* * A horror film- Paranormal Activity wannabe, had a decent enough idea to begin with but the  unintentionally funny moments and illogical shifts into fantasy romance flashbacks puts paid to any tension or fear.Amateurish scares spell doom too #SpicePR #RanvijaySingh #AninditaNayyar #SalilAcharya #KavinDave #VishalSMahadkar #SiddharthAtha  #NittinKeni #RichardDeVarda


#DesiKattay(Hindi) Rating: *  * Two childhood friends end up as gunrunners for politicians before each finds his own calling. From #Sholay to #GangaJamuna the plot thickens with influences & even attempts to do a #MaryKom in a sharp-shooting sport but the slack telling and the stupid treatment render it unexciting. #SuneilShetty #JayBhanushali #AnandKumar #AkhilKapur #SashaAgha #TiaBajpai #VijayGrover




#BalwinderSinghFamousHoGaya(Hindi)Rating: * ½  Shaan and Mika double up as Balwinder Singh, but it’s not funny. The sight gags, the ponderous wooing and the infantile treatment make it all so tedious and unappetizing.  #SunilAgnihotri #1HMedia #Mika #Shaan #RajpalYadav #VindooDaraSingh #Tips  #GabrielaBertante #AnupamKher


#TwoNightStand(English) Rating: * * Boring romance starved of imagination and completely unoriginal. #PVRFilms #MilesTeller #AnaleighTipton #JessicaSzohr #ScottMescudi #LevenRambin #MaxNichols

#DeliverUsFromEvil(English) Rating:* * Yet another salvo at the horror genre with plenty of religious motifs and pedestrian efforts to scare. A cop and a priest team up on a case of demonic possession.#TheConjuring it is not! #EricBana #EdgarRamÃrez #OliviaMunn #SeanHarris #JoelMcHale #ScottDerrickson

#BawrePremHe(Marathi) Rating: * * * A romance with a difference,set in Goa. Maturely handled with a point of view that stays steadfast throughout. Amiable performances and stupendously harmonizing live recorded music, hauntingly melodious in effect add strong ambience to the overall affect. #SiddharthChandekar #UrmilaKanetkarKothare #AjayKishoreNaik #TrioEntertainments #MaitriProductions #ShivtaraEntertainmentProductions #NileshSingh #NimeshRameshDesai #VirendraNarhariChavan #KishoreNaik #JaideepYole #CineshoreMedia


#Rakhandar(Marathi) Rating: *  * A mediocre attempt to get the ‘#LayBhaari’ effect at the Box-office, this one tries to invoke #Vithoba accompanied by all the filmy trappings, to do the trick. ingratiating songs notwithstanding,the piecemeal plotting and the disconnected treatment make the going less than illuminating. #AjinkyaDeo #JitendraJoshi #AnujaSatheGokhle  #YateenKaryekar #AnnuupChoudhari #MrunalinniPatil #CineshoreMedia

#Tapaal(Marathi) Rating: * * * ½  Internationally feted, Heart-touching story of a little boy & a childless couple who adopt him and the endless  social discrimination/ostracisation they face in their small village. #MaitreyaMassMedia #PickleEntertainment #NanduMadhav #VeenaJamkar #MilindGunaji #UrmilaKanetkarKothare #RohitUtekar #LaxmanUtekar #Media1PR #GaneshGargote

#PorBazaar, Indian Marathi Film Movie review, Johnson Thomas, Rating: * * 1/2

#PorBazaar, Indian Marathi Film Movie review, Johnson Thomas, Rating: * * 1/2

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#PorBazaar(Marathi)  Rating:* * ½ Interestingly told youthful social drama with a message against girl trafficking. The performances and narration are competent enough but the lack of strong convincing punch belittles the enjoyment!
Interestingly treated but not powerful enough.A youth friendly film, this one dares to make the youth of today aware of a social evil- kidnapping and trafficking of girls. And it’s the youth who break this ring. Interestingly told but it doesn’t pack enough punch! #ManavaNaik #AnkushChaudhary #ARDProductions #SaiTamhane #CineshoreMedia



Marathi film review
Johnson Thomas

Well intentioned but not completely effective

Film: Por Bazaar
Director: Manava Naik


Rating: *  * ½


Well known Marathi actress Manava Naik makes her directorial debut with this well-intentioned cautionary tale about carefree youngsters who stumble into an underground child trafficking network.


A film peddling social evil needs a strong voice to give it validity and Manava’s use of Farhan Akhtar in a valuable guest appearance gives the film a certain strength. Unfortunately, the treatment is a little too unaffecting and embroiled in unnecessary youthful small talk to amount to much. The youngsters inhabiting this canvas are smart and likeable and give a good solid account of themselves. The elements meant to please the gallery were totally unnecessary. Sai Tamhane as the lecturer who is doing a dissertation on dysfunctions in urban youth behavior , is appealing enough. On the whole the film is a pleasant engagement- not a fruitful one though!
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