Hindi Medium (Movie Rating: 7.5 /10)

Hindi Medium (Movie Rating:7.5/10)

Saba Qamar, as the wife is charming and expressive explosive 💣... with a good script to go. 

Irfaan, though has a muted roles this time round, nevertheless rolls out effortlessly. His magic works like Gogia Pasha... As the cloth merchant from Chandni Chowk, torn between his wife's drag towards English medium schools for their daughter and his affinity for their natural upbringing... 

Social message mantra, woven to expose the education-consultamcy industry's farcical existence, Irfaan does a swell job. 

Most part of the movie is a laugh riot with a preachy end. 

Allusions to schools for the rich and undeserving and overrated and unscrupulous are tessellated all the way. 

Enjoy the bedroom banter betwixt Irfaan and Saba... with AR (algorithm... intended) 

Alien Covenant (Movie Rating:6.5/10)

Alien Covenant (Movie Rating:6.5/10)

Fassbender wrenching with creation, albeit the *wanna-cry-try-to-be-God* part seemed unconvincing. Spaceship life, travails of intergalactic hibernation and the quintessential chain of command ripped off with casualties. 

The alien 👽 seemed less evil than the ~Synthetic~ experimenter. 

Lowbrow if you've seen Prometheus. The internalised dialogues between creator and created eat up screen time, with less of Alien 👽 breeding fiction,  which was the USP of Prometheus. The intelligence of the creatures remains unsung. 

Average fare with an unconvincing end,  tailored for a sequel. Callie Hernandez, the only pretty face. Rest of the cast looks ghoulish. 

King Arthur: Legend of the Sword (Movie Rating: 8.0/10)

King Arthur: Legend of the Sword  (Movie Rating:8.0/10)

Camelot before King Arthur and Merlins' gift of the Excalibur... right upto the carving of the Table of the Knights. 

Jude Law as the evil king exudes charm in his shining armour.. and as the fire villain.... 

Charlie Hunan, grows on you as Arthur, the King to be, resisting the Excalibur initially. Welding it very well then. 

The depiction of Camelot, fights, archers, gigantic animals and octopus ladies... is  lacustrine, and embodies Inverness Lochness... 

This period film is every bit authentic and brilliant in its cut. Screenplay remains etched post credits. Eric Bana,  David Beckham and many more are seen. The magical Excalibur enchants.. 

Sarkar 3 (Movie Rating:6.0/10)

Sarkar 3  (Movie Rating:6.0/10)

Power pack of Big B is palpable from the opening scene unto the close. His eyes 👀 have their own vocabulary.... And it's unmistakably unambiguous. 

Yami G unglamorous with a negative role is wasted. Ronit Roy and Manoj B have a short yet meaningful part. 

The powerplay unfolds every minute of Sarkar 3. It's meant to keep you chewing nails on who will survive and be the next power broker. 

Jackie Dada does it well, albeit tad bit too much of botox and collagen...

The Sadh, character is irritable and definitely a bad selection. 

The music and song over Ganapati sung by Bacchan gives goosebumps. 

Very slow pace and too serious for entertainment. There are no comic relief moments either. Wish they'd balanced it better 

Meri Pyaari Bindu (Rating: 7.0/10)

Meri Pyaari Bindu (Movie Rating: 7.0 /10)

Ambiguous storyline, wrenching your emotions squeezed to dry cry glands. 

AyushmanK is gloved in performance, shrouded in his bearded visage, with above average fare. 

Kolkata and Baabu Moshai are palpable and beautifully. Song and dance are catchy with that zing... 

Parineeti... what screen presence. She dwarfs AyushKhurr like DivyaBharti did ShahrukhKhan and many others heroes. 

Parineeti has that WestEnd Swagger with a smile paralleled only by icons like Madhubala-Madhuri. Joy, disappointment, infatuation,  love and hatred - she emotes them masterfully. 

The rendition of the plot is a bit ambiguous, leaving you vacillating until the end on whether it's a happy ending...

She leaves him and goes away to Australia.... Only to come back.. And go away again and.... 

'Maana ke hum yaar nahin... '