'Dil Bechara' Movie Review

The movie 'Dil Bechara' is adapted from the book 'The Fault in Our Stars' written by John Green. The director of the movie is Mukesh Chhabra. The novel's name comes from the famous quote, "The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves, for we are underlings" (Julius Caesar). It conveys the message that despite the imperfections of our destiny, we can thrive and lead a happy and fulfilling life. It teaches us the value of life, the time we spend with our loved ones, and the value of our feelings.

It is a love story of two lovers who are brought together by a tragic twist. Sushant Singh Rajput acts as Manny who suffered from osteosarcoma and Sanjana Sanghi as Kizie who is suffering from thyroid cancer and has numbered days left to live. Manny enters her life with the image of an irritating person but ultimately with his charms, he makes her fall in love with him. Now she starts to lead a normal life and fulfils her small dreams. What makes the movie memorable is how they both fight for life and take on death as if they were ever prepared. One of her dreams is to meet Abhimanyu Veer- her favorite writer. Manny helps her to fulfil it and they visit Paris to meet him. In the end, Manny dies leaving a heartbroken Kizie who realizes that though they had a limited time with each other, he gave her a forever within the numbered days.

'OMKARA' Movie Review

Othello is a tragic love story written by William Shakespeare and Omkara is the film adaptation of this story directed by Vishal Bhardwaj. The movie is based upon the theme of deep love and the deep belief of loyalty amongst the lovers. We can see the dark side of love in this movie. This movie is set in the backdrop of Uttar Pradesh. Ajay Devgan plays the role of Omkara or Omi (Othello in Shakespeare's 'Othello') who believes that his ladylove Kareena Kapoor as Dolly (Desdemona) is betraying him and so he grows suspicious though she was innocent.

If someone puts a doubt in our mind and we believe them more than our eyes, that tiny piece of doubt cab damage everything. Omkara is the leader of a band of outlaws who work for an MP. His friend and his right hand is Langda Tyagi (Iago). Omkara is chosen to be fielded for an assembly seat and Kesu is chosen as his successor in place of Langda Tyagi. Tyagi gets deeply hurt by this and plans to frame Kesu. He plans a conspiracy. Be fills poison in Omkara's mind that Dolly is having an affair with Kesu. Out of rage, he kills his beloved without clarifying anything. Later, Langda's wife, Indu reveals everything that this all was a plan to defame Kesu and Dolly was innocent but it was too late now. Omkara kills himself out of guilt. The movie is filled with emotions like love, jealousy, possessiveness, betrayal and destruction.

'AISHA' Movie Review

 Directed by Rajshree Ojha, Aisha is a movie based on the book 'Emma' written by Jane Austen. The sub-title is Don't be Cupid! Sonam Kapoor plays the role of Aisha, a young, rich and pretty girl from Delhi. She is unsteady in nature and so her interests keep changing everyday. Her current passion is match making and she starts working on her friend Randhir and a small town girl Shefali. Aisha totally changes Shefali's look and tries to bring them together but love doesn't generally follow the rules and designs. Abhay Deol plays the role of Arjun who is her neighbor, friend as well as his enemy (as he never minds chiding about her faults). She herself is attracted towards Dhruv and in the middle part of the movie, she hurts Arjun, Shefali and Pinky with her silly nature, ego and her attempts to get her own way. But in the end, she realizes her fault and declares her love for Arjun and finally everyone lives happily.

In the movie, we can witness no major hurdles to cross, no parental objections, no major conflicts to solve as it generally happens in most of the love stories. The director has remained faithful to the novel. In today's time, most of the relationships are so complicated but here, the plot is simple and so is the story.

"Kai Po Che" Movie Review

 

"Kai Po Che" is directed by Abhishek Kapoor. It is based on Chetan Bhagat's book titled as "The 3 mistakes of my life." It explores one of the most cherished human relationships i.e. friendship. This social drama explores the life in Gujarat which includes the 2001 devastating earthquake, 2002 Godhra riots between Hindus and Muslims and India- Australia test-series.

It is a story about the lives of three friends who open a cricket shop and training center together. Ram Kumar Yadav as Govind is a thoughtful and a serious person and is business minded who helps in maintaining the accounts. He becomes a maths tutor for Ishaan's sister and later falls in love with her. Sushant Singh Rajput as Ishaan is a short tempered and a gifted cricketer who commits himself to coach young persons. Amit Sadh as Omi is a good natured person whose maternal uncle is a local politician and helps him to set up the shop. They open a sports goods store and a cricket training center in Ahmedabad (their hometown). It is an incredible piece of historical fiction. We can witness the devastation caused in 2001 Gujarat earthquake. They are left without food or shelter. Their shop gets destroyed and they are left in heavy debt. When he is unable to pay the damages and heavy loan, Omi gets involved in his Uncle's party and gets into politics completely. His parents get executed in the communal riots and this is the point where their friendship is tested again. Ishaan discovers a child's talent of cricket and he tries to convince the boy's father to get him trained at the cricket center and nurture his talent.

The end is also tragic where we can see the Godhra riots between Hindus and Muslims where thousands died and it also impacted the life of three friends. This movie covers multiple topics like violence, revenge, forgiveness and politics.

'2 States' movie review

 

It's great to be back after a long time. It's time for a movie review!!

The movie is a bollywood release titled as '2 states' which shows two different cultures of India collaborating to Unity in diversity. This movie is based on Chetan Bhagat's book with the same title. If we talk about the performance of the actors, it was great as they put real efforts to bring the best shots and recorded a real story from a printed book.  The story is told from the male protagonist's point of view. Krish is a boy who is knowledgeable, aware of reality and his ambition and hopes to be a writer someday. He is raised by an overbearing Punjabi mother and an alcoholic father. Ananya is a middle class Tamil Brahmin girl from Chennai who is full of ambition and energy. Arjun Kapoor as Krish and Alia Bhatt as Ananya play as a couple whose romantic story revolves around them smoothly until their parents are introduced to each other.

They decided that they won't get married till they get their parent's consent. They face a tough time in battling with their parents as both are from different cultures and so their thinking doesn't match. Ronit Roy makes a special appearance as Krish's father and makes the climax interesting. There are many sad moments one of which is when they both breakup and stop contacting each other but also can't live without each other. This moment is shot with the song 'Chandaniya'. There are some funny moments too when Ananya attends a wedding and teaches the groom a lesson as the groom and his family demand for dowry. We can also see a blend of two different cultures (Punjabi and South Indian).

The scene I liked the most is when Krish proposes marriage to Ananya and her family with four gold rings saying, "mai ap sab se shadi karna chahta hu" (I want to get married to all of you) and this is the  moment when her family accepts him. In the end, both of them get married and this scene is followed by a song "man mast magan." The shehnai adds the freshness to the song and we can't resist listening to it. The message is clear in the movie that true love knows no boundaries, states, communities and cultures and it has a sole intention that is to bring people together to a time called forever.