SKTKS Review: Entertaining and Engaging!

'Sonu Ki Titu Ki Sweety' is this week's release and has 'Pyaar Ka Punchnama' cast of Nushrat Bharucha, Kartik Aaryan, Sunny Singh in the leads and revolves around an 'upgraded' idea that marriages in India are not only between 2 families but also best friends.

                               

Kartik Aaryan as the saviour Sonu is the rightful show stealer. His accent, panache and his chemistry with Sunny Singh aka Titu is excellent and better than Titu's with his fiance Sweety played by Nushrat Bharucha. She plays her part well which is more or less an 'upgrade' from the PKP series. The man in question, Sunny Singh aka Titu, gives an honest performance. His performance could've been better. Alok Nath as Ghasite, Virender Saxena as Lalu and Ishita Sharma as Pihu are excellent beyond words. Their comic timings are brilliant and ensure that you run out of breath due to laughter.

                

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Scripted and directed by Luv Ranjan, SKTKS is breezy. His writing coupled with dialogues make for an entertaining watch. The only drawback here is that the director runs out of ideas to carry forward the story post interval due to which the plot seems to be repetitive. But the dialogues keep you engaged and entertain you despite a repetitive script. Like a lead character mentions, " Too Good to be True waala scene hai, Kuch Toh Gadbad hai!", this line sums up it all. The music is excellent and 'Chote Chote Peg' and 'Tera Yaar Hoon' are personal favorites.

                                       

With everything said, SKTKS is engaging, sexist yet funny and should be your watch if you looking some fun. The background of a Punjabi wedding only makes the movie more colorful and enjoyable to watch. I rate the movie with 3.5 stars! Go watch it for pure fun.

                                        

Aiyaary Review: This 'Aiyaary' of the makers did not suit audience!

Aiyaary means 'Treachery'. 'A Wednesday' director Neeraj Pandey helms this venture his shapeshifting has cost him a well-intentioned film named  'Aiyaary' and he, Siddharth Malhotra and a sub-plotted story are responsible for it.

                         

                               

How can a director after working with actors like Akshay Kumar, Rana Daggubatti, Taapsee Pannu resolve to work with Siddharth Malhotra as the lead protagonist? He is such an expressionless actor that he fails to justice to Major Jai Bakshi.The only plus point he has is that he looks like a soldier. He also 'Lae Dooba' his chemistry with Rakul Preet aka Sonia, who practically had no role in the movie. It was only Manoj Bajpayee, Kumud Mishra and Naseeruddin Shah out of the ensemble cast who pulled this movie. Seasoned actors like Adil Hussain, Anupam Kher, Pooja Chopra, Vikram Gokhale have merely reduced caricatures and have been wasted.

                                   

It is hard to believe that the same person who directed 'A Wednesday', 'Baby', 'Special 26', has directed this movie. A Very Well Intentioned Story is let down by subplots, certain unnecessary scenes, choppy editing and an overloud background score but manages to deliver its message due to an uplifting second half after a sluggish first half. The movie is unnecessarily long and stretched. The climax is impressive and manages to leave a mark in an otherwise average movie.

                                     

'Aiyaary' is a movie that delivers its message after a bumpy ride of 157 minutes. I am going with 2.5 stars for the movie. Had Neeraj Pandey substituted Siddharth Malhotra, 'Aiyaary' could've been saved from the problem it is!Another 0.5 stars to the movie for its amazing message! 3 stars in total! With God's grace the movie didn't clash with Padman/Padmaavat else it would have been thrashed badly but it won't make much of difference. Lifetime should wrap under 40-45 crores!

                                       

P.S. I've been liberal in rating it 3 stars! But 'Aiyaary' should only be watched for its message!

Padman Review: Ye Superhero Pagla Hai! Period.

Talking about Taboo topics are finally coming in fashion to Bollywood! Padman focuses on the life of a social activist Arunachalam who invented low-cost sanitary napkins for women. The movie does deliver its message but sadly misses the emotional rooting that could have been possible.

                              

As depicted in this poster, Radhika Apte leads the cast as Gayatri, Lakshmi's wife. Her emotions, acting are all on point. Akshay Kumar as Lakshmi is delightful to watch but sometimes misses the skin of his character.  The rest of the cast do an outstanding role in their parts. With such amazing performances, there was Sonam Kapoor's performance as Pari that was pathetic and bashed up the movie in the acting department. Her performance can easily go down as One of the worst performances of the year already. Even her costume, make-up was equally disappointing as her performance.

                                                 

                                            

Director R.Balki does a fine job behind the camera. The movie suffers in the second half due to lazy writing and 'forced' sub-plots ruin it. The dialogues(except a few) are cringeworthy and this 150-minute movie could have been better if there was some tighter editing but DOP stands out. The city of Maheshwar was captured very well and the music by Amit Trivedi was disappointing. Perhaps "Hu Ba Hu" was the only song that I could take back. The technicalities made Padman a flawed film but certainly enjoyable because of its overall feel.

                                         

With everything said and done, Padman is a movie that cannot bring about a change but has the potential to start a conversation about menstrual health. I am rating the movie 3.5 stars perhaps due to the direction, performances, DOP and the subject. An enjoyable affair! Can be your watch this weekend. The collection of this movie will stand about 85-90 crores lifetime. Above Average!

                                        

P.S. The movie inspires you to do something better with your life.