The Bollywood Elephant

The controversial movie, 'The Accidental Prime Minister' has finally hit the theatres and has Anupam Kher, Akshaye Khanna, Suzzane Bernet, Vipin Sharma, Arjun Mathur essaying major roles in the movie. It is based on the book by Sanjay Baru of the same name.                                                                   Anupam Kher as the accidental prime minister, Manmohan Singh is quite underwhelming and it seems as if he is more into mimicking the former prime minister and it often turns out to be amusing than interesting. Akshaye Khanna as the media advisor Baru is absolutely fabulous and tries his best to lift an otherwise a relatively poor film. Divya Seth, Suzzane Bernet, Arjun Mathur make an appearance and do a good job.                                               Based on Baru's book, the movie had all the right ingredients to be a taut political thriller but is reduced to being a snoozefest documentary thanks to debutant director's Vijay

'Uri:  The Surgical Strike' is based on the covert operation carried out by the Indian army in  Pakistan occupied Kashmir, in retaliation of the Uri attacks in 2016. The movie is directed by the debutant Aditya Dhar and has Vicky Kaushal, taking the command of this war film.                                                                                                               After acing in roles from Raazi, Mamnarziyaan, Vicky Kaushal yet again proves his versatility as Major Vihaan Shergill. He portrays the role to perfection and takes the film to another level. Actors Kirti Kulhari, Rajit Kapoor, Swaroop Sampat, Paresh Rawal, Yami Gautam, Mohit Raina, Mansi Parekh etc. make an appearance and do a brilliant job in their respective roles. A special mention to Mohit Raina's Major Karan Sharma that left a huge impact and he did a great job in his debut.                                          If a viewer knows about the end of the movie, it is entir