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G20 movie review

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There are these set of Hollywood movies that are jingoistic in nature. They show a situation where a set of people from around the world are either captured or attacked by aliens or terrorist groups, and how the protagonist from America saves the day. Independence Day and its poorly made sequel , Air Force One , White House Down , Olympus Has Fallen , London Has Fallen are the movies that come to mind when talking about jingoistic movies where America saves the day. G20 is another movie of this formula. The heads of the G20 are captured by a villain whose intentions are unclear and are all over the place, and Viola Davis, who plays a black American woman president saves the day. Add to this the fact that there is a lot of focus on diversity where women are shown to be much stronger and smarter than the men, the white British Prime Minister is shown as a caricature of a combination of Donald Trump and Boris Johnson, a Latino guy, a black man, and a black woman are shown to be the mai...
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Maharaja

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It was 2a.m. in the morning on June 21, 2024. The wife and child had gone to sleep, and it was decision time for me. "Should I go to sleep, or should I watch something?", was the question on my mind. I seldom get a 2 hour window where I can watch a movie uninterrupted at home, and I decided to go for it. As I opened Netflix, I saw that the top movie on the platform was Maharaja . For the previous couple of days before, I saw the enormous amounts of praise this movie was getting online.  It also got recommended by a friend who was a movie maker, and her opinions on movies is something I admire a lot. This was the movie I was going to watch. The movie begins with a tragedy that no family should go through. There however is a a ray of hope that makes the viewer root for the protagonist and his child. What happens next seem to be a series of unrelated events that leave the viewer confused with the direction the movie is taking. This confusion is further compounded by the non-line...
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Tiger Nageswara Rao

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  This movie is a complete mess, a mess so bad that it seems like it was made in two parts. The first part seems to have been directed by some dude who wanted to show the protagonist as Arjun Reddy on steroids. Think of every terrible thing a man can do, cutting off the head of his father to prevent him from being recognized and the trail leading to the capture of their gang, drinking donkey blood as they believe that it will give them amazing stamina and speed to get away from cops, kicking ladies in the stomach, getting aroused by every woman he sees and wanting to bed them, and then letting go of them after the act, to the extent of him being asked by a woman about why he does not come around to her establishment, and he says, "I do not like eating again that I have already tasted". After about half the movie was shot, the dude whose responsibility was to direct the second half looked at what the dude in the first half did, scratched his head at the mess that was created, ...
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Yuddham Sharanam

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  The last time I watched bad acting in a movie was in Spy . That movie was a car crash with no forgettable action, terrible actors, poor direction and screenplay, terrible direction, and an awful story. Yudham Sharanam had a couple of things going for it though. Some of the supporting cast are some of the best in the industry, and the story had potential. Those are the only good things about the movie. Everything else was poor. While the main story began well and had some intrigue and suspense, more focus was put into the story of the family and the unnecessary love story between the leads  This gave very little time to tie in the flow of the story, and the eventual reveal of the suspense falls flat. The biggest reason why the movie does not do well is because of the male protagonist's inability to act. Everything from his expressions to his dialogue delivery, dancing in songs, and inability to do good fight sequences seems to have lead the movie makers to put more effort in...
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Bhagavanth Kesari movie review

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  It was a confusing movie where the story did not make any sense. The primary reason was that there was just too much that was happening and none of it added up well. It was as if the script was written on the fly as the movie was being shot. The first 5 minutes of the movie where a high court judge goes into hiding and the story of the protagonist is told has absolutely nothing in relation to the other parts of the story. Was it a story of revenge where the protagonist seeks the head of the villain who had decimated his village? Or was it a story of women empowerment where the protagonist intends to empower a young girl into realizing her potential? If the revenge story was the mail plot, it was a standard revenge plot with some unnecessary women empowerment thrown in at the end. If it was the latter, it was painful to watch. As with most movies that talk about mental issues, Sreeleela's character has a random mental sickness that begins after the sudden passing of her father, an...
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Dhamaka movie review

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Utter waste of time this movie is. There are no redeeming qualities in it. The story is stupid, the songs are unmemorable, the performances are nothing to write home about. It is a complete waste of time.
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Mission Majnu movie review

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This movie is about the events leading up to a dark time for RAW, the Indian intelligence agency which had established a strong and credible network of agents and spies in Pakistan, which was able to gain sufficient evidence about Pakistan's attempts to make a nuclear weapon in the late 1970s, only for it to come crashing down as the then prime minister Morarji Desai informed Zia ul Haq about how the nation's spies had credible information about Pakistan's nuclear programme. This lead to a complete crack down of Indian agents and spies in Pakistan, an event that took the Indian agencies decades to get over. Siddharth Malhotra plays the role of one of the spies in Pakistan who is tasked with finding out the location of Pakistan's nuclear programme. He has a backstory where he is the son of an ex Indian officer who killed himself as he had committed treason. This angle is never explored nor explained in the movie, and the only significance it has is when the protagonist w...
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