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Wazir -Movie Review !! 

Wazir- A brave ATS officer (Farhan Akhtar) and a disabled grandmaster (Amitabh Bachchan) face a mysterious and dangerous opponent (Neil Nitin Mukesh).
The film Opens with Danish (Farhan Akthar)and Ruhi (Aditi Rao hydari) driving to the market in Delhi with their only child busy playing on the phone ,when Danish spots a car with a terror group and calls his co-team member and follows the terrorist while chasing the car and once they reach in site and start firing each other,Danish (Farhan Akthar ) realises his child is quite and bleeding,but as they reach the hospital she is declared dead Now the movie actually begins.The story begins moving in the first 15 minutes itself,and using the incident described earlier as a prologue for the story.Amitab Bachan the protagonist of the story is introduced just when you think about where is the game of chess coming? The Movie about just 103 minutes (1Hr43Min)moves fast enough for you to wonder what will happen next ? a thriller based on an Original Story by Vidhu Vinod Chopra,also the Producer of the movie gave an opportunity to Bejoy Nambiar the Director,who many thought debuted with Wazir,but in fact has made two movies earlier (Shaitan 2011) With kalki koechlin ,Rajit kapur and RajumarRao and (David 2013) both the movies which don’t really ring a bell in your mind .But Wazir making it difficult to predict the end was a thrilling movie ,based on a story of game of chess.

The background score builds the tension when needed in the movie ,most noticeable during the moments of argument between Neil Nitin Mukesh and Farhan Akthar and the moment when Farhan Akthar is chasing Amitab Bachan and trying to stop him going to the airport .

A lot of the movies these days are working on the background music and mostly working on a track that might become more popluar then the rest and “Atrangi Yaari” is one such song .This movie had to release 6 months ago ,but finally released in January this year and it was worth the wait .Wazir – Go ahead and watch this one.

The Intern !!!

The Intern -what if you are a 70 year old retired ,and then you don’t expect the retirement ,to be the way you thought it would be .And then suddenly you want to go and work again .And so this 70 year old Robert di Nero goes and Works in a new startup as an intern ,through a new senior citizen programme .The movie is full of moments of laughter and understanding how a business needs time to grow and how much time is consumed when we only work.
A good choice for Sunday afternoon show ,after being in two minds ,since our first choice “Everest ” was houseful and the “Intern ” made our Sunday .
The star cast was another thumbs up for the film.Robert di Nero timely expression ,made the movie more exciting to watch ,AnnE Hathaway the main lead on who the movie revolves around too did a good job in the emotional scenes .
The story too of how 70 year old’s ,being traditional have their calculators,suitcase, the simple mobile phones showed how these objects have become classical forgettable tools ,in the modern world .
Scenes ,where the actor’s want be part of the new generation ,being on the social networking sites also showed ,if we can just tell them how to use the basic features they can be good learners.

A great movie ,with a simple story.
The intern.

The book promo !!!

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the official book video promo

Books are movie magic !!!

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The trend in reading habits for the youth is changing and changing in a big way from shifting their interest from literary to interesting stories that have a good way of telling the story which keeps them entertained,interested in reading more such books,And this seems to me the reasons behind Books being adapted into films ,its a growing scenario around the world where not just bollywood but hollywood too has being part of a trend where they are adapting books into films with examples like fault into star by john green was made into a film by the same title ,to gone girl being adapted by the same title yet again ,to a number of bollywood books being adapted into films like the 3 idiots from five point someone by chetan bhagat to 2 states as 2 states and kai po che from 3 mistakes of my life from the same author .The change has taken place since one of the reason could be to easily connect with audience for the story.It could also be that the audience is more interested in good story telling today ,then what it was in the past .With people being preoccupied with work most of the time . The people ,might want to read an interesting story that make them realise and take them to another world where there are much more conflicts, that people are dealing with and that makes them feel better about their situation since they are not the only one’s in this situation. Also Today people are more interested in reading something worthwhile ,where they feel the change amongst themselves towards their attitude and their thinking since they haven’t got the time to really go through something that is not worth their time . also one of the reasons why movies are adapting the book formula is because of the audience already being aware of the story and want to re-live it visually for some , while for others its the other way to re-live it through the text or imagination that might be the reason behind books being adapted into films and then turning out to be a bestseller .
There is one such book which I am looking forward to grab my hands on- Tigermates which from the preview seems a very interesting book .
View the link below to preview and preorder the book

http://www.flipkart.com/tiger-mates-romantic-caper-novel-english/p/itmefgcwuaxzk7dg?pid=9781482836622&otracker=from-search&srno=t_1&query=tiger+mate+by+amrish+shah+&ref=d6637c20-7ce4-49f2-8dc2-d305126d2e9a

The million$arm

It’s a story about two baseball players who from India made it to the United States popular baseball team .
The film begins with two employee who are in trouble after their star clients does a deal with another agency and they are now looking what options they have and one of them while browsing on the television gets this idea of going to India and finding baseball players by doing a contest to get attention of the people and how they find these two Guys and the challenges and obstacle they face to learn the game and being part of a new country ,there culture ,language ,behaviour is a drastic change and how they over came the changes .
The director job as a storyteller was really good with few portions captured well
The background score was also too indie since it’s was about two Indians player .The background was with theme .also the movie wasn’t too long ,nor short the 120 minutes movies has really hooked you on without leaving you with a moment of boredom .
The performance of the actor were really good epically the two (Sooraj Sharma ) and (Madhur Mittal ) who were part of life of pi and slumdog millionaire with both done a Hollywood project each this seemed to be another one they bagged on the previous performances and this one too will give them more opportunity since they acted showing the changes from being from small villages from India to being well known Indians at every stage .not to forget the last few minutes of the movie when Amit is given an opportunity to go and be the coach for the player by JB
It’s that emotional feeling by the dialogues that creates the impact on the audience which is really satisfying .