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Gumnaam: The Mystery (2008)
Forgettable movie, so apt title
Quite a bad movie here.
As others have pointed out, typical low quality 90s production, made worse by a very very bad plot, incredibly poor acting by Dino Morea (he is one of the worst) and terrible dialogue.
The only saving grace is the leading ladies' sizzling on screen presence.
Andhadhun (2018)
Refreshing concept but not perfect
This was a very engaging and entertaining movie, peppered with great acting performances.
But the concept is borrowed from a French short film, which I watched and it serves as an interesting benchmark for the strength of Andhadhun's storyline. And I would say while Raghavan has done a great job of converting the premise into a full length film, lots of holes remain. It's bizarre of Tabu to open the door to him in the first place, (in the original short film the pianist says "I'm blind" so she opens the door, where as here she asks him way later). Apte's character is used quite wastefully and she's missing through most of the movie. After Tabu makes up the fanciful story of Ayushmann being her lover, I would have thought the natural conclusion would be that the police go after him as he's now the suspect. Instead there's no sign of the police.
The whole plot is fanciful and not very well thought out.
So overall this movie fell quite short of perfection.
Arrival (2016)
Great movie, but plot howlers stop it from being a masterpiece
Arrival is a beautifully layered approach to the typical sci-fi theme. Much like Adams' character Dr.Banks chiding the scientific Donelly on starting with the basics of communication, the movie seems to be lecturing the genre about the inordinate focus on how aliens look, what their materials are etc and not asking the more basic questions. It conveniently allows the plot to avoid answering those questions, and it works as the viewer is able to suspend judgement on those points.
But in focusing on the broader narratives it's let down by the more simple storytelling detail, such as the initial scenes of Whitaker meeting Adams, and the incredulity of Adams learning the aliens language.
Amar Akbar & Tony (2015)
Terrible, terrible film- possibly the worst I've ever seen
Firstly the screen writing: The film had no coherent storyline, jumping from comedy to tragedy to drama without any transitions and any attempt at laying the character backgrounds. I was left confused at the end: what was the film trying to show? The direction was mediocre, not a single scene stands out, whereas a few scenes stand out as failed attempts to inject some style into the otherwise turgid proceedings. SOme key scenes were very very badly done. In the scene when one of the protagonists of the film is reunited with his friend after a tragic few years, the director took the easy way out and completely ignored the potential to finally develop the characters.
The acting was a range- the one guy who stood out for me was Tony, his comedic timing and delivery was the saving grace. Karen David was the other extreme, very bad. The rest of the cast were passable to good.
But they are not the ones who let this cringe-worthy attempt at entertainment down- the blame must lie squarely with the director. No vision, no character development, just a hotchpotch of stereotypes shamelessly vomited under the banner of "feelgood". Sadly, this was as feel-sick as it gets.