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The Kerala Story (2023)
It was a good experience
I saw the movie with my entire family. It was a very emotional movie. It is not targeting any religion but it shows the fact about kerala. Overall a good experience. Highly Recommended to all.
The film begins with the interrogation of Shalini/Fatima Ba ( Adah Sharma ) by the Afghanistan authority, who has escaped after being captive in an ISIS hideout for a year.
The film then goes into flashbacks, where she narrates her story of how she ended up in the ISIS base in the Afghanistan-Turkey-Syria border.
The story goes back to when Shalini joined a nursing medical college in a district of Kerala and meet Geetanjali (Siddhi Idnani) and Nimah (Yogita Bihani), and another Muslim classmate Asifa (Sonia Balani), who soon starts her plan to brainwash the three girls and recruit them for ISIS.
Sudipto went raw with his content this time and gave some hard-hitting, and strong dialogue. When Shalini is informed that she can't get her phone back as Sharia law doesn't allow women to keep a phone with themselves, she responds with logic and says, 'Jab Sharia law bana tha, tab phone nahi the', and the narrative follows many such scenes, which left the audience smile and clap in the theatre.
The narrative also shows how the fear of Allah is fed to the girls with scripted attacks, fake love angles, and sexual intimacy with an aim to impregnate the women so that they can be taken to Syria at an ISIS base.
Amid the dark elements and a couple of cruel rape scenes, the makers also a glimpse of the culture and beauty of Kerala.
However, the film is based on half-truths and is based on a few statistics. However, when it comes to hard evidence, we all go empty-handed. It's a good debatable topic but the real truth is what we all want to know. Well, the film will make you all Google the real story. So, Good Luck with that!
Mission Majnu (2023)
Perfect Screen Play
Sidharth Malhotra in kurta pyjama, with kohl-rimmed eyes, plays an R&AW agent in Pakistan who marries an innocent girl and using her as a cover in his mission to expose a nuclear facility. Mission Majnu boasts of a winner plot that's high on patriotism and heroic deeds. It is emotional, engaging and exciting. But, the experience is marred by too many easy coincidences and loopholes that are hard to ignore. Ahead of Republic Day, Director Shantanu Bagchi pays a tribute to all heroes who don't wear a uniform and sacrifice their lives for their motherland. However, the story, jointly written by Aseem Arrora, Sumit Batheja and Parveez Shaikh, falters at several places and doesn't let Mission Majnu hit hard.
Thalaivi (2021)
Queen of Acting
The story begins with the beginning days of Jayalalithaa as an actress. Jayalalithaa does not want to be an actress, but her mother (Bhagyashree) insists so.
Within no time, she gets a chance to play opposite the Tamil film industry's matinee idol MJR (Arvind Swamy, MGR's name changed).
Despite being married to Janaki Ramachandran, MGR maintains a relationship with Jayalalithaa. He becomes her mentor and lover. When he decides to pursue a career in politics, MJR is forced to end his relationship with her.
Years later, he again meets her and invites her into politics. She learns the ropes fast and becomes a formidable leader facing many adversaries and obstacles. She becomes an MP and impresses the Prime Minister Indira Gandhi as well.
After the death of MJR, the ruling party MLAs with their male chauvinism abuse Jayalalitha (Kangana Ranaut) in the Tamilnadu legislative assembly hall.
She pledges that she would return to the Assembly Hall only after becoming the Chief Minister. Finally, she becomes the CM and there ends the film.
Shershaah (2021)
WHAT A MOVIE !!!
SHERSHAAH is the story of a brave Indian soldier who laid down his life during the 1999 Indo-Pakistan war. Vikram Batra (Sidharth Malhotra) stays with his parents in Palampur, Himachal and his twin brother, Vishal Batra. Since the time he was a child, he was interested in joining the army. At college, he meets Dimple (Kiara Advani) and falls for her. She reciprocates his love and both start a relationship. At this point, Vikram decides to join the merchant navy instead of the army as it pays better. One day, when Vikram drops Dimple home, Dimple's father (Bijay J Anand) catches them red-handed. He tells Vikram that since he belongs to a different caste, he can't marry Dimple. Dimple, however, protests and even tells her father that Vikram would earn more than him since he's going to join the merchant navy. Meanwhile, Vikram starts getting second thoughts after his best friend Sunny (Sahil Vaid) insists that he should not give up his dream of joining the army. Vikram tells Dimple about his change of plans. This infuriates Dimple and she requests him not to make any more changes in future plans. Vikram then enrols himself at an army institute and passes with flying colours. In 1998, he gets his first posting at 13th Jammu and Kashmir Rifles at Sopore. Vikram is now a Lieutenant. His regiment comprises Lieutenant Sanjeev Jamwal (Shiv Panditt), Naib Sudebar Bansi Lal Sharma (Anil Charanjeett), Subedar Raghunath (Raj Arjun), Major Subrata Mukherjee (Abhiroy Singh) and Major Ajay Jasrotia aka Jassi (Nikitin Dheer), etc. In no time, Vikram proves his worth when he manages to capture a dreaded terrorist, Attaullah (David Browne), who's a part of the gang of an evil militant, Haider (Mir Sarwar). Vikram also befriends locals, unlike other soldiers. This proves to be of great help as a friendly local, Gafoor (Zahoor Zaidi), informs him that his son Arslaan (Afnan Ashia) has joined Haider's gang but wants to leave them. Meanwhile, Haider attacks 13th Jammu and Kashmir Rifles while they were moving as an act of revenge for capturing Attaullah. Naib Sudebar Bansi Lal Sharma loses his life in this attack. Arslaan helps Vikram as he tells the latter about Haider's hideout. In a risky operation, Vikram leads his team to the hideout and manages to capture and eliminate Haider. Before his death, Haider however warns Vikram that something big and devastating is going to happen soon. What happens next forms the rest of the film.