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Avatar: The Way of Water (2022)
Seriously we all waited for this Soulless CGI experiment for 13 years!!
As a huge fan of Avatar 1 which literally revolutionized 3D viewing I'm utterly disappointed with the soulless, plotless visual sensation.. Hoped Cameron wouldn't mess it up a sequel of a masterpiece.. After all he is human.. Avatar 3 must be a kickass else this franchise will be buried in time.. With the expectations and precedence set by 1st and bottomless pit shown lack of imagination in 2nd part definitely you got your work cut out..Come on James let your testosterone driven wild creativity do it's magic once again like good old days when you had it in you.. Don't torture audience with this imbecile graphical experiment!!
FIFA Uncovered (2022)
Serve Qatar the damn red card!!
Such a powerful and intense show based on facts and bringing all perspectives to the story. Really gets me angry as a fan who loved FIFA World Cup since 2006 Germany hosted one. Sad state of affairs without any transparency for such premium org of biggest sporting event on planet. With less than 2 weeks to Qatari world cup kills the notion of a tiny Asian nation capable enough to showcase event built on top of bloodshed of 5000+ innocent lives mostly from Indian, Nepalese migrant workers and how abused weak section of labor class are in front of rich arrogant barbarian sheiks sitting at their high table on oil wealth and showing absolute zero dignity to human lives. Disgrace that such high moral European and US teams aren't man enough to boycott this event and call out the Qatar murderers who blatantly ignore it.
Kantara (2022)
Masterpiece of Kannada Movie Industry
Pride of Kannada movie industry...After Amruthavarshini undoubtedly the best content ever created in Karnataka if gone strictly by critical acclaim on every aspect of movie making..The Storyline, Rishabh's acting & BGM are truly iconic..
Depicting Supreme Lord Vishnu's third incarnation on earth called Varaha avtar. The forest tribal community devote to Varaha and considers bhootakola(divine dance of coastal kannada) performer to rudra demigod(Lord Shiva) who is gatekeeper of the community and protects every devotee of Lord Varaha from evil spirits(living/dead).. A promise of ancestors is under threat to be breached by people over lust of materialistic gains where the ancient king had made deal with demigods as bargain for his peace. With such powerful storyline, excellent performance by every actor keeping raw background showing beautiful traditional practices of coastal Karnataka.
Must watch in theatres for experience!!
The Kashmir Files (2022)
Finally the truth comes out!!
With so much anti Hindu propaganda by main stream media, political parties back then in 90's , finally the fascade is getting out for today's generation to realize truth. It's a testament of dangerous consequences that we will attain if we still neglect the obvious and abstain for taking any concrete steps to secure our culture and civilization away from barbaric desert cult followers who are intolerant by design and preaching to co exist with such mad dogs is a myth of highest order. Demographics is the destiny. Awaken oh poor Hindus. Hell with Jihadists and communist swines rotting our society like terminates.
The Witcher (2019)
Worst casting of a major budget production
Why spoil a show, that too a classic just to fit actors with poor acting skills in name of diversity. This is no rational to choose a bunch of sucking clowns and call it a modern balancing act of misguided apathy of misfits. Script writing too is bad and not upto mark considering the money involved. Henry carries the show brilliantly along with few other talented members. But this could have been much better and hope to see a improved and sensible next season.
Worth every penny to binge watch it. Just need to forget minors details of technicality which disrupts a seasoned watchers eyes. Appreciate the richness in cinematography which stands out apart from the character Geralt. Go for it.
Seinfeld (1989)
Here's one for the infinity!!
Hard to imagine a world without Seinfeld. It's part of daily decompressing routine now. It's been that way since a decade worth of reruns. Still never gets old, every episode again brings same new originality and fresh piece of life to comedy. Truly epic masterpiece to sitcoms genre and good luck to me finding another such sitcom which even can share table with this ridiculous monster of dark comedy. The office, Curb, Mash, Friends, Cheers, Frazier, ELR,TBBT, HIMYM, TAHM are fine but nothing comparable to Seinfeld. I tried others in reruns few times but literally unbearable and intolerable once the cheap PJ are out of taste. No original glare, all mediocrity on display. Seinfeld lives forever!!
The Haunting of Hill House (2018)
Good show but not great as widely claimed
Very good acting, direction and cinematography but not worth 8.6 rated in imdb. Yet another overrated Netflix show.Its an average 6-7 worthy show without much horrific moments just a few scary bits. Also most first half creepy moments turns out to be hallucinations. Come on folks get real in ratings
Darbareye Elly (2009)
Philosophical thriller
Yet another masterpiece delivered by Asghar Farhadi of 'A separation' fame. This movie depicts a simple, Orthodox, shy Iranian girl Elly being called out to spend 3 days of nice vacation time with a bunch of lucky go happy friends from Tehran. Sepideh(who knows attractive Elly from being teacher to her daughter) knows she already is being engaged since 2 years but Elly tells she is about to break up with her fiance, so Sepideh intends to play her matchmaker with Germany returned friend Ahmad. Sepideh is as common at lying frequently as any normal person which is shown how she with held the fact that room wasn't available for 3 complete days but she still felt it could be manageable somehow on arrival.
During her first night stay with the group Elly learns how it feels to be in a much progressive middle class elite group away for some time though from her simple, cultured, conservative social situation which awaits her soon after departure from this temporary joy.
She is not used to feel-free attitude her new found group of friends are accustomed to or how they make offensive jokes at each other lightheartedly. Through eyes of surprised freedom which other people can afford she simply walks out evidently giving glimpses of dissatisfaction she has in her own life and curtailed expression of joy or heartache she got within.
When she gets lonely time in car with her potential match Ahmad during grocery run. Ahmad says how his German wife left him with movie defining statement 'A bitter end is much better than a bitterness without ending'.
Elly's life is accurately same as the line. She is stuck between a conservative and oppressive system involving her mother and fiance on one end and joyful progressive elite class friends whose closeness reflects her own misery and pushes her towards breaking the shackles. But she just simply can't denounce the present and hug the desired future as intended. Her life and the system doesn't allow her that comfort.Choice is only a luxury of a few social elites which she can't afford.
While left to look after kids she is asked to fix the kite by little girl.While playing with the kite she forgets her complicated hopeless life for a moment and learns to live at present with free willed joy filling her heart out of the agony all around. She does denounce the bitterness of unending life by succumbing to a bitter end on her own. Finally she lived a moment of carefree life she longed all life like a little girl. She didn't had choice to live but die on her own terms.
Around her suspected disappearance grows many lies.Each lie to cover up their own moral shortcomings. All the facades of the so called progressive friends fall short with passing minute and growing nervousness. Honour, truth, social stance, cliched orthodoxy, social status suddenly becomes top priority over progressive humanity. Each character tries manipulation to justify their innocent role in the outcome for self consolation. Suddenly other then themselves others action around Elly is questioned and marked offensive. Ultimately Elly's character, her cleverly manipulated lies to her mother, fiance, the bunch of friends comes under scanner just to hold her the antagonist. And freeing themselves, society and status out as not guilty conveniently.
These series of miscalculated unnecessary manipulations of a simple situation leads them nowhere towards solving the mystery and finally when her body is found everything falls in place. All their complicated overthinking of a simple girl's life put under question who just wanted freedom from patriarchal Iranian society which made her oppressed and doesn't allow to have what she truly desires and live with joy like rest according to her own choices.
It's a profound analysis on human nature and how all moral standards are broken under circumstances. Facade of progressive mentality only remains until we can afford it. Not everything is complicated at the face value. Human life is ruled by simply situations which gets sometimes overwhelmed even among the best of us.