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Swatantrya Veer Savarkar (2024)

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  Swatantrya Veer Savarkar (2024) Director: Randeep Hooda Producers: Randeep Hooda, Sam Khan, Anand Pandit, Yogesh Rahar, Sandeep Singh Cast: Randeep Hooda (Vinayak Damodar Savarkar), Santosh Ojha (Lokmanya Tilak), Anjali Hooda (Bhikaji Cama), Rajesh Khera (Gandhi), Mrinal Dutt (Madanlal Dhingra), Russell Geoffrey Banks (David Barry) A thrilling, chilling, and inspiring movie about one of India’s greatest revolutionaries and freedom fighters and a stellar performance by Randeep Hooda! The year is 1896. In Maharashtra (then part of the Bombay Presidency), the bubonic plague has spread through the local populace, and Damodar Savarkar succumbs to it. His eldest son, Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, shoulders the responsibility of his family. Over the years, Savarkar notices the brutality, and cruelty of British colonials in India, and becomes deeply influenced by the revolutionaries of the world. In 1903, he and his elder brother Ganesh Savarkar start the Mitra Mela, later the Abhina
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Ole Aale (2024)

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Ole Ale (2024) Director: Vipul Mehta Producer: Rashmin Majithia Cast: Nana Patekar ( Omkar ‘Ole’ Lele), Siddarth Chandekar (Aditya ‘Aale’ Lele), Sayali Sanjeev (Kyra Hirve), Makarand Anaspure (Baburao). Oh my god, this movie is really a ride. Omkar Lele, or Ole, is a widower and single father who’s main aim is to live life at its fullest. Contrastingly, his son Aditya Lele, or Aale, is an extreme workaholic, constantly having calls, conferences, meetings, presentations, and having very little, if any time for himself and his family. How much ever Ole tries to get Aale to do anything, he never manages to do anything with him. One time, after Aale fails to appear for a dinner at home, Ole, in sadness, apparently flees the house. Confused, Aale and their house helper, Baburao, rush to the police station and ask everybody about Ole’s whereabouts. Turns out, Ole was always at home, simply hiding. It was all a ploy to get Aale to stay at home and cancel his meeting in Delhi. Du
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12th Fail (2023)

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  12 th Fail (2023) Director: Vidhu Vinod Chopra Producers: Vidhu Vinod Chopra , Yogesh Ishwar Cast: Vikrant Massey (Manoj), Medha Shankar (Shraddha), Anant V Joshi (Pritam) BASED ON A TRUE STORY An inspiring and thrilling story, 12 th Fail is a great movie, sure to move you. Manoj Kumar Sharma is a young boy living in a village in the poverty-stricken Chambal region in Madhya Pradesh, ready to give his 12 th grade exams. Manoj’s parents and grandmother are strict Indians who do not believe in corruption, and Manoj’s father is embroiled in a case of threatening a government official. Manoj used chits, and so do his friends and the entire class, as it is an entrenched system of corruption enforced by the school and the local MLA as he wishes all students to pass. The class’s cheating is foiled by the DSP, which makes the entire class fail, including Manoj. Afterwards, Manoj’s brother is caught on false charges and is kept in prison by the police, while later, the DSP Dus
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SAMबहादुर (2023)

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  Sam Bahadur (2023) Director: Meghna Gulzar Producer: Ronnie Screwvala Cast: Vicky Kaushal (Sam Hormusji Framji Jamshedji Manekshaw), Mohammed Zeeshan Ayyub (Yahya Khan), Sanya Malhotra (Siloo Manekshaw), Neeraj Kabi (Jawaharlal Nehru), Fatima Saina Shaikh (Indira Gandhi) Sam Bahadur is a great movie about Sam Manekshaw, one of India’s greatest military minds. Sam Hormusji Framji Jamshedji Manekshaw is undergoing training at a camp in the Indian Military Academy, and is given a punishment of two weeks suspension for being late. Later, he fights and defeats Tikka Khan (he’ll be relevant in 40 years) in a boxing match.   Sam is selected as a captain and major to fight in Burma in WWII, against the Japanese Empire. As he’s walking his troops to a place, the troops get surprised by kamikaze raids, and 50 of them perish. Later, Sam leads his troops on Pagoda Hill, at the Battle of Sittang River, in a counter-attack against the invading  Imperial Japanese Army ; despite sufferi
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Aatmapamphlet (2023)

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  Imagesource: Wikimedia Commons Aatmapamphlet (2023) Director: Aashish Avinash Bende Producers: Bhushan Kumar, Krishan Kumar, Aanand N. Rai, Kanupriya A. Iyer, Madhugandha Kulkarni, Shariq Patel Cast: Om Bendkhale/Manas Tondwalkar (Ashish), Pranjalii Shrikant / Khushi Hajare (Srishti), Chetan Wagh (Borya), Bhimrao Mude (Baba), Ketaki Saraf (Aai) Holy crap, this is one wild ride of a movie. Aatmapamphlet (2023) is a blast! Aashish Bende is a boy born in 1979, named so as he apparently had the blessing of God, as there was a mark on his forehead (it really was from the tools used for surgery). But wait, how did we get here? Flashback to the 1930s. Aashish’s pregnant great-grandma gets kicked out of the house by her alcoholic husband. Great-grandma goes to her relatives’, where she gives birth to Aashish’s grandpa.  Later, she gets educated, and becomes a schoolteacher, later principal of a school, after which, Grandpa gets married, has a son (dad), and later, in 1979, Aashis
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The Vaccine War (2023)

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  The Vaccine War (2023) Director: Vivek Agnihotri Producers: Pallavi Joshi, Abhishek Agarwal Cast: Nana Patekar, Pallavi Joshi, Raima Sen, Anupam Kher, Girija Oak, Nivedita Bhattacharya, Sapthami Gowda, Mohan Kapur An amazing, amazing movie about the greatest medical researchers of our time, The Vaccine War is nothing short of awesome. Dr. Balram Bhargava (Nana Patekar), the Director-General of the Indian Council of Medical Research in Delhi, reads a WHO article about a novel virus that originated in the city of Wuhan, China. He watches footage of people dropping dead, and a mysterious spike in pneumonia cases. A team is assembled to take a strain of it, analyze the virus, and image it via electron microscope. Afterwards, as Italian tourists who happen to be the novel virus’s carriers are found, a sample of the virus is taken from them, and photographed at the Bharat Biotech lab. When the photographing and the isolation of the virus is successful, the virus is named ‘Coronavirus’, fro
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Sonic The Hedgehog 2 (2022)

Sonic The Hedgehog 2 (2022) Director: Jeff Fowler Producers: Neal H Moritz, Toby Ascher, Toru Nakahara, Hitoshi Okuno Cast: Ben Schwartz (Sonic), Coleen O’Shaughnessy (Tails), Idris Elba (Knuckles), Jim Carrey (Dr. Robotnik) An epic supersonic experience, Sonic The Hedgehog 2 is a blast! It has been a few years since Sonic banished Robotnik to the mushroom planet. Robotnik, with one of Sonic’s quills, has finally made a big machine to return to Earth, by opening a portal back to Earth, but then, he chances upon an echidna named Knuckles, and the decide to team up. Back on earth, Sonic has perfectly adapted to life in Green Hills, MT. He also sometimes tries to play the superhero figure, by trying to save people in Seattle. However, his brash and irresponsible attitude destroys a city block while trying to defuse a bomb and stop a bank truck robbery. Tom, a police officer nicknamed ‘Donut Lord’ by Sonic, says that Sonic should tone down his powers till the time they are needed. One Satu
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