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Kaanbhatt (2021)

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Director& Producer: Aparna S Hosing Cast: Rugved Mule (Prabhat) Bhavya Shinde (Kaanbhatt) Sanjeev Tandel (Acharya Vishwananda) A kind of nice movie, Kaanbhatt is quite good in several parts. Prabhat Gangadhar Date, a naughty seven-year-old boy has just had his munja/ upanayana, namely the thread ceremony. After a long list of complaints by moaning adults about Prabhat, his father decides to send him to a Vedic school against his own wish. Over there, Prabhat keeps on whining about not liking it and tries to escape several times. One certain night, he manages to escape and feeling tired, he goes to sleep on the bank of the Ganga river. There he meets a sanyasi named Kaanbhatt, ­­­ who Prabhat begs to take him home. Kaanbhatt takes the boy home and gives him some food. Prabhat asks for the time of the train home. Kaanbhatt reveals that the train is at 11 in the night, and tells Prabhat to return to the school. The delighted boy obliges and at night tries to sneak out to the rai

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (2001)

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  Director: Chris Columbus Producer: David Heyman Cast: Daniel Radcliffe (Harry Potter), Rupert Grint (Ron Weasley) Emma Watson (Hermione Granger) Ian Hart (Professor Quirrell). The first movie in the Harry Potter series, Philosopher’s Stone (a.k.a Sorcerer’s stone) based on the book is super! The movie starts with Albus Dumbledore, Headmaster of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry placing Harry Potter at his remaining family’s doorstep. Ten years later, Harry receives a letter to go to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, which his horrible muggle family reluctantly agrees to. Journeying to Hogwarts School on the Hogwarts Express train, Harry makes friends with Ronald ‘Ron’ Weasley and Hermione Granger, and becomes enemies with Draco Malfoy, Vincent Crabbe and Gregory Goyle. At Hogwarts, Harry, Ron and Hermione get sorted into Gryffindor House and Malfoy, Crabbe, and Goyle get sorted into Slytherin House (the houses are Gryffindor, Ravenclaw, Hufflepuff, and Slyt

Harry Potter and the Chamber Of Secrets (2002)

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  Director: Chris Columbus Author: J.K Rowling Producers: David Heyman, David Hayman, Michael Barnathan. Cast: Daniel Radcliffe (Harry Potter) Rupert Grint (Ron Weasley), Emma Watson (Hermione Granger), Christian Coulson (Tom Riddle) Last week, I developed an intense interest in the Harry Potter franchise. When I went over to my friend’s place, I borrowed the second book in the series viz. ‘The Chamber of Secrets'. Read the book printed in 1998, and then watched the movie released in 2002.   Here’s the plot. Harry Potter is locked in his room by his horrible uncle, Vernon Dursley. Harry’s best friend Ron Weasley and his brothers, rescue Harry from his house and take Harry to the Weasley house, where Ron and his brothers Fred and George get a hard tongue-lashing for taking out the flying car. Back at Hogwarts, Harry finds out that:            His new Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher is Gilderoy Lockhart, an author which he dreads        Muggle-born wizards are being

Sonic the Hedgehog (2020)

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  Director: Jeff Fowler Producers: Toru Nakahara, Toby Ascher, Takeshi Ito, Neal H. Moritz. Cast: Ben Schwartz (SONIC!) James Marsden (Tom) Jim Carrey (Dr. Robotnik) Tika Sumpter (Maddie). Finally! There it is. Sonic the Hedgehog on digital platforms. I saw it. And it’s great. Sonic starts his story as a little hedgehog with super speed. Longclaw, his adoptive mother, gives him special rings to escape their dimension, so he can be safe from attacking echidnas. 10 years later, he is living on earth, in a cave, with a washing machine as his fitness machine, every Flash comic, a silly hat, and… his rings. Longclaw had also told him in case of emergency on Earth, go to a dimension with lots of mushrooms. One day, while playing baseball alone, he, with his speed, accidentally knocks out the power grid of not only Green Hills, Montana, but the entire Pacific Northwest! The American government seeks the help of an overly smart scientist named Dr Ivo Robotnik, who finds one of

Onward (2020)

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Director: Dan Scanlon Producer: Kori Rae Cast: Tom Holland (Ian) Chris Pratt (Barley) Octavia Spencer (Manticore). Woohoo! A new Pixar movie! As you might have seen. I review a lot of Disney or Pixar movies. So, here’s the synopsis. Long ago, the world had magic, which helped everyone in need. However, it was difficult to master, and the world found another way to get by. 20XX, in a fantasy world, Ian Lightfoot, a teenage elf, celebrates his 16 th birthday and tries to do many things, like trying to invite people from his school for his birthday and learning how to drive. At home, Mrs Lightfoot gives Ian and Ian’s older brother, Barley a present from their late father, which is a magical staff and an extremely rare phoenix crystal and a spell to resurrect a dead person. The brothers manage to summon only a part of their father, and they go on a quest to find another phoenix crystal to summon the rest of their father. Want to know more? Watch the Movie! I loved this movie. PI