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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 Ab...

  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...

  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 ; d...

  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’,...

 Ru Ba Ru (2008) Director: Arjun Bali Producer: Percept Pictures Cast: Randeep Hooda (Nikhil), Shahana Goswami (Tara), Kulbhushan Kharbanda (Taxi Driver) A thrilling but one-watch movie. WARNING! THIS MOVIE IS NOT FOR KIDS. Nikhil Singh is a rich, workaholic young man who lives in Thailand with his girlfriend, Tara Mishra. Nikhil works for a giant firm, as a head executive, while Tara is a happy, joyous, and carefree woman who is a professional actress. Nikhil is not good to Tara, and often forgets to do things for her. Tara once proposes to Nikhil, and asks to meet her parents to cement a marriage, but Nikhil shoves her aside and declines, saying he is happy how things are between them and he is preoccupied with his work. One day, after a presentation in Nikhil’s office, Nikhil sets out to go home, but later, he is reminded by his friends that Tara’s performance of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet is scheduled for that evening. The taxi driver of the taxi that Nikhil uses ...

Director: Jayprasad Desai Producers: Shital Bhatia, Sudip Tewari. Cast: Shreyas Talpade (Pravin Tambe), Parambrata Chatterjee (Rajat Sanyal), Ashish Vidyarthi (Vidya Paradkar) Nitin Rao (Abey Kuruvilla). AMAZING! A cricket movie almost always catches my fancies. Pravin Tambe is man who aspires to be in the Ranji Trophy, but in the selection phase, even though he plays well, he is rejected for being too old, and later, he is berated by his wife for being too cricket-minded. The year is 1984. Pravin, a 12 year old boy attempts to watch a Ranji cricket match, but is stopped by a guard. Pravin replies to the guard, that when he enters the Ranji, the guard will bow to Pravin. In the area that Pravin lives in, Pravin and his friends play cricket every day, and also break a lot of windows in that process. The year is 1986. Pravin and his band of friends go for Ranji qualification. Sadly, they don’t qualify. Later, Pravin has to go for a job interview, but bunks it to go and play an inter-comp...

Director: Anu Menon Producer: Vikram Malhotra Starring: Vidya Balan (Shakuntala Devi), Sanya Malhotra (Anupama Banerjee), Jisshu Sengupta (Paritosh Banerjee), Amit Sadh (Ajay). The biopic on the ‘human computer’, Shakuntala Devi is amazing. The movie starts in 1934, where 5-year-old Shakuntala is solving problems a 12 th grader can’t solve. Then Shakuntala is invited to do a few math shows. 20 years later, in 1954, she is continuing to do math shows and the next year she moves to London. She continues her math shows there with a Spanish man named Javier. In India, Shakuntala meets Paritosh, a man and shortly marries him. Once in 1970, her daughter Anupama or Anu for short, is born. Shakuntala continues the math shows worldwide, robbing Anu of her childhood, just like Shakuntala’s parents did to her. Want to know more? WATCH THE MOVIE!   I like the plot of the movie. The representation of the mother-daughter relationship is great. The actor chosen for Devi’s role is perfec...

Director: Vikas Bahl Producer: Sajid Nadiwala Cast: Hrithik Roshan (Anand Kumar), Virendra Saxena (Ishwar Kumar), Aditya Srivastava (Lallan Singh)   A biopic on math whiz and teacher, Anand Kumar, Super 30 is a super adventure. The film begins in London circa 2017 where a Super 30 laureate named Fugga Kumar (Vijay Varma) from India is invited to speak about his life. His story begins in Patna, (state) in the year 1996 where Anand Kumar had solved a math problem which had eluded a solution till that point. Anand sends the problem and its solution to the editor of The Mathematical Gazette and subsequently receives an admission to Cambridge University. However. He was unable to go and study at the university as he did not have sufficient money and, a minister who had promised to help refused because the minister decided against donating money. Further, Anand’s father, the family’s sole breadwinner, died due to cardiac arrest leaving the family without any means of support. ...