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Kaun Pravin Tambe? (2022)

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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...

The Lego Movie (2014)

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  Directors: Phil Lord, Christropher Miller Producers: Dan Lin, Roy Lee Cast: Chris Pratt (Emmet), Will Ferrell (Lord Business), Elizabeth Banks (Lucy), Will Arnett (Batman). THE MOST AMBITIOUS CROSSOVER EVENT IN HISTORY. Seriously, would you expect Gandalf, Dumbledore, and Green Lantern chilling in a single room? Great movie here. The ancient LEGO wizard Vitruvius fails to stop the tyrannical dictator Lord Business from obtaining the Kragle, the deadliest weapon in the universe. He divides all the worlds of LEGO by walls. 8 years later, construction worker Emmet Brickosuzuki reads a state guide on how to be ‘cool’, by wearing trendy clothes, drinking overpriced coffee, ride the Bricksburg Monorail, and more. Emmet one day after a day of work, falls into a pit and finds the glowing Piece of Resistance, a thing that a certain girl going by the name of ‘Wyldstyle’ is also looking for. Supposedly the ‘chosen one’ from the ‘master builders’, the head cop of Bricksburg, Bad Co...

Home Alone 2 : Lost In New York (1992)

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  Director: Chris Columbus Producers: John Hughes, Mark Radcliffe, Duncan Henderson. Cast: Macaulay Culkin (Kevin McCallister), Joe Pesci (Harry Lime), Danie Stern (Marv Murchins). SPECTACULAR! One of the sequels that are as good as the original. It’s a normal Christmas Eve at Kevin McCallister’s house. Everyone is super hyped and excited and packing for their trip the next day. Kevin takes his raincoat from the bathroom, while his uncle is bathing. Kevin, with his new tape recorder, record his uncle singing in the bath. Kevin also messes up and gets sent to the attic as a punishment, but his mom remembers the events of last year and revokes the punishment. The next day, Kevin and his family reach O’Hare International (in Chicago), but Kevin lags behind and accidentally boards a flight to New York while all of his family is on a flight to Miami. Later, Kevin books a room in the fanciest hotel in New York, the Plaza Hotel, with his father’s credit card. Harry and Marv, howev...

Snow Buddies (2008)

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  Director: Robert Vince Producers: Robert Vince, Anna McRoberts Cast: Skyler Gisondo (B-Dawg), Jimmy Bennett (Buddha), Josh Flitter (Budderball), Henry Hodges (Mudbud), Liliana Mumy (Rosebud), Dylan Sprouse (Shasta), Dominic Scott Kay (Adam). AMAZING! This movie is great! 5 quintuplet puppies named Budderball (chubby), Buddha (meditate), Mudbud (getting all muddy), B-Dawg (rapper), and Rosebud (the girl). One day, the buddies meet up, and decide to play hide and seek. Budderball, finding an ice cream truck, for his love of ice cream, decides to use it as his hiding spot, and probably eat all the ice cream.   However, all his siblings see him and run after him, to the ice cream truck. After getting stuck there because of getting sleepy after eating too much ice cream, they arrive in Alaska, which Budderball describes as a ‘vanilla ice cream wonderland’. They later find an Alaskan husky puppy named Shasta, who wants to help his owner Adam to win the great dogsled race. ...

Raya and the Last Dragon (2021)

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  Directors: Carlos Lopez Estrada, Don Hall Producers: Peter Del Vecho, Osnat Shurer Cast: Kelly Marie Tran (Raya), Awkwafina (Sisu), Gemma Chan (Namaari) Amazing! Great! Super! And something tells me you’re going to like this movie. 500 years ago, the people of Kumandra live harmoniously along side dragons. One day, the Druun, a monstrous plague erupted and the Druun turned people into stone. The dragons fought hard. They decided that all dragon magic would be cast into a gem. The last 5 dragons concentrated their power into the gem, decided that their youngest, Sisu, would stay alive, and they all died. Fast forward 494 years later. Kumandra is divided into 5 lands along the main Dragon River: Tail, a desert wasteland protected by harsh mercenaries, Talon, a floating market resembling a Thai one, famous for fast deals and many products, but you must watch out for con artists. Next is Spine, a cold boreal forest defended by Vikings in metal suits, Heart, the place where Ra...

Monsters, Inc (2001)

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  Director: Pete Docter Producer: Darla K. Anderson Cast: John Goodman (Sulley), Billy Crystal (Mike), Mary Gibbs (Boo), Steve Buscemi (Randall). SUPER! GIVE ME THE CHILD NOW. It is a normal day at Monsters Inc. Top scarer Sulley is scaring effectively, generating more power all the time, since the Monsters use screams to power stuff in the hidden city of Monstropolis. Second best scarer Randall is trying to stop Sulley from being the best scarer, trying to be the best in an energy crisis that is affecting the monster world, as children are becoming less and less scared. Sulley’s best friend, flat mate, and assistant Mike Wazowski meets up with his girlfriend, who agrees for a date to a popular resto-bar in town. Sulley is told to file Mike’s paperwork, while doing that, Sulley stumbles upon a door left behind. While he investigates it, the child from the room on the other side sneaks up on them. Now , Sulley must hide that child, because the Monsters think that a child’s t...

The Pacifier (2005)

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  Director: Adam Shankman Producers: Roger Birnbaum, Gary Barber, Jonathan Glickman Cast: Vin Diesel (Shane Wolfe), Brittany Snow (Zoe Plummer), Max Theriot (Seth Plummer), Morgan York (Lulu Plummer), Kegan and Logan Hoover (Peter Plummer), Bo and Luke Vink (Tyler Plummer) Very cool. Idk why people hate it. US Navy SEAL Lieutenant Shane Wolfe fails to rescue a scientist called Howard Plummer from Serbian rebels. He gets another task: to take care of Plummer’s children while Mrs. Plummer is away in Zurich. At first, he does very badly, trying to take care of the family very militaristically. He assigns the family ‘red codes’, which aren’t effective. Later, hating him, Zoe and Seth (the eldest) play a prank on Wolfe, by painting the stairs with maple syrup, but the plan backfires as Wolfe doesn’t go down the stairs, but however It’s their caretaker who slides down and after a quarrel, quits. He also remarks, that “I don’t even know how to change a diaper.” LOVED IT! Seems t...