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Ru Ba Ru (2008)

 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 ...

Lightyear (2022)

 Lightyear (2022) Director: Angus Maclane Producer: Galyn Susman Cast: Chris Evans (Buzz Lightyear), Keke Palmer (Izzy Hawthorne), James Brolin (Zurg). The movie in a movie, Lightyear (2022) is great! The movie starts off by saying that Lightyear is a movie in the Toy Story universe, and Buzz Lightyear from Toy Story was just merchandise for that movie. 4.3 million light-years away from Earth in the far future, Buzz Lightyear and Alisha Hawthorne are space rangers, set out to find new habitable worlds for humans. They crash-land on a planet which is habitable, but supposedly has no intelligent life-forms. Buzz then complains a bit about how he hates autopilot systems and rookies, but then Alisha reveals what she brought a rookie along with her, Buzz complains hard. Later, as they where exploring, a slithering, sentient green vine tugs on and pulls Buzz, and he somehow escapes. As he, the rookie, and Alisha escape to the starship jokingly called ‘the turnip’, the ship cr...

Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018)

  Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018) Director: Ron Howard Producers: Kathleen Kennedy, Simon Emanuel, Allison Shearmur Cast: Alden Ehrenreich (Han Solo), Email Clarke (Qi’ra), Donald Glover (Lando Calrissian) Paul Bettany (Dryden Vos) An epic Star Wars heist movie, Solo: A Star Wars Story is epic! 13 years before the empire, young Han is trying to escape life on the streets on his planet of Corellia, with his childhood crush Qi’ra. While at the spaceport (place where spaceships land and take off, like an airport) Han unsuccessfully bribes the customs officer with refined coaxium, very expensive fuel for spacecraft. Han gets stuck past the customs, where he sees an Imperial ad, which beckons him to join the Galactic Empire as a pilot. 3 years later, Han Solo is on a mud-covered planet called Mimban, where he deserts to work for a crime syndicate called the Crimson Dawn, after helping a Wookie prisoner named Chewbacca escape captivity. He is sent on a mission to a mountainous...

Turning Red (2022)

Director: Domee Shi Producer: Lindsey Collins Cast: Rosalie Chiang (Meilin Lee), Sandra Oh (Ming Lee), Ava Morse (Miriam Mendelsohn), Maitreyi Ramakrishnan (Priya), Hyein Park (Abby) This review’s going to turn RED . Meilin Lee is an outgoing, smart, and happy 13-year-old girl, who always gets an A+ in everything. Her mother Ming Lee promotes this behavior, by forcing Meilin to study for most of the time. Her family owns a Chinese Temple in the city of Toronto where they live. One day, Mei, with her three friends Miriam, Priya, and Abby, after school departs, peek at the nearby convenience store clerk NAMED Devon, who all of them, except Mei, have a crush on. Mei stands up and reminds them of the popular boy band 4*TOWN, who Mei has a crush on. Later that day, when Mei and Ming are watching a soap opera on TV, the first commercial to be shown in the break is one of 4*TOWN announcing a North American tour. Mei gets excited, but Ming disapproves of the band and gags at the sight ...

Moana (2016)

 Director: Ron Clements, John Musker Producer: Osnat Schurer Cast: Auli'i Cravalho (Moana), Dwayne Johnson (Maui) Jemaine Clement (Tamatoa) A woman is telling the story: Thousands of years ago, there was only water. Then, emerged Te Fiti, the goddess of land, islands and life, and created many different islands from the power given by her heart. It leads to many people being jealous of her powers, only for one trickter, shapeshifting demigod named Maui, strong, powerful, and famous, but the removal of the heart set many after Maui, maily the undersea giant crab Tamatoa from the realm of Monsters, and the vicious, malevolent, lava demon Te Ka, why imprisons him on an island. 1,000 years later, the woman's granddaughter Moana, gets to know about the tale, and as the corruption from the removal of the heart ascends to her island of Motunui, she sets sail on her boat, to find Maui, and to return the heart she had found and stop the corruption. Want to know more? Watch the movie! Th...

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...