Saving Private Ryan

Movie Review “Saving Private Ryan”

Genre: War, Action, Drama

Director: Steven Spielberg

Writer: Robert Rodat

Producer: Steven Spielberg, Ian Bryce, Mark Gordon, Gary Levinsohn

Language: English

Star Cast: Tom Hanks, Edward Burns, Matt Damon, Tom Sizemore

Music: John Williams

Released: 1998

Saving Private Ryan is a war film set during the World War II which is directed by Steven Spielberg. I love war films and ‘Steven Spielberg’ is one of my favorite directors. So I had to watch this movie.

Movie starts with intense battle scenes. We see lot of blood and lots of dead bodies from the start. And among these we meet Captain John Miller (Played by Tom Hanks) who runs a successful mission of taking over a fort which was occupied by the Germans. After this he is given an even more difficult mission, which is to find a Private Ryan (played by Matt Damon). Private Ryan is the only surviving son in a family that has already lost three children in World War II. Returning the son alive to his family would mean a good public relations move for the Army, would make the son's mother happy. And after this mission Captain Miller, would finally be allowed to return home. Captain Miller and a team of seven soldiers set out to track the elusive Ryan who is lost somewhere in Normandy. So will they able to find Private Ryan? And will they able to save him and return home? That’s what movie is all about.

Movie has some rigorous, intensive and realistic war scenes. Steven Spielberg as a director did amazing job yet again. Cinematography and editing is excellent which is must for a film of this caliber. Tom hanks performance was exceptional. All in all I think this one is must watch movie. Don’t miss this. If I have to rate this movie, I will give it 9 out of 10.

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SHIKSHANACHYA AAICHA GHO

Movie Review “Shikshanachya Aaicha Gho”

Genre: Drama, Social

Director: Mahesh Manjarekar

Story: Mahesh Manjarekar

Dialogues: Deepak Kulakrni

Producer: Sanjay Chabaria, Ashwami Manjarekar, Satya Manjarekar

Banner: Eros Entertainment

Language: Marathi

Star Cast: Bharat Jadhav, Siddharth Jadhav, Saksham Kulkarni, Gauri Vaidya, Kranti Redkar, Sachin Khedekar, Vaibhav Mangale, Kamalakar Satpute, Vijay Kenkare, and others

Music: Ajay – Atul - Samir

Release Date: 15 January 2010

After hugely successful “Mi Shivaji Raje Bhosale Bolatoy”, Mahesh Manjarekar and his team came back with “Shikshanachya Aaicha Gho”. The movie undermines the pathetic education system has been running in India for decades. Although we all survived it in our time, but concerning part is instead of improving it this system is going down in a deep hole. Many kids are not able to handle this pressure and attempting suicides every now and then. This movie talks about the rubbish education system we have and how the parents themselves piling on the pressure on their kids.

This is a story of a father (played by Bharat Jadhav) who ignores the talent of his son (Saksham Kulkarni) in Cricket. He want his son to study hard; so that he would make good career and good life instead of running behind distant dream of playing cricket for career. He tries to push his son to his limits so that he will earn scholarship. But his son’s heart is not in studies, he just loves cricket. So the son inevitably fails. His father, who has so many expectations from his son, could not take this and gets violent. And in this violent streak he accidently hurts his son to go in coma. After almost losing his son forever the father realizes his mistakes. And he starts to spread this message to other parents, to teachers, and to authorities, that recognize the inner talent of your kids and encourage them develop that. Not everyone has to be engineer and doctors.

The movie has good social message going on. But as a movie it is not that great. It has some high points and some very low points. It isn’t consistent throughout. I think screenplay could have better. It felt like story unfinished and climax unconvincing.

If I have to rate this movie I will give it 5 out of 10.

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Must Watch Movies .......... Part 8

71. Natrang - Marathi (2010)

Director: Ravi Jadhav

Writer:Ravi Jadhav (ScreenPlay), Dr. Anand Yadav (Novel)

Music: Ajay - Atul

Genre: Drama, Musical, Social
Cast:Atul Kulkarni, Sonalee Kulkarni, Vibhavari Deshpande, Kishor Kadam, Priya Berde, and others

watch it for Atul Kulakarni's acting, Sonalee Kulakarni's beauty and Ajay-Atul's Music.......

72. Checkmate - Marathi (2008)

Director, Writer and Cinematographer: Sanjay Jadhav
Producer: Kanchan Satpute, Chandrashekhar Mahamunj
Genre: Mystery, comedy
Cast: Ankush Chaudhari, Sanjay Narvekar, Swapnil Joshi, Rahul Mehendale, Vinay Apte, Anand Abhankar, Sonali Khare and others

Music: Sunil Kaushik

One of the best films in Marathi in technical aspects.......

73. Jogwa - Marathi (2009)

Director: Rajiv Patil

Producer: Shripal Morakhia

Music: Ajay - Atul

Genre: Drama, Social

Cast: Upendra Limaye, Mukta Barve, Vinay Apte, Kishor Kadam, Aditi Deshpande, Priya Berde, Pramod Pawar, Amita Khopkar, Prashant Patil, Chinmay Mandlekar and Others........

74. Harishchandrachi Factory- Marathi (2010)

Director & Writer: Paresh Mokashi

Producer: Ronnie Screwalla, Smiti Kanodia, Paresh Mokashi
Genre: Bigraphical, Drama
Cast: Nandu Madhav, Vibhavari Deshpande, Mohit Gokhale, Atharva Karve, Dilip Joglekar, Ketan Karande, Sandip Pathak and Others

Music: Narendra Bhide

Watch how movie business started in India..

75. Agneepath – Hindi (1990)

Director: Mukul Anand
Writers: Kader Khan (Dilogues), Santosh Saroj (Screenply)
Genre: Drama, Action, Crime
Cast: Amitabh Bachchan, Mithun Chakraborty, Madhavi, Neelam, Danny Denzongpa, Alok Nath, Rohini Hattangadi, Tinnu Anand, Vikram Gokhale, Archana Puran Singh, Sharat Saxena, and others

76. A Mighty Heart- English (2007)

Director: Michael Winterbottom
Writers:John Orloff (ScreenPlay), Mariane Pearl (Book)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Thriller
Cast: Angelina Jolie, Dan Futterman, Archie Panjabi, Irfan Khan and others

77. Mystic River – English (2003)

Director: Clint Eastwood
Writers: Brian Helgeland
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Crime
Cast: Sean Penn, Tim Robbins, Kevin Bacon, Laura Linney and others........

78. Harry Potter and The Sorcerer's Stone – English (2001)

Director: Chris Columbus

Producer: David Heyman

Writer: Steve Kloves (ScreenPlay), J.K. Rowling (Novel)
Genre: Children, Magic, Thriller
Cast: Daniel Redcliff, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson, Richard Harris, Robbie Coltrane, Maggie Smith, Alan Rickman, Ian Hart and Others........

79. Righteous Kill – English (2008)

Director: Jon Avnet

Writer: Russel Gewirtz

Cast: Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, 50 Cent, Carla Gugino, Donnie Wahlberg and others........

80. The Da Vinci Code – English (2006)

Director: Ron Howard

Writer: Akiva Goldsman, Dan Brown (Novel)
Genre: Mystery, Thriller, History,
Cast: Tom Hanks, Audrey Tautou, Ian Mckellen, Alfred Mollina, Paul Bettany and others.......

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JOGWA

Movie Review “Jogawa”

Genre: Drama

Director: Rajiv Patil

Producer: Shripal Morakhia

Presenter: IDream Productions Pvt. Ltd.

Language: Marathi

Star Cast: Upendra Limaye, Mukta Barve, Vinay Aapate, Amita Khopkar, Kishor Kadam, Sharvari and others

Music: Ajay – Atul

Although we all are moving towards globalization rapidly every day, thanks to various means of communications. There are still many villages in India which performs rituals come out of superstitions regularly. “Jogawa” is a movie which enlightens one such ritual or superstition which is still going on in villages. The movie is directed by Rajiv Patil who’s earlier films “Savarkhed Ek Gaon” and “Sanai Chaughade” appreciated by people. But this time he comes up with much more hard hitting story. It is a story of people who called as “Jogatin” and “Jogata” who m their family given up on the name of goddess to serve her. But the society treats them inhumanly and looks at them as mere sex objects.

The story happens in village where there is strong influence of Goddess ‘Yelamma’. And this influence is used by some people for their own cause on people who believe in these superstitions. Like the central characters of the movie Tayappa (played by Upendra Limaye) and Suli (played by Mukta Barve). When Suli’s mother found knots while combing her she was suggested she should be made ‘Jogatin’, and serve the goddess. Same with Tayappa when his father (played by Vinay Aapte) found out that Tayappa passing blood while urinating. He forced him to be a Jogata. Now he has to act like woman, ware cloths like woman and serve the goddess.

Both of them enjoyed the new environment for sometime but soon the society try to exploit them. They find solace in each other’s company and found love. And this is unthinkable and impermissible for any ‘Jogata’ and ‘Jogatin’. So the story is how they fight against the superstition and find their way.

The movie already won many National Awards. We can see some brilliant performance in the movie. Upendra Limaye, Mukta Barve were brilliant so was all the actors. Rajiv Patil comes up with his best work yet. Technically the movie is 10 0n 10. Good cinematography and good music by Ajay – Atul which enhance the movie experience and made it more believable.

If I have to rate this movie I will give it 9 out of 10.

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Marathi Mulagi in Bollywood .......... Part 4

25. Smita Patil


26. Shubha Khote

27. Shobhana Samarth

28. Shilpa Shirodkar

29. Shashikala

30. Seema Deo

31. Renuka Shahane

32. Rakhee Sawant

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"PAA"

Movie Review “Paa”

Genre: Drama

Director: R. Balki

Producer: A. B. Corp.

Language: Hindi

Star Cast: Amitabh Bachchan, Abhishek Bachchan, Vidya Balan, Arundhati Naag, Paresh Rawal and others.

Music: Illaiyraja

“Paa” is a story of Auro played by Amitabh Bachchan. He is a 12 year progeria infected kid. These kids body grows 7 time older than their actual age. That means they do not live beyond 13-14 years. Auro is living with his mother Vidya played by Vidya Balan who is gynecologist and his grandmother played by Arundhati Naag. Auro calls her bum. Now Auro is very popular at school and fun loving kid. Once he wins an award in his school which was presented to him from a young politician, Amol Arte played by Abhishek Bachchan. Now Amol Arte happens to be Auro’s father; but both of them unaware of it. During vidya’s studding days abroad, she was in a relationship with Amol Arte. But when she got pregnant Amol suggest abortion as he did not want to spoil his political ambition. But Vidya decides to keep the child and dump Amol. Over the years Vidya kept a secret from Auro about who his father is. But when Auro reaches final stages of his life she reveals to him that Amol Arte is his father. And then rest of the movie is all about how Auro get his parents back together.

Paa is a heart touching movie. It is a family entertainment and kids going to love it. There is some excellent cinematic work involved in this film. First and foremost what should be mentioned are make-up artists who transformed Amitabh Bachchan into Auro. Then Amitabh Bachchan again comes up with amazing acting performance. Then the kid who played Auro’s best friend Vishnu was simply brilliant. All the scenes involving him are highly entertaining. Way to go for this kid. Vidya Balan, Abhishek Bachchan and Arundhati Naag gave justice to their respective roles. But I felt Paresh Rawal was wasted.

If I have to rate this movie I will give it 8 out of 10. And it is a Must Watch Movies for all Amitabh Bachchan’s Fans.

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Natrang

Movie Review “Natrang”

Genre: Drama

Director: Ravi Jadhav

Producer: Zee Talkies

Language: Marathi

Star Cast: Atul Kulkarni, Sonali Kulkarni, Kishor Kadam, Vibhavari Deshpande, Sunil Deo, Priya Berde, Kishor Choughule and others

Music: Ajay - Atul

Lyrics: Guru Thakur

Release Date:- 01/01/2010.

“Natrang” is a movies based on book written by Anand Yadav. It is a story of farm worker and wrestler Guna played by Atul Kulkarni. He is fond of ‘Tamasha’, not just fond of but passionate about it. He thinks it is not just a medium of entertainment but an art. So when there are some troubles getting farm works, he and his friends decides to start their own Tamasha group. But then he has defied by family and community for doing so. But movie is about how he resist everyone’s opposition and build up the group. But real trouble comes when they need a ‘Nacha’ in there troupe. When no one was ready he decides to be one himself. He loses his well built body and learns behaving like woman. And troubles come after that and how he overcomes them is what ‘Natrang’ is.

“Natrang” is sure shot Must Watch Movie for everyone. There are many reasons for that. First and foremost is stupendous performance by Atul Kulkarni. He made tremendous efforts for this character Guna and made him unbelievably real person. He first builds up amazing body to look like wrestler and then shed down all of it to look like ‘Nacha’. That’s really commendable. Performances by Sonali Kulkarni and Kishor Kadam were excellent. Sonali look ravishingly beautiful all the time. But pinnacle of the movie is its music. Hats off to Ajay-Atul, once again they proved they are A.R. Rahman of Marathi film industry. Great job by director Ravi Jadhav.

There are hardly any loose ends in the movie, everything is perfectly bound. Only thing I feel should have been different is ending. As I would have like to see more elaborate success story in the end rather than just giving it last 10-15 minutes.

If I have to rate this movie I will give it 9 out of 10. In case you still to watch this movie, don’t miss it.

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