Wednesday, 2 April 2014

Maan Karate Tamil movie review

Maan Karate Tamil movie review:

Maan Karate is a fantasy romantic movie directed by Thirukumaran who is A R Murugadoss's protege. Incidentally, A R Murugadoss has written the screenplay of the movie and is also co-producing the movie along with Escape Artist Motion Pictures. The movie features Sivakarthikeyan, Hansika Motwani, Soori, Vamsi Krishna, Writer Shaji and Sathish in main roles. Vidyut Jamval will also make a guest appearance in the movie. The music of the movie is composed by Anirudh Ravichander. For the story and the movie review read on.

Maan Karate is a romantic movie which portrays the life of the lead actress as he wins the love of Hansika Motwani. He also has to ultimately win the martial arts competition which is the ultimate test of his resolve, courage and determination. Siva in the movie is shown as a guy who runs away from his responsibilities and challenges. So, how he comes over his own limitations to triumph over the obstacles and odds is the story of the movie.

Director Thirukumran has failed to do a job which would usually be expected from the disciple of ace director Murugadoss. In some sequences the movie simply seems to drag through and appears dull. However, the acting of the lead pair Siva and Hansika is a bright spot in the movie. Hansika in particular looks cute and bubly as ever in her role. Siva who is fast establishing himself as a superstar has once again delivered a solid performance.

Sandhira movie review rating– 2.5/5

Huchudugaru Kannada Movie Review

Huchudugaru Kannada Movie Review:

Huchudugaru, an action-romance filled flick is directed by RJ Pradeepa and produced by Bhagwati Pictures. The movie features Chetan Chandra and Adithi Rao in main lead roles and other cast includes Amith Vishwanath, Deva, Prathap, Villian Ravishankar, Tabala Nani, Shankar Aswath, Sundarshree, Biradar and Avinash. The cinematography is done by V Nagesh. Let's begin the movie's story and review.

The story of Huchudugaru is a pure love story, a musical journey, an innocent journey of 4 guys. All four innocent guys are considered as valueless and neglected by their respective families. One of these four guys, met a beautiful girl and falls in her love at first sight. Later, as their closeness ascends, girl also start loving him. But, twist in the story comes out, as girl belong to a well-known family and her father opposes it, then story moves on.

According to the movie review, the action packed entertainer movie's script lack some uniqueness and it is not much appealing that overshadowed the performance of cast. Also, every song is well thought, clean and neat melody from Joshua Sridhar and dialogues are penned by D C Sudarshan.

The action-packed entertainer movie has all the masala including action, love, romance, drama and music that engaged the audience very much. As, the end of the movie is quite predictable, so second half is appears to be a bit monotonous. Moreover, the high budget movie has tried a lot to create a buzz at the box-office and somehow able to succeed in that as well.

The marketing and promotion of the Huchudugaru movie is also done at very large scale, but audience would not find anything new in this pure love story that made them watch it again, in accordance to the reviews. The performance of cast is the watch of the movie.

Sandhira.com Movie review rating- 3/5

Muavza Movie Review

Muavza Movie Review:

Muavza, a satirical drama flick is directed by Girish Juneja and Jagdish Gupta produced the movie under the banner of Jagson Entertainment Company. Movie stars national award for best supporting actor for ‘Vicky Donor”Annu Kapoor, Akhilendra MIshra Pankaj Berry, Govind Pandey, Tejinder and Deepak Verma in the leading role.

Muavza highlights Bhatta Parsual incident happened with the landowners in a very controversial village Bhatta Parsaul. Interesting fact about the flick is that almost movie is shot in the same village. For the movie review and story, please read on.

The plot of the Muavza movie focus on how the growth of the New Delhi and National Capital Region has turned valueless land of a few nearby villages into worth of millions. Annu Kapoor (Bechu Bhai) is the common man who found in such street, mohalla or village. The insignificant and of low-value lands become very valuable and their owners would get muavza (monitory compensation) against that after a long gap and demand as well. Later, some obstructions come and the story moves on.

The movie wrapped off the actual situation framed in urban cities and the suburb places around the main city. The low-budget film has unique theme and plot, which is a bit add on the Muavza. Though, cast has done full justice with their respective roles, but in the mid.

Well, editor Vinod Pathak and Art director Mukesh Kumar has greatly done their job, while cinematography is lacking a bit and unable to represent some scenes well, in accordance to the reviews. Rahul Thagele has penned Muavza story and Upmanyu- Jaidev has created the music. 

Sandhira.com Movie review rating- 2.5/5

Hrudaya Kaleyam Telugu Movie Review

Hrudaya Kaleyam Telugu Movie Review

Hrudaya Kaleyam, Telugu drama movie is directed by debut director of Tollywood Telugu movies Steven Shankar and produced by Sai Rajesh Neelam under Amrutha Productions banner. This movie features Burning Star Sampoornesh Babu and Ishika Singh in the lead roles.

Other cast includes Mahesh Kathi, Ajay, Krishna Aditya, Sai Rajesh, Sekhar and Maheshwar. Cinematography and editing of the flick is done by Shirin Shriram, which is presumed to be the imitation of working style of Tollywood. Let's look over the story and review of the movie.

The story of comedy-drama movie moves around the life of Sampoornesh Babu who is very powerful and even, the cops unable to confront him. Later, he falls in love of Ishika and want to become hero in the movies. Cops tries a lot to capture him, but his thrill in their hearts won't let them succeed and story moves on.

According to the movie reviews, the flick Hrudaya Kaleyam scripted by the director Steven Shankar has powerful dialogues that are very well delivered by the Sampoornesh Babu. Also, the comic-timing and comic scenes are very well showcased in the movie by the cinematographers and gained positive comments by the audience.

The engaging script and acting of the lead role is very well performed and scored good reviews on the blockbuster. Music is given by Srikanth Pendyala that also matches the theme of the movie. Though, everything was well done, but as the movie is made on low budget is not able to create a big buzz at the box-office and able to hit small screens only.

Sandhira.com Movie review rating- 3.5/5

Gamer Malayalam Movie Review

Gamer Malayalam Movie Review

Gamer is a dramatic mystery movie directed by debutante M. R. Anoopraj and produced by Tommy and Sanu. Main lead roles in the film are played by Nedumudi Venu and Jagadish, and other cast includes Arjun, Basil, Krishnakumar, John, Hanna Bella and Devan. Read further, movie's story and review here as under.

The plot of Gamer movie revolves around the close friendship between three guys Allu, Omar, and Surya. They go for a journey with a special aim, but met an accident in the way and saved by Zacharia. Zacharia is in 60s and has no specific aim in life living in a bungalow on a hilltop.

These three friends stay at Zacharia's bungalow and there they come across a beautiful and mysterious girl named Sicily Thomas . They all were attracted to her, but meanwhile, two police officers reach the bungalow in search of these three friends. Later, Nedumudi Venu (Zacharia) plays Villain role.

According to the movie review, the powerful script that has suspense, thrill, action, drama, comedy and mystery scored positive comments. It is well casted on the screen by the cinematographer. The acting of the actors is however, somewhere down the line is a bit low that perhaps due to the introduction of new faces.

The suspense in the movie from first scene to the last frame able to hook the interest of audience and engage them. The appearance of Nedumudi Venu in villain role was superb that let the movie to get some applause. The Gamer really comes out to be the game played against the three friends.

Also, music is composed by Shaheen Abbas that scored good reviews. Overall, movie get average reviews and appears a bit clumsy in the mid. Gamer is one-time watch movie that will mange to entangle you throughout.

Sandhira.com Movie review rating - 3/5



Captain America: The Winter Soldier review


Captain America: The Winter Soldier' is the latest presentation from the Marvel franchise featuring two of it's most famous characters – heroic Captain America and sexy Black Widow.

The movie is made according to the Marvel's new gameplan to keep things interesting and fresh. The recent 'Iron Man 3' saw Tony Stark taking some unexpected drastic steps to fight the phantom which had rose from 80's to bring a completely new challenge to the world. Then we have comic adventure 'Guardians of the Galaxy' lined up for a release. And 'Capatin America: The winter Soldier' is a great product of Marvel's new risk taking strategy.

'Captain America: The Winter Soldier' is more than a usual Marvel superhero movie with technology aided action sequences and flat storylines, it is a gritty conspiracy thriller which portrays the World War II hero struggling to come to the terms to ideals of 70's where Orwellian surveillance is being planned to nip the crime in its bud.

The attitude which he faces is best summed up by Robert Redford's dialogue who plays the role of a high ranking grey suited SHIELD officer, in which he says that in order to improve things you often need to tear down what’s come before — no matter what the cost. It is this attitude that Captain America can't wrap his mind around.

Captain learns that SHIELD as part of an initiative led by Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson) and his colleague Alexander Pierce (Redford), has been secretly developing a trio of massive helicarrier ships. These ships are massive airborne drones designed to collect information and also to analyze personal communications NSA-style, so that they can preemptively determine who will commit crimes before they happen.

But then Fury realizes that his pet project may have been compromised and he turns to America's greatest soldier to avert the crisis. They also have another enemy who is more powerful than Captain himself in every aspect to contend with - 'The Winter Soldier' played by impressive Sebastein Stan.
And in this fight, he is assisted by the sexy and deadly Black Widow with whom Captain shares some flirty banter. Directors Joe and Anthony Russo should be lauded for their move to give more screen space to one of the finest female protagonist in the Marvel world in 'Captain America: The Winter Soldier'. And Scarlett Johansson doesn't disappoints in her portrayal of sassy and menacing black widow.

Then there is Sam Wilson- Falcon, a former paratrooper who can fly thanks to his winged back pack. There are other supporting characters in 'Captain America: The Winter Soldier' such as Agent 13, played by Emily VanCamp who have no significant role in the storyline but are primed for one in future installments in the Marvel universe.

The Russos decision to largely restrain from the overuse of computer-generated imagery is also vindicated as the movie firmly retains it's 70's aesthetic. The sound design of the movie is great and adds the touch of reality to the sequences.


'Captain America: The Winter Soldier' has a very strong plot which to some extent has been underused by the directors. The movie's most interesting aspects take a back seat in last 30 minutes of the movie, as the directors focus on flashy and visually delightful action sequences. But it should also be noted that despite these imperfection 'Captain America: The Winter Soldier' is the strongest Marvel movie released till now. 

The Russo brothers who will also be directing the third installment of Captain America, by pitting an iconic character against new age ideals, have done a brilliant job in delivering an interesting thriller which is much more than usual superhero movie.

Sandhira movie review rating3.5/5

Tuesday, 1 April 2014

Comedy Nights with Kapil director Preeti Simoes to take legal action against her own team members

Like Kapil in Comedy nights? We also do. But can one pay as much as 10,000 bucks to attend the show live when one can do so for free?

Yes, after the huge success of 'Comedy Nights with Kapil', (especially since it became a platform for promotion for most of the films), some people have been taking undue advantage of its popularity by selling the fake passes of the show for 10,000!

When a newspaper daily reported this to the CNWK team, the show's creative director, Preeti Simoes said, “"Yes, I'm very sad to learn that people are being fooled in the name of Kapil. The show has around 200 people as the audience. Most of these are either fans who approach us outside the studio, some are my production team's relatives and friends, and so on. We have a huge fan following on social networking sites too and we even give them a chance to meet Kapil. But two days ago, I was shocked to know that some people from the audience have paid a huge amount just to attend the show."

Preeti, Kapil's alleged girlfriend, also tweeted about the same on Twitter. “Guys need ur help!!Plz spread the word that nobody shud pay for passes to anyone to watch CNWK shoot...it's a scam!"

We appreciate Preeti's action and hope the pass-seller group will be caught soon. Keep watching Kapil, and keep laughing!