Weekend Movie Watch

There were 2 nice movies that I got to see last weekend and here you go with the result. 

18 Pages – a telugu movie starring the “kartikeya” hero. Off late have become fan of this guy and for the kind of scripts he chooses. Be it Kartikeya 1, Kartikeya 2, Ekkadiki pothavu chinnavada , all the movies had him playing a decent guy character, which is a rarity nowadays in movie heroes!! His roles are often positive and good natured, at least in the 4 movies that I’ve seen so far, with a boy next door appeal. 18 pages happens to belong to the syrupy romantic genre, where a hitherto heartbroken hero, happens to stumble on a diary on the roadside. He almost burns the book but as the story line would have it, happens to read it and falls in love with the girl who wrote the content. Of course, without even looking at her. And typical to movies of fantasy genre, even in his dreams of imagining the girl narrating the contents, it is the heroine’s image that props up perfectly. At the risk of sounding almost Amish, whatever deeds that the heroine had planned as her bucket list, which rivals what beauty pageants tell on the final round, he fulfills her wishes and falls deeply madly in love with her. The twist in the tale being the initial shock reveal of the heroine already being killed in an accident. But like any candy floss romantic hero, his “heart” tells him that she is alive and of course she is found alive. Being the virtuous person he is, he refuses to even look at her when he finally gets a chance to meet her, while she is wheelchair bound. In the final portions of the movie, the heroine recovers her beauty old self, tracks back all her wishes and finds them to be fulfilled. Gets curious on the “good Samaritan” who has done the deed for her and eventually unites with hero on, where else but a train, where they identify each other by the special way in which they order a bhel puri kind of dish!! I swear the movie is much decently made as compared to how I’ve written the story line. Some songs are really nice and typical to the 90’s movies setup where there will always be a bakra friend who, if male, will remain loyal to the hero despite all the atrocities and will dance with him during kuthu songs on drunken drivel. If female, she would be silently in love with hero or might’ve even expressed the same couple of times only to get bulbu from him. In this movie, it’s the latter. Overall, the movie is quite decently paced with a murder mystery thrown in as a side story and is a good fun time watch.

Action hero – a hindi movie starring Ayushmann Khurana. As I’ve already waxed eloquent about him on the previous post about a movie of his, I would simply settle down with the fact that I’ve watched almost all his movies and a big-time fan of his story selection. In this movie, the story moves forward like a boulder crashing from a mountain summit. As a movie action hero and a superhit star, Ayushmann is typical tantrum throwing over the top hero, who rubs the local politician wrong, when he ignores him waiting for hours to take a photo with him. In a minor skirmish, the hero pushes that guy who falls on a rock and dies. Afraid of the repercussions and having a UK citizenship handy, hero runs away to London. Now the brother of the dead guy, who happens to be a local councilor or something, jumps the next flight to London, having sworn to avenge his brother’s death. No wonder everyone with a shady deal in India runs away to London if all that is needed is a flight ticket. Never imagined London visa to be so commonplace!! There are multiple killings that happen at the drop of a hat in London. God knows how the local councilor from India managed to get a gun, location of hero’s home address, fancy cars and what not. Despite him killing nearly every police officer or another villain group he runs into, this guy never gets caught!!! Imagine the power of a local councilor from India bossing over British!!! India has become a vallarasu long back I say!! In the melee, the hero gets kidnapped while on his way to surrender to the police, by none other than the dreaded “D” gangster, who wants the hero to dance in his daughter’s wedding!! In a sequence that is possibly only in movies, the gangster gets killed along with the councilor and our R&W team heaps praise on our hero for “eliminating” India’s most wanted in a supposedly undercover operation, bringing him back home to a “heros welcome” literally!!! There is no heroine in the movie and looks like most of the stunts are performed by the hero without any dupe. The Mainstream media, be it Times now or Republic or NDTV have been roasted to hearts content. But considering how ridiculous those news channels are in real time, a parody on them is hardly effective when compared to the actual programs. Again, for a movie that is evenly paced and is quite fun to watch, the review might’ve portrayed it differently. Both these movies are not the greatest ever or must watch kind of ones, but are definitely not boring are cringe worthy.