OnjiMooteDaMarle Reviews

How I Met Your Mother (2005–2014)

How I met your mother? Anything but that!

[1/10 · 18 March 2024]

How I met your mother? Anything but that.

• Misogynist, Pathetic Acting, Illogical Writing and dumb.

• It took 8 seasons to introduce the titular character: Mother.

• If you watch all the seasons till the 8th season you will realize that every season had nothing to do with the title.

• The 'lead character' forcefully makes his teen kids sit through his short term memories stories that he keeps changing whenever he feels like.

• The narrator and the 'lead character' are different. So meeting mother is OK but now we don't know if the father of the kids and the stories of the father meeting the mother have anything in common.

• The stories or moments are pathetic at most times.

• Every episode has moments where male characters make fun of women in general but the disgusting part is that the female characters too are misogynist in nature whenever the script demands it. Characters are always horny and that's their primary character.

• The characters only talk about their jobs but are in their work place only if the script demands it or there are moments in their respective moments.

• Barney is always about sex and a little over the top about bro code which he never follows and the suit at all weather. He acts like someone hit his head with a hammer. The final season was the worst.

• Robin is such a dumb woman. She wants to be the god mother and fights for the baby but doesn't like babies, doesn't even hold the baby.

• Marshall is played by Jason Segal and he is so horrible in acting. He started pouting after he lost weight, oh that actor did lose weight over the years or over the seasons due to some illness. His pouting and his body language acting like neither a male nor a female is yuck.

• Ted Mosby is an adult who wants the perfect woman to marry and being an adult he doesn't know that to find a life partner is more than just sex. He is not yet out of love for his 'best friend' and yet in just the last few episodes he falls for 'the mother' and eventually marries her? Josh Radnor who plays Ted is such a horrible actor. I just can't imagine why the casting director(s) selected this person.

• Imagine what would go through the kids post this badly written story when they have heard how much crazy their father was for Aunt Robin. Every time they would see her they would recall all what their father said as per his version of what the truth was.

• This series is slightly more disgusting than Two & a Half men which has more witty dialogues though but has the same pathetic acting ft Charlie Sheen who held a blank face throughout the series.

• I took so many years to watch every bit of the episodes because they were so boring but I had to so that I don't have to say anything bad about this series without watching it. Done & dusted.

Indian Police Force (2024– )

Badly Written, Cliché Story, Average stunts,

[1/10 · 23 January 2024]

Unlike most Rohit Shetty films where the scripts are average but at least have good dialogues and over the top stunts, here in the IPF the stunts are average, the story is meh and everything else is filled with illogical moments in writing. It's understandable if it was relating to vehicles jumping in the air as that's Rohit's trade mark but silly problems in writing pisses me off.

The good thing is Vivek Oberoi's acting and that he looks like he still is in his 30's. Siddharth Malhotra too is good in his act. Shilpa should have retired from acting and stick to judging and laughing in some pathetic talent shows.

Everythign else is so bad. The very first scene if of a road where the blast has already happened and the street is filled with smoke. No one can see anythign but our hero Sid has to wear his sun shades and everyone walks in slow motion. I don't think there is any seriousness by the characeters of what happened there. As soon as Shilpa enters into the story instead of getting into the seriousness of the case they go for a cup of chai. There are bomb blasts happening and the police force doesn't share anything with the media nor ask the media's help with the sketches. The so called Delhi Police is wearing stylish jackets while hunting terrorists instead of wearing bullet proof jackets while going for the kill. That is absolutely BS. Every once in a while the team walks in slow motion. Every lead is wearing shades all the time. More style and less writing. The VFX of the blast scenes look laughable. And the songs! Oh. My. God! This series is not dedicated to the Indian Police Force. In contrast this is mocking the Indian Police Force. Such a dumb, cliché, appeasement series.

Ondu Muthina Kathe (1987)

India's First Film with Under Water Shots

[9/10 · 11 May 2023]

Shankar Nag brings forward India's first film with scenes shot under water. The film was shot in parts in coastal Karnataka and in Maldives making it India's first film to have shots shot in Maldives though in the film the location is said to be coastal Karnataka only.

As usual Shankar Nag's movies or writings are heavily futuristic or timeless. In 2023 too this film has so much relevance to people's characters. This probably is the only Rajkumar film that I have watched where he plays shades of greed (not counting characters where he plays a double role).

The film though is about fisher folks in the coastal belt of Karnataka, the film's storyline is very much effective for any poor people vs rich (poor and rich in terms of wealth, strength, power, fame etc). Well made film in every department though the songs could have been avoided. But as it is a 1987 film I guess songs were required. This is also Shankar Nag's only directorial with Raj Kumar in the lead. The climax reminded me of the 2019 Malayalam film Jallikattu which also shows human greed throughout the film.

Idu Saadhya (1989)

Shot in 48 hours doesn't mean it's well written or well directed

[1/10 · 4 May 2023]

Kudos for thee world record of shooting the film in 48 hours. It takes a lot of rehearsals and quickness to do that. But if the writing falters, it will take a blind group of fans to make the film a hit. Here even though the film has some stellar cast of Shankar Nag, Anant Nag, Srinath, Devaraj, Tiger Prabhakar, Revathi, Mahalakshmi, Ramesh Doddanna, Avinash, Ramesh Bhatt etc. It still has holds no value over it's writing. The film if it had to be shot in 48 hours, it definitely had to be a single location film, at least when it came to shooting locations. It probably did. The main story happens inside a studio 'house'. But what falls down is the characters and certain scenes. A serial killer guarded in a hospital. Why? The dumb police constables who don't do their duty, the idiot girls who can't stay overnight for drama practice, the dumb security guard who goes home and comes back after the film is done, the cliché writer and his costume, the dumb scooby doo type running around while chased by a serial killer...such moments make it cringe worthy. I love the actors but pathetic writing and direction.

Scream (I) (2022)

I Still Prefer The Babadook

[1/10 · 28 April 2023]

Cliché, greedy film that only wants to squeeze money from it's dumb fans. The film has no, I REPEAT NO story. Everything is cliché. The reasons are dumb for the 'villain(s)' to do what they do. The story line is logic-less especially when the characters no every bit of horror movie scenarios. The masked figure's height is tall-ish and thus it is clear that it can't be any of the girls and yet the climax is illogical. The 'villain' gets shot multiple times and yet doesn't die and actually doesn't get hurt even - he/she gets up and gets going irrespective of being shot or stabbed. Dumb movie for dumbos. Actors with kilos of make-up and Botox are an add-on to vomit all your toxins from your body and spend time in a good nap than waste time in watching this load of crap. As Ortega says I still prefer The Babadook I say the same as The Babadook is a beautiful horror film with a wonderful climax.

Selfiee (2023)

Illogical & badly written with above average dialogues

[1/10 · 24 April 2023]

I haven't watched the original so won't compare it. But solely on the writing of this film especially the moments of driving test is so badly written as if the writer(s) have never been through a driving test. Even Akki's character is badly written and developed. Acting is average. Dialogues are not bad but not great either. Songs are completely ignorable except the usual remake of a well known song too. Of course this a karan johar production. Anything for money. A typical bollywood remake. Why the location in the film is Bhopal? There had. A decent film that went haywire with some really badly written screenplay. This could have been a good short film. I would rather watch the movie FAN again.

Anger Tales (2023– )

Meh

[1/10 · 10 March 2023]

There are 4 episodes and none match the title. What is this Anger Tales? Where is the anger and the reactions to it?

In the first episode a film actor's fan group's head tries to screen the actor's film but has problems in screening it. It ends understandably but doesn't have an impact that goes with the title.

In the second episode, a vegetarian family guy living in a vegetarian only building gets married to a woman who is a non-vegetarian. Her doctor recommends her to eat eggs. Very dumb. It has a very simple yet a bland ending.

In the third episode, a house wife is irritated by her landlady's afternoon chit chats. She takes an extreme step. Better episode of the three.

In the fourth, a bald-ish man is trying hard at work and at getting married and fails. This is the best of all the episodes and yet it falls short of excellence.

Monica, O My Darling (2022)

Title doesn't match the film but everything else is spot on

[8/10 · 26 December 2022]

A good story for a thriller. I did guess most parts of the thriller expect the climax. I loved the climax shot and where the director chose to end the film. Wonderful. All's well that ends well.

The film's casting is average. Huma, Radhika & Akanksha are average and could have been replaced by people who could act. Everyone else are good in their roles. I just can't bear seeing Radhika's face any longer, the same expressions, the same type of smiles, the same over dramatic facial expressions...she is a torture.

The music is excellent. Of course the 'Yeh ek zindagi kaafi nahin hai' is so 70's and I loved that the most. After Andhadhun (won't count Drishyam 2 as it is a remake) Monica O My Darling is something that has made me really happy about where the thriller genre is going in the dying Hindi Film Industry.

Worth a watch!

Goodbye (I) (2022)

A Good Emotional Ride

[6/10 · 25 December 2022]

The film falls flat in its comic timing though the comedy should have been dark or slightly dark like most funeral comic family dramas do.. There is nothing wrong in the writing apart from certain scenes being overtly on-the-face comedy (the beginning scenes) that is obviously forced on the characters to enact. The writing is slow in the first half and the to & fro to the past and present is definitely not working. The dialogues are again very silly, neither realistic nor cinematic or maybe it's the dialogue delivery because once Sunil enters the frame the dialogues are interesting even after he leaves the frame. There are illogical scenes too (car phone speaker scene).

The casting of Rashmika Mandanna is what brings the bigger part of the film down. She can't speak hindi well. Her pronunciations are yuck. Whenever she speaks either she tries hard on concentrating on her pronunciations or on her acting because none of them works. I think its the language that is holding her back from acting. There is no free flow of emotions.

The film's best moments are by Sunil Grover's Panditji character. Not that I am a Sunil fan but the character is like the savior in the midst of bad acting. Amitabh Bachchan is as usual good but his character is written half heartedly. He has done justice to his role though.

Neena hardly has any dialogue and yet she is a ray of sunshine. The lady who plays the care taker has very little to do but her simple looks and expressions are so much better than Rashmika's acting.

In short, letting the badly written first half, Rashmika's presence & pronunciations, the film in general has a good flow and is worth a watch.

Early Man (2018)

Loosely based on the idea behind Oscar nominated 2001 Hindi film 'Lagaan'.

[3/10 · 25 December 2022]

Lagaan (Land Tax) was about a small village that is forced on giving land tax when the land turns barren. The people challenge the brits to a cricket match where if they win they don't have to pay the tax for 3 years but if they lose they'll pay double the tax. The villagers led by one man start preparing a game that they have no idea how to play untill a royal young woman feels for them and helps them learn the game. Then they win the cricket match in a thriller.

Here too there is a stone age TRIBE that is forced to give up their LAND by the BRONZE AGE MEN to which they challenge them for a game of FOOTBALL and if they win they get their land back or else they'll have to work for the bronze age men.

Nevertheless good modelling and animation. Apart from that it's a dud.

Phone Bhoot (2022)

Disgusting, Badly Written, Illogical scenes & Pathetic Acting

[1/10 · 24 December 2022]

-They have no money and talk about how will they answer their dads about being jobless but in their room/house they have a lot of things/ props (and iphone) that would cost a bomb each in real life. Were their fathers sleeping for 6 months each while these idiots bought all those stuffs? Their fathers spent crores of rupees on these idiots and never checked what they did with those money? Even Ambani would be keeping an eye on his son while spending crores of rupees.

-Kat can stuff kilos of make-up but she will still look 40 years old.

-The 2 actors act like they are 6 year old kids in 25 year old bodies.

-Badly written. Illogical scenes. Dumb characters. The writing is yuck. It's not funny nor thrilling. I have no idea what genre this film belongs as per the director.

-Character assasination: Once again the illiterate bollywood is back at showing Tamilians as SOuth Indians because they have no balls nor any knowledge of South india. The fact that Ishan is a Tamilian doesn't help the story in any way. Which Tamilian speaaks in hindi with his Tamilian speaking father? Once again same as those dumb wirters of Meenakshi Sundar...something taking South India as a joke. Does a punjabi HAVE to drink lassi at all times? Does a Tamilian always drinks coffee? WHat kind of mentally disturbed writer you must be to not understand that bollywood is dead because of writers like these. BTW there is not much of bollywood anyway. It was more of punjabi characters, lyrics & dances with urdu dialogues. There was never hindi anywhere.

-In the trailer they are driving and hit a woman and the car stops by itself. What a load of crap right there.

Ram Setu (2022)

After making prithviraj a joke, chandraprakash dwivedi has made Ram setu a joke too.

[1/10 · 23 December 2022]

Guess what else will Dwivedi spoil! I can forgive Akki for he is only interested in money making and fame. He has lost all shame. He should forever be called the 40 days 'actor'. Shame on Chandra Prakash Dwivedi for going gaga over akshay. His prithviraj was disgusting, so is this.

In the very beginning Akshay says: "Dharam sirf thodta hai jab ki sanskriti sab ko jodta hai." Shame on Dwivedi for writing such dialogues. It's hard to digest that someone who can write an enigmatic Chanakya can write such crap.

Dwivedi probably lost his black money and since then has gone mental & bonkers. He could have all the respect he deserved for Chanakya but no, this man wanted to mess that up. Akshay as prithviraj was not just a shame on history but also shame on akshay. He looked like a joker there and he looks like a joker here. That patchy white bearded look is meh.

The story is very cliche: Akshya's name here is Aryan Kulashreshta! LOL!

That bathing suit akshay wears is VFX! LOL!

There are people from all ovver the world helping akshay and he speaks to them in hindi. LOL!

Even when everything is in front of them, the characters are looking here and there in many scenes. Very dumb characters.

The 2 women characters that accompany akshay are for show just like every bollywood film.

The VFX is pathetic.

Govinda Naam Mera (2022)

Average First Half, Good Twists in the Second Half

[6/10 · 16 December 2022]

The film's first half is so boring with all lead actors acting like this is their first film. Very badly done. The songs kept making me fast forward the film (on Hotstar). The songs, the music were too boring and weren't helping in the story. The first half of the film was going on to be a comedy. The 2nd half of the film was better than the trailer too. Kiara was probably the best in the 2nd half. Vicky was completely out of place in his character. His look looked fake throughout the film.

The film's twists at the last half an hour makes the entire film bearable. The story felt more of a short story that went Bollywood and when you have karan johar as the producer....all I have to say is Govindaaaa...Goooooovinda!

Runway 34 (2022)

Pathetic

[4/10 · 28 November 2022]

Typical bollywood screenplay

Close to two and a half hours, the film begins with the cliche pilot partying, smoking and what not. Then a clip of his family, then his interaction with his colleagues showing a bit of his character and then in the flight he gets out of the cock pit and gives a bhashan to the passengers and they calm down after knowing that it's not just any pilot but Ajay Devgn himself. LOL. Cliche.

Which dumb idiot in the airport office keeps saying things like it's going to crash, this pilot is crazy etc. Instead you keep your mouth shut and work towards the landing. Calling hospital is advance. Calling fire brigade & ambulances in advance is understandable but asking hospitals to keep 150 bed ready is BS.

Good VFX when it comes to scenes of the aero plane.

I have no idea why amitabh bachchan is shouting. It shows he must have some personal agenda or vengeance against ajaay devgn. Rakul has 450 hours of flying experience. I don't know if that is enough to be a co-pilot because if it is why is rakul acting like she is guilty or scared and when she makes a point (which is in the trailer too) she didn't know it at all as she never looked at ajay when that happened. So logically or writing wise that was a fluke. I did like the climax though.

Window Seat (2022)

Do not believe the 10/10 ratings. Check out the ratings given by people who have given 10/10, even they admit they have not watched the film.

[1/10 · 1 November 2022]

(No Spoilers)

Sheethal Shetty picks up a scene from Agatha Christie's "4.50 from Paddington" and dilutes it to boredom with a 'falling down the slopes' direction.

I am giving this film 1/10 to counter balance the fake, bogus 10/10 ratings by people who haven't even watched the film. My rating would have been at least 3/10 had it not been the paid or blind 10/10 ratings. Every person who gave 10/10 either says they are looking forward for the film or they say the teaser looks good which means they haven't even watched the film. Some have not even watched the teaser. They are praising the songs and the songs are bad! I have reported such ratings and accounts. I watched the film on Zee5. It's a 2 hours film.

I remember Sheethal Shetty from Ulidavaru Kandanthe. She was horrible in that film. She couldn't act one bit. But now she dons the writer & director's hat for this film. And must I say she can't write or direct too.

About the film's story: A guy goes on a train and sees a girl while the train is moving as slow as one would be walking so that the guy can see the girl, her face, her house and much more about her life. Half an hour into the film and we already witness 4 unnecessary songs (that don't help the story move forward). We have no details of the 3 characters that we come across - Bhandary, Sanjana & Iyengar's characters. We have no idea from and to where Bhandary is going. We have no clue what he does for a living (except play guitar and sing at his 'friend's' restaurant where am sure he doesn't get paid because that restaurant is a scam. You will now why after you watch Iyengar's behavior when a customer gives a request on the spiciness of a dish) nor we know about his family or any background. There is unnecessary fight scene, very immature teenage mentality characters in the first half an hour of the film itself. If it weren't for writing at least one review from someone who has actually bore the pain to watch the film, I would have stopped watching this after 25 minutes of nonsense scenes. The essence or the crux of the story is already seen in Rangitaranga - Bhandary plays the same character here too. In short the story is illogical in a lot of places. Shows the dumbness of the writing department headed by Sheethal.

I applaud Sheethal for such illogical writing & to those illiterates who gave 10/10 because they were paid to do this? Or they were blind and deaf.

The film's casting is definitely on the basis of Sheethal knowing the actors and the extras were probably for free. The police characters were so bad that made me wonder if they were acting like this was a TV serial. They have all done a horrible job in the acting department. The over the top acting in every scene is disgusting. The blame also goes to the director who cant handle a serious scene with finesse.

Arjun Janya might have given music to this film but there is not one song that stands out. Yograj's lyrics doesn't help with such music and storyline.

Live Telecast (2021– )

Botox Kajal & a bad cast in a horribly written series

[1/10 · 22 October 2022]

When Insta video makers make series this is what happens.

The actors are so bad that it made me disgusted. Their timing, dialogue delivery, their body language, expressions everything feels like they have never faced any camera before.

Kajal Agarwal with her Botox face can't give any facial expressions right. Her expressions are the same in every shot, ever scene. Every person in the series is hopeless when it comes to acting. Everyone's expressions are so fake.

The intentional comedy here and there doesn't make anyone laugh instead makes the pathetic storyline go worse. The cheap romance too has no strong base and doesn't add to the story. The writing is logic less at every horror or pre-horror scenes/ shots. Till Ep 5 the story just keeps dragging and doesn't go anywhere. When they are stuck inside the house how is it that people outside watch them on monitors if there was only one camera. There were no CCTV inside the house. Logic less.

Beast (I) (2022)

Dumb Dialogues, Highly Irritating Characters & Cliché Plotline

[3/10 · 11 October 2022]

The film has a cliché plot starting with poachers and then cut to Idris and his team/ family. Like the first Jurassic film where there were less of the dinosaurs and more of people here too we see less of the beast and more of people. Even when we see shots of the lion(s), they are either not great shots or blurred shots which could be great at certain thrilling moments but not here. More lion shots were required and that's disappointing. They enter a reserve forest and yet there is no team to protect the forest or the animals.

Among the characters, whenever there is a teenager it is going to be an irritating film. Not all teenagers are like that but films always depict them as irritating and dumb characters. Every time in every movie where a teenager is told - no/ don't do it, they do it. Maybe that's how usa teenagers are like. Idris is given a dumb character just like his daughters in the film. His character is also too human for him. He is becoming more of a larger than life person in terms of his characters by the year. So when he acts like a simpleton who can't even raise his hand against his foes, it seems very unlikely. And because of that the climax looks unlikely. I don't think the makers know what one little scratch from a lion can do to you. When you are dumb and you think the man eating lion is deaf you keep honking hard (sic). The 'kids' act like they are 3 years old.

As for the dialogues, they seem very hollywoodish and the kids here feel like they used to live in a bungalow. They act like they read news/ articles about everything but ask dumb questions like what's the Wi-Fi password in the middle of a jungle. I watched this film for the sole purpose of the shots of the lion or should I say the fake lion?

If one country doesn't allow people from another without 'legal' documents, why would wild animals sit quietly when humans enter their area? And with such pathetic cliché characters & plotline, I HAD to root for the lion all the way through. Eventually, I had to re-watch 'The Ghost and the Darkness' to calm myself.

BTW, the Beast was not wrong.

Sita Ramam (2022)

A Poem of Excellence in Cinema

[8/10 · 13 September 2022]

This 2 hours and 40+ minutes cinema is what actually cinema should be. Everything from the story, the screenplay, acting, direction, music (aaha), cinematography, locations, costumes, art, etc have been so good, so well done that the film's length doesn't make you wonder about its longevity. It is no short of a wonder. The story though starts off as a simple goal with ulterior motives for an Afreen, drives her to tell us about the characters Ram and Sita. The film steals the show in its subtleness and it's era of love, keeping every old charm alive. The music is simply soothing while the locations add to the beauty of it. The film never bored me at any point in time and is definitely watchable with family. It's worth every minute of those 160 minutes. Available on Prime in Telugu, Tamil & Malayalam.

Thor: Love and Thunder (2022)

Was this a spoof?

[4/10 · 9 September 2022]

Because everything from serious scenes to emotional ones were made to look funny or is it the actors making the script feel like a spoof or is it the script itself. Every character especially Zeus played by ABC is a joke. I haven't read the comics so I am the last person to judge the story so I won't. But the film in its entirety is a very badly made one while the VFX is as good as any other Marvel film except for the Thor as a baby scene that looked pathetic. The shots including the VFX are beautiful and fun. But characters aren't strong. A film that has a confrontation or a fight between two or more people/ teams must have strong characters/ sides. Here the villain looks menacing in terms of make-up and/or prosthetics but in terms of acting like a villain, the character is a joke.

Vikrant Rona (2022)

Disappointing & Overrated

[3/10 · 3 September 2022]

The film is overrated by those who have been tortured by bad Kannada films. When a film shows something you haven't seen in your film industry your mind tends to feel it's a good film. People have been tired of watching the same old gangsters roaming in Bengaluru with manchettes that anything that doesn't have such goonda characters look healthy and divine. But the good films in Kannada are the ones that don't have star actors in it and thus the distribution too is either limited or nil. These films are heard only when they win the National or international awards.

Vikrant Rona's VFX looks like VFX. Every bit be it the jungle or the devasthana. VFX should look so realistic that one doesn't find the difference between what's real and what's VFX. The lighting too is so bad throughout the film that I am hardly interested to waste my energy to 'observe' anything. Sudeep's make up in the close up shot in the climax is so bad I could see the fake patch on his face. LOL. The cliché thing about every hero vs villain fight is that no matter how much the hero is hit, beaten or shot he gets up and fights and survives but one shot to the villain and he falls dead. Nirup has used that formula here.

The film keeps moving nowhere for the first one hour and if you miss the first one hour you won't miss anything. It's all in the trailer & in the IMDB premise of the film.

The actors have done a mediocre job with everyone showing their theatre drama acting except for Constable Gowda whose dialogue delivery is impeccable and feels very raw. Congrats to him. Everyone else especially Karthik Rao Kordale & Nirup Bhandari have been very over dramatic from the get go in their acting & dialogue delivery.

The screenplay has so many unwanted moments. As said before the film tends to just waste time for the first one hour. One of the twists in the film is directly copied from the twist in the Tulu film 'Yesa' (which too is taken from some western film that don't remember now). The little girl's character is shot in such a way that it is very clear from the beginning itself about her existence. You know what am saying!

The songs are below average, the romance is pathetic, the casting too is meh.

What's good is one shot of Sudeep that is stunning in visuals, constable Gowda and the second half is bearable. After Anup Bhandari's previous outing 'Rajaratha' went cold, he has gone back to the same old 'Rangitaranga' set up, same scares, same loud sound effects but without a good story or music.

777 Charlie (2022)

A Highly Emotional Roller Coaster Ride

[9/10 · 19 August 2022]

A well balanced movie in terms of once emotions. It's all hanky-panky and laughter till a point and then though it's got tragic times way ahead the story still has its moments of smiles. I loved the authenticity given to languages - when Dharma meets a Tamilian, the Tamilian speaks in Tamil itself with 'koncham' Kannada. It keeps the character true towards reality.

As this film is really wonderful I'll be strict on it's shortcomings or the cons as they say. The biggest irritating thing in this film is Raj Shetty. His overacting, over the top Mangalorean dialect (Tuluvas in daily life don't talk like that, definitely not in cities) & pronunciations, body language and facial expressions are all the same in every film. He has never changed his character since OMK. His every scene in this film has been very irritating. He is also not in his character. His dialect changes when it's a serious scene later on. Sangeetha Sringeri's acting is slightly bland or should I say I don't know if she is being sarcastic every time she talks. Rakshith is quite OK though there are more glimpses of his characters from the past in terms of body language, yet he is digestible. The neighbours' characteristics are very conveniently written for the story's progress or for Dharma's character. They don't have any contribution to the major part of the film. The dog is simply brilliant.

The film doesn't let us know the route Dharma takes to reach wherever he wants to nor do we know where his destination is. It would have been great to know his map, his route, his destination without which the journey is all over the place.

There is a word used in one scene - 'andha' meaning blind. I have no clue why the hindi word was used while the characters were within Karnataka in that scene. It doesn't come in any characteristic of any character. They could have simply used the word 'kuruda'. It's a silly thing but it made me wide eyed for a moment.

For all these reasons I removed one star but this is a true pan India film and it deserves to be shared with everyone. I have no dogs and never have I ever had one but films with dogs' journeys are simply wonderful! Watch this film at all cost.

The Legend of Buddha (2004)

Animation is ugly & the story too is very westernized as usual

[3/10 · 16 August 2022]

The film has some really badly drawn models especially that of Siddharata. The dialogues too are very below average. The story is written as per some guy's poem called the light of asia or so and hence this is typical western recreation of anything that is eastern life.

The title is Legend of Buddha but in this 90 min movie, 60 min is all about Siddharta. Everything is made convenient. The life of Buddha is not easy nor a joke. This movie even if it is made for kids is badly made.

Thirteen Lives (2022)

Brilliant, Painful, Scary & Triumphant

[8/10 · 10 August 2022]

I can't judge the film. There isn't unwanted drama, there isn't wastage of script, there isn't any actor who is there for no reason or doesn't contribute to the story, the parents are shown only when needed. This is wonderful writing. I don't know the exact account of the incident but this film made me cry though it had very less scenes that would make one cry. I did watch Ron Howard explaining the scenes on a YouTube video and it's just fantastic. Oh, the scene when we first see the boys in the cave made me go numb with tears. Beautifully done. As usual take a bow Mr. Ron Howard!

Wedding Season (2022)

Welcome to Karan Johar's Diarrhea

[2/10 · 8 August 2022]

The film is a typical Bollywood & NRI crap that Karan Johar likes to make. Cliché, filled with boredom & woke teen mentality story. Everything in the film from the dialogues, the actors, the acting, the art direction, the scripting is all filled with plain clichés and convenience. If this resonates with the NRI then it's a shame because the characters and the story had nothing Indian in it.

Maragadha Naanayam (2017)

Hilarious & a very engaging Story

[8/10 · 31 July 2022]

I watched this film in Hindi dub on Hotstar. The film has good comedy meaning it's not over the top, it's comedy is light & the story too is fun and simple. It's a good family film.

The 'hero' with a few others try to get a cursed stone that belonged to an old Pallava king who died with with the stone. This film is the hero & his unusual team's journey and the petty villains they encounter. The film doesn't deviate with any songs or romantic story line and stays focused on it's path & that's the best thing about this film. Brahmananda makes a cameo.

Worth watching with family.