devashishrairikar Reviews

Irudhi Suttru (2016)

Movie on a sport

[7/10 · 17 February 2016]

'Saala Khadoos' is inspired from many lady boxers who had won titles of boxing. Director Sudha Kongara comes with a story of a boxer of S.Mani,a daughter of a drunkard fisherman.Her Sister learns boxing and she learns from him and her role model 'Mohammed Ali', The Great.

The film starts in Delhi where Adi Tomar(R.Madhavan), a boxing coach was been called of by the association head Dev, a rude,egoistic coach who had won many boxing titles. He charged Adi with sexual harassment case and got transferred to Chennai.He met S.Madhi,sister of Lux, an amateur boxer.He trains her and gives her money everyday because he saw a spark in her while she had a fight with the association. The twist in the film leads to sudden change to the viewers.

Ritika Singh(S.Mahdi) who made her debut in this film acted very well,her dance steps and acting felt like a 'perfect débutant'.She herself is a boxer in a real life. Madhavan is nice as he is.He played a tough coach in the film.He trains her so hard to make her a champion.

Producer Raju Hirani and Director Sudha Kongara came with a short simple story of a boxer. Cinematography was nice and dialog in the film will make you laugh. Acting was nice and up to the mark and no actors did overacting. It is a nice film and its excellent for Madhavan fans and boxing lovers. It is like meeting two rebels in a ring.

Overall the film is nice and completed it in a time, it didn't stretched, the film is focused on the plot and during climax, i bet you will hold your breath. It gave a nice feelings to me after I walked outside the cinema

Fitoor (2016)

This film has more obsession and less drama

[6/10 · 17 February 2016]

Fitoor: More obsession less drama. Fitoor is one of the most awaited film of 2016 but after watching we feel disappointment.It is based on Charles Dickens Novel 'Great Expectations'. I thought that it was not correctly adapted from the novel but the team adapted by their own in different characters. Noor Nizami (played by Aditya Roy Kapoor) is an aspiring artist who lived near Dal Lake, in Kashmir falls in love with Firdaus (played by Katrina Kaif), an adopted daughter of wealthy woman in a town Begum Hazrat (played by Tabu). Director Abhishek Kapoor whose recent films were KAI PO CHE! and ROCK ON!! This film was below expectations. He worked very hard to make this film. The casting of this film was poor but the actors put their hardest effort in acting. Tabu's work was quite appreciable as she did a different role in this film. Cinematographer ANAY GOSWAMI captured excellent scenes and the view of locations of the film (Kashmir,Delhi and London). I praise him for his excellent work in the film. Music Director Amit Trivedi, one of my favorite musicians did a tremendous work by making songs like "Yeh Fitoor Mera",Pashmina, etc.. Lyricist Swanand Kirkire also wrote nice songs.

The film was slow and hardly any comical scenes. The plot of the film was quite boring. It will force you to sleep in the film but the strength of the film(music) will keep you awake.The films starts from Kashmir and slowly till London and again in Kashmir. This passage of time was bore and slow. Katrina's new look in the film was boring. The dialog and scenes like "If you ask milk we will give you pudding and if you ask Kashmir we will thrash you." etc... Even the plot says that Firdaus was to marry Bilal and when this thing broke out in Noor's mind, he focused on his work but got frustrated after hearing this.

The twist in the film was not appreciable and it was of no use. This film also tells you about anger, betrayal,love,passion and obsession. This film disappointed me as I was expecting a better twist in the film. Only I loved music and cinematography.

After watching this film, I thought that Charles Dickens can't write such boring stories and also felt adaptation was not done correctly. This film running time is 131 minutes but it felt like this movie was 3 hours movie as it was quite slow.