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Better Call Saul (2015)
Slow, boring, over rated.
This is the most overrated series ever. It just goes on and on and on.... At best they could have easily finished it off in 1 season instead of relentlessly dragging it... Scenes take forever to finish.. mundane activites /jobs are dragged on for 20 minutes.
Many small storylines within the main plot are sooooo long and boring and have absolutely no connection /contribution to main plot ... To b honest, I used to watch this at bedtime before sleeping because within 10minutes into watching, I would fall asleep. Somehow I wasn't personally convinced with Kim Wexler's character or even acting ... Also certain pranks were too unrealistic, and at all times it seemed everyone in the world is stupid except these 2 (Saul and Kim). I used to enjoy the SAU Goodman character in breaking bad. But the spin off is just disappointing and not that intersting. At times it makes you wonder whether there was any need to even make a spin off on Saul's character.. the writers just seem to be grapsing for straws at times, pushing forced and unnecessary storylines/plots/ scenes in between....
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Zindagi Gulzar Hai (2012)
Regressive. Promotes patriarchy.
Though the storyline/ script is not that bad, and the actors have also done a good job, but this drama series is dissapointingly promoting backward thinkng and anti -feminism. Some parts are so shockingly regressive and male lead actor continuosly put down women in his life whether it's his mother, sister, girlfriend or wife.
I can't believe that hero actually spoke the words -"mujhe aurat ka modern hona bilkul pasand nahi".
Special OPS (2020)
Season 1 : Drag, boring, non sensical, cliched.
A total waste of 8 hours.
I don't know on what basis Indian public has given this 8 stars. Season 1 could have been easily made into 3 episodes but for some reasons the story writers decided to drag a cliched and boring story to 8 episodes. Weak storyline, average actors ( except KK Menon & Vinay Pathak), unnecessarily lengthy, unimpressive dialogues, basically a typical bollywood masala to feed the equally deserving Indian public. It is surprising that the person who created the movie ' A Wednesday' could direct such shoddy series. Just to add up to excitement, suspense, thrill, there is unnecessary background music in almost every scene, creators have tried very hard to create hype /build up / thrill in the scenes which is too artificial and obvious after a point of time. Also, more than required people were cast in the series and many were not given any proper storyline.. such as Vinay Pathak, Meher vij. Even the character of KK Menon wasn't developed properly and was not that impressive. Actors such as sana khan,karan tacker (Farooq) were merely cast as eye Candies and did very average acting.
This series doesn't deserve more than 1 star and certainly doesn't deserve the time of Indian minds used to good storyline, character development, and with better standards.
Judge Singh LLB (2015)
2 hours of shouting and overacting
I watched this movie because I like courtroom dramas.. but it was a typical drama with impractical court scenes. The worst scene was the lady judge doing makeup in middle of a hearing. Certain characters like public prosecutor ( mr. Brar) and police officers kept laughing in really annoying way without any reason throughout the movie. I guess it was an attempt to make them look vicious or villainous. The storyline wasn't that bad to be honest but the dialogues , overacting, unnecessary shouting, exaggerated scenes of cruelty of certain characters in the movie really killed the movie.. Storyline was ok but direction really bad..
Bulbbul (2020)
Interesting thriller but not outstanding or innovative
The movie is set in a bengali household /society around the period 1900, so the background and visuals are archaic. Can't say that movie is artistic because I have seen better. The movie supposedly is a suspense but its quite predictable and obvious. But even then, while most of our bollywood movies often drag the storyline unnecessarily, this 90 minute watch keeps you interested till the end and may become bearable to those who might otherwise find this movie slow. The storyline and the message of the movie are something which we have seen time and again and is trite. But the best thing about this movie was that the makers didn't drag the story or include any useless scenes / characters not contributing to the message the movie ultimately aims to give. That being said, do not expect anything exceptional or horror (atleast I didn't think there was)..
Shaadi Mein Zaroor Aana (2017)
Your Standard bollywood plagiarism and chauvinism
This movie l is everything that is wrong with our society... in the first half of the movie, we are shown that the groom's side forces the bride's side to give huge dowry and that it's expected of the girl not to work after marriage.. due to this, the girl flees from the wedding to do something she wanted (to work) ... and she indeed did. In the second half the so called hero has managed to get to the girl and then harasses her deliberately to seek revenge.. all this while I was waiting for the issues like dowry, etc to be addressed and hero & his family to realise their mistake and to get a closure.... but shockingly and sadly, the girl was made to repent , her family was humiliated (again) by grooms side.. there was no closure to many issues raised in first half of movie... It just shows how our society is at the psychological level.. and at the end after the girl has apologised and repented , like any other bollywood movie, girl and boy get married.. Even if we forget these issues, the movie reflected nothing new. It was like a mixture of few bollywood movies...
Portrait de la jeune fille en feu (2019)
Beautiful
In these times when almost everything is complicated... whether it is love or expressing love.. this movie is took me back to the basic and real idea of love.. that love doesn't depend on who you are or where you are.. it stays with you.
I came across this movie by accident when i was bored and just surfing the net .. i liked the title and started to watch it without checking the summary or story line... i didn't know it was about two women falling in love.. and thank god i didn't . I had no idea that it was a love story and i was expecting some family/ historical /mysterious drama.
I think after half n hour ... I started to feel the connect between the two women.
It was as though i was in the movie and was feeling evrything what the characters in the movie were shown to be feeling.. The chemistry ,the scenes, the expressions, glances, subtleness... Everything felt so real. Though i dont understand french and had to read the subtitles.. but that turned out to be ok because anyway the movie was more about expressions, cinematography and art rather than dialogues.. amazing movie. Must watch.