Satyagraha Movie Review

Movie- Satyagraha

Time-9.00 am

Capacity- 50%

 

Satyagraha starring Amitabh Bachchan, Ajay Devgn, Arjun Rampal,Kareena Kapoor Khan, Manoj Bajpai,Amrita Arora releases today all over India. The movie was supposed to release on 15th August but was later on postponed to 30th March to get a clean run with decent screens. There is a lot of expectation from the movie since it marks the return of Amitabh Bachchan after very long. But will the movie be able to fulfill the expectations?? Find it out here.

 

Satyagraha is being directed by Prakash Jha who has directed many movies in this genre. The movie is being well directed by him but surely this isn't his best work. The movie starts off well and Prakash Jha develops the characters very well. He makes us know the nature of all character in the start of the movie so that there is no confusion about the actions of character in the end. Full marks to him on the way he has established all characters by showing their morals and aim. Prakash Jha had a clear intention to make a movie having a hard hitting message regarding the current system and he has done it very well. The message which he wants to give the audience reaches well and shall connect with all. But in the process of delivering the message he has added many scenes which are not needed specially in the 2nd half. Trying to make the movie a bit commercial he has added Ajay Devgn and Kareena Kapoor's love story which does nothing but increases the length of the movie.

The movie has got many positives in it but there are some negatives too. As the promos suggested the movie lacks the entertainment value and this was not expected too since a movie on serious subject like this cannot have entertainment. But the main negative is there are couple of points which are shown in the 1st half go untouched in the 2nd half. This creates a doubt in the mind of the movie watching audience. The director has spent too long on one of the emotional scene in the 1st half. The camera just focuses on Amitabh and Ajay crying for very long which again increases the length. There are a lot of unwanted scenes in 2nd half which hampers the pace. One more negative part of the movie is Arjun Rampal is being wrongly casted in the movie. His expressions are wooden. But more than negative points there are positive points in the movie.

 

The biggest factor which goes with the movie is performance by the main cast. Amitabh Bachchan is BRILLIANT. He will surely make you cry in the climax. Watch out for the scene right after Raghpati Raghav song. He is too good in that. He is very good through out the movie. Ajay Devgn goes neck to neck with Amitabh Bachchan. It is difficult to decide who did a better job. Ajay Devgn should be proud of what he has done in the movie. He is very good in the climax. Dont miss his speech in the climax. It shall touch your heart. Kareena Kapoor Khan looks so beautiful throughout the movie. Her cloths in the movie perfectly suit her. She looks amazing in the movie. She portrays the role of Journalist very well. She is one of the finest actress in India. Manoj Bajpai is very good in the negative role but could have done better. He could not surpass what he has done in Rajneeti. Arjun Rampal disappoints. The supporting cast of the movie is good.The placement of songs like Raghu Pati Raghav and Janta rocks is very good where as rest are unnecessary. The basic plot of the movie revolves around current situation of the country which makes the movie worth a watch. Prakash Jha expands the script very well. It fun to see something happening after sometime. The boring scenes of the movies are followed by some brilliant scenes.

 

Overall, Satyagraha does not surpass Prakash Jha's past superhits Rajneeti and Gangajaal but this attempt of him to make people aware of whats happening around deserves a watch. There are many scenes which have an hard hitting effect on you. The climax, scenes just before the interval are amazing. The actors take the movie to another level. The movie would have been much better had there been more confrontations between Ajay and Manoj bajpai. This is a brave attempt by the director to wake the people of our country and take the charge.  The movie wont disappoint you.

I am going with 3.5 on 5 for Prakash Jha's Satyagraha. A brave effort.

10 things you would like to know about Kick

Salman Khans KICK is all set to start its shoot. So here I bring you few details about the movie.

1- KICK is a remake of 2009 telgu blockbuster KICK starring Ravi Teja

2- KICK has Jaquiline Fernandis paired opposite Salman Khan.KICK also stars Randeep Hooda

3- KICK has booked EID 2014 for its release. KICK shall release on sunday 27th of July,2014.KICK has  2  back to back holidays ie Sunday and EID (Monday)

4- KICK is being Directed by Sajid Nadiadwala who makes his debut as director.

5- Screenplay of KICK has been written by Chetan Bhagat who last wrote KAI PO CHE.

Chetan Bhagat Says-

"I am very happy that neither Salman nor Sajid want this film to be a quickie remake affair. If they wanted, they could have played safe. However, we are paying homage to the original while also bringing it to a level which justifies Salman's presence in the film. We are not comparing with the other biggies (Krrish 3, Dhoom 3) that are being made but  we sure are looking at the biggest film ever made. With the kind of package that we are arriving with, we have to give people  something which is indeed worth it."

6- Rajat Arora is writing the dialogues for KICK. Rajat Arora has earlier written dialogues for movies like Once Upon Ay Time in Mumbai Dobaara and Once Upon A Time In Mumbai.

7- Music for KICK is going to be composed by Himesh Reshamiya.

8- Philippe Guégan( Transporter , Taken) and Spiro Razatos (  Fast Five) have been roped to design a few action scenes for KICK

9- Alexander Witt ( X men- First Class, Skyfall) will be the director of photography ( Cinematographer) for KICK.

Sajid Nadiadwala Says-

“When I watched Skyfall, I was most impressed with the look of the film. It has been shot in a very sleek manner. And all of it was done without arming Bond with any modern gadgets. I’ve wanted to work with the DoP from that team since then"

10- KICK is the most awaited movie of 2014.

11- Shoot of KICK started a few days ago with Radeep Hooda in Glasgow. Salman Khan is expected to join the cast soon.

So Salman Fans are you ready for KICK???

Understanding Bollywood.....

There is a lot of confusion going around among the movie lovers that why is there so much difference between the producers number's and the distributors numbers? What role does screen count play in collection of movie? What do you mean by Distributors share? How do producers recover the amounts invested by them? . All these are common questions in the minds of genuine movie lovers since past few weeks. I over here will try to answer all your questions.

Let us all start from few basic terms-

1- Producer

A producer is a person who takes the risk of making the movie. He is someone who would put his own money in the product . The main aim of a producer is to make profit.

2-Distributor

A distributor is a person who purchases rights to show the movie in a particular territory at a particular price. A distributor purchases the rights to show the movie in his territory from the producer.

3-Exhibitor

A exhibitor is basically the theater owner. There are 2 types of theater in India- Single screens and Multiplex. The exhibitor is being paid by distributor to run his movie in the theater. (We shall explain the entire process further)

4- Gross Collection

Gross collection is total collection of movie without deducting the TAX.

5-Net Collection

Net collection is total collection of movie after deducting the TAX. 

These are the 3 basic terms used in bollywood whose meaning isn't known to many. The cycle of forecasting a movie is very complicated. Here I shall try to explain you that.  A producer shall invite all distributors to purchase the movie. The distributors bid for the movie and the one who has the maximum bid gets the movie. 

Eg- Theres a leading distributor of Mumbai Territory. So if he wants to purchase a particular movie he shall pay producer a certain amount and buy that movie and only he would have the right to show that movie in that territory. 

The distributor after purchasing the movie shall begin to book theaters to play the movie. While booking theaters there are various terms and conditions which are to be worked on. A single screen theater usually get a fixed amount of rent for playing the movie for X number of days and along with the rent it takes service charge. Barring this the entire amount goes to the distributor. There is vast amount of profit for distributors from single screens and they get a lot of return. In a multiplex distributors share is always diminishing. The distributor share is high in the 1st week but it goes on decreasing in the upcoming weeks.

Eg- In 1st week the amount distributor shall get would be 50% of total NET collection. While 2nd week may be reduced to 30% of total NET collection while the rest would be kept by the multiplex owners.

So distributor share is the amount the distributor receives from the theaters. It is the distributor share which matters the most as the distributor purchases the right of the movie from producers and it is important for them to recover the amount. In Bollywood movies are judged by total NET collections but barring Bollywood , all other movie industries judge the success of the movie taking into consideration distributors share. Even Tollywood and Punjabi movies are being judged on Distributors share.

In bollywood the movie having highest distributor share is EK THA TIGER with 113cr followed by 3 Idiots with 99cr. Despite Ek Tha Tiger earning less than 3 Idiots , It has a better distributor share mainly because of terms of distributors.

Once the movie is sold to the distributor the work of producers is more or less over except for reporting the figures.

This was the part one of my Exclusive article on explaining basics of bollywood. I shall be having more parts of the same coming soon which shall clear all your doubts. Hope you all liked this article. You can ask your queries in the comment section below. Hope you liked the article and my effort to make you understand the terms.

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Chennai Express week 1

Chennai Express has performed exceptional in week one and it went on to collect 144cr in Week 1 which is a record week 1 collection breaking Ek Tha Tiger which was 142cr. No one would have expected Chennai Express to collect such a humongous amount in week 1. The movie is now aiming to cross the 202cr landmark set by 3 Idiots. If the movie would break the record or no shall be clear in the upcoming day. But now we can say that it is very much possible for Chennai Express to break the lifetime collection of 3 Idiots.
Here is the Weekday Breakup of Chennai Express-

Monday- 12.5 cr
Tuesday- 11.5 cr
Wednesday- 13.5 cr
Thursday- 17.5 cr

Weekdays- 54 cr

Weekend- 90cr


Now the upcoming days shall decide the fate of Chennai Express breaking 3idiots

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Once Upon Ay Time In Mumbai Doobara Life Time Predictions

Once Upon Ay Time In Mumbai Doobara released yesterday in 1200 screens ie it saw a limited release yesterday. The screen count however increased to 2400 screens today. The movie is getting positive response from the audience and the critics are finding the movie to be average. But it is the audience response which matters the most and people are liking the movie. The max a movie can earn of 1200 screens is 14 cr and on 2400 screens is 27 cr ( Taking into consideration the number of shows allocated).
The day 1 figures for OUTIMD are out and on 1200 screens the movie has collected an Amazing 10.5 cr which means the movie was Houseful almost everywhere. The movie had an average 80 to 85% occupancy through the day which is Amazing. The real test of the movie starts today as it sees a full release today.
Here is my prediction for OUTIMD.

Day 1- 10.5 cr (Actuals)
Day2- 14 cr
Day3- 15 cr
Day4- 17 cr

Weekend- 56.5 cr

Monday- 8 cr
Tuesday- 7.5 cr
Wenesday-6.5 cr
Thursday- 6 cr

Weekdays- 28 cr


Week 1- 84.5 cr


2nd weekend- 15cr

Weekdays- 10cr


2nd Week- 25cr


Total Collection- 109 cr


Lifetime-  116- 120 cr


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Once Upon Ay Time In Mumbai Doobara Movie Review

Movie-Once Upon Ay Time In Mumbai Doobara

Show- 10 am

Capacity- 100% (Housefull)

Once Upon Ay Time In Mumbai Doobara released today with a lot of excitement around the movie.Will the movie stand up to the expectations or will it will be dud. Here is my review of Once Upon Ay Time In Mumbai Doobara.

Once Upon Ay Time In Mumbai Doobara starts from the place where Once Upon A Time In Mumbai Ended. The movie starts of with a Bang. Akshay Kumar’s entry is amazing. The start of the movie is superb. The movie as the trailer suggests is basically a love triangle between Shoiab(Akshay Kumar), Jasmine ( Sonakshi Sinha) and Aslam (Imran Khan) which has been executed nicely. Dialogues by Rajat Arora are USP of the movie and they are powerful. He comes up with many powerful dialogues in the 1st half as well 2nd half which are worth our claps. Dialogues keep on coming at regular interval and they keep you glued to the movie.

The story of the movie is predictable except the climax. The climax shall shock you. The screenplay is good but could have been better. The movie could have been better edited. There are many scenes which are being executed amazingly. The scene before interval scene, The start of the movie and the climax is MINDBLOWING. The movie slows down a bit in the 2nd half but catches the pace quickly.

Acting department is a big surprise. Akshay kumar as Sohaib is amazing. He has that attitude and style but if you compare him with Ajay Devgn he will fall way short of Ajay Devgn. But still Akshay manages to play his role well. Sonakshi Sinha is good as Jasmine. She has a decent role and she is very good in the climax and emotional scenes. She is shown as a very innocent girl and she plays her part well. But the surprise package is Imran Khan. Everyone thought that he would not be able to play Aslam but he is pretty good. Though not the best but way above expectations.

Direction is good and the director manages to keep audience glued. The movie could have been around 15 mins shorter. The dialogues of the movie are amazing and they deserve a special mention. The dialogues make the ordinary story looks very good. Rajat Arora has compensated the ordinary script by his powerful dialogues.

The songs are well placed. Yeh Tune Kya Kia is very pleasing to the ears so is Chugliya.

Overall Once Upon Ay Time In Mumbai doobara is a very good watch this holiday season. Though not better then the prequel yet it has its moments. Akshay kumar , Sonakshi and Imran shall keep you entertained. The background music will keep you involved in the movie.

I would rate this movie 3.25 on 5. A good movie to watch this holiday Season. Go and enjoy the movie.

Chennai Express has a Humongous weekend

Chennai Express has surpassed every ones expectations as far as Weekend collections are concerned. The movie has collected a MIND BLOWING  83.5 cr weekend ie Thursday+ Friday + Saturday and if we add the paid previews to this which was 6.5cr the total comes up to 90 cr in 3.5 days. This is surely humongous.The weekend break down of Chennai Express is given below-

Thursday- 6.5cr
Friday-29.5cr
Saturday-25.5cr
Sunday-28.5cr

Total- 90cr

Chennai Express has broken the opening weekend record of past best Dabangg 2 which was 65cr. Chennai Express is sure to cross 100cr mark by today evening. Chennai Express now has 2 records under its name now- Highest paid preview (Previous best was 3 Idiots with 2.25cr) and Highest Weekend. Chennai Express failed to break Opening Day of Ek Tha Tiger by just 1cr. Chennai Express is all set to reach quickest at the 100cr mark within 4 days (Previous best Ek Tha Tiger/Dabangg2- 5 Days)

One of the main reason for such an amazing performance of Chennai Express is the release period. I feel Chennai Express has got the best release date after Dabangg. Chennai Express had Friday as a National Holiday(Eid) , Saturday was celebrated as Basi Eid and Sunday. Basi Eid helped Chennai Express to sustain on Saturday without much fall. The same was the case with Dabangg. Ek Tha Tiger on other hand had a full working 2nd day ie thursday so it had a huge fall after a 33cr Day1.

One section of industry are following numbers given by UTV ie Producers number. According to UTV Chennai Express has a 100cr weekend. UTV gave out Chennai Express figures as follows-

Thursday- 7cr
Friday- 33.12cr
Saturday- 28.5
Sunday- 32.5cr

Total- 100.5cr approx

But the main test of Chennai Express starts from today. If the fall on Monday isnt more then we can surely expect Chennai Express running like a Bullet Train. But if the fall is more then Chennai Express shall End up below the 200cr Mark.

To be precised If Chennai Express earns above 12cr then this would be a good sign for the movie and if it is below 12 then we can expect it to crash in the upcoming day.


I shall soon write an article on the reason of Difference between Producers Numbers and Distributors Numbers and how are they being calculated. Either i would write it myself or ask one of my friend who knows more about it to explain you all. Will surely try to make you all understand difference between producers numbers and distributors number.

Till then keep reading my blog and ask your friends to read it too..

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Chennai Express Opening Day.

I had predicted a 28cr Day 1 for Chennai Express.
Day 1 figures are out and according to Boxofficeindia.com Chennai Express has earned 29.32cr on Day 1 which has fallen around 1.3cr Short of Ek Tha Tiger which had collected 30.5cr according to the Same source.

Ek Tha Tiger had released with 3300 screens and collected 30.5cr where as Chennai Express released on 3650 screens and failed to cross Ek Tha Tiger by 1.3cr (Approx). But one more thing which we have to take into consideration is Chennai Express had got paid previews on Thursday in which it collected 6.75cr which is a very good figure.

UTV however Quoted that their movie collected 33.12cr on 1st day ( Which are producers numbers) which according to YRF for Ek Tha Tiger was 32.92cr. So if we take into account UTV's numbers we can say that CE has crossed Ek Tha Tiger by 20 lakhs.

One more important factor is Ek Tha Tiger had released during Ramzan Period ie The movie collected 30.5cr without the support of Muslim Crowd. Many people on twitter claim that Ek Tha Tiger had collected 30.75 Cr on 15th August which is a bigger holiday than Eid but i would say yesterday ie 9th August was a bigger day. We can easily say Eid is one of the biggest Holidays of the year as when a movie like Bodyguard (Which i feel is Salmans weakest movie in last 4 years had taken Record breaking opening and shattered previous records by almost 30% margin) so any movie has got more space to collect on Eid. But yet Chennai Express has collected a very good figure on its 1st day. It wont be wrong to say SRK is back as he has given such a Bumper opening after so long

But i would be considering the figures given by Boxofficeindia.com for all the movies so i would be quoting the numbers given by them.

Here is territorial Break Down for Chennai Express Day1-

Mumbai

Chennai Express - 10.12 crore

Ek Tha Tiger - 11.09 crore

Delhi/UP

Chennai Express - 5.46 crore

Ek Tha Tiger - 5.82 crore

East Punjab

Chennai Express - 2.21 crore

Ek Tha Tiger - 2.76 crore

West Bengal

Chennai Express - 1.49 crore

Ek Tha Tiger - 1.68 crore

Bihar

Chennai Express - 59 lakhs

Ek Tha Tiger - 55 lakhs

Assam/Orissa

Chennai Express - 60 lakhs

Ek Tha Tiger - 50 lakhs

CP Berar

Chennai Express - 1.53 crore

Ek Tha Tiger - 1.62 crore

CI

Chennai Express - 1.11 crore

Ek Tha Tiger - 1.24 crore

Rajasthan

Chennai Express - 1.62 crore

Ek Tha Tiger - 1.79 crore

Nizam

Chennai Express - 1.98 crore

Ek Tha Tiger - 1.41 crore

Mysore

Chennai Express - 1.92 crore

Ek Tha Tiger - 1.61 crore

TNK

Chennai Express - 70 lakhs

Ek Tha Tiger - 40 lakhs

TOTAL

Chennai Express - 29.32 crore

Ek Tha Tiger - 30.52 crore

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Chennai Express Prediction

Chennai Express has been watched. After watching the movie i would try to predict the box office of the movie.

Chennai Express Box Office Predictions-

Day1- 28cr

Day2- 20cr

Day3-25cr

Weekend- 73cr

Chennai Express wont break the opening day record of Ek Tha Tiger but it will surely break the 1st 3 day collection of Ek Tha Tiger and Dabangg2 which was 60cr and 65cr Respectively.

Weekday collection-

Monday- 13cr

Tuesday- 11cr

Wednesday- 10cr

Thursday-14cr ( Independence day) 

Weekday- 48cr

Week 1 total- 111Cr

Chennai Express will break the 1st week record of Dabangg 2 which was 107cr ( Non Holiday Release) but will fall way short of opening week record of Ek Tha Tiger which was 137cr. The only movie which has potential to break the opening Week record of Ek Tha Tiger is going to be Krissh3.

The 2nd week Trending of Chennai Express will depend a lot upon Once Upon A Time In Mumbai.

But if we look into in ingeneral-

2nd Weekend-

Friday- 5cr

Saturday-5cr

Sunday- 8cr

+

More 11cr on weekdays.

2nd Week- 29cr

So the two weeek Total of Chennai Express will be 140cr.

Chennai Express shall collect more 10cr in its Life time term and End up at a Figure of 150cr.

It will just manage to cross the Life time Collection of Dabangg, Bodyguard and Ready but will fall way short of Dabangg2, Yeh Jawani Hai Deewani, Ek Tha Tiger and 3 Idiots.

Hope you liked my Box Office prediction of Chennai Express..

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Chennai Express Movie Review...

One of the most awaited movie of the year Chennai Express saw a mini release today. With so much hype around the movie there is just one question around the movie watching audience. Will Chennai Express live upto all the hype?

And i would say No despite so much hype and promotions the movie fails to live upto the hype created. The movie is all about how Rahul ( Srk) lands into trouble after meeting Meera in a train named CHENNAIEXPRESS and how Rahul and Meera fall into love with each other and prove love is above everything else.

The movie starts of nicely with Srk’s(Rahul’s) family background being shown. Soon after that follows a Hilarious train sequence which will surely make you all laugh. The starting 20 Minutes of the movie are filled with good jokes, Rahul mocking Tamilians which is funny.The start of the movie raises your expectation for the movie. But as soon as Rahul reaches Chennai the main problem starts.As the movie progresses the jokes seem to be repetitive which don’t seem to be funny any more. There is only one song in the 1st half ie 1234 Get On The Dance Floor in which Srk looks energetic. Post Interval the movie becomes slow. There are a few emotional scenes which are not required. The 1st half has a few funny moments but 2nd half lacks the entertainment value. 2nd half tries to capture Rahul and Meera’s love story which i feel is one of biggest mistake of Chennai Express.

Another flaw in the 2nd half is it contains 3 songs which come at an interval of 8 to 10 minutes. Rohit shetty movies usually dont have many songs but Chennai Express is an Exception.
The movie looses its plot completely in the 2nd half but it is the climax which lifts the pace. Rahuls speech to Meera’s father in the climax is OUTSTANDING. It will remind you of the famous sattar minute dialogue of SRK. He is amazing in the climax. The movie has one fight scene which looks very realistic. Srk looks convincing in the action sequences but over reacts at times specially in the 1st half. Deepika is very good. Her one scene post interval is Amazing. It is one of the plus point of 2nd half.And yes there are cars flying in the movie ROHIT SHETTY style.

Overall Chennai express has a very good start to which it fails to capitalize on. As the movie progresses it looses its plot. Srk fans will enjoy the movie but others would not, The main strength of Chennai Express are the one liners which go missing after initial 20 minutes. This is Rohit Shetty’s one of weakest movie after Sunday.

I would rate this 2 on 5. Srk fans will like it rest can give this a miss.

Introduction

Hi Friends,

This is Himesh and i have started this Blog to make an attempt to keep you all updated about latest happenings in Bollywood and give reviews of Bollywood movies. This is just an attempt to help you to decide if the movie which has released on friday is worth your time and money or no. I hope i succeed in this small attempt to give u all correct information of bollywood and give you true reviews on all latest releases in  Bollywood,

The 1st review which i will be giving is of Shah Rukh Khan and Deepika Padukone starrer Chennai Express which has a mini release tomorrow as it releases all over the country after 6pm. I will be giving my review of Chennai Express by tomorrow night.


Hope u all find my blogs useful and i help you all to decide on your movie watching experience.



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