Filmfare – July 2019

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@ruchidbhateja1 De

De Pyaar De is such an

easy-breezy film.

A refreshing take on

things. Tabu is good

as always. @rakulpreet

looks confident @

ajaydevgn says so much

with his eyes.

@akritityagi30 I had

misfortune to watch

De De Pyaar De. The

movie is abhorrent on

multiple levels including

the fact that they have

normalised rape in the

movie. It’s disgusting.

@Chintud34269620

#IndiasMostWanted

is gripping. Critics are

talking highly about it.

seek answers to questions, only to stumble
upon skeletons in the closet.
Mithun Chakraborty is top-notch,
reminiscent of his role in Mani Ratnam’s
Guru. Naseeruddin Shah, Pallavi Joshi and
Pankaj Tripathi are impactful. Each character
is a personification of an ideology.
The film is said to have been based on the
book, Mitrokhin Archives of USSR’s secret
service. The question no longer remains about
who killed Lal Bahadur Shastri, the former
Prime Minister of India, but why our history
is distorted to suit our polity.
Prakash Gowda, Gujarat

THE TASHKENT FILES
Vivek Agnihotri’s The Tashkent Files starts
with a journalist’s struggle to get a scoop
when she stumbles upon the mystery behind
the death of India’s second Prime Minister Lal
Bahadur Shastri. The facts that are present
in the public domain make you think how
comfortably the nation was made to ignore

the shocking reality of Shashti’s death.

It’s probably Mithun Chakraborty’s best

performance in the last 10 years.

ManaliGharat, Vasai

BLANK

With a plot akin to Neeraj Pandey’s,

A Wednesday and Baby, Blank is a decent

effort by debutant director Behzad Khambata.

A suicide bomber (Karan Kapadia) meets with

a freak accident turning him amnesic. He has

a live bomb embedded in his chest, which is

also linked to 24 others to create mayhem in

Mumbai. All bombs will go boom if Karan’s

heart stops. ATS officer (Sunny Deol) tries to

track down the main handler. Tautly edited,

Blank keeps you on the edge-of-the-seat

throughout. On the flipside, the climactic

twist in the plot, is unconvincing. Karan

Kapadia, son of the late Simple Kapadia and

nephew of Dimple Kapadia, has chosen an

unconventional debut.

Sumeet Nadkarni, Mumbai

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