In the age of South-Indian remakes, Senseless Action, Senseless Comedy, Senseless Story, Movies earing hundred cores yet doesn’t make sense of one single paisa in it. Here comes a movie that makes a little sense.  It not a movie to preach or teach, it’s a movie to show another side of the story that one never sees, or never wish to see. AkashVani is a story about a young couple Akash (Karthik Tiwari) a young charming lad from Chandigarh who is full of life, doesn’t bother about the social norms, lives life his own way, talks dirty but his heart is pure and Vani (Nushrat Bharucha) is a small town girl born and brought up in Dehradun, she is ambitious but she is bound to live according to the society norms, A girl next door who can easily fall in love but is scared too. Akash & Vani meet at St . Stephen College Delhi, where they both are set to spend three yrs. of college life, with the events that trails in these three years makes them fall madly in love with each other. When Vani decides to break the news of her relationship with Akash to her parents who are busy in their elder daughter’s wedding preparation, her elder sister apparently elopes at the time of her wedding, which breaks Vani’s parents to the core and to add to the agony their neighbor and relative keep taunting them. With all chaos around Vani’s decides not to tell her parents about her love and get married to the bride of their choice trying to bring back smile on their face, but not thinking  what Akash would go through , the story doesn’t ends here, it rather starts here . Does all the sacrifice made for the parents are worth?? Or being selfish like Vani’s elder sister is the correct decision. Akash played by Karthik Tiwari does justice to the character but doesn't makes it comes alive. Vani played by Nushrat Bharucha is loveable but still needs depth in emoting. This type Story you must have heard and seen before, but the point this story elaborate is something new. It is said that Action speaks louder than words and Luv Rajan has done justice to this sentence. There are scenes where no dialog's are spoken yet the emotions reach easily ,but then at times some scene are to stretch which makes the audience loose interest. There is special care taken by the Cinematographer to create romance in each frame and has definitely done a wonderful job.  The song and the music really dint gets my attention. The match cut transition between two scenes are well thought of, editing is smooth, but then Two and half hours is a bit lengthy for this story.

In Short

“AkashVani Ek hi baar hoti hai, don’t miss if you are romantic”

**/5

Race 2
First Sequel of the year and tickets being sold in black outside the mother of multiplex theatre “Gaiety, Galaxy” raised my expectation with Race 2.  The Race between Smart vs. Super smart, Bad vs. Worst and Hot vs. Sizzling, and the finale race between the audience and the director duo. Who Wins the race and what is the race about is the question??? Race 2 is about the balding hero Ranveer Singh’s  (Saif ali Khan) set to take Revenge  “Badlaa Jitna Purana Hota hai, Unta khatarnak hota hai” of the past  from the beefed up  protein villain Armaan Malik’s (John Abraham) “Race mai Dodega bhi wo hi , jeete gab hi wo hi, Bus finish line ke paar mai sab cheen lunga ” . Ranveer’s reason for revenge against Armaan is only known to him, Armaan Malik once a street fighter is a Multi-Zillionaire with the help of his Step Sister Ileana Malik (Deepika Padukone) who owns 50% of Armaan Malik empire. A pretty pickpocket   Omisiaa (Jacqueline Fernandez)   is Armaan’s love interest whose interest and intention are unknown  , but in this Race Armaan is the one who sets the table and knows ever card and wins every game . Ranveer’s race is against such a player, whom Ranveer has never faced before and to win this race Ranveer takes help from fruitful old friend R D (Anil Kapoor) and horny yet innocent his new assistant Cherry (Amisha Patel), but this time R D is fermenting poisonous juice for Ranveer,   With So many speed breaker in the race for, it going to be a hell bumpy finish or not?? The Story only holds on until the interval , later the suspense starts to fizz,  this is because of predictable screenplay pattern of director duo , Ranveer Singh played by Saif Ali Khan continued his acting style from earlier Race, not much is  added regarding the acting only the add-on was the Kareena tattoo on his left arm , Armaan Mailk played by John Abraham require no special mention , Deepika as Ileana Malik is not given much screen importance , Jacqueline as Omisiaa is just  to add glamour  as she has no scope both in story and acting. RD played by Anil Kapoor adds humour with his funny fruit-liner’s and Cherry played by Amisha Patel is saving act for her drowning Bollywood career. Abbas Mastan Duo has definitely made master piece in past, but their repetitive pattern of twist has turned the audience wise, so the Duo need to make more smatter movies.  Technically this movie was supposed to be   edgier than the 1^st instalment which it did in few of the action scene but fails in the minute detail like “Kareena” inscription on Saif Ali Khan arm which doesn’t justify for the Character Ranveer as his love interest in the previous part was Soniya, and to add to list and out of focus scene in such a multi-core film which is a big let-down in the Cinematography Dept. Art Direction and Editing have done fairly good. Music by Pritam is upto the beat, but they only break the moment of the film. Without the songs the film would have been a bit racier.
In short
“Not at all a photo Finish race”

* ½  /5

Inkaar is a film which contributes in showcasing  the working style, environment and ethics of  advertising realm . It is said that No world, No realm and no field is perfect, in the same context neither is Advertising field , There is no place for Saints in advertising they say. Inkaar is about a  story  that orbits  around a sexual harassment case in one of the leading advertising firm , amongst the Mentor  , the C.E.O  Rahul played by ( Arjun Rampal ) v/s his Pupil , the National Head  Maya played by  (Chitrangada Singh).   The sexual harassment allegation by Maya against Rahul  falls frail, because in the world of advertising where calling your colleague hot is a compliment, Pinching their butt is joke and dating them is casual .On the other side Rahul rationalizes his action and his words as normal norms of the advertising world and accuse Maya for using him  as ladder for her benefits to climb the hierarchy from an underline employee to the National Head of the company , What trails  are the events of proving  oneself as prey and the other to be the predator , All the events  are woven splendidly  into a justifying  climax .  The story has its own magic, but the screenplay fails to create the sympathy to Maya’s characters at times and the arguments about Sexual Harassment are handled lightly .  Arjun Rampal in the role of Rahul the C.E.O shows and proves his growth as an Actor; he definitely needs applaud for this work. Chitrangada Singh as Maya has developed a habit of taking her acting into the skin of the character and doing justice to it. The talented actor Deepti Navalkar just passes of as an average actor in the role of the Evaluator or Judge, as the story doesn’t give much breathing space for the character. Kanwaljit Singh as Rahul’s Father has brief role but makes it notable.  Although being a non-linear storytelling, Sudhir Mishra knows his craft very well, and has wonderfully handled and presented the story with ease, which makes it understandable to mass audience as well. The Art Direction is average, could have done better in the conference room where the whole drama unfolds. The Music by Shantanu Mohitra  amplify the scenes and story to greater high.   The Cinematography and Editing are upto the point which only helps to take the story forward.

In Filmykeeda Words

“Inkaar ko mat karo Inkaar, Go and watch it Ek toh Baar”

Raiting

** 1/2