Tag: Movie Review

Do Patti (2024)

Alright this is another movie/serial of Kajol comeback, well the show is stolen by Kirti Sanon, good acting by her as she has been doing well including with that of Sifra(2024) and Crew(2024). It appears to me that Kajol has something with being a lawyer, she wants to be one, after the failed attempt at The Trial(2023), here she is a police officer but takes upon herself to fight this domestic violence case; faminisim much!! It is not that cliche that a police officer argues in the court of law; she does have a law degree. This begs the question if she had a law degree then why did she not practice; I thought only engineers do any job they get, now lawyers too. I hope Kajol’s next quest is not to fight a real case or apply for CJI.


I am really supposed to focus on the story not on the personal life of Kajol; disclaimer, I am huge fan of Kajol since her debut in Baazigar(1993)(debut for me), Yeh Dillagi(1994) and DDLJ(1995). There is little acting by Kajol in the movie, instead of practicing MC and BC, she could have practised on treadmill. She badly wants to be Richard Gere of Primal Fear(1996), sorry but there is only one Primal Fear, how many a ways you try to twist the story. The case faught in the court is pathetic at best. Being an Indian movie it has been dragged to 190 mins by explaining; how the twins have conned Kajol.


In the end I just want to say that my quest for Indian Meryl Streep; the GOAT continues, have lost hopes on Madhuri Dixit, now Kajol, waiting on Raveena Tandon. The only credible one as of now is Tabu. There is another who claims that she is actually Meryl Streep of India, when you claim you know you are not.

Passengers (2016)

Hmm, where do I begin with this movie, its an arms race to build a colony on Mars and beyond, first we had Gravity(2013) where you saw what it was like getting drifted in Space, then came Interstellar(2014) and Martian(2015) where they landed and grew a plant there. Here in passengers they have taken it to the next level, passengers settling on another planet. Every next movie uses part imagination and part scientific evidence to push the envelope backed by NASA. George Lucas is like you all so 18th century.

The review

The first 30 mins the movie is played by Chris Pratt (Jurassic World 2015) is awakened on a spaceship prematurely since his hibernating pod has malfunctioned, with no one available to talk; sounds scary but we have seen worst on Cast Away(2013). He scans through all the profiles of 1500 passengers and picks to wake up JLaw ( her name in the movie is Aurora, why did you not leave her sleeping, don’t you watch Disney Movies man). Don’t worry, ‘If I was you, I would be waking her up too‘. Now the next 30 mins or more they are busy trying to find out why only they are up and rest are hibernating peacefully for 90 years. Whatever happened to ‘Hum Tum Ek Kamre Mein Band Hon, Aur Chavi Ko Jaye‘, maybe I am old schooled they had a whole ship by themselves with all the amenities, food and wine at disposal. Lo and behold after an hour into the movie they find romance between them. It took less time to bring two Pandas together in NYC Zoo. Since Chris discovered sex; by the way JLaw claims this was her first on screen, he thought of waking up Julia Roberts too, but then the director yelled at him, it would cost them another 2o million.

All is well and Chris has planned to propose JLaw at the bar where our only humanized robot Arthur as witness, he takes off to get the ring and Jlaw is chatting with Arthur, disaster strikes, Arthur spills the beans as how Chris contemplated waking her up with guilt and finally went for it and now all looks so good with them together. JLaw is furious and breaks up with Chris for forcefully waking her up.

As fate has it, Chris waking up abruptly was beginning of more problems to arise on the ship and now Chris has to get out into the space and fix it. Love is lost, what more can he loose, he gets out and fixes it but drifts into space. JLaw could have let him go, Brad Pitt was sleeping in one of the pods, looks like she was smitten by Chris and risks her life to bring him back.  You think she will fail in the mission, hello so predictable, then they live happily ever after. No really they do and leave a legacy behind for the hibernators to see a rain-forest created in the space ship after 90 years.

I like JLaw, her movies are best but if I have to watch her I would watch Hunger Games again.