Revolver Rani

Rating : 3/10Release Date : 25th April, 2014 Time : 132 minutesDirector & Writer : Sai Kabir; Music : Sanjeev SrivastavaStarring : Kangana Ranaut, Piysuh Mishra, Vir Das, Zakir Hussain, Zeishan Quadri, Preeti SoodThis is essentially Shoot ‘Em Up set in Chambal with a trigger happy woman politician, its amusing for the first half (kind of) but then drags so drearily that you wish she would shoot her enemies or, worst case, you so that you could be done with it.Ram ram, saban ney ram ram, subah ki ram ram nagad, shaam ki ram ram advanceShe, Kangana Ranaut, is over the top, bad-ass, willing to walk into her opposition’s rally and unload a few, cuss

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Samrat & Co

Rating : 3/10Release Date : 25th April, 2014 Time : 125 minutesDirector & Writer : Kaushik Ghatak; Co-Writer : Manish Shrivastav; Music : Ankit Tiwari, MithoonStarring : Rajeev Khandelwal, Gopal Datt, Madalsa Sharma, Girish Karnad, Priyanshu Chatterjee, Sujata Sanghmitra, Shreya Narayan, Indraneil Sengupta, Bhaumik Sampat, Rajniesh Duggall, Barkha BishtTake a Sherlock Holmes-esque detective trying to solve a convoluted murder mystery. Now, in a botched attempt to Indianize the plot, add an item number, silly comic relief, a love angle, the supernatural, ghosts being called to speak, really bad and very unnecessary songs, a spiritual baba, a ridic

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2 States

Rating : 6/10Release Date : 18th April, 2014 Time : 149 minutesDirector & Writer : Abhishek Varman (based on the novel by Chetan Bhagat); Music : Shankar Ehsaan LoyStarring : Arjun Kapoor, Alia Bhatt, Amrita Singh, Ronit Roy, Revathi, Shivkumar SubramaniamSomeone decided to take a light, humorous, fictionalized account of cross cultural marriage and make a masala film out of it. Thus reducing its IQ level even further. Reducing most of the characters to caricatures. Adding in several songs, co-ordinated dance moves and fancy outfits. The lead pair, though, look good and are peppy. And the film has its funny moments and fair share of one liners, gi

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Transcendence

Rating : 7/10Release Date : 18th April, 2014 Time : 119 minutesDirector : Wally Pfister; Writer : Jack Paglen; Music : Mychael DannaStarring : Johnny Depp, Rebecca Hall, Morgan Freeman, Paul Bettany, Cillian Murphy, Kate Mara, Clifton Collins Jr, Josh StewartThis film takes thoughts seeded by predecessors like Terminator series, iRobot and even the recent ‘Her’ to a logical next level…what happens if we let a self-aware artificial intelligence with an almost human consciousness loose on our planet ? What will the AI do ? And equally important, how will we humans react ?Johnny Depp, a celebrity scientist, has been trying to build one such AI, with the

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