Hidden Figures

OMG! Just cannot believe that people went through all that is portrayed in the movie as part of putting the first American man on space. Many thanks to the author for penning down the history, and for the film-makers to make such a fabulous movie out of it. Fantastic dialog, screenplay, direction, casting and acting. Definitely a must-see.

Kaun Pravin Tambe?

Wow, what a man! Pravin Tambe is such an inspiration, such one-pointed focus on playing for Ranji. All those failed attempts, all those discouraging people and how he rose above all of them - Truly fantastic! The movie is extremely well made, one feels like wanting to keep seeing more and more. The simplicity of the man is outpouring, the direction, the location, casting, acting - everything is superlative.Totally enjoyed it!

Rating: Must-see

Language: Hindi

Hotel Transylvania

A movie for the daughter. Initially felt had chosen a wrong movie since it was all about ugly looking monsters but then found out it was not that bad actually. Humorous indeed. Nice, touching tale of how to let children go out into the world and explore, and not be protective forever. Dialog is catchy, animation is good and screenaply/narration is just apt.

Language: English

Rating: Good

Shane

A (true-story) documentary about Shane Warne. Well, the tale is good but narration is average. Lots of pauses in-between makes me think editing could have been better. I guess, it could have been reduced by at least half an hour. Also, I was expecting more of Sachin-Shane but there wasn't much. But what was there was indeed riveting. The first ball in his first Ashes against Gatting was something I had not known and it was mind-blowing. I kept watching that scene again and again! There were other tales like Salim Malik asking him to fail, Shane being out for an year for failing drug test, him playing Australian football, his children, etc. which were all new stuff to me - so it was interesting. But so glad this documentary was made when he was still alive, and he could see it. If he had started off his career with cricket (instead of football) and not lost that one year and retired late (he retired to spend more time with his kids!), he could easily have taken 1000 Test wickets! What a great man, indeed. And for that, this documentary is well worth watching.

Rating: Average

Language: English

The Vaccine War

Wow, what a true story and what a movie! This one's a ripper by Vivek Agnihotri. Splendid casting. Wonderful acting - Nana Patekar is brilliant and so is Pallavi Joshi. Direction & narration are awesome, its a gripping tale and the movie doesn't fail in showing it. Truly bow down to all those 'real-life' characters who went over and above the need of the hour to get Indians the Indian vaccine. This one's a must-see.

Language: Hindi