Sanju Aa Gaya Mamu...

#Sanju - Rajkumar Hirani has hit a sixer yet again!

The biopic flows at a steady pace and depicts the upheaval in Baba’s life perfectly. The narrative is crisp and just when things get extra-serious, you are served a Hirani style mood lightener!

Ranbir Kapoor is just amazing with the body language, look and style perfected to the T. No words to describe his fab performance. Worth a special mention is Vicky Kaushal as the best friend. The other cast is also apt - be it Manisha Koirala, Paresh Rawal, Dia Mirza or Anushka Sharma. Anjan Shrivastav is extremely hilarious in his 2 minute cameo.

A perfect blend of a very interesting story, dialogue, acting, direction and so on, there is hardly any room to find flaws. The only mood dampner for me was the English subtitles where Pani puri was translated as Waffles, Chalti Ka Naam Gaadi as Mary Poppins and Shivaji as Santa Claus!

That forgiven, its definitely worth a dekko mamu! 4.5⭐️ from me.

P.S. Please consider room for the maker’s creative liberty and take the film with a pinch of salt.

Vroooooom....Dhishooom.....

#Race3 - Vroom dhishoom vroom dhishoom vroom dhishoom 🏎👊🏼....thats about it!

The “plot” seems like a whiteboard version where all possible “twists” were outlined and the director threw them all in just in case! The dialogues are cheesy with lines like “our business is our business; none of your business” and “usey dil nahi dell khol ke dikhao”. To add to the nonsense is sudden bombardment of Bhojpuri!

At some point you feel its a tussle between Muscular Oldies (Sallu and Bobby) vs Washed out newbies (Saqib and Daisy).

Anil Kapoor is so-so; Sallu looks flabby and lethargic; surprisingly Bobby looks fitter than Sallu; rest of them are just there.

Songs are pathetic and Sallu seems to be forced to move his body, forget about signature steps!

Often you are left feeling “mere Abbas Mastan ayenge..” but alas! You have to make do with Remo D’Souza and his disastrous effort.

It was a Race to fall asleep in the theater and I’m damn sure I must have made it to the top 3.

Please avoid. 1⭐️ from me.