Dream girl (ड्रीम गर्ल)

"Dream girl (ड्रीम गर्ल)".

Watched Hindi movie "Dream girl (ड्रीम गर्ल)". 

This movie is directed by Raaj Shaandilya and stars Ayushman Khurana, Nushrat Bharucha, Annu Kapoor, Vijay Raaz, Manjot Singh, Rajesh Sharma, Nidhi Bisht and Raj Bhansali. This movie is produced by Shobha and Ekta Kapoor. Music is by Meet Bros. Writing credits Nirman Dsingh, Niket Pandey and Raaj Shaandilya. This film was released in Sept 2019 and runs for more than 2 hours. I watched it with Ravi on 30 Nov 2019.

Karam, a graduate, is unemployed. Since childhood, he is able to talk in voice of a female and has ended up playing Seeta in Ramleela. By chance he lands a job in a love call center where he is to love talk to the callers as Pooja. He is very successful. However, in a small town like Mathura, unintentional consequences start to manifest. 

Can he disguise his voice well enough to conceal his true identity? What are the unintentional consequences? How far will it go? Will his girl friend find out?

The seed is interesting. What starts as fun slowly takes a serious turn. Karam realizes that there are a lot of lonely people around, not only Male.

Ayushman does the role with ease. Nushrat looks as if she hasn't bathed but delivers a decent performance. Annu Kapoor and Vijay Raaz are versatile. Others do well.

Direction is ok. You don't remember the music after the movie and songs uncalled for in the story. Cinematography is ok. Locations are good. 

There are some good punches in the movie that bring smile to your face. Seeta maia's ashirvad is overdone. People not able to recognize each other's voice over phone is unconvincing. Director tries to give a philosophical touch to the movie at the end but by that time it's too little, too late. 

Movie has a promising start. It flourishes. But the director is unable to maintain the graph. It starts to decline and in his attempt to maintain the graph, director over does everything and movie goes haywire. A promising start fizzles out.

I saw complete movie so that I could write a review for you, but you don't have to.

Give it a miss!

Gully boy (गल्ली बाॅय)

"Gully boy (गल्ली बाॅय)"

Watched Hindi movie Gully boy (गल्ली बाॅय). Directed by Zoya Akhtar, Produced by Farhan Akhtar, Zoya Akhta & Ritesh Sidhwani. Writing credits Zoya Akhtar and others. Cinematography Jay Oza. Music Karsh Kale. It stars Ranveer Singh, Alia Bhat, Vijay Raaz, Amruta Subhash, Kalki Koechlin, Vijay Varma & Siddhant Trivedi. I watched this movie with Aditi and Mihika. The movie is about 2 hour 33 min long and was released in Feb 2019.

Murad, son of a driver, lives in Dharavi and studies in college. He is in love with Safina, who comes from an orthodox family. Murad finds release in the rap of rapper M.C.Sher. It inspires him to write rap but Sher refuses to sing. 

Why does Sher not want to sing what Murad has written? Will Murad's lyrics go waste? What inspires Murad to write and rap? Will he succeed?

It's said that the story is based on a combination of two real life figures merged into a single character of Murad. It's a success story of a poor boy from the slums of Dharavi who dreams big, had hunger for success and becomes famous rapper. However, it's not a typical raags to riches story. It's a story with a difference.

Ranveer delivers a powerful performance. He plays the college kid (tries hard to look like one) well. Alia plays a bold girl in orthodox Muslim family who wants to have fun. She plays the role easily. Siddhant gives a convincing and realistic performance as MC Sher. These three are ably supported by two Vijay's, Amruta and Kalki. Amruta looks really bad. 

A large part of the credit, however, goes to Zoya. She handles direction professionally and with finess. The handling of story is deft. She doesn't let the story drop pace and keeps the audience involved. She is assisted by Karsh Kale who had composed the music. Rap sounds good, but if the movie had nothing but rap, credit goes to music composer of the music beckons hit and not monotonous. Cinematography is good. 

Recommend watching.