Monday, December 18, 2023

#ANIMAL #ranbirkapoor #rashmika #bobbydeol #vanga #tseries

The conflict between father and son leads to the son becoming obsessed about his father . He is my modern day raavan ... protective about his dad   sister and family . 
Rashmika is a great actor  , especially in her last scene with Ranbir confessing about Zoya!! She nailed it !
The pind Brothers need a special applause for their acting ... rawness , comic timing and the portrayal of brotherhood !!! Kudos to the casting director . 

Vanga should be patted for bringing out some great scenes .

Now the cringe part !! 
1. There was a major flaw in the script..... character arch  ,  single thread line .
Ranbir  characterisation should have been portrayed as a wolf leader ( please read on the wolves ) All the characters of a wolf ... right from the wolf pack formation to eating habits to the way wolves fight or attack !!! 
2. The sister was such a weirdo !! Fail to understand why was she so submissive ? 
3. The BIL had the balls to misbehave with the sister was an extreme take on the character !! 
4.Bobby was superb  for even if it was for 15 minutes.
5.Bobby deol 's mouth piece brother was a total waste and not needed character.. 
6. I did sit through 3.5 hours ! 
7. Ranbir looked sexy and hot in lungi kurta .. ek dance banta tha boss in lungi kurta

The entire film was multiple scenes instead of a story line . Vanga should have given more time  to establish the conflicts , instead of slaps. The sister scene could have been planned out better for audience impact ...  clear msg to protect your sisters , a better prelude . Both the characters of Ranbir and Bobby had a Manmohan Desai movie feeling !! It should have been written down in a better manner ... the airport scene entry was like a karan johar song feeling ek sun naheen sakta   ek bol naheen sakta .... almost could hear the background score of k3g when both the brothers have a face off !! 

The axe scene with masks was unneccessary ... the punjabi song cut straight into marathi song was abrupt . They should have started the marathi bg with Freddy and full blown marathi music with the made in india Cannon would have been an impactful bg . 
The punjabi songs did not go with sequence of events but stand alone awesome music . The prelude of dil hain chota sa medley should have had a good choreographed song on Ranbir... would have been a super hit!! 
Bobby should have been introduced seconds before the interval  with a shhhhhhhh!!! 
 
Overall a mishmash of scenes after scenes with a weak storyline... too much of dislogues and noise !! Some of the dialogues were lewd,  cringe and the 4 days of pad ( entire monologue)was misogynistic .

Production design was great 👍  
Make up hair and costumes had its ups and downs .. the last scene make up of Ranbir was Jesus christ superstar gone wrong !! Fail to understand the obsession for fake long hair with South Indians.  
The naked shot of Ranbir did not have any meaning.... just a caricature of 50 shades of grey to shock the indian audience ( ofcourse which has been blurred off )
 
The movie is a Ranbir kapoor special ...he had given his 200 % most of the scenes he has downright convincing performance.
 

Saturday, August 26, 2023

#chinesedrama #mysushine

 This is my first few  viewing  of chinese romantic dramas , it was mushy , romantic - straight out of mills and boon.

Wallace Chung as  the tall, dark, handsome, brusque, broody, tough, shrewd  was absolutely fantastic . He played his character perfectly. The parts were he goes soft absolutely makes you fall in love with him for a lifetime .

Tang  was superb in her role too ... there were some scenes that gave you a heartache just for her .

The journey from a young  love to adulthood was portrayed brilliantly. 

However there were flaws in the script , continuity , costumes and art direction , edits . There were too many repeated flashback scenes. After a point it was very boring . The 31st episode could have been avoided completely , did not add any value to the storyline . 

The main character female lead was flawed in the script . Why do we have to portray woman not so good enough for a handsome , broody ,coquettish man. I disliked that repeatedly Zhao  moshang was addressed as not great , average , stuttering , girl . I wish her return FROM USA  was portrayed as a successful,  calm and confident girl . 

Model Xiao xiao  clothes were bad and her casuals blue and white shirt were repeated  multiple times , same shirt she was wearing even after 2 years . . Yime was  very irritating and till the end remained unexposed .( one of the reasons for moshang to not pursue yichen was what yimie had told her ) I wanted yichen to know about that . 

Secondly moshang "s USA life should have been told only once not multiple times in flashback . Art direction the changed curtains ( by moshang after her marriage ) is shown when yichen is standing and looking  before he married moshang .

The house was cold and unappealing wish they had more attention to art . The treasure magazine interiors was drab and pathetic . 

The art direction and script writer needs a rap on the knuckle . The hospital scene was cringe , it was downright exaggerated. The scene when yichen finds her bags packed for hongkong  was over exaggerated and bad acting . I strongly condemn these scenes as it's domestic assault with legal repercussions.  I strongly detest stories where men are put at a pedestal. Yichen did not treat her well in the second half and any girl with a little bit of pride would have not got married to him.

Can we rewrite the story with these brilliant actors once again.

 In my story the college love remains the same . But adulthood is different . Moshang is a successful photographer,  and the drunk scene with Ying rattles her . Moshang asks for a divorce , and ofcourse the divorce scene remains the same.  Moshang  takes up a short assignment in China as her current employer wants her to do couple of shoots in  China   .( she works for a plush magazine ). Moshang is hesitant to take up this assignment but her boss encourages and insists . Moshang having no choice comes to china . 

Moshang arrives as a successful photographer and has to complete her assignments and go back .  

All are in awe as moshang who never took studies seriously is now an ace photographer. She has cordial relationships with all , but yichen does not know how to approach her cos she has changed a lot . From the outgoing spunky girl she has changed to calm and collected woman . The things yichen use to say and getaway with it , now she no longer responds to it . 

This relationship is of equals . Yichen has to work towards his relationship to get moshang back . Nothing deters moshang , as she knows the fact that yichen will dump her once again .

Moshang who use to blurt out every little detail is now difficult to be read . Ying also pursues moshang , and gives tough competition to yichen . Moshang during  one of thier college meets comes across girls who r pursuing yichen , but moshang refrains to comment or join . Eventually all is well with yichen and moshang .