Miss Wisey Pants

With Naam Shabana, the director Neeraj Pandey had a lot to carry on his shoulders. After movies like Special 26 & Baby , one would expect nothing but at least the same amount of creative excellence from the movie-makers. Naam Shabana, unfortunately, does not stand up to the past promises. The movie revolves around the protagonist Shabana, played by Taapsee Pannu , and her mundane struggles in life which turn her into a stoic woman who has never experienced life sans troubles. Manoj Bajpayee works for a secret agency & plays the lead for a covert mission undertaken by his mothership. The employees of this agency, by the way, share a close bond and can go to any length to help & support each other. But if they find a random woman in the middle of a deserted road, late at night, being bullied by a group of Hooligans, they’d proudly and unapologetically step back and let the drama unroll, even if they are fully capable of saving the woman just because she d...

This weekend, I had the misfortune of watching the newly-released & Anushka Sharma -produced movie Phillauri, which I’d say should be aptly called Fail-lauri instead. To be honest, the trailer of the movie left me more hopeful than even my future prospects ever did. I literally counted days to the release of this intriguing plotline. And boy, how they botched it! Even Varun Dhawan did a better job in Badrinath ki Dulhaniya than Anushka Sharma in Phillauri. I don’t believe my own words when I say something in favor of Varun Dhawan. If given a choice between Shakti Kapoor & Varun Dhawan, I’d gladly choose the former over the latter. That’s how much I dislike Varun Dhawan. The movie is painfully slow, with laughs very hard to find and logic gone on a vacation for the 138 mins that the movie runs for. I had more fun watching the guy sitting next to me sleeping away to glory than watching the so-called comedy scenes in the movie. Suraj Sharma does a great job in whate...