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Cast: Rajinikanth, Akshay Kumar, Amy Jackson Music: AR Rahman Direction: Shankar Shankar directing ‘Super Star’ Rajnikanth for the third time, and this time it’s a sequel to their magnum opus ‘Endhiran’. 2.0 brings back our favorite robot Chitti fighting the fifth force of nature. Before talking about the movie, please do experience the movie in 3D. The 3D was not just a gimmick but was organic in the movie. The movie’s visual effects is well done, making the 3D experience a must watch. Now about movie, Shankar dives straight into the story. The phones getting pulled to the sky, Dr. Vaseegaran wants his robot, Chitti to be approved to solve the problem. Well, in the same scene we get introduced to Dhina, son of scientist Bohra who is killed by Chitti in ‘Endhiran’. One of the weakest character in the film, but plays a major role in this film. It’s enough of the weakest character, let’s talk about the strongest character, our very own ‘Chitti’. He is amazing on scr

Cast: Vijay, Keerthy Suresh, Varalakshmi Sarathkumar, Radha Ravi, Pala. Karuppiah Music: AR Rahman Direction: AR Murugadoss Sarkar (meaning Government) is where Sundar Ramasamy (Vijay), CEO of GL Corporation comes to India to cast his vote. He finds out his vote has been already casted. He decides to deal this issue in court. He is called as ‘Corporate Monster’ and I loved the way he handled the court scene and the press meet scene. The problem is all these scenes get over in the first 20 minutes. What follows is Vijay's political ambition. If only AR Murugadoss had handled the rest, it would have been a film like ‘Mudhalvan’. But AR Murugadoss decides to help Vijay in his political campaign. When Vijay and AR Murugadoss joined hands first time (Thuppaki) was dedicated to Indian army, their second film (Kaththi) was dedicated to farmers and this film has to be dedicated to Vijay’s future political party. I am still confused how AR Murugadoss wrote this script. A

Cast: Ayushmann Khurrana, Tabu, Radhika Apte Music: Amit Trivedi, Raftaar Girish Nakod Direction: Sriram Raghavan *Spoiler Ahead* “This is a long story. Coffee?” the opening dialogues in the blank screen. The scene opens with a farm land owner trying to shoot a notorious blind rabbit. This has nothing to do with the film, until the writing connects the main story. The film is a complete circle, every character serves a purpose and has an ending. Even a small character like the neighbor kid who is curious to know whether Akash (Ayushmann Khurrana) is blind or not gets a good character ending. Akash is a piano player who blinds himself in seek of focus. His experiment of being blind to gain more focus becomes miserable being a wrong place. The entire scene where Akash goes to play piano in Pramod Sinha (Anil Dhawan) house is brilliantly staged. The cinematography with the piano background score brings audience to the edge of the seat. The story development till t