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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...

Cast: Varun Dawan, Banita Sandhu, Gitanjali Rao Music: Shantanu Moitra Written by: Juhi Chaturvedi Direction: Shoojit Sircar Love, one of the trickiest emotion and often showed in a clichéd manner is so refreshing in this film. Juhi Chaturvedi has written a beautiful story about love and with Shoojith Sircar’s elegant direction, October is a heart-warming film. Danish Walia(played by Varun Dawan), called ‘Dan’, is a hotel management internee at a five star hotel.   His co-worker, Shiuli Iyer(played by Banita Sandhu), accidentally falls off from 30 feet height. Shiuli Iyer slips into coma and Dan’s character undergoes a transformation. Dan has temperament issues, while working as internee and later he becomes mature. Varun Dawan has completely transformed into Dan, as I could witness the character than the actor. Banita Sandhu’s performance emote the audience’s emotions. The scenes where she responds are heart-warming. The screenplay is well written and d...