Chennai: The Indian Army is conducting a military exercise on the Andaman and Nicobar Islands with a warning to China. The exercise was jointly conducted by the Eastern Naval Command and the Andaman and Nicobar Command. Army sources said that important warships of the Navy were present.
The strategic Andaman and Nicobar Command is made up of three armies. Rear Admiral Sanjay Vatsyayan led a military exercise in which Indian warships lined up near the Straits of Malacca. The U.S. warships USS Nimitz and USS Ronald Reagan conducted military exercises in the South China Sea yesterday.
The new still from the new movie “No Time to Die” from the James Bond series has been released. The protagonist of the film is Daniel Craig. This is James Bond’s 25th film. The film is directed by Carrie Joji Fukunaga. The film also stars Ralph Fiennes and Rory Kinnear. The film is produced by Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli. The new film begins with Bond enjoying a quiet life in Jamaica after leaving active service.
Thiruvananthapuram: Following the outbreak of the COVID virus, the government has announced a ten-day lockdown in the coastal areas of the Thiruvananthapuram. The lockdown will take effect from midnight today. No one is allowed to come in or out of the coast. Monitoring will be strengthened in Idava-Perumathura, Perumathura-Vizhinjam, and Vizhinjam-Pozhiyoor areas. Steps will be taken to bring essential items including food items to the area in case of closure.
The number of inspections have increased in the area of community outreach. Efforts are being made to provide treatment to the people of the coastal areas. There are 16 first-line treatment centers under the control of local bodies in the capital. After evaluating the activities of the center at Greenfield Stadium in Karyavattam, Minister KK Shailaja said that more centers would be set up. A triple lockdown will also be announced in the area with the highest number of patients. Strict control has also been declared in the area bordering Tamil Nadu.
Xiaomi has released the Mi TV Stick. It is an Android TV stick. Various features include Chromecast and Google Assistant.
This stick provides a streaming resolution of 1080 pixels. Dolphy will provide DTH support. The stick has 1GB of RAM. It has an app storage of up to 8 GB. This is a stick that can be controlled remotely. This is possible via Bluetooth. The hotkey for Amazon Prime and Netflix are available remotely. There is also a Google Assistant button.
Thiruvananthapuram: Fishermen in Kerala warned no to go for fishing off the coast of Kerala for the next 5 days. The Central Meteorological Department has forecast strong winds of 40 to 50 kmph along the Kerala coast from today to the 22nd. During the same period, strong winds of 50 to 60 km per hour are expected in the south-western and central-western Arabian Sea.
Strong winds of 40 to 50 kmph are expected in Karnataka, Kerala, Lakshadweep, and adjoining south-eastern Arabian Sea. Strong winds of 40 to 50 km per hour are expected in the central and eastern Arabian Sea. Fishermen are not allowed to go fishing in the above areas during this period.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (INCOIS) has forecast 2.5 to 3.8 meters high waves along the Kerala coast from Pozhiyoor to Kasaragod till 11.30 pm on the 19th. Coastal residents need to be vigilant.
The safety of fishing equipment should be ensured. Secure fishing vessels (boats, canoes, etc.) in the harbor.
Meera Anil Wedding Photos – Malayalam Television anchor and actress Meera Anil got married to Vishnu. Marriage held at Attukal Bhagavathy Temple Thiruvananthapuram. Photos: MoonWedlock
•ONE WORD: A one-time watch movie offering plenty of loose ends.
•DETAIL REVIEW:
LAW tells about the story of Nandini a law student who is raped by a gang. Instead of hiding she comes forward and decides to fight for justice and the rest of the story unfolds different path lead by her to punish the culprits.
Like a flip of a coin this movie also had two sides exemplifying both good and bad. The good thing is the story and the bad thing is the screenplay and direction. Looking into these both sides the story was great and it was having every component for a perfect suspense thriller but the other side of the average direction and poor writing of screenplay made the movie in ending up to an average level of category.
The story penned by the director Raghu Samarth was brilliant with many suspense and thrilling factors but when he comes to the screenplay the depth of the story was spoiled by the poor writing. The various scenarios he had written in the screenplay was not having a proper strength to maintain the impact of the plot. Most of the twist was big enough to give surprises but the circumstances leading to that twist look amateurish. While watching the film it’s is clearly noticeable that the inexperience of writing a good screenplay was missing, if the screenplay was made by an expert this movie had been turned out into a nail-biting thriller.
The same sort of immature was seen on the direction, not at all happy with the impassionate making of Raghu Samarth. He shouldn’t have been done the direction, his formulating way of making the movie was intermediate. At some point, the making style maintains its momentum but those grasp in making was not hold flawlessly every time. The major drawback in the direction was the unnecessary usage of cliché factors especially songs, he could have been focused more to avoid these faults. The songs had never matched with its outlines which would have been avoided by the maker.
The pattern of direction was different in both first half and second half. The first half was not up to the mark, most of the occurrences were hard to believe and also the making looks unpleasant. But after the twist and turn the way of the implementation by the director was balanced but still, the several ideas which the maker had implemented for setting up to the content and to the climax shows the depletion of credibility. From the second half, most of the aimed factors for setting up the suspense started to get predictable which had happened because of the shoddy way of screenplay writing. Looking into the dialogues were jotted down brilliantly especially those powerful words in the climax and ending. The crisp and sharp dialogues during the trial were effectively implemented. The talks denoting the affection of parents were also nicely made but the humour conversation we’re felt unwanted.
The court plays an important part in this film and one the most disgusting thing about the movie is the horrible portrayal of court decorum, in some of the scenes the arguments between the advocates and judge look unrealistic. Also, the judge who had shown in the film was horrible, none of the qualities of a district court judge was seen. A judge cracking the jokes and having the personal call in between the time of cases was so pathetic to watch. The lack of acceptances in the investigation lead by the first police inspector is also a further con configuring the dearth of realism.
Ragini Chandran as Nandini did a great job, the intensity was seen on the whole performance. As a lawyer, she did a pretty good job and the personality of a lawyer was fair. Also the emotional scenes we’re acted out properly. Siri Prahlad also did a notable performance. Mukhyamantri Chandru as the judge, Achyuth Kumar as the father of Sir and Avinash as the father of heroine did justice to their supporting roles. Both Krishna Hebbale as the police officer and Rajesh Nataranga as the advocate did a terrific performance. Rajesh Nataranga deserves a special mention for his outstanding acting, the characteristics of a dominant advocate were undertaken brilliantly.
The cinematography of Sugnaan was fine but nothing special to mention, a normal camera work. Some of the close-up shots and camera placement were ordinary. The editing by Srikanth was tragic, the cuts to the next scene were mismatching and these mistakes had happened in various part of the movie causing a disturbance in viewing also the sudden cuts were totally awful. The background score tuned by Vasuki Vaibhav was moderate, the BGM used in the court scenes were fitting to set the tone but the tunes at the emotional scenes we’re average. The track ’Happy Song’ was unwanted in the film but still the song good to hear and felt a feel good.
So overall to conclude I felt ’Law’ is a half baked movie in all manner which had given me a mixed experience. The dull writing in the screenplay, mediocre direction and the worst editing had spoiled a good story but still, the movie is watchable which can be acceptable for a one time watch.
•ONE WORD: Another disaster in the list of worst Bollywood films.
•DETAIL REVIEW:
Virgin Bhanupriya tells the story of Bhanupriya Awasthi who dream to find a man of her dreams and breaks her virginity. One day a prophetess makes a prediction that she won’t be able to break her virginity in life. By the annoyed prediction, she decides to overcome her bad luck. Rest and the story further tells her various ways to break her virginity.
Firstly to begin with, from direction to the screenplay most of the things in the movie don’t turn accurately as the makers aimed to execute. To make it clear ‘Virgin Bhanupriya’ is one of the most pathetic films I had ever watched in my entire life. With a stupid concept, the makers had tried their best to ruin the time of the viewers.
The story and direction held by Ajay Lohan is the first worst part of the film. The story was totally insane and brainless for a feature film, also with an upsetting screenplay; the whole film was a mess of foolishness. As a comedy oriented film, the priority goes for humour but here whatever the comedies they had made for the movie resulted out substandard and to be honest I didn’t see anything funny or entertaining.
The saddest thing about the movie is it lacks a proper storyline and end into a tedious disastrous situation in all manner. While watching everyone can notice that all of the targeted factors in the film is so overly cliched and over-much conceit also thus heist genre will give a clear idea that the film is completely making a parody of itself. It is also visible that all the expected tropes are there, but the film offers nothing else new or more to peak the audience’s interest.
The major drawback of the film is the situations portraying in the film, it doesn’t satisfy with any sort of believability and also the predictable way of storytelling throws the movie into an extent level of disjointness. The screenplay was filled with the factors of love, friendship, situational comedies, parenthood, romance, betrayal etc and sadly none of these aimed factors hasn’t worked out genuinely to show it’s depth. Similarly overdramatic and exaggeration of numerous situations is also a major problem associated with the half baked screenplay.
As a modern time-oriented film many adult comedies have been coming in Bollywood films and some of them are enjoyable too but this one is actually making a kind of fun or a mockery of its own by the dumb storyline. The whole storyline is certainly an insult to the morality of women; no one can see a kind of women is searching for various men to break her virginity. As the makers are haunted with these sex and virginity factors they had completely forgotten about a proper quality of filmmaking and subsequently, there was not even a single thing of entertainment while coming across the comedies.
Importantly the way the director had written the life of the central character is also boring. The parents of Urvashi Rautela was utterly disgusting, there was no proper characterisation. The personalities of parenthood we’re never seen in them and the gimmicks they had exhibited as comedies was too exhausting to watch. Also, the life and the written way of central character Bhanupriya is deprived of depth and intensity. Whatever she thinks and do doesn’t have any proper justifications and all her steps in life look crappie, none of the audience can justify it.
Looking at the dialogues most of the conversation was overdramatic especially when it comes to the crucial scenes. The dialogue guess written for the emotional scene looks funny, none of the words we’re having a sentimental approach also those portrayals of funny situations looks wired. Moreover the overdose use of foul languages we’re totally disturbing also embarrassing to hear. Melodramatic way of writing the dialogues had also made ’Virgin Bhanupriya’ uninteresting.
It’s odd to say but director Ajay Lohan should learn the basic elements in film making. His making was too monotonous and the whole movie had affected it, resulting as one of the worst films of 2020. Literally, it was like a big-budget Bhojpuri film, none of the components has logic simply making and compelling the viewers to believe it’s a Bollywood film. He has the potential but should learn the basic principles of filmmaking and facts of experiences.
Coming to the performance of actors none of them had shown justice. I am not getting why did Urvashi Rautela choose this film and also her performance doesn’t have anything special or interesting. Her looks were good and rest at the romantic scenes and emotional scenes the acting was average. The actor who had done the father role was unbearable and his acting never matched the characteristics of a loving father. Archana Puran Singh as the mother was also exactly like mentioned above. Rumana Molla as the friend had also delivered a poor performance, her jokes and her anger was repulsive to watch. Rajiv Gupta as Vijay who had made for making up the comedies looks ridiculous. Gautam Gulati’s show of muscles and six-pack was the only good thing about him and when comes to the acting his performances are unacceptable.
The musical work composed by Chirrantan Bhatt, Ramji Gulati, Amjad Nadeem Aamir and Saurabh-Vaibhav was mediocre. The track”Dil Apni Haddon Se” was only good because of its voice of the singer. Virgin Bhanupriya – Title Track” composed by Saurabh-Vaibhav and sung by Dev Negi was disappointing. The song”Beat Pe Thumka” was good for wedding scenarios and the beats were fine. Sadly, the background score in the film was too bad. The most annoying part of the background score was the crap tunes used at the time of comedy scenes. As a comedy film, it’s fine to use these tunes but for each and every comedy scenes they were unnecessarily adding and made the worst irritation to hear. The background score at the emotional scene also looks too filmy like of a teleserial type offering overdramatic. The cinematography of Johny Lal was good with normal frames, nothing great. Some visuals of Goa was captured perfectly. The editing of Akshay Mohan was also ok; some mismatches were here and there at the cuts.
So overall Virgin Bhanupriya doesn’t offer anything new, the movie had given a dissatisfying experience in all manners because of its terrible storyline and miserable making. I won’t recommend this film to anyone; rather it’s a complete waste of time, better to skip it for saving your time and energy.
After ‘Jellikattu’, the new poster of the new movie ‘Churuli’ directed by Lijo Jose Pellissery has been released. Chemban Vinod Jose, Vinay Fort, Joju George, and Jafar Idukki play the lead roles. S Harish has penned the screenplay based on the story of Vinoy Thomas. Cinematography by Madhu Neelakanthan. Editing by Deepu Joseph. Sound Design Ranganath Ravi.
Chief Associate Director Tinu Pappachan. Animation Director Balaram J. Designs Old Monks. Produced by Lijo Jose Pellissery and Chemban Vinod Jose.
Thiruvananthapuram: Plus Two, VHSE exam results have been published. The pass percentage for Plus Two is 85.1.
Education Minister Prof.C Raveendranath announced the results at 2 pm. Results are available on the website www.keralaresults.nic.in Results are also available on DHSE, PRD, and Kite websites. The results will also be available through PRD Live and Saphalam 2020 apps.
