Showing posts with label Mystery. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mystery. Show all posts

Soldier (1998) -Indian Movie Online Free




















Starring:
Rakhee Gulzar … Geeta Malhotra (as Raakhee Gulzar)
Bobby Deol … Vicky / Raju Malhotra
Preity Zinta … Preeti Singh
Farida Jalal … Shanti Sinha
Johnny Lever … Mohan / Sohan (as Johny Lever)
Suresh Oberoi … Pratap Singh
Dalip Tahil … Virender Sinha (as Dilip Tahil)
Sharat Saxena … Baldev Sinha
Ashish Vidyarthi … Dinesh Kapoor (as Ashish Vidhayarthi)
Salim Ghouse … Jaswant Dalal
Sheetal Suvarna (as Sheetal Suvarnaa)
Jeetu Verma
Kulbhushan Kharbanda
Pankaj Dheer … Vijay Malhotra
Priyanka
Directors:
Abbas Alibhai Burmawalla
Mastan Alibhai Burmawalla

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Sherlock Holmes [2009]


Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes continues to remain one of the most enduring literary creations and perhaps the single most famous sleuth ever created in the world of literature. The legendary resident of 221B Baker Street has been adapted to cinema and TV numerous times, but never has he received such a wacky image makeover as in Guy Ritchie’s Sherlock Holmes. Here, not only does Holmes have superior intellectual and deductive abilities, he is also a martial arts expert, and he requires all his faculties at full force to combat his antagonist. Robert Downey Jr., who seems to be “in the zone” so to speak, has given a sterling performance as the arrogant, cynical and brilliant Holmes, while Jude Law is decent enough as Dr. Watson. The film’s art-direction is excellent, especially in its recreation of Victorian-era London. Though it has a serpentine plot and delivers a number of twists on its way, it essentially remains a quintessential illustration of “style over substance”; at the end of the day, though immensely entertaining and darkly funny, the same can not be said about its impact or lasting value.





Director: Guy Ritchie
Genre: Thriller/Action/Mystery
Language: English
Country: UK

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Dum Maro Dum [2011]


Rohan Sippy quite surely has seen some world cinema, and has learnt about a few interesting filming techniques. But seeing his Dum Maro Dum, he seemed akin to a student of literature who might have memorised all the technical aspects about the language, maybe even the grandiloquent words, but has never learnt how to form a cohesive sentence. The film follows the lives of a number of disparate characters – an angry cop (Abhishek Bachchan), a sad musician, a naïve young guy and a self-destructive lady (Bipasha Basu), among others, all brought together by the prevalent underground drug-culture in India’s party-capital, Goa. Bachchan did a good job as the head of the team to clean Goa of its mess, and ends up going into collision-mode with the drug lords. A plethora of twists and turns later, however, the film turned into more of a brainless cat-and-mouse game than an intelligent thriller. For the film to be successful, it was essential for the director to invest time in building the atmosphere and making Goa the symbolic fifth character of the film. Unfortunately for us film goers, that never happened, and so a premise that held a lot of promise, was instead turned into a mindless, hyper-stylised and over-edited series of unrelated montages. And by the way, legendary composer R.D. Burman would surely be turning in his grave listening to the bastardisation of his iconic tribute to the hippy era – the Hare Rama Hare Krishna song that game the movie its name.





Director: Rohan Sippy
Genre: Thriller/Crime Thriller/Mystery
Language: Hindi
Country: India

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Murder, My Sweet [1944]


Humphrey Bogart has been so ingrained in the cultural consciousness of film lovers that it felt a tad strange initially seeing someone else portray the character of Phillip Marlowe onscreen. But once I got over that, I must admit it was sheer pleasure seeing Dick Powell play the bitingly cynical and doggedly persuasive gumshoe, as well as, watching this wonderful cinematic rendition of Raymond Chandler’s marvelous pulp-novella Farewell My Lovely. The storyline is gleefuly byzantine and so I wouldn’t even venture explaining the plot here; suffice it to say, the film didn’t attempt to simplify the novel’s deliriously convoluted plot – which, disappointingly, Howard Hawks did with the Chandler masterpiece The Big Sleep. Dick Powell, as the acerbic and world-weary PI, with a fiercely protected code of honour, was exceptional and was most certainly an inspired choice. The story is infested by a series of delectably amoral characters, and their personifications were good throughout. This landmark film noir also boasted of terrific hard-boiled dialogues, and the sleazy characters, the murky atmosphere and the decrepit urban landscape, what with the blackmails, murders, human corruption and a free flow of double-crosses, have been exceptionally captured through moody B/W photography, outstanding camera work and a superbly paced narrative, all bound together by great direction.





Director: Edward Dmytryk
Genre: Film Noir/Crime Thriller/Mystery
Language: English
Country: US

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D.O.A. [1949]


D.O.A. has one of the most memorable opening sequences in the history of film noirs – a man walks into a police building to report a murder… his own murder! The remainder of the movie is played in flashback where the protagonist Frank Bigelow , a CPA vacationing in California, gets mysteriously poisoned while in a bar. With only a day or two to live, Frank goes about solving his own murder piece-by-piece. Exceptionally played by Edmund O’Brien, Frank is a regular man inadvertently thrown into a nightmare – an inescapable nightmare and of the darkest sort, and a sordid and sinister world of black marketers, extortionists and cold murderers. The plot might seem a maze to many for its convoluted nature, yet it also happens to be wildly intriguing and gripping, and the storytelling has ensured that the film ought to rank as one of the most innovative noirs ever made. The film is relentlessly dark, and expectedly it ends on a fatalistic note – the final sequence where Frank’s file is closed with the remarks “Dead on Arrival” would rank as one of the most fascinating final scenes. The film is frenetically paced leaving one breathless at times, and when the film gets over, I had a feeling that I too was as much a part of the nightmare as the protagonist was. Yes, it was a B-film, but it remains a classic-noir nonetheless.





Director: Rudolph Mate
Genre: Crime Thriller/Film Noir/Mystery
Language: English
Country: US

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