Bharat, The Tashkent Files

Watched two movies as mentioned in the subject line.
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Bharat

• This movie was watched at PVR Forum Mall.
• I liked the movie.
• The mines scene in the movie is just unbelieavable.
• I mean I understand during oil wells and gas wells you do not need to descend inside a mine.
• Maybe it is required during coal mine and diamond and other metals and minerals.
• Maybe what Salman Khan wanted to shoot would have been in a coal mine like what exists in Jharkhand and Bihar stuff films like "Kaala Pathar" were made off.
• But it would be difficult and prove more expensive and challenging and so maybe he took the easy way out and shot the movie in Middle East giving oil as a reference.
• In the last scene while Salman's shop is being destroyed we find that it is still full of goods.
• Maybe he should have removed the groceries before destroying the shop.

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The Tashkent Files

• This movie was watched at PVR Vega City.
• This is a 3 hour long propaganda movie.
• It fits into the category of movies like 
• Uri
• PM Narendra Modi
• The Least of These
• Haseena Parkar
• Indu Sarkar
• The Accidental Prime Minister, etc. movies which have been made to absolve the Sangh parivaar of any wrongs and criticise the Congress Party, Pakistan, Christians, Indira Gandhi, Sanjay Gandhi and the opposition and paint them as the bad guys.
• I will say that this movie shows that how for money Indira Gandhi sold Indian interests to USSR.
• It does not criticise Jawaharlal Nehru but wants Shastri to be PM succeeding Nehru which did not happen.
• I will say it is not simple to just put everything in terms of money.
• There is also ideology.
• India was proponent of Non Aligned Movement (NAM) and the film makes no mention of that.
• Pakistan was an outpost of NATO/US to tap into the Soviet Union.
• And Bangladesh was outcome of Soviet project of involvement in dismemberment of East Pakistan from West Pakistan. 
• India and Indira Gandhi played a very big part in the project.
• And even decades after Soviet Union fell, Communists still ruled over West bengal and Tripura which was like a de-facto base for the "liberation of East Pakistan"
• So friends in the RSS please do not think that US is a very holy country and Soviet union is all villian.
• We should not sacrifice what is right just to be friends with US or any other country.
• Please do not forget that imperialsism had to be got rid of first.
• India got independence from Imperialists in 1947, other countries in Asia and Africa it was still ongoing affair.
• Do not forget that at that time Vietnam war was still raging where an innocent country was subject to brutal war from all sides. 
• Just think about it. What happened was right. Accept it.
• You cannot rewrite history by twisting it.
• Rather you people have been given mandate do something good for future. Do not spoil it by propaganda.

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Avengers Endgame, Alladin, PM Narendra Modi, De De Pyar De

Watched four movies as mentioned in teh subject line.
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Avengers Endgame

• This movie was watched at Cinepolis Orion East Mall.
• I liked the movie.
• So many superheroes come back to life and Thanos is just ruined in the movie.
• It all depends on time travel and Captain Marvel.
• Both together save the day.
• And Captain America places the infinity stones "where they were" and goes on to "lead his life" and reaches the exact spot where the time travel thing happened after the Endgame war is over in his old age.
• Movie is okay to be watched without any problems.

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Alladin

• This movie was watched at Lakshmi theatre, Tavarakere.
• Too good movie and highly recommended.
• It definitely felt like a very "British" movie with Guy Ritchie as director.
• And Will Smith had come to India and taken clues about the Bollywood song and dance routines.
• We can say the movie also felt 50% Indian or 50% Rajasthani to be precise.
• Movie is definitely too good.
• The Genie is the most powerful thing in the universe and the villian turns to a genie in the movie.
• There can be sequel if the producers decide.

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PM Narendra Modi

• This movie was seen at PVR, Forum Mall, Koramangala.
• I liked the movie.
• I will say Vivek Oberoi has done too good role.
• I feel he overshadows the actual PM in certain scenes.
• Since he portrays a fictional character he can be perfect.
• As we know our PM in reality is not that perfect and he is inconsistent. He hits in all corners. And speaks different things in different times based on situation.
• But in movie the PM Narendra Modi character is perfect and the hero does a perfect role.

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De De Pyar De

• This movie was watched at PVR, Forum mall.
• I liked the movie.
• It shows affair between an older man and younger woman.
• I felt only thing missing was actual sex scenes and that would have made the movie perfect.
• Since that can't be shown on the screen we have to adjust and "leave it to imagination".
• Movie can be seen once without any problems. 
• Javed Jaffrey also had played a role in one movie as elder man in love with two women.
• And Ajay Devgn also played one in another multi starrer in which Emran hashmi was there.
• I guess the movie felt like we had seen bits of it earlier.

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Game of Thrones Concluding Season

• I watched the Game of Thrones Concluding Season on Hotstar.
• I guess all the people including the actors and makers were successful in hiding the fact the Kings Landing would get destroyed completely.
• That was great by them.
• There was no leakage of the plot before hand.
• People expected little damage but never expected complete destruction like it happened in Episode 5 of Season 8.
• I liked the Episode 5 anyways. It was the most logical episode according to me. People who were equating Kings Landing with London over the years would have been the ones most disappointed with the episode.
• What we would expect Daenerys would be doing. Not like garlanding each and every people of Kings Landing.
• She was there to destroy. And that was she did.
• Maybe if the other dragon was alive, Jon Snow could have commandeered the dragon and stopped Daenerys in her tracks. We just don't know. Euron Greyjoy took the other dragon out in Episode 4.
• Also Episode 3 was a little heart breaking I mean it is that easy to get rid of the Army of the Dead.
• Just kill their leader The Night King and the entire Army crumbles.
• I mean if it that simple then the Night King and his Army never deserved to win anyway.
• Also they were dead anyway.
• So the dead should stay dead and the world is better with that.
• The world has to deal with the living anyway.
• But what about Jon Snow.
• He was dead anyway and brought back to life.
• So the rule applicable to others is not applicable to Jon Snow.
• Also, in the last episode Jon Snow bended his knee to Bran is simply unbelievable and unacceptable. Bran is after all his kid brother. That was a disappointment.
• And when North becomes independent and does not need to bend the knee to Bran the Ruler of Six kingdoms why should Jon Snow bend the knee when he stays beyond the North at the Nights Watch. It is absurd.
• Arya goes on chasing to a place where there are no maps.
• And we can expect a genocide will follow and make existing civilisation extinct like it happened following Christopher Columbus journey to the Americas.
• Arya would be no hero in that case. Only a "colonialist" or "imperialist".
• Also Jon Snow so simply could murder Daenerys in last episode is unbelievable.
• I mean such a powerful queen had no bodyguards. It is laughable.
• Jon Snow was not frisked when he went to meet the queen. That is also unbelievable.
• Such a powerful queen faced threat of assassination every step of her way. I mean where was Greyworm and his guards entourage.

Stree

• Watched the above movie Stree on Hotstar.
• I liked the movie,.
• But I felt that movie has several loose ends which they have not covered.
• Like how seamlessly the heroine Shradha Kapoor merges with the Stree character.
• I mean how is it even possible.
• Are there two Strees or they are oen and the same.
• And where does she go rest of the year.
• And when the Stree abducts the men how come they returned back unharmed.
• In that case where they went when they got abducted.
• I guess if you leave your brain outside the cinema hall and watch then it is okay.

Student of the year 2

• Watched the above movie Student of the year 2 at Inox Cinemas.
• I liked the movie.
• The guy Aditya Seal is too good. Must I say he is hero material.
• And we all know Tiger Shroff.
• The fact that Aditya Seal can challenge Tiger Shroff in the movie at least is pretty good and does a good job.
• The ladies also have done tremendous job.
• Movie is worth watching definitely.

Kalank

• Watched the above movie Kalank today at Lakshmi theatre, Tavarakere
• I will say the movie is great.
• It is sheer propaganda by few people who are discrediting the movie.
• This movie can be compared to "Titanic"
• Titanic was a long movie but this movie is not that long.
• Maybe it is 2 hours forty minutes if we exclude the end credits.
• Thsi movie is a love story par excellence.
• This movie shows "utopia".
• Means it shows a mythical world which has ceased to exist.
• Things cannot go back to the way they were
• And just like we see in Titanic that after death the souls get united in the same state as they were in long past this movie also shows similar kind of ending.
• Alia Bhatt character also asks a question to the audience whether the "love" that she did was "true love" or "Kalank" means a black spot or flaw.
• I will say that it is true love.
• And that is why the souls get united after death.
• I will say Kunal Khemu has done a great role. He deserves more roles in movies.
• He is a talented guy and people will miss if he is not acting actively.
• Varun Dhavan, Madhuri, Alia and Kiara Advani have also done great roles.
• Aditya Roy Kapoor and Sanjay Dutt have subdued role maybe because that is what was required of them.
• I will give 5 stars to the movie.
• It is a shame to compare it with Thugs of Hindustan which was a really bad movie.
• Also we can't compare with Sanjay Leela Bhansali movies which appear like the movies from the "Middle Ages".
• This movie captures the "modern age".
• It is a challenge from me that movie made on the same theme and story set in pre-partition India in Lahore cannot be made better than this.
• But I have watched Earth movie starring Aamir Khan and it was also as good. That movie felt real. That was also on the same subject.
• This movie is built on a grand stage and is a love story and certainly we cannot compare it with Earth.
• But some common elements are there nevertheless.
• Movie is definitely worth watching and I am not doing propaganda.

Civil War : A Ken Burns Documentary movie

• Watched the nine part episode above series Civil War : A Ken Burns Documentary movie on Netflix.
• Actually Netflix at Rs 500 per month is expensive for me.
• And when I read that just only mobile plan at 250 Rupees per month is being offered I took the membership.
• And First thing I began to watch was Civil War Documentary.
• I had watched a little bit of the first episode earlier when I was member and then my membership expired. So I resumed watching with the 250 rupees membership.
• Wikipedia link is as below:
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Civil_War_(miniseries)
• I feel my blog post will not suffice as to what I have seen and understood.
• I feel just like the Vietnam War Documentary and Second World War Documentary by Ken Burns this is also a masterpiece.
• This should be made mandatory for every Candidate of President of United States including the President Elect to watch just like the Vietnam War.
• This documentary basically shows how the South which rose up as rebellion was doomed to fail.
• It shows how Abraham Lincoln came as Prophet Abraham from obscurity and emancipated the slave.
• Slavery got banned but freedom is still elusive.
• Freedom means all men are equal is still being chased by people in United States and around the world.
• The South fought the devastating war and their forces just kept getting expended and they could not get replaced ultimately.
• There were many desertions towards the end.
• Some fled to West and some to North.
• Entire South cites were left in ruins. Especially when William Tecumseh Sherman led his army through Atlanta, South Carolina and North Carolina.
• When the Army of General Lee surrendered to General Ulysses S Grant at Appomattox the war was over.
• And few days after the surrender Abraham Lincoln got assassinated and the victory seemed hollow to the entire nation.
• The funeral of Abraham Lincoln stretched for one month and his body was taken throughout the country for the tens of thousands of people to pay their respects.
• When war began in 1861, South had too much dreams. 
• But a year or two into the war the price they paid was so great that even if they would have won it would have felt like "Pyrrhic Victory'. No value of victory with such heavy price.
• South was fighting to build another country in south of present United States and they were planning to expand their empire to further South like Mexico, Central America and South America.
• But that dream just melted away.
• In the last episode of the series they began showing what happened to the different characters in war. Like who ended where and the stuff is real not like in movies where the characters are usually fictional.
• Worth watching.
• The commentary by Shelby Foote, Ed Bearss and Barbara Fields among others is just amazing.
• 670 thousand people (Americans) died in four years of the war.
• This was the War that made United States what it is.
• Shelby Foote has said several sentences which are noteworthy, three I will reproduce below :
• Before the war people had the habit of telling "United States are.." After the war it is always "United States is..."
• The reason for casualties being so high was because the weapons used were new and modern and people were unprepared.
• Nowadays Americans tell that they have never lost a war. But a big part of America which was the Confederate States or South lost and lost heavily. They just melted away.
• There were several skirmishes in 20000 people died on average.
• The Battle of Gettysburg was the turning point of the war.
• The Documentary also shows very early in the war few Generals of the North did not take action inspite of having the forces else the war might have ended sooner.
• The soundtrack is also too good. They show in End Credits and I will reproduce below:
• Ashokan farewell by Jay Ungar
• We are climbing Jacob's Ladder by Bernie Johnson Reagon
• Battle Hymn of the Republic By the Sanctuary Choir
• The below by Fredrick Fennell:
• Hail to the Chief
• Listen to the Mocking Bird
• Palmyra Schottishe
• Hail Columbia
• Freischutz Quickstep
• Parade
• Dixie
• Bonnie Blue Flag
• Luto Quickstep
• Cheer Boys Cheer
• Watltz No 19
• Maryland My Maryland
• Dixie by Bobbie Horton
• The Star Spangled Banner By United States Marine Band 
• Funeral March No.1 & Battle Hymn Quickstep by The heritage Americana Bass Band (conductor Robert Garafalo)
• When Johny Comes Marching Again
• If you can go through teh above soundtrack sometime and if possible watch the series as well.