Master, Monster Hunter

• Watched the movies as mentioned above in the screens.

Master

• This movie Tamil version with subtitles was watched on Amazon Prime Video.
• I must say the movie is full of great performances.
• You know the villian is all evil but still you fall in love with the character.
• More than halfway into the movie you see Vijay the hero taking action on the shopkeepers who are supplying free goodies to the villians people.
• While watching those scenes I thought only in Tamil movie we can see something like that.
• I mean what is the fault of the shopkeepers. They are just trying to be part of the system which always existed.
• Why attack them.
• But when the villian takes action on the heroes close colleagues you get a sense why the villian is dangerous and needs to be eliminated.
• Thus the Director wants to eliminate the guilt on the viewers minds.
• Movie is worth watching according to me.
  

Monster Hunter

• This movie was watched on the big screen at Cinepolis, SJR Mail, Bannerghatta Road.
• I liked the movie.
• The direction of the movie is superb.
• Part of the job of the Director is to make the audience believe that what he is showing is actually happening.
• The stuff viewers see should appear real.
• Whether it is dragons or huge spiders crawling out of narrow holes.
  
• This movie has Chinese producers and generally speaking Chinese and Russian and Iranian people are against Americans.
• I mean they have respect and appreciate US military but still they will show them taking a beating.
• This movie shows that and US military battling monsters from a parallel universe but no so successfully.
• Tony Jaa is a real monster hunter. 
• So what if Tony Jaa is Thai, he is Asian and Chinese will definitely make Asian as hero.
  

Taandav

•  Watched this web series "Taandav" on Amazon Prime Video.
• I feel the series was just getting "warmed up" much like Saif Ali Khan in the last episode of the series.
• Then there was outcry and present ruling Govt. stepped in to play "spoilsport", now I feel the series will have sequels but they will be more or less 'under scrutiny'.
• Don't expect more fireworks from the series anymore.
• As more famous people are involved, they may have to become more "compliant" if not toeing the Govt line fully.
• But series is worth watching anyways.
• It keeps you engrossed as to "what is next".
  

Baaghi 3

• Watched this movie Baaghi 3 on Hotstar.
• Movie is shot in Serbia but they have made it as Syria.
• Movie deals with human trafficking for becoming human bombs.
• It would have been better if the movie would have dealt with just human trafficking.
• Rather than becoming suicide bombers just human trafficking would have been enough.
• Why would some people take people from India Pakistan Nepal to make them human bombs.
• Doesn't make sense.
• Are there not people in their own countries to become human bombs?
• Also towards the end credits it shows the movie is a copy of "Vettai" Tamil/Telugu movie.
• Coming back to action. Mind blowing action is shown in the movie.
• I will say Tiger Shroff does not need to do Rambo First Blood movie.
• As he has several movies where the action level is full 100 times what you may see in a traditional family Hindi movie.
• Do not try to get a sense of action. 
• Just leave your brain outside the theatre.
• But lucky for me I watched it on Hotstar. 
• But still it may prove to be waste of your precious time.
  
• I could afford the time and have no regrets. 
• Movie is okay for a one time watch.
  

Bolo Hau

• Watched this movie "Bolo Hau" means "Say Yes" is Deccani language at PVR Vega City Mall.
• I liked the movie. Worth watching once.
  
• Movie is full of Hyderabad dialect or Deccani Urdu.
• Movie deals with how the women folk are forced to marry according to family wishes and bury their love lives forever.
• Family sees status and background (caste and family) before marriage and that is a fact wherever the region lies in India or Indian sub continent.
  
• In the movie twist happens due to Gullu Dada or Gullu Baba who does "palti" or flip flop and works for love.
• But in reality it may not happen and the world would be full of people whose love stories have come crashing down and remain unfulfilled.
  

Laxmii

• Watched this movie "Laxmii" on Hotstar.
• Actually my Hotstar 1 year subscription is expiring on February 3, 2021.
• I do not know if I would be renewing again.
• So I making a point to watch a few movies before it expires.
• I still have yet to watch the last Season of American Horror Story (1984).
• It may not be possible now but if I renew I can watch it.
• Coming back to the movie "Laxmii" which was going to be titled as Laxmii Bomb but they changed the movie before release.
• The reason may not be respect to Laxmi Goddess but respect for the transgender community.
• As Laxmii in the movie is the story of a transgender who gets killed in the movie and comes to possess the body of Asif portrayed by Akshay Kumar.
• I will say there is no point criticising the movie.
• The movie shows Indian culture and Indian mentality in its raw form.
• That is who we Indians are.
• That is reality.
• If you cannot accept it then it is a problem.
• The movie is not the problem.
• Movie is definitely worth watching once.
  

Khuda Haafiz, The Secret Garden, 12 O Clock

 Watched three movies as mentioned in the subject line.

Khuda Haafiz

• This movie was watched on Hotstar. 
• I liked the movie.
• But my problem is why shoot in Uzbekistan and make it as "Noman" which sounds like "Oman" but is shown in the movie to be geographically located in "Yemen".
• If you shoot the movie in Uzbekistan you can set the story in Uzbekistan or you can make it as any Muslim Central Asian nation.
• Why make it as Arab country?
• Just to make the Arabic storyline. Which may not be required, if you ask me.
• Or maybe the financiers wanted it that way.
• Or maybe the makers wanted it to have "multi nation appeal" if the Arabs don't mind being shown as such.
• If it was set in Central Asia, Arabs would not be interested in the movie anymore as it does not concern them.
• Across nations geography, terrain, language, climate and culture will change.
  
• Movie is definitely good for a one time watch
  

The Secret Garden

• This movie was watched at PVR Cinemas, Forum Mall.
• I liked the movie.
• Actually British lost the Indian subcontinent when India gained freedom.
• Along with India loss, British lost several hill stations like Ooty, Shimla, Dalhousie, Darjeeling etc
• These hill stations were the repositories of hundreds of thousands of acres of parks and gardens which were like "secret gardens" for the British as the British almost single-handedly ruled India.
• The novel and the movie are by products from the loss of India to the British.
• Movie is okay for a one time watch.
  

12 O Clock

• This movie was watched at PVR Cinemas.
• I liked the movie.
• This is Ram Gopal Varma stable movie.
• The same Ram Gopa Varma who made "Raat" movie.
• In Raat movie there was Om Puri who spoke of "Ananta Andhera" means infinite darkness which surrounds little light that we can see and assume it to be reality.
• Same dialogue is repeated here by the Tantrik Guru Ashsish Vidyarthi who in spite of his knowledge about the darkness cannot save himself in the end.
• Many people fall victim to the sinister force in the movie.
  

Ertugrul Season 2 Episode 38

• Presently continuing watching Ertugrul Season 2. 
• Now reached till Episode 38.
• Around December 19 had reached till Episode 16.
  
• Around November 2 had started watching it.
  
• Some days back we got the news that Ertugrul dies in the series Krurulus : Osman
  
• Well Episode 38 has a scene where the villian a Mongol named Noyan invokes the Ancient Gods of the Mongols while his "Shaman", Ulu Bilge beats away the drums.
• After watching it I also came across the news that the show has been banned in some countries.
• Apart from the politics behind the ban, another reason for the ban could be naked portrayal of "Paganism" and "Shamanism" shown in the series.
• Particularly Noyan mentions the Gods and historical figures like below:
• Kayra Khan
• Erlik Khan
• Muunchih
• Musmal
• Akkam
• Korakam
• Totem.Oge
• Chengiz Khan
• Tengri Ulgen
  
• After seeing the above in Google and Wikipedia, I came to certain conclusions.
• Turkik and Mongols and to some extent Bulgarian and Hungarian people have their origin in Central Asia (common origin).
• Just look at this two headed symbol which is the symbol for Slavs and Turks.
• Across many countries this symbol is common
  
• Even Aryans which descended on Indian subcontinent came from Central Asia.
• Russia is Central Asia.
• So all the regions are linked starting from Mongolia to the vast Central Asian region and Siberia stretching all the way into Central Europe.
• Christianity and Islam came much later.
• If we disregard religion and see race and ethnicity we may find Turks and Mongols have common history separated by several hundreds of years.
• In the meantime Christianity and Islam happened and the Turks converted and then began the new Mongol invasion like under Chengiz Khan and so on who still practiced the old religion and old Gods.
• These Mongols were heretics and did not believe in Islam or Christianity but ultimately they got assimilated in the countries they invaded.
• If we see the history of Indian subcontinent similar thing happened.
• Aryan invasion destroyed the Ancient Indus valley civilisation and in its wake left an area which came to have a new culture under Caste System.
• Buddhism then emerged in India and was exported around the Asian region but then the "Hindus" "came back with a vengeance".
• Basically this "new Hindusim" eliminated Buddhism while seeing other religions as "outsiders" and that led to demand for Pakistan.
• These "new Hindus" are like the "new Mongols" shown in Ertugrul Season 2.
• The "old Mongols" are nothing but the Turks shown in the series.
• Hence Ertugrul Season 2 is must watch not only for the history it shows but for the present real world implications.
• It is not about being right or wrong but what you believe in.
• Whether you acknowledge your origin else if you deny your origin or manufacture false ones you may face an existential crisis where you may be forced to question your existence.