Independence Day Weekend 14th Aug 2020

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Films to watch this weekend 

1. Gunjan Saxena, The Kargil Girl on Netflix
Cast: Janhvi Kapoor, Pankaj Tripathi, Angad Bedi, Viineet Kumar Singh, Manav Vij
Director- Sharan Sharma

Gunjan Saxena was the first woman to join the Indian Air Force as a pilot at the age of 24 and had served in the Kargil War as a rescue pilot. She was also the maiden female recipient of the Shaurya Vir Award, given to her for displaying courage and grit during the 1999 Kargil war.
Jhanvi Kapoor has improved a lot since her debut film, Dhadak(2018) and has given a good performance throughout the film.
Pankaj Tripathi is perfect as Gunjan's father. He is very natural and both share a great on screen father daughter chemistry.
The first 30 minutes are slow but with the entry of Vineet Kumar Singh as Flight Commander officer,  story catches speed and becomes entertaining.
Despite limited budget the climax showing Kargil war scenes looks realistic.
Good one time watch.

2. Khuda Hafiz on Disney plus hotstar

Cast- Vidyut Jammwal, Shivaleeka Oberoi, Annu Kapoor, Shiv Panditt, Aahana Kumra

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Cast- Vidyut Jammwal, Shivaleeka Oberoi, Annu Kapoor, Shiv Panditt, Aahana Kumra.
https://youtu.be/ByYWL1SEe-k

According to the trailer it's the story of a man who is madly in love with his wife, and gets married in 2009 during the recession. They go abroad and get a job. The story is about how this girl gets picked up and how the guy gets her back. It's a hardcore, true romantic movie with some great action sequences.
Film has been shot in Uzbekistan, Mumbai, Manali and Lucknow.

3. Dangerous (7 episode series on M X Player)

Cast- Bipasha Basu, Karan Singh Grover, Sonali RautDirector- Bhushan PatelWriter- Vikram BhattProducer- Mika, Vikram Bhatt

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Cast- Bipasha Basu, Karan Singh Grover, Sonali Raut
Director- Bhushan Patel
Writer- Vikram Bhatt
Producer- Mika, Vikram Bhatt

https://youtu.be/SHb18f-qHSQ

This was earlier a film titled Aadat shot in London. It was completed in 2018. The producers could not find any distributors & so the film couldn't release in theaters.

It's renamed as Dangerous to add some glamour and is streaming as a webseries on #MXPlayer (which is trying to make its place among other OTTs)

Vikram Bhatt as usual has tried to add sizzling scenes between the 3 lead actors to keep the viewers interested. Story is average without any plot twists. Bipasha is expressionless in most of the scenes. Karan Singh Grover looks stoned.
In 2015 the same director, Bhushan Patel casted Bipasha & Karan in his horror film Alone. The film was a moderate success. Bipasha & Karan started dating during the shooting of the film and got married in 2016.

Timepass. Only for big fans of Bipasha Basu or Karan Singh Grover 

4. Abhay Season 2 (Webseries on Zee 5)

Cast- Kunal Kemmu as SP Abhay Pratap Singh, Ram Kapoor, Chunky Pandey, Bidita Bag, Raghav Juyal, Indraneil Sengupta and Asheema Vadaan

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Cast- Kunal Kemmu as SP Abhay Pratap Singh, Ram Kapoor, Chunky Pandey, Bidita Bag, Raghav Juyal, Indraneil Sengupta and Asheema Vadaan

Producer- B.P.Singh, creator and director-producer of the Indian TV series C.I.D. (26 January 1998 to 28 October 2018), the longest running TV series in India)
It's directed by Ken Ghosh.
Season 1 received rave reviews.
The story is set within a year after the events of the first season. Abhay continues to hunt vile murderers and monsters.
3 episodes have been uploaded, rest of the episodes will be added in the coming weeks.

5. Churails (10 episode webseries on Zee 5)

A Zindagi original series made by Pakistani director Asim AbbasiCast- Yasra Rizvi, Nimra Bucha, Sarwat Gilani and Meher Bano

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A Zindagi original series made by Pakistani director Asim Abbasi
Cast- Yasra Rizvi, Nimra Bucha, Sarwat Gilani and Meher Bano.
Four women, a socialite, a wedding planner, a convict and a student set up a secret detective agency in Karachi to get justice to other women.
First 3 episodes are entertaining with good dialogues. After that the series becomes slow and monotonous.
First few episodes can be seen for the performances.

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