Will smith starring Seven pounds is a beautiful emotional love story. Movie starts with Ben Thomas calls 911 for help. He tells 911 services that he is about to commit suicide.
Ben smith is a graduate from MIT will be working for a US internal revenue service’s as a tax officer. He has lost his loving wife in an accident. So, he will not be treating himself for years.
Ben finds that, Emily's record shows that, there is a mismatch in her transactions than what she claims. He visits Emily's home to find himself that is she is hospitalized. He then meets her in hospital and tells her that she has to pay a ransom amount. She asks for some time, since she was just discharged from hospital. He later visits again to her home to talk about the tax collections and both become friends. Ben offers 6 months time to pay without any penalty but soon he realizes that she living her last few weeks of her life as her heart is very weak and it can't pump enough blood to brain and other parts of the body.
Watch the movie to know what will happen next to Ben and Emily.
Stalog 17 is a about a prisoners of war captured by Germans. Its a nice mixture of drama, comedy. Stalag 17 is a prison camp for Russians, Americans, Poles and Czechs.
Movie starts with the narration of the story by Cookie. Two American soldiers will try to escape from the camp. Sefton (Hero of the story) who always tries to keep himself in a comfortable position bets with other camp members that those two American soldiers will not successfully escape out of the forest and they will be caught. The two American soldiers will be caught and they will be shot down. This escape was planned by security of the camp. Security is another POW in that camp of 630 is head of the camp.
Soon the the camp members realize that there is one among them who is tipping the information about whatever happens in the camp to German guards. Everyone will doubt about Sefton. Sefton is a rude man who tries to keep himself in a most comfortable position by betting, allowing camp members to view Russian women by his telescope, by arranging a mouse race for Cigarettes. By bribing German guards he will be getting access to even go outside of the camp and exchange things with others. He will be maintaining a store by himself for this and Cookie will be helping him for maintaining the store.
Because of his rude behavior everyone in the camp will believe that he is tipping the information to Germans. Another two more Americans will join the camp. One of them will be a lieutenant Denbar and Sergeant Bagradian. Even after getting caught lieutenant Denbar will be managed to blow of the train by placing a time bomb with his matches and cigarettes. This will cause lots transportation hurdle for German army. Lieutenant will reveal this in the camp. Even this information will be tipped Germans and Lieutenant will be taken to custody as sabotage. And next day two SS officers will be coming to camp to take Lieutenant and interrogate. So, camp members will be very anxious and they will doubt that Sefton is the one who has been tipping the information and they even beat Safton that night. Camp members warn him that they will cut his throat if he interferes in any of their activities or if they come to know that he is tipping the information.
Safton decides to find himself about the fellow who is tipping all the information to Germans acting as a agent for Germans. Camp members finally decide to escape Lieutenant from the camp next day.
Watch the movie to know, who is actually tipping the information, how Safton finds that German agent among themselves. What will happen to Lieutenant Denber. Will he successfully escape from the camp?
George Bailey is an owner of Bank, who dreams to travel around the world see the world. On a Christmas evening he is in trouble and he is planning to commit suicide. But, his wife and children pray to god to get him out of his trouble. As a result Joseph, the head of the angels calls a second degree angel to save George. If the second degree angel Clarance succeeds saving George by stopping him to commit suicide he would be promoted to first degree angel position and the wings. So, the angels tell the story of George Bailey.
George Bailey saves his brother Harry from drowning in ice water while playing when he was at the age of nine. Although Harry survives, he will lose hearing for one of his ear. George also saves his boss accidentally poisoning child medicines as a result he will be saving many children from poisoning and his boss from sentence to imprisonment. George who always dreams to travel around the world waits for his brother to get graduated and assign him a Job of handling the bank ownership to him. But Harry surprises George by marrying a girl already and getting by getting a Job. So, George sacrifices his dream. George then marries Mary, who loves George from her childhood. When they will be traveling for their honeymoon they will find that their bank is in great danger of getting collapse due to shortage of money to pay for its depositors. Potter, the meanest business man in the town offers "50 cents a dollar" for the share in bank. But George rejects the offer. Mary and George pays depositors the money they were about to use for their honeymoon until the money is restored from the people who has taken the loan. George and Mary settle down in an old house and they will have four kids.
Because of the George's effort people in the town would be building their own house instead of in a rented house of Potter. So, a cemetery will be turned in to a nice residential layout. So, Potter offers George a Job paying 20000 dollars a month traveling opportunities which George always dreamt of. But, George will reject the offer since he would lose the Bank for this offer.
Harry serves in army. When the war breaks out and save a warship, saves many American troops and kills many enemies. So, he will be awarded with the Medal of Honor and this will be front page news in the local news paper. Uncle Billy who will be serving as an accountant in Bailey's bank, accidentally gives Potter bank's money along with the news paper to Potter while showing the news about honoring Harry on a Christmas Eve. A bank verification officer visits the bank to check the bank records. Since Billy has lost the money, now George and Billy would be sent to jail for bank fraud and the fear of bankruptcy of his bank.
George then pleads Potter for help. But Potter rejects to offer him a loan. George then feels he is worth being dead more than alive since he has an insurance of 15000 dollars. George shows his frustration on his family and his family fells George is in some sort of trouble. George decides to commits suicide and his family prays god to save him from his trouble.
Watch the movie to know, how Clarance, second degree angel saves George from committing suicide and how could George come out of his trouble.
This movie tops the "AFI's 100 years 100 cheers" America's most inspiring movies list of 2006.
Based on the true story of a German business man Oscar Schindler, Schindler's List is a masterpiece from Steven Spielberg.
Movie begins when German occupies Poland and Second World War. All the Jewish community people are asked to relocate to cities and get registered. Oscar Schindler will take this opportunity to build up a utensil factory. He will initially hire an accountant Itzhak Stern. With the help of his accountant, Schindler finds Jewish investors for his company since Jews were not allowed to own any business. He will then buy a bankrupt company to manufacture utensils. By socializing and bribing large number of SS officers and high level German officers, Schindler gets an order from German Army to his its goods. Soon execution of Jews starts, so all his workers will be put in concentration camps as forced labors. In a final attempt to rescue his workers Oscan Schindler bribes Amon Göth and many other SS officers to save his workers and takes them away from the concentration to open up a new factory manufacturing machine gun shells and artilleries. But this business does run as he expected and eventually me makes loss in this business. By the end of Second World War he would eventually save 1200 Jewish workers from execution by risking his own life and bribing money. Once the war gets over he will flee, leaving all his workers since he would be hunted for manufacturing Guns and artillery shells for Germany.
This movie stands at 9th position in AFI's 100 years 100 Movies in its 2007's list.
This is one of the movies which you don’t want to miss it.
Life is Beautiful is plotted into two parts narrated by a character of the movie named Joshua. The first half of the movie is a romantic comedy. Guido (Roberto Benigni) who is a Jew by religion relocates to Rome to join in his uncle's hotel as a supplier wherein he falls in love with Dorra. Dorra is a teacher in a school and she is a non Jew will be getting engaged to a rich man who will be working as a civil servant. Guido steals Dorra from her engagement and settles together to have a kid Joshua. During this time Guido opens up a book store and his life seems to be very pleasant. During the second half of the movie, Guido will be taken for concentration camp along with his son Joshua on Joshua's birthday. Dorra joins them too to accompany her family in the concentration camp. In the concentration camp, Guido tells lies to Joshua as what ever happening in the camp is a part of a game, guards will be giving the instructions about the game and the players has to follow the instructions of the game, whoever makes 1000 points first will win the game and will get a real tank as prize. And he also convinces Joshua that he will lose the point if he cries for food, asking for mother. Guido maintains the story until end and convinces Joshua that, they are going to win the price. Panic will start at the concentration camp when the American guard's attack concentration camp. Guido in his final attempt to save his family asks Joshua to hide in a box until everyone has left. While trying to rescue his wife, Guido will be caught by Nazi guards and will be killed.
Watch the movie to know, what will happen to Joshua at the concentration camp after the chaos at concentration camp when American solders attack.
All in all, Roberto Benigni does a marvelous job as a Director, Co-writter besides acting in a lead role. I can say "Life is Beautiful" is a marvelous peace of craft. And a must watch movie.
Although it is a painful movie to watch, I will assure that your heart will be filled with pleasure while your eyes with tears at the end of the movie. It’s a movie which you would be talking for years.
Starring Puneet Rajkumar and Parvathi Menon, Prithvi is a movie about a geek, who has cleared a civil service examination and gets posted in Bellary. Prithvi (Puneet Rajkumar) marries and Parvathi Menon and relocates to Bellary. Bellary, as known for its rich mining business will be under control of mining riches and are also politicians and will be exploiting the rich mining resource illegally. When Prithvi will be posted to Bellary, he will soon realize the bureaucracy behind the mining business. He will stand against politicians to fight against the illegal mining business to protect the countrymen from the hazards of illegal mining. As a result politicians will trouble Prithvi, in his personal and professional life. But committed to his principles Prithvi will fight against politicians to stop illegal mining.
The movie end doesn’t seem to be convincing. Director completely loses control of the script at the end of the movie. So, movie turns out be just a watchable movie rather than impressing the audience.
It is obvious that, this movie certainly was made to showcase the Bellary mining riches ‘Reddy brothers’ and there illegal business.
Puneet Rajkumar has performed to his mark. Parvathi Menon doesn’t disappoint either. Avinash's performance is good. Dialogs are very punching. Director loses control over the movie in the second half. Music isn’t up to expectation. Only thing which could catch your attention is in the entire movie is the photography. Overall it’s a good movie to watch. It’s a cinematized version of current mining issues Karnataka is dealing with.
