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The True “Flying Sikh” of India

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Movie name: Bhaag Milkha Bhaag Cast: Farhan Akhtar, Pavan Malhotra, Sonam Kapoor, Prakash Raj, Divya Dutta, Art Malik, Yograj Singh Director: Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra Ratings: 4/5 Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra does it once again!! The movie revolves around the flying Sikh of India, Milkha Singh. The movie portrays his struggle from an ordinary boy to the famous athlete of the country. It also highlights about the instances from his shrilly past. At a very young age, he was forcefully brought to India during the partition. Since then, he was survived by his sister. The movie also touched upon various aspects of Milkha’s personal life, be it his love life with Biru, or his die heart friendship with --- or be it his determination to win 400m race. The movie begins as Milkha Sing walks into Rome 1960 Olympic Stadium for the 400m finals. The gripping background score by Shankar- Ehsaan- Loy along with the cheers from the crowd was enough to give one goose bums. Though the script ...

A Day in Shutter

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Movie name:  Shutter Cast: Lal, Vinay Directed: Joy Mathew Ratings: 3.5 / 5 stars The movie SHUTTER is a Indian Malayalam thriller film   and was released in the year of 2012. The movie was screened at 44 th International Film Festival of India 2013 at Goa. The movie showcases the life events of Rasheed, a gulf returnee who’s happily married and has two daughters. However, under the influence of his friends he decides to spend a night with a prostitute. Besides them, it was just Sura, Rasheed’s friend and an auto driver who knew about this.As there were no hotels available. Sura suggested them to hook up in his shop. While going out to buy food for the two of them, he pulls the shop’s shutter down and locks it. This is how they get into the Shutter. On the other side as Sura couldn’t open the shutter as he gets arrested for a ‘drink and drive’ case. During their course of stay in the shop, Rasheed begins to feel guilty of betraying his wife and children. ...