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Spadikam (1995)
Tough one
Mohanlal dons the role of an extremely tough guy in this movie. Especially the fight scenes are pretty raw... you really see him jumping around on rocks and falling on benches and stuff like that. sometimes it really looks real (which is pretty much for Indian movies)... the father-son relationship is of course the crucial point of the whole movie, thats why i wouldn't decrease mohanlal's character to just a rowdy. even though the characters are build up typically (in a typecasting way, means father is really shown as a "bad" man completely disrespecting his son's talents in the childhood, whereas everyone else is appreciating it) and not subtly, its the exceptional dialogues that make this movie unique. they are all full with intelligent sayings... so they come with a certain punch. Mohanlal's larger-than-life characters started actually with "devasuram" and continued here, but these ones are masterpieces, whereas the ones which mainly came after "aaram thampuran" are unfortunately not worth watching...
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Wag the Dog (1997)
This is how Cinema is intended to be!
i loved those scenes where they improvise. different people sitting in one room and creating a story. and the fact that they are doing it for the reality and not for some movie, is the best part about it. i mean just imagine THAT is the reality! Dustin Hoffman and Robert deniro built a wonderful team in this movie, especially Hoffman was just brilliant. the way he played that producer who seeks nothing more than recognition for his work was just a joy to watch. coming to the story, i've hardly ever seen something original like this before. and all this just because of Clinton. i think at last Clinton was a fabulous president. i mean he did his work in an excellent manner, and what he didn't do so excellent was his private life, but if i was an American, i just wouldn't care. but unfortunately so many Americans didn't think that way and blasted it into a big scandal. well, anyway, in that way we got this great movie.
i thank everyone who worked on this movie for this fine cinema.
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p.s.: why is it only rated 7??? you should be kidding...
Hera Pheri (2000)
It's a Remake - sorry...
when i first saw the rating here 8.6 with over 100 votes i thought: wow, i must watch this movie. but only then i read the storyline. sorry guys, but this movie is an almost remake (as far as the storyline goes) of a big malayalam hit of the 80s, "ramji rao speaking" (ramji rao is the villain here), directed by the director duo siddique lal. priyadarshan was such a great director in malayalam. he started with slapstick-movies, then very good comedy movies (chithram, kilukkam) and then even really good serious movies (almost all with actor mohanlal). but then, one day he decided to remake malayalam hits (and not even his own ones, but that too) in Hindi. "Yeh Teraa Ghar Yeh Meraa Ghar" for example is a remake of the malayalam movie "sanmanasullavarku samadhanam". even the story of his latest malayalam movie "vettom" is bit copied from the English movie "french kiss" with meg ryan and kevin kline.