Chakravyuh: Yet another good movie in year 2012!!!!!!

Prakash Jha has done a fantastic job by touching such a sensitive and important issue. This is one subject about which everyone knows but hardly anyone knows. This movie will give you great insight of naxal movement and the life of naxalites, now reffered as Maowadis, in India. Prakash Jha’s deep knowledge about the subject has reflected into ...his presentation as well. Prakash Jha has raised the standards of direction in Bollywood with this cinema. While watching and after the end of the movie so many questions pop up in the mind and you hardly get any answers either from movie or by your own and maybe that’s the reason why you get convinced with title of the movie.
Abhay deol…..class performance!!! Arjun Rampal tried his best but he failed while delivering the dialogues at the intense moments but overall good show. Veteran actor Om Puri is as always flawless.Easha Gupta…. I don’t know why Mr. Jha wanted her in the movie???? Her character is absolutely needless and one feels it even more while looking at her performance. New entrant Anjali Patil left her impressions!!!!!!!! She made the character played by her live with Her intensity, energy, anger and expressions. And what to say about MANOJ BAJPAI…Sir you are absolutely great!!!!! It seems that Bollywood got its new action hero in the form of Manoj Bajpai. Other actors like Murali sharma, Mukesh Tiwari supported nicely with their performances.
Background music is good. Sameera Reddy’s item number, a crowd puller, is purely a business proportion but could have been avoided as such great creations hardly need crowd pullers nowadays.
Overall another must watch!!!

Life of Pi : What an amazing movie!!!! Hats off to the writer!!! Aang Lee, the director, felt like a magician of silver screen. Few frames in the movie are unable to get our of my mind the one when movie starts, the way he shown sky and its reflection in the night, the animals are great to watch throughout the movie.Bengal Tiger looks awesome. I haven't scene such a nice filming of animals even on... Discovery or Nat geo.
In one of the scenes boat looks like a capsule and the way scene unfolds is hard to explain...you need to experience it. Also in one of the scenes the big fish travelling below the boat is great to watch. There are many such incidences. Actually the whole movie was very difficult to shoot. So many scenes are delightful as they deal with endless blue ocean, a little boat, animals....tremendous job by director and technical team..
The main strength of the movie is its fantastic story. The narration is class and what a way to pass on the massage to audience!!! The movie captures various aspects of human life such as love, hate, violence, peace, union, separation, truth, lie and more importantly hunger and made us believe in almighty. While coming out of cinema hall you will get satisfaction of watching something philosophical, intellectual yet entertaining stuff. At a point we get frustrated with the problems that protagonist is facing and that's one of the learning from movie is not to lose hope and keep fighting.
On actors front everyone is fabulous. New entrant Suraj Sharma made the movie alive with his brilliant performance so Mr. Reached Parker.
Finally life is like Pi, keep it simple, and keep it for 3 digits 3.14 and if you think too much you are unlikely to find any meaningful end.
Personally it was very motivating experience for me as the movie came at right time when I.needed :)
I recommend all friends to watch this movie if you are planning to watch any...