Bangistan - Disastrous Destination

Release date -7'th August 2015

One Word which describes the film - Excruciating

Best Dialogue - ' Dushman Ko Haraane Ke Liye Dushman Ki Tarah Ban Jao.'

Genre - Satire Comedy

Music - Ram Sampath

Producer - Ritesh Sidhwani, Farhan Akhtar

Story- Puneet Krishna, Sumit Purohit, Karan Anshuman

Direction - Karan Anshuman

Cast - Riteish Deshmukh, Pulkit Samrat, Jacqueline Fernandez
Arya Babbar, Tomasz Karolak, Chandan Roy Sanyal

Budget- 30 Crores approximately

The film is about a fictitious place Bangistan where Muslims and Hindus have their headquarters. The story revolves around two wannabe terrorists who decide to swap their religion in order to destroy the other community. 

Film critic Karan Anshuman makes his big Bollywood debut with Bangistan.
In an interview Karan said , “It was just for some time that I decided to write about films. I really understood a lot about cinema, especially Indian cinema in terms of the current trends, what are the kinds of films people are making, what does the audience like and not like, what do I like and what would I like to make. So that really helped me in shaping my first film.”
The film had an opening of just 8-10% and collected just 1.3 crore on Friday. In few cities evening shows were cancelled due to insufficient audience. With Brothers releasing this Friday there is hardly any scope for the film to perform and it's a big flop. 

After the film's disastrous performance Karan must have realised that in Bollywood instead 

of saying things in over confidence you should let your film speak for yourself. 
As a film critic he too must have ridiculed Sajid Khan for giving over the top statements like Himmatwala making 100 crores in it's opening weekend and Hamshakals being a really good comedy.

There are just two or three scenes in the film which will make you laugh.
Jacqueline Fernandez: 'Naam Mein Kya Rakha Hai?'

Ritesh Deshmukh: 'Inke Naam Main Hi Allah Rakha Hai, Aur Aap Keh Rahi Hai Ki Naam Main Kya Rakha Hai.'

8 reasons why you should stay away from visiting this fictitious city Bangistan  

1.  The director who happens to be a famous film critic and has also written the screenplay seems confused about the actual meaning of satire and the story goes no where. 2. An excellent actor like Ritesh  who gave two back to back hits , Lai Bhaari and Ek Villain, is wasted along with a bad actor like Pulkit Samrat who can't get over his Salman Khan hangover. 3. Its touted as a satire comedy but guess the makers didn't even know the actual meaning of satire as from start to end there is only confusion which makes you wonder how can a big production house like Excel Entertainment , Junglee and a film critic make such a pathetic film. 4.  The idea was brilliant  but it's execution is forgetful.  5. There is not a single hummable  song  in the film. 6. A good looking actress like Jacqueline Fernandes has a cameo role of a bartender and appears only in the song and dance sequence. 7. There are too many yawn moments which will make you curse yourself  for actually spending money on watching this film. 8. The posters of the film have a line ' No damn clue'. This actually describes the frame of mind of the story and screenplay writers .There is no pace in the film before or after interval hence a complete waste of time and money. In a line if after reading this review you are still tempted to watch this disaster maybe you can survive the film too. Highly Avoidable.

Return of The Marketing Queen - Ek Villain

Release date - 27'th June 2014

One Word which describes the film - Psychotic

Best Dialogues -
Shraddha Kapoor-  'Jab tak hum kisi ke humdard nahi bante  ,tab tak hum dard se aur dard humse juda nahi hota.'

Riteish Deshmukh - 'Tum sabki nikalti jaan ke sath ..meri har chinta , sara stress bhi nikal jata hai.'

Sidharth Malhotra -'Main tuujhe marne nahi doonga lekin main tujhe roz maroonga ..ek baar nahi hazar baar maroonga.'

Genre - Thriller 

Music -Ankit Tiwari , Mithoon

Story - Milap Zaveri , Tushar Hiranandani

Producer - Ekta Kapoor ,Shobha Kapoor

Direction -Mohit Suri

Cast - Sidharth Malhotra ,Riteish Deshmukh ,Shraddha Kapoor ,Aamna Sharif

Budget- 30 Crores

Ekta Kapoor may have made a wrong decision when she decided to release Once Upon a Time In Mumbaai Dobara along with Rohit Shetty's Chenai Express. She broke her own rule of producing small budget films and spent almost 25 crorers in P&A taking the film's cost to 90 Crores which the film could not recover and was a huge flop. In the same year two other films co produced by Balaji Productions Lootera and Ek Thi Daayan also flopped at the box office. 

Ekta Kapoor said good bye to big budgeted films and again shifted her focus to medium budgeted films with peppy songs and lots of marketing.

Ragini MMS2 made on a budget of 20 crores earned 40 crores with it's two songs Babydoll and Char botal Vodka becoming big hits.
Ek Villain much before it's release managed to create a big buzz amongst the younger generations because of its romantic songs, 'Teri Galliyan' , 'Banjara' and ' Main Adhura.' Not only the film was promoted on reality shows , Ekta promoted it on her TV shows too. To cash in on the hit music a rock concert was also organised for the music launch.
Because of these rigorous promotional activities Ek Villain managed to get an opening of 65% which is quite huge considering Akshay Kumar's Holiday released in the same month got just a 30% opening.
It was shown on a show that Ekta Kapoor herself was shocked when the film crossed the 100 crores mark as she never expected it to be such a big hit.
Except the music and some scenes where Ritesh Deshmukh managed to create fear in the minds of the audience there was nothing much in the film. The story from the start was predictable.  
Sidharth  Malhotra should really start working on his acting skills as his other two co-students of the year Varun and Alia are way ahead than him.

In a line Indian film industry has started focusing more on show and publicity because of which the films lack in story and content and though they make money they fail to leave any mark on the viewers and are soon forgotten.
Note to Producers - Please make more films like A Wednesday , Sarfarosh , Border or DDLJ.