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A Masterstroke Direction Score: 9/10 Aligarh carries a sense of intellect and understanding in the way it has been directed. It doesn't try to be philosophical or engrossing in any form, It stays raw and unfiltered letting the viewers have a first hand experience of the problems that accompany ageing, whether its the loneliness or a step down of the speed in their daily mannerisms, to decide for themselves to settle on a perception. It explores in a subtle way the life of Professor Siras, his simple tastes, listening to Lata Mangeshkar classics and having a glass full of whiskey. The direction in particular is one of the finest one may have come across in the recent past, in Bollywood. Its confident and bold. Bold because it has stayed almost entirely honest to the material instead of holding itself back fearing whether it will work right for the audience, because there are places which can make people go utterly bored or sublimely orgasmic. One such scene is when Siras...

Score: 7/10 The film finely accomplishes what it set out to achieve, a light hearted tale of a misfit who is forced to leave. It doesn't offer any super wow moments neither does the 3-D amazes us the way Avatar or Life of Pie did, but the charm and variety of characters the film goes through keeps giving the tale an interesting touch keeping the audience engaged without ever being a drag or too packed. The film contains a right mix of story and dialogu es serving almost all kinds of audience in a similar manner. The themes of lush green surroundings combined with sun glares used with a lot of silhouettes have been exactly what one would have imagined while reading the Rudyard Kipling novel or watching the animated series. Now that they have already confirmed a sequel, I hope they don't ruin it going beyond the books and adding their own tales to use the brand name when it can earn them a lot of money, as this one is making. Or even if they do, they do it with a lot of c...

Score: 8/10 The film is a fantastic plot of somebody small making it in the world of biggies going against all conventional norms. It does cover a lot of issues we come across in our day to day lives, the stereotyping, the generalizing of personalities which normally breaks and discourages a lot of individuals here and there and they do this with a lot of humor. The engaging developments keep us hooked throughout though unlike Inside Out it isn't filled with constantly spurted fun elements and the theme isn't something that has not been tried before. Nevertheless, this is one of the strongest recommendations this year.

Score: 5/10 FAN is a film with glimpses of potential especially due to SRK's acting at some places but the weak direction loses the track gradually ending up nowhere. It has plenty of chases some of them unnecessarily pulled long and directed without anything to keep us engaged (read the window chase, bike and foot chase in Europe and chase in the climax etc etc). Gaurav's scene of the competition is another one that could have been easily edited without making it too l ong, because after some time it does get tedious to see SRK promoting his own self (so evident!). It has become a trend in Bollywood to kill one character when they don't know how to end it (in fact Dhoom 3 had this so similar), may be to ignite a certain sense of sympathy but it was too cliched for this one. It starts off trying to be funny with very old school out dated back ground score, then tries to be a little dramatic, then emotional and then thriller (very weirdly so, one guy trying to be the E...