Ba Pass 2 Filmywap
Rubi Strycker
Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it... this quite appropriately sums up the thought that Abhishek Bachchan-starrer Dasvi builds on. With all good intentions to educate and entertain the audience, Dasvi somewhere falls prey to its own chaos and confusion and ends up all over the place. Director Tushar Jalota has mixed too many elements to convey one simple message, and it loses focus way more often than you would expect. As a result, the inconsistent storytelling makes the film appear half-baked and ineffective. (Also read: Gullak season 3 review: This slice-of-life series manages a rare feat, keeps getting better each season)
The film traces the life of a brash, illiterate and corrupt chief minister Ganga Ram Chaudhary (Abhishek Bachchan), who, for his unexplained criminal records, including an educational scam, is sent to judicial custody. While he's imprisoned, his docile and timid wife Bimla Devi (Nimrat Kaur) takes over the chief minister's chair in fictional Hamit Pradesh and begins to love the power it brings. Meanwhile, the minister is taken to task inside the jail when a strict and lawful cop Jyoti Deswal (Yami Gautam) is appointed as the new superintendent. It's after an altercation between these two when Jyoti calls Ganga 'anpadh gawaar' and he takes up the challenge of completing his Class 10 exam. This comes with a condition that if he fails to clear the exam, he won't take the chair of CM again. Ganga needs to pass both these tests - inside the jail and outside where his wife has just become quite intent on keeping the chair he asked her to fill for him.
Even though Dasvi has its heart at the right place and wants to send out a strong message, it lacks execution and average writing further weakens it. The fantastic first half is laced with a lot of socio-political satire and comic punches that trigger genuine laughter. But it falls flat in the second half that turns more preachy and looks a tad dragged too.
Giving clever references to Taare Zameen Par (dyslexia), Rang De Basanti (stories of freedom fighters) and Lage Raho Munna Bhai (seeing characters come alive when you read about them in books) - Dasvi tries hard to engage you but never really seems consistent in the process. The characters are given such a caricaturish look that no matter how hard you try, you don't believe them for what they are doing.
Writers Suresh Nair and Ritesh Shah don't really bring any magic with their dialogues or story. At one point, you actually wonder if a politician so addicted to a life of crime have a change of heart overnight? But the film never takes the pain of delving into that transformation. The only thing consistent is the on-point Haryanvi dialect that each character has picked with its nuances. It doesn't look forced or awkward at any point. The scene in which where Nimrat takes the CM's oath and reads out her speech is particularly hilarious.
Abhishek Bachchan as the pagdi-tying chief minister is impressive and owns the screen but only to an extent because his character arc is not backed by great writing. It's a character that is loaded with all the stereotypes of how you would expect an Indian politician to be. That leaves very little scope for Abhishek to shine even when he is well capable of doing so.
Nimrat Kaur is the highlight of the film without doubt. As the housewife-turned-politician, who has now tasted power and fame and is in no mood to let go of her chair and position, she totally nails the part and wins over you. The way her style transforms was a bit much to digest but she lights up the screen with her wit and convincing portrayal of Bimla Devi. As a fiery and strict jailor, Yami Gautam delivers an earnest performance and she definitely deserves an applause for her recent choice of roles that are breaking the clutter. She's tough and loud in some scenes and restrained in others.
Another thing that doesn't quite register is the chemistry or equation between Abhishek and Nimrat's characters. It remains superficial for most of the story and you wish there was some more focus on that part too. Nonetheless, there are some heartwarming scenes between Yami and Abhishek but they fizzle out even before you take notice.
Dasvi had a strong subject at hand, to focus on the importance of education, especially for our politicians, but in never really translates and remains limited to the silly treatment of its characters.
Here's why Chronicles of Narnia 4 still hasn't been made. C.S. Lewis' classic fantasy epic novels (and not-exactly-subtle Christian allegory) finally got the big-budget movie treatment with 2005's The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe. Co-produced by Disney and directed by Andrew Adamson in a relatively dramatic change of pace from his prior directorial efforts on the first two Shrek movies, The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe was easily the most successful film in the wave of fantasy novel adaptations that followed the Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter movies in the early '00s.
A sequel, Prince Caspian, hit theaters three years later, but saw a significant drop-off in box office from its predecessor ($745 million vs. $419.7 million), possibly in part due to its somewhat darker and less family-friendly tone. However, far from killing the franchise, it was followed by a sequel, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, two years later. In addition to costing a good deal less than Prince Caspian to make (upwards of $85 million less, to be exact), Dawn Treader curbed the series' downward trend at the box office by taking in $415 million, much to the delight of the franchise's new distributor, Fox.
While the initial plan was to adapt The Magician's Nephew (which acts as a prequel to the other Narnia books) after that, things changed when the franchise's co-producer, Walden Media, lost the Narnia film rights in 2011. Two years later, The C.S. Lewis Company struck a new deal with The Mark Gordon Company to adapt The Silver Chair instead, following the order in which the original books were published. Story-wise, The Silver Chair picks up one year (in our world) after the events of Dawn Treader, and follows that novel's co-protagonist, the Pevensies' cousin Eustace Scrubb, as he and his peer Jill Pole travel to Narnia to help a now-old King Caspian locate his missing heir, Prince Rilian.
The Silver Chair movie was slow to move forward from there, but roared back to life in 2016, when Sony came aboard to finance the film (with plans to adapt the remaining Narnia books after that). Since Will Poulter, who played Eustace in Dawn Treader, and the other young actors from the previous Narnia movies had already aged out of their roles by that point, the idea was The Silver Chair would reboot the franchise with a different cast. A year later, Joe Johnston of Honey, I Shrunk the Kids, Jumanji, and Captain America: The First Avenger fame came aboard as director, and even announced his intention to retire from directing once the movie was finished.
That was the last major update on the film, and it appears to have fallen off the tracks since then. It's possible Sony decided it wasn't worth rebooting a franchise that was already three films deep and had grossed less with each passing entry. Regardless, Netflix officially acquired the rights to all seven Narnia novels in November 2018 and is reportedly working on a TV adaptation, with Matthew Aldrich (the co-writer of Pixar's Coco) acting as showrunner. But even now, the property's future is uncertain; just last month, Narnia movie producer - and Lewis' stepson - Douglas Gresham admitted he hasn't heard anything about the series from Netflix in some time. Still, while Chronicles of Narnia 4 might be dead, fans may yet be reunited with Aslan and the other inhabitants of Lewis' fantasy realm on the small screen in the near(?) future.
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The Nameless Grad Student and his group must travel to an important academic conference and square off against a rival group as they compete for results and grant money. Meanwhile, Cecilia's advisor is going on sabbatical, which means she has to finish writing her thesis or be stuck in grad school another year. It's a comedy.
"Piled Higher and Deeper: Still in Grad School" is the sequel film of the popular comic strip "Piled Higher and Deeper" by Jorge Cham (phdcomics.com - phdmovie.com). The film takes a smart and humorous look at the world of Academia through the eyes of four grad students, and features real academics (including a Nobel Prize winner!) in many of the roles. It was funded in large part by Kickstarter backers (including COINS and Papers) and filmed at the California Institute of Technology. The film was produced as part of a continued collaboration between PHD Comics and the Institute for Quantum Information and Matter at Caltech. You can watch more of Jorge Cham's Quantum videos by clicking here.
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