77. GENERATION IRON 2 (2017)

GENERATION IRON 2

Language           -      English (United States)

Genre                 -      Sports Documentary

Director              -      Vlad Yudin

*ing                    -      Kai Greene, Calum Von Monger, Rich Piana

IMDB Score        -      6.1/10

PLOT

                                             The movie begins with the loss of Kai Green to Phil Heath in the finals of Mr. Olympia. Then it moves through the life of various bodybuilders. Their experiences and their views of this cult sports.

MY VIEW

                                          Generation Iron is a sports documentary which features main bodybuilders in the world including Kai Green, Rich Piana, Brandon Curry and various other personalities. 10-time Mrs. Olympia Iris Kyle reveals the hidden truth of muscle worshiping in the profession, dreams of rising Australian bodybuilder Culum, goals of Kuwaiti bodybuilding team Oxygen are some of the aspects discussed in this bodybuilding documentary, and later it shows the preparation of Yamagishi and Ashkanani for “Arnold 212” competition, overall it tries to find out the evolution in the industry from its beginning to the current stage.

VERDICT

                                          Rich Piana who claims to be a steroid bodybuilder accepts that his life may only extend to some 5 years, and it became true as he died due to over usage of drugs. As a documentary you can expect what it offers, for all those who love sports and others who likes to see the backstage stories of bodybuilders, then it’s a must watch movie.

76. SARKAR (2018)

SARKAR

Language            -      Tamil (India)

Genre                  -      Political Thriller

*ing                     -      Vijay (Sundar Ramasamy), Keerthi Suresh (Nila), Varalaxmi Sarathkumar (Komalavalli)

IMDB Score        -      8.4/10

PLOT                

                        Sundar Ramasamy, a well reputed CEO of an international corporate giants is returning to cast his vote for election in India. But he finds that his vote is already placed. This makes him to approach the court and exercise his rights to vote separately. This acts of Sundar delayed the counting of votes and brings the enmity of the major political party. This starts the war between Sundar and the corrupted politics.

MY VIEW

                        “Sarkar” is the new movie in partnership with the hitmaker A. R Murugadoss and Tamil Super star Vijay. These two names are enough for the high expectation of the movie, and it lives up to that expectation. Each and every movie of Vijay deal with a social issues and this one is also not an exception. It shows the Dark side of Tamil politics. The movie maintains the thrill and makes it as engaging one till the climax. A.R Rahman once again rocked the theaters with pumping backgrounds, but I don’t see that rocking factor in any songs, it was just an above average one. The biggest influencing factor is none other than Vijay, he filled the movie with energy in all phases. His dialogue delivery has changed in this movie, we can see much energy in delivering the dialogues and the superhuman nature of fights is also reduced a lot. He is not a class actor like others but can give everything for a common man to have a wonderful theater experience.

                        A.R Murugadoss used the current ambiguity in Tamil Nadu politics. He sends a message in his movie about government cheating common man by providing small concession to the people while they make huge black money. He states that in his cameo appearance in the movie as a person who puts a government supplied Mixer Grinder into fire. His previous movie with Vijay “Kathi” also deal with the exploitation of farmers by Corporate world, but he along with Sun pictures payed 30 lakhs to writer Varun Rajendran for Plagiarism.  If we remember Super star Rajani’s rise it was due to the movies of K.S Ravikumar and the same is happening with both Murugadoss and Vijay.

VERDICT

                        This is not a class or cult movie but pure entertainer which have all the elements of a typical Indian Masala movie. I found a lot of sites giving negative reviews for it, but sure this not such a bad one and they are purely degrading.

MovieTrailer- https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7715202/videoplayer/vi1839053337?ref_=tt_ov_vi