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23Oct/13

The Miracle Worker – Movie Review

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MiracleWorker

The Miracle Worker is the movie about Helen Keller’s life. Helen Keller was born with vision and hearing but lost her vision and became deaf when she was nearly nineteen months old because of some illness. Due to her shortcomings she was a pampered child at home.

Lack of discipline enforcement and lack of her ability to communicate herself led her to throwing tantrums at home and becoming an uncontrolled and unruly child. At nearly the age of seven her distressed parents arranged for a personal teacher named Annie Sullivan for her. Annie had herself recovered from blindness and knew what it takes to overcome the shortcomings. She was a very strict and dedicated teacher who disciplined Helen and taught her to communicate. She taught her to lead her life overcoming her shortcomings and the result was there for everyone to see.

Remarks: Movie is based on the true story of Helen Keller and was released in year 1962. Annie Sullivan was herself visually impaired and knew how the struggle was like to be blind and deaf person. She disciplined Helen Keller and took her out of her shell to the world where she could communicate with her hand gestures. Finally, Helen Keller rose to become a world famous author and speaker in her real life. She published twelve books and several articles. She became an ambassador for impaired people. In 1964, she was awarded Presidents medal for Freedom ,the highest civilian honour. The Miracle Worker is based on her autobiography , ”The Story of my life”.

Directed By: Arthur Penn

Produced by: Fred Coe

Learning :

• Discipline has a great role to play in individual’s life. Great heights were achieved by people with discipline.

• Great and dedicated teachers hold a lot value in one’s life. If we find right mentors at right point of time in our lives , our lives can be miraculous.

• It is possible to achieve everything and anything in life . Our personal shortcomings cannot stop us from achieving great heights.

Violence: None

Violence: None

Can watch with family: Yes

Intimacy scenes: None

Objectionable scenes: None

Suitable for age groups: Above 10 years

Family Values: ***

Language: English

Ratings on motivational part: *****

Ratings :
***** Excellent
**** Good
*** Average
** Ok-Ok

15Jul/13

Bhag Milkha Bhag (meaning Run Milkha Run) – Movie Review

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Bhag Milkha Bhag

It is a movie inspired by the life of Milkha Singh . Milkha Singh is a veteran Indian athelete. Milkha Singh has won several medals for India in events such as Asian games, Olympics etc. He was given the title of ‘Flying Sikh’ by Pakistan’s then president Ayub Khan after winning an athletic event held there.

It is a movie of racing ones dreams and fulfilling them with determination. Milkha Singh’s life was full of hardships and struggle. Inspite of all this he struggled to fulfil his dreams and reached to the top.

Cast:

Farhan Akhtar (Milkha Singh), Sonam Kapoor, Prakash Raj, Rebecca Breeds, Meesha Shafi, Divya Dutta.

Produced and Directed By:

Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra.


Learnings:

• Inspires one to chase ones dreams
• Inspires one to move ahead inspite of all the challenges posed by life
• Journey to the top is lonely and is full of sacrifices

Violence: Few violence scenes are there
Can watch with family: Yes
Intimacy scenes: Yes
Objectionable scenes: Adult intimacy is there
Suitable for age groups: All age groups
Family Values: *****
Language: Hindi, Punjabi(occasionally),English(occasionally)
Ratings on motivational part: *****

Ratings :
***** Excellent
**** Good
*** Average
** Ok-Ok

14Mar/13

KAI PO CHE- Movie Review

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Short story:


Movie is a flashback story about three friends, who are born and brought up together in a small neighbourhood of Gujarat . The three of them dream to do something big in their lives and make a mark for themselves in the society.All of the three friends are shown in the movie to be from very humble families. One of them, Ishaan (Sushant Singh Rajput), is shown to be a district level cricket player and is shown to be an angry young man. The second one of them Govind (Rajkumar Yadav) is shown to be serious , calculative and mature person. The third one of the three Omi (Amit Sadh) is the son of priest and is shown to be a very shy person with good family values. His maternal uncle is shown to be a politician and is always ready to help Omi.

The three of them take up a place on rent from Omi’s uncle to open up their sports shop plus training academy.It starts running. Ishan finds a young talent Ali and decides to take him to next level. Meanwhile, the three of them take up a space in a big mall to open up a high end sports shop and academy, for which deposit is borrowed from Omi’s uncle.

Then, the earthquake of 2001 is shown and in this earthquake their shop in the mall is shattered and with this their dreams too. They move back to old place of work and restart meanwhile Omi is forced to enter politics due to favours taken by him from his uncle. One day a principal of a Kedriya Vidyala enters the shop and leaves her child there for some time and on returning she asks Govind , who is there in the shop , that if they supply sports materials to schools . Govind becomes very excited and says “Yes!” and also informs her that they provide training for cricket in their academy. Principal offers him to give presentation in the school showcasing whatever they do. They give presentation and succeed in getting the project of training the school children. From here their journey begins.

Meanwhile, there are some unfortunate events of riots and politics in which Ishaan dies and Omi goes to jail. At the end of movie it is shown that Govind brings his friend Omi on his release from jail to the cricket ground where Ali (the young talent whom Ishaan had dreamed to take to next level ) is seen playing in India Australia Test series and Govind is shown to be highly successful man running sports consultancy and training firm.

Remarks:

Story has been adopted from Chetan Bhagat’s novel “ The 3 mistakes of My Life”

Learnings:

• Motivates one to chase his dreams till they are fulfilled
• Motivates one to get up and fight his battle again after the fall
• Teaches how good friendships are made and carried on

Violence: Violence scenes are there (Gujarat riots are shown)

Can watch with family: Yes

Intimacy scenes: One or two scenes

Objectionable scenes: Adult intimacy is there

Suitable for age groups: 18+

Family Values: ***

Language: Hindi, Gujarati(little bit)

Ratings on motivational part: *****

Ratings :
***** Excellent
**** Good
*** Average
** Ok-Ok