Sajad Akhoon

The Kapil Sharma Show is a popular Indian television comedy show hosted by comedian Kapil Sharma. It first premiered on April 23, 2016 on Sony Entertainment Television and ran for two seasons. In 2018, the show moved to the streaming platform SonyLIV and had its third season. In December 2019, the show returned to television and has been airing on Sony Entertainment Television ever since.

The show features Kapil as the host and a cast of comedians playing various characters. Celebrity guests also appear on the show to promote their latest films and interact with the cast and audience. Over the years, The Kapil Sharma Show has become one of the most watched and highly rated comedy shows in India. It has won several awards and accolades, including the Indian Television Academy Award for Best Comedy Show in 2016.

The Kapil Sharma Show is famous for a few reasons:

1. Kapil Sharma’s humor and quick wit
2. The interaction between Kapil and his celebrity guests
3. The show’s fun and light-hearted atmosphere
4. The colorful cast of characters, including the comedian’s sidekicks and the audience.
5. The show’s popularity has also helped it attract high-profile Bollywood guests and musicians.

All of these factors combined have made the show a hit with audiences and helped it maintain its popularity over the years.

The Kapil Sharma Show has become famous for several reasons:

1. Kapil Sharma’s humor: Kapil Sharma’s humor, quick wit, and charm are a big draw for the show’s audiences. He is known for his light-hearted comedy and his ability to connect with his guests.
2. Interaction with celebrity guests: The show’s celebrity guests are a major draw, as audiences enjoy watching them interact with Kapil and the show’s other characters.
3. Fun atmosphere: The show has a fun, light-hearted atmosphere that appeals to audiences of all ages.
4. Colorful cast of characters: The show features a cast of colorful characters, each with their own unique personalities, that add to the show’s humor and appeal.
5. Music and dance: The show features musical performances and dance numbers, which add to its entertainment value.

All of these elements combined have helped make The Kapil Sharma Show one of the most popular comedy shows in India.

Director: Shantanu Bagchi

Cast: Sidharth Malhotra, Rashmika Mandanna, Sharib Hashmi, Kumud Mishra, Paremeet Sethi, Mir Sarwar, Zachary Coffin, IamrealMohsin

Available On: Netflix

Duration: 2 hours 9 minutes

‘Mission Majnu’: Story

Amandeep Singh IPS (Sidharth Malhotra), a RAW field operative heads to Pakistan on an undercover mission to investigate Pakistan’s involvement in creating nuclear weapons. He falls in love there with a blind Nasreen (Rashmika Mandanna). They get married, and the two are even expecting their first child. Now, it’s upon Singh to maintain a balance between his professional and personal life. He can’t tell her the truth about his identity, and he can’t also let his mission go to the dogs. What will he finally choose? Will love triumph over patriotism? Or will he be able to find out the secrets that he actually went to find in Pakistan? Well, for all that you’ll have to watch the movie.

‘Mission Majnu’: Performances

Sidharth Malhotra is the same happy-go-lucky chap that he has been playing in pretty much all his recent films. While he is definitely picking up different characters, but somehow or the other, the characters are all turning out to have a similar sense of humour or the body language or the emotional space. Even his patriotism has become a lot subdued. It was good to see him in ‘Shershaah’, as that character had a lot more intensity to it. However, Sidharth Malhotra just doesn’t end up getting this ‘Mission Majnu’ character to that level of intense patriotism. It feels sad to see him miss the mark once again after a terrible ‘Thank God’.

Rashmika Mandanna playing a blind girl is equally bad. Despite being blind there are numerous occasions where you can see her eyeballs waver towards the spot where the other characters are looking at. Thankfully she has lesser screen time in the movie, otherwise, there would have been many more shots throughout the film. Even though she has massacred the key characteristics of a blind person, she is still better than Sidharth Malhotra in justifying some of the finer emotional moments of the character. The child-like curiosity, the innocence in the smile and the coyness in the public display of affection, etc are some very finer nuances that she has managed to bring to the character really well. Had she put in a lot more effort towards getting the blind act perfect, the character would have been much more lovable and memorable.

Kumud Mishra and Sharib Hashmi also are decent in their smaller characters, however, considering they both are also uncovered spies, it would have been great to see a lot more about what they did in their time away from the lead character.

Stellar actors like Mir Sarwar and Parmeet Sethi have been given minuscule characters, which is a total injustice to their stature and talent.

‘Mission Majnu’: Script, Direction & Technical Aspects

Shantanu Bagchi’s direction and the writing by Aseem Arrora, Sumit Batheja and Parveez Shaikh are to be blamed for the film’s numerous shortcomings.

The screenplay is filled with terrible VFX-laden shots in order to portray the late 1970s.

To add to that the way the Pakistanis have been represented as fools of the first water is rubbish. I can understand that all Indian films do show Pakistanis as slightly stupid, but this film just takes it to a whole new level.

Then, when you’re making a film from a verifiable portion of history, you shouldn’t try to take too many cinematic liberties with them. For instance, from what we all have read in our history lessons, the Israelis got involved in this scuffle between India and Pakistan’s nuclear weapon supremacy war only in the 1980s (around 1984). However, the scene has been shown in the film, which is set in the times of Prime Minister Morarji Desai, who served as PM between 1977-79.

There is also a scene depicting the iconic phone call by India’s PM Morarji Desai to Pakistan’s General Zia, where he tells him that he has proof of Pakistan trying to test out nuclear weapons. The phone call itself is too dramatic and makes you feel like you’re seeing a terribly ugly break-up scene between two jilted lovers. The forthcoming scene with the Pakistani General slamming his head of defence and related officers is even more dramatic. While there is no testament to prove how the conversations must have taken place, but being heads of the two states, it can be believed that they would speak with much more dignity.

Moving on, the songs of the movie barely do any justice. Despite having Sonu Nigam’s powerful vocals, the song ‘Maati Ko Maa Kehte Hain’ doesn’t elicit that patriotic emotion as ‘Sandese Aate Hai’ or ‘Kandhon Se Milte Hai Kandhe’ did in ‘Border’ and ‘Lakshya’ respectively. ‘Raba Janda’ is still a decent song to listen to on its own but has no place in the screenplay. It could have just been a promotional track altogether.

Bijitesh De’s cinematography doesn’t help the sinking ship either. The era of the late 1970s isn’t created as good as it could have been. There are shots of fighter planes and weapon carrier planes which hadn’t been even invented around that era, and they were yet shown in the film, which was set in the 1970s. The VFX also seems to be very low on quality, and not up to the standard which was expected from a film like ‘Mission Majnu’.

The editing by Nitin Baid and Siddharth S. Pande is decent. It keeps the climax taut and gives you some patriotic feel-good factor. They’ve managed to keep the length of the film decently short, which must also be lauded.

‘Mission Majnu’: Can Kids Watch It?

Yes

• Release Date: 6 January 2023
• Language: Hindi
• Genre: Comedy, Drama
• Creator: Abbas Dalal, Hussain Dalal
• Director: Himank Gaur
• Writer: Hussain Dalal, Abbas Dalal
• Producer: Rohit Raj, Bhuvan Bam
• Production: BB Ki Vines
• Episodes: 6

Cast

Bhuvan Bam, Shriya Pilgaonkar, JD Chakravarthy, Deven Bhojani, Prathmesh Parab, Nitya Mathur, Shilpa Shukla, Mithilesh Chaturvedi.

Bhuvan Bam’s Taaza Khavar Web series is now streaming on HotStar, He is seen playing the role of sanitation worker in the Disney + Hotstar’s series “Taaza Khabar,” which highlights the hardships the lower classes endure in a lighthearted way. YouTuber Bhuvan Bam’s debut series highlights the struggles encountered by the underprivileged in Mumbai, India. Taaza Khabar is a comedy series, but its USP is the seriousness of its subject matter. The series is produced by Bam’s BBKV Productions.

Taaza Khabar lightheartedly shows class-based poverty and the human yearning to lead a better life. It is based on the life of a sanitation worker. Beginning January 6, 2023, Disney+ Hotstar streamed the show.

Vasya, the main character in Taaza Khabar, has special abilities that improve his social standing. Bam earlier revealed that the supernatural forces guarding his character Vasya lead him through life as if it were a miracle. He claimed that the series, which he created totally on his own, contains emotion, action, and humour that viewers can enjoy.

Taaza Khabar is directed by Himank Gaur, who previously worked with Bam on Dhindora in 2021. J.D. Chakravarthy from Ek Villain Returns, Deven Bhojani from Agneepath, and Prathamesh Parab are some of the stars of Taaza Khabar.

Pakistani authorities have banned acclaimed director Saim Sadiq’s Oscar 2023 entry Joyland, alleging that it contains “highly objectionable material”.

The move comes months after when the film was given a clearance certificate for public viewing. The film, which was selected for Oscars 2023, has won acclaim all over the world at various film festivals.

The movie, which features a love story between a married man and a transgender woman, is Pakistan’s entry for next year’s Academy Awards and was a prizewinner at this year’s Cannes Film Festival.

But the film has caused controversy in Muslim-majority Pakistan and state censors last week banned its showings at movie theaters, reversing a previous all-clear for release.

According to a tweet late on Monday from Salman Sufi, an adviser to Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif, a high-level committee is being set up to assess “Joyland” and review the ban.

Transgender people are considered outcasts by many in Pakistan, despite some progress with a law that protects their rights and a landmark Supreme Court ruling designating them as a third gender, “The committee will assess the complaints as well as merits to decide on its release in Pakistan,” Sufi tweeted. He could not immediately be contacted for more details.

Pakistani model Ayesha Omar’s name has been dragged in the high-profile separation rumours. Ayesha Omar and Shoaib Malik worked with each other for a daring photoshoot almost a year back. Rumour mills say that it was his proximity to Ayesha that apparently led to a rift in his marriage with Mirza. However, there is no confirmation on the report so far. In addition, the main reason behind Shoaib and Sania’s alleged discord is also not clear.

Shoaib Malik and Ayesha Omar featured together in a bold photoshoot in 2021. Later, speaking about the same, Malik praised during an interview and stated that she helped him a lot during their shoot.

Speaking of Ayesha, she is a Pakistani actress and popular Youtuber. She has long been a well-known face in the entertainment industry. She is also one of the most fashionable actresses in Pakistan.

She is known for her leading role in several television serials including ‘Kollege Jeans’, ‘Kuch Lamhe Zindagi Kay’, ‘Meri Zaat Zara e Beneshan’, ‘Dil Ko Manana Aya Nahi’, ‘Zindagi Gulzar Hai’, ‘Bulbullay’, ‘Meri Gudiya’, ‘Mera Dard Bezuban’, and many more.

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Ayesha Omar made her film debut in the lead role with the successful romantic-comedy ‘Karachi Se Lahore’ in 2015, followed by supporting characters in a war film ‘Yalghaar’ (2017) and the drama ‘Kaaf Kangana’ (2019).