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Satrangee Parachute
Satrangee Parachute is a story of children's dreams. It is meant to be a touching portrait of the innocence and simplicity of their world while showcasing the darkness of the adult world. Pappu is a precocious child who keeps running away from home at a whim. His is an expansive and fancy free world which refuses to stay in the confines of Nainital. He runs away to Mumbai only to be safely brought back. We would love to know more of his world but the film does not go beyond superficial presentations of children and their world. After a tedious and meandering hour the film arrives at its sub-plot of terrorism. The film oscillates between Mumbai and Nainital as Pappu, runs away with four of his friends to Mumbai to get a satrangee (seven coloured) parachute for his best friend Kuhu who cannot see. The children get embroiled with a terrorist gang who want to launch an attack on Mumbai using some dubious parachutes. A complete lack of cleverness and a very loose plot couples with bad characterisation. Hence actors like Sanjay Mishra and Zakir Hussain are left with little to do. Jackie Shroff and Kay Kay Menon's special appearances are not special either. Rajpal Yadav is a little less loud than his usual self but even that temperance does not help this doomed film. The children, all of them including Pappu are unnatural and banal, as though reciting poetry in their school class competition.
 Take Me Home Tonight
Take Me Home Tonight follows the misadventures of Matt Franklin. Matt is a recent college graduate who's living way below his potential. His parents keep nagging him to try something of value, but he can't figure out what he's truly passionate about so in result, he tries nothing. His mediocre life becomes all the more interesting when he tells Tori (Theresa Palmer), his high school dream girl, that he works at the L.A. branch of Goldman Sachs. She is so impressed with his "success" that she invites him to a crazy end-of-summer party and that's where the real mischief begins. Matt's cynical twin sister, Wendy Franklin (Anna Faris), and his lovable yet hopeless best friend, Barry Nathan (Dan Fogler), are his partners in crime for the night. The evening becomes a rather indulgent one filled with grand theft auto, rock 'n' roll, a marriage proposal, a giant tin ball and a proper 80s dance-off. Throughout the film, the characters are all searching for meaning in their lives, but the events surrounding the party could finally give them all the confidence they've needed in order to move ahead.
 Beastly
A curse transforms a handsome and arrogant young man into everything he detests in this contemporary retelling of Beauty And The Beast. Wealthy Kyle Kingson (Alex Pettyfer) has everything a teenager could want in life, but he still gets off on humiliating the weaker and less attractive. When Kyle invites his misfit classmate Kendra (Mary-Kate Olsen) to an environmental rally at their school, she questions his motivations but reluctantly accepts. Later, Kyle blows Kendra off, prompting the spurned goth girl to cast a dark spell on the swaggering egotist. The spell causes Kyle to transform into an unsightly creature that strikes fear into the heart of everyone he meets, and the only way to reverse it is for him to find someone who can love him for who he is on the inside. When Kyle witnesses a drug addict in a desperate struggle with a menacing dealer, he intervenes, promising to protect the addict under the condition that his beautiful daughter, Lindy (Vanessa Hudgens), comes to live with the unsightly recluse in his sprawling Brooklyn home.
 Drive Angry
The story centres on a man driven by rage who is chasing the people who killed his daughter and kidnapped her baby. The vendetta/rescue spins out of control as the chase gets bloodier by the mile, leaving bodies strewn along the highway. John Milton (Nicolas Cage) is a criminal who has broken out of Hell to kill Jonah King (Billy Burke), a cult leader that tricked Milton's daughter into joining his followers in the wake of Milton's death, only to kill her and her husband and steal their daughter – Milton's granddaughter – to be sacrificed in a Satanist ritual. Amber Heard (Pineapple Express), Billy Burke (The Twilight Saga), William Fichtner (The Dark Knight) and David Morse (Disturbia) also star. Where things get a bit muddled is when the film slows down to probe Milton's past; furthermore Lussier and Farmer play their card a bit late in the story regarding a specific twist, especially after dolling out certain information regarding Milton's abilities as someone fresh out of hell.
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