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blue-ice.

@blue-ice.

Achiever

+ 4

Posted: 10 years ago

#781

Did Taran give today's figures yet?? 5 cr is awesome blossom

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AllBlacks1

@AllBlacks1

Sparkler

+ 2

Posted: 10 years ago

#782

Nice nice! Good going so far. Its gotta score as much this week. Bloody hell, WB is coming this friday, it will take away so many screens and WB is more for the masses. Just hoping Phantom contnuies its run in Multiplexes.

Anywho, the film won my heart and thats matter the most!

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blacklambo

@blacklambo

Voyager

Posted: 10 years ago

#783

The thread is too long to check if this review has been posted from The Hollywood Reporter in one of the earlier posts. If yes, apologies & if no, here goes 😉

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/phantom-film-review-818583

'Phantom': Film Review

11:40 AM PDT 8/31/2015 by Lisa Tsering

Courtesy of Disney UTV

The Bottom Line

Patriotic Indian thriller hits the right emotional notes.

Opened

Aug. 28, 2015

Cast

Saif Ali Khan, Katrina Kaif

Director

Kabir Khan

Indian filmmaker Kabir Khan tackles the Mumbai attacks of 2008 in an action film that has been banned in Pakistan.

When a group of 10 well-trained Pakistani terrorists effectively brought India to a standstill with a series of attacks at the Taj Mahal Palace Hotel and other high-profile targets in Mumbai Nov. 26, 2008, the country was left reeling. India's precarious relations with its rival were damaged to the point that many Indians still crave revenge today.

Kabir Khan is not the first filmmaker to tackle the subject of the so-called "26/11" attacks (Ram Gopal Varma tried it in 2013), but this film is the most successful to date. Although the film has predictably been banned in Pakistan, the well-paced action title is earning popular acclaim and will likely attract robust business at the box office in India and overseas for Disney India, a company formed when Disney acquired the major local producer/distributor UTV in 2012.

Read more: Pakistani Court Bans Bollywood Title "Phantom"

As Indian director Khan notes during the closing credits of the film, 166 people were killed during the 26/11 massacre, yet seven years later, the perpetrators have faded into the shadows and still walk free. Phantom " based on Hussain S. Zaidi's novel Mumbai Avengers " poses an alternative scenario, in which a smart Indian spy and his comely sidekick take down the top operators in Pakistan's reviled Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorist organization in 2015 with one brutal strike after another. The result is a dark, if satisfying, film starring Saif Ali Khan and Katrina Kaif, and Kabir Khan's characters in Phantom deliberately insist that it's Pakistani terrorists who need to pay, not the Pakistani people.

Kabir Khan is a former documentarian and journalist whose cinematic obsession with Indo-Pakistani relations has fueled two of his feature films " Ek Tha Tiger and Bhajrangi Bhaijaan " both of which attained blockbuster status thanks to the pairing of Kaif with megastar Salman Khan.

Read more: Bollywood Star Salman Khan, Out on Bail, Remains Box-Office Draw

Here, he casts Saif Ali Khan as Daniyal Khan, a disgraced soldier-turned-agent of India's foreign intelligence organization, the Research and Analysis Wing or RAW, who goes undercover in exotic locales to assassinate the terror leaders and just maybe redeem himself in the eyes of the stern military father who has disowned him.

Director Khan, DP Aseem Mishra and editor Aarif Sheikh team up well for several gripping action scenes that show Daniyal's expertise in delivering lethal results amid chaos: Daniyal struggles with a cheap plastic remote control in an attempt to detonate a bomb hidden in a microphone at a fundamentalist political rally; he kills another terrorist about to upload his photo from a war zone in Syria; and he neutralizes one chain-smoking bad guy with a well-timed gas stove bomb in a London flat. The filmmakers also generate excitement with a car chase in Chicago that opens the film, and another car chase at a remote checkpoint on the border with Afghanistan.

Saif Ali Khan is well cast as the brainy spy Daniyal, handy with weapons and a trained hand-to-hand killer. Khan is believable as a capable operative with a genuine affection for family and country, but Kaif, better in light roles than in hard-hitting action films like this, is wooden and overwhelmed here. The film's supporting actors are uniformly excellent, especially Sohaila Kapur as a sympathetic Lakshar-e-Taiba nurse and Mohammad Zeeshan Ayyub as an Indian intelligence official moved by Daniyal's sacrifice.

Production: Disney India

Cast: Saif Ali Khan, Katrina Kaif

Director: Kabir Khan

Screenwriters: Kabir Khan and Parveez Shaikh

Producers: Sajid Nadiadwala and Siddharth Roy Kapur

Director of photography: Aseem Mishra

Production designers: Rajat Kapoor, Sukant Panigrahi, Zeina Nawar, Paul McCulloch

Editor: Aarif Sheikh

Composer: Pritam Chakraborty

Costumes: Subarna Ray Chaudhuri

Unrated, 148 minutes

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Sharpener

@Sharpener

Dazzler

+ 2

Posted: 10 years ago

#784

Originally posted by: blacklambo
The thread is too long to check if this review has been posted from The Hollywood Reporter in one of the earlier posts. If yes, apologies & if no, here goes 😉
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/phantom-film-review-818583

'Phantom': Film Review
11:40 AM PDT 8/31/2015 by Lisa Tsering

Courtesy of Disney UTV
The Bottom Line
Patriotic Indian thriller hits the right emotional notes.
Opened
Aug. 28, 2015
Cast
Saif Ali Khan, Katrina Kaif
Director
Kabir Khan

Indian filmmaker Kabir Khan tackles the Mumbai attacks of 2008 in an action film that has been banned in Pakistan.
When a group of 10 well-trained Pakistani terrorists effectively brought India to a standstill with a series of attacks at the Taj Mahal Palace Hotel and other high-profile targets in Mumbai Nov. 26, 2008, the country was left reeling. India's precarious relations with its rival were damaged to the point that many Indians still crave revenge today.

Kabir Khan is not the first filmmaker to tackle the subject of the so-called "26/11" attacks (Ram Gopal Varma tried it in 2013), but this film is the most successful to date. Although the film has predictably been banned in Pakistan, the well-paced action title is earning popular acclaim and will likely attract robust business at the box office in India and overseas for Disney India, a company formed when Disney acquired the major local producer/distributor UTV in 2012.

Read more: Pakistani Court Bans Bollywood Title "Phantom"

As Indian director Khan notes during the closing credits of the film, 166 people were killed during the 26/11 massacre, yet seven years later, the perpetrators have faded into the shadows and still walk free. Phantom " based on Hussain S. Zaidi's novel Mumbai Avengers " poses an alternative scenario, in which a smart Indian spy and his comely sidekick take down the top operators in Pakistan's reviled Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorist organization in 2015 with one brutal strike after another. The result is a dark, if satisfying, film starring Saif Ali Khan and Katrina Kaif, and Kabir Khan's characters in Phantom deliberately insist that it's Pakistani terrorists who need to pay, not the Pakistani people.
Kabir Khan is a former documentarian and journalist whose cinematic obsession with Indo-Pakistani relations has fueled two of his feature films " Ek Tha Tiger and Bhajrangi Bhaijaan " both of which attained blockbuster status thanks to the pairing of Kaif with megastar Salman Khan.

Read more: Bollywood Star Salman Khan, Out on Bail, Remains Box-Office Draw

Here, he casts Saif Ali Khan as Daniyal Khan, a disgraced soldier-turned-agent of India's foreign intelligence organization, the Research and Analysis Wing or RAW, who goes undercover in exotic locales to assassinate the terror leaders and just maybe redeem himself in the eyes of the stern military father who has disowned him.

Director Khan, DP Aseem Mishra and editor Aarif Sheikh team up well for several gripping action scenes that show Daniyal's expertise in delivering lethal results amid chaos: Daniyal struggles with a cheap plastic remote control in an attempt to detonate a bomb hidden in a microphone at a fundamentalist political rally; he kills another terrorist about to upload his photo from a war zone in Syria; and he neutralizes one chain-smoking bad guy with a well-timed gas stove bomb in a London flat. The filmmakers also generate excitement with a car chase in Chicago that opens the film, and another car chase at a remote checkpoint on the border with Afghanistan.

Saif Ali Khan is well cast as the brainy spy Daniyal, handy with weapons and a trained hand-to-hand killer. Khan is believable as a capable operative with a genuine affection for family and country, butKaif, better in light roles than in hard-hitting action films like this, is wooden and overwhelmed here. The film's supporting actors are uniformly excellent, especially Sohaila Kapur as a sympathetic Lakshar-e-Taiba nurse and Mohammad Zeeshan Ayyub as an Indian intelligence official moved by Daniyal's sacrifice.

Production: Disney India
Cast: Saif Ali Khan, Katrina Kaif
Director: Kabir Khan
Screenwriters: Kabir Khan and Parveez Shaikh
Producers: Sajid Nadiadwala and Siddharth Roy Kapur
Director of photography: Aseem Mishra
Production designers: Rajat Kapoor, Sukant Panigrahi, Zeina Nawar, Paul McCulloch
Editor: Aarif Sheikh
Composer: Pritam Chakraborty
Costumes: Subarna Ray Chaudhuri
Unrated, 148 minutes

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Shaitaan Haiwan

@Shaitan-Haiwan

Stunner

+ 8

Posted: 10 years ago

#785

Saw the film - It was nice!

A very strong story ..that, as the tagline states - you wish were true! There were so many elements to the movie and one thing i liked the most is that they made it a point to show that there are good people in both India and Pakistan and that this story is NOT anti-pak , its anti-terrorism!

The first half was a bit slow and I felt the editing in the first half was a bit choppy - didnt expect that from Kabir. Nevertheless the second half was a lot better!

The pace of the movie was perfect though - never did you feel that the movie is dragging or to slow (although the first half is a TADDD Slow)

In terms of acting, both Saif and Katrina surprised me!

This is one of Saif Ali Khan's best performances, and I dont even like the guy! Known for his light roles, it was nice to see him in an intense role. Also - this is the best he has looked in years! He looked really young in the film - which is weird because his last few movies he was looking really aged and weird!

Katrina for starters - can we talk about how breathtaking she looked? Those Pakistani clothing REALLY suits her and brings out her beauty even more. I remember the same thing in ETT, in that scene in the Pakistani Embassy - she looked amazing here as well!

As for Katrina's acting, I think its become fashionable to poke fun at her acting. IMO, she acted very well especially in the emotional scenes. Her performance in the climax was the best -like someone said her crying has really improved! People are just overreacting by calling her stuff like wooden and expressionless. She's not that bad at all! Especially in this one!

Edited by Shaitan-Haiwan - 10 years ago

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Suspended

Posted: 10 years ago

#786

Katrina is okay in parts and totally unbearable at some places...Her accent and wooden expressions are really difficult to ignore...But Saif's character is so larger than life in the movie that every one else got blurred out from the screen...

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vib.

@vib.

Rocker

+ 5

Posted: 10 years ago

#787

Even I think it has become just a hobby to laugh at her. Anyone can see she has done brilliant work in here.

Has improved alot. Given best in her career. Done emotional scenes perfectly!

Dialogue Dilevary has also improved.

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Rohit

@Anachronist

Trailblazer

Posted: 10 years ago

#788

Originally posted by: -SparklingVibz-
Even I think it has become just a hobby to laugh at her. Anyone can see she has done brilliant work in here.
Has improved alot. Given best in her career. Done emotional scenes perfectly!

Dialogue Dilevary has also improved.

Lets not discuss all that here . Ya she is no meryl streep but she has acted well here and it is a fact. It is other's opinion and lets just leave at that