Gangubhai Kathiawadi

This is a wonderdul movie starring Alia Bhat telling the story of red street and prostitutes in Mumbai. Like all other girls, she also gets cheated by her lover and is drawn into the profession.

A rowdy fellow comes to her work place and attacks her left and right and she gets hospitalized. After discharge, she takes the help of Ajay Devgan, Rahim Lala to fight him. Next time, when he comes, Lala comes and thrashes him.

Slowly she becomes the mistress of the brothel and later she becomes the president of entire Kamathipura by beating incumbent Razia Bhai. She makes this possible by playing a movie in her lane for all the ladies. The second thing she does is carrying out a marriage for the daughter of her fellow worker with the nephew of the tailor. Both had not happened earlier in Kamathipura.

The third part is when, misionary school people want to evacuate Kamathipura citing moral issues. She fights against this by admitting the children of fellow workers to the school. Kamathipura people face discrimination in school, hospital and all other public places. She goes for a speach in Azad maidan where she talks about all these rights.

Subsequently, she meets Jawaharlal Nehru, prime minister of India and requests for legalisation of prostitution, non evacuation of her fellow workers from Kamathipura and social rights among others. PM agrees to all these requests and hands over the rose in his dress to her.

She returns home a heroine admired and accepted by all.

A very emotional movie where a weekling converts to a strong person with a very strong social message. I enjoyed watching the movie on Netflix.

Good Luck Sakhi

I saw this movie on Amazon Prime. This is a telugu movie dubbed in Malayalam. Actually Keerthi Suresh is the only actor whom i know in this movie. Apart from her, the trainer has appeared as villain in malayalam movie pulimurugan.

The story is about a village girl Sakhi. Initially, she is leading a normal life like other girls in the village. Then kernel comes to the village seeking talents for shooting competition. Based on her talent in playing goli and concentration abilities, Sakhi also participates in the trials conducted by the kernel and she is selected.

After 2 months of training, she participates in district trials and qualifies for state level competition. Just the day before, she has some issues with her boyfriend and looses her concentration. Then, in the middle of the competition, he boyfriend comes running, gives her the lucky golis and emotional issues are solved.

Now, she is on full fire and wins the state level competition against the established players.

It's a nice movie and watchable. It's about village girls, women empowerment and sports.

Neyyattinkara Gopante Aarattu

This is a Mohanlal starrer movie. The first half is really boring. It's like a fusion dance where multiple songs are played for 2 minutes each. Movies like Rajavinte Makan, Chandralekha, Rajamanikyam etc are replayed.

The real story begins during second half. Anti national forces are being dealt with properly. The loss of parents for an army officer is being avenged by a mozad kind of agent. The employer is unknown.

UnLike shown after theatre reviews, i found the second half better than first half.

But most Mohanlal movies are kind of unwatchable now. Though he is 60, he is acting in far too many movies and in roles which doesn't match his age. Mohanlal has over the years, lost his brand value due to wrong selection of movies and this movie is also one such wrong selection. Watched in Amazon Prime and didn't go to theatres.