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83: A movie showcasing the biggest victories of Indian Cricket, The Cricket Worldcup. Coming in as least favorites and to everyone's surprise outperformed many greats only to enter the Cricket's Hall of Fame by winning the World Cup in Lords, England.

Call the movie a documentary, Biopic it stays in that genre at all times. It is movies like this, that the Indian Film Industry needs to be proud about. Not because it is reliving the Glory Days, but because it does that so convincingly well. It makes people like me to feel bad that i wasn't even born to see this monumental moment. Many video games these days give you a life-like character feel that it is difficult to identify a game vs reality. The actors in this movie does exactly that, you are in sync with their feelings and don't see them as actors anymore, You see them as Kapil, Lal, Cheeka, etc. Such is the performance from each and everyone in the movie and the commitment given by them has brought life to the silver screen experience.

Let's be honest, for many Indian movie enthusiast who had played cricket all along their life (like me) would buy-in tp jus the script involving cricket. And the fact that we did not watch this LIVE is good enough for the movie to succeed. Over and above that, the movie takes leaps and bounds in sculpting each character with their actual self mannerisms and attitude, special praise to director for extracting such high performances. Kabir Khan is already set his mark in such film making, one prime example is Bajrangi Bhaijaan, even the hunk of bollywood putdown some breath taking performances in this movie and the sentiments were loaded to the brim. It is no surprise from the film maker, however to keep up the path and continue his legacy is very commendable and hopefully he will do the same in future projects.

Ranveer Singh: I have been watching him from his first movie 'Band Baaja Baaraat", and even in that movie he as Bitto was exactly what the movie needed, the right dose. He has made improvements physically and have been implementing his learnings skills that he has acquired over time. This is very evident in 83; his mature and seamless performance from start to finish is what actually carried the movie all around. We knew he was going to play a major role, but he realized it early on and the efforts he put in to mimic the great Kapil Dev is truly breathtaking. Creating a bowling action so convincing that we might think its actually Kapil is bowling, talking with his team mates, press, etc. He was important to movie success and he has thoroughly justified that.

The movie knew that the audience knew the script, not just the story line, but also till the very end. There were no surprise that the director can pull through, so what the director has done is turn that limitation to his advantage. Rather than trying any unwanted stunts, off-track Love parody, the director has taken the essence of the Worldcup and provided a 3 hr highlights of the matches, which is exactly what was needed. But the movie suffers a flaw without any mistake from the moviemakers and the actors and that is RELEVANCY.

While we all like to see the highlights of victorious India, none of the players who played then are in the team anymore and some even had a tarnished image of themselves. So knowing that ahead of this movie did make us wonder, what are these people doing now and how have they fared in life. To be honest not much, so despite being a huge win, that doesn't necessarily guarantee your glory days forever and time will change the viewpoints based on the recent happenings. So in that sense i guess this movie is 20 years late. If this was made in 2000s am sure it would have been considered best movie of all time and even give the players of that era a resurgence into the new age cricket and provided better avenues of glorifying their success.

Aside that fact, the movie as such is a flawless entertainer and any movie about a underdog victory will always be well received and i don't see any reason this movie not to continue on the same path of success. Thank you so much for the filmmakers for giving a glimpse of the unseen era of cricket and making us feel proud of being Indian.

83 rightfully deserves a 100 in all our hearts!!!

Beast: A Hijacking movie on a loosely based home invasion concept and hero emerges victorious; no points for guessing the right script

We don't mind watching a movie without any logic; at least we prefer to watch once, but the problem with this movie is that it's got everything wrong. Illogical fights; lack of a proper screenplay; missing the script; no seriousness given to the hijacking / home invasion and you only see the actor Vijay in 90% of the screen space

Hijacking is a very emotional concept and the audience as such expect emotions from all the actors but in this movie it just felt that few robots entered the building and was just walking in the lobby without knowing what to do. They got civilians in their control but they don't seem to be in control at all. You don't get that feel of real threat. Actually it should have been funny or real scary but was neither. It was trying to be in both places at once and not do justice to both the emotions.

I guess the director could have thought about the budget and could have limited it to just two characters the hero and the villain because other characters doesn't really matter. You don't really see them and neither do they do justice to the screen space; so a big loss there for the producer and especially the lead actress, not really sure why she was cast in the movie. EXAMPLE of lunacy, there's this scene where Hero goes to a shrink, the only reason for that is it leads to uninvited wedding in which hero meets the heroine. Would the movie had been different without that scene, NO. Why waste time, just bring the heroine as a bystander in the mall.

If the director wanted the movie to be funny it wasn't funny, if the director wanted the movie to be a mixed emotions; well that wasn't working either and we are not really sure which path the movie wanted to go and what was the real objective. It just keeps skips one to the other without any correlation to the previous scenes and that by itself is a real waste of time. The entire idea of a rescue mission is based on Veera and his insane skills, agreed, it can happen but not with such high levels of dumbfounded moves and mad narrative.

The movie felt like it was directed by three different directors 1 incharge of the songs one incharge of the action stunts and one incharge of this support characters and when all three of them come together I think they had an argument which comes first and no one settled. Stupidity is an understatement to describe the movie. I felt really drowsy by the end and was searching for an aspirin and by then thank god it was over.

So many characters unused in the movie and not given their due rules; shows the directors arrogance in expecting veera to carry the movie on his shoulders. If it had been more inclusive and tried to be a clever (like Doctor) the movie would've been more likeable. Such a shame that The same director who made such a fun underdog rescue mission, feels too Pride to continue in the same lines and just wants a cashgrab.

In final, Beast, a colossal waste..