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The Remix (2018)
Sounds like a missed opportunity
If you removed the forced/fake audience noise/cheering that has been inserted all over the performances, allowed some of the remixes to not necessarily be EDM/Bass heavy concepts, allowed some non hindi songs into the mix, then this might actually have been a fresh new music show.
As it is, however this feels very formulaic. Take a bollywood song, add some beats to it. Add a bass drop in the middle. Choose an EDM subgenre of your choice for the music after the drop. And that's almost all the remixes in "The Remix".
There were definitely a few mixes which were good. But it could have been so much better.
A Gentleman (2017)
A fun one time watch with a few problems
A gentleman has a cool premise. It also has a cool twist where the movie makes you feel like it is a story about look alike characters but then drops in a time jump. There were even a few laugh out loud bits. The dialog and writing was above average. I also liked the music quite a bit.
The movie suffers from a slow start. It has a strong middle and second half. It is also let down by poor acting (especially on the part of Sunil Shetty and the guy who plays his chief enforcer), bad graphics and inconsistencies in the plot. The sound design was also off. You could see that they dubbed a lot of dialogues after shooting the movie. I wish more Indian movies would record audio/dialog live.
Overall I didn't mind watching it once and I found it to be a fun watch.
Inside Edge (2017)
Expensive looking trash
I really wanted to like this. But I could only make it till the end of Episode 3 before I had to give up.
The problem with Inside Edge is that almost nothing looks or feels real. From the opening shot of the cricket match to the cricketers and their lives, to their homes and their problems. Even someone like Richa Chadda (of Masaan fame) ended up looking weak and fake. The attempts to show reality by using drugs, sex and cuss words backfired. It just felt like the writers were trying to be edgy for the sake of it. These served no purpose in the story.
The opening shot of the stadium especially feels off. There is an attempt to mimic a live cricket telecast for the first minute or so with quick cuts to various characters. The cricket telecast portions of the opening makes it feel like whoever shot and edited it has never actually sit and seen a cricket match. The angles were all wrong. the zoom was wrong. The camera framerate was wrong.
It does have some redeeming qualities. The time lapse shots of the Mumbai skyline from the first two episodes were quite good. Vivek Oberoi was entirely believable as the bad guy. He came off creepy and slimy. He over enunciated a bit but that's just me nit picking. The women were suitably hot. Tanuj Virwani (as Vayu) and Saraj-Jane Dias (as Meera Nagpal) had good chemistry.
In the end these were not enough to keep me going. I could not relate to the characters, the story was boring and everything looked fake and plastic-y.