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It even puts out text in the middle of the film to reiterate that

But Batla House is not an encounter film.K. And because in India we don’t do subtle, we’ve even had a movie called PM Narendra Modi starring Vivek Oberoi.Batla House is neither well-made nor thrilling.The encounter, in Delhi’s Jamia Nagar, led to protests which initially spoke of the dead terrorists being innocent students, and later of dubious bullet wounds.While we get brief glimpses of the encounter through the ACP’s testimony in court, the film also shows us how, while interrogating the captured terrorist, the ACP exonerated Islam but added that several Indian Muslims have been brainwashed and taken to terrorism.Soon, the encounter takes place and the film immediately creates three separate entities — the honourable cops, the terrorists and activists/politicians with agendas to grind.Batla House, directed by Nikhil Advani, presents the Delhi Police’s version as the truth, and then spends all its time refuting what has already been refuted, all the while insisting that its intent is not to influence opinion.This could have been made slightly palatable if the film were intelligent, well-made and thrilling. But again, the film uses the cop’s trauma only to shame the insensitive activists.And now we have Batla House, a film which announces at the onset that it is inspired by the Delhi Police and the facts of the 2008 Batla House encounter, but it doesn’t take any sides.

But, in this age of fake stories and blatant lies, a time in our country’s history when every flat surface and piece of technology is being used for propaganda, this is asking for too much.At some point towards the end of the film, the ACP and his team start pursuing the escaped terrorists, one of whom is eventually nabbed in a sequence that is mildly tense and exciting. And in between all this we have been treated to movies about India’s glory, past and present — at the Olympics (Gold), while fighting for the British (Kesari), fighting the British (Manikarnika), surgical strikes (Uri), creation of cheap sanitary napkins (Pad Man).Batla House doesn’t present anything new or revelatory.The case, and the controversy around it, was laid to rest by the NHRC and the courts, which said that it was not a fake encounter.But given that he lost a dear colleague (Inspector K. of cleaning the country of terrorists. In fact, you may be better off as suffering John Abraham’s one expression for over two hours does put a deep frown in your forehead. There was also talk of Inspector Sharma being killed by his colleagues because of internal politics. Verma played by Ravi Kishan), I found this a tad self-indulgent.And now, for the last three years especially, our cinema has been in the craven service of the political party in power, giving sharp shape and form to its agenda, selling its theories, dissing its political enemies, celebrating its victories, adding to the growing cult around its supreme leader.Batla House’s screenplay is so inept and daft, completely lacking any sense of cinema, that if you were to close your eyes and just listen to the painfully expository dialogue, often accompanied by a terribly didactic background score, you won’t have missed anything.

This could have been made slightly palatable if the film were intelligent, well-made and thrilling. Batla House is neither well-made nor thrilling. He responds by saying that it’s a very good idea. It is wholly and solely devoted to upholding the honour of Delhi Police and to pound in the message that certain political parties have always nurtured their vote bank by trying to protect terrorists from a certain kaum at the cost of the nation. It also shows us real footage of Digvijaya Singh asking for the cops to be punished, and hints at protests organised by the Samajwadi Party. It is, in fact, not really interested in the encounter. That the producers and director of Batla House picked this one is telling.e.That won’t happen, and it never does, especially not in India where cinema, through sponsorship and censorship, has always been used as a tool to sell morality, political ideas and ideals, instil patriotic pride, and reinstate patriarchy — every single time it feels like some women and events may have shaken it a bit.Despite this Batla House remains at pains to tell us that it takes no sides. It has a morose pace that’s in step with its sulky hero, and it is the exact opposite of intelligent. The matter rests there. The film mostly shows us one activist, a Delhi-type woman wearing silver jewellery, kajal, with her nostrils perennially flared. The sulky ACP is burdened with the task of exposing these politicians and activists.

It even puts out text in the middle of the film to reiterate that. Instead it embellishes the events and its agenda by placing at the centre one ACP Sanjay Kumar (John Abraham), when no such character existed in real life. Rating: Cast: John Abraham, Mrunal Thakur, Ravi Kishan, Nora Fatehi, Manish Chaudhari, Rajesh SharmaDirector: Nikhil AdvaniIt is not usually a film reviewer’s job to do a fact check on a film purportedly based on true events, or to have to sift fact from fiction.John Abraham takes a very short bath.Batla House is so devoted to telling us how impacted the maligned cops of Delhi Police were that ACP Sanjay Kumar, who gets shot in the chest during the encounter but is saved by a bullet-proof jacket, China screws Manufacturers keeps imagining being shot again and again, and freezing. And it has shown us how the skies roar and lightning strikes when they do.According to the official version, a Delhi Police team was keeping an eye on Indian Mujahideen terrorists who they thought were responsible for the serial blasts in Delhi on September 13, 2008. It does exactly that. Now, this may seem like jerk behaviour to some, but the film portrays this as the ACP’s complete devotion to his job, i.We’ve been treated to the revolution of the indoor shauchalay (Toilet: Ek Prem Katha), told how dictatorial and corrupt Indira Gandhi was (Indu Sarkar), how ineffectual Dr Manmohan Singh was (The Accidental Prime Minister), how Lal Bahadur Shastri was murdered at the behest of a Congress leader (Tashkent Files).

But six days later, on September 19, what was to be an intelligence gathering visit turned into an encounter in which two terrorists and Inspector Mohan Chand Sharma were killed. In a serious scene, where she is supposedly dying of tension as her husband is at an encounter scene and she is calling to check if he is dead or alive, she bounces about to show off her curls. But its bias bursts out when ACP Sanjay Kumar speaks of “in ki kaum…” in his testimony. That’s because this sort of divisive political messaging about a certain kaum, which has been at the receiving end for the last five years, sits easy in this particular case. Two terrorists escaped and one was nabbed. It is a bit a precious to expect politics and life to play itself out without touching popular culture, especially films. PTSD, it seems.Police encounters make for thrilling films.Our cinema has sold us Socialism, labour rights, animal protection through ichcha-dhari nagins.Mrunal Thakur is terribly inept. The message always being that as long as you are convinced you stand with the good and you think the world is spinning out of control because of a few bad men and women, what’s a little violence, what’s a little lawlessness as long as it’s for the greater good. It has also, of course, taught us how to romance, but while doing so it has always reiterated the Lakshman rekha which girls, especially, must not cross.It has also often told us that vigilantism is good.We first meet the ACP at home where his wife, Nandita (Mrunal Thakur), a TV anchor, is saying she is fed up with having a husband only in name and threatens to leave him.There were any number of police encounters — fake and otherwise — to pick from.

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A loner in a world of his kind, the casting of Ryan Gosling might have looked apt on paper

Where the film scores is in enabling its characters, letting their emotional sense of judgement ride and anchor the plot instead of leaving it all for the yearning scenarist’s inferences.Set in 2049, hunt for outdated replicants is as rampant, with the plot following a very sombre LAPD official, K (Ryan Gosling), in his quest to religiously follow his lieutenant (Robin Wright in an inspiredly tenacious act).The film, rich in visual poetry is as much Roger Deakins as much as it is Villeneuve’s. Hans Zimmer and Benjamin Wallfisch’s score works wonders for this dystopia, albeit often distracting. However, 35 years down the line, if there’s one director who could produce a worthy ‘replicant’ to Ridley Scott’s commendable vision, it’s Villeneuve. And that, the auteur does.

A loner in a world of his kind, the casting of Ryan Gosling might have looked apt on paper, but fails to translate effectively on-screen.Villeneuve’s Blade Runner 2049 is grim, gritty, appropriately allegorical and morally ambiguous, sans an iota of brute force. The more he delved, the more mysteries surrounding his own past confronted him. single expansion anchors Manufacturers Rating: Director: Denis VilleneuveCast: Ryan Gosling, Harrison Ford, Ana de Armas, Robin Wright, Mackenzie David, Jared Leto, Dave BautistaBlade Runner might not have been the finest piece of cinema (contrarian discourse is welcome), but sure has acquired one of the biggest cult followings cinema as a medium has known. Particularly similar is a certain intimate moment in the film.Be as it may, Blade Runner 2049 is still a sequel towards the right direction, one of the better ones of all time, that trumps the original. Despite its gratingly predictable twists, the film works wonders when it comes to putting across contemporised social commentaries aided by metaphorical plot arcs.Though the film has Gosling in every other frame, it’s a regurgitated Harrison Ford who steals the show in a performance that could very well have been mistaken for an extended cameo.

Ridley Scott, with his alarmingly precognitive visual and mortal landscape, had done to the then generation what Black Mirror has consistently been achieving with millennials. Despite his unquestionable talent, Leto is a clichéd liability, one that could hitherto have been avoided had a relatively less A-list face been cast. A still from the film. In a stint that is one of the better performances of his illustrious career, Ford’s Deckard is determined, vulnerable, broken and emotionally stunted. The latter, who proved a good science fiction fare might not need visual, CGI-laden extravagance to prove a point with 2016’s staggering Arrival, reiterates it with this one that, science fiction is much beyond the dispensable realms of visual effects.The film stars Ryan Gosling, Harrison Ford, Ana de Armas, Robin Wright, Jared Leto and Dave Bautista in the lead roles.Blade Runner 2049 is replete with odes, both subtle and blatant, the most prominent being K’s ‘romantic liaison,’ eerily reminiscent of Spike Jonze’s superlative Her.

Maybe it’s time Hollywood stopped hyping its sure-fire blockbusters pre-release, for Blade Runner 2049 deserved to have been devoured before it had already been labelled a masterpiece, because that’s everything it could have been and everything it is not. Often through particularly poignant scenes, the actor seems to be unintentionally holding back a giggle or two, much like his stint on Saturday Night Live. Though not short on its fair share of merits, the film seemed inadequate in front of Terry Gilliam’s riotously smart Brazil, a retro-futuristic dystopian satire- the first of his trilogy.Kafka himself is referenced in K’s trajectory..However, the most blasphemous miscast is Jared Leto as the sinister, blind Niander Wallace, the replacement to Joe Turkell’s electrifying Tyrell from the first instalment.The relevance of an effective background score in cinema has been established since time immemorial, right from Bernard Hermann’s ‘shower alarm’ from Psycho, to the scores of Martin Scorsese’s Shutter Island and Villeneuve’s own Arrival, for that matter.At 163 minutes, the film might induce a sporadic snore too many, but Deakins, if not anyone else, deserves your while for the stunningly ominous visual doom he’s created
The accord is a breakthrough in climate negotiations

5°C French foreign minister and President of the COP21 Laurent Fabius, right, and France's Laurence Tubiana. It does not require them to do so. The agreement struck a middle ground, removing a strict firewall between rich and poor nations and saying that expectations on countries to take climate action should grow as their capabilities evolve. The last climate summit, in Copenhagen in 2009, ended in failure when countries couldn’t agree on a binding emissions pact. However, a footnote specifies that it “does not involve or provide any basis for any liability or compensation” — a key US demand because it would let the Obama administration sign on to the deal without going through the Republican-led Senate.
The accord is a breakthrough in climate negotiations.The deal commits countries to keeping the rise in global temperatures by the year 2100 compared with pre-industrial times “well below” 2 degrees Celsius and says they will “endeavour to limit” them even more, to 1..It says wealthy nations should continue to provide financial support for poor nations to cope with climate change and encourages other countries to pitch in on a voluntary basis. The UN has been working for more than two decades to persuade governments to work together to reduce the man-made emissions that scientists say are warming the planet.5-degree goal. “It’s a whole lot of pomp, given the circumstances.The “Paris agreement” aims to keep global temperatures from rising another degree Celsius between now and 2100, a key demand of poor countries ravaged by rising sea levels and other effects of climate change.”The agreement sets a goal of getting global greenhouse gas emissions to start falling “as soon as possible”; they have been generally rising since the industrial revolution. But those pledges are not enough to achieve the goals in the accord, meaning countries will need to cut much more to meet the goal.
The main dispute centred over how to anchor the climate targets in a binding international pact, with India, China and other major developing countries insisting on different rules for rich and poor nations. It is the first pact to ask all countries to join the fight against global warming, representing a sea change in UN talks that previously required only wealthy nations to reduce their emissions. (Photo: AP) 195 nations adopt accord that aims to limit warming to 1.The deal now needs to be ratified by individual governments — at least 55 countries representing at least 55 per cent of global emissions — and would take effect in 2020.In what would be a victory for small island nations, the agreement includes a section highlighting the losses they expect to incur from climate-related disasters that it’s too late to adapt to.Loud applause erupted in the conference hall after French foreign minister Laurent Fabius gavelled the agreement.More than 180 countries have already presented plans to limit greenhouse gas emissions — a breakthrough in itself after years of stalemate. “Almost every country in the wholesale butterfly plugs world just signed on to the #ParisAgreement on climate change — thanks to American leadership.
The world has already warmed by about 1 degree Celsius since pre-industrial times.5 degrees Celsius. The Paris climate accord is adopted,” Mr Fabius said. Some delegates wept and others embraced.The previous emissions treaty, the 1997 Kyoto Protocol, included only rich countries and the US never signed on.195 nations adopt accord that aims to limit warming to 1.5°CNearly 200 nations adopted the first global pact to fight climate change on Saturday, calling on the world to collectively cut and then eliminate greenhouse gas pollution but imposing no sanctions on countries that don’t.“This is huge,” tweeted US President Barack Obama.”In the pact, the countries commit to limiting the amount of greenhouse gases emitted by human activity to the same levels that trees, soil and oceans can absorb naturally, beginning at some point between 2050 and 2100.In practical terms, achieving that goal means the world would have to stop emitting greenhouse gases altogether in the next half-century, scientists said.French President François Hollande called Prime Minister Narendra Modi in an apparent bid to persuade India to go with the deal. That reflects Western attempts to expand the donor base to include advanced developing countries such as China.
That’s because the less we pollute, the less pollution nature absorbs.The talks were initially scheduled to end Friday but ran over as Western powers, tiny Pacific island nations and everyone in between haggled over wording.The adoption of the agreement was held up for nearly two hours as the United States tried — successfully in the end — to change the wording on emissions targets. The draft agreement had said developed countries, like India and China, “shall” commit to reducing emissions; in adopting the pact organisers changed the language to say those countries “should” make that commitment.“We’ve agreed to what we ought to be doing, but no one yet has agreed to go do it,” said Dennis Clare, a negotiator for the Federated States of Micronesia.The agreement,
South African environment minister Edna Molewa said, “can map a turning point to a better and safer world”.Some scientists who had criticised earlier drafts of the pact as unrealistic praised the final language for including language that essentially means the world will have to all but stop polluting with greenhouse gases by 2070 to reach the 2-degree goal, or by 2050 to reach the 1.“I see the room, I see the reaction is positive, I hear no objection.Achieving such a reduction in emissions would involve a complete transformation of how people get energy, and many activists worry that despite the pledges, countries are not ready to make such profound and costly changes
If insiders in the Congress are to be believed

Left-Out SecretariesThese days once the Union Cabinet clears a specific proposal, the secretary of that ministry is called in for media briefings on the Cabinet decisions to give a brief presentation on the matter.K.The cops told him that he looked exactly like Ram Vriksh Yadav, the main accused in the Mathura clashes. He had barely emerged from the waters after taking the holy dip in the Ganga at the Dashashwamedh Ghat when a group of policemen swooped down on him and whisked him away to an undisclosed destination. The matter being of extreme public interest, it garnered all the media attention, with Mr Lavasa and finance minister Arun Jaitley facing all the questions. Basanta bhai (Basanta Panda) is our leader. Since Yadav’s lawyers had claimed that he was still alive, they had arrested him for verification.
If insiders in the Congress are to be believed, Mr Roy’s remark has come as a great relief for the Congress leadership, as most of the elected representatives had ruled out any chances of joining the BJP.Maurya was shocked into silence and when he gathered his wits, he asked the cops why they had taken him into custody. The two leaders were stopped by the anchor and others present in the studio.A crafty and shrewd politician as he is, Mr Pradhan got this opportunity at the recently-held BJP state executive meeting. The two leaders were together in the studio of a local channel to debate the appointment of Asha Kumari as in-charge of the Punjab Congress, who hs been convicted in a land grab case.Leaders present in the meeting had no difficulty in understanding how Mr Pradhan was shooting more than two birds with one stone — assuaging Mr Oram’s feeling, holding his protégé Basanta Panda in high esteem and sending a message across party workers that he is not as ambitious as they think.
The infuriated Mr Sharma punched Mr Bali and the two got involved in a scuffle and exchanged abuses.Punjab ready for the fightWith Punjab in election mode, the political parties in the state are getting ready for the fight, in some cases quite literally. The US, it seems, is waiting for Didi..Though the Cabinet that day also cleared the National Mineral Exploration Policy and the Model Shops and Establishments (Regulation of Employment and Conditions of Services) Bill 2016, and the mines and labour secretaries too were present in the briefing to field questions related to the two matters, they were relegated to the background as hardly any mediaperson showed interest in the subject.Maurya kept pleading that he belonged to Ambedkar Nagar and had wholesale hex coupling nuts never even visited Mathura but the cops would not listen. While the matter was hushed up, it came out as another panelist present spilled the beans.
In fact, Ms Clinton was so impressed by her meeting with the stormy petrel of Indian politics that even after her return to the US she praised her. He said: “I and Jual bhai (Union tribal affairs minister Jual Oram) are small fries as far as the BJP Orissa unit is concerned. Time magazine included her in its prestigious list of 100 most influential women of the world. If he asks us to do one hundred sit-ups, we’ll immediately follow his instruction without any objections. The veteran Congress leader also praised Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Assam chief minister Sarbananda Sonowal in the same breath.While Mr Saikia was trying to find out, a veteran Congress leader, Gautam Roy, whose wife and son also lost the elections with him, came before the media and said ex-chief minister Tarun Gogoi’s reckless remarks was the cause of the party’s defeat.
Last week, when the Union Cabinet cleared the much-awaited recommendations of the Seventh Pay Commission, finance secretary Ashok Lavasa briefed the media on its details through a presentation. Sharma, who is also a chief parliamentary secretary, and Congress leader Gurvinder Singh Bali.Killing many birds with one stoneOften criticised for allegedly “hijacking” all powers of the state BJP unit and getting his protégé Basanta Panda elected as president of the Orissa BJP unit ostensibly to smoothen his path to become party’s chief ministerial candidate in 2019 Assembly elections, Union petroleum and natural gas minister Dharmendra Pradhan was looking for an opportunity to counter the “impression”.
Trinamul Congress leaders are waiting for the day when their Didi will break bread with the US President at the White House.America callingWhen US undersecretary of state for political affairs Thomas Shannon met West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee at Nabanna (the state secretariat) last week, he extended an invitation to her to visit Washington. Ours is a disciplined party.Lookalike Trouble Here & Now Lookalike TroublePramod Maurya, a farmer from Ambedkar Nagar, was in Varanasi on a pilgrimage. The channel later held the debate with the two leaders and it was telecast. Later, after the textile industry package was okayed by the Cabinet, the textile secretary too explained the nitty-gritty of the package to the media.A police team was later sent to Maurya’s house in Ambedkar Nagar to collect documents related to his identity.
A case in point is a squabble in a TV studio between Akali legislators N. In fact, she had visited the United Nations headquarters in New York donning her trademark cotton sari and rubbers chappals. Later, US ambassador to India Nancy Powell met the chief minister not once but twice, and on both occasions invited her to the US.Last month, when the Cabinet cleared the aviation policy, the civil aviation secretary gave a detailed presentation before the media. In fact, some Congress veterans who lost elections have been trying to engineer a defection in the party for their smooth entry in the BJP. In May 2012, she was invited by no less than charismatic US secretary of state Hillary Clinton to visit the US. Mr Oram and a few other veteran and experienced leaders have been sulking for quite some time now over their marginalisation in the party’s organisational affairs.
Both bureaucrats therefore did not get any opportunity to give presentations related to their proposals and when the briefing ended, they quietly left the venue along with other officials and ministers. Ms Banerjee suddenly became extremely popular in the US in May 2011 after she dethroned 34-year-long Left Front government. In her first tenure as chief minister, Ms Banerjee visited Bangladesh, Singapore and the UK. Now the Congress has alerted its newly-elected MLAs to be at a safe distance from such “opportunists”. Then Mr Bali also made general allegations of land-grab against Mr Sharma. Obviously Mr Saikia started consulting his MLAs to know their mood and all of them denied the media reports. Exactly a year ago, the US-India Business Council invited Ms Banerjee to visit the US to showcase West Bengal as an ideal investment destination. What the cops told him shocked him further.
Mr Sharma, who is also a real estate baron, reportedly lost his cool when Mr Bali pointed that `1 crore is pending as electricity bill at a project of Mr Sharma’s firm. No one perhaps remembers that Ms Banerjee had once visited the US in 1998.Rumours that divideThe worst phase for the Congress in Assam was said to be over with party losing Assembly elections, but suddenly the local media was flooded with news of a split within the Congress. It took more than 30 hours before Maurya was allowed to go and the SSP confirmed that it was a case of mistaken identity. With the demise of Assam Congress president Anjan Dutta, the responsibility of taking note of such developments has come on the shoulders of Congress Legislature Party leader Debabrata Saikia.”Party leaders present in the meeting looked at Mr Oram’s face to know his reaction. This is the not the first time that Ms Banerjee had received an invitation to visit America