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Avatar 2 Review: రివ్యూ: అవతార్ ‌- ది వే ఆఫ్‌ వాటర్‌

Avatar 2 Review: జేమ్స్‌ కామెరూన్‌ (James Cameron) దర్శకత్వంలో ప్రేక్షకుల ముందుకు వచ్చిన ‘అవతార్ 2’ (Avatar: The Way of Water)  సినిమా ఎలా ఉందంటే?

Avatar 2 Review; చిత్రం: అవతార్‌ - ది వే ఆఫ్‌ వాటర్‌; తారాగణం: సామ్‌ వర్తింగ్టన్‌, జో సల్దానా, స్టీఫెన్‌లాంగ్‌, సిగర్నీ వీవర్‌, కేట్‌ విన్‌స్లెట్, క్లిఫ్ కర్టిస్, జోయెల్ డేవిడ్ మూర్ తదితరులు; సినిమాటోగ్రఫీ: రస్సెల్‌ కర్పెంటర్‌; ఎడిటింగ్‌: స్టీఫెన్‌ ఈ. రివ్కిన్‌, డేవిడ్‌ బ్రెన్నర్‌, జాన్‌ రెఫౌవా; సంగీతం: సైమన్ ఫ్రాంగ్లెన్‌; నిర్మాణ సంస్థ: లైట్‌స్ట్రోమ్‌ ఎంటర్‌టైన్‌మెంట్‌, టీఎస్‌జీ ఎంటర్‌టైన్‌మెంట్‌; నిర్మాతలు: జేమ్స్‌ కామెరూన్‌, జోన్ లాండౌ; కథ, కథనం, దర్శకత్వం: జేమ్స్‌ కామెరూన్‌; విడుదల తేదీ: 16-12-2022

యావత్‌ సినీ ప్రపంచం ఎంతో ఆసక్తిగా ఎదురుచూసిన ‘అవతార్‌2’ ఎట్టకేలకు ప్రేక్షకుల ముందుకు వచ్చింది. జేమ్స్‌ కామెరూన్‌ దర్శకత్వంలో వచ్చిన ‘అవతార్’ విజువల్‌ వండర్‌గా బాక్సాఫీస్‌ వద్ద కాసుల వర్షాన్ని కురిపించింది. దీనికి సీక్వెల్‌ ప్రకటించగానే ఈసారి కామెరూన్‌ ఎలాంటి మ్యాజిక్‌ చేస్తారా? అని అందరూ ఎదురు చూశారు. తొలి భాగంలో ‘పండోరా’ అందాలను అద్బుతంగా ఆవిష్కరించిన కామెరూన్‌.. ఇప్పుడు నీటి అడుగున అందాలు, భారీ జలచరాలతో సంభ్రమాశ్చర్యాలకు గురి చేసేందుకు సన్నద్ధమయ్యారు. (Avatar 2 Review) మరి తాజాగా ప్రేక్షకుల ముందుకు వచ్చిన ‘అవతార్2’ ఎలా ఉంది? కామెరూన్‌ ఎలా తెరకెక్కించారు? విజువల్స్‌ పరంగా సినిమా ఎలా ఉంది?

క‌థేంటంటే?

తొలి చిత్రంలో భూమి నుంచి పండోరా గ్ర‌హానికి వెళ్లిన జేక్ (సామ్ వ‌ర్తింగ్టన్‌) అక్క‌డే ఓ తెగ‌కి చెందిన నేతిరి (జో స‌ల్దానా)ని ప్రేమించి పెళ్లి చేసుకుంటాడు. నేతిరి తండ్రి వార‌స‌త్వాన్ని పుణికి పుచ్చుకున్న జేక్ ఆ తెగ‌కి నాయ‌కుడ‌వుతాడు. ప‌దేళ్ల కాలంలో లోక్, నేటియం, టూక్ అనే ముగ్గురు పిల్ల‌ల్ని క‌న్న జేక్‌, నేతిరి దంపతులు...  ద‌త్త పుత్రిక కిరీ, స్పైడ‌ర్ అనే మ‌రో బాలుడితో  క‌లిసి హాయిగా జీవిస్తుంటారు. ఇంత‌లో భూ ప్ర‌పంచం అంత‌రించిపోతుంద‌ని, ఎలాగైనా పండోరాని ఆక్ర‌మించి అక్క‌డున్న నావీ తెగ‌ని అంతం చేయాల‌ని మ‌నుషులు మ‌రోసారి సాయుధ‌బ‌ల‌గాల‌తో దండెత్తుతారు. జేక్ త‌న కుటుంబాన్ని ర‌క్షించుకోవ‌డం కోసం ఈసారి మెట్క‌యినా ప్రాంతానికి వెళ‌తాడు.

అక్క‌డి ప్ర‌జ‌ల‌కి స‌ముద్ర‌మే ప్ర‌పంచం. మ‌న‌లో స‌ముద్రం, మ‌న చుట్టూ స‌ముద్రం, ఇచ్చేది స‌ముద్ర‌మే.. తీసుకునేది స‌ముద్ర‌మే అని న‌మ్ముతూ నీటిలోనే బ‌తుకుతుంటారు. మెట్కయినా రాజు టోనోవ‌రి స‌హ‌కారంతో జేక్ కుటుంబం సైతం స‌ముద్రంతో అనుబంధం పెంచుకుంటుంది. కష్టమైనా అక్క‌డ జీవించ‌డం నేర్చుకుంటుంది. ఎలాగైనా జేక్‌ని అతడి కుటుంబాన్ని మ‌ట్టు బెట్టాల‌ని భూమి నుంచి వ‌చ్చిన ప్ర‌ధాన శ‌త్రువు మైల్స్ క్వారిచ్ (స్టీఫెన్ లాంగ్‌), అత‌డి బృందంతో పోరాటం ఎలా సాగించారనేది మిగ‌తా క‌థ‌.

ఎలా ఉందంటే?

తొలి భాగం పండోరా గ్ర‌హంలోని సుంద‌ర‌మైన అట‌వీ, జీవ‌రాశుల ప్ర‌పంచం చుట్టూనే సాగుతుంది.  ఈసారి క‌థ‌ని ‘ది వే ఆఫ్ వాట‌ర్’ అంటూ నీటి ప్ర‌పంచంలోకి తీసుకెళ్లాడు జేమ్స్ కామెరూన్‌. మ‌నం పుట్ట‌క‌ముందు, మ‌నం పోయాక స‌ముద్ర‌మే మ‌న నివాసం అంటూ తాత్విక‌త‌ని జోడిస్తూ ద‌ర్శ‌కుడు కామెరూన్ మ‌రో దృశ్య‌కావ్యాన్ని తెర‌పై ఆవిష్క‌రించారు.  జేక్ అత‌డి కుటుంబం మెట్క‌యినా ప్రాంతానికి వెళ్లేంత‌వ‌ర‌కు తొలి సినిమానే గుర్తుకొచ్చినా.. అక్క‌డికి చేరుకున్నాక మాత్రం పూర్తిగా  ప్రేక్ష‌కుల్ని ఆ ప్ర‌పంచంలో లీనం చేస్తుంది. త‌న ఊహాశ‌క్తికి హ‌ద్దేలేద‌ని చాటి చెబుతూ, స‌ముద్ర గర్భంలో మ‌రో అంద‌మైన ప్ర‌పంచం ఉందంటూ న‌మ్మించాడు జేమ్స్ కామెరూన్‌.

అక్క‌డి జీవితాలు, జ‌ల‌చ‌రాలు, వాటితో అనుబందాన్ని ఆవిష్క‌రించే స‌న్నివేశాలు మ‌న‌సుల్ని హ‌త్తుకుంటాయి.  తొలి భాగం సినిమాలో క‌థ ఎంత‌గా ఆస‌క్తిని రేకెత్తిస్తుందో.. ఇందులోని సుంద‌ర‌మైన స‌న్నివేశాలు అంత‌కుమించి ఆకట్టుకుంటాయి. ఈసారి క‌థ కంటే కూడా విజువ‌ల్స్‌పైనే ఎక్కువ‌గా దృష్టిపెట్టారు ద‌ర్శ‌కుడు. తెలివిగా క‌థ‌ని ఈసారి స‌ముద్ర నేప‌థ్యంలో న‌డ‌పి మ‌రో కొత్త ప్ర‌పంచాన్ని క‌ళ్ల‌కు క‌ట్టాడు.  అలాగ‌ని క‌థ కోసం ద‌ర్శ‌కుడు త‌క్కువ క‌స‌ర‌త్తులేమీ చేయ‌లేదు. కుటుంబాన్ని సంర‌క్షించ‌డంలో తండ్రి పాత్ర క‌ర్త‌వ్యాన్ని, భావోద్వేగాల్ని అందంగా ఆవిష్క‌రించారు. క‌థ‌లో అక్క‌డ‌క్క‌డా  భార‌తీయత, మ‌న న‌మ్మ‌కాలు, విలువ‌లు ఉట్టిప‌డుతుంటాయి.

భార‌తీయ సినిమాలు కొన్ని గుర్తుకొస్తుంటాయి. కొన్ని పోరాట ఘ‌ట్టాలు సాధార‌ణ హాలీవుడ్ సినిమాల త‌ర‌హాలో సాగడం, సినిమా సాగ‌దీత‌గా అనిపించినా  నీటి ప్ర‌పంచం ఆవిష్క‌ర‌ణ‌లో ఏ స‌న్నివేశానికి ఆ స‌న్నివేశం ప్రేక్ష‌కుల్ని క‌ట్టి ప‌డేస్తుంటుంది. జేక్స్ త‌న‌యుడు తిమింగ‌లంతో పోరాటం చేసే స‌న్నివేశం, పాయ‌కాన్ అనే స‌ముద్ర‌జీవితో స్నేహం, అది జేక్స్‌కి సాయం చేయ‌డం వంటివి సినిమాకి హైలైట్‌గా నిలుస్తాయి. స్పైడ‌ర్, అత‌డి తండ్రి నేప‌థ్యంలో వ‌చ్చే స‌న్నివేశాలు కూడా మ‌న‌సుల్ని క‌దిలిస్తాయి. నౌక నేప‌థ్యంలో సాగే ప‌తాక స‌న్నివేశాలు కొన్నిసార్లు ‘టైటానిక్‌’ని గుర్తు చేస్తాయి. టైటానిక్ భామ కేట్ విన్‌స్లెట్ ఈ సినిమాలో టోనోవ‌రీ భార్య‌గా క‌నిపించ‌డం విశేషం.

ఎవ‌రెలా చేశారంటే?

మోష‌న్ కాప్చ‌ర్ టెక్నాల‌జీతో రూపొందిన సినిమా ఇది. సామ్ వ‌ర్తింగ్టన్‌ క‌థానాయ‌కుడిగా క‌నిపిస్తాడు. తండ్రిగా, నాయ‌కుడిగా అత‌డు చ‌క్క‌టి భావోద్వేగాల్ని ప‌లికించాడు. పోరాట స‌న్నివేశాల్లోనూ అలరించాడు. స్టీఫెన్ లాంగ్ భూమి నుంచి వ‌చ్చిన శ‌త్రువుగా, పండోరా గ్ర‌హం రాక్ష‌స‌సైన్యంగా భావించే సమూహానికి అధిప‌తిగా క‌నిపిస్తాడు. జో స‌ల్దానా, సిగోర్నీ వీవ‌ర్‌, జోయ‌ల్, క్లిఫ్‌తోపాటు, కేట్ విన్‌స్లెట్ త‌దిత‌రులు కీల‌క పాత్ర‌ల్లో క‌నిపిస్తారు. 

సాంకేతిక విభాగాల్లో ప్ర‌తి విభాగం అద్భుత‌మైన ప‌నితీరు క‌న‌బ‌రిచింది. సంగీతం, ఛాయాగ్ర‌హ‌ణంతోపాటు, విజువ‌ల్ ఎఫెక్ట్స్  విభాగాలు సినిమాపై ప్ర‌త్యేక‌మైన ప్ర‌భావం చూపించాయి. ద‌ర్శ‌కుడు జేమ్స్ కామెరూన్ త‌న బృందంతో క‌లిసి తీర్చిదిద్దిన స్క్రీన్‌ప్లే, మ‌లిచిన పాత్ర‌లు ఒకెత్తయితే.. ఆయ‌న త‌న‌దైన ఊహాశ‌క్తితో తెర‌పై సృష్టించిన పండోరా గ్ర‌హం మ‌రో అద్భుతం. నీటి ప్ర‌పంచాన్ని ఇంత అందంగా మ‌రెవ్వ‌రూ ఆవిష్క‌రించలేరేమో అనేలా స‌న్నివేశాల్ని తీర్చిదిద్దారు.  నిర్మాణం మ‌రో స్థాయిలో ఉంది.

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గమనిక: ఈనాడు.నెట్‌లో కనిపించే వ్యాపార ప్రకటనలు వివిధ దేశాల్లోని వ్యాపారస్తులు, సంస్థల నుంచి వస్తాయి. కొన్ని ప్రకటనలు పాఠకుల అభిరుచిననుసరించి కృత్రిమ మేధస్సుతో పంపబడతాయి. పాఠకులు తగిన జాగ్రత్త వహించి, ఉత్పత్తులు లేదా సేవల గురించి సముచిత విచారణ చేసి కొనుగోలు చేయాలి. ఆయా ఉత్పత్తులు / సేవల నాణ్యత లేదా లోపాలకు ఈనాడు యాజమాన్యం బాధ్యత వహించదు. ఈ విషయంలో ఉత్తర ప్రత్యుత్తరాలకి తావు లేదు.

రివ్యూ: విద్య వాసుల అహం.. ఫ్యామిలీ ఎంటర్‌టైనర్‌ ఎలా ఉందంటే?

రివ్యూ: కృష్ణమ్మ.. సత్యదేవ్‌ ఖాతాలో హిట్‌ పడిందా?

రివ్యూ: ప్రతినిధి2.. నారా రోహిత్‌ పొలిటికల్‌ డ్రామా ఎలా ఉంది?

రివ్యూ: ఆవేశం.. రూ.150 కోట్లు వసూలు చేసిన మలయాళ బ్లాక్‌ బస్టర్‌ ఎలా ఉంది?

రివ్యూ: ప్రణయ విలాసం.. ‘ప్రేమలు’ హీరోయిన్‌ నటించిన సినిమా ఎలా ఉందంటే?

రివ్యూ : బాక్‌.. తమన్నా, రాశీఖన్నాల హారర్‌ మూవీ ఎలా ఉంది

రివ్యూ: ఆ ఒక్కటీ అడక్కు.. అల్లరి నరేష్‌ ఖాతాలో హిట్‌ పడిందా?

రివ్యూ: శబరి.. వరలక్ష్మీ శరత్‌కుమార్‌ నటించిన థ్రిల్లర్‌ ఎలా ఉంది?

రివ్యూ: ప్రసన్నవదనం.. సుహాస్‌ ఖాతాలో హిట్‌ పడిందా?

రివ్యూ హీరామండి: ది డైమండ్‌ బజార్‌.. సంజయ్‌లీలా భన్సాలీ ఫస్ట్‌ వెబ్‌సిరీస్‌ ఎలా ఉంది?

రివ్యూ: క్రాక్‌.. విద్యుత్‌ జమ్వాల్‌ స్పోర్ట్స్‌ యాక్షన్‌ ఫిల్మ్‌ ఎలా ఉందంటే?

రివ్యూ: రత్నం.. విశాల్‌ నటించిన యాక్షన్‌ డ్రామా మెప్పించిందా?

రివ్యూ: ఆర్టికల్‌ 370.. యామి గౌతమ్‌, ప్రియమణి నటించిన పొలిటికల్‌ థ్రిల్లర్‌ ఎలా ఉంది?

రివ్యూ: మై డియర్‌ దొంగ.. అభినవ్‌ గోమఠం నటించిన సినిమా ఎలా ఉందంటే?

రివ్యూ: సైరెన్‌.. జయం రవి, కీర్తి సురేశ్‌ యాక్షన్‌ థ్రిల్లర్‌ ఎలా ఉంది?

రివ్యూ: పారిజాత పర్వం.. క్రైమ్‌ కామెడీ థ్రిల్లర్‌ ఎలా ఉంది?

రివ్యూ: ఆట్టం.. మలయాళ సస్పెన్స్‌ డ్రామా ఎలా ఉంది?

రివ్యూ: డియర్‌.. భార్య గురకపెట్టే కాన్సెప్ట్‌తో రూపొందిన ఈ మూవీ మెప్పించిందా?

రివ్యూ: శ్రీ రంగ‌నీతులు.. సుహాస్‌, కార్తీక్‌ రత్నంల కొత్త మూవీ మెప్పించిందా?

రివ్యూ: బ‌డే మియా ఛోటే మియా.. అక్షయ్‌, టైగర్‌ ష్రాఫ్‌ నటించిన యాక్షన్‌ థ్రిల్లర్‌ ఎలా ఉంది?

రివ్యూ: గీతాంజలి మళ్ళీ వచ్చింది.. హారర్‌ కామెడీ థ్రిల్లర్‌ ఎలా ఉంది?

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Avatar: The Way of Water

Jake Sully lives with his newfound family formed on the extrasolar moon Pandora. Once a familiar threat returns to finish what was previously started, Jake must work with Neytiri and the arm... Read all Jake Sully lives with his newfound family formed on the extrasolar moon Pandora. Once a familiar threat returns to finish what was previously started, Jake must work with Neytiri and the army of the Na'vi race to protect their home. Jake Sully lives with his newfound family formed on the extrasolar moon Pandora. Once a familiar threat returns to finish what was previously started, Jake must work with Neytiri and the army of the Na'vi race to protect their home.

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• 75 wins & 150 nominations total

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Tsireya : [to Lo'ak] The way of water has no beginning and no end. Our hearts beat in the womb of the world. The sea is your home, before your birth and after your death. The sea gives and the sea takes. Water connects all things: life to death, darkness to light.

• Crazy credits The first half of the end credits highlight Pandoran sea creatures.
• Alternate versions Like its predecessor, which is present 1.78 : 1 aspect ratio, this film presents 1.85:1 aspect ratio for home video releases, although there can be no widescreen versions of this film as James Cameron intended to watch the full format.
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Watching "Avatar," I felt sort of the same as when I saw "Star Wars" in 1977. That was another movie I walked into with uncertain expectations. James Cameron 's film has been the subject of relentlessly dubious advance buzz, just as his " Titanic " was. Once again, he has silenced the doubters by simply delivering an extraordinary film. There is still at least one man in Hollywood who knows how to spend $250 million, or was it $300 million, wisely.

"Avatar" is not simply a sensational entertainment, although it is that. It's a technical breakthrough. It has a flat-out Green and anti-war message. It is predestined to launch a cult. It contains such visual detailing that it would reward repeating viewings. It invents a new language, Na'vi, as "Lord of the Rings" did, although mercifully I doubt this one can be spoken by humans, even teenage humans. It creates new movie stars. It is an Event, one of those films you feel you must see to keep up with the conversation.

The story, set in the year 2154, involves a mission by U. S. Armed Forces to an earth-sized moon in orbit around a massive star. This new world, Pandora, is a rich source of a mineral Earth desperately needs. Pandora represents not even a remote threat to Earth, but we nevertheless send in ex-military mercenaries to attack and conquer them. Gung-ho warriors employ machine guns and pilot armored hover ships on bombing runs. You are free to find this an allegory about contemporary politics. Cameron obviously does.

Pandora harbors a planetary forest inhabited peacefully by the Na'vi, a blue-skinned, golden-eyed race of slender giants, each one perhaps 12 feet tall. The atmosphere is not breathable by humans, and the landscape makes us pygmies. To venture out of our landing craft, we use avatars--Na'vi lookalikes grown organically and mind-controlled by humans who remain wired up in a trance-like state on the ship. While acting as avatars, they see, fear, taste and feel like Na'vi, and have all the same physical adeptness.

This last quality is liberating for the hero, Jake Sully ( Sam Worthington ), who is a paraplegic. He's been recruited because he's a genetic match for a dead identical twin, who an expensive avatar was created for. In avatar state he can walk again, and as his payment for this duty he will be given a very expensive operation to restore movement to his legs. In theory he's in no danger, because if his avatar is destroyed, his human form remains untouched. In theory.

On Pandora, Jake begins as a good soldier and then goes native after his life is saved by the lithe and brave Neytiri ( Zoe Saldana ). He finds it is indeed true, as the aggressive Col. Miles Quaritch ( Stephen Lang ) briefed them, that nearly every species of life here wants him for lunch. (Avatars are not be made of Na'vi flesh, but try explaining that to a charging 30-ton rhino with a snout like a hammerhead shark).

The Na'vi survive on this planet by knowing it well, living in harmony with nature, and being wise about the creatures they share with. In this and countless other ways they resemble Native Americans. Like them, they tame another species to carry them around--not horses, but graceful flying dragon-like creatures. The scene involving Jake capturing and taming one of these great beasts is one of the film's greats sequences.

Like "Star Wars" and "LOTR," "Avatar" employs a new generation of special effects. Cameron said it would, and many doubted him. It does. Pandora is very largely CGI. The Na'vi are embodied through motion capture techniques, convincingly. They look like specific, persuasive individuals, yet sidestep the eerie Uncanny Valley effect. And Cameron and his artists succeed at the difficult challenge of making Neytiri a blue-skinned giantess with golden eyes and a long, supple tail, and yet--I'll be damned. Sexy.

At 163 minutes, the film doesn't feel too long. It contains so much. The human stories. The Na'vi stories, for the Na'vi are also developed as individuals. The complexity of the planet, which harbors a global secret. The ultimate warfare, with Jake joining the resistance against his former comrades. Small graceful details like a floating creature that looks like a cross between a blowing dandelion seed and a drifting jellyfish, and embodies goodness. Or astonishing floating cloud-islands.

I've complained that many recent films abandon story telling in their third acts and go for wall-to-wall action. Cameron essentially does that here, but has invested well in establishing his characters so that it matters what they do in battle and how they do it. There are issues at stake greater than simply which side wins.

Cameron promised he'd unveil the next generation of 3-D in "Avatar." I'm a notorious skeptic about this process, a needless distraction from the perfect realism of movies in 2-D. Cameron's iteration is the best I've seen -- and more importantly, one of the most carefully-employed. The film never uses 3-D simply because it has it, and doesn't promiscuously violate the fourth wall. He also seems quite aware of 3-D's weakness for dimming the picture, and even with a film set largely in interiors and a rain forest, there's sufficient light. I saw the film in 3-D on a good screen at the AMC River East and was impressed. I might be awesome in True IMAX. Good luck in getting a ticket before February.

It takes a hell of a lot of nerve for a man to stand up at the Oscarcast and proclaim himself King of the World. James Cameron just got re-elected.

Roger Ebert

Roger Ebert was the film critic of the Chicago Sun-Times from 1967 until his death in 2013. In 1975, he won the Pulitzer Prize for distinguished criticism.

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आज तक नहीं देखी Avatar तो देख लीजिए, इस ओटीट प्लेटफॉर्म पर ले सकते हैं फिल्म का मजा

Avatar the way of water: जेम्स कैमरून की 'अवतार: द वे ऑफ वॉटर' कल यानी 16 दिसंब को रिलीज होने जा रही इस फिल्म के पहले पार्ट 'अवतार' का मजा ओटीटी प्लेटफार्म पर भी ले सकते हैं..

Avatar The Way of Water On OTT: वर्ल्ड सिनेमा अपनी एक अलग धाक रखने वाले दिग्गज फिल्मकार (Film Maker) जेम्स कैमरून (James Cameron) की फिल्म 'अवतार: द वे ऑफ वॉटर (Avatar The Way of Water)' दर्शकों के लिए 16 दिसंबर को फिल्मी पर्दे पर रिलीज हो रही है. इस फिल्म का फैंस को उस दिन से इंतजार है जबसे जेम्स कैमरून ने इसकी घोषणा की थी. 'अवतार: द वे ऑफ वॉटर' साल साल 2009 में आई जेम्स कैमरून की ही 'अवतार (Avatar)' का दूसरा पार्ट है. इस फिल्म ने बॉक्स ऑफिस (Box Office) पर कमाई के सारे रिकॉर्ड्स तोड़ दिए थे और 'अवतार के फैंस इसके पहले पार्ट का मजा ओटीटी पर भी ले सकते हैं.

इस प्लेटफॉर्म पर है मौजूद

'अवतार' की फैनफॉलोइंग पूरी दुनिया में बहुत ही जबरदस्त है. इस फिल्म को पसंद करने वाले 'अवतार'  का मजा ओटीटी प्लेटफॉर्म पर भी ले सकते हैं. 'अवतार' का पहला पार्ट ओटीटी प्लेटफॉर्म डिज्नी+हॉटस्टार पर मौजूद है. फिल्म के फैंस इस प्लेटफॉर्म पर जेम्स कैमरून की 'अवतार'  को देख सकते हैं.

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कोरोना काल के बाद से ओटीटी कारोबार को एक नई दिशा मिल चुकी है. अब बहुत से फैंस थिएटर में फिल्म देखने के बजाय घर में आराम से अपने बेडरूम में फिल्म को देखना पसंद करने लगे है और इसी वजह से अब फैंस अपनी पसंदीदा फिल्म का ओटीटी पर इंतजार करते हैं.

'अवतार: द वे ऑफ वॉटर' के बारे में

जेम्स कैमरून इस बार 'अवतार: द वे ऑफ वॉटर (Avatar The Way of Water)' में दर्शकों को समंदर के अंदर की शानदार दुनिया को अपने नजर से दिखाने वाले हैं. इस बार फिल्म में समंदर के अंदर रहने वाले तमाम जीवों को दर्शक एक अलग ही अंदाज में देखने वाले है और जेम्स कैमरून (James Cameron) ने इस बार 'अवतार (Avatar)' से कहीं ज्यादा बेहतर वीएफएक्स को'अवतार: द वे ऑफ वॉटर' में शामिल किया है. फिल्म को दर्शकों के लिए कल यानी कि 16 दिसंबर को रिलीज किया जा रहा है.

यहां खत्म नहीं होगी Avatar: The Way of Water की कहानी! पांच पार्ट में रिलीज़ होगी फिल्म..जानें कब-कब

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Avatar: ‘అవతార్‌ 2’ చూడబోతున్నారా?.. అయితే ‘అవతార్‌’ స్టోరీపై ఓ లుక్కేయండి!

Published Fri, Dec 16 2022 8:46 AM

ఎట్టకేలకు అవతార్‌ సినిమా సీక్వెల్‌ ‘అవతార్‌-ది వే ఆఫ్ వాటర్' థియేటర్స్‌లో వచ్చేసింది. భారత్‌లో నేడు(డిసెంబర్‌ 16) ఈ సినిమా విడుదలైంది. ఇప్పటికే లక్షలాది మంది ముందుగా టికెట్‌ బుక్‌ చేసుకొని పండోరా ప్రపంచానికి చూడడానికి వెళ్లారు. అవతార్‌ 2009 డిసెంబర్‌ 18న విడుదలైంది. 13 ఏళ్ల తర్వాత దాని సీక్వెల్‌ విడుదలైంది. పార్ట్‌ 2 చూసే ముందు.. ఒక్కసారి అవతార్‌ కథేంటో మరోసారి గుర్తు చేసుకుందాం.

పండోరా గ్రహంలో ఉన్న ఓ విలువైన చెట్టు రహస్యాన్ని చెబితే.. కాళ్లు వచ్చేలా చేస్తానని జేక్‌కు ఓ అధికారి ఆఫర్‌ ఇస్తాడు. దీంతో జేక్‌ ఆ గ్రహంపైకి వెళ్తాడు. అక్కడ క్రూర మృగాలు దాడి చేయడంతో జేక్‌ సల్లీతో వచ్చిన మిగిలిన సభ్యులంతా పారిపోతారు. ఆయన ఒక్కడే పండోరాలో ఉండిపోతాడు. ఇక చావడం ఖాయం అనుకున్న సమయంలో నావీ తెగకు చెందిన నేత్రి అతన్ని రక్షిస్తుంది. నావీతెగ పెట్టిన ఓ పరీక్షలో విజయం సాధించి జేక్ వారిలో ఒక సభ్యునిగా చేరిపోతాడు. వారిలో ఒకడిగా ఉండేందుకు శిక్షణ తీసుకునే క్రమంలో జేక్‌ సల్లీ నేత్రీతో ప్రేమలో పడిపోతాడు. నావీ తెగ మంచితనం చూసి వారికి రక్షణగా ఉండేందుకు ప్రయత్నిస్తాడు.

అయితే ఓ రోజు ఆర్‌డీఏ ఆఫీసర్లు పండోరా గ్రహంపై ఉన్న విలువైన చెట్టును తొలగించేందుకు ప్రయత్నిస్తారు. జేక్‌ వారిని అడ్డుకుంటారు. తాము తయారు చేసిన అవతార్‌..తమకే వ్యతిరేకంగా మాట్లాడడంతో ఆర్‌డీఏ అధికారులు షాకవుతారు. తమను మోసం చేశాడని అతని శరీరంలోని అవతార్‌ను తొలగించే ప్రయత్నం చేస్తారు. తాను నావీ తెగతో మాట్లాడి అక్కడి నుంచి వెళ్లేలా చేస్తానని జేక్‌ పండోరా గ్రహం మీదకు వస్తాడు. జరిగిన విషయం చెప్పబోతుండగా..వారు వినిపించుకోరు. ప్రేమ పేరుతో మోసం చేశాడని నేత్రి భావిస్తుంది. ఒకవైపు జేక్‌ సల్లీ నావి తెగను ఒప్పించే ప్రయత్నం చేస్తుండగానే.. మరోవైపు ఆర్‌డీఏ అధికారులు పండోరాపై యుద్ధానికి వస్తారు.

ఈ క్రమంలో జేక్‌ సల్లీ నావీ తెగకు అండగా నిలబడతాడు. మానవులతో యుద్దం చేసి వారిని తిగిరి భూమ్మీదకు పంపిస్తాడు. అంతేకాదు తాను శాశ్వతంగా అవతార్‌గానే ఉండిపోవాలని నిర్ణయించుకుంటాడు. దీంతో అవతార్‌ కథ ముగుస్తుంది. మానవులు, ఏలియన్‌ ల మధ్య యుద్దంతో పాటు అంతకు మించిన ప్రేమ కథను ‘అవతార్‌’లో చూపించాడు జేమ్స్‌ కామెరూన్‌. అవతార్‌ 2లో కూడా జేక్ సల్లీ, నేత్రి తమ ప్రపంచమైన పండోరాను కాపాడుకునే పోరాటం చేస్తారని తెలుస్తోంది. . అయితే ఇది నీటి అడుగున జరిగే కథ. పండోరాలోని మరిన్ని వింతలు, అద్భుతాలు, అక్కడి మనుషుల అమోఘమైన సాహసాలతో అవతార్-2 అద్భుతంగా రూపొందించినట్లు టీజర్‌, ట్రైలర్‌ చూస్తే అర్థమవుతంది.

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A New Eden, Both Cosmic and Cinematic

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By Manohla Dargis

• Dec. 17, 2009

With “Avatar” James Cameron has turned one man’s dream of the movies into a trippy joy ride about the end of life — our moviegoing life included — as we know it. Several decades in the dreaming and more than four years in the actual making, the movie is a song to the natural world that was largely produced with software, an Emersonian exploration of the invisible world of the spirit filled with Cameronian rock ’em, sock ’em pulpy action. Created to conquer hearts, minds, history books and box-office records, the movie — one of the most expensive in history, the jungle drums thump — is glorious and goofy and blissfully deranged.

The story behind the story, including a production budget estimated to top $230 million, and Mr. Cameron’s future-shock ambitions for the medium have already begun to settle into myth (a process partly driven by the publicity, certainly). Every filmmaker is something of a visionary, just by virtue of the medium. But Mr. Cameron, who directed the megamelodrama “Titanic” and, more notably, several of the most influential science-fiction films of the past few decades (“The Terminator,” “Aliens” and “The Abyss”), is a filmmaker whose ambitions transcend a single movie or mere stories to embrace cinema as an art, as a social experience and a shamanistic ritual, one still capable of producing the big WOW.

The scale of his new movie, which brings you into a meticulous and brilliantly colored alien world for a fast 2 hours 46 minutes, factors into that wow. Its scope is evident in an early scene on a spaceship (the year is 2154), where the passengers, including a paraplegic ex-Marine, Jake (Sam Worthington, a gruffly sensitive heartthrob), are being roused from a yearslong sleep before landing on a distant inhabited moon, Pandora. Jake is woken by an attendant floating in zero gravity, one of many such aides. As Jake himself glides through the bright cavernous space, you know you’re not in Kansas anymore, as someone soon quips (a nod to “The Wizard of Oz,” Mr. Cameron’s favorite film). You also know you’re not in the gloom of “The Matrix.”

Though it’s easy to pigeonhole Mr. Cameron as a gear head who’s more interested in cool tools (which here include 3-D), he is, with “Avatar,” also making a credible attempt to create a paradigm shift in science-fiction cinema. Since it was first released in 1999, “The Matrix,” which owes a large debt to Mr. Cameron’s own science-fiction films as well as the literary subgenre of cyberpunk, has hung heavily over both SF and action filmmaking. Most films that crib from “The Matrix” tend to borrow only its slo-mo death waltzes and leather fetishism, keeping its nihilism while ditching the intellectual inquiries. Although “Avatar” delivers a late kick to the gut that might be seen as nihilistic (and how!), it is strangely utopian.

It doesn’t take Jake long to feel the good vibes. Like Neo, the savior-hero of the “Matrix” series played by Keanu Reeves, Jake is himself an avatar because he’s both a special being and an embodiment of an idea, namely that of the hero’s journey. What initially makes Jake unusual is that he has been tapped to inhabit a part-alien, part-human body that he controls, like a puppeteer, from its head to its prehensile tail. Like the rest of the human visitors who’ve made camp on Pandora, he has signed on with a corporation that’s intent on extracting a valuable if mysterious substance from the moon called unobtainium, a great whatsit that is an emblem of humanity’s greed and folly. With his avatar, Jake will look just like one of the natives, the Na’vi, a new identity that gives the movie its plot turns and politics.

The first part of Jake’s voyage — for this is, above all, a boy’s rocking adventure, if one populated by the usual tough Cameron chicks — takes him from a wheelchair into a 10-foot, blue-skinned Na’vi body. At once familiar and pleasingly exotic, the humanoid Na’vi come with supermodel dimensions (slender hips, a miniature-apple rear); long articulated digits, the better to grip with; and the slanted eyes and twitchy ears of a cat. (The gently curved stripes that line their blue skin, the color of twilight, bring to mind the markings on mackerel tabby cats.) For Jake his avatar, which he hooks into through sensors while lying in a remote pod in a semiconscious state, is at first a giddy novelty and then a means to liberation.

Plugging into the avatar gives Jake an instant high, allowing him to run, leap and sift dirt through his toes, and freeing him from the constraints of his body. Although physically emancipated, he remains bound, contractually and existentially, to the base camp, where he works for the corporation’s top scientist, Dr. Grace Augustine (Sigourney Weaver, amused and amusing), even while taking orders from its head of security, Col. Miles Quaritch (Stephen Lang), a military man turned warrior for hire. A cartoon of masculinity, Quaritch strides around barking orders like some intransigent representation of American military might (or a bossy movie director). It’s a favorite Cameron type, and Mr. Lang, who until this year had long been grievously underemployed, tears into the role like a starved man gorging on steak.

Mr. Cameron lays out the fundamentals of the narrative efficiently, grabbing you at once with one eye-popping detail after another and on occasion almost losing you with some of the comically broad dialogue. He’s a masterly storyteller if a rather less nimble prose writer. (He has sole script credit: this is personal filmmaking on an industrial scale.) Some of the clunkier lines (“Yeah, who’s bad,” Jake taunts a rhinolike creature he encounters) seem to have been written to placate those members of the Michael Bay demographic who might find themselves squirming at the story’s touchier, feelier elements, its ardent environmentalism and sincere love story, all of which kick in once Jake meets Neytiri, a female Na’vi (Zoë Saldana, seen only in slinky Na’vi form).

Mr. Cameron has said that he started thinking about the alien universe that became Pandora and its galactic environs in “Avatar” back in the 1970s. He wrote a treatment in 1996, but the technologies he needed to turn his ideas into images didn’t exist until recently. New digital technologies gave him the necessary tools, including performance capture, which translates an actor’s physical movements into a computer-generated image (CGI). Until now, by far the most plausible character created in this manner has been slithery Gollum from Peter Jackson’s “Lord of the Rings” cycle. The exotic creatures in “Avatar,” which include an astonishment of undulating, flying, twitching and galloping organisms, don’t just crawl through the underbrush; they thunder and shriek, yip and hiss, pointy teeth gleaming.

The most important of these are the Na’vi, and while their movements can bring to mind old-fashioned stop-motion animation, their faces are a triumph of tech innovation, with tremors and twitches that make them immediately appealing and empathetic. By the time Neytiri ushers Jake into her world of wonders — a lush dreamscape filled with kaleidoscopic and bioluminescent flora and fauna, with pink jellyfishlike creatures that hang in the air and pleated orange flowers that snap shut like parasols — you are deep in the Na’vi-land. It’s a world that looks as if it had been created by someone who’s watched a lot of Jacques Cousteau television or, like Mr. Cameron, done a lot of diving. It’s also familiar because, like John Smith in “The New World,” Terrence Malick’s retelling of the Pocahontas story, Jake has discovered Eden.

An Eden in three dimensions, that is. In keeping with his maximalist tendencies, Mr. Cameron has shot “Avatar” in 3-D (because many theaters are not equipped to show 3-D, the movie will also be shown in the usual 2), an experiment that serves his material beautifully. This isn’t the 3-D of the 1950s or even contemporary films, those flicks that try to give you a virtual poke in the eye with flying spears. Rather Mr. Cameron uses 3-D to amplify the immersive experience of spectacle cinema. Instead of bringing you into the movie with the customary tricks, with a widescreen or even Imax image filled with sweeping landscapes and big action, he uses 3-D seemingly to close the space between the audience and the screen. He brings the movie to you.

After a few minutes the novelty of people and objects hovering above the row in front of you wears off, and you tend not to notice the 3-D, which speaks to the subtlety of its use and potential future applications. Mr. Cameron might like to play with high-tech gadgets, but he’s an old-fashioned filmmaker at heart, and he wants us to get as lost in his fictional paradise as Jake eventually does. On the face of it there might seem something absurd about a movie that asks you to thrill to a natural world made almost entirely out of zeroes and ones (and that feeds you an anticorporate line in a corporately financed entertainment). But one of the pleasures of the movies is that they transport us, as Neytiri does with Jake, into imaginary realms, into Eden and over the rainbow to Oz.

If the story of a paradise found and potentially lost feels resonant, it’s because “Avatar” is as much about our Earth as the universe that Mr. Cameron has invented. But the movie’s truer meaning is in the audacity of its filmmaking.

Few films return us to the lost world of our first cinematic experiences, to that magical moment when movies really were bigger than life (instead of iPhone size), if only because we were children. Movies rarely carry us away, few even try. They entertain and instruct and sometimes enlighten. Some attempt to overwhelm us, but their efforts are usually a matter of volume. What’s often missing is awe, something Mr. Cameron has, after an absence from Hollywood, returned to the screen with a vengeance. He hasn’t changed cinema, but with blue people and pink blooms he has confirmed its wonder.

“Avatar” is rated PG-13 (Parents strongly cautioned). Gun and explosive violence, death and despair.

Opens on Friday nationwide.

Written and directed by James Cameron; director of photography, Mauro Fiore; edited by Mr. Cameron, John Refoua and Stephen Rivkin; music by James Horner; visual effects supervisor, Joe Letteri; production designers, Rick Carter and Robert Stromberg; produced by Mr. Cameron and Jon Landau; released by 20th Century Fox. Running time: 2 hours 46 minutes.

WITH: Sam Worthington (Jake Sully), Zoë Saldana (Neytiri), Sigourney Weaver (Dr. Grace Augustine), Stephen Lang (Col. Miles Quaritch), Michelle Rodriguez (Trudy Chacon), Giovanni Ribisi (Parker Selfridge), Joel David Moore (Norm), C C H Pounder (Mo’at), Wes Studi (Eytukan) and Laz Alonso (Tsu’Tey).

A listing of credits on Dec. 18 with a film review of “Avatar” misstated the given name of the character portrayed by Giovanni Ribisi. He is Parker Selfridge, not Carter.

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Overall, movie's message is that we could all stan

Several characters make difficult but moral choice

Although humans on the base are racially diverse,

Characters (supporting and extras) die due to expl

Many longing looks between Jake's avatar and Neyti

The word "s--t" is used several times. Language al

No product placement in the movie, but dozens of t

Sigourney Weaver's character, Grace, smokes cigare

Parents need to know that James Cameron's sci-fi epic Avatar is about humans colonizing the planet Pandora, home to the Na'vi. The movie is long (at 161 minutes) and intense, with several effects-heavy battle and hunting sequences that show the devastation of imperialist violence and the right that Indigenous…

Positive Messages

Overall, movie's message is that we could all stand to learn something from a population that's different from our own. Strong environmental and pro-peace themes. Some viewers may see the message of occupying a foreign land to usurp their cultural riches as a commentary on Western imperialism or United States' involvement in global politics.

Positive Role Models

Several characters make difficult but moral choices. Jake chooses to support the Na'vi even though it's against orders to do so and means he must fight (and kill) fellow human soldiers. Neytiri, Grace, and Trudy all make personal sacrifices to help the clan; they're strong, courageous, assertive characters. (In both human and Na'vi populations, female characters are brave and important -- even the Na'vi mating ritual requires that both partners equally accept/choose each other.) On the flip side, the Colonel and corporate boss Parker are portrayed as bloodthirsty and greedy.

Diverse Representations

Although humans on the base are racially diverse, majority of main characters are White. They use offensive terms and stereotypes when talking about the Indigenous population of Pandora, and the military engages in imperialist violence. These scenes, intended to encourage racial/ethnic equality and show value of treating other groups with respect, only partially succeed because, while the Na'vi ultimately triumph, they do so only by following the guidance of outsiders. Violent human colonizers are ultimately ejected from Pandora, but film glosses over how the Na'vi environment and population have been permanently damaged by even well-meaning human scientists and allies. Main character Jake has a visible disability: He uses a wheelchair and is initially teased and treated as an inconvenience. But he easily moves around the base in his wheelchair and asserts control over himself when others try to touch or move him without his consent. Women and female Na'vi characters are important in the story, hold prominent social roles such as scientists and spiritual leaders. No body size diversity. All romantic relationships are between male and female Na'vi.

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Violence & Scariness

Characters (supporting and extras) die due to explosions, bullet wounds, arrows (some treated with toxins), precipitous falls, asphyxiation. Several intense scenes involving frightening Pandoran animals and plants, as well as tension between Jake's rogue group of pro-Na'vi humans and the rest of the humans sent to Pandora.

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Sex, Romance & Nudity

Many longing looks between Jake's avatar and Neytiri, which eventually leads to kissing and a marital "mating" ritual (kissing and touching are seen on screen). Na'vi clothing makes parts of their humanoid bodies visible. ​​Jake and Neytir's relationship is briefly referred to as "getting tail."

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The word "s--t" is used several times. Language also includes "bulls--t," "bitch," "goddamn," "piss," limp-d--ked," "hell," "oh my God," "ass," and insults like "stupid," "ignorant," etc. Degrading language is used to describe disabled people, such as "cripple." Slurs such as "savages," "roaches," and "blue monkeys" are used to describe the Na'vi.

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Products & Purchases

No product placement in the movie, but dozens of tie-in merchandising deals tied to the title -- including toys and books aimed at young kids.

Drinking, Drugs & Smoking

Sigourney Weaver's character, Grace, smokes cigarettes and somewhat glamorizes the activity.

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Parents Need to Know

Parents need to know that James Cameron 's sci-fi epic Avatar is about humans colonizing the planet Pandora, home to the Na'vi. The movie is long (at 161 minutes) and intense, with several effects-heavy battle and hunting sequences that show the devastation of imperialist violence and the right that Indigenous groups have to protect themselves and their land. These scenes include missile-launching military aircraft, neurotoxin-laced arrows, scary Pandora-dwelling fauna and flora, and lots of explosions. Salty wartime language includes many uses of "s--t," "​​bitch," and more. As in his previous films, Cameron infuses the action-driven story with strong female characters who are important to the plot, and crafts a morality tale about treating others with respect centered in a romantic relationship. ​​Main character Jake uses a wheelchair in his daily life and a Na'vi "avatar" body to interact with local populations, and the human-Na'vi relationship in question gets a bit complicated because the human is actually using his Na'vi avatar. Na'vi clothing makes parts of their bodies visible from time to time. The romantic leads have chemistry that's sometimes sensual. (Note: Fans of the animated series Avatar: The Last Airbender should know that this movie is in no way connected to that show or the movie based on it.) To stay in the loop on more movies like this, you can sign up for weekly Family Movie Night emails .

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What's the story.

In the 22nd century, Marine Jake Scully ( Sam Worthington ), who uses a wheelchair, embarks on a corporate-run, military-backed experiment in which he and a select group of academics -- led by Dr. Grace Augustine ( Sigourney Weaver ) -- can fully control avatars that look exactly like the Na'vi: the lean, blue-skinned native population of a distant world called Pandora. On his first outing as his AVATAR, Jake is saved by Na'vi Neytiri ( Zoe Saldana ) and then captured by her clan. They decide to spare Jake's life as long as he agrees to learn the Na'vi ways from Neytiri. He does, but then he's told by villainous Colonel Quaritch ( Stephen Lang ) that he'll be spying on the Na'vi to make it easier to remove them from their home, an ancestral tree that's rooted above a deposit of an unbelievably valuable substance called "Unobtainium" (pun intended). As Jake becomes more and more involved with Neytiri and her people, he's forced to choose between following orders and respecting the Na'vi's wishes.

Is It Any Good?

James Cameron , director of the highest-grossing movie ever made ( Titanic ), risked a rumored $500 million on a spectacular futuristic sci-fi epic whose main characters are blue aliens and settings are mostly CGI. The good news for epic movie lovers everywhere is that Avatar was a massive success. It's more like the story of Dances with Wolves crossed with the breathtaking visual effects of Lord of the Rings and the love story of Titanic , with a splash of the assimilation to a native culture aspect of Apocalypse Now thrown in. Even though Cameron seems to have gone to the same hammy dialogue school of screenwriting as George Lucas , he can certainly immerse viewers in a thoroughly enjoyable spectacle. Every shot of Pandora is amazingly detailed, from floating mountains to flying beasts to the feline-featured Na'vi, who are inspired by several Indigenous cultures. The movie's scale is undeniably impressive.

Cameron owes a huge debt to his movie's female characters, all of whom are much more interesting than the stereotypical men -- especially the outlandishly evil Quaritch and Giovanni Ribisi 's greedy corporate overseer. Weaver and Michelle Rodriguez (as soldier Trudy Chacon), like Aliens ' Ripley or Terminator 's Sarah Connor, could take on anything or anyone, and Saldana follows up a memorable turn as Uhura in Star Trek with another strong performance as Neytiri. It's quite a feat to create romantic electricity between fictional alien creatures, but Saldana and Worthington manage it surprisingly well. If you allow yourself to get lost in Cameron's Pandora, it's impossible not to root for the Na'vi (or Neytiri and Jake). Part sci-fi, part romance, all James Cameron, this is the sci-fi epic that will suck everyone in.

Talk to Your Kids About ...

Families can talk about Avatar 's revolutionary special effects. Do they overwhelm or support the movie's story? How does the portrayal of the Na'vi affect the movie's emotional impact?

What themes does Cameron consistently work into his films? Compare the strong female characters in Avatar , Terminator , and Titanic . Any similarities?

What political messages is Cameron exploring in the movie? How are its themes relevant to what's going on in today's world? Do you think these messages will stand the test of time?

Why is it important to respect different cultural groups and treat their traditions and practices as valid and important?

How do the Na'vi and human allies use teamwork to achieve their goals? Why is that an important character strength ?

Movie Details

• In theaters : December 18, 2009
• On DVD or streaming : April 22, 2010
• Cast : Michelle Rodriguez , Sam Worthington , Sigourney Weaver , Zoe Saldana
• Director : James Cameron
• Inclusion Information : Female actors, Latino actors, Black actors
• Studio : Twentieth Century Fox
• Genre : Science Fiction
• Topics : Activism , Magic and Fantasy , Science and Nature , Space and Aliens
• Character Strengths : Teamwork
• Run time : 161 minutes
• MPAA rating : PG-13
• MPAA explanation : intense epic battle sequences and warfare, sensuality, language and some smoking
• Last updated : May 18, 2024

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Tamil star Ajith Kumar is all set to play a new role in his upcoming movie Good Bad Ugly . While the buzz around the movie is massive, reports have flooded claiming more details about it. The latest one revealed that the movie makers have already sealed the OTT deal. All details about it are given below.

Ajith’s Good Bad Ugly digital rights backed by Netflix?

According to a report by 123telugu.com , the makers of Good Bad Ugly have already concealed the movie’s OTT deal. The report claimed that they had sold the film’s digital rights for a massive amount, i.e., $11.4 million. Allegedly, Netflix has acquired the streaming rights of the movie. However, no official announcement regarding this has been made yet.

For the unversed, the makers of Good Bad Ugly recently unveiled the movie’s first poster featuring Ajith in a new avatar. There were rumors about the actor playing a triple role in the film, and the new poster revealed his three looks, each signifying the movie’s title. Moreover, the poster with the weapons lying before him hints that the actor will play the role of either a gangster or a don.

The movie’s poster also confirmed that it will be released around Pongal 2025, i.e., January 2025. Pongal is one of the busiest festivals in Tamil cinema with at least two to three movies releasing every year around it.

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The movie’s shooting is allegedly taking place in Hyderabad. Its latest schedule will continue until the first week of June. It is the first time in a decade that Ajith is simultaneously shooting for two movies at a time.

Adhik Ravichandran is helming the project, while Mythri Movie Makers are bankrolling it. The production house is known for backing heavy-budget movies, but Good Bad Ugly’s budget has not been revealed yet. More updates on the movie’s cast are awaited.

Always lookin' for what's cookin', Aditi is a fan of American sitcoms and Indian cinema. The combination is as quirky as she is. Apart from writing all day, you can catch her playing with her street dogs, painting, or cooking.

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