Dilip Kumar – The Legend
“Mera dil bhi koi hindustaan nahin, jispe aap hukumat karein !!!” By the time I grew up, Dilip Kumar had already been dabbling in the character roles. I remember the […]
Disney Plus Hotstar: ‘Grahan’ (2021) Review
If all the worst forms of violence could be ranked, riots would have easily sat on top of it. History has been a mute witness to countless riots that have […]
Netflix And Chill: Vinil Mathew’s ‘Haseen Dilruba’ (2021) Review
Small town India, where everyone knows everyone. The inhabitants here love to poke their noses in the neighbourhood businesses. Here, life begins with the 7 am tea and ends with […]
The Top Ten Indian Films Of 2021(So Far)
It’s almost half way through the year. Amidst the pandemic and the lockdown, all of us, have somehow trying to live in this ‘new normal’ way of life. Lockdown caused […]
Netflix and Chill – ‘Ray’ (2021) Review
The great Satyajit Ray, while writing the review for Vittorio De Sica’s ‘The Bicycle Thief’ (1948), had once said – “For a popular medium, the best kind of inspiration should derive […]
Amazon Prime: Amit Masurkar’s ‘Sherni’ (2021) Review
“Bandar baat ka khela.. khele main hai jhamele bade.. Neend main hoe hazamat, jaage toh phir tote ude…” “Bandar-baat”, aka the story of two cats fighting for a cake and […]
Revisiting The Classics – Oliver Stone’s ‘Natural Born Killers’ (1994)
More than a quarter-century has passed since Oliver Stone’s electrifying ‘Natural Born Killers’ first thundered onto movie screens for the first time, alighting a hurricane of controversy. By the nineties, […]
Amazon Prime Original – ‘The Family Man’ – Season 2 Review
“Doing something great is overrated because then people expect that from you all the time. What they don’t realise, is you’re as screwed up as they are”. ~ Mare Sheehan, […]
‘Mare Of Easttown’ (2021) Review
Mistakes. If the life of a human being has to be summarised in one word, it would be – mistakes. Since biblical times, our actions or inactions are often labelled […]
‘Friends: The Reunion’ (2021) Review
So no one told you life was gonna be this way? If you go on clapping along with the next set of tunes, well, there you are – fan spotted! […]
Netflix and Chill – ‘Alma Matters: Inside The IIT Dream’ (2021) Review
In the year 2001, which now feels a lifetime ago, I had appeared for the IIT JEE entrance examination. Thanks to the inherent herd mentality, everyone in the study group […]
Tharun Moorty’s ‘Operation Java’ (2021) Review
In today’s world, the whole of humanity is governed by the iron hands of technology. Everywhere we go, everything we do, we knowingly or unknowingly leave a digital footprint that […]
TVF’s ‘Aspirants’ (2021) Review
If you, like myself, hang around the internet, chances are that you have heard of this series. Now you may ask – “ We hear of every new release that is […]
Ray@100 – The Evil Men and Women Of Satyajit Ray’s Films
Satyajit Ray. The Wikipedia depiction of the man’s talent doesn’t do any justice to his artistry. A multifaceted person who was an auteur, a storyteller, an artist, a musician and […]
