Amazon Prime – Anudeep KV’s ‘Jathi Ratnalu’ (2021) Review
Comedy is a serious business. Gags can turn into boring ‘hmms’ and uninterested ’zzzs’ if the jokes don’t land well. Satire can fall flat, if it doesn’t serve its purpose. […]
Dibakar Banerjee’s ‘Sandeep Aur Pinky Faraar’ (2021) Review
On the breakfast table, a guest asks Sandeep about the fluctuations of the stock market to which her landlord rather snidely remarks that a lady who handles the customer service […]
Zee 5 Original Film – ‘Nail Polish’ (2021) Review
The complexities of the human brain have always perplexed scientists. Per them, the human brain is capable of many superlative feats and the average human uses only 7% of it […]
The Ten Best Hindi Films Of 2020, Ranked.
The year 2020 was cruel to everyone including the film watchers, as it led many films to postpone their releases. Majority of the films were released on the OTT platforms. […]
The Ten Best Films Of 2020, Ranked.
As Bob Dylan prophetically sang in the mournful, timely song “The Times are a-Changin’” and indeed 2020 brought many changes that will be felt for years to come. The movie-going […]
Amazon Prime Original- ‘Durgamati’ (2020) Review
Horror-comedies are in vogue these days. Films like ‘Stree’ have shown that with the right dosage of comedy and horror, the viewers would lap up a supernatural or a fantasy […]
Bejoy Nambiar’s ‘Taish’ (2020) Review
The axe forgets but the tree remembers. This African proverb aptly sums up the motif that runs through the whole duration of ‘Taish’ – Revenge. It’s a sordid tale of […]
25 Years Of ‘Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge’ (1995)!
It was someday in 1995, I don’t remember exactly which though. I was ten, eleven years old and was in the early stages of the pre-teenage rebellion. Most of my […]
Sundar Pal’s ‘Vilom’ (2019) Review
Vilom – The dictionary meaning of this Hindi word is Opposite. In the context of director Sundar Pal’s debut film, it signifies contradiction or to be more specific, it points […]
Embassy Of Sweden and ICAF Presents – Hannes Holm’s ‘A Man Called Ove’ (2015) Review
There’s a saying – “Man proposes, God, disposes”. In simple words, it means that despite the best of choices, it’s the fate of the man that decides what happens in […]
Netflix and Chill: Antonio Campos’s ‘The Devil All The Time’ (2020) Review
“This movie boasts of a trailer that is much more riveting that the movie itself” Over the years, I have developed a particular penchant for crime thrillers and was lucky […]
Netflix and Chill: Aarti Kadav’s ‘Cargo’ (2020) Review
“But if we look past the setup and into the characters, Cargo becomes so much more than bonkers science fiction.” ‘Cargo’ is this week’s new addition to Netflix. If I […]
TIFF 2020 Exclusive: Regina King’s ‘One Night In Miami’ Review
Our correspondent John H Foote writes the review from the ground zero of #TIFF2020 I apologize in advance for the use of a single word in this review, I detest […]
Amazon Prime Original: Mahesh Narayanan’s ‘C U Soon’ (2020) Review
When I watched episodes of the Netflix series ‘Black Mirror’, I was horrified at the alternate realities presented, all fueled by technology, which inevitably ended in disaster. Watching ‘C U […]
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