My two very loquacious and articulate movie buff friends, coincidentally named Yash Sutaria and Huma Advani, came out of the movie hall along with me after we had watched Toxic: A …
Film Review
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Film Review: Maa Inti Bangaaram (Hindi) Is a One-Woman Show
by Rajiv Vijayakar 4 minutes readSouth Indian (especially Telugu) films, like those from any busy industry, can range from awesome to awful. Happily, this one (which I watched in Hindi) is nears the ‘very good’ tag …
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From the 1970s to the 1990s, we had innumerable films named after deities or holy entities like Krishnavtar (Mithun Chakraborty’s non-starter), Gautam Govinda, Amar Shakti, Ram Avtar, Vishnu Devaa, Shiv Raam, Shanker Shambhuand …
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Film Review: Sammarth (Marathi) is a Devotional Saga
by Rajiv Vijayakar 5 minutes readWhen such movies connect, they often do so on a massive scale: Hindi cinema lovers of the 1970s will remember the resonance created by Jai Santoshi Maa (1975) and Shirdi Ke Sai Baba (1977). …
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Web Review: Operation Safed Sagar a Penetrating Insight Into the Kargil War
by Rajiv Vijayakar 6 minutes readWhen it happened in 1999, it was the height of treachery from the neighboring country. This stunning series opens the curtains on the pathological hatred of individuals in that rogue …
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Film Review: Does Awarapan 2 Confirm That the Dark Hero is the New Box-Office Dependable?
by Rajiv Vijayakar 6 minutes readA look at the 2025-2026 scenario shows clearly that, besides the Dhurandhar franchise, the films that have truly done great business are almost always multi-star films, nationalistic movies, comedies and horror comedies. …
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Film Review: Batwara 1947 is Heart-Tugging Saga on Humanity Rather Than on Partition
by Rajiv Vijayakar 6 minutes readThis year, we have seen Ikkis and Main Wapas Aaunga on the traumas of Partition. They were very personal for the protagonists and endeared us to their issues. But the films were probably rejected …
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Lokesh Kanagaraj is a writer-director of a decade’s standing. He has also made cameo appearances in a few films. But now he chooses to make a lead debut, and what …
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Web Review: Amar Vishwas is Twisted Thriller That Could Have Been Crisper
by Rajiv Vijayakar 3 minutes readA convoluted murder mystery, Amar Vishwas (named after the hero, who like all crime-connected forces, has a traumatic backstory!) is about a lawyer who decides to investigate on his own when he …
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Film Review: Ohh My Dog Is an Uplifting Love Story Between Humans and Their Best Friend, a Dog
by Rajiv Vijayakar 5 minutes readIt’s a canine carnival. The versatile writer-filmmaker, Amit Rai, who gave us Road to Sangam in 2010, I-Pad in 2015 and above all, the super successful OMG 2 in 2022, treks into another terrain—love between humans …