This week saw two big releases—Meghna Gulzar’s Daayra, a crime thriller inspired by dark reality and Kunal Kemmu’s Vibe, an action comedy of two normal youths coerced into going on a patriotic …
Film Review
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Gotta hand it to the folks from the South. For every execrable biggie actioner, they hand us a modest and riveting action-comedy. Logic takes a walk through the southern states …
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Film Review: Mahaprabhu Jagannath is a Winner all the Way
by Rajiv Vijayakar 3 minutes readThis devotional is a winner all the way. The story of how Lord Jagannath (of Puri) demolished the ego of Aham, an erstwhile ideal student of a sage, with the …
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Film Review: Babita Singh Reporting is Much Ado About Less Than Nothing
by Rajiv Vijayakar 4 minutes readPrime Video continues with its abundance of drab and dissatisfying fare with Babita Singh Reporting. A purported crime thriller, it just does not thrill. Wonder what is wrong in the Prime …
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Disaster Trek: A Look at Hindi Cinema’s Greatest Disasters in the Millenium—Part 2
by Rajiv Vijayakar 4 minutes readContinuing with Hindi cinema’s greatest fiascos of all time, I have explained that a flop is a film that does not recover its investment, but a disaster is that which …
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It’s a first for an Indian TV series. Mirzapur—The Movie cashes in on the much-loved three-season hyper-violent series that has become endemically popular. In a merciful situation, we have censors for the …
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Trailer of Daayra Shows Two Sides of the Police Coin
by Rajiv Vijayakar 4 minutes readThe trailer launch of Meghna Gulzar’s Daayra was held at the PVR Juhu multiplex with the lead pair, Kareena Kapoor Khan and Prithviraj Sukumaran, in attendance along with producers Vineet Jain of …
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Disaster Trek: A Look at Hindi Cinema’s Greatest Disasters in the Millenium—Part 1
by Rajiv Vijayakar 6 minutes readThe crash of the massively hyped Toxic has once and for all, junked the myth that pan-Indian South films are the messiahs for Hindi cinema box-office. After a smash opening of Rs. …
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Film Review: Toxic Is a Scary Tale for Grown-Ups
by Rajiv Vijayakar 7 minutes readMy 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 …
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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 …