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Web Review: Chiraiya Hammers the Home-Truth That Women Are Not Property
One may not completely agree with the end. I will not describe the last 20 minutes of this six-episode wonder as it can seem to be a shade anti-climactic for…
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Trend-Watch: The Post-Dhurandhar Desert
Even Sholay did not have such an impact on cinema! Neither did Hum Aapke Hain Koun!… or Gadar—Ek Prem Katha. And all these were mega-busters of their eras, not just their years! The aspect I…
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Film Review: Made In Korea (Tamil) Has Flimsy Premise But Simple Warmth
Some films are bereft of logic, but convey simple human warmth. Right in the beginning, we are told of a simple village girl (Priyanka Mohan) from Tamil Nadu’s Kollapur, who…
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Film Review: Dhurandhar The Revenge Hits Where It Hurts Most
Part one of the film seems almost like an extended trailer now! Dhurandhar The Revenge is where it was all headed—a seamless mix of chilling fact, smart dramatization and considered fiction, all…
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2016-2025: Are We Inching Towards Realistic Cinema Now?
The game of flops and hits in Hindi cinema is getting piquant by the hour! No one can predict which movie will work, and which not, in the current scenario.…
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Film Review: Boong is Nothing Less Than a Quasi-Epic
Search for a flaw in this film and you will not find any! The Manipuri film, Boong, was one of my favorite movies when I was on the Oscar selection jury…
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Film Review: Subedaar Disappoints on the Whole
The director, Suresh Triveni, has given us the outright mediocre Tumhari Sulu and the gripping Jalsa. He said that he just wanted to have a good time making films of the kind he…
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Film Review: Jab Khuli Kitaab is Akin to a Textbook On Classy Filmmaking
What happens when your wife of 50 years wakes up after two years in a coma, against expectations of recovery, and you have served her with selfless love in that…
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Film Review: The Accused is a Gripping Drama Around Doctors
This one’s about doctors, but it is not strictly a medical thriller, like a Coma or The Vaccine War back home. Dr. Geetika Sen (Konkona Sen Sharma), a renowned gynecologist and head of the…
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Film Review: The Bluff is Like a Hindi Movie Disguised as Hollywoodian Thriller
The influence of Hindi cinema on Hollywood has been more than what one can think. Apart from Indian actors portraying Indians as well as Americans or other non-Indians, we have…
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Film Review: The Kerala Story 2 Goes Beyond Goes All-Out, Misses Needed Impact
When you go overboard, you overshoot and miss the intended target. Come bullets or cinema. We all saw that recently in Assi. Many a well-intentioned film goes off-kilter when things are…
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Film Review: Do Deewane Seher Mein is Sweet—and Slow
Slow and steady—sadly, in movies, that does not always win the race! Do Deewane Seher Mein (more on the title later, and please note ‘Seher’ means a stroll or outing, but…
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Film Review: Assi is Scattered and Finally Pointless Exercise on a Vital Societal Issue
The good points first: the film is based on the rape of Parima (Kani Kusruti), a housewife while returning alone at night via Delhi’s Metro. She is abducted by a…
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Film Review: Punhaa Ekdaa Saade Maade Teen (Marathi) is a Breezy Entertainer
Trust the Marathi film folk to give the audience a great time. And spin an engaging script from two exciting sources spread over six decades. Actor-screenwriter-producer-director and occasional singer and…
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Film Review: O’Romeo is a Proper Curate’s Egg of a Film
It’s a film that is a proper curate’s egg. A colleague said illuminatingly, “It is a different film!” I told him, “But Vishal Bhardwaj always makes different films!” He replied, “Yes, but…
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Film Review: Tu Yaa Main is Surprising, Smart, Scary, Survival Drama
It’s a pleasant shock, coming from a deviant (Shaitaan in 2011, David, Wazir, the series Taish) director like Bejoy Nambiar. And thus, it is undoubtedly his best work. Never mind if the central…