Ideally, a stew of multiple ingredients should be tasty and nutritious, but Nayyi Navelli is neither. It’s just a stew, with a stre-e-etched climax that could have been shortened to less than…
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Do not look for big names here. But we have a fair share of gags, fun elements and amusing situations that make our viewing pleasant. And some good music, which is so…
A deviant young man tries to act smart with a young lady, Anju (Ishita Dutta). Her mother, Nandini (Shriya Saran) and she have a confrontation with him. The spoilt brat…
It’s entertaining, emotionally riveting but it is feminism in overdrive. Bandkhor (which means a rebel) tells the story about a vivacious but volatile city girl, Meera (Priyadarshini Indalkar), who hails from a…
All the content is aimed at the smaller centers. When there is a basic bent only towards devotion, mythology and folklore blended with elements of horror, we are reminded of…
He’s boorish, self-centered and supremely irascible. Grumbling all the time after (and before) retiring from his job, Hari Prasad Sharma (Raghubir Yadav) is a quintessential old-fashioned and uber-traditional middle-class patriarch,…
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…
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…
This 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…
Prime 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…
Continuing 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…
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…
The 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.…
