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 …
Film Review
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Film Review: The Vvaan: Force of the Forrest has Small-Town Appeal With its Olde-Worlde Approach
by Rajiv Vijayakar 6 minutes readAll 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 …
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Film Review: Om Ka Hari is a Delightful Family Drama
by Rajiv Vijayakar 4 minutes readHe’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, …
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Film Reviews: The ‘Vibe’ from Daayra and the ‘Daayra’ of Vibe
by Rajiv Vijayakar 9 minutes readThis 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 …
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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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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. …