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 …
Film Review
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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. …
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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 …
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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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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. …