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Lucky Baskhar (2024)
On a well done backdrop of late 1980s (early 90s) Venky Alturi takes you to the Bombay of stock market scams and financial dealings. This was a time when Mumbai was still Bombay, scams were still caught and the scamsters were still jailed, institutions like…
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Napad (2024)
A police car drives up on a remote road. The driver stops to ask a passerby for directions to a Tadeusz Gadacz’s residence. The car comes to a stop and a serious-looking woman steps out and walks on a muddy pathway and across a tiny…
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Lubber Pandhu (2024)
A clash of egos, firm unwavering love, confidence in oneself, sportsman spirit with subtle hints at casteism, classism, woman empowerment and all on the backdrop of cricket….that’s what forms the podium on which Lubber Pandhu is delivered. And what a movie it is…… The movie…
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Meiyazhagan (2024)
Meiyazhagan is an emotional rollercoaster in the best ways. It tugs at your heartstrings, squeezing out the essence of everything good in relationships, family, and the goodness of people—in the best of times, and at the worst. Does it succeed? Very well. The movie sets…
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Mausam (1975)
The movie begins with the gentle tune of “Dil dhundhta hai fir wahi fursat ke Raat din” as a merc travels through the winding roads of Darjeeling, and you know you are set for a soul stirring journey for the next two hours or so.…
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Wit (2001)
A room. A doctor. A potential experimentee. Dr Bearing is a scholar in seventeenth-century English poetry. Dr Kelekian is an oncologist. He has bad news for Dr Bearing. It is cancer. The patient seems to be bearing the news as well as one can, given…
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Meiyazhagan (2024)
Once, during the evening, I sat down on the balcony and stared at the sky. I watched the sky change its color, hues of bright blue turning darker, the sky getting swirled with shades of orange and pink as the sun started setting. And then…
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The Critic (2023)
A POLITELY ENGLISH HATE LETTER TO CRITICS A majority of 51% of professional critics on the Rotten Tomatoes website actively dislike “The Critic” while an even larger majority of 71% of paying viewers like it. What does this tell us about the schism between audience…
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Kooki (2023)
(Trigger Warning – Reference to Rape) “Why is rape not considered as a heinous crime?” Pranab J. Deka repeatedly asks you this question through his movie and refuses to move further. Kooki is a movie on rape, about rape and everything that surrounds a rape…
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Manvat Murders (2024)
Ashish Avinash Bende takes you back to the mid 1970s when technology did not aid the Police and both Ashutosh Gowarikar and Makarand Anaspure had hair. Manvat Murders is an 8 episode long investigative series based on the book written by Ramakant Kulkarni. Ramakant Kulkarni…
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Vaazha: Biopic of a Billion Boys (2024)
Have you been a child who was found to be quite useless, aimless and unworthy by your Dad? Have you been someone whose parents wanted to impose their ambitions upon and you never lived up to them? Vaazha is a story of a bunch of…
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Arth (1982)
Long before feminism became mainstream, Mahesh Bhatt delivered this classic take on extra marital relationships. Arth is the story of Pooja who is married and ambitious film director Inder. Inder is having an affair with Kavita, a famous albeit neurotic actress. Inder decides to leave…
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Thalavan (2024)
Two cops with distinctly different personalities, both pitted against each other, both trying to solve the same murder case in which one of them is implicated Jis Joy weaves an intricate web of thrill and suspense as he takes us to a small police station…
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Rautu Ka Raaz (2024)
Set in a sleepy valley of Uttarakhand, RkR is an investigative murder mystery Unlike most thrillers this one actually moves at a very slow almost lazy pace giving you a feel of the rural landscape of Uttarakhand. Once you get the hang of its pace…
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Thankam (2023)
ALL THAT GLITTERS “Thankam” is a good movie — a mix of a thriller a police procedural — that stops short of being excellent. It grips you enough to keep you guessing what might happen next throughout, until the somewhat tame albeit surprising end to…
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The Whale (2022)
A WHALE OF A MOVIE ‘The Whale’ is a movie that leaves you heartbroken but satisfied. You root for the protagonist so much that you wish the story had ended differently, because you desperately want him to find redemption, and the happiness that he seeks,…
