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Ponman (2025)
Ponman is everything an adaptation of a novel should be—crisp, well-rounded, and crafted with care. I haven’t read the original, but if the fact that the original writer is also credited with the screenplay for the movie along with Justin Mathew is anything to go…
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Mandi (1983)
A matriarchal bordello run by a confident dominating Madam meets a patriarchal world in Shyam Benegal’s classic movie. Mandi is not your average brothel based movie, it’s actually a pretty light drama with a lot of humorous situations that cover up a dark despair. Benegal…
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Ankur (1974)
The Seedling, is how the name of the movie is translated into, in English. Ankur was the first feature release of the legendary Director Shyam Benegal, but it was also a debut for several other actors. The movie is set in rural Hyderabad based upon…
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Paani (2024)
Paani is a Marathi movie based on one man’s quest to bring water to his drought plagued village in Marathwada. Hanumant Babu Kendre is a young man from the village of Nagderwadi, who is keen on getting married to a girl who he falls in…
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Agni (2024)
Let me begin by saying that this movie is a copy of Backdraft (1991) starring William Baldwin and Kurt Russells. While there are small changes and its not a scene by scene lift off, it is still basically the same storyline. Secondly the movie is…
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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…
