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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,…
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Everything Everywhere All at Once(2022)
YEOHVERYTHING YEOHRYWHERE ‘Everything Everywhere All At Once’ (EEAAO) is a difficult movie to classify. It blends genres in an unusual way. It is an intense family drama, a love story, a comedy, a science-fiction movie, an action movie and epic adventure with the now done-to-death…
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The Romantics (2023) & Cinema… Marte Dum Tak (2023)
FOR THE LOVE OF CINEMA If you are a diehard fan like me, and love cinema in all its many-splendoured glory from the biggest blockbuster extravaganzas to the most measly productions, the duds delivered by the biggest stars to the runaway hits served by rank…
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Iratta (2023)
TWIN TREAT ‘Iratta’ is that Sunday afternoon kind of movie that keeps you riveted from start to finish, through every twist and turn, while you burn brain cells trying to second-guess what is to come next. The movie starts at a police station where a…
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All Quiet on the Western Front (2022) & The Banshees of Inisherin (2022)
The post compares two contrasting movies: ‘All Quiet on the Western Front,’ a grand WWI epic, and ‘The Banshees of Inisherin,’ an intimate tale of lost friendship in a small Irish village. Despite their differences, both films center on a man’s heartbreaking transformation due to…
