Here’s how reviewing works on this site. Our contributors watch movies (lots of them!), and then offer very subjective, very personal opinions on them. The objective here (pun intended) is to give you a perspective on the movie or show, and justify it. An informed opinion, if you please. You may wonder then: why should you be reading these reviews, or value these opinions over others? To borrow a thought from famous film critic Barry Norman, CBE (1933-2017), the biggest reason you should consider reading them is that these contributors probably have seen many more movies than the average movie-watcher over a long period of time and draw from a larger pool of movies they have watched, to form opinions. Does that make sense? Read on! If you would like to contribute, get in touch with us on one of our social media pages.
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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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1000 Babies (2024)
It’s gruesome, it’s horrifying, it’s terrifying and yet it tends to lose its grip. 1000 Babies starts off really well as it creates a web of intrigue backed by a melancholy setting about an old crazy woman who seems to have lost her mental balance.…
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Khel Khel Mein (2024)
The plot is stolen (okay, adapted). Even the title is stolen from an old Rishi Kapoor movie. The star cast seems frivolous. The trailer made it look like a slapstick comedy. And it has Akshay Kumar. So basically I went about watching this movie with…
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Stree 2 (2024)
Stree 2 is the 4th installment in the Maddock Supernatural Universe, directed by Amar Kaushik. And as things would have it, the supernatural universe gets worse and worse. The movie is one more entry into the genre of “horror-comedy” where the horror is funny and…
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Vedaa (2024)
Vedaa is a movie about a young woman resisting the caste system and fighting against the antagonist. Wait no… sorry, Vedaa is a movie based on true events about honour killings. Oh wait no sorry again, Vedaa is about a court martialed Major who fights…
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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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The Greatest of All Time (2024)
The Greatest Of All Times Vijay Fan: Machaa whatta movie daaa Non Vijay Fan: Which movie? VF: GOAT daaaa……whatta movie maccha….see it NVF: Saw it….what’s so great about it? VF: Thalapathy daaa……in action…..he looks so young NVF: Dude, seriously that’s CGI, they made him look…
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Ulajh (2024)
Ulajh is an espionage thriller centred around an IFS diplomat posted in London. The movie starts with a long shot of the mountains in Kathmandu quickly descending on Janhvi Kapoor’s butt as she runs up the mountainous stairs. And that’s where the camera focuses for…
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Karkhanisanchi Waari (2020)
There have been several movies about a funeral getting a dysfunctional family under one roof and there have been several movies based on a road trip. Mangesh Joshi merges the two situations and brings out this humorous tale of a weirdly bound joint family living…
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Auron Mein kahan Dum Tha (2024)
I will begin by saying that Neeraj Pandey deserves a huge round of applause for making this movie. It takes some serious courage to think that the viewers of the 21st century are a bunch of morons. And this sort of courage shouldn’t go unappreciated.…
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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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Boston Strangler (2023)
STRANGLER DANGLER For those who don’t know about the infamous string of killings that shook Boston in the 1960s — 13 women killed in near-identical circumstances, all strangled to death with the bodies left decorated with a stocking bow tie around the neck — this…