Despatch Review | Manoj Bajpayee Does the Heavy Lifting in a Film That Struggles to Strike the Right Balance

In Kanu Behl’s movies, one can see a very peculiar and unusual amount of time spent on setting the world of the protagonist, even though the conflict and drama may not have anything to do with it. The disconnection of these tracks sort of bothers us while we are watching the film as we are… Continue reading Despatch Review | Manoj Bajpayee Does the Heavy Lifting in a Film That Struggles to Strike the Right Balance

Agni Review | A Potent and Pertinent Premise Undone by Burned-Out Writing Techniques

The thankless lives of firefighters and the kind of obstacles they face in their line of work is something we have not really seen in films, and even in real life, one could say they have not been celebrated or respected for the kind of risk they take. The new Rahul Dholakia film Agni, which… Continue reading Agni Review | A Potent and Pertinent Premise Undone by Burned-Out Writing Techniques

Sikandar Ka Muqaddar Review | A Flat Thriller With Unappealing Melodramatic Distractions

In his latest film, Sikandar Ka Muqaddar, Neeraj Pandey is trying to reinvent his own brand of movies that always feature these heists or operations along with a cat-and-mouse game between the one who did it and an investigator. But the problem is that the mixture of thrill, melodrama, and romance is very uneven, and… Continue reading Sikandar Ka Muqaddar Review | A Flat Thriller With Unappealing Melodramatic Distractions

I Want to Talk Review | Abhishek Bachchan Is Fantastic in Shoojit Sircar’s Reinvention of the Hope Template

Shoojit Sircar’s latest film, a true story-based drama, I Want To Talk, is a film that I found myself struggling to assign a genre or type. I walked out of the theater with a smile because the final takeaway from seeing the eventful life of Arjun Sen gave me a sense of hope. But the… Continue reading I Want to Talk Review | Abhishek Bachchan Is Fantastic in Shoojit Sircar’s Reinvention of the Hope Template

Bhool Bhulaiyaa 3 Review | The Trauma of Watching Manichitrathazhu Devolve Into a Blend of Welcome and Aranmanai

As a Malayali whose childhood memories are closely connected to Manichitrathazhu, the atrocious horror comedy Bhool Bhulaiyaa 2, a sequel to Manichitrathazhu’s Hindi remake Bhool Bhulaiyaa, released in 2022, was a very traumatic experience. So, having to sit through another version of it in 2024 as Bollywood murders a fantastic original thought into something that… Continue reading Bhool Bhulaiyaa 3 Review | The Trauma of Watching Manichitrathazhu Devolve Into a Blend of Welcome and Aranmanai

Singham Again Review | Valmiki Might Reincarnate Just to Renew His IP and Stop More Ramayana Adaptations

Physics has always stayed away from Rohit Shetty’s movies, and so I was very cautious to put my thinking cap in the dustbin before entering the theater. Now, the problem is, since he is making movies about terrorism, India’s history, etc., in his cop universe movies, you can’t really part ways with rationality and logic… Continue reading Singham Again Review | Valmiki Might Reincarnate Just to Renew His IP and Stop More Ramayana Adaptations

Do Patti Review | Ekta Kapoor Serial-Like Sensibilities but on a Bigger Budget

Kanika Dhillon, the writer and co-producer of the new Netflix film Do Patti, is someone who has written some of the interesting female characters in the last decade or so in movies like Manmarziyan and Judgemental Hai Kya. But of late, I have felt that her fascination with making liberated and raw female characters has… Continue reading Do Patti Review | Ekta Kapoor Serial-Like Sensibilities but on a Bigger Budget

Vicky Vidya Ka Woh Wala Video Review | Raaj Shaandilyaa’s Film Is a Clumsy Package of Lazy Gags

Raaj Shaandilyaa, who made his directorial debut back in 2019 with the Ayushmann Khurrana starrer Dream Girl, had served as the writer for the Comedy Circus show for a long time. The reason why I am mentioning this in the review of his latest film, Vicky Vidya Ka Woh Wala Video, is because Shaandilyaa has… Continue reading Vicky Vidya Ka Woh Wala Video Review | Raaj Shaandilyaa’s Film Is a Clumsy Package of Lazy Gags