Maidaan Review | The Glorious Final Hour Will Make You Overlook the Flaws of This Sports Drama

Back in 2007, when Shimit Amin’s Chak De India was released, it was the first time I experienced the theater becoming somewhat like a stadium (I wasn’t lucky enough to watch Lagaan on the big screen). There was something magical about the making of that Shah Rukh Khan starrer that everyone in the theater cheered… Continue reading Maidaan Review | The Glorious Final Hour Will Make You Overlook the Flaws of This Sports Drama

Patna Shuklla Review | An Excessively Melodramatic Legal Drama That Lacks Compelling Arguments

There is a terrific revelation happening in the last quarter of the new Hotstar film Patna Shuklla, starring Raveena Tandon. This twist was so good that I felt extremely disappointed that everything else in this legal drama was just loud melodrama rather than a logical legal struggle. If you can manipulate your own mind to… Continue reading Patna Shuklla Review | An Excessively Melodramatic Legal Drama That Lacks Compelling Arguments

Crew Review | Second-Half Turbulence Restricts This Fun Comedy From Being Hilarious

Director Rajesh Krishnan’s first film, Lootcase, was a crackling comedy that really made me laugh during those dark lockdown days. The latest Hindi film Crew, starring Tabu, Kareena Kapoor Khan, and Kriti Sanon in lead roles, is the latest directorial from him. While the movie is a comedy that starts off really smoothly establishing the… Continue reading Crew Review | Second-Half Turbulence Restricts This Fun Comedy From Being Hilarious

Madgaon Express Review | Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara Meets The Hangover in This Passable Comedy

Madgaon Express, the directorial debut film of actor Kunal Khemu, can be summarized as Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara meets The Hangover. The final act of the movie is where the movie is getting into its zone, and there is a lot of witty stuff happening on screen largely through the staging and dialogues. After the… Continue reading Madgaon Express Review | Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara Meets The Hangover in This Passable Comedy

Ae Watan Mere Watan Review | A Rudimentary Patriotic Story Filled With Cheesy Dialogues

There is a moment in Ae Watan Mere Watan where we see how Usha and her associates decided to create a private radio because the editors of major national media were getting threatened by the British, and they wanted to let the people know the truth. When you think of the cinematic possibility of the… Continue reading Ae Watan Mere Watan Review | A Rudimentary Patriotic Story Filled With Cheesy Dialogues

Yodha Review | An Earnest Sidharth Malhotra Can’t Save This Logicless Jingoistic Torture

There are some bits in the second half of Yodha, the new Dharma Productions film directed by Sagar Ambre and Pushkar Ojha, which has a lot of action happening inside an aeroplane, that will give you an impression that they had an earnest intention to create an action movie. But even a good action movie… Continue reading Yodha Review | An Earnest Sidharth Malhotra Can’t Save This Logicless Jingoistic Torture

Murder Mubarak Review | An Eccentric Knives Out That Works in Parts

Homi Adajania’s latest film, Murder Mubarak, is based on the book Club You To Death by Anuja Chauhan. Set against the backdrop of the high society life of Delhi, there is a layer of humour to this Knives Out-ish murder mystery that gives it some uniqueness. Since I haven’t read the book, I am not… Continue reading Murder Mubarak Review | An Eccentric Knives Out That Works in Parts

Shaitaan Review | An Unremarkable Horror Thriller With a Reveling Madhavan

The first and second act of the latest Ajay Devgn film, Shaitaan, is structured in a way that even though you won’t really feel the excitement with the way things unfold in the story, there will be that genuine curiosity to know how Vikas Bahl would take the movie forward as we would be looking… Continue reading Shaitaan Review | An Unremarkable Horror Thriller With a Reveling Madhavan