Category: Hindi

In the beginning, Sonchiriya felt like just another dacoit story with a lot of bloodshed and abuses. But I must say that there is a great technique with director Abhishek Chaubey and his writer Sudip Sharma in building characters and creating empathy towards them. The second half of Sonchiriya is elaborate, emotional, brutal and most… Continue reading Sonchiriya

Luka Chuppi directed by Laxman Utekar is a breezy entertainer that won’t annoy you for sure. Watching the trailer of the film, I thought it would be about the difficulties of a couple who wants to hide their live-in relationship status in a conservative society and to my surprise, it was slightly different from that.… Continue reading Luka Chuppi

No brainer comedies are indeed a genre of films and we have enjoyed films like Andaaz Apna Apna and even the first part of the Dhamaal franchise. While the above-mentioned movies had crisp writing and great performances, the new Indra Kumar movie Total Dhamaal is a perfect example of how lazy writing can make a… Continue reading Total Dhamaal

Zoya Akhtar’s new film Gully Boy inspired from the lives of rappers Divine and Naezy is a sensational movie that looks brilliant on many levels. Zoya and co-writer Reema Kagti manage to treat the typical rise of the underdog story in a very rooted way by exploring all the minute nuances that could have made… Continue reading Gully Boy

Ek Ladki Ko Dekha Toh Aisa Laga is progressive not because of the content in the film. Because the content in this film is as flat as what Toilet Ek Prem Kadha did with the necessity of toilets. But the fact that a big name like Anil Kapoor accepting to play a pivotal role and… Continue reading Ek Ladki Ko Dekha Toh Aisa Laga

Hyper-nationalism has been a trend in Bollywood in the last few years and there were some tacky and propaganda driven movies that almost made people skeptical about the cinematic qualities of those films which had this flair of nationalism in its promos and story. Well, when compared to those movies, I would say Manikarnika: The… Continue reading Manikarnika: The Queen of Jhansi

Uri: The Surgical Strike from writer director Aditha Dhar has to be looked as a fictional war film if you wish to enjoy it to the fullest. Because, on an agenda level the movie is problematic. I am saying problematic because there is a sense of hate spreading narrative here which I personally can’t tolerate… Continue reading Uri: The Surgical Strike

The dialogue from Simmba, “Tell me something I don’t know”, could easily be the reaction one can have after watching the movie, The Accidental Prime Minister. The official twitter handle of the ruling party has promoted the film, so calling it a propaganda film won’t need much of an explanation. Propaganda films have always happened… Continue reading The Accidental Prime Minister