Yudhra, the latest Excel entertainment film directed by Ravi Udyawar, starring Siddhant Chaturvedi as the title character, is so generic that you feel like asking the makers whether the characters in the movie don’t watch movies. Filled with predictable scenes one after the other, Yudhra almost feels like an autogenerated script that uses a lot… Continue reading Yudhra Review | A Derivative Action Thriller With Forced Swagger
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Trial Period Review | An Instantly Forgettable Feel-Good Template
Trial Period is one film that doesn’t really know whether it should consider itself a kids’ movie or a proper romantic comedy. With a bizarre thought getting presented without much conviction and along with a ton of genre cliches, this predictable two-hour-long feel-good exercise is an instantly forgettable creation. Ana is a Bengali single mother… Continue reading Trial Period Review | An Instantly Forgettable Feel-Good Template
Satyaprem ki Katha Review | Too Much Masala Meets Broad-Stroke Messaging
Satyaprem ki Katha feels like a film that was made with the idea of how one should make Amitabh Bachchan starrer Pink for those who loved watching every Housefull movie from Sajid Nadiadwala. And the script feels like a series of balancing act dialogues just to make things politically correct. With some Kapil Sharma jokes… Continue reading Satyaprem ki Katha Review | Too Much Masala Meets Broad-Stroke Messaging
Maja Ma
In the recent past, Bollywood has made movies that represent the stories of characters belonging to the LGBTQIA+ community. Shubh Mangal Zyada Saavdhan, Badhaai Do, etc., were some of the recent films that presented their romance in that vibrant ambiance. While those movies tried to penetrate the romantic comedy genre, Anand Tiwari is trying his… Continue reading Maja Ma
Ray
Ray, the new Netflix original series based on the short stories of Satyajit Ray, is a mixed bag of 1-hour stories that all looked promising on a premise level but couldn’t really enthrall you in totality. Somewhere I felt there was an urge to create a closure to every story rather than leaving us with… Continue reading Ray
PariWar
If you just go to the wiki or IMDB page of the series PariWar and check the cast of the new Hotstar show, you won’t be able to resist yourself from watching the show. It has Gajraj Rao, Ranvir Shorey, Vijay Raaz, Yashpal Sharma, Abhishek Banerjee, etc in major roles, and almost every member in… Continue reading PariWar
Lootcase
In a recent interview, actor-director Vineeth Sreenivasan was asked about the content that was available on OTT platforms during the lockdown and he mentioned a fact that most of them were dark and edgy material that in a way wasn’t looking appealing, considering the actual state of the world right now. Despite the hiccups in… Continue reading Lootcase