For a hardcore fan of the Sherlock Holmes series (the Benedict Cumberbatch one), any new content in the line of the Holmes franchise is a delight. Enola Holmes, in that regard, is an interesting spin-off shedding the limelight on Sherlock and Mycroft’s lesser talked about sister, Enola. Apparently Enola has inherited the same wits as... Continue Reading →
Sometimes | Movie review | Prakash Rai | Priyadarshan
In the quest of finding the extraordinary in the mundane, how mundane can you go? How far can you stretch your observation skill to grasp and depict the most intricate of human behavioural patterns? How varied and indulging, after all, can realism be? ‘Sometimes’ by Priyadarshan is perhaps as far as things go in terms... Continue Reading →
Charlie | A Malayalam movie not to miss
There’s simply nothing to not like about a movie featuring Dulquer Salman and Parvathy in lead manic pixie dust characters that forgo the norm and wander in search of an elevated sense of meaning. In the process, they end up finding one another – or one finding another – just as the audiences would want... Continue Reading →
Journal entry – the art of burying the hatchet
A former friend that had been distanced after ugly fallout more than four years ago ended up inviting me to her wedding yesterday. And I went, bearing a gift and honestly wishing her nothing other than wellness and happiness. In one phone call and one moment of wishing congratulations, almost half a decade long feud... Continue Reading →
Kumbalangi Nights – A breakthrough in character based cinema
(This essay is owned by E-Cine India Journal as a part of the Chidananda Dasgupta Memorial Award for Best Film Criticism. This critical review was awarded the second best place and has been published in the journal uploaded on 6th of January 2020 on the E-Cine India website. Authored by yours truly.) Interfacing multiple elements... Continue Reading →
Inflicting insecurity
How is it so easy to inflict insecurity Even in the toughest of minds with foundations of intellect And barriers so high no commoner can impeach It’s still easy to implant insecurity. Post years of perseverance after confidence And endless nights of racing against time for excellence After unseen fulfilment found in what the world... Continue Reading →
For the expressive ones, people's inability to communicate always seems like a lazy excuse to compensate the lack of interest or willingness to exert efforts in a relationship.
Maheshinte Prathikaaram – the extremity of realism
I don’t exactly make new year resolutions but the one to be binging on Malayalam movies in 2021 was made under the much welcome recommendations of a student who has breathed down my neck about it. I’ve watched just one Malayalam movie so far and that is Kumbalangi Nights, criticising which I managed to win... Continue Reading →
Thanks I guess, 2020.
Thanks I guess, 2020. For being a year that we’d never thought we’d live through Driving about changes that the best predictions saw not coming And uniting a world against what didn’t even meet the eye. For changing all beliefs of what’s after all important Disrupting and renewing ideas that so many thought were life-changing... Continue Reading →
Netflix shows that took me through 2020
Well, I guess all of us have binged on Netflix or any other OTT, relying on them to a great extent to get us through this difficult year. Here’s the list of shows I have binged on and a small account of what I found best about it. The list is in the order of... Continue Reading →