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I really took my time with this one. Everything has been said about Kantara, the recent Rishab Shetty blockbuster. When there’s a film as successful as this one, I refrain from posting a review because everyone speaks of it and shares their experience of the movie online – it makes me feel like I shouldn’t... Continue Reading →
I ventured into the Bollywood gully after a long time with Gangubai Kathiawadi. The past few years haven’t been Bollywood’s best with the South Indian industry consistently overshadowing the Hindi culture of hyper realism with extremely great scripts and production approaches. But here and there, Bollywood manages to make short-lived comebacks with the likes of... Continue Reading →
Vivek Agnihotri’s Kashmir Files is a blockbuster within 4 days of release and for all the right reasons. I do not remember seeing the audiences connect and discuss a movie with so much emotion before this. Of course, the box office success speaks for itself as well. The primary reason for this is that The... Continue Reading →
The recent holiday movie Love Hard on Netflix derives from a comparatively more modern plot than its counterparts who tend to explore castles and snowy forests for Christmas love stories. Love Hard instead explores a dating app through its lead character played by Nina Dobrev and lands her at the home of a man who... Continue Reading →
It’s the Christmas movies’ season on Netflix and of course, the Vanessa Hudgens trilogy has surfaced with its third part. Now, this is neither a roast of the truly unreasonable plot nor the many clichés that The Princess Switch 3 openly buys into – you’ve probably come across plenty of that already. In fact, from... Continue Reading →
(This critique is published at and owned by E-Cine India, September 2021. ISSN - 2582-2500. Authored by yours truly.) Mansore decided to push the boundaries of an entire film industry that did not affirm to him its readiness for content beyond its traditional penchant when he made Naticharami. Kannada film industry has had its... Continue Reading →
It’s a positive and a long awaited development that Bollywood is venturing into thematic cinema. Especially into untouched waters with topics like late adulthood pregnancy, same sex relationships and surrogacy. While it still simply cannot refrain from dramatization, the progress is evident and more and more film makers are venturing into socially important themes lately.... Continue Reading →
I’m usually scared of watching movies that have received as much hype as Parasite has. Four Academy Awards including the fame for being the very first non-English movie to have won Best Film easily catapults expectations to level 1000. I’m just scared that either the work of art will completely go in the opposite direction... Continue Reading →
I understand to the last bit that rom coms are meant for entertainment only and nothing about them needs to be really practical or realistic. But sometimes you cannot help but end a rom com with a rather unsatisfied note because the freedom to be fairly unrealistic is used for all the wrong reasons. I... Continue Reading →
I didn’t realize it had been a while since I had literally laughed out loud and evidently enjoyed a movie because I’ve been hung up on period dramas and old romantic movies for a while. I’ve hardly been one to thoroughly enjoy modern day comedies or rom-coms unless I’ve only watched them to unwind. Sure,... Continue Reading →
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