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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 →
There was a Karan Johar era of romance in India when the Khans and the middle aged biggest stars still holding on to the illusion of stardom today were at the peak of their cinematic careers in India. This era can be traced from the 90’s to about 15 years later until most movies revolved... 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 →
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 →
Leo Tolstoy’s worlds are beautiful and elaborate, and pick out on the minute details of Russian high society. More so the pretentious and elite shenanigans of the same. How he is that efficient at pin pointing the entitled details behind the elite behaviour, he alone knows. Anna Karenina is one example for the same, making... Continue Reading →
I picked a random feel good movie on the Netflix suggest list and landed on the 2011 comedy Bridesmaids. And then I looked into what the internet had to say about it because the cast was interesting and it came out at an interesting time (just about the time Hangover came out). There’s some fuss... Continue Reading →
Having established a legacy in film making, Akira Kurosawa’s final years as a film maker has been rather mysterious in terms of his cinematic products. He went beyond what was conventionally acceptable as a film during the time and made ‘Dreams’, a compendium of his own dreams depicted in illustrative ways in eight different vignettes.... Continue Reading →
Perhaps the greatest of literature and art created on love are created on unrequited/forbidden love. There is an intoxicating quality about separation in unrequited love that is a comfortably recurring theme in literature because there’s so much to say yet so little that gets said. And there is beauty in this misery, humanity in pain... Continue Reading →
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 →
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