“The quickest way to a man’s heart is through his stomach” – Here’s a famous saying that we have been conditioned to believe. Men are supposed to savour all the delicacies in the world. Women are supposed to serve them with love. As compensation, she will make way to his […]
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‘Joji’ review – Dileesh Pothan’s take on Macbeth is a bona fide masterpiece
“Society is a fucker,” declares the title character of Dileesh Pothan’s Joji. If we observe the setup from a distance, society is seldom a direct component in the Panachel family. Here is a film with minimal exposition and no random third party conversations staged at tea shops and rickshaw stands. […]
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‘Saina’ review – Parineeti Chopra is ace in this simplistic sportswoman biopic
Much like several of Hollywood’s musician biopics, India’s sports biographies are interchangeable. In a good majority of stories, poverty or sexism (if its subject is female) becomes the pertinent roadblocks and the protagonist emerges triumphant with nationalistic elements thrown in for extra effects. Amole Gupte’s biopic on India’s ace badminton […]
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‘Sandeep Aur Pinky Faraar’ review – a deliciously quiet chase film
Think about a scenario where you are conned by a film’s title or the tone of its promotional material. Sometimes filmmakers blatantly resort to a certain visual language to drive more people into the cinemas. Ace filmmaker Dibakar Banerjee’s Sandeep Aur Pinky Faraar which is incidentally backed by Bollywood’s massiest […]
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‘Varthamanam’ review – Parvathy-starrer is brave in opinions, insipid in execution
The startling side of Sidhartha Siva’s Varthamanam is that for the most part of its runtime, it does not feel like fiction. What the film attempts to portray is a series of stark realities that we see around, watch on television, read in newspapers and follow on social media – […]
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‘Roohi’ review – Hardik Mehta’s horror-comedy is neither scary nor funny
Director Hardik Mehta’s Roohi has everything running in its favour. Backed by the makers of 2018’s sleeper hit Stree, the film has an A-list star cast (Rajkummar Rao, Janhvi Kapoor, Varun Sharma) headlining it. The songs are topping the charts and the media buzz is decent all over. Moreover, there […]
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‘Drishyam 2’ review – Entering Georgekutty’s brand new maze of deception
“Cinema. It’s an important link. What is peculiar about movies? Visuals. The impact of visuals on mind is unmatched,” echoed Geetha Prabhakar (Asha Sarath) in a scene that thrilled us to bits in the 2013 Malayalam blockbuster Drishyam. We never predicted a cinema link to pop up even though it […]
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30 Incredible Films from 2020 That Must Not Be Missed
In a rather catastrophic year that left filmmakers high and dry whereas film lovers awaited a handful of titles to quench their thirst, film (as a medium) was predicted to disappoint. Qualitatively or otherwise, that certainly was not the case with film in 2020. Even though theatrical releases were stalled […]
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‘Master’ review – Vijay’s Pongal offering is refreshingly different
As I stepped in to watch Master – my first Vijay film in a theatre after about a decade – I had clear-cut clarity on what it was going to be, even though in a broad sense. My desire was to relive the silver screen euphoria that I had missed […]
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‘No One Killed Jessica’: A Numbing Chronicle of a Murder That Shook The Nation
Marking its tenth anniversary on January 7, 2020, is filmmaker Raj Kumar Gupta’s No One Killed Jessica. The screen adaptation of the controversial Jessica Lall Murder Case, the film stirred the nation’s collective conscience – just the way the brutal incident did. Unlike several other Hindi films based on real […]