There’s no faultless recipe when it comes to a high profile star launch in Indian films. You either go the minimal route giving the young debutante(s) his/her leeway to figure out things. Otherwise, you create a canvas that is so big that it is impossible to not appreciate the mounting, […]
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“Padmaavat”… Like a hideous painting in an intricate frame!
The Rajput community is known for their valour. They comprise of men and women who live by certain unbreakable principles that aren’t based on rationality per se. No wonder, their provinces don’t seem to win too many wars. At least, not the one in Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s Padmaavat. The Rajput […]
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‘Carbon’ review – Heart-stopping thrills and an edgy, original hero
“In any case, we have to ascend the routes that we descend,” declares Sameera (Mamta Mohandas) in writer-director Venu’s Carbon. They are on a long, strenuous trek and our protagonist Siby (Fahadh Faasil) is not one to buy such conventional theories. Going to a mundane office and working his ass off for another […]
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“Kaalakaandi”… A level-headed take on frenzy and trials in a raging metropolis!
Let’s face it. Mainstream Hindi cinema is not used to pure genre pieces unless they happen to bear the routine Bollywood outline somewhere. Be it Anurag Kashyap, Dibakar Banerjee, Homi Adajania, Reema Kagti, Rohan Sippy, Sachin Kundalkar, Nagesh Kukunoor or Raj & DK – we have seen numerous gifted filmmakers […]
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25 World Cinema Titles from 2017 That You Mustn’t Miss
List making is generally hard and it is tougher when it comes to reducing the tally to a total of 25 in a category that covers all geographies. It is not as if 2017 has had any better in comparison to 2016 or the preceding years. It is just that […]