Pretty early in director Tushar Hiranandani’s Saand Ki Aankh, there is a glaring montage that chronicles the evolution of a woman in rural Uttar Pradesh. The passage ends with a striking visual of three women in a household along with their battalion of children and grandchildren. This would make way […]
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“Housefull 4″… A reincarnation revenge saga which is funny at no point!
Bollywood franchises are impossible to make sense of. You give them any premise and a set of recurring characters, the writers – albeit their extreme lack of creativity – will concoct a story around them. By that logic, director Farhad Samji’s Housefull 4 could actually have been easily the next […]
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‘Asuran’ review – a revenge saga with a statement on India’s caste-class divide
We live in times when the civilians and several of India’s ruling party representatives have begun questioning the reservations set aside for the disadvantaged Scheduled Castes/Tribes (SC/ST). It is at this outset that director Vetrimaaran brings to us Asuran – a compelling period drama set between the 1950s and mid-1980s). […]
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‘Joker’ review – a jaw-dropping origin story which revels in its audacity
Come what the naysayers may say, we are essentially living in the days where social awareness seems to be trickling into every strata and demographic. Some call them woke, and others term the movement a mere sign of a needful change. At the same time, this is also the very […]
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“War”… For the love of Hrithik Roshan and breathtaking cinematography!
Half-way through director Siddharth Anand’s mega actioner War, I quickly recalled the Bollywood essentials for the said genre. There’s the national security which is randomly at risk thanks to a bunch of over-styled terrorists (Muslim, of course). You have a leading man who has got no family but instead he […]
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“Nirmal Anand Ki Puppy”… A minimalist marital drama with a canine twist!
Punny film titles are to die for. For starters, I do not remember the last time we had one for a Hindi feature film – let alone doing it right. A film about two warring individuals gets titled as War and one about an obsessive fan is called – wait […]
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‘Paangshu’ review – a quiet, nuanced study of a mother’s perplexed mind
In what must be the easiest generalization ever, a mother’s love knows no seams. Or at least, we would want that belief to remain unperturbed. The mother in director Visakesa Chandrasekaram’s Sinhalese language film Paangshu is one such. Babanona’s (Nita Fernando) life goal is seeking a definitive closure to her […]