“Raazi”… This journey of an ordinary girl who becomes a spy keeps you on tenterhooks!
Sensitivity. One quality that resonates the most with me in anything fictional – be it literature or cinema. Now at…
“Hope Aur Hum” is well-meaning and sweet, often to diabetic levels!
When I think of Hindi family films and the middle class, the obvious names that arise are Basu Chatterjee and…
“Omerta”… A phenomenal Rajkummar Rao elevates this markedly purposeless biopic!
What would you call a biographical film that chronicles just that information which we have seen and heard in the…
“102 Not Out”… Daddy is always right!
There is something about the good kind of déjà vu. I would say those of the Hrishikesh Mukherjee sorts when…
“Beyond The Clouds”… A marvelous Ishaan Khatter is the essential silver lining!
When I watched Majid Majidi’s maiden Indian venture Beyond The Clouds, the instant question I had was, “Why India?” This…
“October” is a tender portrait of pure, selfless love…
October is the twilight chapter of a year. In Shoojit Sircar’s film by the same name, the month is Shiuli’s…
“Anupama” makes you fall in love with the ‘Black and White’ camera!
It is as if Hrishikesh Mukherjee’s characters in Anupama (1966) were aware of the film’s photographic finesse. Anita (Shashikala) asserts in…
“Blackmail” is devoid of style and is too procedural to qualify in the black comedy bracket…
Ever seen a film that handpicks various necessary elements and later goes royally bland in writing and execution? Closer home,…
“Hichki” celebrates Rani Mukerji and the need to be inclusive!
The victory of the underdog is a safe formula in fiction. Witnessing someone embrace success and acceptance after a testing…
“Raid” has its thrills but feels too ‘packaged’ to be engrossing…
Raj Kumar Gupta’s Raid is fascinating for many reasons. Primarily, for its release date which is around the period when…