MOVIES
Goodbye

GOODBYE IS ANOTHER MOVIE THAT BACHCHAN CANNOT SAVE

In Goodbye, writer-director Vikas Bahl delves into how different people have different ways of coping with sorrow. When Harish (Amitabh Bachchan) loses his wife Gayatri (Neena Gupta), he faces a “bhagbhanish’ situation where his his children are busy with their work or their social life, and the neighbors are more interested in gossip and providing obligatory and unsolicited advice.

Maja Ma

MADHURI DIXIT SCORES WITH MAJA MA

Though Maja Ma deals with several sensitive themes pertaining to family, sexuality and personal choice it does not offer any nuanced narrative to unravel the loops. Infact, it prefers a boring, easy way out

Hassan Minhaj

IN THE KING’S JESTER, HASAN MINHAJ PICKS WHERE HE LAST LEFT PATRIOT ACT

Minhaj starts with the story of how he and his wife struggled to get pregnant which was around the same time that Minhaj was transitioning out of his role at The Daily Show and moving into Patriot Act, which were both opportunities that allow him to lean into a side of himself that is both successful and self-destructive.

Chup

R BALKI’S CHUP IS A FEARLESS MOVIE IN ITS IMMERSIVE ABSURDITY

An actor-filmmaker, was shunned by the fraternity in his lifetime (Guru Dutt), so a self-proclaimed successor plans to take revenge for the lifetime of wrong done to his idol, and for that, he kills the the entire community he feels is responsible. You know the thin line I am talking about now.

Middle Class Love

MIDDLE CLASS LOVE IS A BREEZY SURPRISE MOVIE

Director Ratna Sinha who has also written the story, keeps it youthful with Yudi’s pranks to catch Saisha’s eye. His cockiness does bring him into Saisha’s but he has a condition to fulfil before he can be with her. Saisha needs Yudi to hook up with her rival Aisha (Eisha Singh). ‘Hook up with Ash, break up with her, break her heart and come to me.’

JOGI: FALLS SHORT OF DEPICTING THE TRAGEDY OF THE 1984 RIOTS

Netflix Original “Jogi” directed by Ali Abbas Zafar is a movie that tells the story of the Anti-Sikh Riots in 1984 following the assassination of Indira Gandhi by her two Sikh bodyguards. For context, the assassination occurred after the order of Operation Blue Star to secure the Harmandir Sahib Sikh temple complex in Amritsar, Punjab. The riots that place afterwards took the lives of anywhere between 8000-17000 Sikhs.

7days

7 DAYS : THE ENDEARING STORY OF RAVI AND RITA

Roshan Sethi’s “7 Days”  is a story of mama’s boy Ravi (Karan Soni) and the rebel brown girl Rita (Geraldine Viswanathan), two Indian-American twentysomethings being pushed into an arranged marriage scenario by the plotting mothers.

Brahmastra

BRAHMASTRA PART ONE : TRIES TOO MANY THINGS

Produced by Star Studios, once co-owned by the companies Star India and 20th Century Fox, and now yet another Disney subsidiary, Brahmāstra is the most expensive Hindi production ever with a budget of over $51 million.

Cuttputlli

AKSHAY KUMAR’S CUTTPUTLLI COMES OFF AT BEST AMATEURISH

A frame by frame remake of a Tamil Classic, Ratsasan, Cuttputtli, in its 2hr 14 mins of runtime seems to be a lame frame by frame copy of the original. It looks lacklustre in its approach to recreate the thrill of the original. In its attempt to stick to another format, it comes off as a patch work job.

Dobaaraa

DOBAARAA : TAAPSEE BRINGS A DIMENSION TO HER PERFORMANCE

Dobaaraa, set in a Pune suburb in India, complies with the original storyline but also stands out in its style, script and pace in very unique ways that only Anurag Kashyap can pull off as he puts in opposition different characters playing mind games in a disruptive thunderstorm.

Sita Ramam

SITA RAMAM: THIS LOVE WILL GET YOU TEARY EYED

Ram (Dulquer Salmaan) is a Lieutenant officer in the Indian Army. Sita (Mrunal Thakur) writes a letter to the orphaned Ram mentioning her as his wife. So Ram travels in search of Sita who loves him. Events in Ram’s life after meeting Sita lead to their separation.

Did Ram and Sita meet? Did Sita accept Ram’s love? What incident hindered their love? Why Afreen (Rashmika Mandanna) from Pakistan tries to give Sita a letter written by Ram? What is Ram’s relation to Afreen? Read On

Wedding Season on Netflix

FAKE DATING TROPE AGES WELL IN “WEDDING SEASON”

Take “Proposal” , “To All the Boys I have Loved Before” , the recently released “Purple Hearts” and “The Perfect Date” and put it in the Indian American community of Newark, New Jersey contextually , add the shimmying, the food, the festivals, the aunties and the edge of living between Indian and American identities – and yes. that one white guy who wants to be Indian so much that he puts you to shame – and you have the plot..
But oddly, its funny, its lighthearted and its deeply satisfying.

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