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.
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
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.
Medieval princes, vengeful lovers, and a kingdom under threat. Ponniyin Selvan: 1 brings Kalki Krishnmurthy’s novel to life but it requires a 5-year history lesson to follow along.
This movie is about a divorce lawyer and a matchmaker with a broken heart work through their troubles as they work in opposite offices. The
Saif Ali Khan has a controlled performance and shines as an exemplary Vikram. One thing that is spectacular about all Hrithik movies is his opening shot. Vikram Vedha’s remake does not disappoint in terms of that imagery.
The best thing about the movie is its terse focus on the plot. Kudos to Kookie Gulati for keeping the narrative tight and producing a very plausible thriller screenplay with Neeraj Singh.
Haryana feeds into the rest of Indian with a constant supply of women wrestlers and champions as we have already been told in stories from movies like Dangal and Sultan.
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.
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.’
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.
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.
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.
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.
Liger is a film that tells the story of Liger, a poor man whose father dies during a MMA National Championship. Liger has a stutter
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.
Akshay Kumar plays Lala, a chaat seller in Old Delhi. Much like the Victorian society in Bridgeton, Lala is in the predicament of finding husbands for his four sisters and making sure he has enough funds to pay for their dowries.
While Forrest Gump endeavored to have its character interact with a troubled history, Laal Singh Chaddha is pleased, to let its character be a reflexive manifestation. As if simply having him near history when it happens is good enough.
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
In a chawl in Mumbai, Badrunissa “Badru” Shaikh, née Ansari (Bhatt) is regularly assaulted by her abusive husband, Hamza Shaikh (Varma). To the point that those who live around them have gotten used to the sounds emanating from their household each night.
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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