One of the memories I will cherish forever is what my initial reaction was after coming out from the cinema hall after watching Swades exactly nineteen years back. It was a cold day in Delhi. Indeed so cold, I could find only…
Saptarshi Nag The world is full of such people who will watch a masala movie and will lambast it for the shortcomings it had in terms of cinematic value as if they were expecting one ‘Bicycle Thieves’ or one’ Pather Panchali’. They…
‘Verity’ a literary masterpiece from the ace novelist Colleen Hoover has moved me so much so that I could not stop myself from writing a review even though I hardly write reviews of the books I read. It is indeed one of…
Mahesh Manjarekar in his outings in the last one and half decades appeared a pale shadow of his older version, the one who gave us masterpieces like Astitva or Vaastav. Even though he made some interesting Marathi films meanwhile, Bollywood was definitely…
Sardar Udham, the latest offering from the ace director Shoojit Sircar is a heart-wrenching tale of the sacrifices of one of the forgotten heroes of our freedom struggle- Sardar Udham Singh. It is a poignant saga of a martyr seldom remembered for…
The Chestnut Man Review- An Underrated Old School Thriller My wait for a slowly built chilling thriller minus the unnecessary dramatic moments was over with the Danish show the Chestnut Man. This is an old school thriller where the creator invests much…
Greyhound is astonishingly fast-paced and intense. It’s so good to get Tom Hanks back to his pristine form after a brief hiatus. The Post merely belonged to him. The story of how a US Navy Captain leads an allied convoy which is…
‘Dark’, a Netflix original made in German is perhaps the best work on time travel till date and will be regarded as one of the finest works on Science Fiction in the world. It plays with your mind, tricks your grey cells,…
This is not your regular Mills and Boon story. So be cautioned if you are planning to watch this movie. The way people are gunned down in the movie, you might wonder if even chickens are slaughtered in that way or not….
There is no free lunch today. But ‘Bhaukaal’ is free, free, free. And this fact alone aroused my suspicion about the quality of the production, even though I had high hopes on it because I have been constantly getting requests to review…