Should you watch the new Bachchan flick Badla in amovie hall this weekend or just buy Netflix’s monthly subscription and watch the Spanish original flick, The Invisible Guest, there? Continue reading Movie Review: Badla with a Big B
At the heart of it, Spanish movie, ROMA is a story of a maid and her middle-class employers in 1970 Mexico. A rare mainstream movie that devotes itself to the emotions of a house helper makes ROMA a very relatable … Continue reading Movie Recommendation: ROMA is Maid with love
Like Simmba or not, with his latest release, director Rohit Shetty has kick started the (masala) super-hero franchise model in Bollywood. So as in Marvel’s Avengers, one whistle worthy moment follows another – as super cop Singham (Ajay Devgun) makes a grand entry … Continue reading Movie Review: For Simmba & his clap worthy dialogues
At the heart of it, Badhaai Ho, has a strong underlying message that no matter how big a mess you have landed into, if you have a strong family support system, everything will work out well. In separate scenes, when … Continue reading Movie Review: Laughter & tear, Badhaai Ho, you got best Bollywood movie of the year
Sriram Raghavan’s movies have always guaranteed minimum quality standards. The ace director who gave us epics like Ek Hasina Thi, Johnny Gaddar and Badlapur, can always be entrusted with your ticket price – more so if you are a fan of … Continue reading Movie Review: One helluva unpredictable ride, Just buy your ticket Andhadhun!
Ace director Anurag Kashyap, an erstwhile exponent of ‘Maa Behan‘ on audio mode in his movies, finally makes an attempt to cast ‘Maa Behan’ as characters on screen! On the face of it, Manmarziyaan, with a heavy splattering of Punjabi … Continue reading Movie Review: Manmarziyaan is a waste of time, money & talent
Generalization and divisiveness are centuries old global trends. If I commit a mass crime here, Singapore papers will report it as ‘Indian Banker does …’ .. that’s two generalizations; and it’s fair. But I would expect both, Indians and bankers, … Continue reading Movie Review: A flawed ‘Mulk’ has its heart in the right place
In a way Fauda (meaning chaos) is an antithesis to the recent Netflix Series Sacred Games. Whereas all destructive decisions in Fauda are attributed to the will of Allah (albeit wrongly), Sacred Games stays clear with the notion that ‘Bhagwan ko … Continue reading Netflix series: Fauda is a tribute to the chaotic human mind
You can now expect a Salman Khan biopic soon. Where Somy Ali, a husband beater, hires a black buck to kill Sallu. The black buck injures Sallu badly. Sohail Khan then takes him wounded to the hospital on a vegetable … Continue reading Movie Review: Sanju – Average film with lame defense for a ‘king of bad choices’
Jurassic World : Fallen Kingdom starts with an edge of the seat scary scene, keeps the interest and fear factor high till about half time. The plot then thins and drags a bit before the well setup auction scene and … Continue reading Movie Review: Jurassic World is high on shock factor, Fallen Kingdom on plot and connect
