Cinemaah

Back To Gangland: Had Shehar Lakhot been made at the start of the OTT boom, there might have been some incentive to watch it. Now, after dozens of small town shenanigans involving…

Let The Music Flow: The opening scene draws the viewer right in— it’s an open field, with crowds as far as the eye can see; there is air of anticipation…

A Few Good People: Had such a tragedy occurred anywhere else in the world, there would have been dozens of films made on it, but the world’s largest industrial disaster,…

Holiday Caper: The idea must have looked workable on paper—a dysfunctional family rediscovering family ties when on holiday. But, the journey of Harish Vyas’s Yaatris just never takes off. Having set the…

Crazy Clan: At a time when everybody is getting to be thin-skinned, Gujaratis still laugh at themselves. The TV comedy show, Khichdi, about the Parekh family, full of dim bulbs, was such…

Beware Of Girlpower: This woman-on-rampage film seems to have been made to fulfill a year-end quota or something like that, because Apurva written and directed by Nikhil Nagesh Bhat (streaming on Disney+Hotstar), looks…

That Floating Tank: This is, says the narrator of the film, “my love story with Pippa.”  It’s not a woman but a battle tank, the PT-76 that is the object…

Many Shades Of Love: When there are still so many prejudices and misconceptions about the LGBTQIA+ community in India, not to mention all the legal dithering, it was brave of…

Braving The Ocean: “Fear not, fear not… a Koli fears nothing,” sings a deep male voice in the background; the ditty refers to rising tides and howling winds that a…

Where’s The Wit? There a time when political correctness was not an issue, and comic actors like Kader Khan, Shakti Kapoor and others in the post-Himmatwala era of rapidfire Padmalaya productions,…