Booze Up: The Government of Madhya Pradesh has been thanked, so it is clear that Dry Day is set in the state, in the nondescript town of Jagodhar, which is notorious for …

Crossing Borders: Rajkumar Hirani’s filmography so far has established him as a director with a unique point-of-view; his films deftly blend comedy and drama, and also sneak in a message …

Star Spangled Nostalgia: It took a lot of jumping through cultural hoops to fit the very American Archies comics ethos into India. The comics about the antics of the pimpled …

A Hero For All Times: The 1971 Indo-Pak war that resulted in the formation of Bangladesh has, in recent months, been captured on screen from various angles. It was only …

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 …