Crime & Punishment: This film claims to have been inspired by true events, a slew of believe-it-or-not cases all over the world (some listed at the end), in which murderers…
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Faceless Mob: Looking at the signs of prosperity, at least in urban India, it seems as if people are eager to forget the trauma of the Covid months. Typically, those…
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When Kaz Met Zoe: This is multi-cultural Britain, where the Khan family of Pakistani origin and a white British family live next door to each other, without any overt signs…
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Tiger Mom: In the opening sequence of the film, an Indian infant is being taken away by two white women; the mother runs after them, tries to hang on to…
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Rocky Road: A film sprung into the theatres without any pre-release buzz, turns out to be a pleasant surprise. Oddly titled Shiv Shastri Balboa — very few would immediately get the Rocky (1976) connection–…
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Accidental Hero: A key character in Hansal Mehta’s Faraaz accuses another of being a “Twitter debater”. The film, with all its earnestness and attempt to walk a tightrope between ideological differences, unfortunately…
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Bad Cop vs Bad Cop: It is baffling. Why would a young director choose to make his debut with a film, as derivative and inane as Kuttey? Nearly thirty years…
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Animal Crackers: This film with its animal-loving protagonist, is so earnest, that with a few tweaks, it could make for a sweet children’s film, with a message about treating animals…
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Double Whammy: It is very difficult to go wrong with a film based on Shakespeare’s A Comedy Of Errors, which inspired a wonderful Kishore Kumar-Asit Sen comedy Do Dooni Chaar (1968), which, one…
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Good Intentions: Revathy had acted in a recent film, Aye Zindagi, about a terminally ill patient’s need for an organ donation to save his life. Now as a director, she takes…