OTT Movie Review

Boo That! In a country full of folklore, superstition and myths, a well made horror film is likely to work, as the recent hit Munjya showed. The now popular horror-comedy genre (Stree heralded…

Men Will Be Boys This is Punjab, but it’s also Luv Ranjan’s laddish universe, in which a bunch of overgrown boys, who ought to have adulted by their thirties, run…

Women’s World: Tahira Kashyap Khurrana’s debut feature, Sharmajee Ki Beti looks at a group of women who have nothing in common but their surname—Sharma. She intended to make a film about the…

Unfunny Comedy: This film has not been directed by Raaj Shaandilya, but he has co-written it with director Ishrat R Khan, and is one of the producers, so some of…

Lights Out: A band of masked robbers very easily trip up the power grid of the whole of Pune to grab a fortune in gold. That’s just so the film…

Crimes And  Clues: Nobody believes police investigations are fun; in reality they mostly involve the tedium of interrogating recalcitrant witnesses or going over clues again and again, till there is…

The Shining Star The mystique of Amar Singh Chamkila endures over three decades after his murder, because his rise was meteoric, and his death so sudden and brutal, that the…

Army Of One: There are sporadic media reports on the horrific abuse of girls in orphanages and shelter homes – the helpless minors exploited by the very people tasked with…

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…

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…