OTT Movie Review

Dissonant Notes: On watching Anvitaa Dutt’s second film, Qala, it is clear that she has the cinematic approach of an aesthete. Like her earlier film, Bulbbul, this one too is…

Memories of Misery: Like images of a nightmare that may or may not dim over time, memories of those terrifying months of the lockdown are still embedded in the mind.…

The Sisterhood: In the Hindi film space, stories of female bonding go into the Veera Di Wedding box–rich young women on a trip to enjoy themselves, and maybe discover some hitherto…

Stranger Than Fiction: It is a story begging to be filmed: in the early Eighties a woman claiming to be the Begum of Awadh, a descendant of Nawab Wajid Ali…

Dancing Queen: Here’s another film competing in the wokeness race, and stumbling right after the starter pistol goes off.  Maja Ma, directed by Anand Tiwari from Sumit Bhateja’s script (streaming on Amazon…

Bitter Memories: Very few films have been made about the genocide of Sikhs in 1984, after the assassination of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi by her Sikh bodyguard. With the tinderbox mentality…

The leading man of this film, Atithi Bhooto Bhava  (on Zee5), directed by Hardik Gajjar, is a stand-up comedian, but his jokes don’t always land. The situation is pretty much…

There has been a lot of attention and analyses focussed on films from the Southern states that have been so successful all over the country, that Bollywood was shaken. But…

Wife-beaters Beware: Set in the Muslim populated area of Mumbai—the old buildings with a sense of community, where everybody minds everybody’s business, and speak a slang-y language that is peculiar…

Dull Roman Holiday: If it weren’t for one of the characters constantly chattering on social media, you’d think Love & Gelato (Netflix) was set in a world before cell phones and…