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.…
OTT Movie Review
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Retired, Not Redundant: Most films about senior citizens are weepies about how they have been abandoned by their selfish children; of late there have been a few about finding love…