OTT Movie Review

Dance To Thrill: The lead character, Govind, wants an ‘A’ added to his name, and this film wants to be a David Dhawan style comedy-caper. But, as it often happens, …

Twin Troubles: A woman who has lost her sight commits suicide, but her twin Gayatri (Taapsee Pannu), is not convinced that her sister Gautami was depressed and killed herself.  With …

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 …