This cast OMG. I cannot claim to be familiar with actor Samuthirakani’s work, at all. A pitiable character right from the start, jiska bachey tak mazaak bana kar nikal jaatey hain, and he doesn’t know what to do except extracting themselves from the situation. The actor does complete justice to an excellent character arc, fully succeeds in becoming our entry point into the story. He keeps trying to help the falsely accused man, but only keeps making it worse, Samuthirakani’s body language changes, as he finally in his life, so close to retirement, begins to question the many injustices he’s known happen all around him, within a casteist, classist, sexist and powerful police department. A story that I believe is inspired by real-life instances.Writer is a slow burn, but one which must be felt. It might succeed in making you think about your own place in the very corrupt systems we’re all a part of, proactively or otherwise, and a film which makes you think is a good film at the end of it, no?

This cast OMG. I cannot claim to be familiar with actor Samuthirakani’s work, at all. A pitiable character right from the start, jiska bachey tak mazaak bana kar nikal jaatey hain, and he doesn’t know what to do except extracting themselves from the situation. The actor does complete justice to an excellent character arc, fully succeeds in becoming our entry point into the story. He keeps trying to help the falsely accused man, but only keeps making it worse, Samuthirakani’s body language changes, as he finally in his life, so close to retirement, begins to question the many injustices he’s known happen all around him, within a casteist, classist, sexist and powerful police department. A story that I believe is inspired by real-life instances.Writer is a slow burn, but one which must be felt. It might succeed in making you think about your own place in the very corrupt systems we’re all a part of, proactively or otherwise, and a film which makes you think is a good film at the end of it, no?

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Chiyaan Vikram’s son IRL, Dhruv Vikram, plays Dadabhai Naoroji, named after another Indian freedom fighter, a nationalist. I won't reveal what his conflict slash motive for actions is, but it never sits quite right. For all the Gandhian principles he’s grown up with, the man is a stone-cold psychopath. Again a depth the film could have explored, what do ideologies really mean? Can we mold things according to the changing world, or must we maintain the purity and sanctity of tried and tested teachings of people who proved themselves without a shadow of doubt?Instead, the whole second half plays out like an acting showreel for Dhruv Vikram. He’s a good-looking man, who is a better film will most certainly be very very watchable, but here everything seems too much of a tailored fit around him, the film loses all authenticity and heart, once the son returns.

Chiyaan Vikram’s son IRL, Dhruv Vikram, plays Dadabhai Naoroji, named after another Indian freedom fighter, a nationalist. I won't reveal what his conflict slash motive for actions is, but it never sits quite right. For all the Gandhian principles he’s grown up with, the man is a stone-cold psychopath. Again a depth the film could have explored, what do ideologies really mean? Can we mold things according to the changing world, or must we maintain the purity and sanctity of tried and tested teachings of people who proved themselves without a shadow of doubt?Instead, the whole second half plays out like an acting showreel for Dhruv Vikram. He’s a good-looking man, who is a better film will most certainly be very very watchable, but here everything seems too much of a tailored fit around him, the film loses all authenticity and heart, once the son returns.

Mahaan Movie Review

Harshvardhani Kulkarni ki Badhaai Do is in movie theatres and it's just a wonderful little surprise. A gay man and gay woman enter a lavender marriage to avoid society aur parivaar ki speculations lekin kab tak kheench paayenge before they get caught Badhaai Do touches on a lot, thankfully without actively trying to tackle/solve it all. Yeh believable characters sirf apni life mein whaee solve karne ke icchhuk hain joh inke saamne hain, samaaj badalne nahi chaley. The straight pride flag which rightfully caused an uproar has been edited out, and thankfully the film doesn’t end with everyone suddenly having an altered personality and falling in love with each other. The music, acting, Rajkummar Rao and Bhoomi Pednekar are so good, and very strong writing, make this film a success.

Harshvardhani Kulkarni ki Badhaai Do is in movie theatres and it's just a wonderful little surprise. A gay man and gay woman enter a lavender marriage to avoid society aur parivaar ki speculations lekin kab tak kheench paayenge before they get caught Badhaai Do touches on a lot, thankfully without actively trying to tackle/solve it all. Yeh believable characters sirf apni life mein whaee solve karne ke icchhuk hain joh inke saamne hain, samaaj badalne nahi chaley. The straight pride flag which rightfully caused an uproar has been edited out, and thankfully the film doesn’t end with everyone suddenly having an altered personality and falling in love with each other. The music, acting, Rajkummar Rao and Bhoomi Pednekar are so good, and very strong writing, make this film a success.

Badhaai Do Movie Review

Gehraiyaan movie review. Gehraiyaan tells the story of two urban Mumbai’s and the creatures who dwell in the overlap. Where the waves meet the shore, the beach meets the beach house, Alisha and Zain are the A and Z whose needs collide in the middle and poora house of cards gir jaata hai. Watch the movie for impossible goddess Deepika Padukone, who somehow manages to be meek and tortured despite her towering frame, its quite an achievement. Her scenes with Naseeruddin Shah are just splendid. Siddhant Chaturvedi is also excellent as every mistake I made in my 20s.It might take you about 20 minutes to enter the film frankly, but when you do, it looks after you till the end, and you wouldn’t want to leave.

Gehraiyaan movie review. Gehraiyaan tells the story of two urban Mumbai’s and the creatures who dwell in the overlap. Where the waves meet the shore, the beach meets the beach house, Alisha and Zain are the A and Z whose needs collide in the middle and poora house of cards gir jaata hai. Watch the movie for impossible goddess Deepika Padukone, who somehow manages to be meek and tortured despite her towering frame, its quite an achievement. Her scenes with Naseeruddin Shah are just splendid. Siddhant Chaturvedi is also excellent as every mistake I made in my 20s.It might take you about 20 minutes to enter the film frankly, but when you do, it looks after you till the end, and you wouldn’t want to leave.

Gehraiyaan Movie Review

Death On The Nile Review by Sucharita Tyagi - Death On the Nile, to a film critic might feel like those lovely little story videos which prepare you for the “exciting ride” at an amusement park, so you wouldn’t get antsy in the waiting lines? Everything is stunning to look at, the actors, clothes, setting, colors sab gorgeous, no kharcha spared, dialed up to 11, polished, but eventually when the momentarily thrilling ride is over, the experience feels kind of vacuous, and you're not quite sure if it was worth the wait time.

Death On The Nile Review by Sucharita Tyagi - Death On the Nile, to a film critic might feel like those lovely little story videos which prepare you for the “exciting ride” at an amusement park, so you wouldn’t get antsy in the waiting lines? Everything is stunning to look at, the actors, clothes, setting, colors sab gorgeous, no kharcha spared, dialed up to 11, polished, but eventually when the momentarily thrilling ride is over, the experience feels kind of vacuous, and you're not quite sure if it was worth the wait time.

Death on the Nile Movie Review

Run Lola Run took concepts like chaos theory, butterfly effect, debates around free will vs determinism and poured it all into a story about a girl running through a city, over and over, respawning without explanation. We were thrown in and were expected to make sense of it, which honestly I couldn't then. I was also like, 10 years old. Looop Lapeta ponders this carefully. Aware of the audience it's reaching out to, how much of the original’s ambiguity should it retain, along with expanding Lola’s world to turn it into Savi’s? This attempt is most visible in the animated opening credits, which here are used to tell Savi’s back story. Animation is used over and over in the original, but very differently. But also in this attempt, some dialogue, dips a toe in exposition-y waters, almost trying too hard to reassure the audience that this is not a remake, it's an adaptation, let me tell you exactly how it's different.When her boyfriend loses a mobster's cash, Savi races against the clock to save the day — if only she can break out of a curious cycle of dead ends. Looop Lapeta is an Indian Hindi-language thriller film directed by Aakash Bhatia, starring Taapsee Pannu as Savi and Tahir Raj Bhasin as Satya in the lead roles.

Run Lola Run took concepts like chaos theory, butterfly effect, debates around free will vs determinism and poured it all into a story about a girl running through a city, over and over, respawning without explanation. We were thrown in and were expected to make sense of it, which honestly I couldn't then. I was also like, 10 years old. Looop Lapeta ponders this carefully. Aware of the audience it's reaching out to, how much of the original’s ambiguity should it retain, along with expanding Lola’s world to turn it into Savi’s? This attempt is most visible in the animated opening credits, which here are used to tell Savi’s back story. Animation is used over and over in the original, but very differently. But also in this attempt, some dialogue, dips a toe in exposition-y waters, almost trying too hard to reassure the audience that this is not a remake, it's an adaptation, let me tell you exactly how it's different.When her boyfriend loses a mobster's cash, Savi races against the clock to save the day — if only she can break out of a curious cycle of dead ends. Looop Lapeta is an Indian Hindi-language thriller film directed by Aakash Bhatia, starring Taapsee Pannu as Savi and Tahir Raj Bhasin as Satya in the lead roles.

Looop Lapeta Movie Review

The woman in the house across the street from the girl in the window review by Sucharita Tyagi. Watching the world go by from her living room window, heartbroken Anna sets her sights on a handsome new neighbor until she witnesses a gruesome murder.Stretching out a stereotypical, cliché thriller narrative over 8 episodes, would require a joke a minute. Subtle and overt digs at how overdone this style of storytelling is, which has become as cliché as “the butler did it”, and hence needs to be retired.What you get instead is a semi-decent funny moment per episode and a couple of funny but uninspired running gags through the series, my fav is the changing inscription on Anna’s daughter’s tombstone. But the attempt to show us the more than familiar beats of a thriller with an unstable, unreliable, urban female protagonist, results in scenes we’ve seen a 100 times before, TRYING to say look how lame, but failing to do so, because COMMENTARY AUR HUMOR KAHAAN HAI BHAI Will Ferrell producer ho aap iss show ke!

The woman in the house across the street from the girl in the window review by Sucharita Tyagi. Watching the world go by from her living room window, heartbroken Anna sets her sights on a handsome new neighbor until she witnesses a gruesome murder.Stretching out a stereotypical, cliché thriller narrative over 8 episodes, would require a joke a minute. Subtle and overt digs at how overdone this style of storytelling is, which has become as cliché as “the butler did it”, and hence needs to be retired.What you get instead is a semi-decent funny moment per episode and a couple of funny but uninspired running gags through the series, my fav is the changing inscription on Anna’s daughter’s tombstone. But the attempt to show us the more than familiar beats of a thriller with an unstable, unreliable, urban female protagonist, results in scenes we’ve seen a 100 times before, TRYING to say look how lame, but failing to do so, because COMMENTARY AUR HUMOR KAHAAN HAI BHAI Will Ferrell producer ho aap iss show ke!

The Woman In The House Across The Street From The Girl In The Window Review

Hridayam is a 2022 Indian Malayalam-language coming-of-age drama film written and directed by Vineeth Sreenivasan. A man in his early 30s reflects on his misspent youth and the rocky road that brought him to adulthood.Hridayam absolutely excels in the music department, crowd favorite Darshana has been playing on loop in my office, despite me unable to fully understand the lyrics. The entire album by Hesham Abdul Wahab is truly a labor of love and worth every bit of praise it's garnered. If you’ve been vaccinated, and better still, boosted, go watch Hridyama in a movie theatre. I do believe an OTT release is imminent toh my immunocompromised gang can happily hang on and wait.

Hridayam is a 2022 Indian Malayalam-language coming-of-age drama film written and directed by Vineeth Sreenivasan. A man in his early 30s reflects on his misspent youth and the rocky road that brought him to adulthood.Hridayam absolutely excels in the music department, crowd favorite Darshana has been playing on loop in my office, despite me unable to fully understand the lyrics. The entire album by Hesham Abdul Wahab is truly a labor of love and worth every bit of praise it's garnered.If you’ve been vaccinated, and better still, boosted, go watch Hridyama in a movie theatre. I do believe an OTT release is imminent toh my immunocompromised gang can happily hang on and wait.

Hridayam Review

Streaming now on Voot Select is Danish Sait’s 10 part series, Humble Politician Nograj season 1, directed by Saad Khan, written by them both. Nograj, an MLA, is looking to become the CM of Karnataka, lekin to do so he must form a coalition and get maximum people on his side. His party, the One Big Party must pick between Most Secular Party and Family Run Party. Enter resort politics, horse-trading, bribery, vishwasghat…..basically everything which has no place in the democratic process, but is very much a product of the same.If you’ve not seen the film Humble Politician Nograj, which admittedly I hadn’t either, the first episode lets you take in the landscape. Nograj speaks to you directly through the camera and explains the story so far in flashback and takes the time to introduce the characters of this world, also firmly setting the tone, that this is attempted meta commentary on the corrupt nature of Indian politics, which might be absurdist and borderline stupid in parts, but like Adam McKay’s Don’t Look Up, its very much inspired by, almost identical to how things have unfolded in India, in modern politics. Not that I’m comparing Humble Politician Nograj to Adam McKay’s work, zameen-aasman ka farak hai, rather I’m wondering if political satire might just be the most important sub-genre of storytelling right now. Nograj is a narcissistic crazy politician who exploits the city and its resources. Humble Politician Nograj, streaming exclusively on Voot Select.

Streaming now on Voot Select is Danish Sait’s 10 part series, Humble Politician Nograj season 1, directed by Saad Khan, written by them both. Nograj, an MLA, is looking to become the CM of Karnataka, lekin to do so he must form a coalition and get maximum people on his side. His party, the One Big Party must pick between Most Secular Party and Family Run Party. Enter resort politics, horse-trading, bribery, vishwasghat…..basically everything which has no place in the democratic process, but is very much a product of the same.If you’ve not seen the film Humble Politician Nograj, which admittedly I hadn’t either, the first episode lets you take in the landscape. Nograj speaks to you directly through the camera and explains the story so far in flashback and takes the time to introduce the characters of this world, also firmly setting the tone, that this is attempted meta commentary on the corrupt nature of Indian politics, which might be absurdist and borderline stupid in parts, but like Adam McKay’s Don’t Look Up, its very much inspired by, almost identical to how things have unfolded in India, in modern politics.Not that I’m comparing Humble Politician Nograj to Adam McKay’s work, zameen-aasman ka farak hai, rather I’m wondering if political satire might just be the most important sub-genre of storytelling right now.Nograj is a narcissistic crazy politician who exploits the city and its resources. Humble Politician Nograj, streaming exclusively on Voot Select. 

Humble Politician Nograj Review

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