Time for six, three, I can only manage three. Dune: Part 2 (2024), we saw on opening night and just like the first part, it made me feel like climbing up to the rooftop of the highest building and shout: “THIS IS CINEMA!” Denis Villeneuve has once again rewritten how epic sci-fi can be and […]
Read more "Quickies: Dune: Part 2, Exhuma, OMG 2"Jubilee begins with the solemn introductions of Srikant Roy (Prasenjit Chatterjee), the movie mogul of Roy Talkies and his wife, equal business partner and main actress, Sumitra Kumari (Aditi Rao Hydari). As the visuals switched from old black and white newsreels to colour, we see a nondescript projectionist load a screen test for Roy’s personal […]
Read more "Series: Jubilee (2023)"We checked out a Hindi TV series on Prime called Panchayat. It’s a comedy-drama which depicts the life of engineering graduate Abhishek who has no option but to take up a job as the secretary of a Panchayat office in a remote village of Utter Pradesh. This is so breezy to watch with the right […]
Read more "TV Series: Panchayat (2020 – )"Time for another six… Lightyear (2022) begins with a short note that reminds us that in 1995 Andy saw a movie that made him rush out to get a Buzz Lightyear action figure and this is that movie. It’s all very exciting and stuff if you love the Toy Story movies but as it turns […]
Read more "Quickies: Lightyear, Prey, Black Box, The Souvenir: Part II, The Big City, The Coward"Another six we have seen recently… Since I am currently teaching Macbeth in school, I put on The Tragedy of Macbeth (2021) for some inspiration. The story of Shakespeare’s Macbeth is timeless and in my humble opinion it’s the mother of all twisted stories. Complex and dense, Joel Coen and his cast of A-listers make […]
Read more "Quickies: The Tragedy of Macbeth, House of Gucci, Pariah, Charulata, Devi, Runway 34"We saw many movies but I will just choose six solid ones to give you the heads up… Close-Up (1990) is an Iranian docufiction written, directed and edited by Abbas Kiarostami. The film tells the story of the real-life trial of a man who impersonated film-maker Mohsen Makhmalbaf, conning a family into believing they would […]
Read more "Quickies: Close-Up, Le Silence de la mer, Topsy-Turvy, Wrath of Man, The Trip, Sardar Udham"We are on a roll with Indian cinema, these are some quick thoughts and musings on the worthier ones… Joji is about Joji, an engineering dropout and the youngest son of the rich plantation family lives with his aspirations of becoming a super wealthy. But his father looks down on him as a proper loser. […]
Read more "Quickies: Joji, Mimi, Nayattu, Interrogation"The Family Man checks all the boxes with something for everyone. Whether it’s high drama, 5-cylinder action spectacles, thrills, spills, twists, jaw-dropping moments, illicit affairs, clandestine missions, social commentary and even comedy, it has everything. All these disparate elements come together in one superbly delectable confection. It doesn’t have weightiness of Sacred Games or the […]
Read more "TV Series: The Family Man (S1 & S2) (2019 -)"An interesting tidbit – due to the immense success of Drishyam (2013), it was remade into four other Indian languages – Tamil, Hindi, Telugu and Sinhala. In 2019, there was even a Chinese remake named Sheep Without a Shepherd. All the remakes were done with entirely different casts and screenplays. Herein lies one of the […]
Read more "Drishyam (2013) & Drishyam 2 (2021)"Paatal Lok (means the underworld according to ancient Hindu scriptures) is awake, wide awake. There are so many movies and TV series that are content to just slumber with sluggish languor through a regurgitation of old story ideas and hand-me-down plots. The art of storytelling is frankly becoming an elusive art, but sitting through nine […]
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