New Delhi: Crafted largely with broad strokes, Call Me Bae, created by Ishita Moitra, co-written by her with Samina Motlekar and Rohit Nair and directed by Collin D’Cunha, is not without its share of fun and flashes of insight. It is another matter that the terrain that Call me Bae traverses is not instantly and...
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Even-Paced And Deliciously Twisted Whodunnit
A nimble, even-paced and deliciously twisted whodunnit that takes on board a whole complex of themes – severe family dysfunction, class snobbery, dangerous liaisons, long-buried secrets that sow deep distrust and complexities of policing a town where the rich wield inordinate power – The Perfect Couple, starring Nicole Kidman, Live Schreiber and Ishaan Khatter (in...
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Kareena Kapoor Nails The Role With Admirable Felicity
New Delhi: In last year’s Netflix hit Jaane Jaan, Kareena Kapoor Khan, making a clean break from the persona she built an eventful film acting career around, donned the guise of a single mother who murders her estranged husband in a hill town in eastern India. The performance was pitch-perfect. In The Buckingham Murders, an...
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Vikrant Massey’s Film Is Too Haywire To Be A Hard-Hitting Chronicle
New Delhi: A portrait of a psychopath is never easy to pull off. Sector 36, inspired by the 2005-2006 Nithari killings, attempts the task without achieving much success. The film is never as searing or unsettling as one might expect it to be. There are multiple reasons for that. Directed by Aditya Nimbalkar and written...
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The Spy Drama Isn’t A Run-Of-The-Mill Espionage Thriller
New Delhi: Secret agents have been Bollywood action movie staples for some years now. A handful of them played by Mumbai’s biggest stars now constitute a full-fledged spy universe rustled up by the industry’s leading production house. They are unlikely to disappear from the Hindi showbiz radar anytime soon. Should we be interested in a...
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Tamil Remake Of Panchayat Is A Terrific Transposition
A Tamil remake of a well-regarded Hindi series, Thalaivettiyan Paalayam, streaming on Amazon Prime Video, plays smart and steady. It isn’t a photocopy of Panchayat. A terrific transposition, the eight-episode show has a tone and tenor almost entirely its own. Directed by Naga and written by Bala Kumaran, Thalaivettiyan Paalayam is from the production stable...
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Siddhant Chaturvedi’s Film Is Relentlessly Violent
A boy born angry – very, very angry – grows up to be a young man prone to flying off the handle at the slightest pretext. He is rusticated from school for nearly killing a classmate. Years later, as a trainee cadet, he beats a man to pulp. Welcome to the world of the eponymous...
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Unpretentious And Steadfastly Simple Film Is Well Worth A Viewing
One brood, three generations, four women and the men in their complicated lives 0ccupy the core of Love, Sitara, a film peppered with the familiar tics of a dysfunctional family drama. Does that make it a trite affair? Not quite. The Zee5 film directed by Vandana Kataria revolves around an about-to-wed couple who learn, well...
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Jr NTR’s Film Does Occasionally Manage To Anchor Itself To Terra Firma
New Delhi: Packed with relentless action and sweeping visual spectacle but devoid of genuine emotion, Devara: Part 1 (Hindi) is strictly for fans of movies that, in the absence of a solidly original concept, seek to thrive on their epic scale, the star power at their disposal and an array of swords, scythes and short-blade...
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Bhuvan Bam Gives The Role His Best Shot
Bhuvan Bam’s Vasant Gawde, Mr. Vardaan to the world owing to his ability to see events before they come to pass, is back seeking to make a killing from the prescient news updates that he receives on a mobile phone app. This time around, the Taaza Khabar protagonist is either on the backfoot or, worse...