Category: Movie Reviews

Binny And Family Review {3.5/5} & Review Rating Star Cast: Anjini Dhawan, Pankaj Kap00r Director: Ssanjay Tripaathy Binny And Family Movie Review Synopsis:BINNY AND FAMILY is the story of a young, rebellious girl. Bindiya Singh aka Binny (Anjini Dhawan) stays with her parents Vinay (Rajesh Kumar) and mother Radhika (Charu Shankar) in London, UK. The...

Joker: Folie à Deux (English) Review {2.5/5} & Review Rating Star Cast: Joaquin Phoenix, Lady Gaga Director: Todd Phillips Joker: Folie à Deux Movie Review Synopsis:JOKER: FOLIE À DEUX is the story of a nihilistic man who finds a lover. After the events of the first part, Arthur Fleck (Joaquin Phoenix) is institutionalized at Arkham State Hospital...

Vinod Kamble’s Kastoori (The Musk) uses his own experiences as the raw material for a powerful, unflinching examination of how the caste system works to disempower the already marginalised. In the story that Kamble tells, social ostracism dents the psyche of a boy from an impoverished family of manual scavengers in insidious ways and compels...

A competently written comedy about two elderly people who forge an unlikely friendship after their houses are burgled by an out-of-work tailor, Mast Mein Rehne Ka is a gentle little film that conveys home truths about survival in a megapolis that never stops for anybody, least of all for those who have outlived their utility...

The principal strength of Dunki, directed and edited by Rajkumar Hirani, springboards from the fact that it does not rely solely on Shah Rukh Khan’s phenomenal star power. There can be no denying that without the lead actor’s singular charisma this would not be the film that it is. But its charm stems equally from...

The mind-numbing power of unrelenting violence is on full display over all of three hours in the unabashedly gory Salaar: Part 1 – Ceasefire.All the blood-letting that the film revels in has a somniferous effect on the audience, lulling it into a desensitised state that serves to make the shocks somewhat palatable. Although the Telugu-language...

In a fictional small town where happiness eludes everybody except a handful of drifters who are sloshed to the gills at all times of day and night, a hard-drinking man inadvertently sparks an anti-alcohol campaign that, thanks to the women around him, spins out of his control. Control is indeed conspicuous by its absence in...

Why would a filmmaker working in Kolkata in the 21st century feel the urge to turn to a story written 130-odd years ago for creative inspiration? If that question is on your mind (it certainly wouldn’t be misplaced or unwarranted), director Suman Ghosh answers it emphatically in his adaptation of Rabindranath Tagore’s 1892 short story,...

The protagonists of Kho Gaye Hum Kahan, directed by debutant Arjun Varain Singh from a script he wrote with Zoya Akhtar and Reema Kagti, are digital natives struggling to stay abreast of, and cope with, the real world. Their impulses and actions, both private and public, are mediated, or directly impacted, by social media. On...

A just-deceased man’s phone rings. The caller is another dead man. That aptly signals the end of the opening episode of Killer Soup, a deliciously off-the-wall crime series created and directed by Abhishek Chaubey.  The owners of the phones are dead but the warped connection lingers on and impacts the course of the insanely twisted...