For the love of movies by Snehith Kumbla
Captain Marvel movie review rating: Three stars out of five In 1995, Vers (Brie Larson) has recurring dreams featuring an older woman, even as she trains under Yon-Rogg (Jude Law) as the Kree Empire’s Starforce member at Hala. Vers ends up on planet C-53 (Earth) after a Kree spy rescue mission against the shapeshifting Skrulls…
Sonchiriya movie review rating: Three stars out of five Abhishek Chaubey’s Sonchiriya is robust in its direction, casting, performances, cinematography, locales and numerous convincing gunfights, but is a downer in two key departments – story and screenplay. Dacoits in Hindi cinema: Among the first and what is considered a dacoit movie classic is the Dilip Kumar…
I caught up with Gully Boy for the second time in two weeks yesterday and discovered new layers to it. Almost every scene is a deliberate, elaborate canvas to a young man’s reluctant, undying passion for rap and hip-hop. This is no one-time watch, though nothing can ever match the exuberance, freshness and addictive vibe…
Gully Boy movie review: Four stars out of five I do not want this sentence to end, I want it to rhyme, skate, jump and groove into something real because that is what Gully Boy has done to me, the movie has that kind of infectious heart, inclusive groove and beat rarely experienced at the…
What makes your list of the best Hindi movies 2018? Here is our list, while you make up your mind. Music lovers, what do you think of the 9PM ‘best Hindi movie songs of 2018?’ Do let us know. Despite the invasion of alternate online entertainment making zombies out of millions of cell phone users,70mm…
What are your picks for the best Hindi movie songs 2018? Here is ours. Read on. Also read our list of best Hindi movies of 2018 at this link. The year has been a redundant and shallow timefor Bollywood soundtrack lovers. Rap or dance numbers are no crime (sample Paintra from Mukkabaaz as proof), but most…
2.0 Rajnikanth movie review rating: Three stars out of five A man takes a weary walk up the ladder of a cell phone tower and hangs himself. The next day, cell phones start disappearing from every person’s addictive hands in Tamil Nadu. Now I wouldn’t mind if that happened for real all over the world! We will…
Tumbbad movie review rating: Four stars out of five Can a horror movie be less about same old scare tricks and more about morality, greed and human nature? Tumbbad is that “what a movie!” of the year for me. It is a sign of our times, and Indian movie going audience, that I could count the…
Andhadhun movie review rating: Three and half stars out of five black humour (noun) a humorous way of looking at or treating something that is serious or sad How far would you go to be a great artist? A young Pune-based blind piano player, Akash (Ayushmann Khurrana) has a lot going for him. He lands up…
Manto movie review rating: Three and half stars out of five Sab peeche dekh rahe hai, lekin aaj ke kaatil lahu aur lohe se tareek likhte ja rahe hai… (Everyone is looking at the past, but today’s murderers are writing history with blood and weapons…) Saadat Hasan Manto (1912-1955) is among the most…