Sanju movie review: Sympathetic and undeniably entertaining propaganda

Sanju movie review: Sympathetic and undeniably entertaining propaganda

Sanju movie review rating: Three stars out of five  Propaganda Information that is spread for the purpose of promoting some cause. “The propaganda brainwashed many people.” (WordWeb Dictionary) I saw Sanju first day, first show last Friday. The film has kept echoing within me for over a week now. I caught up with the movie…

Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom movie review: Good thrills, despite more of the same old

Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom movie review: Good thrills, despite more of the same old

Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom movie review: Three stars out of five  Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom is better than its more predictable, nostalgia-exploiting, no show predecessor Jurassic World (2015). That’s the least we expect from any movie sequel nowadays. Run and scream! Another dinosaur movie!  A volcano has (conveniently) erupted at Isla Nublar and the US…

Bioscopewala movie review: A Beautiful, Contemporary Tagore Adaptation

Bioscopewala movie review: A Beautiful, Contemporary Tagore Adaptation

Bioscopewala movie review rating: Three and half stars out of five  Bioscopewala has characters from Kabuliwala, the much-loved 1892 Rabindranath Tagore short story. What the filmmakers admirably do is craft new layers to the classic Tagore tale of pure companionship. In adding these layers, they both enrich and rob the film of the original story’s magic.…

Raazi movie review: Engrossing, humane Alia Bhatt spy drama

Raazi movie review: Engrossing, humane Alia Bhatt spy drama

Raazi movie review rating: Three and half stars out of five A Daughter. A Wife. A Spy. The Raazi movie posters capture the film’s theme in a nutshell. Based on the novel Calling Sehmat by Harinder Sikka, Raazi is ‘inspired’ by true events surrounding the 1971 Indo-Pak war and the birth of Bangladesh. The Raazi Storyline …

Ajay Devgn Raid movie review: Good, Engaging Drama, Lacks Edginess

Ajay Devgn Raid movie review: Good, Engaging Drama, Lacks Edginess

Raid movie review rating: Three stars out of five  An honest, soft-spoken income tax officer Amey Patnaik (Ajay Devgn) raids powerful and feared politician Rameshwar Singh aka Tauji’s (Saurabh Shukla) “White House” with his huge team and police personnel in tow, on an anonymous tip, sometime in 1981. That is the straight-forward plot of the…

Sridevi tribute: Five amazing Sridevi movie songs

Sridevi tribute: Five amazing Sridevi movie songs

What are your favourite Sridevi songs? There are many intense memories I possess of the two-month-long summer vacations that we spent down south at my grandmother’s village in the early nineties. One clear recall is my first vacation in 1992 as a ten-year-old. Yash Chopra’s Lamhe had released in November 1991 and all through April 1992,…