For the love of movies by Snehith Kumbla
Stree movie review rating: Three and half stars out of five There is a lot going for Stree. There are barely any horror comedies made in India. The ones attempted have been lame remakes or badly written movies. Stree is a breath of fresh air. The social commentary is vague and uneven, it is the jokes…
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…
Incredibles 2 movie review: Three stars out of five Writer and director Brad Bird just loves animation and boy does animation love him back! The Iron Giant (1999), The Incredibles (2004), Ratatouille (2007) and now Incredibles 2. It is already a staggering body of work in animation movies. I remember seeing The Incredibles (2004) in…
Race 3 movie review: One star out of five I can’t wait to begin, and I don’t know where to end. I could write pages and pages today about Race 3. Few movies can be so bad and for the same reason be so good. It is something to go on a morning show and…
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 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 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 …
102 Not Out movie review rating: Three stars out of five Dattatraya Vakharia (Amitabh Bachchan) is a perky, full-of-life 102-year-old who returns home one day with a declaration. He wants to break the current record (of a late 118-year-old Chinese man) for the oldest person in the world. To achieve this, Dattatraya wants his grim,…
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…
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,…