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Thoughts on Dhurandhar, a riveting blood-soaked spy thriller with some top-notch world building.
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You like recipes? Here’s one: Mix well and serve in a tall glass. When asked to describe the flavor, nobody’s gonna be able to get past ‘flavourful’ because, well, it tastes like so many things so what do you narrow it down to? A “revolutionary” in hiding calls a secret hotline to get details of
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To paraphrase a line from Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel in reverse, Coolie gets plenty right, but not where it counts. Less action, more drama would’ve made this a lovely action-drama.
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I recently watched F1 on an Imax screen. The film isn’t trying to break new ground emotionally or dramatically (it’s as though, after revisiting top gun from an older man’s perspective, Kozinski wanted to do the same thing to Days of Thunder – incidentally both were by Tony Scott). But from a filmmaking standpoint, it’s
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An entertaining morality tale that works off an uncommonly intelligent script. Capra and Hirani would be proud.
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You know how The Bride runs through (often literally) the Crazy 88 in Kill Bill Vol 1, and with all those geysers of blood spraying around, you thought, “They’re having almost too much fun making this”? Rifle Club is basically the same thing.
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A largely unnecessary film whose third act could’ve been subsumed into the first film and created a thing of beauty.
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A lovely premise and some great ideas are let down by writing that isn’t willing to follow these leads to the dark and wonderful places they could go to.
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Standard procedure for an upcoming election: all registered gun-owners in a locality are required to deposit their weapons at the nearest police station, and collect them back after the election is over. Everyone in a particular locality has done so, save for one retired army officer named Appu Pillai. When he is unreachable on the
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The premise is the equivalent of a clickbait headline. A boy with anger management issues is told by his mother to hold it in for 6 days of the week, and then if he still finds himself angry about the same things on the seventh day, he can give it full rein. He grows up
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