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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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My friend Praba Ram and I had a lovely discussion about Maharaja, and it brought up a number of interesting points, some of which I felt merited a separate blog post. VERY SPOILERIFIC, so don’t read this unless you’ve watched the film or don’t plan to. First, the dustbin. My first thought was that it…
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Nithilan Swaminathan’s Maharaja is a curious film. It does a heck of a lot to earn your admiration, but very little to earn your emotional involvement. It is thanks to a magnificent Vijay Sethupathi performance that the latter quality is not to its detriment.
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A boy is brutally thrust into adulthood when his parents go missing and he has to care for two younger brothers and an infant sister. When you see him as an adult, he appears to be a man whose expends so much energy suppressing his rage against the universe and doing what is required for…
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A few weeks ago , when my daughter asked me to tell her a bedtime story, I narrated Peter Bischel’s A table is a table to her. Bedtime isn’t exactly ideal to introduce a preteen to existential angst (2 pm on a Tuesday afternoon works better, FYI), so I tried to lighten the tone a…
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Mr and Mrs Mahi is a curious mixtape of a film. At one level, there’s little that feels original except the specific plot device of a husband who wanted to be a cricketer discovering that his wife could be a great one. There’s a bit of Dum Laga ke Haisha and Bawaal in how a…
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The first thing you hear when you watch Nikhil Nagesh Bhat’s Kill is the theme from Kuch Kuch Hota Hai that plays over the Dharma Productions logo. If there is a greater red herring in the history of red herrings, I do not know it. (This is not to say that Karan Johar only produces…
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An intrguing premise – elements of the Mahabharata are reconfigured into a dystopian sci-fi story – is let down by an underwhelming film.
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A superb two-character drama about death, love, agency and doing the right thing.
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