Gehraiyaan Film Review – Filmmaker Shakun Batra Plunges To New Lows

Let me preface this by saying that there is no one who is a more adoring fan of Shakun Batra’s first two films than me. I even listed Ekk Main Aurr Ekk Tu as the best film of the 2010s.… Continue Reading

Netflix’s Searching For Sheela Film Review – A Fruitless Meandering Into A Mass Murderer’s Hollow Void of A Soul

For the better part of a decade now, Dharma Productions filmmaker, Shakun Batra, has been the most exciting auteur in masala cinema. In his directorial debut, Ekk Main Aurr Ekk Tu (my personal favorite Hindi film of the 2010’s), he… Continue Reading

Kapoor & Sons Review – Turning Bourgeois Melodrama Into High Art

Two prodigal, NRI sons (Siddhalth Malhotra and Fawad Khan) return to India to tend to their ailing grandfather (Rishi Kapoor with heavy prosthetics) and resolve long-standing issues with their parents (Ratna Pathak and Rajat Kapoor). They also meet a cute… Continue Reading