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Jahnvi Kapoor is a tour de force. Fuck all of you idiots for making fun of her.
Bollywood Film Reviews
Gangubai Kathiawadi Film Review – Alia Bhatt Is A Classic Dazzler In A Near Flawless Picture
Gangubai Kathiawadi is a softly, quietly powerful film. It astutely ebbs and flows through the gamut of elements of Nouveau Masala, through subtlety and grandiloquence, despondency and romance, comedy and drama. Alia Bhatt chews up the screen with a superfluous… Continue Reading
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
Haseen Dilruba Film Review – Vinil Mathew’s Sophomore Slump Is A Steaming Pile of Vacuity
The sorely underappreciated 2014 rom-com Hasee Toh Phasee, a collaboration between two diametrically opposed production houses (the larger-than-life Dharma Productions and the doom-and-gloom Phantom Films), introduced us to then new filmmaker, Vinil Mathew. He seemed very promising. Hasee Toh Phasee… Continue Reading
Sherni Film Review – A Monster Movie That Is Commendably Anything But
I never took a liking to Monster Movies. To me, they’re cheap and pedestrian. Yet what I find fascinating about the vast majority of them, like Jaws, Frankenstein, Jurassic Park et al., is how they use their Monster not only to… Continue Reading
Sandeep Aur Pinky Faraar Film Review – Filmmaker/Necromancer Dibanker Banerjee Resurrects The Inert Careers Of Arjun Kapoor & Parineeti Chopra
A Styzyga is a terrifying Slavic mythological demon with two hearts and two souls intertwined in the same body. While I would never assume that Arjun Kapoor and Parineeti Chopra are the after remains of a malevolent demon of Polish origin,… 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
Netflix’s Namaste Wahala Film Review – Guess Who’s Coming To Dinner In Lagos
I couldn’t help but think of one of my all-time faves, Guess Who’s Coming To Dinner, when I saw the trailer for Netflix’s Valentine’s Day rom-com, Namaste Wahala. Stanley Kramer’s 60s iconoclast classic starring screen revolutionist, Sidney Poitier, set the… Continue Reading
The White Tiger Film Review – Miramax Schmaltz, Jay-Z Bhangra & Butter Chicken
The White Tiger is the worst piece of shit I’ve seen in years. If I was Indian – especially an urbanite Indian – I would have shut it off after two minutes. But I’m not, so I shut it off… Continue Reading
AK VS AK Film Review – An Epoch-Making Event for Hindi Cinema and World Cinema As A Whole
Avant-garde auteur, Spike Jonze, the man who directed arguably the greatest two meta films Adaptation and Being John Malkovich, immediately came to mind as I was watching the trailer to Netflix’s AK vs AK. The reason being is that like those films,… Continue Reading