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Madha, directed by Srividya Basava, is no doubt an interesting film in an eerie sort of way. It’s a psychological thriller that gets exceedingly creepy when the people around the very normal Nisha (Trishna Mukherjee) start plotting against her to prove that she’s schizophrenic, just so they can push her …

Let’s face it, a Bollywood remake of Parasite is inevitable. The Oscar-winning Parasite is too big of a movie for Bollywood not to think of it. But the idea has merit too. The concepts of economic and social status are easily interchangeable from South Korea to India. Or any South …

Maska is the kind of self-indulgent nostalgic piece that does little to convey its intended nostalgia to the viewers. It is a film that intends to look at the Irani Cafés in South Bombay with melancholic reverence. These cafés, the film suggests, carry a legacy that needs to be protected …

In the opening scene of The Social Network, writer Aaron Sorkin is quite blunt about his intentions to alienate you through his script. You don’t listen to the dialogues, you have to glean from them. And it’s not the velocity of every character’s delivery that’s intimidating, it’s the mass of …

When a film is remade, the new writer tweaks it to situate the film in a milieu familiar to the new audience. Krishna Marimuthu’s Dharala Prabhu, the Tamil remake of Vicky Donor, has a few such cosmetic changes. The Punjabi and Bengali families are replaced by Tamil and Kannadiga ones. …

A little after T-Series dropped ‘Masakali 2.0’, the world found itself considering a new adjective to describe AR Rahman: “angry”. The Sufi saint of Indian film music took to Instagram and posted an image of a man on fire, his face turned to the heavens in a howl of agony. …

There’s no right way to be stuck at home. While some are understandably in search of distraction and escape through watching shows, others may wish to see the time as an opportunity for personal development. Luckily, amongst the boundless recesses of the internet, there are a number of great courses and …

Director: Aditya SarpotdarWriter: Bijesh Jayarajan and Anaitha NairCast: Ashwini Bhave, Atul Kulkarni, Neil Bhoopalam, Kunal Karan Kapoor, Parul Gulati, Reena WadhwaStreaming Platform: Voot There’s a moment in the first episode of The Raikar Case when a teenage brat scorns at her mother who is driving her to the funeral of …

There’s always an excuse for not giving a good film a chance. We heard about it from a film festival it went to but it never released in theatres. Or it came to a theatre but it had a limited release so it was hard to find a show. Sometimes, …

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Panchayat is an 8-episode series on Amazon Prime. Every episode is half an hour. It’s been directed by Deepak Kumar Mishra and produced by TVF. Panchayat is the story of Abhishek Tripathi, played by Jitendra Kumar, a young graduate in New Delhi. He applies for a government job at a village panchayat as …

If you Google the symptoms of cabin fever (or the feeling one experiences when stuck in an isolated space for a long period of time), you’d notice how a lot of them are similar to what one experiences during insomnia. On the 15th day of the lockdown, there’s only two …

The lockdown due to Covid-19 has spurred several Tamil artistes to come up with public awareness songs. Music has always been a great tool for positive propaganda. From  street-side ‘gaana’ singers who talk about the empowerment of repressed castes to songs in mass hero films exhorting Thamizhans to rule the …

In what seems like another blow to AR Rahman’s discography, (It’s hard to forget the T-Series’ disco-bike-gang-mystery version of Urvashi, plateauing at 154 million views on YouTube) we have Sidharth Malhotra and Tara Sutaria right out of Marjaavaan sets, (was this a deleted song from the film?) with that mid-parting, …

If there’s a section of the film industry that is likely to be hit hardest by the ongoing Covid-19 shutdown, it’s the daily wage earners – spot boys, stuntmen, makeup artists, light men and more who have been out of work since Bollywood stalled production on films, TV shows and …

After the massive success of Ala Vaikunthapurramuloo, Allu Arjun is set to play a lorry driver in his next film, director Sukumar’s Pushpa. The first look of the action movie was revealed on the actor’s birthday. Ahead of its release, he told Anupama Chopra about venturing into Bollywood and why he’s …

Actor and producer Rana Daggubati has many interests – he loves comics, movies and technology. But above all he’s passionate about storytelling. The stories he’s been a part of so far (Baahubali, The Ghazi Attack) and the ones he intends on telling in the future, are all shaped by the …

After Unaru, the ‘least Mani Ratnamesque Mani Ratnam film’, let’s look at a film that’s arguably the least Priyadarshanesque Priyadarshan film. Of course Kanchivaram, the director’s most acclaimed film, comes close too, but in Sila Samayangalil/Sometimes, his intent to make his most different film is more obvious. In other words, …

It has been three years since Mani Ratnam’s Kaatru Veliyidai released, bombed, and made a niche for itself on social media, housed between hashtags, and screenshots of the dreamy landscapes, angelic portraits, and editorials wondering about, and defending its failure.  The film is about VC (Karthi), an abrasive fighter pilot, …

Director: Radhakrishna Reddy Cast: Prakash Raj, Achyuth Kumar, Raj B Shetty The titles of Radhakrishna Reddy’s Mayabazar 2016 roll over a scene in a bar. A customer asks a waiter to replace his plate of undercooked chicken. The waiter eats up a good part of it on the way to …

Dear Barkha, It is 9 pm. The date is 05/04. I am in a small village, almost totally isolated from the city, and trying my best to ensure that my family and I are safe. As I type this my neighbours are lighting candles. Strains of a song that goes …

Artistic heroism, to try different things without judgment, defines Sudeep Chatterjee. He is Hindi Cinema’s finest, most sought after cinematographer. His range is visible from a mere glance at his filmography, with films like  Road, Chak De India, Dor, Dhoom 3, Guzaarish, Baby, Bajirao Mastani, Housefull 4, and Padmavat under …

Actress Sayani Gupta seems to be everywhere. The second season of her popular Amazon Prime Video show Four More Shots Please! is due for release next week. On the big screen, she was last seen in one of 2019’s most acclaimed films Article 15, as well as on the festival circuit with Axone which premiered at the …

Watching the gorgeous-looking Neelakasham Pachakadal Chuvanna Bhoomi today is the closest one can get to the feeling of stepping out and going for a morning run, and hot tea right after. Inspired (in the truest sense of the word) from The Motorcycle Diaries, this 2013 film directed by Sameer Thahir …