Aligarh (2015): A Tender ‘Human’ Story!
In the film Dr. Siras says – The new generation just wants to label everything. So, if I call Hansal Mehta’s Aligarh fantastic, fabulous, cool, and awesome it would be a grave mistake on my part. What Mehta’s film did to me was turn my head in shame because that’s exactly what people like you and me do. We like to label things because poetry is just not our thing anymore and reading between the…
Room (2015) Movie Review: A Heartfelt Journey of Love, Survival, and Rediscovery
Lenny Abrahamson’s Room is poignant. Room is evocative. Room is devastatingly beautiful. There is a magic in creating a world in a child’s perspective. To capture and display the innocence, the purity, the sheer amount of confusing vastness of the world is no mean feat. Writer Emma Donoghue, who is also the writer of the book that the film is based upon, and director Lenny Abrahamson manage to do just that.
The Great Cinematographers and their “Visions of Light”: A love letter to the DOP
Great cinematography has a tendency of sneaking up on you. When it’s done well, the average moviegoer will have a sense of appreciation for the level of visual beauty on display but most people aren’t really conscious of the artistry involved and the incredible level of work that goes into the making of all of those pretty pictures. I know for me personally, it took many years of film appreciation before it finally occurred to…
Neerja (2016): A Brave Account of Human Spirit!
Being brave and scared are two very closely intertwined feelings. Ram Madvani’s Neerja (2016) tells us that no education can teach you to be brave. It just takes that extra bit of human spirit that needs the right trigger at the right moment. While Neerja does undergo the typical melodramatic turn, the emotions seem more real than they are made out to be.
Mustang (2015): The Oppressor Vs The Oppressed
Watching Mustang is a very demanding thing. It almost feels like crawling through a dark tunnel with no hope whatsoever. But finding a bit of light at the end of the tunnel is what makes the experience worthy, and satisfying.
14th Feb: Spare Change Day
It was 14th February, 2007, the fateful day of the year marked with heart shaped outline, fancy greeting cards, red roses and an image of a person you could never confess your love to. Perhaps you had a date with a vintage car, but it didn’t go smooth because of bad transmission. Perhaps your heart ached for a stapler that ran out of pins and couldn’t hold all the pages together.
Strangely, I have no…
[Not a Review] Deadpool [2016] : Wade Wilson & His Maximum Effort.
a critic will probably tell you bullshit that you don’t need to know. Like how bad and good the actors have been in their previous films instead of pointing your nosy ass to the nearest theater. There will be unnecessary mention of a plot that will be made to look and seem cooler than it actually is. And if the critic wishes to show-off a little more, he will get into the details of the…
Five reasons why DEADPOOL is fucking Awesome !
This is not a review, I tell you. On principal, I can’t (and won’t) review a movie which I haven’t seen as whole. Yes, thanks to our extremely righteous censor board, what I watched in theater was not the whole movie, but around eighty to ninety percent of it. There is no sex, almost no gore and words like Cunt, Vagina has been stripped off; so that our innocent souls remain chaste. Only the f-words…