Udta Punjab (2016) Movie Review: Grim Realities and Hazy Truths!
When a drug-induced haze appears in front of your eyes, all you see is a ray of stark white light…
Green Room (2015) Movie Review: There Will Be Blood, and Plenty of Punk
Martin Luther King, Jr. once famously said: “Violence begets violence”. While this is certainly true, sometimes violence is a necessity…
The 25 Best Films of 2015
We’re halfway through 2015, with July almost arriving, but I waited to finish watching all the possible good films of 2015 before I come up with a list that I totally find justified for my own taste. Here is a comprehensive list of the Best Films from 2015. Do not go bonking if you don’t see Son of Saul , The Revenant on the list or Spotlight in the Top 10. I loved both…
5 Young ‘Bad Guys’ in Commercial Bollywood Cinema
For years villains have been an integral part of our movies. Even though the protagonists in our Hindi films have always had the last laugh, yet it is the antagonist that makes them look larger than life. Since years now, the antagonists in our movies have evolved like no other character has. While the heroes’ characters are more or less cut out from the same skin, it is the antagonist’s’ character that has changed many…
Shame [2011] – A Chilling Implosion of a Desensitized Individual
The characters in Steve McQueen’s “Shame” (99 minutes) with their little showcase of emotions are constrained inside differently shaped glass structures like fish in the aquariums. It is more about a man’s self-destruction in a controlled and compulsive environment than being a mere psychobabble on sex addiction.
The Conjuring 2 (2016): The Return of the Warrens & the Haunted House!
The Conjuring was one of those horror films that manged to scare people out of their shells & broke the spell of sad, gore-trodden clutters being sold as horror films. The infamous hide-and-clap sequence is still a proper reminder for people like me that basements are uncharted territory. While The Conjuring 2 doesn’t manage to top it off, it’s a respectable entry to what looks like a franchise in the making. It’s a film that…
Thithi (2016): Idiosyncratic Familial Turmoil
“What is meant to happen, happens. No one has any control over it. So it’s better to just be happy,…
In My Father’s Den [2004] – A Haunted Loner’s Journey through Time and Memory
Sins of Father’ is one of recurrent theme in cinematic medium, where the prodigal son would return home to reflect on his past and learn few dark secrets about his family. The theme had been covered to the point of turning it into a cliché. Initially, the characters and the situation they find themselves in “In My Father’s Den” seem a bit banal. Celebrated war photographer Paul Prior (Mathew MacFadyen), who had run away from…