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) Movie Review: Idiosyncratic Familial Turmoil
Review by Nafees Ahmed Raam Reddy’s Thithi opens on Century Gowda (Singri Gowda), an elderly patriarch who derives the fancy…
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…
Knight of Cups [2015]: A Prince on a Quest
“Once the soul was perfect and had wings, it could sour into haven that only creatures with wings can be. But the soul lost its wings and fell to earth where it took a earthly body, now, while it lives in this body no outward sign of wings can be seen yet the roots of its wings are still there… and we see a beautiful woman or a man, the soul remembers the beauty it…
A (Nitrogen Free) Review of Om Dar-B-Dar
The Review of Om Dar-B-Dar hasn’t always been a review of Om Dar-B-Dar. Once it was an open letter to Prime Minister. Few hours ago it was a horoscope, the summary of someone’s ill fortune. It thinks that it is never too late to be the review of Om Dar-B-Dar and the best sweaters are knitted by old ladies on the Moon.
Waiting (2016) Movie Review: Togetherness in Grief!
For everyone who has every been in a hospital, trying to pass on the agony in their heads onto the random daily newspaper or someone else going under the same spell, Anu Menon’s Waiting is a living portrayal of that heartbreaking ordeal one goes through. Time doesn’t just fly away & feeling just creep up out of nowhere. The fear, the clogs along with the pain just doubles the frustration. The dilemma of understanding what…