Shiddat [2021] Review – Dated Bollywood Romance is a Mediocre Excuse in Disguise of Filmmaking
Hear me out. When you fall in love, you should commit to it with passion. If this weren’t true, why…
Hear me out. When you fall in love, you should commit to it with passion. If this weren’t true, why…
Mainstream Hindi cinema has undergone cataclysmic changes in the past decade, leading to amelioration in the overall quality and variety…
The only thing worse than COVID itself can be a COVID set film. They seem to be set in a…
When you are speaking of Bollywood, there are a lot of movies in different genres released every year. But few…
I never imagined I would say this but Siddharth Anand’s ‘War (2019)‘ is a truly pulpy entertainer that casually reinvents…
When one thinks of Bollywood, one is instantly reminded of glittering lights, elaborate sets, song and dance sequences. But behind…
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 a garb, many a persona, many a mode.
Slavoj Žižek, in “Violence: six sideways reflections”, argues for a three-layered model of violence – subjective, symbolic & systemic. Perhaps…
This has been a challenge. One of the toughest I’ve faced while writing about someone. Curating a list of essential…