Laal Singh Chaddha (2022) Review: Forrest Gump is one of those rare conservative films that I manage to like for its sentimental value. My political reservations against the touted classic are newfound,…
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An Indian actress par excellence, Konkona Sen Sharma needs no introduction today. She is not a quintessential Indian ‘heroine’; much rather she is a stellar ‘sustained’ actress who can be identified for…
Sriram Raghavan is a filmmaker India needs, and a filmmaker India deserves. Raghavan’s work has defined a cinematic aesthetic, a style, almost a genre, in the sense of the cultural imprint it…
Jyoti Kapoor, Raj Mehta, Rishabh Sharma – it took three people to write a comedy film that didn’t even turn out to be funny. Raj Mehta’s film Good Newwz (2019) is a…
When a drug induced haze appears in front of your eyes, all you see is a ray of stark white light that seems to get you to your happy place, but never does. You not only lose your sense of reality but you also lose yourself and the draining feeling never stops. There are times when people push themselves in order to fight the clutches of the hazy feeling that uplifts you from reality, shattering you piece by piece. Some get saved and some don’t. The grimmest consequences that occur during these episodic sedation are often poured onto innocent people who have nothing to do with being the by-products of this fake realism in the first place. Udta Punjab is an important film because it presents the grim-reality of surrounding and surrendering oneself to this fake realism in order to escape the harsh reality of waiting for the good days to come back.
Don’t misread the ‘Worth A Watch’ as ‘Must Watch’ because Kabir Khan’s Bajrangi Bhaijaan is definitely not a great film.
It’s convoluted and inanely stupid at times. But there is something in the film that doesn’t make you hate it. Even if you are one of those people whose blood starts boiling when Salman Khan’s name comes along, you will definitely smile, laugh and feel sentimental when the Hanuman Ka Bhakt asks the petite angel like girl about her home. Here are 5 reasons to watch it.
