The last time Manoj Bajpayee starred in a movie by writer-director Devashish Makhija, he won the Best Actor Award at the Film Critics Guild of India AND a National Award, his second after Aligarh. That was 2018’s incredible Bhonsle. What do they have for you now? Manoj Bajpayee is Dasru…

How adorable everyone looks. The clothes, the dancing, the set design. Is that enough though, to turn a comic panel into a screenplay? In a time when waking up to your phone induces anxiety each morning, “The Archies” promised much-needed respite. Conveniently streaming on Netflix, requiring only the effort to…

Hi. This is a review of the movie Animal. A film that’s neither entertaining nor has anything to say. The cinematic equivalent of a teenager having a hormonal temper tantrum. Ranbir Kapoor is Ranvijay, who, as you probably surmised from the trailer has everything money can buy, except his father’s…

A biopic about a historic warmonger, a maniacal emperor, and a single man hell-bent on re-shaping geographies. Can go in so many less-than-ideal directions and trigger unpleasant emotions so many viewers are barely contained within right now as the world stands. Ridley Scott isn’t here to soothe your frayed nerves…

Insta reels, celebrity chat shows, billboards, holiday sales, currently if you are also constantly overstimulated Jaise hi Achal Mishra ke naam se remotely bhi judi koi film ki bhanak bhi padey, turant pohoch jaao MUBI par, waheen milegi The talented Abhinav Jha who you must also watch in Dhuin, is…

Its Tiger 3 time! Really leaning INTO the superhero storytelling syntax, because now we’re insistent on establishing the Yashraj spy universe, T3 starts with an origin story. The year is 99, and Pakistan is seeing a military coup. A young Zoya, happily kickboxing in London with her father is suddenly…

A Vidhu Vinod Chopra film, a Martin Scorsese film, the MAMI film festival is on the ground once again, I am in Mumbai! Koffee With Karan is back on air. Good times! Vikrant is Manoj Kumar Singh, a young IPS aspirant from Chambal, who wants to do big things in…

I’ve sat staring at my computer screen, reading articles upon articles about the Oklahoma “Reign Of Terror”, the subject of the book bearing the same name as this movie we’re talking about. And yet, 50 open tabs later, I still hard to believe that this important part of the history…

A real-life story of a RAW agent who fled to the USA after leaking national secrets to an American intelligence agency. Actors like Ali Fazal, Tabu. And yet, it’s Vishal Bhardwaj who falls short. Based on the book Escape To Nowhere, which in turn was inspired by real-life events, Khufiya…