Arriving three years after the brilliant horror-comedy Makdee, The Blue Umbrella (2015) was Vishal Bhardwaj’s sophomore children movie offering. Based on Ruskin Bond’s story of the ... Read more
Arriving three years after the brilliant horror-comedy Makdee, The Blue Umbrella (2015) was Vishal Bhardwaj’s sophomore children movie offering. Based on Ruskin Bond’s story of the same name, The Blue Umbrella is a children’s film set in an appropriately candy-coloured cosmos. Read more
Writer-director Vasan Bala is a bonafide cinephile, and Mard Ko Dard Nahi Hota, his second feature directorial, is a testament to his love for movies. Starring Abhimanyu Dassani in ... Read more
Writer-director Vasan Bala is a bonafide cinephile, and Mard Ko Dard Nahi Hota, his second feature directorial, is a testament to his love for movies. Starring Abhimanyu Dassani in his debut role, Radhika Madan and Gulshan Devaiah, Mard Ko Dard Nahi Hota is a vivid, inventive film peppered with pop culture and comic book references Read more
Indian superhero movies and shows have largely bordered on the bizarre. From the maroon-suited Shaktimaan to the blue-eyed android G One in Ra.One to the friendly and cocky Flying ... Read more
Indian superhero movies and shows have largely bordered on the bizarre. From the maroon-suited Shaktimaan to the blue-eyed android G One in Ra.One to the friendly and cocky Flying Jatt, our desi superheroes have spoofed the genre time and again, if there’s a film that really packed a punch and gave us a hero we could look up to it Bhavesh Joshi Superhero. Read more
Mike Flanagan’s 2016 psychological thriller is a masterclass in tension-building. A gripping scare-a-thon about a deaf writer whose suburban house gets attacked by a notorious seri ... Read more
Mike Flanagan’s 2016 psychological thriller is a masterclass in tension-building. A gripping scare-a-thon about a deaf writer whose suburban house gets attacked by a notorious serial killer, Hush is a slow-burner that gradually reaches a narrative crescendo. Read more
Rituparno Ghosh’s 2008 travel drama Khela is a heartwarming story that revolves around the unexpected bond forged between an eccentric filmmaker Raja (played by Prosenjit Chatterje ... Read more
Rituparno Ghosh’s 2008 travel drama Khela is a heartwarming story that revolves around the unexpected bond forged between an eccentric filmmaker Raja (played by Prosenjit Chatterjee) and a precocious child, who’s cast as the lead in the filmmaker’s forthcoming film. Despite his wife’s long-standing desire to have a child, Raja is firmly against the idea. Read more
Police procedurals are engineered to draw one into the investigation in question. To an extent, that one is encouraged and prodded to build one’s own theories about how the events ... Read more
Police procedurals are engineered to draw one into the investigation in question. To an extent, that one is encouraged and prodded to build one’s own theories about how the events surrounding a certain crime would’ve gone down. This episode deals with the hit series A Confession. Read more
Coming-of-age Indian movies about childhood have mostly focused on issues that adults believe children deal with. But there have also been sensitive films such as Rockford and Taar ... Read more
Coming-of-age Indian movies about childhood have mostly focused on issues that adults believe children deal with. But there have also been sensitive films such as Rockford and Taare Zameen Par that closely followed adolescent life, with all its challenges and joys. One such film is Bubble Gum. Read more
There are films that touch a necessary nerve and there are those that furnish reality so elaborately that we find it too overwhelming to process. Today’s Lost and Found, Rakhee San ... Read more
There are films that touch a necessary nerve and there are those that furnish reality so elaborately that we find it too overwhelming to process. Today’s Lost and Found, Rakhee Sandilya’s Ribbon, is one such film. Read more
Thriller-comedies have forever managed varying success in Indian cinema. But Abhinay Deo’s Blackmail, our film for the day, surely serves a refreshing twist to the genre. Starring ... Read more
Thriller-comedies have forever managed varying success in Indian cinema. But Abhinay Deo’s Blackmail, our film for the day, surely serves a refreshing twist to the genre. Starring Irrfan Khan, Kirti Kulhari, Arunoday Singh and Divya Dutta. Read more
Gurvinder Singh’s National Award-winner Chauthi Koot is a 2016 Punjabi thriller set in the ’80s, in the events that followed the infamous Operation Blue Star -- to eliminate Sikh m ... Read more
Gurvinder Singh’s National Award-winner Chauthi Koot is a 2016 Punjabi thriller set in the ’80s, in the events that followed the infamous Operation Blue Star -- to eliminate Sikh militants in Punjab. The film delves into how locals in rural areas in Punjab were targeted by both militants and the police who pulled them up for harbouring insurgents. Read more
