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Tatsam MukherjeeThe Wire |
2024 has been an ugly year to be a fan of Hindi cinema. We’ve seen independent voices being crushed and shut out of the system with little to no...
Like it happens with the follow-up for any successful show, I entered the Squid Game 2 with a fair bit of trepidation. What worked in the first...
Nothing screams ‘crisis’ in Hindi cinema right now more than Salman Khan showing up in his second ‘star cameo’ of the year – hedging his...
Payal Kapadia’s All We Imagine As Light (AWIAL) establishes its Mumbai DNA early on. A visibly-tired Anu (Divya Prabha), an upstart nurse in a city...
I know the exact moment when Benjamin Ree’s The Remarkable Life of Ibelin swept me off my feet. It’s when Mats Steen, a gamer in his early 20s from...
Singham Again might be the most half-hearted, insincere film in Rohit Shetty’s career of two decades. Which is saying a lot, given that Shetty is a...
A lot of the splendour in Sean Baker’s Anora lies in its treatment – where we might be shown one thing, but deliberately made to feel something...
The clock’s ticking for Satya (Alia Bhatt) in Vasan Bala’s Jigra. Her brother Ankur (Vedang Raina) is on death row in an island nation called...
There’s one significant challenge to making ‘screen-life films’ (films that unfold almost entirely on digital screens). Once you commit to its...
The one time I laughed out loud during Hansal Mehta’s The Buckingham Murders, is when the film’s protagonist, Jaspreet Bhamra (Kareena Kapoor Khan)...
Weaving archival footage into a film/series that is based on real-life incidents, is an art form in itself. Most filmmakers prefer doing it in the...
P.S. Vinthoraj’s second feature film, Kottukkaali (‘The Adamant Girl’) ends with a question for its audience, which reminded me of Hrishikesh...
There’s only one thing we, as Indians, love more than watching our movie stars on screen, which is seeing our movie stars rave breathlessly about...
The problem with critiquing Shawn Levy’s Deadpool & Wolverine is that it has already anticipated and addressed a large part of the criticism coming...