Slow. Very slow. But it did finally happen. One solitary tear, unable to hold back anymore, rolled down my cheek. And then the dam broke. Watching the final scene on the screen – a moving painting that captured a young girl’s reunion with her best friends of childhood – filled me to the brim with … More To our best kept secret
American Fiction is a trick. It sits, grinning, when you open the book and find it containing everything it is supposed to cover and yet, seems to be a misfit. You grimace, it grins. But you don’t mind. Because really, you would want it to wear the face of happy despite its struggles, right? It … More More American or More Fiction?
Languorous, nostalgic, sepia… the way best memories are. In Aftersun, a father and his 11-yo daughter take a vacation to Turkey which, in an odd twist of fate, turns out to be the latter’s last with her dad. Twenty years hence, as she looks back upon that trip, she unflinchingly finds all the details lodged … More Recollection of a faded life
DRIVE MY CAR | Directed by Ryûsuke Hamaguchi | Cast: Hidetoshi Nishijima, Tôko Miura, Reika Kirishima, Park Yu-rim It has been sometime since I saw Drive My Car and I have been trying to get over it as much as I have longed to sink into its white snows and blank eyes. I wish to … More Of relinquishing and accepting, in Hiroshima and everywhere
ENCANTO | Directed by Jared Bush, Byron Howard and Charise Castro Smith | Voices by Stephanie Beatriz, Maria Cecilia Botero, John Leguizamo My Rating: 10 of 10 Stars Encanto lives upto its name – it casts a mesmerizing spell that refuses to fade despite completing its defined run. There are so many sparkling dusts hidden in the vintage shelves and encrusted … More Know you are good
Parasite | Directed by Bong Joon-ho | Starring Kang-ho Song, Sun-kyun Lee, Yeo-jeong Jo, Woo-sik Choi, So-dam Park, Jeong-un Lee My Rating: 10 of 5 Stars It has been exactly 47 days since the avalanche hit me but I clearly remember my stand in the aftermath. When the final frame of the movie blacked out and the end credits started rolling on the … More Movie Review: Parasite by Bong Joon-ho (2019)
Kalank | Directed by Abhishek Varman | Starring Varun Dhawan, Alia Bhatt, Aditya Roy Kapur, Sonakshi Sinha, Sanjay Dutt, Madhuri Dixit, Kunal Khemu My Rating: 2.5 of 5 Stars Aw… Snap! I wish the movie hadn’t gone this messy on its lament of doomed love that even good actors like Alia Bhatt and Varun Dhawan … More Movie Review: Kalank (2019)
Super Deluxe | Directed by Thiagarajan Kumararaja | Starring Vijay Sethupathi, Samantha Ruth Prabhu, Fahadh Faasil, Ramya Krishnan, Aswanth Ashokkumar My Rating: 4 of 5 Stars Imagine. Imagine the level of expectations a cinephile might have from a movie that, by its rave reviews, managed to drag her out of her comfort tongue to a … More Movie Review: Super Deluxe (2019)
Gully Boy | Directed by Zoya Akhtar | Starring Ranveer Singh, Alia Bhatt, Kalki Koechlin, Siddhant Chaturvedi, Vijay Raaz My Rating: 5 of 5 Stars “अपना time आएगा” said that spunky lad And the first time over, he appeared mad; क्यूँकि पहली बार जब सुनी वो Rap वाली रवानी, सोचा पगलाया है रणवीर क्यों मारे … More Movie Review: Gully Boy by Zoya Akhtar (2019)
The Preparation | Directed by Cho Young-joon | Starring Go Doo-shim, Kim Sung-kyun My Rating: 5 of 5 Stars The Preparation | Directed by Cho Young-joon | Starring Go Doo-shim, Kim Sung-kyun My Rating: 5 of 5 Stars Journeys are eventful – whether they cap a bout of tedium or open the vistas to serenity, … More Movie Review: The Preparation by Cho Young-joon (2017)
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