Mon… Mon er bhetor mon…. Tar o gobhire mon…..
In Binisutoy : Without Strings, filmmaker Atanu Ghosh is interested in exploring these buried complexities of the lonely heart of two complicated individuals, and takes us on a journey along with them where we start identifying with their privileges, eccentricities, their crisis and their escape routes to win the tricky games of life.
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TURNING POINT: 9/11 and The War on Terror is a 5 part docu-series directed by Brian Knappenberger currently showing on Netflix and is a Must Watch. Tracing the entire journey from what led to 9/11 till the timeline of August 2021 when US Forces withdrew from Afghanistan with the country immediately falling to the Taliban regime, the series delves deep into the US War against Terror and where it went wrong with its approach of mixing Terrorism with Terror that led to giving unforeseen authority to the government for uncontrolled use of US brute force across countries and their people who had no apparent links with 9/11. The docu-series also keeps its spine upright and does not take any sides of Democrat vs. Republican and points unhinged fingers equally at the Bush, Obama, Trump or Biden administrations and where they all went wrong.
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“Here’s to healing… In all its forms…”
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Rojin Thomas‘s new Malayalam movie ‘Home‘ can be brushed off as saccharin sweet and too emotionally manipulative to be considered as one of those feel good movies that we will go back to again and again and discover new things. Personally if I have to watch movies on dysfunctional families, I would watch a ‘Kumbalangi Nights’ or a ‘Kapoor and Sons’ any day over a ‘Home’, because the former films have relationship dynamics playing at multiple levels of depth and intrigue, and have characters arcs that are fuzzy and complex which gradually get delayered over time. Home is not that film.
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“Aaj maut ki aahat ke saath mujhe meri poori zindagi dikhayi deti hain.. Ek bharpoor zindagi jo hum sabne jiyi… Humesha saath rahe, sukh me.. dukh me..
Aur dikhta hain ek namumkin sapna.. Ki ek baar papa mujhe mera naam lekar pukarein.. Aur yeh sapna toh maine uss din se dekha tha jis din mera janam huya..
Lekin woh zindagi hi kya jisme koi namumkin sapna na ho..
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Raghubir Yadav’s sincere and heartfelt portrayal of the central character in Gaurav Mehra’s “Jamun” is one of the lesser talked but highly memorable performances of the year, and went unnoticed primarily because the film wasn’t watched and discussed as much as it should have been.
Make time for Jamun and Raghubir Yadav. It would be time well spent.
Jamun has been playing for a while now on Eros Now and Jio Cinemas.
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When you are talking about sensitive topics like surrogacy, adoption, disability and motherhood, it is criminal trying to lighten it up with jokes drawn from bigotry, wrapped up sleeze, beauty bias, white redemption and everything else that hurts the very sentiments that are the focal point of your film.
And no, not even a very powerful Kriti Sanon and the always reliable Pankaj Tripathi can do much if the intent was never there to explore the depth and the nuances of the complex emotions with the honesty and the gravitas that the topic deserves and demands.
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TOOFAAN could have been a completely forgettable film because the sports drama and rise of the underdog template has nothing new to offer. But it still leaves a definitive footprint because it has a beautiful love story at its core whose beating heart and heartfelt moments is the strength of the film. It also has a certain dignified grace as a family drama that works through its ups and downs. The sincerity and hard work of Farhan Akhtar clearly shows, but it is Mrunal Thakur and her spunk that makes Toofaan a significantly better film than the disaster that the trailer indicated.
Oh Ananya!
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Mahesh Narayanan’s MALIK is as grand in its ambition and as dazzling in its execution, as the marvelously crafted single take 13 minute long opening shot of the film. By the time the film’s title card shows up at the end of that shot, Narayanan has sealed in your attention and admiration for what will follow for the next two and a half hours of his film.
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Kanika Dhillon has a knack for creating delicious characters. But doesn’t she also need to master what to do with them eventually?
Vinil Mathew picks up the right cast to play those delicious characters, and extracts very engaging performances from them to make them rather exciting. But does he believe that a film can thrive merely on excellent performances?
Pulpy trashy novels within your script can be interesting inspirations to orchestrate the filmy twists in your story. But don’t the writer and the filmmaker have the responsibility to ensure their film eventually doesn’t become that inspiration?
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