In the midst of the pandemic, the Chhattisgarh police in Raigarh decided the best way to encourage public safety measures was to use Bollywood film dialogues in their posters, re-interpreting Bachchan ...

Before him, a film mounted on a huge scale would be described as being “like a Hollywood movie.” Now, we just say it looks… like a Shankar movie ...

Silence 2: The Night Owl Bar Shootout is the sequel to Silence… Can You Hear It? (I could not), the 2021 crime thriller that marked the beginning of a tacky whodunit franchise starring Manoj Bajpayee ...

But Vasanthi's sacrifice in Kalyana Parisu is just the beginning of a series of events that continue to place her in close proximity to Baskar. Whether you can digest the film's tragic ending or not, ...

Ramkumar Balakrishnan’s Parking, is a small film about a small parking space that frays the relationship between two neighbours of varying worldviews and generations. But what do we often say about ...

There is no mainstream filmmaker in India who – for over 35 years – has pushed himself and his art the way Mani Ratnam does, with each new film an attempt to challenge the boundaries of mainstream ...

A woman, Sophie (Smruthi Venkat), jumps off a college window to her death. Soon after, a man, Sathya (RJ Balaji), sets himself up to jump off his high-rise balcony. Exploring what led to their state ...

But the freshness that the film leverages on as an effective PSA, doesn’t get translated into emotional stakes. There’s nothing wrong with a straight face thriller, sure. In fact, we’re grateful when ...

To start with, Romeo is not original by any means and it runs along predictable lines. So, barring a thread focusing on Aravind’s childhood trauma, there aren’t any surprises in the story, and it ...

Premalu’s biggest LOL moment takes place when the romance tries to address the biggest problem we see with its predecessors. In a clever bit of self-referentiality, it acknowledges its protagonist’s ...

All We Imagine As Light is an evocative, stirring portrait of Mumbai and its people – especially immigrants. Payal Kapadia, making her feature debut, tells the story of two Malayali nurses – Prabha, ...

Among the things that the women of Kasturba Nagar remember about the local thug Akku Yadav is that he was tall, fair, had a sharp nose and whenever he heard songs from the Salman Khan film Tere Naam ...