Maqbool Review: The portrayal of gangsters in Indian Cinema has changed over the years. The 20s to early 50s were ruled by rural bandits and dacoits. Until industrialization, in the late 50s, there were westernized gangsters which were further glamourized by the 70s. The Dawood rule over Bombay, the arrival of parallel cinema in the …
In the 80s, Ardh Satya became one of the landmark films amidst the new wave of Indian parallel cinema. When popular cinema was a haven of escapism to attract the masses, Govind Nihalani’s Ardh Satya broke the boundary between reality and fantasy. His hero and villain are not one-dimensional caricatures serving the patriarchal fancy of …
Paan Singh Tomar movie is a 2013 biopic of a Chambal dacoit who lived many lives. It is directed by Tigmanshu Dhulia. Irrfan Khan stars in and as ‘ Paan Singh Tomar’. It is an ode to the late dacoit who fell prey to his unfortunate circumstances. The film was released around the same time …
Lootera is a 2013 Indian period romance set in the backdrop of 1950s India during the abolishment of the Zamindari system. Like Vikramaditya Motwane’s Udaan, Lootera too has the power of conveying emotions through the solitude and melancholy of the characters. Love, Betrayal, and Redemption At the beginning of the film, we are introduced to …
There are a lot of professions in India that fail to merit any attention primarily because they are unpopular in the eyes of the multitude. The popular opinion here hunts for either doctors or engineers. Then comes the creative fronts like actors, directors, and writers. You will often come across movies reflecting their lives. When …
Batla House movie takes us back in time, in 2008 to a case that had literally shaken the very foundation of India. It attempts to fight off that tarnished image that the Indian Police has been trying to get rid of for so long. However, owing to the sensitivity of the topic, the creators try …
Ayushmann Khurrana starrer Article 15 movie addresses one of those deeply rooted pivotal issues that still has India by its balls. Even after 72 years of independence, the country is still broiling in the muck of casteism and groupism. They are turning blind eyes to everything that surrounds it as if, as Ayushmann’s character Ayaan …
What a dramatic and enjoyable hoot! Going in with not so high hopes, for the trailers belied Gully Boy making it appear as a middling ripoff of 8 Mile, the flick comes as a delightful surprise. Gully Boy will make you forget that the latter even existed. It has so much going on in it, …
Manmarziyaan is an emotional ride that takes you through the vale of a contemporary Indian love story. It is a heart-rending tale that at times tears you apart, at times makes you smile and then most of the times have you choked inside. Manmarziyaan is dramatic throughout, and tries to give love a new school …
What an extraordinary piece! Tumbbad movie is a consequence of superlative imagination. It blends with mythology to create a tale of horror to teach us life’s most valuable lesson. Tumbbad is reflective of exemplary human nature, of how greed swallows a person alive, that one should know better when to end it or it ends up ending …