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Athish Shetty in ‘Mithya’. | Photo Credit: Paramvah Studios/YouTube In Sumanth Bhat’s Mithya, Mithun, a.k.a Mithya (Athish Shetty), is hesitant to move forward as he stands alone and stares at his new house. The poignant Kannada film, which premiered at MAMI Mumbai Film Festival 2023, has several scenes like this that depict the 11-year-old boy’s…
GV Prakash in a still from ‘Kingston’ | Photo Credit: Saregama Tamil/YouTube Another Friday, another Tamil film that squanders its potential and settles for less. Kingstonis yet another horror flick diluted by commercial compulsions, with a loud, distracting score drowning any chance to be transported into its world. And after 2024’s Sorgavaasal, this is another…
A still from ‘The Monkey’ | Photo Credit: Neon Osgood Perkins’ The Monkey is a characteristically deranged swing at horror-comedy. It’s loosely based on Stephen King’s 1980 short story, but where King’s original felt like a meditation on guilt and inherited doom, Perkins’ adaptation cranks the camp to eleven. In many ways, The Monkey feels…
A still from ‘Picture This’ | Photo Credit: Prime Video Ninth Mandala is a portraiture studio in Hackney run by Pia Jaswani (Simone Ashley) and her gay best friend, Jay (Luke Fetherston), who share a strict distaste for passport photographs. They want to capture light and play with it through the lenses but in a…
Ibrahim Ali Khan, Khushi Kapoor in ‘Nadaaniyan’ A gossamer-thin romantic comedy that comes across as Karan Johar’s latest home assignment for star kids to pass the Bollywood entrance test, Nadaaniyan doesn’t pass muster. Reflecting the armchair sensibility of the Bandra school of filmmaking, the love story strains credibility and tests patience. Its nebulous ideas on…
A still from ‘Flow’ | Photo Credit: @madmanfilms/YouTube Pardon the wordplay in the headline. I could not help it. Films rarely feel as simple yet complete and…. as perfect as Gints Zilbalodis’ animated fantasy adventure, Flow. In a runtime of less than 90 minutes — in which not a single word is spoken yet a…
While stepping into films like Aghathiyaa, you need to set your expectations right, something the promo material of the Pa Vijay-directorial fails to do. So when the film opens with a drone shot swooping us into a palatial bungalow replete with translucent ghosts and a Piano-playing French woman whose head can turn 360 degrees, you…
A still from ‘Crazxy’ | Photo Credit: @sohumshahfilmss/YouTube We get so many spam calls these days that it is hard to figure out which ones are real. Then, while driving the car, you listen to FM stations where prank calls drive the programming. Director Girish Kohli employs this odd everyday reality in this thrilling race…
Timothée Chalamet in ‘A Complete Unknown’ Do not go into A Complete Unknown expecting your senses to be set upon a magic swirling ship a la Todd Haynes’ I’m Not There or Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese or No Direction Home. James Mangold’s biopic based on Elijah Wald’s 2015 book,…
Brady Corbet’s The Brutalist is the kind of project that seems willed into existence by sheer conviction alone. A stark, unflinching, and rigorously designed meditation on ambition, power, and the immigrant experience, the film unfolds with the same extended grandiosity as the clean, concrete constructs its protagonist spends his life erecting. Running a formidable 202…
