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A still from ‘Dìdi’ | Photo Credit: Focus Features/YouTube It is the stuff of horrors, mostly, to look back at your teenage years. Not just reminisce over the carefree days but really look at the awkward growing pains. Sean Wang’s semi-autobiographical film Dìdi is a similarly unflinching and jarringly specific teenage snapshot capturing the final…
A still from ‘Kudumbasthan’ | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement At a time when family audiences are expected to be entertained by gore and violence, which seems to be the go-to genre for superstars, it’s difficult for those who grew up in the 80s and 90s not to reminisce about the family dramas that made audiences…
A still from ‘Hisaab Barabar’ Some films suffer from a surfeit of ambition. Others—like Ashwni Dhir’s Hisaab Barabar—have none to begin with. A middling comedy about the middle class, it tracks a common man’s crusade against fraudulent banking practices. A modest, toothless satire, the film boasts sitcom staging and visuals, lacking cinematic bite. No wonder…
Rishi in ‘Rudhra Garuda Purana’. | Photo Credit: Ashwin Arts/YouTube It’s been seven years since Rishi debuted as a lead actor in Suni’s Operation Alamelamma.He played a goofy, likable common man in the comedy thriller. It was a great year for the actor as he also starred in Kavaludaari, directed by Hemanth M Rao and…
Early in the Telugu film Gandhi Tatha Chettu, Ramachandraiah (Anand Chakrapani) tells his granddaughter Gandhi (Sukriti Veni Bandreddi), “Prema tho gelavalante time padthadi” (it takes time to win through love). His statement follows her question about something she heard from her friends — that India’s independence took longer because of Mahatma Gandhi’s non-violent methods. As…
Mammootty in a still from ‘Dominic And the Ladies’ Purse’ Private eye Dominic, like all wannabe Sherlocks, has a habit of making quick deductions about other people just from their appearances. But, unlike in most other films, the protagonist of Gautham Vasudev Menon’s Dominic And The Ladies’ Purse gets it wrong in the opening sequence…
A still from ‘Back in Action’ | Photo Credit: Netflix Cameron Diaz is (at the risk of sounding too on the nose) back in action! After a decade-long hiatus, the Charlie’s Angels star opted to embrace the big screen with a Seth Gordan-directed action-comedy alongside Jamie Foxx. Emily (Cameron Diaz) and Matt (Jamie Foxx) are…
Srinagara Kitty and Rachita Ram in ‘Sanju Weds Geetha 2’. | Photo Credit: Anand Audio/YouTube In Nagashekar’s Sanju Weds Geetha 2, the lead couple (essayed by Rachita Ram and Srinigara Kitty) is seated against the backdrop of a scenic waterfall in a crucial scene. Geetha expresses her love for Sanju, saying marriage is everything to her….
Julia Garner, from left, Christopher Abbott, and Matilda Firth in a scene from ‘Wolf Man’ | Photo Credit: NICOLA DOVE After the astounding success ofThe Invisible Man, director Leigh Whannell is back to reboot another of Universal Pictures’ most iconic horror titles. While The Invisible Man turned out to be the outing that could have…
Betaab, Barsaat, Mirziya… Bollywood somehow loves to launch its kids on horses. Abhishek Kapoor’s Azaad is the latest addition to the list where Ajay Devgn’s nephew Aaman Devgan, and Raveena Tandon’s daughter Rasha Thadani, get a horse ride because of their pedigree. In the period piece set in feudal India, the horse turns out to…
