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IFFI 2025 | ‘Sentimental Value’ movie review: Joachim Trier, you menace

At some point, “Joachim Trier Summer” slipped into every cinephile’s collective cultural calendar this year, and I’ve stopped pretending it isn’t real. But here is a petition to scrap “Joachim Trier Summer” and adopt the far more accurate “Summer of Catastrophic, Character-Building Heartbreak” instead, please. The Norwegian filmmaker is back with his new awards contender,…

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Madras High Court injuncts use of Vinnaithaandi Varuvaayaa scenes, songs in Aaromaley movie

Madras HC granted the interim injunction following a copyright infringement suit filed by RS Infotainment, the producer of the 2010 movie helmed by acclaimed director Gautham Vasudeva Menon, against Mini Studio LLP, the producer of Aaromaley. Photo: X/@ministudiosllp The Madras High Court on Wednesday (November 19, 2025) restrained the producers of the newly released Tamil…

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‘De De Pyaar De 2’ movie review: Rakul Preet Singh radiates, Madhavan steals the spotlight in this sassy rom-com sequel

A still from ‘De De Pyaar De 2’ | Photo Credit: T-Series In 2019, when De De Pyaar De hit the screens, the unapologetic take on unconventional love worked because of being emotionally honest without being melodramatic. Six years later, director Anshul Sharma returns with a cheeky sequel, in the middle of the wedding season, that is again bold…

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‘De De Pyaar De 2’ movie review: Rakul Preet Singh radiates, Madhavan steals the spotlight in this sassy rom-com sequel

A still from ‘De De Pyaar De 2’ | Photo Credit: T-Series In 2019, when De De Pyaar De hit the screens, the unapologetic take on unconventional love worked because of being emotionally honest without being melodramatic. Six years later, director Anshul Sharma returns with a cheeky sequel, in the middle of the wedding season, that is again bold…

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‘Agra’ movie review: Kanu Behl paints a provocative portrait of fractured masculinity in cramped urban spaces

There is no shot of Taj Mahal in Kanu Behl’s Agra. There are no sprawling gardens that dot the city of monuments. Instead, the fearless chronicler of our society’s hidden fractures and fault lines focuses on the cramped spaces, repressed desires, and the incommodious mindscapes in the mofussil town that the city holds beneath its touristy topsoil. It…

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