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‘Deva’ movie review: Shahid Kapoor almost pulls off this wild version of ‘Mumbai Police’

Shahid Kapoor and Pooja Hegde in a still from ‘Deva’ | Photo Credit: Zee Studios/YouTube After a long wait, we have a mainstream flick where the hero makes you forget the laps in the logic of the screenplay as director Rosshan Andrrews mounts his Malayalam blockbuster Mumbai Police for the Hindi heartland, a decade after its release. Among the…

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‘Oru Jaathi Jathakam’ movie review: Vineeth Sreenivasan headlines a fun flick that punches up

A still from Oru Jaathi Jathakam “Misogyny is my fundamental right,” says one of the characters in the initial scenes of the Vineeth Sreenivasan-starrer Oru Jaathi Jathakam, setting the tone for what the movie promises to discuss. The light-hearted flick directed by veteran filmmaker, M Mohanan forays into themes of gender and sexuality while poking fun at…

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‘Dìdi’ movie review: Sean Wang’s snapshot of 2008 teenage life is intimate and effective

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…

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‘The Seed of the Sacred Fig’ review: Mohammad Rasoulof’s study in asphyxiation is a masterpiece

The best art often blooms from the darkest soil, and with The Seed of the Sacred Fig, Mohammad Rasoulof has planted his anti-authoritarian treatise, deep and unshakable. Filmed clandestinely, smuggled across borders and screened at Cannes against the explicit wishes of the smothering constraints of Iran’s theocracy, the filmmaker’s latest work feels true to its…

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