A Suitable Boy(6 episodes) Streaming on Netflix Starring Tabu as Saeeda Bai,Ishaan Khatter as Maan Kapoor,Tanya Maniktala as Lata Mehra Directed by Andrew Davies Rating; **** ½ How does a filmmaker, no matter how gloriously skillful , compress an epic novel ...
Comedy Couple(Zee5) Starring Saqib Saleem,Shweta Basu Tripathi Directed by Nachiket Samant Rating: ** For a film about two stand-up comedians there is very little to laugh about in Comedy Couple. In one sequence...
Curious are the ways of the Indian entertainment industry. Yusuf Khan becomes DilipKumar.Rajkumar Yadav becomes Rajkummar Rao. Kareena Kapoor becomes Kareena Kapoor Khan. And a long-delayed film Tina & Lolo with Sunny Leone and Karishma Tanna in the titular roles becomes , errrr,...
Putham Pudhu Kaalai(Amazon Prime) Directed by Sudha Kongara,Gautham Vasudev Menon,Suhasini Mani Ratnam,RajivMenon,Karthik Subbaraj Rating: ** ½ We all know this is the time when we need to be kind.And if you don’t know why then...
Matthias & Maxime(Mubi India) Starring Xavier Dolan as Maxime,Gabriel D’Almeida Freitas as Matthias Directed by Xaviar Dolan Rating: ** If you have followed the fascinating chequered and prolific cinema of the young Canadian actor-director Xaviar Dolan you would know two...
High(MX Player, 9 Episodes) Rating: ** ½ Akshay Oberoi’s sterling performance as a drug addict kept me going through this interesting but uneven study of drugs as poison...
Ginny Weds Sunny(Disney-Hotstar) Starring Vikrant Massey, Yami Gautam Rating: * Just when you begin to think that 2021 can’t get any worse, Ginny Weds Sunny comes along, a film so devoid ...
Nishabdam(Amazon Prime Video ) Starring Madhavan, Anushka Shetty Directed by Hemant Madhukar Rating: * The most offensive aspect of Nishabdam is that is doesn’t know how offensive it’s being. For example, there is a sequence in...
Khaali Peeli(Zeeplex) Starring Ishan Khatter, Ananya Pandey Directed by Maqbool Khan Rating: * ½ Khaali Peeli is a cringe-fest, an orgy of unskilled writing and clumsy direction where even an actor like Jaideep Ahlawat, playing the...
The trailer of Hansal Mehta 10-part webseries Scam 1992: The Harshad Mehta Story promises an experience that would dig deep into the biggest financial scam of India and then comes up with some ...
Love Guaranteed(Neflix) Starring Rachael Leigh Cook,Damon Wayans Jr. Directed by Mark Steven Johnson Rating: ** A blah courtroom drama blended into a bland rom-com…this is the best description for Love...
Serious Men(Netflix) Starring Nawazuddin Siddiqui,Indira Tiwari,Nassar,Aakshath Das,Sanjay Narvekar,Shweta Basu Prasad Directed by Sudhir Mishra Rating: **** It’s about memory retention, ratta maar ke. The boy-genius played with astonishing wisdom by Akshath Das,is really not a prodigy his father is determined...
Bill & Ted Face The Music Starring: Keanu Reeves , Alex Winter Directed by Dean Parisot Rating:* Lost of critics have gone ga-ga over Matrix star Keanu Reeves’ bold decent into dunderhead comedy in the Bill...
Enola Holmes(Netflix) Starring Millie Bobby Brown,Sam Claflin,Henry Cavill,Helena Bonham Carter Directed by Harry Bradbeer Rating:*** Did you know Sherlock Holmes—yes, the one who solves complex mysteries and shares a queer relationship with...
The Devil All The Time(Netflix) Starring Tom Holland,Bill Skarsgård,Riley Keough,Jason Clarke,Sebastian Stan,Haley Bennett Eliza Scanlen,Mia Wasikowska,Robert Pattinson Directed by Antonio Campos Rating: *** ½ Stunning , is a word that might...
I’m Thinking Of Ending Things(Netflix) Starring Jesse Plemons,Jessie Buckley,Toni Collette,David Thewlis Directed by Charlie Kaufman Rating: ** ½ An old man in the early stages of Alzeihmer’s, says ...
