Shivani Sharma, an Indian actress working primarily in the Hindi, Southern and Punjabi worlds, stars in her web debut Saajish: The Movie alongside Mugda Godse, Raza Murad, Milind Gunaji and…
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By Vishnu Mahesh Sharma Serious spoilers ahead… The second season ends satisfactorily, but before it gets there, it touches on some interesting concepts arranged around a deeply flawed and poorly…
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Om Raut’s ‘Adipurush’ is a sci-fi/fantasy take on Ramayana that’s high on visual effects and low on drama
Spoilers continue… At least Saif Ali Khan can grit his teeth and enjoy himself as Ravana. Prabhas as Rama and Kriti Sanon as Sita give us nothing. Om Raut’s Adiprush…
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SJ Suryah gives a BIG performance in Radhamohan’s ‘Bommai’, but the film never convinces us about its central relationship
Spoilers continue… The movie is so intent on hitting us with big moments that I began to crave small emotions that could last for a while—something like rooting for the…
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Dileesh Pothan is fabulous in Ranjan Pramod’s ‘O.Baby’, a richly textured strike against all kinds of ownership
Spoilers continue… The story is set during the COVID-19 lockdown, and both the characters and the story fall into place slowly and steadily as they exquisitely portray the process of…
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Suraj Varma’s ‘Kolla’ (Rajisha Vijayan, Vinay Forrt, Priya Varrier) has an interesting premise, but is content to remain vaguely watchable
Spoilers continue… This is an elegantly directed film, full of interesting questions and satisfying answers. There is also a gentle handwriting… Two women come to a small town to open…
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Karthik G Krish’s ‘Takkar’ is filled with good ideas, but none of them are fleshed out convincingly
Spoilers continue… Only Siddharth comfortably slips into his character’s skin as a somewhat angry young man. But what he can do is limited when the sentences are scattered all over…
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Sanjay Narayanan’s exquisite, moving ‘Maalai Nera Mallipoo’, on aha, takes us into a sex worker’s psyche
Spoilers continue… For us, these “big events” in the heroine’s life are presented as non-events. They are just part of another day in her life. A new medium seems to…