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When you watch enough bad movies in life, common sense goes for a toss. The most obvious things – like language – stop making sense. For instance, deep into the hellfire that is Wild Wild Punjab, I ...

The smartest thing about Sharmajee Ki Beti, Tahira Kashyap Khurrana’s directorial debut, is its title. The term is a riff on the colloquial Indianism “Sharmaji Ka Beta,” the perfect hypothetical boy ...

We have a screenplay — a bible that interconnects complicated characters in its universe — that moves like a cheetah. Nothing is really just a coincidence in Maharaja. Which means an adorable but ...

PT Sir aims to convey a very strong and important statement about sexual harassment and victim blaming. But director Karthik Venugopalan seems to be hesitant in pinning all his hopes on just the ...

All We Imagine As Light is an evocative, stirring portrait of Mumbai and its people – especially immigrants. Payal Kapadia, making her feature debut, tells the story of two Malayali nurses – Prabha, ...

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The older I get, the less patience I have for Hindi cinema’s biopic-for-dummies template. Actually, that’s not true. I’ve always been impatient with Wikipedia pages parading as movies. I’ve always ...

In Hari’s newest film, the violent Rathnam, Priya Bhavani Shankar’s Mallika casually drops a rather philosophical line. “There is no definition for good and bad,” she says, as she realises that the ...

Translation: "My way is a unique way." This dialogue from the movie "Basha" became immensely popular and is often used to signify someone's unique approach or style. Though a simple phrase, ...

Most Indian biopics are shackled by their relationship with history. Reverence becomes the default lens; stories are chosen to educate, not excavate. There is no room for opinion, and film-making is ...