Varsha Vasudev’s ‘Chinna Chinna Aasai’ is a quiet, moving drama about two strangers in Banaras
Indrans and Madhoo play a Malayali and a Tamilian who meet in Banaras. She needs help. He agrees to help her. What follows is a set of conversations […]
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Manoj Tapadia’s ‘Bharat Bhhagya Viddhaata’ is a moving, well-crafted tribute to the heroines of 26/11
A few nurses at a government hospital face the worst day of their lives when Ajmal Kasab and a colleague enter the hospital. What follows is like ‘Die
Singeetham Srinivasa Rao’s ‘Sing Geetham’ is a sweet, joyous, inventive eco-musical
A barren village loses the only tree it has. The next day, all the villagers find that they are unable to speak normally. They begin to sing. This
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Imtiaz Ali’s ‘Main Vaapas Aaunga’ is a nice movie with many nice bits that don’t add up to an emotionally affecting movie
In the present day, Naseeruddin Shah plays a man on his deathbed who wants to visit his former home in Pakistan. Diljit Dosanjh is the grandson who helps
Aswin Kandasamy’s ‘Double Occupancy’ is a middling story about a gender mix-up
Thanks to a miracle, a child grows up to be male for 12 hours and female for 12 hours. Both halves get a partner, and this could have
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Meera Kathiravan’s ‘Habeebi’ is a diligent documentation of Tamil-Muslim life
Over the course of decades, we follow the ups and downs of a Muslim family in southern Tamil Nadu. There’s a love angle at the centre of this
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Siddharth Koul and Ankit Wali’s ‘Batt Koch’ is an intimate portrait of a Kashmiri Pandit family
A family in Jammu City plans a trip to Kashmir. It is not easy for a number of reasons. What we see here isn’t something dramatic, but the
Abhinav Sundar Nayak’s ‘Mollywood Times’ is a fascinating love letter to the idea of being true to your self
Naslen plays an outsider who wants to become the greatest maker of horror films in Malayalam cinema. But fate has other plans. ‘Mollywood Times’ is less about the
Pandiraaj’s ‘Parimala and Co’ wastes a talented cast in an utterly clueless movie
Jayaram and Urvashi play a couple that gets involved in a ‘Drishyam’-like murder. For a while, the film looks like a spoof. Then, it gets all serious on
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Anurag Kashyap’s ‘Bandar’ is a brilliant examination of a former star being stuck in one cage after another
Bobby Deol is fantastic in the role of a lifetime as a has-been movie star. His life is down in the dumps. And things get worse when he
Buchi Babu Sana’s ‘Peddi’ takes a good subject and flattens it by forgetting to add a good screenplay
Ram Charan is terrific as the title character, a sportsman who plays cricket and wrestles and is also a good runner. The story has a lot of meat
Suresh Triveni’s ‘Maa Behen’ wants to combine female empowerment and fun, and the result is middling
Madhuri Dixit plays the head of a family. She has two daughters, played by Triptii Dimri and Dharna Durga. And they get into a crazy situation with their