ASHIT ADHIADec 30, 20203 minBidens and Trumps - The Best and Worst of 2020"Saala ek machchar aadmi ko hijda bana deta hai". It was a year when the Nana Patekar line from Yeshwant (1997) was made true by somethin...
ASHIT ADHIADec 25, 20203 minAK vs AK - ekdum jhakaas"Dhinakdin dha, dhinakdin dha, rumpumpum, rumpumpum rumpapapa rumpum". I defy anyone listening to those words, accompanied by the heavy p...
ASHIT ADHIADec 20, 20204 minTenet - a man, a plan, a canal : Panama !Do geese see God? Madam, in Eden, I'm Adam. A nut for a jar of tuna. Had enough palindromes yet? Nope, you haven't even begun to scratch ...
ASHIT ADHIANov 27, 20204 minLudo - kabhi naram naram, kabhi garam garamPachisi, the ancient Indian game, or Parcheesi (to be enunciated with the propah "teen guna lagaan" accent) as it is known in the West, ...
ASHIT ADHIAOct 24, 20203 minBorat Subsequent Moviefilm - Wawawewa, make very nice-a sexy time with AmericaWhen you get a crowd at a music festival chanting along to lyrics that say "Obama and journalists, what do we do?, Inject them with the W...
ASHIT ADHIAOct 18, 20204 minThe Trial of the Chicago 7 - Windy City Blues"I think the institutions of our democracy are wonderful things, that right now are populated by some terrible people". That line, spoken...
ASHIT ADHIAOct 10, 20204 minSerious Men - 2G to 4G, aukaat mein raho jiCaste is India's original sin, just as slavery and the racism that came with it, is the US's. The ripple effects of those seeds sown long...
ASHIT ADHIASep 27, 20203 minBandish Bandits - jugalbandi of melody and emotionFrom the first overhead shot of majestic Mehrangarh Fort that overlooks the beautiful blue roof-topped vista of the Rajasthani city of Jo...
ASHIT ADHIAAug 29, 20203 minSadak 2 - road to perditionOn a scale of Baaghi 3 to Kalank to Saaho, the Mahesh Bhatt misdirected Sadak 2, the 29 years later sequel that literally not a single on...
ASHIT ADHIAAug 15, 20204 minGunjan Saxena: The Kargil Girl - wings of desireIf seeing the movie title you are expecting a rah-rah jingoistic "How's the josh?" offering for Indian Independence Day, think again. The...
ASHIT ADHIAAug 9, 20203 minLootcase - crores of cash, chicken chilli and crocodilus niloticusA don, or bhai, obsessed with the National Geographic channel. A couple that flirts using sexual innuendo disguised as names of Indo-Chin...
ASHIT ADHIAAug 2, 20203 minShakuntala Devi - math x relationships = complex numberGiving the 23rd root of a 201 digit number took 50 seconds, getting her equation with her daughter right took 30 years. She beat a comput...
ASHIT ADHIAAug 1, 20203 minRaat Akeli Hai - long day's journey into nightJatil, a Hindi word meaning complex or intricate, is an apt first name for the protagonist of Raat Akeli Hai, which premiered today on Ne...
ASHIT ADHIAJul 25, 20204 minDil Bechara - Life, interrupted.There is no word in the English language, or any other, that I know of, that describes the state of being of a parent who has lost a chil...
ASHIT ADHIAJul 4, 20203 minInside Man - jin ke sar ho ishq ki chaanvInside Man, Spike Lee's 2006 heist thriller, starts its very first frame, the swirling Universal Studios logo, with Sapna Awasthi's pier...
ASHIT ADHIAJul 3, 20203 minKnives Out - Professor Plum, in the library, with a knifeKnives Out is a modern-day whodunit tracing its lineage to the mysteries of Agatha Christie, but placed squarely in the era of Trump. Rel...
ASHIT ADHIAJun 27, 20203 minBulbbul - bye bye birdieBulbbul, based in Bengal, beckons at its beginning, like the sweet song of its titular songbird, full of innocence, but then beguilingly ...
ASHIT ADHIAJun 20, 20203 minFauda - shalom aleichem, salaam aleikumFauda, which means chaos in Arabic, is also the code word used by Israeli special forces when a mission goes awry and needs to be aborted...
ASHIT ADHIAJun 13, 20203 minGulabo Sitabo - shraddha saburiGulabo Sitabo, is the first movie of the post-Covid era, hereby designated year 1 P.C. of the newly coined calendar, (I can't even get my...
ASHIT ADHIAJun 7, 20203 minChoked - give me de-moneyChoked, the new Netflix original Hindi movie, has the singular distinction of being probably the first Anurag Kashyap movie where, instea...