ASHIT ADHIAMay 163 minRadhe - The Most Unwanted BhaiThe sheer brilliance of Radhe : Your Most Wanted Bhai cannot be grasped or summed up by us mere mortals. Take the smoldering on-screen...
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...
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 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 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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 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...
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,...
ASHIT ADHIAJun 2, 20203 minBaaghi 3 - rebel without a cause, all flaws without a pauseBaaghi 3 should be as hesitatingly on your viewing list as one should accept an offer of coffee in a Gujju or Marathi household - calling...
ASHIT ADHIAMay 25, 20202 minMalang - logic goes vagrantMalang, which released in theaters in February, and is now available on Netflix, is a romantic suspense thriller trying hard to be...
ASHIT ADHIAMay 9, 20203 minKaamyaab - picture abhi baaki hai mere dostKaamyaab, which released in March and is now available on Netflix, is a paean to the legions of "character actors" and "side actors" that...
ASHIT ADHIAMay 3, 20203 minLove Aaj Kal - neither here nor there, now or thenLove Aaj Kal, which released on Valentine's Day this year to capture the compulsorily mandated romance crowd, is now on Netflix. A...
ASHIT ADHIAApr 30, 20203 minMain shayar to nahin...In the span of a brief, shattering, head-spinning 48 hours, India and the world lost two great actors, both to cancer, that hateful,...
ASHIT ADHIAApr 26, 20202 minShubh Mangal Zyada Saavdhan - love needs no cautionShubh Mangal Zyada Saavdhan, which released in theaters in February, is now available on Amazon Prime. SMZS brings together a fine...
ASHIT ADHIAApr 12, 20202 minAngrezi Medium - a wee bit of bother guvAngrezi Medium, the Irrfan Khan starrer that had the misfortune of releasing a week before the Corona lockdown shuttered the cinema...
