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A Bambaiyya movie buff's passion

Gehraiyaan - shallow beyond belief
If there was an Indian, nay South Bombay aka SoBo version of “white people problems”, this movie, Gehraiyaan, was it. From the character...

Satyameva Jayate 2 - Dadasaheb (Phalke) gets killed
The Worssst movie trifecta is now complete. After Saaho (2019) and Sadak 2 (2020), now Satyamev Jayate 2 is added to that illustrious...

83 - What else we here for?
Yes I wept. 38 years and 6 months later, the winning moment that I had witnessed live on TV that June 25th night in Bombay in a ground...

Radhe - The Most Unwanted Bhai
The sheer brilliance of Radhe : Your Most Wanted Bhai cannot be grasped or summed up by us mere mortals. Take the smoldering on-screen...

AK vs AK - ekdum jhakaas
"Dhinakdin dha, dhinakdin dha, rumpumpum, rumpumpum rumpapapa rumpum". I defy anyone listening to those words, accompanied by the heavy...

Ludo - kabhi naram naram, kabhi garam garam
Pachisi, the ancient Indian game, or Parcheesi (to be enunciated with the propah "teen guna lagaan" accent) as it is known in the West,...

Serious Men - 2G to 4G, aukaat mein raho ji
Caste 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...

Sadak 2 - road to perdition
On 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...

Gunjan Saxena: The Kargil Girl - wings of desire
If seeing the movie title you are expecting a rah-rah jingoistic "How's the josh?" offering for Indian Independence Day, think again....

Lootcase - crores of cash, chicken chilli and crocodilus niloticus
A don, or bhai, obsessed with the National Geographic channel. A couple that flirts using sexual innuendo disguised as names of...

Shakuntala Devi - math x relationships = complex number
Giving the 23rd root of a 201 digit number took 50 seconds, getting her equation with her daughter right took 30 years. She beat a...

Raat Akeli Hai - long day's journey into night
Jatil, a Hindi word meaning complex or intricate, is an apt first name for the protagonist of Raat Akeli Hai, which premiered today on...

Dil 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...

Bulbbul - bye bye birdie
Bulbbul, based in Bengal, beckons at its beginning, like the sweet song of its titular songbird, full of innocence, but then beguilingly...

Gulabo Sitabo - shraddha saburi
Gulabo 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...

Choked - give me de-money
Choked, the new Netflix original Hindi movie, has the singular distinction of being probably the first Anurag Kashyap movie where,...

Baaghi 3 - rebel without a cause, all flaws without a pause
Baaghi 3 should be as hesitatingly on your viewing list as one should accept an offer of coffee in a Gujju or Marathi household - calling...

Malang - logic goes vagrant
Malang, which released in theaters in February, and is now available on Netflix, is a romantic suspense thriller trying hard to be...

Kaamyaab - picture abhi baaki hai mere dost
Kaamyaab, which released in March and is now available on Netflix, is a paean to the legions of "character actors" and "side actors" that...