
ASHIT ADHIA
Oct 15, 20221 min read
Thar - Baati churma Western
Thar, the new release on Netflix this week starring Anil Kapoor as a grizzled cop and his son Harshvardhan Kapoor as the stranger in town...

A Bambaiyya movie buff's passion

Thar, the new release on Netflix this week starring Anil Kapoor as a grizzled cop and his son Harshvardhan Kapoor as the stranger in town...

Folks if u haven’t seen Kaun Pravin Tambe?, I highly recommend it. It’s on Hulu in the US and Disney+ Hotstar in India. It’s one of those...

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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...

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...

If seeing the movie title you are expecting a rah-rah jingoistic "How's the josh?" offering for Indian Independence Day, think again....

A don, or bhai, obsessed with the National Geographic channel. A couple that flirts using sexual innuendo disguised as names of...

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...

Jatil, a Hindi word meaning complex or intricate, is an apt first name for the protagonist of Raat Akeli Hai, which premiered today on...

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

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, the new Netflix original Hindi movie, has the singular distinction of being probably the first Anurag Kashyap movie where,...

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