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A Bambaiyya movie buff's passion

Pathaan - King Khan Kintsugi
Kintsugi ("golden joinery") is the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery by mending with lacquer mixed with powdered gold. As a...

Zelenskyys, Putins and Xis - The Good, the Bad, the Ugly of 2022
Has it really been 3 years since this unwelcome guest called Covid-19 entered our lives and took over our collective consciousness? Ah,...

Avatar: The Way of Water - I see you
Back in 2009, director James Cameron released the most groundbreaking movie spectacle Avatar, the likes of which the world had not seen....

Cirkus - Tragedy of Terrors
If you took the collective IQ of a goldfish, a rock, a dumbbell, and the most recent ex-President of the US whose name rhymes with rump,...

Khakee: The Bihar Chapter - Sasura gajab maja aai gava
Neeraj Pandey - the name has become synonymous in the last decade and a half with cat and mouse thrillers set in the world of law...

Ponniyin Selvan : I - Chola re chola re chola re chola
Take 3 dimensional integral calculus, multiply it with quantum physics and add a healthy serving of organic chemistry. Mix all of this...

Kantara - bas karo yaara
Wooaaaahhhhh !!! Wooaaahhhhh!!! Wooaaahhhhh!!! That’s my only constant blood curdling, ear shattering image of the movie and I don’t mean...

Monica, O My Darling - Notorious Noir Extreme
“Dekho wo aa gaya” followed by the most famous lustful heavy breathing in Hindi song history. Who can forget that RD Burman composed,...

Brahmastra - Destroyer of the cinematic universe
I finally bit the astra yesterday, and for the sake of providing a valuable service to humanity spent 2hr 47m watching Brahmastra : Part...

Maja Ma - Adhia ka naam poora mitti mein milayi diye
Maja Ma, the first Amazon Prime original movie made in India, starring Madhuri Dixit, premiered this weekend. And that’s all I can say...

The Sound of 007 - Bond is forever
Oct 5, 1962. The premiere of Dr No, the first James Bond movie. To commemorate 60 years of Bond today, Amazon Prime is putting all 25...

Blonde - Goodbye Norma Jean
Blonde, the heavily fictionalized Marilyn Monroe biopic which premiered on Netflix this week, has the dubious distinction of being the...

Laal Singh Chaddha - Punjabi Gump da jawaab nahi
Meri mummy kehti hai “Movie, zindagi jaisi hondi hai, jab tak khud mehsoos na karo, logon ke kehne se samajh nahi aati”. As you can...

Top Gun : Maverick - Evergreen highway into the danger zone
"I feel the need, the need for speed". Those immortal lines were uttered 36 years ago in Top Gun (1986) by the ageless Tom Cruise. Since...

Operation Mincemeat - Deception is half the battle
After dozens and dozens of WWII movies over the past 70+ years, both real and fictional, and having seen so many of them since childhood,...

Blade Runner - Dystopia personified
I finally saw Ridley Scott’s dystopian sci-fi classic Blade Runner (1982) (are there any other kind besides dystopian? 😄) The version I...

Rocket Boys - India's space odyssey
I don’t watch too many series but I did see Rocket Boys on Sony Liv. It’s an 8 episode series based on Homi Bhabha (Jim Sarbh) and Vikram...

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...

Kaun Pravin Tambe? - age is just a number
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...