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A Bambaiyya movie buff's passion

The 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...

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...

Bandish Bandits - jugalbandi of melody and emotion
From the first overhead shot of majestic Mehrangarh Fort that overlooks the beautiful blue roof-topped vista of the Rajasthani city of...

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...

Inside Man - jin ke sar ho ishq ki chaanv
Inside Man, Spike Lee's 2006 heist thriller, starts its very first frame, the swirling Universal Studios logo, with Sapna Awasthi's...

Knives Out - Professor Plum, in the library, with a knife
Knives Out is a modern-day whodunit tracing its lineage to the mysteries of Agatha Christie, but placed squarely in the era of Trump....

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...

Fauda - shalom aleichem, salaam aleikum
Fauda, 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....

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,...

Uncut Gems - an opal in the rough
Uncut Gems, which should have been titled High Anxiety, is the perfect antidote for you if you suffer from hypo-tension - your blood...

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...

The Untouchables - a touch of class
Fathers and sons have complex layered relationships, but a father would have failed in his most basic duties if he did not pass on the...

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...