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A Bambaiyya movie buff's passion

Main 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,...

Shubh Mangal Zyada Saavdhan - love needs no caution
Shubh Mangal Zyada Saavdhan, which released in theaters in February, is now available on Amazon Prime. SMZS brings together a fine...

Extraction - udi baba, Thor bhishon hinsatmak
Extraction, the latest Netflix original movie, lives up to the old dictum - "Women like movies in which one person dies slowly, men love...

The Test - Phoenix from The Ashes
Once in a while the stars align, and my twin loves of movies and cricket come together in something that is worth watching. This past...

Goldfinger - Bond with the Midas touch
Every week, though it is fun seeing all the new offerings out there, it's nice once in a while, to go back to the classics, and revisit...

Angrezi Medium - a wee bit of bother guv
Angrezi Medium, the Irrfan Khan starrer that had the misfortune of releasing a week before the Corona lockdown shuttered the cinema...

Panchayat - it takes a village
Panchayat, the new series whose 8-episode season 1 premiered on Amazon Prime last month, is a quiet gem of a show. In an Indian streaming...

Guilty - convicted of pretentiousness
Guilty, which is the other Netflix original I watched this weekend, couldn't be more on the opposite end of the spectrum than Maska, in...

Maska - Comfort food in the age of Corona
Watched Maska on Netflix, its new original movie that just premiered. Set in Bombay around a Parsi Irani cafe, it’s a nice, light Raju...

Star Wars:The Rise of Skywalker - adieu dear friend
A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away...January 1979, Sterling Cinema, Fountain, Bombay to be precise (it released in the US in May...

The Irishman - Marty gets moody, meditative and mellow
From its first frame, with its trademark Martin Scorcese single-take, long tracking shot down the hallway of an old age home with a...

Saaho - kill me now
I defy anyone to come up with a movie they have ever seen in any language that is worse than the flaming pile of dog poop that is Saaho....

War - Mission Asambhav
It’s a War...on carbs, on an original screenplay and on virtually any estrogen. But it’s a slick, protein shake and testosterone-fueled...

Mission Mangal - reaching for the stars
"Om mangalam, Mission mangalam" goes the song - a perfect match for a Mission Mangal that in real life went thru on a wing and a prayer....

Bharat - Bhai goes Gump
"Zinda hoon main tujhme, tujhme rahoonga zinda, Tod ke sab zanjeerein, main azaad parinda" "Doob jaoonga teri aankhon ke ocean mein,...

Kalank - A stain on Dharma
Kalank - naam hi kaafi hai. Succinctly sums up one’s feelings after watching. Story, acting, dialogue delivery, any kind of soul to the...

Hotel Mumbai - Huzoor wah Taj boliye
Just watched Hotel Mumbai based on the 26/11/08 terrorist attacks on my birthplace. It’s gripping, intense and gut-wrenching even though...

Gully Boy - Hard hai bhai
“Tu nanga hi to aaya hai Kya ghanta lekar jayega Apna time aayega” Ab bhai log zyaada much much nahi karney ka Apna Gully Boy ka review...

ELKDTAL - a small step for womankind
Loosely based on P.G.Wodehouse’s novel “A Damsel in Distress”, Ek Ladki Ko Dekha To Aisa Laga (ELKDTAL) gives it a same-sex relationship...