Chup (2022), directed by R Balki, is an unusual crime thriller wherein a serial killer is on a mission to kill …
Dupetta
A young woman (Yasmin) brings her husband to an elderly doctor to restore her husband’s disfigured face following a horrific …
Bhumika
Usha (Smita Patil), born and brought up in a poor Brahmin family that had seen better days, is trained in …
Two To Tango: MG Ramachandran & B Saroja Devi
It was the release of Nadodi Mannan on August 22nd, 1958 that first brought MG Ramachandran (MGR) and B Saroja Devi …
Jogi
Ali Abbas Zafar’s Jogi (2022), currently streaming on Netflix, is set in 1984 against the backdrop of the horrific Sikh genocide that …
Take 5: Noor Jehan Across The Border
I’ve always maintained that one of the biggest losses to Indian cinema at the time of the partition in 1947 …
Borderliner
As per Wikipedia, ‘Nordic Noir’ is very basically defined as a genre of crime fiction usually written from a police …
Ondanondu Kaaladalli
Despite the misgivings of his commander, Vejjada, medieval chieftain Maranayaka hires the services of an unemployed mercenary, Gandugali (Shankar Nag) …
Incomplete Films: Rano
In LV Prasad’s Raj Kapoor-Meena Kumari starrer Sharada (1957), lovers Raj Kapoor and Meena Kumari struggle with their relationship after …
Brahmāstra Part 1: Shiva
Brahmāstra Part 1: Shiva, the first instalment in director Ayan Mukerji’s ‘Astraverse’ trilogy, tells the tale of a young man, who …