Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Disclaimer 2024

  ★★½ Watched 07 Nov 2024

  Alfonso Cuaron, are you okay?

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  Grave of the Fireflies 1988

  ★★★★★ Watched 28 Sep 2024

  Yeah. I wanted to cry. So I saw it again.

Popular reviews

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  Binisutoy 2021

  ★★★★ Watched 20 Aug 2021 2

  "The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for."
  - Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

  Atanu Ghosh's 'Binisutoy', a story of living alternative lives starts with this quote and throughout the film, the story seemed like it followed these words and stayed true to them. The film follows two individuals, Kajal Sarkar played by Ritwick Chakraborty and Sraboni Barua, played by Jaya Ahsan. In the beginning, we see them at an…

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  Tarikh 2019

  ★★★½ Watched 09 May 2021 3

  "প্রচার করলাম socialism,
  জীবন যাপন করছি capitalist এর মতো।"
  (I spread socialism, but live like a capitalist.)

  Films centered around death and flashbacks can either be poignant or melodramatic. And more often then not, some films come along the way where death is a subplot that drives the characters in the film. Or drives the story. In Churni Ganguly's sophomore venture, deals with the impact a death has on the characters and how intellectuals indulge in social media to virtually…