Aritra Dasgupta

Aritra Dasgupta

Favorite films

  • The Big Sick
  • The Stranger
  • The Night of the Hunter
  • Punch-Drunk Love

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  • Khakee: The Bengal Chapter

    ★★

  • Adolescence

    ★★★½

  • Mickey 17

    ★★★★

  • Nadaaniyan

    ★★

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  • Khakee: The Bengal Chapter

    Khakee: The Bengal Chapter

    ★★

    It's a mixed bag honestly. Some terrific performances here, especially by Prosenjit, Saswata and the two main gangsters. It's amazing how much humanity the series manages to imbue in these cold blooded killers, where they can kill people, mutilate them, torture, threaten and then come home and celebrate Bhai Phota. The disconnect is crazy. Aadil Khan is a star. The intensity he carries. The way he always think he's going to redeem himself but he never does. It's great. Him…

  • Adolescence

    Adolescence

    ★★★½

    Owen Cooper is a find! So, I am watching the first episode right, and I realise, slowly, that wait, the car is moving and this one-shot isn't breaking. And I was so impressed! And it didn't break for the rest of the episode and I was hooked. As the review on Roger Ebert called it, "you can't look away." It's arresting, it's so anxiety inducing and you can even smell the school in that other episode. Really great work. What's…

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  • Chaalchitro

    Chaalchitro

    The kind of movie which makes you appreciate Srijit Mukherjee.

    Once upon a time, Pratim D. Gupta used to write brilliant, straight up brilliant reviews, ones which young me used to rush to read every Friday/Saturday. I got so obsessed with the guy, I would google him(in that time) and was ecstatic when he started making movies.

    This just feels wrong. If Srijit Mukherjee operates at the C grade quality, this is D. He has blended his favourite movies and…

  • Sikandar Ka Muqaddar

    Sikandar Ka Muqaddar

    ½

    Jimmy Shergill looks so good in a beard.
    Tamanaah is so pretty but damn she cannot act if her life depended on it. I burst out laughing watching her do her dramatic shit.
    This is a very good example of a movie written forwards rather than backwards.
    Things happen in the movie and then contrived explanations are given and further twists are added. Just adding minute details before hand doesn't make for sharp writing, Neeraj Ji.
    Neeraj Pandey man, oh…