Charan Kola

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A perfect letterboxd user(either cracks really bad jokes or writes unreasonably long opinions that no one will read)

Favorite films

  • Joyland
  • The Social Network
  • Agent Sai Srinivasa Athreya
  • The Man Who Feels No Pain

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  • The Man Who Feels No Pain

    ★★★★½

  • Ponman

    ★★★★

  • Jathi Ratnalu

    ★★★★★

  • In the Mood for Love

    ★★★★

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  • The Man Who Feels No Pain

    The Man Who Feels No Pain

    ★★★★½

    As a kid, I really used to not get why this film flopped and why people didn't like this film? Even when I showed it to people, it had a very lukewarm response (I am very good at showing people depending on their taste) but now I get it. This film isn't very easily accessible and very out-there with its ideas . It is incredibly dorky, self-indulgent and niche. The writing can be too meta, and the pace is off-beat;…

  • Ponman

    Ponman

    ★★★★

    Incredibly solid. Basil Joseph just gives hit after hit, one of the best we have right now.

    A great and realistic perspective on marriage in society, dowry, character, and perseverance. The character writing in this film is just incredible, the way it defines its characters and how their dynamics shift is just great. The screenplay can be repetitive and it ends up being a bit more longer than it's supposed to. Not having as much as impact as it intended to.

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  • Nadaaniyan

    Nadaaniyan

    ★★½

    I know the bar is very, very low with this one. Maybe that is the reason I liked it, or perhaps it was actually kinda sort of fun?

    It has all the red flags you do not want in a film: awful nepo actors, flashy and phoney cinematography, bland Netflix-style production design, boomer understanding of gen-z, telling rather than showing, and incredibly surface-level storytelling, but I think where it won me over is how much it owned all of it,…

  • Mickey 17

    Mickey 17

    ★★★★½

    So much to talk about, so much to chew on but all the women in my theatre were talking about how they would love to have 18 Robert Pattinsons. The fuck? But yeah, I get it.