Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Kho Gaye Hum Kahan 2023

  ★ Watched 29 Dec 2023

  Instagram is our generation’s 9/11

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  Jawan 2023

  ★★ Watched 09 Sep 2023 1

  Most versatile film I have seen a while. 

  It had jawan senti, aurat senti, kisan senti, healthcare senti, industrial poisoning senti, corruption senti, deshbhakt senti, and also said prisoners rights?? I was waiting for them to cover the water shortage but koi ni. They did so much already. 

  Wah yaar almost makes me want to vote for BJP to keep our society broken enough to have India’s richest people produce such all-encompassing, hard-hitting films. 

  The only thing I liked was that this movie basically said we need a Mahila Bandook Yojana. That I can get behind.

Popular reviews

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  India Cabaret 1985

  ★★★★★ Watched 01 Mar 2023

  Captures a very specific slice-of-life. Seedy bars, run-away women, resilient women, good women, bad women, 80s Bombay, the push and pull of tradition and modernity, film songs, dressing rooms that smell like sweat and talcum powder, sequin bras, love, and selling yourself. Very respectful and intimate camera work; deftly navigates the points between empathetic and cinematic. I hope they are all happy and well now.

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  Dev.D 2009

  ½ Watched 18 Dec 2022

  Kashyap’s Dev D. offers a dizzying portrait of a rich, spoiled man whose ruin was sown in his adolescence, when he is accused of stealing cigarettes. The treatment of his character is relegated to the camera silently trailing behind as he leaves death and destruction in his wake. The resolution of Dev’s moral failings occurs in the final few minutes of a film, when he is given a second lease on life after narrowly escaping a freak accident. Not only…