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Recent reviews

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  Pushpa 2 - The Rule 2024

  Watched 12 Dec 2024

  Didn't quite plan to watch the movie but my work sort of led me to watch it. Went in without having watched the first part. All I knew was that the movie was being labelled as a movie that would appeal to the lower strata of society here. We somehow find a way to associate class identity with everything starting from beverages to vehicles and even movies. Was curious to see if the movie was actually that dumb.

  But to…

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  Bhediya 2022

  Watched 30 Aug 2024

  Why does the production quality feel so cheap?

Popular reviews

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  Manthan 1976

  ★★★★½ Watched 04 Apr 2021

  There's something so beautiful about the chemistry between Bindu and Dr. Rao even though it exists entirely in subtext. I thought this would be a movie about the success of co-operative dairy farming in India. But, Benegal pleasantly surprises by presenting a more realistic picture of how tedious it can be to bring about change.

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  Char... the No Man's Island 2012

  ★★★★★ Watched 15 Jun 2021

  Beautiful and painful. As I sit comfortably in my house with no worry about food or the future, this documentary is a humbling experience as it explores the story of people who live in complete uncertainty on eroding banks of the rivers in Bengal, abandoned by the powers that be. Some of these people live in Assam too and are dehumanized over and over again on ethnic grounds. Directly or directly, I've been complicit in that ostracism too because of…