Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Maheshinte Prathikaaram 2016

  ★★★★½ Rewatched 23 Mar 2025

  Comfort film #9 or something. Hits more different after watching it as an adult, and a photographer still struggling to get good shots, but who's obsession with photography gave him a more beautiful reason to live and love the world around. Chachan's character foreshadowing everything was another pothettan's brilliance which I noticed this time. That whole sequence starting from the darkroom - has my heart. @shravan you'll love this movie.

  Crispin thendi ninakk enthinte keda - every time I rewatch this movie. Avanu randennam iniyum kittanam aayirunnu.

  Maheshe robesta pazham thinnnalleeeee

  
  COMEONDRAA MAHESHE!

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  Shadow of the Vampire 2000

  ★★★½ Watched 23 Mar 2025

  Robert Eggers you fakeo you stole hornyferatu from here didn't ya?

Popular reviews

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  All We Imagine as Light 2024

  ★★★★★ Watched 24 Nov 2024

  It's been 12 hours since I've watched this movie, and writing this review. The city of Bangalore, just like the city of Mumbai in this movie, has come to be a time-eating villain or a friendly distraction - it's effect being me, a cinephile would be over the euphoria of watching a good movie in probably an hour or so, because by that time life hits in this city.

  Life did hit. But this movie didn't leave me. It's been…

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  Vasthuhara 1991

  ★★★★ Watched 07 Apr 2024

  It has all the problems of a bureaucrat looking at the migration. Which is the whole point too. It's a monologue, a beautiful one at it. You see through the humanist lens. You sympathise. But then you still don't feel enough. And when Damayanti in her very limited dialogue shows strongly how it is for the suffering, you see how detached you are, even though you literally walk with them, trying to be dispossessed.

  This definitely vouches a re-watch, but (except for the love angle which I felt needless) a strong view into such a strong issue, relevant even now