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  Officer on Duty 2025

  ★★★ Watched 23 Mar 2025

  The entire second act was pure horror (disturbing). Writers should probably start coming up with new storylines instead of relying on sexual assault and revenge as plot points—it’s an easy technique to disturb the audience and keep them glued to the screen.

  Kunchacko’s character was well-written with the necessary depth —dude kicks a woman in the stomach to check whether she is pregnant or not was one brutal way to introduce his violent nature, shaped by his past traumas.

  The whole film feels like a trauma response, which makes it fairly engaging.

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  Ponman 2025

  ★★★½ Watched 22 Mar 2025

  కష్టపడే వాడెవడు కట్నం తీసుకోడు! 
  tight, non-preachy, engaging commentary on Dowry, Non-consensual 'marriages' and Toxic masculinity

  BASIL JOSEPH - Is a genre himself.

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  Dragon 2025

  ★★★★★ Watched 09 Mar 2025 1

                          మళ్లీ పుట్టని.. నాలో మనిషిని!! 

  
  Ashwath’s second instalment of 'Second Chance' (after oh my kadavuley) is a celebration of love, life, accountability, redemption, change, and, most of all, a beautiful dream of friends achieving their goals together—making cinema.

  Dragon’s core strength lies in its writing. It takes the most relatable, age-old idea of college student drama and gives it a strong, resonant voice: the importance of education. Ashwath not only…

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  Maqbool 2003

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 14 Mar 2025

  All the Vishal Bharadwaj Shakespeare tragedies are for pussy (rightful acts, though). Even I would go to any extent—wouldn’t mind wrecking my whole life to have Tabu. She looks dead gorgeous with blood splashed on her face.

  Irfan conveys a thousand emotions with just his eyes—what a treat to watch!

  If Shakespeare were alive, he would have wept in your arms. I love you, Vishal Bharadwaj—for eternity.

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