Film Kala

Film Kala

Labelled 'An Eccentric' By Peers, I Guess My Film Choices Do Reflect That

Favorite films

  • Spirited Away
  • Schindler's List
  • Everything Everywhere All at Once
  • Kill Bill: Vol. 1

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  • Nadaaniyan

    ½

  • The Electric State

  • Borderline

    ★★★½

  • I'm Still Here

    ★★★★½

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  • Nadaaniyan

    Nadaaniyan

    ½

    During the film, Pia (Khushi Kapoor) says 'How can I believe this is fake or not?'. Honestly, with performances like that, even I couldn't say what is a ruse or a genuine emotional moment.

    Pia is a socialite who hires a middle-class boy, at least what passes for middle-class in this world, Arjun Mehta (Ibrahim Ali Khan), to impress her friends. Predictably, they start falling for each other in a romance where flowers fall and classes clash.

    The current era…

  • The Electric State

    The Electric State

    If you are a defender of popular blockbusters against the snobby avant-garde film lovers, then pretending that The Electric State does not exist would do you a lot of good.

    Set in the retro-future world of 1994, an orphaned rebellious teen, Michelle (Millie Bobby Brown), finds her supposedly dead brother's consciousness being uploaded to a sentient robot. She learns that the reason behind her brother's condition is a tech billionaire, Ethan Skate (Stanley Tucci). On her way, she finds herself…

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  • Captain America: Brave New World

    Captain America: Brave New World

    ★★

    The MCU has always been a propaganda piece for the American Military Industrial Complex but rarely has it shown its face this openly. It talks about black people facing injustice but hardly explores it in-depth and then pivots to the problematic solution, which is black people should be part of the same system that has exploited them to repair the damages. Its concluding moments are just a slap to the face of the entire black revolutionary and reform movements.

    Picking…

  • Girls Will Be Girls

    Girls Will Be Girls

    ★★★★★

    In her debut feature, Shuchi Talati created something so beautiful that she became the director to watch for it.

    Girls Will Be Girls is a coming-of-age story about Mira (Preeti Panigrahi), a Mary Sue of her school, who starts falling for Sri (Kesav Binoy Kiron). However, Mira’s own mother, Anila (Kani Kusruti), has become the biggest obstacle because of her fear of academic performance. 

    Girls Will Be Girls is not only an awakening of Mira but also of Anila. With…