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  Dìdi (弟弟) 2024

  ★★★½ Watched 04 Mar 2025

  Streamed on Jio Hotstar. 

  There’s a strange kind of loneliness to being the odd one out at school—where being “weird” doesn’t automatically make you popular; it just means you’re popular for all the wrong reasons. Sean Wang’s debut feature, Dìdi, captures that perfectly through the eyes of 13‑year‑old Chris (Izaac Wang), a Taiwanese-American kid growing up in Fremont, California, in the late aughts.

  At its heart, Dìdi is a tender, unflinching coming-of-age tale. Chris is forced to navigate his world…

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  I'm Still Here 2024

  ★★★★ Watched 03 Mar 2025

  I’m Still Here is a searing portrait of dictatorial Brazil in the 1970s—a time when expression or dissent could cost you everything and disappearance was a grim reality. The film’s power lies in its intimate, unflinching look at a nation under siege by an oppressive regime, and it resonates all too clearly in today’s turbulent times.

  At the center of this harrowing tale is a tour de force performance by Fernanda Torres, whose portrayal of a mother left to fend…

Popular reviews

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  Kantara 2022

  ★★★★ Watched 07 Oct 2022

  What distinguishes a local chicken dish from one chef to another? It’s the ability to add the flavour of the local ethnic flavours, through coal, wood or rare spices. Such raw elements are unique to that land and hence provide a new textures, taste, and smell to the same dish. It’s hence unfair to say that all mainstream films are easy to make and have the same old formula. 

  Rishab Shetty in Kantara not only delivers a fresh masala commercial…

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  Gold 2018

  ★ Watched 22 Oct 2018 3

  When you put nationalism and #ChakDeIndia into a washing machine, the residue you are left with is a movie called #Gold and it is unbearable to the say the least. Akshay Kumar is no longer fun to watch on screen.