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  The Gorge 2025

  ★★★ Watched 27 Feb 2025

  Fun premise.

  An interesting mystery wrapped in a romance drama.
  They could have left it there, but then it's also a monster survival drama.
  They could have left it there too, but then it's a human survival drama!?

  WTF?? Escalating conflict. Fail.

  Overall, felt like they trimmed the idea of a show into a film after it didn't get commissioned as a show. Hence it had episodes that seem not to add up due to the characters not being as fleshed out as required. It's my theory anyway.

  Not a bad one-time watch though.

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  Mere Husband Ki Biwi 2025

  ★★½ Watched 24 Feb 2025

  A decent premise with surprisingly good performances all-round. The humour also landed for the most part — of the first half.

  Where it lost me is at interval. From there, we get a tired petty flip-flop pataaka that fizzles before it even launches. Hugely disappointing.

  Firstly, it has that first half that brings out the premise only at mid-point. Some films manage to pull this off, (eg: Good Newwz, De De Pyaar De, Bad Newz in recent times) but I…

Popular reviews

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  Rocky Aur Rani Kii Prem Kahaani 2023

  ★★★★ Rewatched 25 Jul 2023

  Progressive messaging wrapped in a neatly-tied bouquet of a grand-scale wholesome family entertainer. The way it should be. It delivers on both in oodles. After what seems like too long, this was a most-welcome warm fuzzy feeling of the collective experience of cinema back in its element, where people laugh and cry in unison and walk away smiling ear-to-ear.

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  Raazi 2018

  ★★★½ Watched 11 May 2018

  High stakes espionage where the personal drive and stakes feel heavier than the national security ones, which is the way it should be, since the audiences viewing it is a person, not a country. 

  Similarly, I liked that the antagonistic force was not evil, merely an opposing force at cross purposes. The strokes of morality of both skewed in the view of a larger canvas.

  I’d have liked to see less spoon-feeding, but I understand their need to cater for…

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