I love the sort of films that make you think about them and the could-have beens woven into them for days after watching them — this is one such gem.
(I thought that some of its choices were cliches/ tropes but otherwise loved it)
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Animal 2023
High budget Hindi serial with pathetic dialogue, horrendous screenplay, dim-witted editing, below-mediocre camera work that is trying to bring to screen ratchet teenage fantasies of its psychopathic director.
In the quest to depict a hypermasculine manchild consumed by his own obsessions, this film caricatures rich people (oh I own this whole place that looks like Kashmir, oh I own this college also. Oh I own everything) as it looks at them through the feudal lord-coded aspirational middle class lens. It…
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Salaar: Part 1 - Ceasefire 2023
Let’s start with the worst parts first: It hurts to see the amount of disrespect and wastage of screen time in this film; I say wastage because this film spends more time in showing off that it knows the science of filmmaking than in making the film itself. There are hardly any scenes that are worth emotionally connecting with because there are hardly any scenes at all. A bunch of elevations and gimmicks are stitched together to make this film…
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Guntur Kaaram 2024
Guntur Kaaram doesn’t have the kind of highs that some of Mahesh Babu’s and Trivikram’s and Mahesh-Trivikram movies enjoy. But neither does the film have the sort of lows that some of the films of these individuals and the ones in their combination suffer from.
Here’s the confusing part: This movie suffers from the weight of the expectations laid on it and the wrong marketing/ positioning it was sold with.
The good parts: 1) MAHESH BABU. He makes anything he…
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