Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Chhaava 2025

  ★ Watched 16 Feb 2025

  Chhaava is a terrible film.
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  For a better film on the Marathas' strategy, battle planning, maneuvers, historical world-building, and authenticity (not accuracy, mind you), check out Ash Gowarikar's 'Panipat.' Yes, it suffers from over-simplification and poor casting, but it checks out as a well-made, well-shot, period-authentic historical drama.

  For a better film about 18th-century Marathas as people, as characters who have arcs, internal struggles, and personalities, watch SLB's 'Bajirao Mastani.' Of course, besides being inaccurate, its focus on the…

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  Gladiator 2000

  ★★★★½ Rewatched 08 Nov 2024

  Saw it again and upped the rating by one full star. A timeless masterpiece.

Popular reviews

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  Chhapaak 2020

  ★★½ Watched 12 Jan 2020

  Here's a film that uses none of its strengths in ways where they would bolster the film's effect. You're, or at least I was, left frustrated wanting for so much more from this able team.

  Deepika Padukone's performance while functionally competent does only 50% more work than what her excellent makeup does.

  Meghna Gulzar and Atika Chouhan employ flashbacks and flashforwards in an uninspired way that ultimately, even with the technique does not elevate the film beyond a "wiki-drama", a…

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  Bad Newz 2024

  ★★½ Watched 19 Jul 2024

  Were there any second thoughts raised in the room when they decided on the title of this film?
  Or did they believe in their film so much that they never thought folks, when asked by friends, will react to the film with its title as their verdict? Or they didn’t care?

  Of course they didn’t give it that much thought, and they shouldn’t have. They had Vicky Kaushal firing on all cylinders to shoulder the film! If it was a…