Imagine making a movie with the main purpose of being a quick surefire commercial hit to recover your finances because the audiences were being clowns that couldn’t appreciate you being a clown for a 4 hour, two intermission break long movie and you just so happen to make one of the most influential romances in Hindi film of all time???? The nerve!!!!
Bobby is truly The Blueprint. Often credited as one of the first Hindi “youth romance”, you can draw…
Amar being bludgeoned nearly to death but ecstatic because the woman he is obsessed with is not married.
You either get it or you don't. For a movie following a very specific outline of love that includes an "obsession" phase right before the phase "death", the central "romance" being unhealthy is honestly a given. Love is destructive, highlighted in the title song where our lovers are surrounded by scenes of death, decay, and ruin. Ratnam has several times explored political…
Need to watch black sails
There's been a lot of love for the second half which is understandable because it's when the madness gets turned up 50 notches, the themes start to click into place, and Avinash is just simply mesmerizing but I found myself appreciating the first half and Laila's character a lot more than I did last time. While the first half plays out like a regular romance there is an ominous undercurrent to it all that bubbles up now and then. Recurring…
