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  Andaz Apna Apna 1994

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 15 Mar 2025

  Rereleased in cinemas. Watched at Citi Mall

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  Mufasa: The Lion King 2024

  ★★★★ Watched 26 Dec 2024

  Someone should say that Barry Jenkins is the best example of an indie filmmaker going big with IP franchise film. This film truly feels the best it could be in this format. In terms of story, it’s world mythos, characters, music, etc. “Mufasa” soars as a thoroughly engaging and brilliant storytelling of a character I didn’t know I needed. His use of camera and the way he designs the scenes and moves the story is truly something worth revisiting and…

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  Section 375 2019

  ★★★ Watched 12 Nov 2019 1

  As long as courtroom dramas go, “Section 375” presents the case and its subject in a very heavy-handed, yet effective way. In all it’s derivative cinematic template of a standard procedural courtroom drama, I couldn’t help but realise how well it balances the ever shifting victim-perpetrator dynamic whilst keeping in focus the abuse of power narrative. And mind you, in all it’s clumsy and at times, insensitive dialogues, the film still does a decent job to contextualise the potential damage…

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  The Man Who Feels No Pain 2018

  ★½ Watched 28 Mar 2019

  Deadbeat. Overweight. Listless. Overusing slo-mos. No character development. No training sequence. Non-existent emotional chord. Flimsy drama. Tiresome action sequences (not necessarily the choreography). Couldn’t connect with the world its trying to create. Tonally all-over-the-place, which the director would consciously be aware of while managing his film about martial arts meeting Bollywoodized drama meeting superhero film! 
  But it isn’t as cool as it thinks it is. 
  Gulshan Devaiah is really good. But it doesn’t really matter even then. The best part…

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