Despite its many problems, A Death in the Gunj is an important work says Sreehari Nair.
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly at the movies!
'I don't remember the last time I was this invested in the characters of a story since Doordarshan's golden age or early days of cable television boom,' applauds Sukanya Verma.
As much as Rs 4,300 crore was generated by 2019 movie releases. But 2020 is all set to be bigger and better!
The difference between watching a movie on a laptop in your apartment and watching it on a big white screen is almost spiritual, notes Sreehari Nair.
Sukanya Verma lists the movies she grabbed at MAMI this year.
60-plus men and women who live independent lives are becoming the cynosure of ad men's eyes.
'The source of our music, the very notes of music itself have fallen silent.'
'It is a male-dominated show, but that does not mean that the female characters do not stand out.'
Aseem Chhabra watched some great films and some huge disappointments in 2021.
'People thought I am doing this for promotions, but I wouldn't do that.' 'I have better things to do and better ideas to promote myself.'
'The idea is to sideline you, box you up in a smaller box, so you don't go out of that.' 'The bigger boxes are for their own people.'
'Chhapaak is definitely the most challenging film of my career.' 'I have gone through many emotionally challenging experiences, but none affected me the way it did when I played an acid attack survivor.'
... And sometimes, that's enough, says Sreehari Nair.
Lootera is a gorgeous, gorgeous film, one that uses its period setting affectionately, with loving detail, and not exploitatively, as our cinema is wont to do.
'This is a film that trumpets out its sex -- it is content in being a girl's version of the archetypical boy's locker-room picture.' 'And if it was just that, that would have been fun too, but Lipstick Under My Burkha doesn't want to affect your senses, it wants to control your mind!' Sreehari Nair comes away unimpressed.
...But a comedy about Class Wars. Sreehari Nair tells us why.
What if we these popular American television series were made in India?
A big part of October's charm is in its taking of a cinematic tragedy and presenting to us how we may experience it in real life, says Sreehari Nair.
