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Continue reading →: Band Baaja Baaraat (2010) – Mixing Business With Pleasure
With the celebrations of Christmas slowly coming to a close, I thought it was time to return to watching Indian cinema now that I have a little more time to spare while on holiday. Though there are never specific holiday themed films in India, except for maybe the Hindi-Tamil film…
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Continue reading →: Three Wishes for Cinderella (1973) – A Wintry Feminist Fairy Tale
With a tale with as many variants as Cinderella, there are bound to be different tones, and themes to be taken out of each one. Here, in Europe, in select countries like Slovakia, Norway, Germany, and the Czech Republic this is the ultimate Christmas film which is shown on television…
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Continue reading →: Anastasia (1997) – Yearning for a Fairy Tale Past
This is a re-review. This film was one of the first animated films I reviewed a long, long time ago, which you can read HERE. I just wanted an excuse to review the movie once more, this time with more maturity, and better wring skills, because the old one is…
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Continue reading →: Memoirs of a Geisha (2005) – Beautifully Hollow Orientalist Mess
When I was young I had a tendency to have a lot of nose bleeds as children apparently often do. I remember one particular bad morning when I was preparing to go to school when I started bleeding from my nose in the bathroom, and it would not stop. The…
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Continue reading →: Sunny Sanskari Ki Tulsi Kumari (2025) – Much Fun, Yet Not Much Sense
I am literally starved for good rom coms and this film is all fun and games, until one watches till the end and realises that it is merely OK. Synopsis: Sunny Sanskari proposed to his girlfriend Ananya Bhatia, only to be rejected. He learns that she is planning to marry…
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Continue reading →: Homebound (2025) – A Beautiful Moving Portrait of A Friendship and Interwoven Systems of Oppressions
I was finally able to watch this film, and oh boy it was an experience I will not soon forget! Synopsis: Two friends from a North Indian village, Mohammed Shoaib Ali, a Muslim, and Chandan Kumar, a Dalit, pursue police jobs seeking dignity, but their friendship strains as desperation grows…
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Continue reading →: Bison Kaalamaadan (2025) – Between Middling Battles A Star Rises
Another Selvaraj film has come and of course I had to see it! Synopsis: In rural Tamil Nadu in the 1990s two men are at war to control the area; Pandiaraj and Kandasamy. Amidst their battles, “Vanathi” Kittan becomes a rising Kabaddi star as he aims for the national team…
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Continue reading →: The Little Mermaid (1976) – Ethereal Yet Somewhat Opaque
This is a film I have wanted to review for a long time, mainly because I have been in love with it since I discovered it! Synopsis: In the 19th century a party of travellers is travelling on a stagecoach in winter. One of the passengers is a storyteller and…
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Continue reading →: Spotlight (2015) – The Heroism of Investigative Journalism
What is your favorite movie? Is the one from your childhood, or the one that has become almost a ritual during periods of depression or when a certain holiday season comes? Is it just one movie? Can you even answer that question? Or do you still need to discover it? …
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