In the days of VHS, we would trust our video store guy for his recommendations. Knowing my dad’s affinity to Scorsese films, he recommended Siva. ‘Very interesting film sir. Naya director hai!’ So we rented it. I didn’t understand anything,…
Tag: cinema
Lagna Pahave Karun is a refreshing entertainer
Education – check. Career – check. Marriage becomes another check-box that we attempt to tick off. Some do it because they’ve already met ‘the one’, some look actively and some just wait for the cupid to strike. My mom often…
Marathi film Duniyadari is worth a watch
Disclaimer: I haven’t read the novel by Suhas Shirwalkar – the inspiration behind the film. However, unfair as it might be to be reviewing a screen adaptation of a novel without reading the original work, it doesn’t take away from my…
Review: Anumati
“A patient surviving an illness and a patient recovering from an illness are two very different things,” says the doctor to a pained Ratnakar Pathare (Vikram Gokhale) whose wife is on life support following a brain haemorrhage. The retired teacher struggles to resist…
Review Zapatlela 2: Om Phatt Ha Ha
It is the first Marathi film to be shot in 3D, but let’s be honest, that’s not why I was eager to catch Zapatlela 2 in 3D (way too many numbers, I say!). Two decades ago, watching an innocent looking…
Why I enjoyed Salman Khan’s Bodyguard (read the post before you judge me!)
At 9.20pm, the lane leading to the G7 theatre complex is packed. Not a single car moves, the parking lot at the theatre is overflowing. People walk past us dressed in shiny, new clothes. Some ladies in the adjacent car…
Stranger Than Fiction, Closer To Reality
When I was a kid, I believed that the life we lead was actually someone else’s dream. The bad things would all end when they woke up and that none of the bad things were real. As a child, someone…
Look Who’s Calling
All I knew about ‘Karthik Calling Karthik’ before I entered the movie hall was that it’s about a loser who turns his life around. I fell in love with the opening credits, and then, the film just sort of rolled.…
Learning is not equal to education…
This is not a review. These are random ramblings induced by the nostalgia of the horror that used to be school. The good memories of my childhood did not involve school, at all. Okay maybe the canteen but that’s it….…
Natarang: Must Watch!
‘Every man has a bit of a woman in him and every woman has a bit of a man in her…’ says Gunwantarao Kagalkar as he fights to prove to the world that his masculinity is intact but circumstances and…