Subhash K Jha
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Anwar Ka Ajab Kissa: Dull, Lifeless And Pointless
Pankaj Tripathy makes an appearance after 50 minutes of a tortuous, plodding surreal yatra, and that too for 5 minutes and then he’s gone. Lucky sod! The best thing to do in a film as heavy-handed and self-consciously cerebral as…
Bicchoo Ka Khel: More Mayhem From Mirzapur
Some more mayhem and mahamari in the land of bakchodi (useless gossip) and maara-mari. The bizarre small-town formula started on the big screen with Anand Rai’s Tanu Weds Manu and then went in Bareilly Ki Barfi. That formula has now…
The Crown: Season 4 Is A Triumph
Having invested 40 hours of my life in this, one of the finest serials that Netflix has produced, ten of those hours in the last four days unwilling to miss a single beat from the episodes collectively constituting Season 4,…
Tanushree Dutta On Where The #MeToo Movement Is Heading In Bollywood |TBI Exclusive
Actor Tanushree Dutta spearheaded the #MeToo movement in Bollywood. Just a year after she accused Nana Patekar of harassment, triggering off a chain of similar accusations, the movement seems to have fizzled out with the real culprits going scot-free or…
Girl: A Must-Watch For Everyone
Watching first-time actor Victor Polster nailing the role of a youngster with an alternate sexuality in the painful transition from a boy to a girl, I would have never guessed that he is not one in reality too. Yes, he…
Soorarai Pottru Is Everything Cinema Should Be
Emotions run high when Maara (Suriya) runs out of money to pay for his business-class ticket to reach his father’s deathbed. In a film that captures the essence and value of impatience, Maara is running short of cash and time.…
‘After Tiger and Shashi Kapoor I’ve Lost Another Dear Friend’: Sharmila Tagore on Soumitra Chatterjee’s Passing
“I don’t know of anyone as erudite as Soumitra Chatterjee. He could talk about any subject under the sun and with irrefutable knowledge. Soumitra and I started our careers together in Satyajit Ray’s Apur Sansar. He was 10 years older than me. But I never felt the gap. He was a dear and…
The Life Ahead: Sophia Loren Returns Incandescent At 86
Some experiences are forever. For those of us who grew up worshipping the ground on which the screen goddess Sophia Loren waltzed, her return after a hiatus of almost ten years, is an event akin to the Second Coming. Wrinkled…
5 Lesser-Known Feel-Good Films To Cheer Up Your Diwali
Arguably this is the worst Diwali in the history of our civilization. A virus has created worldwide havoc leaving us bereft and bewildered. Since there is not much going on in everyone’s lives, seems like it’s time to escape into the wonderful world of movies. Here are five…
Chhalaang: Hansal Mehta’s Feeblest Collaboration With Rajkummar Rao
The most complicated part of this languid film is the spelling of the heroine’s name. Otherwise, it’s all very simple, really. If a sports teacher in a backwater town of Haryana is indolent and insolent, bring on a feisty girl…