Despite the fact that Hollywood has seen one of its slowest summers this year, 2017 has given us some of the biggest blockbusters with films like Wonder Woman, Logan, Dunkirk, War for the Planet of the Apes just to name a few. Be that as it may, if you had to baptize this generous year…
Month: September 2017
Mission China (Assamese) | Review
Every movie industry goes through a sine curve wherein a period of saturation plagues the industry for some time and it’s resurgence depends on fresh ideas and even fresher execution to lure the audience back to the theatres with renewed vigour. Hollywood reinvented itself with 2001 : A Space Odyssey back in 1968 which is…
We are not ready for Stephen King’s brand of horror | It | Bill Skarsgård
It was the year 1997 and the immensely popular Zee Horror Show had just wrapped up after running successfully for four years, paving a formidable path for the horror genre which was definitively Indian in its story-telling. This was a time when Ramsay brothers, the Fathers of Horror in Indian Cinema, were bold, experimentative and…
BAADSHAHO and a look at the MASALA Movie genre
A brooding Ajay Devgn, breakneck action sequences and a gang of misfits trying to rampage their way to a royal treasure. Sounds like a great recipe for a ‘masala’ movie? Yes, if you are still stuck in the 90s. Masala movies are a staple genre in Bollywood which try to cram in every emotion fathomable,…
