It was a couple of years back when I had a conversation with Nikita Naiknavare, the founder of Pune’s first rooftop cinema, on what inspired her to come up with this unique concept in a country where cinema halls are the incumbent mode for the masses. What she explained to me was in direct resonance…
Month: January 2019
Uri : The Surgical Strike | Review
If you are a regular follower of Indian politics, then you will surely have come across the copious amount of memes with ‘Kadi Ninda’ (strong condemnation) as the punch phrase. For the longest time, an average Indian politician cut a sorry figure post the umpteen infiltration and terrorist activities perpetrated on our soil. They came…
Bumblebee | Unchained Melody, 80s vibe and a resurrected Franchise
If you are introducing your 18 year old cousin to the Transformers universe, you should start with the Bumblebee and probably show snippets of Optimus Prime fighting valiantly as Earth’s defender. The issue plaguing the Transformers movies have snowballed due to 2 main reasons. Michael Bay and his obsession with CGI antics and the faltering,…
Netflix’s latest thriller ‘You’ is surprisingly good !
Even in her disturbed existence, writer Sylvia Plath had lurid observations on murder – “Why do we electrocute men or murdering an individual then pin a purple heart on them for mass slaughter of someone arbitrarily labeled ‘enemy’ ?” It is true that taking someone’s life is a horrid, despicable business but murder is not…
Is ‘The Mule’ Clint Eastwood’s first ever comedy ?
If you dare categorize the world using Clint Eastwood’s career, you would end up with three distinct groups – the ones who know him as an actor, the ones who know him as a director, and the ones who know him as a performer. As you expand yourself by assimilating more than one facet of…
Black Mirror : Bandersnatch | A week after the world united to save Stefan
(Spoilers included) Few days back the official Twitter handle of Netflix created quite a flutter by sharing that nearly 45 million accounts have watched the latest original “Bird Box”. What seemed like a subtle chest thumping, turned into a squabble among naysayers who discussed the relevance of such a data where the completion percentage is…
