If you’re a millennial, you have already witnessed the ‘Smartphone’ revolution which completely transformed the way we consumed media. When YouTube started its operations in February 2005 as a simple video-sharing social media community, it would have been hard to fathom that 5 billion videos would be consumed on it every day by an average…
Month: October 2017
The Gifted | Pilot Review | Bryan Singer
At the turn of the century, Marvel made a bold yet ambitious move to create cinematic universes where its huge repertoire of superheroes will fight crime/save the earth, basically do mundane superhero things. In 2000 they came out with X-Men with an entourage of known faces and a movie replete with powerful meta-creatures and high…
Golmaal Again | Review | Ajay Devgn | Tabu
After a run time of around two and a half hours, the end credits roll out proudly proclaiming “A Film by Rohit Shetty and Team”. I am sure, Rohit Shetty includes the word “Team” only to share the blame for making an unapologetically vacuous and pea-headed series of sequences characterized by over-acting, blaring noises and…
The story that needed to be told | Laakhon Mein Ek | Created by Biswa Kalyan Rath
It was in June 2014, when two seemingly goofy guys rose from anonymity to social media stardom. Their formula – a fresh, unabashed take on the mind-numbingly silly tropes used in mainstream Bollywood. Aptly titled Pretentious Movie Reviews, the show broke the traditional reviewing style by bringing out hilarious observations that were exaggerated through sketches…
TVF Inmates | Episode 1 & 2 Review | Mukti Mohan, Kashyap Kapoor
Seinfeld, Friends, How I Met Your Mother… hugely successful series, albeit western, which have become our regular fodder during our travel to work, lunch breaks or a constant companion during our weekend slothfulness. Basic premises being similar, these series have a cult following due to their connect with the younger audience over the years and…
Mindhunter | Pilot Review | David Fincher
Crime dramas hold an unsaid fetish with the viewers. On one hand we want the law enforcement to get down and dirty to solve the crime but a part of us is also intrigued by the psychology of the prodigal murderer. Netflix’s exponentially increasing repertoire of originals and screen adaptations has given us some of…
An ode to Bollywood’s Crown Prince | Rajkummar Rao | by Vibhor Chadha
A few years ago, I had read a book called “The Secret”. Throughout the book, the author repeatedly stressed on the power of belief; in yourself, in your dreams and in your courage to overcome what obstacles may come in your way. She called it the Law of Attraction: When you put your whole being into achieving a…
The elusive Oscar for Bollywood and the ‘Newton’ promise
Somewhere between the utter conundrum surrounding one year in office of arguably the most polarizing president of the United States and the muddled yet well-intentioned path towards ‘Acche Din’ (good times) delineated by Narendra Modi’s government in India, the movie ‘Newton’ got the audience vote as well as a unanimous selection from the jury as…
Blade Runner 2049 | The philosophy and symbolism of Denis Villeneuve
The year was 1982 and Hollywood was teeming with some of the best science-fiction films that would later become classics in film history. Spielberg’s E.T : The Extraterrestrial and Steven Lisberg’s Tron were captivating audiences in their respective thematic presentations but it was apparent that both were ensconced in the pubescent technology that existed during…
Ghosted | Pilot Review
Ghosted released yesterday, Sunday, October 1st and the series is just the perfect divertissement you needed to relax on a laid back Sunday afternoon. The makers of the series cognize the potential of buddy cop camaraderie between stars Adam Scott and Chris Robinson and jump straight into it without spending too much time in establishing…
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