The top TV shows for 2020, the year where even the fact that you could watch TV was a top reason to be on the top list.
Category Archive: Romance
Amazon Prime’s five-story anthology couldn’t have been timed better. Even if it’s uneven in segments, when it soars, it flies.
‘Bandish Bandits’ boasts of director Anand Tiwari’s richly hued canvas, a fine cast, and terrific music by Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy. The shortcomings don’t matter after a point.
‘Aandhi’ is a beautiful tapestry of the man-woman relationship that also doesn’t hesitate to tear it apart. Plus, Rahul Dev Burman weaves magic.
The mostly effective ‘Ishq’ takes a seemingly interminably long look at a night of harrowing harassment and then seeks redemption. No matter how that goes, it’s lose-lose for the woman.
Director Ashwiny Iyer Tiwari shows Kangana Ranaut need not be on drugs, drunk, or angst-ridden to be effective in her slice-of-life, simple (and simplistic) outing.
Falling in love is easy. Getting married isn’t too tough. Staying together is. Getting separated is an operation. Without the anesthetic.
Director Raaj Shaandilyaa teams up with Ayushmann Khurrana to create another aspiring small-town character in a movie that can be best described as aspiring comedy. With a repetitive script and strained comedy, ‘Dream Girl’ remains a weak shadow of what it could have been.
Writer Syam Pushkaran and director Madhu C. Narayanan weave a delightfully soaring movie about four brothers, raising laughs and quiet emotions as their relationships push and pull, and they find the meaning of love within and without their four corners.
Even it means actor Casey Affleck has to shuffle around in a white bed sheet, director David Lowery creates a deeply profound and meditative cinema about love, loss, and waiting.