Category Archive: Sport

‘Maidaan,’ ‘Amar Singh Chamkila’: of men and their race against mortality

Reading Time: 6 minutes In ‘Maidaan’ and ‘Chamkila,’ the lead characters race against time to pack in as much as they can, even as their actions compress that time.

‘Gold’ review: Flagging On and Off

Reading Time: 5 minutes Director Reema Kagti takes actor Akshay Kumar’s cinematic legacy-building efforts one step further, this time designed to make you stand up for the national anthem. ‘Gold: The Dream that United our Nation’ grips in parts while in others it slips, even as the performances prop it up almost through and through. But the movie’s finest moment is hidden in a fleeting expression at the very end.

‘Soorma’ review: Love, Actually

Reading Time: 5 minutes Director Shaad Ali makes some unusual choices in the way he depicts the real-life story of hockey player Sandeep Singh. Which also means that he pulls punches where he ought to have bruised, dulling some of the grit and glossing over the darker details of a struggle that must’ve been nerve-and-mind wracking . But with some glorious performances, “Soorma” tugs at your heart when you least expect it.

‘Mukkabaaz’ review: A Punch Too Long

Reading Time: 5 minutes Director Kashyap can be unflinching in his take on life, and it is when he makes you flinch. He keeps the movie’s look rustic and bare-boned, thriving on the lack of pelf of its setting and its characters, and the production design is starkly evocative. It is when Kashyap and his cinematographic team take you inside the belly of these households and keep you there is when you are stirred and shaken in equal measure.