Reading Time: 2 minutes From his score for Ghungroo Ki Awaaz, Rahul Dev Burman creates this sinking-into-despair beauty that’s tightly knit into a musical form.
Reading Time: 3 minutes The Father is a brutal watch. It’s unnerving, painful, and yet hypnotic. And it’s scary as hell. Plus, Anthony Hopkins is devastating.
Reading Time: 4 minutes There’s something intimately familiar and hence moving about Saving Mr. Banks. Plus, there’s Emma Thompson and Tom Hanks.
Reading Time: 4 minutes A glacially progressing look at intimate relationships, Aarkkariyam is a beautiful look at how well we know our loved ones. Or not.
Reading Time: 5 minutes Bhuj: The Pride of India takes a real-life human interest drama and turns it into listless and disingenuous cinema.
Reading Time: 4 minutes Rojo takes a still, unnerving look at middle-class society’s human reaction to political turmoil.
Reading Time: 3 minutes No matter how its political stance has morphed in a polarised and acidic world, ‘Munich’ is still chillingly relevant.
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‘Haseen Dillruba’ is an uneven, ultimately unsatisfying look at fraught relationships. It falls in love with its own twist much too soon, much too deep.
Reading Time: 7 minutes Seven numbers to celebrate Pancham. Seven sparks. Seven stars. Seven notes.
Reading Time: 4 minutes Director Amit Masurkar creates an understated drama about the politics of equilibrium that extracts a deadly price from nature’s finely balanced system.