critic’s rating: 3.0/5 Lala Kedarnath (Akshay Kumar) has four sisters of marriageable age. These sisters, played by Sadia Khateeb, Smrithi Srikanth, Deepika Khanna, and Sahejmeen Kaur, come with their own quirks. While Sadia is near-perfect, Smrithi has a dark complexion, Deepika is obese, and Sahejmeen is a tomboy. Going by … Read more
critic’s rating: 4.0/5 Going by a broad definition, domestic noir means a dramatic thriller set in a house with primarily female protagonists and revolves around relationships. Most are psychological in nature, with elements of both the horror and slasher genres thrown in. Darlings incorporates all of the above, albeit in … Read more
critic’s rating: 3.0/5 Shamshera is Karan Malhotra’s homage to such films as Kranti, Baahubali, and Taras Bulba. It’s a fictionalised account of a tribe’s struggle for survival against the oppressive British Raj. It’s a heroic tale of the tribe’s two leaders, father and son duo Shamshera and Balli, both essayed … Read more
critic’s rating: 3.5/5 Who’s Mithali Raj? Ask even cricket crazy people and you’ll draw a blank. For the uninitiated, Mithali is the highest run-scorer in women’s international cricket. She’s the only female cricketer to surpass the 7,000 run mark in women’s one-day international matches. She also holds the record for most half-centuries in WODIs. She … Read more
critic’s rating: 2.5/5 Nikamma is based on the Nani and Sai Pallavi starrer hit Telugu film Middle Class Abbayi (2017). The film combines the elements of family drama with an action thriller, with comedic elements thrown in between. Adi (Abhimanyu Dassani) is an aimless young man, who is asked by … Read more
critic’s rating: 3.5/5 Major Sandeep Unnikrishnan was an officer in the Indian Army serving in the elite 51 Special Action Group of the National Security Guards. He was killed in action during the November 2008 Mumbai attack and was consequently awarded the Ashoka Chakra, India’s highest peacetime gallantry award. Major … Read more
critic’s rating: 3.5/5 Prithviraj (Akshay Kumar), the ruler of Ajmer and Sanyogita (Manushi Chhillar), the daughter of the ruler of Kannauj, Jayachandra (Ashutosh Rana), have never seen each other and have only heard of each other’s beauty and valour. They do exchange letters, however – it’s not shown how – … Read more
critic’s rating: 3.5/5 A character in the film points out that if you rub off the names, most Indians won’t be able to name the seven Northeastern states of our country on a map. And we agree with this sorry state of affairs. The North East is a much neglected … Read more
critic’s rating: 3.0/5 Jayeshbhai Jordaar is a film against female foeticide, gender-based discrimination, domestic violence, and other related activities. It takes up for women’s rights in a rural set-up which thankfully isn’t based in Haryana but in Gujarat. In fact, a village in Haryana is shown to be an ideal … Read more
critic’s rating: 2.5/5 Queer magician and criminal mastermind Laila (Nawazuddin Siddiqui) entices super hacker Babloo Ranawat (Tiger Shroff) to join hands with him. Babloo falls in love with Laila’s sister Inaaya (Tara Sutaria) in the process, who for some reason remains unaware that her brother and her beau are criminals … Read more