Films, Reviews & Recommendations 03 Oct 2022 ‘Vikram Vedha’ is a delectable and slurpy proposition for India’s working class audience Choice. A concept you need to elude yourself from while watching Pushkar - Gayatri's Hindi iteration of their slobberknocker offering… Somdeb Roy No Comments
Blog, Films, Reviews & Recommendations, Writer's Blog 12 Sep 2022 ‘Brahmāstra’ : A film confused between its international style and ethnic roots. It isn’t a bad film by any stretch of imagination… It is an extremely shaky start Imagine yourself at a wedding buffet. You stride along with your plate, glancing down every dish at disposal. All of… Somdeb Roy No Comments
Films, Reviews & Recommendations 21 Jun 2022 ‘Jersey’ is a missed opportunity at making a coming of age story for late bloomers When destiny offers one more shot at redemption, do you choose do go down the books as a statistic or… Somdeb Roy No Comments
Films, Reviews & Recommendations 22 Apr 2022 ‘Kaun Pravin Tambe?’ is the right slice of goodness Age is not a number. It is a word. Four letters full of drivel. There have been an umpteen number… Somdeb Roy No Comments
Films, Reviews & Recommendations 18 Dec 2021 ‘Spiderman – No Way Home’ is a film that Stan Lee and Steve Ditko would call such “good shit!” I’m a WWE geek. Someone who can be sold easily on the idea of dream matches. When Dwayne “The Rock”… Somdeb Roy No Comments
Films, Reviews & Recommendations 06 Dec 2021 ‘Bob Biswas’ works like a game that draws you in Nomoshkar! Ek minute.. Ever played a free world game? GTA, Just Cause et al? Games that allow us to drive,… Somdeb Roy No Comments
Films, Reviews & Recommendations 20 Nov 2021 ‘Dhamaka’ fizzles away with too much noise, yet no voices. All Smoke And No Fire. Anchor kya hai?Actor.Actor kya chahta hai?Audience.Audience kya chahti hai?Drama. A flimsy prep talk just before a disaster sequence in the… Somdeb Roy No Comments
Films, Reviews & Recommendations 19 Oct 2021 Sardar Udham – A technical feat gassed out by its social limitations Taste and skill develop at varied paces. The former can be acquired. The latter has to be gained through penance… Somdeb Roy No Comments
Reviews & Recommendations, Series 18 Sep 2021 ‘Mumbai Diaries 26/11’ does the disaster saga genre a massive service and has cracked a new universe of storytelling wide open. Heart-warming and heart-wrenching simultaneously. March 21, 2020. I was on my way back home from an urgent closure meeting as I gazed down a… Somdeb Roy No Comments