There are some amazing movies out there that leave you with an incredible experience. There are also some movies that average at best, which helps you pass your evening of boredom. There are other kinds of movies that are downright horrible, and you can only wonder what the makers were thinking. Then there are movies…
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Ki and Ka
I can imagine what must have happened at the director’s office: Hey, let’s make a movie for today’s generation. Let’s twist the traditional rom-com that Bollywood is churning out these days. I know, I have an idea, says the director, let’s turn the traditional setup upside down. Let’s make the husband the kind of person…
Batman V Superman Dawn of Justice
There was a lot of hype for this movie, so much so, even Turkish Airlines have associated themselves with the movie. I for one was looking forward to this movie for the sole reason that I was getting tired of the Marvel movies that felt more like family friendly films. I missed the intensity and…
Kung Fu Panda 3
Sometimes, going into a movie with absolutely no foreknowledge can be an extremely rewarding movie going experience, especially if it’s a movie like Kung Fu Panda 3. Having not seen the first two parts, I went in with absolutely no idea what I was about to experience. I came out with a huge smile on…
Sparrow at Heart – A Graphic Novel
Graphic novels have a unique cult following in the world, and apart from the usual comics, novels such as Life if Pi, The Alchemist and The Kite Runner all have been adapted into graphic novels. Joe Sacco (Footnotes in Gaza, Palestine) and Marjanne Satrapi (Persepolis) are some of the more well-known graphic novelists in this…
Fitoor
Every once in a whiles comes a movie out from Bollywood that is based on a novel, such as Omkara (Othello), Maqbool (Macbeth), Lootera (The Last Leaf) among many others. Fitoor, as is made clear in the opening credits of the film, is itself based on the widely read Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations. With that piece…
Deadpool
Where do I even begin to describe my experience with Deadpool? The was released a week ago and already made $491.9 million world over, rendering it the highest grossing R-rated movie ever in the history. While I loved watching X-Men movies, I have to admit I am little out of sync with the sequels, and…
Manto
At the age of 14, I happened to have read a small book of short stories. It was a series of short stories compiled in a book called Partition: Sketches and Stories. It was one of the first books that completely gripped me and shocked me. There were stories in there that were sexual and…
Bajirao Mastani
Bajirao Ballal (Balaji) Bhat’s, also known as Bajirao Pesha (prime minister) life and times is perfectly captured in Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s latest offering (right after the superhit Ram Leela). Set in the 1700s, Bajirao Pesha is known as one of the greatest warrior in India, having fought 41 battles and winning them all. (A…
Tamasha (2015)
“All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players…”—As You Like It, Shakespeare. It is with this premise that we enter the world of Tamasha, which has upon its release has become one of the most divisive movies that have the audiences split right down the middle: either you love or…
Mansour Ahsan 