This Is Us

By: Aliza Junaid (A spoiler free review) Throughout your lifetime, you watch many shows. Possibly a thousand if you’re a binge watcher and the only relationship you can handle is the one you have with Netflix. There are shows you can only watch once. Then there are those that you can watch again only to…

Understanding Kashmir through Celluloid

By: Srishti Mittal “Kashmir has always been more than a mere place; it has the quality of an experience, or a state of mind, or perhaps an ideal.” – Jan Morris I had to start off by mentioning Kashmir’s scintillating beauty because honestly it is stressful to write about a land that has remained conflicted…

Bala

By: Radhika Chatterjee Let’s Fall in love with ourselves (and with Ayushman Khurana again) There is no doubt that the Ayushman Khurana, Yami Gautam and Bhumi Pednekar starrer, Bala is a complete laughter riot. However, Bala has much more to offer than just humour. The movie urges us to delve deeper and come face to face…

Article 15

By: Brinda Mathur “Aur aukaat kya hai? Jo hum dete hain vahi aukaat hai sir”. Director Anubhav Sinha is all about the subtle portrayal of the horrors within the society through his films. The film, Article 15, as it suggests, deals with Article 15 of the Indian constitution, which prohibits any discrimination on grounds of…

Shubh Mangal Zyada Saavdhan

By: Vanshika Luthra Another day at the box office, and yet another banger by Ayushmann Khurrana. Shubh Mangal Zyada Saavdhan is your present dose of ‘not-so-mainstream’ family drama. A step forward in the realm of commercial cinema, Shubh Mangal Zyada Saavdhan is a half-hearted attempt to address a sensitive social issue. The movie encapsulates the…

Guilty: A Movie That Makes You Question Your Own Morals

By: Mehaak Pasricha I read a book called We Were Liars, which had me on the edge of my seat and when I finished that book the one thought that was going through my mind was “wow, everything that I read was a lie!” And that is the best description that I can give to…

Kabir Singh

By: Mehaak Pasricha Kabir Singh: A movie that lost its path in its making Kabir Singh, undoubtedly one of the most controversial films of 2019, was a remake of the Telugu film Arjun Reddy which released in 2017 and was directed by the same director Sandeep Vanga. A film critically acclaimed for its phenomenal songs…

Parasite

By: Kriti Bhagat From the South Korean, Academy Award wining filmmaker Bong Joon-ho, comes the brilliant social satire on class discrimination shown through the symbiotic relationship between the rich Park household and the opportunistic Kim family- Parasite. To quote Mr. Bong himself, “… Essentially, we all live in the same country… called Capitalism.” This highly…

Queen

By: Jolynne John Queen is a 2014 Bollywood comedy-drama film starring Kangana Ranaut with Lisa Haydon and Rajkumar Rao. The story revolves around Kangana as Rani Mehra or Queen living in a middle class Delhi household, who decides to embark on her honeymoon to Paris and Amsterdam alone after her fiancé leaves her the day…

English Vinglish

By: Angela John ‘English Vinglish’ is a 2012 film revolving the life of a woman named Sashi (played by Sridevi) who is a mother of two and a housewife, and has a small catering business. Sashi is a devoted mother and a loving wife and propagates all the qualities of a “perfect woman”. However despite…