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Raat Jawaan Hai
Srivathsan Nadadhur
South First, Friday Wall
An Entertaining, Bitter-Sweet Ode to Parenthood, Friendship
Three childhood friends and stay-at-home parents Avinash, Radhika and Suman come to terms with adulthood, marriage and parenting in a metropolis, dealing with one blow after the other. While Avinash is in no mood to return to work soon, Radhika is in two minds about taking up a job. Suman, content with motherhood, struggles to take a stance for herself.
Read all 5 reviews of Raat Jawaan Hai here
Citadel Diana
Srivathsan Nadadhur
South First, Friday Wall
A Slick Spy Thriller With a Gimmicky, Confounding Narrative
Citadel, an independent spy agency, is wiped out by Manticore, a powerful syndicate that’s desperate to take charge of the world. Diana, an undercover Citadel agent, works as a mole in Manticore. She forges an unexpected rapport with Edo Zani (the heir of Manticore Italy), who is keen on taking the mantle from his father Ettore, grooming himself to be a capable leader.
Read all 2 reviews of Citadel Diana here
Janaka Aithe Ganaka
Srivathsan Nadadhur
South First, Friday Wall
The courtroom drama is a missed opportunity
An earnest Suhas cannot salvage ‘Janaka Aithe Ganaka’, which ends up as a messy courtroom comedy
Telugu cinema has consistently portrayed stories where protagonists embody middle-class values — from Needi Naadi Oke Katha and Middle Class Melodies to Middle Class Abbayi (MCA) and The Family Star. Interestingly, Dil Raju, the producer behind two of these films, also backs Janaka Aithe Ganaka this week. The Sandeep Reddy Bandla directorial, starring Suhas, aims to acknowledge and appreciate the bread-winners of middle-class households, in the guise of a courtroom drama.
Vicky Vidya Ka Woh Wala Video
Bhawana Somaaya
92.7 Big FM
Watch at your own risk
Read all 9 reviews of Vicky Vidya Ka Woh Wala Video here
Jigra
Bhawana Somaaya
92.7 Big FM
A treat to watch Alia Bhatt play Bachchan
Read all 18 reviews of Jigra here
Jigra
Anupama Chopra
The Hollywood Reporter India
Sister as Superhero
Read all 18 reviews of Jigra here
Vettaiyan
Sudhir Srinivasan
The New Indian Express
The Late Review
Read all 6 reviews of Vettaiyan here
Jigra
Ishita Sengupta
Independent Film Critic
Alia Bhatt In & As The Angry Young Woman
In Vasan Bala’s Jigra (Courage) Alia Bhatt is Amitabh Bachchan. The suggestion seems both foolish and foolhardy, not least because both actors have disparate, almost contrasting, physicalities. They act differently, they react differently. And more crucially, a punch lands on them differently. If Bachchan in his youth stumbled upon being hit, then Bhatt crumples like a paper bag. If the former’s daunting presence intimidates the frame then the latter’s diminutive silhouette makes space for others. Alia Bhatt is nothing like Amitabh Bachchan yet Bala insists that she is, for she has the jigra.
Read all 18 reviews of Jigra here
Lonely Planet
Sonal Pandya
Times Now, Zoom
Laura Dern, Liam Hemsworth's Aimless Romance Is A Waste Of Time
Directed by Susannah Grant, the romantic drama has no real spark between its leads.
A foreign locale, two individuals at a crossroads… on the surface, the Netflix film Lonely Planet had the right ingredients. But the Susannah Grant film does nothing with it. Starring Laura Dern as an established writer and Liam Hemsworth as a finance guy who meet at a retreat in Morocco, the film wastes our time with their ineffectual romance. It ends up being a tourism guide for the country.