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Taaza Khabar S02 (1)
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Minmini (1)
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The Signature
Bharathi Pradhan
Lehren.com
To Pull the Plug Or Not
After his wife Madhu falls into a coma and is placed on life support, Arvind's world collapses. Can he save his wife and hope for a future together, or will circumstances hold him back?
It is a poignant dilemma familiar to most families. When a loved one is on life support, and prolonging it is unaffordable, can you bring yourself to sign the Do Not Resuscitate (DNR) form? For retired librarian Arvind Pathak (Anupam Kher), it is unthinkable. It’s easier for his pragmatic son (Kevin Gandhi) and daughter (Sangeeta Jain) who have their own lives to lead.
Read all 2 reviews of The Signature here
Devara Part 1
Sucharita Tyagi
Independent Film Critic
Sucharita Tyagi's Honest Review You Need to Hear
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Love Sitara
Anupama Chopra
The Hollywood Reporter India
More Than Just Another Wedding Film?
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Sector 36
Udita Jhunjhunwala
Mint, Scroll.in
Revisiting the house of horrors
Vikrant Massey goes dark in this crime thriller based on the Nithari murders
Sector 36, based on the gruesome murders of Nithari village in Noida, which were uncovered in 2007, follows a serial killer who lives in plain sight. In Aditya Nimbalkar’s crime drama, Prem (Vikrant Massey) is the house-help of Balbir Bassi (Akash Khurana), an affluent businessman from Karnal. Bassi rarely visits his palatial bungalow in Delhi’s Sector 36, but when he does, his actions are also creepy. Prem, taking advantage of his unsupervised existence, far from his own family that lives in a village, abducts children from the neighbouring migrant settlement, mercilessly killing them to satisfy his deviant appetite.
Young Woman and the Sea
Sonal Pandya
Times Now, Zoom
Daisy Ridley's Predictable Yet Inspirational Sports Biopic Has Plenty Of Heart
Based on a true story, the feature film tells the courageous journey of a young American woman's fight to swim across the English Channel in 1926. Starring Daisy Ridley, the film is streaming on Disney+ Hotstar.
Young Woman and the Sea is a typical sports drama, like the ones that were made often in Hollywood two to three decades ago. The period drama, directed by Joachim Rønning, follows the real-life story of Trudy Ederle, a young American who set some extraordinary records and inspired a whole generation of women after her.
Ullozhukku
S. R. Praveen
The Hindu
Urvashi’s powerhouse performance carries this haunting drama
Urvashi and Parvathy Thiruvothu’s effective performances make director Christo Tomy’s debut film a gripping drama on secrets, mistakes, and redemption
Everyone in Ullozhukku is stranded, in one way or the other. Even a dead body remains unburied for days, as flood waters have submerged the burial grounds. The less said of the living, the better. Anju (Parvathy Thiruvothu) and her mother-in-law Leelamma (Urvashi) are in a life not of their choosing. One has come to terms with it, tempered by the struggles of family life, and even yearns to protect that way of living, while the other still has some spirit left to fight her way out of it.
Read all 2 reviews of Ullozhukku here
Taaza Khabar S02
Saibal Chatterjee
NDTV
Bhuvan Bam Gives The Role His Best Shot
The series certainly isn't a junkpile but it does end up in a puddly heap more often than is good for it. Go in with your eyes open.
Bhuvan Bam’s Vasant Gawde, Mr. Vardaan to the world owing to his ability to see events before they come to pass, is back seeking to make a killing from the prescient news updates that he receives on a mobile phone app. This time around, the Taaza Khabar protagonist is either on the backfoot or, worse still, down on his haunches. His plight necessitates desperate measures as he faces new challenges hurled at him by a man who will stop at nothing. But the show, notwithstanding a series of dramatic confrontations, struggles to skirt around the pitfalls of an idea that is beginning to wear thin.
Read all 2 reviews of Taaza Khabar S02 here
Raghu Thatha
Srinivasa Ramanujam
The Hindu
Keerthy Suresh stands tall in this light-hearted satire
Directed by Suman Kumar, this comedy brings together quite a few interesting elements of acting, music and humour
The opening stretch of Raghu Thathatakes us back to the ‘60s. Even as the opening credits roll, we are shown newspaper clippings of important developments in that period. Anti-Hindi slogans and protests are rampant in Tamil Nadu, a state that is furiously vocal against the imposition of Hindi. Indira Gandhi has taken over as the first woman Prime Minister of the country, something that should ideally given women across the country a lot more confidence and freedom.
Minmini
Srinivasa Ramanujam
The Hindu
Halitha Shameem’s Himalayan outing leaves you cold
Starring Esther Anil and Praveen Kishore in the lead, this coming-of-age drama needed more drama
Early in Minmini, inside a school during a chilly evening at Ooty, a candle goes off. A student offers to light it up with his candle. “When one candle lights up another, there’s no loss,” someone remarks.