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Do Patti
Renuka Vyavahare
The Times of India
The film touches upon substantial topics but lacks the sensibility or depth to make flawed seem fascinating.
When an attempted murder case unfolds in a sleepy hill town, investigating officer Vidya Jyoti (Kajol) suspects there’s more to the story than meets the eye. Can she decode fact from fiction?
Twins Saumya and Shailee (Kriti Sanon in a double role, this is not a spoiler) are like chalk and cheese. One gets married to hot-headed Dhruv Sood, (television actor Shaheer Sheikh) the privileged man with a volatile temper and political connect who owns a paragliding business in the hills. All’s well on the surface until an unlikely crime makes police officer VJ (Kajol) question everything about this family.
All 18 reviews of Do Patti here
Caddo Lake
Rohan Naahar
The Indian Express
Producer M Night Shyamalan’s new mind-bender is among the finest thrillers of the year
Produced by M Night Shyamalan and directed by Celine Held and Logan George, Caddo Lake isn’t merely one of the best thriller films of the spooky season, it’s among the best of the year.
A slow-burn thriller with a deep emotional core, an intricately plotted genre exercise, and an acting showcase for two talented young performers, Caddo Lake, on paper, sounds like the complete package. It takes a while to get going, and the first act is particularly testing, but it’s also the kind of film that gets better with every passing minute. In fact, Caddo Lake is at its best towards the end, when it ties all — or, at least two — of its narrative threads together, unleashing an emotional wallop that rivals only the sheer thrill of watching its well-executed twist.
Pani
S. R. Praveen
The Hindu
Joju George’s gory drama works despite its typical revenge plot
Joju George, in his debut as a screenwriter and director, has quite a hold on the progression of events which keeps coming at almost the right pace and timing
When a gruesome murder happens in broad daylight at the beginning of a film, one expects the murder to be the major event around which everything else will revolve. But Joju George’s Pani really takes off from a smaller fight that Don (Sagar Surya) and Siju (V.P.Junaiz), the two murderers, get involved in at a supermarket later in the day.
Girls Will Be Girls
Tatsam Mukherjee
The Wire
A Sensitive Debut Film That Finally Does Justice to the Coming of Age Tale
First time director Shuchi Talati extracts superb performances to portray adolescence in an authentic and messy way.
There’s a lot going on within twelfth-grader Mira (Preeti Panigrahi). Chosen as the first female head prefect at her seemingly orthodox hill-station boarding school, she’s battling most of the pressures and anxieties of being a teenager, while simmering in the shadow of her vivacious mother Anila (Kani Kusruthi). Mira needs to keep her scores up, balance the shifted power dynamic with friends and bullies because of her duties as a head prefect, and rein in her excessively eager hormones for the mysterious new boy – Srinivas (Kesav Binoy Kiron) – in class.
All 10 reviews of Girls Will Be Girls here
Do Patti
Upma Singh
Navbharat Times
यह कहानी है, दो जुड़वा बहनों सौम्या और शैली (कृति सेनन) की
सस्पेंस की चादर में लिपटी यह संवेदनशील विषय वाली फिल्म एक बार जरूर देखी जा सकती है
पति-पत्नी के रिश्ते में जब प्यार की जगह हिंसा ले ले, तो चोट पूरे परिवार और खासकर बच्चों को लगती है। घरेलू हिंसा का यह जख्म कभी-कभी इतना गहरा होता है कि पूरा घर बिखर जाता है। विडंबना देखिए, हिंसा के इतने खतरनाक रूप को ‘घरेलू’ कहा जाता है, जिस कारण घर से बाहर के ज्यादातर लोग पति-पत्नी के इस आपसी मामले में दखल तक नहीं देते। घरेलू हिंसा की इसी कड़वी सच्चाई को दो बहनों की राइवलरी के मसालेदार पैकेजिंग में लपेटकर पेश करती है, एक्ट्रेस कृति सेनन और राइटर कनिका ढिल्लों के बैनर की डेब्यू फिल्म ‘दो पत्ती’।
All 18 reviews of Do Patti here
The Miranda Brothers
Rahul Desai
The Hollywood Reporter India
Goa, Football and (Filmmaking) Crimes
Sanjay Gupta's latest drama looks so dated that it belongs in a museum.
Sanjay Gupta’s The Miranda Brothers revolves around two hunky brothers named Julio (Harshvardhan Rane) and Regalo Miranda (Meezaan Jafri), rising football stars in a Josh-coded Goa where orphaned babies are picked up from garbage dumps outside churches; arrogant cricketers cackle and say: “Cricket has two C’s: Cash and Chicks”; football scouts exclaim: “if we select both brothers, it’s like an earthquake and typhoon becoming one!”; bronze-bodied dance tracks called “Be My Mehbooba” pop up on a beach; and mourners at a funeral walk together in slow-motion as if they’re teleported to Sanjay Gupta’s Kaante (2002) instead.