Tathagata Bakuli

Brahmastra is important because it's not every day that Bollywood makes a film of this grand scale, with top-class VFX and casts a mystical spell much like the ones- we go Gaga for in MCU and other multiverses. Watch it for Ayan, oh boy he delivers. 10 years of work literally shows on screen. Ranbir and Alia take their real to reel so seamlessly, like pumping heartbeats of the film ably supported by other casts and ofcourse the scientist 🤭 Mouni is at her effortless best, so are AB sir and Nagarjuna sir and so many others. Kesariya stays with you and the slow version is to die for. Second half does feel like a drag at some points but over all a huge thumbs up to this power of love standing past the hatred and immense boycott calls across all platforms. Let's go and spread love, for it conquers all. Bring on part 2 now!!!!

The heartbeat of Flanagan's The Haunting of Bly Manor is its theme, like most of his works. While Hill House(one of my best series) showed that it is we who haunt us, Bly Manor believes our lovers and loved ones do so. The ghost is the memory, which the characters sometimes 'get tucked away' or sometimes visit endlessly. It is also a look at the afterlife, with hell embodied in relentless reliving of painful memories: an eternal purgatory. The relationships are the highest peaks of this series, tender in a way that leaves your heart warm and aching. 'It's a love story not a ghost story'. Scares you less, tears you up more. In all, it's 'perfectly splendid'. Almost recreating the similar cast has been another toast to the team.

Extraordinary. Terrific. Electrifying. Thunderous. That's Kangana in Manikarnika-the real Queen of the film. She owns the film- nails every scene and she makes sure that you can't take your eyes off her. Do watch it just for her. Fantastic visuals, great screenplay backed up by nail bitting a action. A magnum opus for the ages. The film revolves around the Rani and she has made sure that she will tear apart every box record that's in her way.