Monish K

The initial bits the movie is confused with identifying itself. Sometimes it is an investigative movie other times it is a blatant action flick with no logic to follow. It just seems that some typical south movie director Googled "The most disturbing ways that people are killed" and added his own south movie masala into it. The message that the life of gangsters or mafia lead to misery on both ends was well communicated if that was the intention. Youth being distracted by things is also well communicated. By the end the movie becomes this acion bloody anxiety inducing ruthless action flick. By the end the catharsis of the villains or "bad guys" being killed is not well achieved according to me. The heavy Relaince on background dubsteb music is too distracting for me to focus on the moment of action and it is not just with action ones it is also present when there are emotions to be felt. Showing flashback scenes before killing off the bad guys is just lazy attempt to increase the duration time. In the end I would say the movie is not linear in its storytelling It has some identiy crisis going on. Soemtimes it is a Godfather esque with a south movie masala mix, sometimes it is john wick with the added layers of the protagonist being like a superhuman of sorts. At one point the villain also says "Let me put a smile on that face" referencing the Joker from Dark knight. These all movies made an impact because they were standalone and had their own vibes and culture surrounding them. This however seems like a lazy attempt to recreate the feelings of the movie mentioned and also to instigate the mind with all its violence and visuals. Violence can exist but not without thought put into it. For instance movies like Logan utilises violence as a necessity rather than just being there. Kill also another example where violence is riveting and satisfying. Average movie

I personally didn't like Sage that much. Smartness is a difficult superpower to show since it's not very physical in nature. I think a show like Sherlock BBC portrayed smartness very well. They should have done that with Sage. Also her coming in the final episode saying this was all part of the plan seemed too cliche. The dynamic between Starlight and the second muave was interesting in that she successfully manipulated the public. Deep was useless in this one. Homelander awesome. Butcher kind of meh. Frenchie was super boring as compared to last seasons. It's not because of his sexual orientation it's just he seems too confused all of the time. MM was an improvement. A train had a drastic character shift. But all in all a Meh season.

The burgeois are finally getting progressive in Bollywood. Karan Johar carefully marketed and initiated the movie with the typical hero meets heroine plotline so that he could cater to the majority of the audience to come to movies only to give them a dosage of hard hitting moments mixed with "progressive" messages and theme. This movie is only essential to the audience who still want generic Bollywood masala screenplay, to a more sophisticated audience I think this movie falls flat. It tries to evade the "traditional" methods while still following the stereotypical ways finding and maintaining love. On one hand ranveer's character tries to be progressive in his approach to alias's character and her family on the other hand he is still patriarchal in his approach towards alias character. For eg:- He casually spanks her butt while there relationship is still petite, he hugs her really tightly on just the second meet. And it is let go by making it seem as if it is just how Punjabis are. This movie is a mix of 2 states meets the theme and budget K3G. Another thing this movie suffers from which I think is a cliche at this point in BWOOD movies is dropping the "Show don't Tell" rule. Yes I want a progressive movie, yes I want the male characters to go through the "learning the women ways" arc but I also want to discover that by myself and not be shoved all the concepts down my throat. Although, I must say if Mahesh Dattani ever gets to see this movie he'll be glad he did that because one of the side plot is basically 'Dance like a man' adaptation. All in all this movie was OK to me, understandably so. Would only recommend to watch for the progressive themes and character arcs of only handful of characters portrayed including but not limited to : Jaya bachan, Alia Bhatt, Dharmedra, Shabhana Hashmi, Tota Roy Chowdhury.

I liked the way the plot slowly reveals itself. The controversial truths discussed in this series regarding the treatment of innocent prisoners being treated by corrupt militants was also eye opening. It was seemingly predictable at the end. The horror effects didn't scared me as much. Couldve been more like the series James Wan produces. And it did touch some feels. It could've done more but nonetheless it's a amazing series to chill on. Loved the tone. Finally some good Indian series to binge on 👌👍