Divyaa Sharma

Colorful, quirky (quintessentially Tim Burton), mildly sinister, and ultimately quite mad (just like all the best people are), this version is unmissable because of the sheer eccentricity that Depp and Bonham-Carter bring to their roles. I love it , the six year old loves it, and really you will too, so give it a try, won't you?

A Bollywood remake of 'A Few Good Men', with borrowed plot undertones from the Hindi play 'Court Martial'. Stellar acting by Deepak Dobriyal, some fine moments by Kay Kay Menon, and Rahul Bose. Definitely worth a watch.

Worth a one time watch - mostly for JGL's acting and the story itself. It's more subdued and quiet than one would've expected but then again atleast it's not over - dramatised and that's a relief!

Dark, gritty, and a must watch for the sake of Tripti Dimri's action to start with. Bulbul is not just horror in a supernatural sense, but also horrific in its highlighting of crimes against women. The horror in this is two fold - there's the witch who hangs from trees and goes around killing men, and then there's the background story of Bulbul, brutally beaten, brutally raped and left to die. There is horror upon horror, and you see it in the story of Bulbul, of Binodini, and even other women part of the story in passing. You almost wish this were true, and that God would ever so often, intervene and give women a chance to return to life with all the strength and smarts of a Goddess. Maybe that's what it would take to make the world a safer place for women.

Kiara Advani's stellar acting is easily the best thing about this sometimes over-slick, ott-kitchy, sometimes edgy and though provoking flick. Another reason to watch atleast once, is that the plot itself is multi-layered and raises a virtual Pandora's Box worth of issues beyond just #metoo, including that of manipulation and reverse privilege. Definitely worth a watch.

Complete snooze fest despite being based on an exciting epochal time in India's geopolitical history. Zero edge of seat excitement, bad acting and ridiculous dialogues. The only saving grace - Boman Irani in the few scenes he's granted. To anyone who's watched Raazi and The Ghazi Attack, this movie is an epic fail. It's informative for sure, but totally un-entertaining, simply because the makers decided to use the same old Bollywood formulas to add the 'entertainment' factor. This movie could've easily been an Indian 'Argo' but it isn't even at the level of a decent documentary.

Hilarious and poignant. North Indians are massively racist to NE Indians and this movie doesn't shy away from showing that. Superb acting too from everyone except Sayani Gupta who's the only one trying too hard and getting it all wrong. Nepalese don't talk like that all the time, they don't end every single sentence on that high questioning note. It's a must watch movie and if like me, you're a punjju, hopefully it will make you think long and hard about exactly what goes on behind the mask of 'hum sab bharatiya hain', and hopefully you'll cate enough to make sure that this doesn't happen on your watch.

It's a simplistic, by the numbers style movie, focused on the first 12 American soldiers who went to Afghanistan, post 9/11, to assist General Dostum in the anti Taliban offensive, effectively starting the 'Afghanistan War'. What makes this worth a one time watch for sure, is that these 12 men fought on horseback, and the movie really takes the viewer into the ground realities of fighting amongst the rugged mountainous terrain of Afghanistan, interspersed with a few scenes showing the reality of what life would've been like then, for villages under Taliban's control. Chris Hemsworth's restrained acting and the moments shared between his character and that of General Dostum, are easily the best part of this otherwise slow paced war machine. Then again, the machinery of war often does move slowly, when you're fighting in a place called the 'graveyard of empires', where girls above the age of eight cannot be educated, and life itself is as simple as waking up, eating, toiling, sleeping and dying.

Oh it's a re-imagining alright - but not so much that it loses the essence of the original story completely. It's a li'l dark too, with flashbacks to Anne's suffering at the orphanage, and also the initial ostracism she faces at the hands of adults and children alike. Also, perhaps a bit more modern than L.M. Montgomery would have liked it to be (hint : Aunt Josephine), but I found the changes to be 'ever so nice'. It's a wonderful watch for all ages, not just for folks like me who grew up with the books, but for the younger generation too; this is good literature adapted right.