CRUISE & POTUS SAVE THE WORLD YET AGAIN

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Reviewed Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning

8 days ago 34

For the final installment of multi-billion dollarfilm franchises, the question remains - how big will the scope be, and how good can it get? Daniel Craig’Read more...

AMONGST B'LORE'S BEST VADA-CHUTNEY

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Reviewed S. N. Refreshments - JP Nagar - Bangalore

Jan 14, 2025 226

I dedicate this review to the memory of Mr. Suresh Hinduja - an outstanding and very generous cuisine connoisseur who helped and inspired so many people. BanRead more...

ONE HIT DISH OUT OF FIVE.

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Reviewed Chianti - Indiranagar - Bangalore

Jan 12, 2025 637

Chianti is considered(Wikipedia citation: by whom?) as amongst Bangalore’s better Italian restaurants. As I do not live in Bangalore presently, I cannot attesRead more...

ROASTED NOSTALGIA, CRISP BUSINESS

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Reviewed Koshy's Bakery - Richmond Town - Bangalore

Jan 05, 2025 133

I dedicate this review to the memory of Mr. Suresh Hinduja - an outstanding and very generous cuisine connoisseur who helped and inspired so many people. KosRead more...

KANTARA KGF CLONE. HOT AIR, NO REAL MEAT

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Reviewed Pushpa 2: The Rule

Dec 08, 2024 2617

It is not surprising that Rs.400 crores has been pumped into making another mediocre overblown action film with an infallible’mass’ hero. Perhaps itRead more...

BACHCHAN VERSUS PRABHAS. HALKI STORY, KALKI ACTIO

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Reviewed Kalki 2898 AD

Jun 28, 2024 899

One of those very rare films where the sequel promises to be moreexciting than the current one. Nag Ashwin’s post-apocalyptic hellscape, hyper-linked to Read more...

NOLAN CUTS THE FAFF

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Reviewed Oppenheimer

Jun 16, 2024 607

After the pretentious parade of Inception, Interstellar, Dunkirk and Tenet, I was fed up with Nolan’s proclivity for highfalutin cinema that nails the boRead more...

12th FAIL, DISTINCTION IN LIFE

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Reviewed 12th Fail

Jun 03, 2024 613

Vidhu Vinod Chopra’s outstanding biographical film’12th Fail’, essaying a modest Indian student’s epic relentless struggle to pass the couRead more...

TOO LATE, TOO LITTLE

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Reviewed Killers of the Flower Moon

May 19, 2024 228

For a legendary director, Martin Scorsese has not shown an inclination to feature Black Americans or other non-white ethnicities in significant roles. Black ARead more...

SANDEEP REDDY VANGA IS THE NEW SELVARAGHAVAN

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Reviewed Animal

Dec 02, 2023 1132

Unlike any other movie in the history of mainstream Hindi cinema, systematically shattering the shibboleths of this genre with transgressive acts, provocativeRead more...

MASTERPIECE DOCU. ON DREADED DACOIT VEERAPPAN

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Reviewed The Hunt for Veerappan

Sep 29, 2023 577

4.5 STARS / 5(MASTERPIECE) “There has never been a set of developments like this in the history of the modern world.” “There never ever has been a man, a crRead more...

THE WORST MOVIE OF THE YEAR

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Reviewed Jawan

Sep 10, 2023 2260

SRK THE BUSINESSMAN SCORES ANOTHER POOR-QUALITY TORTURE The law of averages slams in, reminding you that just as there is the dazzlingly good, there is the nRead more...

TREMENDOUS FILM ON NEED FOR SEX EDUCATION IN INDI

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Reviewed OMG 2

Aug 17, 2023 925

Writer-Director Amit Rai’s tremendous film about the urgent need for sex education in Indian schools, engenders multiple pressing questions. How on earthRead more...

HINDU-MUSLIM MURDEROUS CIRCUS PART 2

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Reviewed Gadar 2: The Katha Continues

Aug 11, 2023 1150

Many of you would have borne witness to the original ‘Gadar’(2001) – a fantabulous, box office-igniting smash featuring Sunny Deol who uproots a water pump, sRead more...

IT'S ALL ABOUT LOVING YOUR WOMEN

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Reviewed Rocky Aur Rani Ki Prem Kahani

Jul 29, 2023 769

Do you know the feeling that you are watching one film while the audience around you(St.Lukes, Auckland, Friday first day first evening show) laughs ten more Read more...

THE MOST WOKE BARBIE EVER

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Reviewed Barbie (2023)

Jul 24, 2023 779

I am neither white nor blond nor a doll-digger nor a junior nor do I sport a peach cleft, so I figured I’d be perfectly positioned to dispassionately check ouRead more...

ANJANEYA-ERED FOR INDIAN BOX OFFICE

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Reviewed Adipurush

Jun 17, 2023 350

Adipurush, directed and written for the screen by Om Raut, knows its target audience and what it needs to do to satisfy them. At Rs.500 crore for production, Read more...

AVATAR : THE WASTE OF WATER

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Reviewed Avatar: The Way of Water

Dec 16, 2022 979

Too elongated(like a Na’avi thing), too mechanical despite teeming with unique sea creatures, and too obsessed with protracted battle sequences instead of theRead more...

THE TICKLES IMPRESS MORE THAN THE BITE

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Reviewed Bhediya

Nov 27, 2022 992

Leavened by humour and powered by an energetic, bristling spin on the werewolf genre. ‘Bhediya’ marks a step-up for Indian cinema’s creature-horror genre. It Read more...

KARNATAKA KRUDE : ANOTHER SECOND-RATE ‘MASS’ FLIC

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Reviewed Kantara

Nov 02, 2022 1310

The hoopla amongst the usual suspects is perhaps the first warning that all that gleams and gloats is not gold. Droves of youngsters pour out of the theaters Read more...