GORY LYARI LARKS

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Reviewed Dhurandhar

Aditya Dhar may be auditioning for the role of India’s Defense Minister - if so, I hope he will transfer his filmic ferocity into real-life gumption. Pic, read more...

Karavalli Part I : Restaurant Review

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Reviewed Karavalli - Residency Road - Bangalore

Karavalli in Bangalore, elegantly expansively expensively ensconced inside Taj Vivanta in downtown Bangalore, has made its name over the decades as a deluxe estread more...

CRUISE & POTUS SAVE THE WORLD YET AGAIN

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Reviewed Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning

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’sread more...

AMONGST B'LORE'S BEST VADA-CHUTNEY

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Reviewed S. N. Refreshments - JP Nagar - Bangalore

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. Bangalread more...

ONE HIT DISH OUT OF FIVE.

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Reviewed Chianti - Indiranagar - Bangalore

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

ROASTED NOSTALGIA, CRISP BUSINESS

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Reviewed Koshy's Bakery - Richmond Town - Bangalore

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. Koshy&read more...

KANTARA KGF CLONE. HOT AIR, NO REAL MEAT

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Reviewed Pushpa 2: The Rule

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

BACHCHAN VERSUS PRABHAS. HALKI STORY, KALKI ACTION

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Reviewed Kalki 2898 AD

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 waread more...

NOLAN CUTS THE FAFF

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Reviewed Oppenheimer

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

12th FAIL, DISTINCTION IN LIFE

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Reviewed 12th Fail

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

TOO LATE, TOO LITTLE

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Reviewed Killers of the Flower Moon

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

SANDEEP REDDY VANGA IS THE NEW SELVARAGHAVAN

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Reviewed Animal

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

MASTERPIECE DOCU. ON DREADED DACOIT VEERAPPAN

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Reviewed The Hunt for Veerappan

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 criminread more...

THE WORST MOVIE OF THE YEAR

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Reviewed Jawan

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 nausread more...

TREMENDOUS FILM ON NEED FOR SEX EDUCATION IN INDIA

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Reviewed OMG 2

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

HINDU-MUSLIM MURDEROUS CIRCUS PART 2

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Reviewed Gadar 2: The Katha Continues

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, sinread more...

IT'S ALL ABOUT LOVING YOUR WOMEN

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Reviewed Rocky Aur Rani Ki Prem Kahani

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 thread more...

THE MOST WOKE BARBIE EVER

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Reviewed Barbie (2023)

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 out read more...

ANJANEYA-ERED FOR INDIAN BOX OFFICE

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Reviewed Adipurush

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, Inread more...

AVATAR : THE WASTE OF WATER

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Reviewed Avatar: The Way of Water

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