Sardar Udham, on Amazon Prime Video, is a Technical Knockout
Shoojit Sircar’s film sheds the problematic grammar of the freedom-fighter epic
Bollywood Review
Sanak is Yet Another Tired Version of the Last-action-hero Trope
Starring Vidyut Jammval, the film is basic, silly and forgettable
Sardar Udham Is Ambitious, But The Slowest Of Slow Burns
Two hours and forty-two minutes long, the film finds its beating heart only when the Jallianwala Bagh portion begins
Sanak Is Bollywoodised Die Hard, But Can't Match Its Dramatic Stakes
I get it. The Vidyut Jammwal film is purely a vehicle for action. But can’t the narrative gluing the action sequences together have a little more depth and sparkle?
Tabbar Is A Well-Crafted Ode To The Trappings Of Middle-Class Morality
Tabbar works even when it doesn’t, for it reflects the disquiet of middle-Indian aspiration by focusing on the individualism – rather than systemic fury – of survival
Rashmi Rocket Sacrifices Artistic Integrity At The Altar Of Intent
The film features some of the most tackily filmed sports scenes in Hindi cinema
Rashmi Rocket Is Well-Intentioned But Not Entirely Successful
Rashmi Rocket is a bit of a muddle. The film is situated between fact and fiction
BIFF 2021: The Rapist, Pedro, House Of Time And The Road To Kuthriyar
These Indian films all depict isolation, loss and grief in some way
Shiddat Review: A Tone-deaf Bollywood Ode to Undying Love
Kunal Deshmukh’s latest uses three solid actors – Sunny Kaushal, Radhika Madan and Mohit Raina – to suggest that there is nothing quite as aspirational as a mentally unstable male blinded by love
Break Point Is An Engaging Postmortem of A Big Sporting Tragedy
The seven-part documentary series on tennis stars Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi charts the highs and lows of arguably India’s most iconic divorce
Shiddat Is Old School And Not In A Good Way
The jarring tonalities accentuate the loopholes in logic
Thalaivii, Now On Netflix, Is A Terrible Ode To A Cultural Superstar
The film’s Hindi version, now available on streaming, doesn’t suffer from an identity crisis so much as an all-out quality crisis
