Category: Filmmaker Reflections
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The films haven’t changed. We have. Or maybe cinema and its audience changed together. So when did violence stop needing to hurt us and start needing to impress us?
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Honour can be a compass, a cage, a weapon, a debt. Or an act of letting go. Across Hollywood and Indian Cinema, what changes isn’t just what honour means, but who pays the price for it.
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I have a weakness for stories about the Indian Armed Forces. Or maybe it is a strength. I haven’t decided yet. Either way, Operation Safed Sagar had me binge-watching all six episodes back-to-back. Something I haven’t done in a very long time. The Netflix series is based on the Indian Air Force’s role during the…
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I owe Robert Pattinson an apology. There. I said it. I came to Twilight late. Very late. So late that my introduction to Edward Cullen came via a Criminal Minds joke I didn’t understand. And after I did my crash course of the series, Robert Pattinson existed in my head primarily as Edward Cullen. And…
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Odysseus spends twenty years trying to get home. But Nolan’s film asks the harder question: after everything he has survived, who is the man returning?
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Dhurandhar 2 doesn’t treat the climax as a finish line. The action ends, but the choices made there leave consequences that refuse to stay buried.
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Ranveer Singh builds Hamza through restraint, physicality and detail. What makes the performance fascinating isn’t how loudly it announces itself, but how completely it holds.
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From romance to restraint — my changing equation with Shah Rukh Khan I don’t enjoy most romances. They need to have something more…conflict, context, consequence. Love alone, with random drama stitched around it, doesn’t work for me. Maybe that’s why my relationship with Shah Rukh Khan has always been… complicated. I know what he represents.…
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The quiet rebellion against possessive love. There are films that fail because they are poorly made.And then there are films that stumble because they refuse to behave the way audiences expect them to. Dear Comrade belongs to the second category. When it released, many walked in expecting the return of the “angry young man.” The…
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Midway through the first episode of Mrs Deshpande I started laughing. Not because the subject was funny, but because the writing was careless. Procedural nonsense, genre confusion, characters behaving like plot furniture — the usual things that make a supposed thriller accidentally comic. And then, somewhere along the way, I stopped laughing. Because the problem…
