- Love Sex Aur Dhokha 2 - Review
wogma rating: Add to that never-watched 'To Watch' list (?) quick review: Experimental, it is. But not an experiment that I enjoyed. It could be a me thing, though. The film’s subject matter is stuff that I actively avoid in real life. To top it off, my mind couldn’t keep up with the chaos + frenzied presentation. Streaming Partner: Netflix Review I am actually tired. My brain feels worn out. No, it is not because this is the second film I w…
- 5 days ago 19 Apr 24, 6:49pm -
- Do Aur Do Pyaar - Review
wogma rating: Add to that never-watched 'To Watch' list (?) quick review: The film is a metaphor for its subject matter—relationships. It starts with excitement and freshness, goes through a phase where the effort shows, and moves into a plainness, that’s simple but boring. Review Do aur Do Pyaar’s first half is so refreshing and pleasant that the second half, especially the last forty-five minutes or so made me sad. The charm and joy left…
- 5 days ago 19 Apr 24, 5:28pm -
- Amar Singh Chamkila - Review
wogma rating: Add to 'must watch' list (?) quick review: Ali injects a touch of experimentation with youthful vigor. Rehman pulsates. Dosanjh and Chopra embody innocence & liveliness. Kamil's lyrics enhance the narrative's depth. Together, they weave a compelling narrative. Review Intriguing, pulsating, convincing, important, Chamkila leaves you thirsty for more. 14th April 2024: Two unidentified men open fire outside Salman Khan's Mumbai residen…
- 8 days ago 16 Apr 24, 4:09pm -
- Bade Miyan Chote Miyan - Review
wogma rating: Watch if you have nothing better to do (?) quick review: It’s not the worst thing you will see. Only because Bade Miyan Chote Miya starring Amitabh Bachchan and Govinda exists. The action is crores combusting into prime meaninglessness. My cousin who is a PJ star cracks better PJs, just please don’t tell him. Review What do I feel more sorry for? My ₹400 and 3+ hours or crores blasting into flames scene after scene after scene…
- 12 days ago 12 Apr 24, 6:52pm -
- Maidaan - Review
wogma rating: Watch but no rush (?) quick review: A quiet, calm film with rushes that a football match can give to fans. Football enthusiast or not, the real-life story makes you clap for its hero. Watch it for the coach of the Indian football team of the 50s and early 60s, S A Rahim. Review Even before it was put on paper, Maidaan had the remarkable true-life story on its side. Its hero’s fortitude defies what you believe a human being can do.…
- 12 days ago 12 Apr 24, 5:38pm -
- Crew - Review
wogma rating: Add to that never-watched 'To Watch' list (?) quick review: Torn between shouting out ‘three cheers to a proper women-in-the-lead film and demanding a better-written film for the women in the lead. (Streaming Partner: Netlfix) Review The trailer itself grabs your attention with three ladies who don’t look like they have any intention of being anywhere except at the center of the stage. Through. The. Film. And it delivers on tha…
- 19 days ago 5 Apr 24, 4:47pm -
- Yodha - Review
wogma rating: Add to that never-watched 'To Watch' list (?) quick review: Slick action, decent story with adequate twists and turns. But falls into the usual problematic trope of glamourising an insubordinate know-it-all. That along with the jingoism makes a lot of Yodha an exasperating watch rather than an enjoyable one.(Streaming Partner: Prime Video) Review It is a tricky one, right? A system exists so that people cannot behave willy-nilly. T…
- 34 days ago 21 Mar 24, 5:25pm -
- Shaitaan - Review
wogma rating: Watch but no rush (?) - Disclaimer: Horror—having my gut knotted for 2+ hours—is not my idea of fun. quick review: This is some well-made horror. You relate, you clutch your heart, your tummy carries a vacuum. But, it certainly should have been crisper and the verbosity in the climax takes away from the impact.Streaming Partner: Netflix Review If you have a pit in your stomach, if your intestines feel squeezed, if the hair at t…
- 47 days ago 8 Mar 24, 3:59pm -
- Teri Baaton Mein Aisa Uljha Jiya - Review
wogma rating: Add to 'must watch' list (?) quick review: Easy-going situational fun with a conscience. Doesn’t diss on anything while passing a message as subtly as it can. Well and warmly written characters, situations, and a story. Review You know how you have a feeling that you are highly unlikely to like a film? And you start with confirmation bias looking for things to not like. Teri Baaton Mein Aisa Uljha Jiya’s title itself tested my b…
- 75 days ago 9 Feb 24, 5:22pm -
- Fighter - Review
wogma rating: Watch if you have nothing better to do (?) quick review: Shallow, hollow, soulless imitation of a certain ‘Air Force’ film. Old bottle old wine, unimaginative, stale repetition of the India-Pakistan-war genre. Lazy, unambitious, opportunistic picking of the lowest-hanging fruit of nationalism. Review Performative—that’s the word that won’t leave me ever since I left the movie hall. The banter, the camaraderie, the romance,…
- 90 days ago 25 Jan 24, 5:48pm -
- Merry Christmas - Review
wogma rating: Beg or borrow, but do watch (?) quick review: I was on the edge of my seat for all but the first minute of the film. Mentally, even if not literally. Everything in the film comes together towards that end—keeping you on the edge. Will not ask for more from a thriller! Review Till it’s not the whodunnit, it’s the philosophical nuggets that keep your mind glued to the screen. So that you don’t miss one. When it’s not the ref…
- 12 Jan 24, 5:34pm -
- Dunki - Review
wogma rating: Switch channels if it's on cable (?) quick review: Geopolitics: minus101. Rajkumar Hirani never got back to the Munnabhai-Circuit level of discourse. This, though, is another level of simplification. It is boring. So, what if the actors perform? All other than the leads, that is. Those two, ham. Review Why does a Rajkumar Hirani film have to take a David-Dhawan-Priyadarshan route to get to the point? Where has the story-telling disa…
- 22 Dec 23, 5:42pm -
- The Archies - Review
wogma rating: Watch but no rush (?) quick review: It’s cute—more in the way it shows Politics 101 than its romance. Of course, it’s over-simplified and candy-flossified. But hey, this is one way to tell Gen Z, “We are sorry. But you have to clean up the mess we created.”(Available on Netflix) Review I was not expecting to put “Social” and “Political” ahead of “Romance” against genre when I typed my review out for The Archie…
- 9 Dec 23, 1:40pm -
- Animal - Review
wogma rating: Switch channels if it's on cable (?) quick review: Long. Random. Violent. Pointless. Long therefore random. Violent therefore pointless. Oh, now I am rambling despite myself. Just like the film despite its well-written but absolutely unlikeable protagonist.Streaming partner: Netflix Review Mistake regretted: The rating was changed to " Switch channels if it's on cable" from "Watch if you have nothing better to do", Apologies~ ~ ~id…
- 1 Dec 23, 11:56pm -
- Tiger 3 - Review
wogma rating: Watch but no rush (?) quick review: It is cute when a Salman Khan film has a decent story. Even if the twists and twists turn around in circles, 9/10 of which are predictable. That the rest of the film rests on the women is a pleasant surprise too. Even if it is only a tiny step in the right direction.(Streaming Partner: Amazon Prime) Review A Salman Khan film, and I didn’t roll my eyes! Don’t remember doing it even once. Not…
- 14 Nov 23, 6:29pm -
- Ganapath – A Hero Is Born - Review
wogma rating: Switch channels if it's on cable (?) quick review: The hard work shows. In creating chiselled beautiful-looking bodies. It also shows in the actors trying to get the action choreography right. But it’s either missing or not enough in all the writing departments—dialogues, characters, screenplay, story. The trailer on repeat is good enough to appreciate the hard work. Review Hindi films as an industry are only getting started on…
- 23 Oct 23, 4:41pm -
- Fukrey 3 - Review
wogma rating: Switch channels if it's on cable (?) quick review: The choice of humour is so random. The creativity in being disgusting, so disgusting. How? Why? What? So many questions that my numbed brain doesn’t want answers to. Review Sure, Fukrey 3 strings a relatively coherent story together. And I use “coherent” rather loosely here. “Relatively” too. But, the choice of scenes to bring the film together is mind-blowingly incohere…
- 28 Sep 23, 5:16pm -
- The Great Indian Family - Review
wogma rating: Watch but no rush (?) quick review: It would’ve been nice if secularism weren’t shoved down our throats.Then again, it would’ve been nice if secularism didn’t need to be shoved down our throats.The latter raises the film above what it is cinematically. Review It makes me happy to see the likes of Aditya Chopra and Vicky Kaushal back such a project. Why? Because it is brave.It makes me miserable that this has to be consider…
- 22 Sep 23, 5:14pm -
- Jawan - Review
wogma rating: Watch but no rush (?) quick review: The whistles are back in the theatres. Such a joy! So what if I couldn’t stop shaking my head at the startling shrillness and mindlessness of it all? The only exception being the film’s potent central message. Streaming partner: Netflix Review Jawan’s heart beats for India’s common citizen and the many issues they face. But is this the only way to reach out to a mass audience? In a high-p…
- 7 Sep 23, 5:19pm -
- Dream Girl 2 - Review
wogma rating: Switch channels if it's on cable (?) quick review: Numbed me, in mind and body. Review That felt like the longest 135 minutes I have spent in a theatre. I cannot even remember when I so desperately waited for the interval, just to get a break from what was going on. I never imagined a film with Ayushmann Khurrana had the capacity to induce adverse emotions. From the word go, the movie is loud and has a 90ish feel to the story with a…
- 25 Aug 23, 5:06pm -
