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Top TV: 2023

Class Based on the Spanish series Elite and a supremely dark twist to The Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act or Right to Education Act, director Ashim Ahluwalia (with co-directors Gul Dharmani and Kabir Mehta), using terrific mood and lighting, split-frames the lives of students from the slums and those born with snooty-feeders in South Delhi. Dark, rippling with sexual…

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#Class #Dahaad #Guns & Gulaabs #Jubilee #Kohhra #Scoop #The Last of Us #The Morning Show: Season 3 #The Railway Men #Top TV: 2023 #Trial By Fire

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lifeisacinemahall · 8 months

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‘Guns and Gulaabs’: nostalgia and opium meet to create a heady show

I wonder what nostalgia will mean for Generation Alpha. Will it be a fond chuckle of how their favorite movie or TV show buffered while streaming a critical scene? Or how some rando photobombed their lit party pics? Are these even things that they’ll do or care about? Or will nostalgia be another folder in the cloud, accessible via a monthly plan, no longer a sepia-tinged sigh of wistfulness? How…

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lifeisacinemahall · 8 months

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'Por Thozhil': lessons in mentorship in the face of chilling murders

Some have it, some don’t. Some are energized by the perficient future it offers; others see the drudgery of a pontificating tunnel that’s a time suck. Some see it as expanding their mishpocha; others view it as an intrusion into their solitude and focused work pattern. Which is why some are mentors, others tormentors. In the splendid Por Thozhil (The Art of War), cop Loganathan (Sarath Kumar)…

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#Alfred Prakash #Ashok Selvan #Jakes Bejoy #Kalaiselvan Sivaji #Nikhila Vimal #Nizhalgal Ravi #Por Thozhil #Por Thozhil review #Sarath Babu #Sarath Kumar #Vignesh Raja

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lifeisacinemahall · 9 months

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'Pranaya Vilasam': the flush of first love and when life flushes it down

What’s first love if not a fleeting aural bird that wings into a destination unknown, unfettered by life’s crushing weights of circumstances that, in the name of known stability, are anchors that stick deep and steady on the bed of relationships that sustain but not necessarily breathe? While that bird circles in an unseen stratosphere, we wait for a glimpse, caged by our obligations, if only to…

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#Anaswara Rajan #Arjun Ashokan #Hakkim Shah #Jyothish M #Mamitha Baiju #Manoj K.U.#Miya George #Nikhil Muraly #Pranaya Vilasam #Pranaya Vilasam review #Sarath Sabha #Shaan Rahman #Shinoz #Sreedhanya #Sunu AV #Unnimaya Naalppadam

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lifeisacinemahall · 9 months

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Mission Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One: AI meets Cruise, can’t outrun him

In a tense, terse scene, Ethan Hunt (who else but Tom Cruise) informs his rag-tag team that nothing outside their current, daunted conversation can be construed as the truth. That line, in essence, is the crux of the latest IMF (not the one handing out doles and country ratings who need the former and give a damn about the latter) caper, which now welcomes its latest villain, an omnipresent but…

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#Christopher McQuarrie #Esai Morales #Hayley Atwell #Henry Czerny #Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One #Pom Klementieff #Rebecca Ferguson #Shea Wigham #Simon Pegg #Tom Cruise #Vanessa Kirby #Ving Rhames

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lifeisacinemahall · 10 months

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‘Bholaa’: a bone-crunching mess

If nothing else, director-actor Ajay Devgn’s chaotic universe in his latest outing—where he performs the arduous task of spearheading both roles—is a bone-crunching lesson in the human anatomy. If Bholaa had a punchline, it’d be A study in human body joints and 201 ways to break them. If it had put in as many words on its screenplay sheets as it does the extras onscreen who come rushing in like…

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#Aamil Keeyan Khan #Ajay Devgn #Amir Khan #Ankush Singh #Aseem Bajaj #Bholaa #Bholaa review #Deepak Dobriyal #Gajraj Rao #Hirva Trivedi #Kiran Kumar #Sandeep Kewlani #Sanjay Mishra #Shridhar Dubey #Tabu #Vineet Kumar

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lifeisacinemahall · 1 year

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'Farzi': works best when it gives its template a rest

You know right at the beginning of Farzi (Fake) that the first season will not end swimmingly well for most of its characters. There’s the fed-up with the socio-economic-inequity duo Sunny (Shahid Kapoor) and Firoz (Bhuvan Arora, superb), who begin to realize the actual value of the former’s delicate artistic flourishes that seem to belong not in canvases that house recreations of masterpieces…

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#Amol Palekar #Bhuvan Arora #Chittaranjan Giri #Farzi #Farzi review #Kay Kay Menon #Krishna D.K.#Kubbra Sait #Raashii Khanna #Raj Nidimoru #Regina Cassandra #Shahid Kapoor #Sita Menon #Suman Kumar #Vijay Sethupathi #Zakir Hussain

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lifeisacinemahall · 1 year

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'Ponniyin Selvan: Part One': dame of thrones

Director Mani Ratnam, also cowriting with B. Jeyamohan and Elango Kumaravel, creates a complex zodiac of the magnum opus that is Kalki Krishnamurthy’s dynasty-riven drama, where the cast of characters are laid out in a tree structure that unfolds via breathtakingly created action sequences and vistas of a land that’s both magical and simmering with the tectonic chess-sequences of politics and…

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lifeisacinemahall · 1 year

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'Qala', 'The Banshees of Inshirin' reviews

Swastika Mukherjee, Tripti Dimri: mirror of voices. If writer-director Anvita Dutt’s debut Bulbbul bled gothic tears of red to mourn the passage of woman-to-witch passage, their Qala (Art) is a demi-tragic stunning canvas that weaves visual poetry via Siddharth Diwan’s cinematography and Ramesh Yadav’s art direction. Tracking the success of playback singer Qala Manjushree, the movie follows…

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lifeisacinemahall · 1 year

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'Malayankunju': a harrowing struggle of nature, within and without

‘Malayankunju’: a harrowing struggle of nature, within and without

You spend a good twenty minutes in horror in Malayankunju (Rebirth and Retribution) watching Fahadh Faasil in close up, as his Anikkuttan, trapped underneath a combination of landslide sludge, pieces of concrete and rods, and everyday household items—all now deadly weapons of swift mortal extinguishers—struggles to find a way out, to stay alive and see the light of the day. What’s led Anikkuttan…

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#A.R. Rahman #Fahadh Faasil #Indrans #Jaffar Idukki #Jaya S Kurup #Mahesh Narayanan #Malayankunju #Malayankunju review #Rajisha Vijayan #Sajimon Prabhakar #Sree Sankar

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lifeisacinemahall · 1 year

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'Severance': the dystopia of work-life balance

‘Severance’: the dystopia of work-life balance

What if Ben Stiller, the actor, the unanointed head of the Frat (some would say interchanging the ‘a’ and the ‘r’ would be mot juste) Pack figured out a way to cleave his brain to—in a life lived in parallel—go behind the camera to fill a directorial canvas of stunning, cerebral output? (Escape at Dannemora, anyone?) Oh wait, that sounds like something Stiller, the director, offers in one of…

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lifeisacinemahall · 2 years

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‘Delhi Crime 2’: societal climate’s change for the worse

Floods. Drought. Unseasonal weather occurrences. Mass-scale misery. An apocalyptic climate has descended upon us in a swift advancement of Nature’s plans. But there’s another rumbling of tectonic plates that we’d do well to pay heed to. One that the gritty as Delhi’s dust Titliwarned us back in 2015. That disaffected, dissonant theme is back to haunt DCP Vartika Chaturvedi (Shefali Shah) and her…

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lifeisacinemahall · 2 years

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When Inner Voice Crashes into External Violence

‘19 (1) (a)’ is a ruminating, pensive beauty. There comes a time when the words that tumble inside your head percolate to your heart, and then when you sit down to pen them, what comes out via the flames of experiences, hindsight, and forethought is the sparkling, distilled truth, the residue a purge of what you’ve been forced to believe or has been thrust as truth. These words, these feelings,…

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#19 (1) (a)#19 (1) (a) review #Athulya Ashadam #Bhagath Baby Manuel #Deepak Parambol #Govind Vasantha #Indhu V.S #Indrajith Sukumaran #Indrans #Manesh Madhavan #Nithya Menen #Srikanth Murali #Vijay Sethupathi

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lifeisacinemahall · 2 years

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'Pada', 'Paka' reviews

‘Pada’, ‘Paka’ reviews

Pada Joju George. Dileesh Pothan, Kunchako Boban, Vinayakan, Gopalan Adat: tense strides Based on an actual incident in 1996, this tightly wound hostage drama has its nervous tics and politics in the right place. Writer-director Kamal K.M. sets up a divergent team of five men who criss-cross into Palakkad city, displacing their familial coordinates (wives of two of them, played by Unnimaya…

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lifeisacinemahall · 2 years

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‘Darlings’: a scintillating wallop of a societal welt

By all accounts, writer-director Jasmeet K. Reen‘s directorial debut is one of Hindi cinema’s rare grace for 2022. Co-writing with Parveez Sheikh, the director packs in a scintillating wallop as they explore the crack and tissue-injuring reality of domestic violence within the seemingly carceral walls of a chawl. As it usually does, the marital vows are preceded by wooing and persistent strewing…

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#Alia Bhatt #Darlings #Darlings review #Jasmeet K. Reen #Kiran Karmarkar #Parveez Sheikh #Prashanth Pillai #Rajesh Sharma #Roshan Mathew #Santosh Juvekar #Shefali Shah #Vijay Maurya #Vijay Varma #Vijay Verma

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lifeisacinemahall · 2 years

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'Anek': complex, confounding, important

‘Anek’: complex, confounding, important

Old injuries resurface in the form of pain during inclement weather. And as you get older, those injuries come back to haunt you in the form of chronic stabs. The anatomy of India, as she writhed and heaved in upheaval, led not just to her being an independent republic but also a physical boundary that left some permanent scars and some dormant wounds. In the north-east, as the demand for…

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#Andrea Kevichüsa #Anek #Anek Review #Anubhav Sinha #Ayushmann Khurrana #J.D. Chakravarthy #Kumud Mishra #Loitongbam Dorendra #Manoj Pahwa #Mipham Otsal #Sheila Devi #Sima Agarwal #Sushil Pandey #Thejasevor Belho #Yash Keswani

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lifeisacinemahall · 2 years

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'Thar', 'The Underground Railroad' reviews

‘Thar’, ‘The Underground Railroad’ reviews

Thar Anil Kapoor: Thar‘s highlight. Or Thar she blows. Ostensibly director Raj Singh Chaudhary‘s neo-noir western cauldron, the movie begins promisingly enough with a mysterious antique dealer (Harshvardhan Kapoor, very effective and restrained a la The Man with No Name in Sergio Leone’s Dollar’s Trilogy) passing through a remote village in Rajasthan looking for specific helping hands for his…

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#Aaron Pierre #Anil Kapoor #Barry Jenkins #Chase Dillon #Fatima Sana Shaikh #Harshvardhan Kapoor #Joel Edgerton #Nicholas Britell #Raj Singh Chaudhary #Satish Kaushik #Shakti Mohan #Shreya Dev Dube #Thar #The Underground Railroad #Thuso Mbedo

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