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Ajit Duara

CAST Shweta Basu Prasad, Mithun Chakraborty | DIRECTOR Vivek Agnihotri
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The Tashkent Files Movie Review

A cloud of misinformation and disinformation is suspended in the atmospherics of this movie. It is not a film worth seeing

12 April 2019
CAST Asher Angel, Zachary Levi, Jack Dylan Grazer | DIRECTOR David F. Sandberg
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Shazam! Movie Review

The lightheartedness inherent in this movie lets you see superhero abilities from a different perspective

05 April 2019
CAST John Abraham, Mouni Roy, Jackie Shroff | DIRECTOR Robbie Grewal
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Romeo Akbar Walter Movie Review

The film is an absorbingly nostalgic film for a pre-digital age, when the human factor was so crucial to success or failure

05 April 2019
CAST Lupita Nyong’o, Winston Duke, Elizabeth Moss | DIRECTOR: Jordan Peele
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Us Movie Review

When a director forcefully superimposes special meaning onto popular horror iconography, it starts to look camp

29 March 2019
CAST  Vidyut Jammwal, Thalaivasal Vijay, Pooja Sawant | DIRECTOR Chuck Russell
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Junglee Movie Review

With mixed genres, structured under a Hindi melodrama format, ‘Junglee’ turns into a well intentioned, but boring movie

29 March 2019
CAST Abhimanyu Dassani, Radhika Madan, Mahesh Manjrekar | DIRECTOR  Vasan Bala
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Mard Ko Dard Nahi Hota Movie Review

A poor man’s superhero movie

22 March 2019
CAST Akshay Kumar, Parineeti Chopra | DIRECTOR Anurag Singh
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Kesari Movie Review

If historical nationalism is your thing, this movie is for you

22 March 2019
CAST Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Sanya Malhotra, Farrukh Jaffer | DIRECTOR Ritesh Batra
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Photograph Movie Review

The condition of extreme loneliness in a big city is well known, and director Ritesh Batra examines this very carefully, both with his script and his camera

15 March 2019
CAST Ali Fazal, Shraddha Srinath, Sanjay Mishra | DIRECTOR Tigmanshu Dhulia
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Milan Talkies Movie Review

Milan Talkies'makes sense, but it takes a while, and the nuanced character of Maithili is the glue

15 March 2019
CAST Brie Larson, Samuel L. Jackson, Lashana Lynch | DIRECTOR Anna Bowden, Ryan Fleck
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Captain Marvel Movie Review

‘Captain Marvel’ does not have the epic narrative structure of the other Marvel comic adaptations

08 March 2019

Authors

Brahma Chellaney

Brahma Chellaney is a geostrategist and the author of two award-winning books on water: Water, Peace, and War and Water: Asia’s New Battleground

MJ Akbar

MJ Akbar is the author of, among several titles, Tinderbox: The Past and Future of Pakistan. His latest book is Gandhi: A Life in Three Campaigns

Ram Madhav

Ram Madhav is president, India Foundation, and is with BJP

Makarand R Paranjape

Makarand R Paranjape is an author and columnist. Views are personal.

TCA Raghavan

TCA Raghavan is a former Indian High Commissioner to Pakistan and Singapore. His first book, Attendant Lords: Abdur Rahim and Bairam Khan: Courtiers and Poets in Mughal India, was awarded the Mohammad Habib Prize by the Indian History Congress. He is also the author of The People Next Door: The Curious History of India’s Relations with Pakistan and History Men: Jadunath Sarkar, G S Sardesai, Raghubir Sinh and Their Quest for India’s Past. His latest book is Circles of Freedom: Love, Friendship and Loyalty in the Indian National Struggle

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