Old wine in a cracked bottle
As the movie progresses with a lazy screenplay and even worse acting, the audience is nothing but dumfounded...
As the movie progresses with a lazy screenplay and even worse acting, the audience is nothing but dumfounded...
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni is an award-winning and bestselling author, poet, activist and teacher of writing. Her work has been published widely, in magazines and anthologies, and her books translated into 29 languages. Several of her works have been...
The pervasive lack of logic, repetitions and prejudice makes Housefull 4 difficult to watch. So much so that you loses all respect you gained for Kumar from his previous films.
Some characters are given blackfaces with the use of what looks like boot polish. They obviously couldn’t find dark-skinned actors to match their characters
Sharlene Teo won the £10,000 Deborah Rogers Writers’ Award for her unpublished manuscript ‘Ponti’. Later, Picador bought the rights to it in a seven-way auction. The cover has a wonderful comment by Ian McEwan on it. When I bought the book, I had pretty...
Deepak-Deepa have finally chosen as their focal topic something that is not so ‘glamorous’ and has rarely been touched in Nepali films—water scarcity. Working with some of the finest actors in Nepali cinema, director Lama manages to get the best out of...
The film is ridiculously lengthy for its trite story, the screenplay is lethargic, editing flawed at various points, and continuity breaks apart frequently. As audiences, a little nostalgia is never bad but, unfortunately, Raato Tika Nidhar Ma represents...
Despite some flaws, KKK is an all-out entertainer and also offers a great lesson to Nepali filmmakers—you don’t need to bar foreign films for box office success It is a wholehearted comedy that doesn’t rely on gimmicks like insult and sexualization to...
Elizabeth Is Missing is many things: a crime novel, a story about mental illness and dealing with mental illness, and a meditation on the complexities of aging
The filmmakers seem to have no idea how to make a bearable movie or to properly spend their money. Many Nepali directors would kill to have that kind of budget The plot is simple and trite, yet perfect for a high-speed action thriller. But the film-making...
It is a solid car. All the elements in the XV are of high quality carefully put together to make this one complete package. The small, practical, family-friendly package makes the Subaru XV an instant recommendation.
What makes the film good is that the director gets the best out of all supporting actors, even the ones in very small roles. Nobody seems out of place.
If you have heard about Ikigai but don’t know much about it, the book might be able to give you a few ideas. But no more.
Marketed as “an obsessive love story”, one can neither feel the love nor the obsession in the two-hour runtime, thanks to a forgettable performance of lead actors
