Storyline: Homebound is a story of two best friends from the less fortunate backgrounds and what all they go through because of their identities. Mohammed Shoaib Ali (Ishaan Khatter) and Chandan Kumar (Vishal Jethwa) hail from a small town in India. … [Continue reading]
Storyline: The Ba***ds Of Bollywood revolves around Aasmaan Singh (Lakshya), who dreams of becoming a famous movie star. After arriving in Mumbai from his hometown Delhi and struggling for some time, he gets an opportunity to showcase his heroic … [Continue reading]
Storyline: Jolly LLB 3’s backstory dates to 2011 in Parsaul, a remote village in Rajasthan. An aged farmer Rajaram Solanki doesn’t agree to sell his land to India’s richest businessman Haribhai Khetan (Gajraj Rao) for his ‘Bikaner To Boston’ … [Continue reading]
Storyline: Sabar Bonda (Marathi movie; English title Cactus Pears) revolves around Anand (Bhushaan Manoj). He hails from a small village in Maharashtra but has migrated to Mumbai where he works in the corporate sector. His father falls seriously ill … [Continue reading]
Story outline: Dashavatar takes place in a remote village in Konkan, Maharashtra. The story revolves around Babuli Mestri (Dilip Prabhavalkar), an ageing folk theatre artiste and a celebrated figure in the village. He is specifically known for … [Continue reading]
Writer and director Chinmay D Mandlekar’s Netflix movie Inspector Zende is loosely based on the story of Inspector Madhukar Bapurao Zende capturing the dreaded criminal Carl Sobraj in 1986. The story starts off when the mastermind criminal Carl … [Continue reading]
Writer and director Krishnadev Yagnik’s Gujarati movie Vash (2023) turned out to be a thrilling saga of black magic. The film was later remade in Hindi as Shaitaan (2024). Sequels of horror films are always expected to overpower the first one but … [Continue reading]
War 2, the sequel to the highly successful War and the next film in the Yash Raj Films’ Spy Universe, carries the story forward from the end of the first film but it also doesn’t. Actually, it doesn’t appear like a continuation of the first film, … [Continue reading]
It is not often that you see the notion of caste and its atrocities being explored in mainstream Hindi cinema. The one name that comes to our mind is filmmaker Anubhav Sinha’s Ayushmann Khurrana starrer Article 15 (2019). Now, director Shazia Iqbal’s … [Continue reading]
Lord Vishnu’s various avatars have their own importance and they are worshipped in large numbers. But they also are cinematic enough for a movie on each one of them. In fact, I have always found it surprising as to why we have never had a series of … [Continue reading]