Category: Reviews

Fanatics Documentary Review: The Psyche, The Toxicity and the Business of Fan Culture.

Why do we have gods? Why do we have ‘heroes’ as demi-gods? Such often wondered but seldom asked, rarely explored and largely accepted questions are explored in this DocuBay Original […]

Pushpa 2 Review: Allu Arjun’s Mass and Sukumar’s Mess.

The highly anticipated sequel to 2021’s Pushpa: The Rise is a mess of incoherence and inconsistency.  Pushpa 2 Review and Rating: The whole nation, including North India, went crazy after […]

Freedom at Midnight Review: A Gripping Thriller of the Events that Changed World History

Nikhil Advani’s latest Sony LIV original revisiting the historical events that altered the course of world incidents is a gripping thriller with far too many interesting dialogues.  The 1940s was […]

Mechanic Rocky Review: Spoiled by Treatment; Saved by Unexpected Thrill

Vishwak Sen’s latest Mechanic Rocky is a routine thriller in terms of treatment of the story, character, humour; yet the sudden spin in the story of the second-half saved this […]

Matka Review: A Boring, Predictable, Colourless Watch

Telugu Funda’s Reveal of the Basic Plot: As a child, Vasu (Varun Tej) arrived in Vizag with his mother as a refugee from Burma. After he stabs someone to death […]

Kanguva Review: When Magadheera Meets 10,000 BC and Game of Thrones in the Loudest Way Possible

Director Siva’s most ambiguous project, Kanguva starring Suriya, is a blend of everything you might have already seen, yet wouldn’t mind watching them again except for Siva’s loudest of everything- […]

Appudo Ippudo Eppudo (2024): Promisable Thriller Ruined by Trying to Swallow More Genres Than It Can Chew.

Nikhil Sidhartha’s long-overdue, Appudo Ippudo Yeppudo, has finally hit the screens with the least impact for a Nikhils’s movie due to the lack of near-zero promotions.  Nikhil plays the role […]

Bhool Bhulaiyaa 3 (2024): The Horror-Comedy Genre is Evolving and Getting Better.

Karthik Aryan’s sequel to 2022’s hit Bhool Bhulaiyaa 2 is a formulaic horror-comedy. However, its evolution in terms of writing characters from Part-2 is appreciable. Bhool Bhulaiyaa 3 instils the […]

Amaran (2024): Amaran Loses Something Essential While it is Busy in Serving Indian Patriotism and Tributes to Martyrs

Amaran is a well-produced actioner with typical family emotions of a man in the army.  There are no new stories, there are only the ways of telling the old stories. […]