The point being: This is the core language of Bad Newz. It never really has a chance to become its own film. The story exists because of other stories. In fact, the entire film is a flashback because ...

When you watch enough bad movies in life, common sense goes for a toss. The most obvious things – like language – stop making sense. For instance, deep into the hellfire that is Wild Wild Punjab, I ...

We have a screenplay — a bible that interconnects complicated characters in its universe — that moves like a cheetah. Nothing is really just a coincidence in Maharaja. Which means an adorable but ...

One can take notes from Thalavan’s screenwriters, Anand Thevarkatt and Sarath Perumbavoor, on how to write a great setup. The investigation the film revolves around is first presented in hindsight as ...

PT Sir aims to convey a very strong and important statement about sexual harassment and victim blaming. But director Karthik Venugopalan seems to be hesitant in pinning all his hopes on just the ...

All We Imagine As Light is an evocative, stirring portrait of Mumbai and its people – especially immigrants. Payal Kapadia, making her feature debut, tells the story of two Malayali nurses – Prabha, ...

The older I get, the less patience I have for Hindi cinema’s biopic-for-dummies template. Actually, that’s not true. I’ve always been impatient with Wikipedia pages parading as movies. I’ve always ...

In Hari’s newest film, the violent Rathnam, Priya Bhavani Shankar’s Mallika casually drops a rather philosophical line. “There is no definition for good and bad,” she says, as she realises that the ...

Silence 2: The Night Owl Bar Shootout is the sequel to Silence… Can You Hear It? (I could not), the 2021 crime thriller that marked the beginning of a tacky whodunit franchise starring Manoj Bajpayee ...

Jithu Madhavan fully understands the excitement this thin plot can generate and instead of zooming past this idea to get to the “story”, he fills up the first half with some of the most random moments ...

It began with an ultimatum. Writer-director Paresh Mokashi and his wife, writer and producer Madhugandha Kulkarni told Ashish Avinash Bende that if he didn’t write down the stories he regaled them ...

The motivation index is a powerful storytelling tool that can ramp up any movie’s relatability. Whether it’s a character who wants to escape the monotony of everyday life or a heartbroken man trying ...