Guardian reviews
6 reviews of Hindi and Telugu films, average rating 3.2/5.
This fictionalised version omits any violence in which Gangubai was reportedly involved and drugs are demurely replaced with alcohol being sold on the premises; when Gangubai finally evolves from being a mafia queen into a…
Read the full reviewAnek is a rare commercial film that spotlights Northeastern Indian stories, and goes out of its way to refuse to condemn guerrilla fighters as terrorists.
Read the full reviewA tense, state-of-the-nation drama set in Covid-era India successfully exposes how the caste system underpins much of the country’s division and strife
Read the full reviewA trip to Kavya’s home town ignites nostalgic memories of the couple’s thrilling, whirlwind courtship; radically the film sees their struggles not simply as individual failure but an extension of cultural differences and familial…
Read the full reviewAs unstintingly jingoistic as it is relentlessly entertaining, this Bollywood blockbuster celebrates a fictionalised version of the life and as most of its audience will already know – death of heroic soldier Major Sandeep…
Read the full reviewBut with the material as thin as ever, this version seems even emptier: it goes in one ear, and vaporises before it can emerge from the other.
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