Hindi Movies
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Movie Review: Rahasya (2015)
The truth about real-life incidents, like an unsolved homicide, while devastating to a family, can provide fertile ground for filmmakers to exercise their creativity and take a few poetic liberties. They are given a ready-made plot, allowing them to add or remove characters as necessary, change a few events, and speculate on the missing pieces. Read more
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Movie Review: Talvar (2015)
As my readers are well aware, I enjoy watching whodunits where a shrewd sleuth unravels the mystery behind a murder and exposes the culprit. However, does this often happen in reality? Talvar, a Bollywood film based on an actual murder case, blends fact and fiction in its plot and, to some extent, answers this very Read more
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Movie Review: Raat Akeli Hai (2020)
Raat Akeli Hai (The Night is Lonely) is a riveting, intense Bollywood crime thriller and whodunit directed by Honey Trehan, starring Nawazuddin Siddiqui and Radhika Apte. The plot follows the intense investigation of a rich man’s murder, which unearths long-buried secrets within his family. The movie opens with a car on a highway being forced Read more
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Movie Review: Manorama Six Feet Under (2007)
After more than 300 posts on this blog, I am now reviewing a Bollywood movie for the first time. “Manorama Six Feet Under,” directed and co-written by Navdeep Singh, is more a homage than an adaptation of Polanski’s classic neo-noir, “Chinatown.” That being said, the movie introduces enough changes to “Chinatown’s” plot to make it Read more
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