Shubhra Gupta
Columnist and Film Critic at The Indian Express
Journalist, Columnist. Film Critic. Author of 'Irrfan : A Life In Movies', and '50 Films That Changed Bollywood 1995-2015' https://t.co/1ivJOoWvbg…
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6 days ago |
indianexpress.com | Shubhra Gupta
The prince and the showgirl. He is royalty, she is middle-class. He rides horses on the beach, sculpted bare chest a-gleam. She’s shiny too, but more from the plebeian pursuit of running. Cool tracks, though, and very sculpted too, but of course, chalk and cheese. Aviraaj Singh (Ishaan Khatter) and Sophia Kanmani Shekhar (Bhumi Pednekar) spark, clash, part, meet again. You know the drill; classic rom com territory.
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6 days ago |
indianexpress.com | Shubhra Gupta
A doctor comes to a village, there to discover a place where a familiar mix of innocence and craftiness is at play, where a quack has a bustling practice, and where he, the well-intentioned doc, learns life lessons. Replace Amol Parashar’s doctor with Jitendra Kumar’s ‘sachivji’, and you will get the set-up for Panchayat, TVF’s much-loved show, with so little difference as to be negligible.
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1 week ago |
indianexpress.com | Shubhra Gupta
There are flashes of familiarity in Black, White and Gray—Love Kills in the broad thematic connections it is attempting at, between young lovers on the run, and the obstacles that come in their way. Patriarchy, parental opposition, class differences, power structures, are all present in this crime drama, reminding you of several others that have come before.
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1 week ago |
indianexpress.com | Shubhra Gupta
Within a few minutes of the film’s opening, I asked myself: what am I doing here? Two hours, ten minutes, and what seems like a lifetime of groaning-and-moaning later, I have zero answers to that one. Horror comedies may be the flavour of the season after the ‘Stree’ jamboree, but even its part 2 was nowhere close to the delightful original. In this new film, we get a ‘The’, emphasising that this is not your random garden variety of bhootni, but a very specific one, with a double i to boot.
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2 weeks ago |
indianexpress.com | Shubhra Gupta
Honest customs officer up against a wall of corruption. Costao, based on the real-life story of Costao Fernandes who fought with all his might to stall gold-smuggling in the Goa of the 90s, has Nawazuddin Siddiqui in a role that’s worthy of his talents, but a script which is distinctly lacklustre. A film that starts with a voiceover alerts you to the fact that the writers couldn’t find a more original way to tell their story.
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