The Gorilla's Lament

 Pandurangadu (2008) is a devotional film, a genre which I always find interesting but really hard to review, since in the end these movies...

 In the Yama Cinematic Universe, the god Chitragupta is usually cast as Yama's comic sidekick, but he's an important religious figur...

 The death god Yama does not appear in Old Monk (2022), but it still feels an awful lot like a Yama movie.  This time, however, the action ...

At first glance, Looop Lapeta (2022) might look like your average movie about a woman stuck in a time loop as she desperately runs through...

Yama movies tend to be pretty predictable.  There are a few basic plots which get recycled and rewritten over and over again.  Yama has to v...

I've joked before about the Yama Cinematic Universe, but Yamaho Yama (2012) takes the joke one step further; an early scene involves a ...

After a month spent exploring the Yama Cinematic Universe, I am impressed with just how versatile a character Yama is; he can fit easily int...

Ramchandra Purushottam Joshi (2013) was based on a stage play, and it shows; the movie is almost Aristotelian in its tight focus on a the e...

Jagga Jiunda E (2018) features a shiny, updated afterlife.  Chitragupta, the judge of the dead, has retired and been replaced by Chitr Sing...

Narada is a legendary sage who appears in a number of Hindu texts, including both the Mahabharata and the Ramayana.  In the movies, though,...

Yama, god of death, is a stock comic figure in Indian cinema.  He's a stout, jolly fellow with distinctive headgear and spectacular faci...