The Gorilla's Lament

This is supposed to be a review of Diljale (1996), but it's Diljale (Abridged) because the cut of the movie I watched has had more tha...

 In Bollywood they say that romance is dead.  It's not, of course; the Hindi film industry runs in cycles, and romance will always come ...

Sooryavanshi (2021) is the continuation, and perhaps the culmination, of Rohit Shetty's Cop Universe.  Like the other Cop Universe movie...

Every genre has its tropes.   Karwaan (2018) is a road movie, and an arty one at that, so you can expect repressed emotions, at least one f...

 Chandigarh Amritsar Chandigarh (2019) is not a Bollywood movie; it's a product of "Pollywood," the Punjabi film industry, bu...

 Chori Chori Chupke Chupke has always been my benchmark for terrible plans in Indian movies; it's hard to top "Honey, let's hi...

 When Bollywood legend Rishi Kapoor died in 2020, shooting for his last film, Sharmaji Namkeen (2022) was still incomplete.  Rather than sc...