The Gorilla's Lament

RRR (2022) was written and directed by S. S. Rajamouli, who also wrote and directed the Bahubali films.  Comparisons are pretty much inevi...

The Bollywood movies of the Nineties could get pretty wild, but Basant (1960) is a product of a different time, an age in which Shammi Kapo...

Happy Phirr Bhag Jayegi (2018) is a very direct sequel to 2016's Happy Bhaag Jayegi , featuring many of the same actors playing the sam...

 Jugni is a recurring character and metaphor and theme in Punjabi folk music.  A Jugni songs usually features a wide eyed innocent young wom...

 Bollywood has a knack for sudden genre shifts, but A Gentleman (2017) is the only case I can think of where an action comedy suddenly tran...

 Shahid Kapoor is a fine actor, and probably my favorite cinematic Hamlet.  He didn't spring into being as a full fledged respected thes...

Dishoom (2016) is not a movie with pretensions.  It knows exactly what it wants to be: a bombastic summer action flick with maverick cops, ...