Shaibal Chhotray

We all love to make favourite films list. But the one thing cinema teaches anyone is that no list is sacrosanct and no list is profane. Anything can be a movie. Anything. Art is subjective…

When an inspector remarks that it is common for many in the Irula caste to be convicted in theft cases, Advocate Chandra admonishes him by asking if there is any caste that is devoid of…

Godzilla vs. Kong is the fourth installment in Legendary’s MonsterVerse franchise and depicts the epic clash between the two monster superheroes. It is equivalent to Marvel’s Civil War where…

Let’s put it in very simple words. Indoo Ki Jawani by debutant director Abir Sengupta is an immensely bad film. The review ends here as writing anything beyond this point is redundant and is…

Films that criticize religion are often a subject of controversy. Amazon Prime recently found itself in crosshairs as several FIRs were filed by UP Police against its webseries Tandav for…

Ramin Bahrani’s Netflix film based on Arvind Adiga’s Booker Prize winning novel, ‘The White Tiger’, is one of the most faithful books-to-film adaptations in recent memory. The overall…

The biggest pandemic in 100 years didn’t dampen the spirits of filmmakers though theatres remained closed for 10 months. Thanks to streaming websites, movie watching is not as inaccessible…

Made in Heaven is a fictional show, which depicts the pitfalls and shenanigans of Indian weddings, on Amazon Prime. I felt it got sidetracked into too much wokeness and ultimately did not…

As I begin to collect the remaining bits of my brain to write about a show that has justifiably blown all our minds, I can only reflect on what has probably been the high watermark of modern…

In Odia there is a term to describe half-cooked food – ଦରସିଝା. ଦରସିଝା describes emotions of something that had the potential to be great but is underdeveloped thanks to hastiness and in this…