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Thursday, December 4, 2025
TopicMovie review

Topic: Movie review

Bhonsle review: Manoj Bajpayee will win your heart in this film about hate, fear & kindness

Out on SonyLIV, Bhonsle is a striking film about the effect of learned hatred & how a little kindness & bravery is all we need to counter it.

Bulbbul review: Anushka Sharma’s new Netflix production upturns the idea of a fairy-tale

Directed by Anvita Dutt, the movie is a feminist take on childhood stories that combines horror, period drama & social commentary.

Penguin review: Watch it for Keerthy Suresh and beautifully shot scenes of horror

Director-writer Eashvar Karthic delivers a well-crafted story that plays on every parent’s fear but overdoes it on the macabre.

Gulabo Sitabo review: Amitabh Bachchan & Ayushmann Khurrana deliver a quirky, passable tale

Shoojit Sircar’s film, out on Amazon Prime Video, is amusing and well shot, but a slow pace and stretched-out writing threaten to bore.

Spelling The Dream: Netflix docu film on desi success at spelling bee is gripping but limited

Of the last 31 champions of the Scripps National Spelling Bee, the biggest such contest in the US, 26 have been Indian-Americans.

Pati Patni Aur Woh review: Kartik Aryan & Bhumi Pednekar film is a remake nobody needed

Boring, unfunny script caters to the male ego. Pati Patni Aur Woh is the most underwhelming version of everything you’d expect.

Panipat review: Almost another lavishly mounted caricature of Muslim invaders as brutes

Arjun Kapoor, Kriti Sanon and Sanjay Dutt star in Ashutosh Gowariker's portrayal of the Third Battle of Panipat.

Ujda Chaman review: The movie has the right intentions but the wrong filmmakers

While the female character is, surprisingly, strong and watchable, she gets little screen time in this celebration of the modern male ego.

Saand Ki Aankh review: The Taapsee Pannu and Bhumi Pednekar film largely hits the mark

Despite a schmaltzy and overlong second half, Saand Ki Aankh — the film about UP's famous Shooter Dadis — is an absolute delight.

Laal Kaptaan review: Gorgeous cinematography & an ambitious idea can’t save this Saif film

Overlong and unnecessarily longwinded, epic period Western-style action drama Laal Kaptaan is a beautiful bore.

On Camera

This is how cash transfers are being discussed by global scholars

Dismissing unconditional cash transfers through the parochial logic of ‘unearned assistance is undeserving’ narrows the space for policy innovation and restricts possibilities for social mobility.

India’s Russian oil imports are showing up in cryptic new places. The crude map stands redrawn

December oil imports from Russia may drop nearly 50%, but Indian buyers already shifting to non-designated Russian entities and opaque trading channels to keep Russian oil flowing.

India to commission new squadron of submarine-hunting Romeo choppers in Goa later this month

The helicopters produced by Lockheed Martin are known as ‘submarine hunters’. India ordered 24 of these aircraft in 2020 to replace the Sea King helicopters. 15 have been delivered till date.

Gaali cricket: Bavuma stands tall, India’s Test ego cut to size

The India-South Africa series-defining fact is the catastrophic decline of Indian red ball cricket where a visiting team can mock us with the 'grovel' word.