‘Mufasa’ review: visually stunning but not a fierce roar for an origin story
Barry Jenkins' 'Mufasa' is a visual treat but fails to serve its purpose as a baffling origin story of the broken bond of brotherhood.
Barry Jenkins' 'Mufasa' is a visual treat but fails to serve its purpose as a baffling origin story of the broken bond of brotherhood.
Nothing that goes on in this story actually prepares you for the end. If the test of a thriller lies in keeping its audience guessing, "Haseen Dillruba" would pass the test.
Mumbai Saga; Cast: John Abraham, Emraan Hashmi, Mahesh Manjrekar, Amole Gupte, Suniel Shetty, Kajal Aggarwal, Rohit Roy, Anjana Sukhani, Prateik Babbar; Direction: Sanjay Gupta; Rating: * * (two stars)
It leaves you intrigued all the more because the man who gets it so right -- Iranian-American filmmaker Ramin Bahrani -- has never lived in either India.
"Penguin" (film in Tamil and Telugu languages streaming on Amazon Prime); Cast: Keerthy Suresh, Lingaa, Advaith, Mathi; Direction: Eashvar Karthic; Rating: * * and 1/2 (two and a half stars)
The ideology, fed and hidden through comedy, reasserts itself in the end after closing all avenues of anything new in the film.
Sabyasachi Chakraborty plays the alcoholic, lonely, forever angry, self-destructive father and Kankana plays the daughter, equally self-destructive with her life in a shambles.
Taking forward Neeraj Pandey’s filmography, Raj Kumar Gupta does nothing new but paints nationalism blue or green.
De De Pyaar De ended on a hint of a sequel, and if the “Ranjanites” were to bring one, we hope it’s not as long and deliberate as the former.
Disjointed as the narrative may have been, it is visually stunning. For one, Bhatt is etched beautifully on screen forever.
