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Wogma rating: Watch if you have nothing better to do
Quick review: Shallow, hollow, soulless imitation of a certain ‘Air Force’ film. Old bottle old wine, unimaginative, stale repetition of the India-Pakistan-war genre. Lazy, unambitious, opportunistic picking of the lowest-hanging fruit of nationalism.
Wogma rating: Watch for sure, preferably in theatre
Quick review: I was on the edge of my seat for all but the first minute of the film. Mentally, even if not literally. Everything in the film comes together towards that end—keeping you on the edge. Will not ask for more from a thriller!
Wogma rating: Switch channels if it's on cable
Quick review: Geopolitics: minus101. Rajkumar Hirani never got back to the Munnabhai-Circuit level of discourse. This, though, is another level of simplification. It is boring. So, what if the actors perform? All other than the leads, that is. Those two, ham.
Wogma rating: Watch but no rush
Quick review: It’s cute—more in the way it shows Politics 101 than its romance. Of course, it’s over-simplified and candy-flossified. But hey, this is one way to tell Gen Z, “We are sorry. But you have to clean up the mess we created.” (Available on Netflix)
Schedule Our day actually started around midnight after the power-nap sometime during the last screening (take a look at the schedule and you would know why we needed that nap). We would begin with "healthy" discussions about the screenings over cups of not-so-hot Café Coffee Day coffees. These would eventually …
I finally watched Ijaazat. My thoughts on watching it as a 46-year-old.
A counterpoint to Meeta's review of Aiyaary and a comparison with the other film that released on the same day The Shape of Water.