Devarsi Ghosh writes about films and music from Calcutta. That's all you need to know.
Articles by Devarsi Ghosh
Kaun Pravin Tambe review: Shreyas Talpade’s sports biopic is full of heart
Shreyas Talpade plays the real-life cricketer Pravin Tambe who made his major league debut at the age of 41 without any first-class or international experience under his belt.
Published on Apr 02, 2022 11:08 AM IST
Eternally Confused and Eager for Love review: A warm, charming series
Eternally Confused and Eager for Love review: Vihaan Samat plays a 25-year-old young man who has been hopeless in matters of the heart in Rahul Nair’s Netflix series.
Published on Mar 18, 2022 02:36 PM IST
Bloody Brothers review: Jaideep and Zeeshan in an unremarkable series
Bloody Brothers review: Zee5’s new series is a remake of the BBC series Guilt, which follows two brothers trying to cover up a hit-and-run case and getting caught up with witnesses and gangsters.
Published on Mar 18, 2022 09:15 AM IST
Deep Water review: Ben Affleck and Ana de Armas shine in Adrian Lyne’s thriller
Deep Water movie review: Real life ex-lovers Ben Affleck and Ana de Armas find themselves in a toxic marriage in Adrian Lyne’s adaptation of the Patricia Highsmith novel of the same name.
Published on Mar 17, 2022 07:06 AM IST
Rudra review: Ajay Devgn is superb in well-made crime series
Rudra The Edge of Darkness review: The chemistry between Ajay Devgn’s supercop Rudraveer Singh and Raashii Khanna’s master criminal Aliyah is among the highlights of the Disney+ Hotstar remake of BBC’s Luther.
Published on Mar 04, 2022 09:00 AM IST
The Fame Game review: Madhuri Dixit-led Netflix series is a deceptive mystery
The Fame Game review: Madhuri Dixit plays popular Bollywood actress Anamika Anand who goes missing one fine evening.
Updated on Feb 27, 2022 09:53 AM IST
Love Hostel movie review: Vikrant is impressive in a badly-written thriller
Love Hostel movie review: Vikrant Massey and Sanya Malhotra play a newly married interfaith couple who are hunted by an assassin played by Bobby Deol.
Published on Feb 25, 2022 10:26 AM IST
Licorice Pizza review: Lead actors elevate Paul Thomas Anderson’s nostalgia trip
Licorice Pizza review: Paul Thomas Anderson’s ninth film, also starring Bradley Cooper and Sean Penn, follows a teenage romance in 1970s’ California.
Published on Feb 25, 2022 09:01 AM IST
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre review: A treat for lovers of gore and culture wars
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre movie review: David Blue Garcia’s Netflix film is the ninth instalment in the series of films featuring the deranged killer Leatherface.
Updated on Feb 19, 2022 05:02 PM IST
Mithya review: Huma-led web series should have been a ninety-minute thriller
Mithya review: Murder follows when Huma Qureshi’s Hindi professor locks horns with her student played by Avantika Dassani in this six-episode hill-station mystery streaming on Zee5.
Published on Feb 18, 2022 07:03 PM IST
A Thursday review: Spiritual sequel to A Wednesday comes with lots of flaws
In the Disney+ Hotstar release, Yami Gautam plays a schoolteacher who takes her little students hostage while demanding to meet the Prime Minister.
Published on Feb 18, 2022 01:12 PM IST
Looop Lapeta review: Taapsee Pannu-starrer Run Lola Run remake is ambitious
Looop Lapeta review: Aakash Bhatia's Run Lola Run remake, starring Taapsee Pannu and Tahir Raj Bhasin, gains from inventive subplots, great supporting performances, and manic energy.
Published on Feb 04, 2022 01:31 PM IST
The Great Indian Murder review: Tigmanshu offers great fun, brilliant dialogues
The Great Indian Murder review: Jatin Goswami, Shashank Arora and Mani PR’s performances are among the highlights of the Disney+ Hotstar series, based on Vikas Swarup’s novel, Six Suspects.
Published on Feb 04, 2022 09:01 AM IST
Hawk’s Muffin review: A strange Malayalam film that remixes Churuli and Stalker
Hawk’s Muffin review: Krishnendu Kalesh’s film, titled in Malayalam as Prappeda, opened in the Bright Future section of the International Film Festival Rotterdam on January 26.
Published on Jan 30, 2022 11:42 AM IST
Titane review: All you need is love in Ducournau's controversial car-sex movie
Titane movie review: Winner of the Palme d’Or at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival, the film stars Agathe Rouselle as a serial-killing mechanophile.
Published on Jan 28, 2022 10:01 AM IST
Unpaused 2 review: Nagraj Manjule, Ayappa KM deliver solid entries in miniseries
The second instalment of Unpaused looks at the Covid-19 pandemic’s effect on work and livelihood across social classes.
Published on Jan 21, 2022 10:48 AM IST
Bhoothakaalam review: A moving mental health drama disguised as horror
Bhoothakaalam movie review: Rahul Sadasivan’s Malayalam horror film, streaming on SonyLIV, stars Shane Nigam as a troubled young man and Revathy as his clinically depressed mother.
Published on Jan 21, 2022 07:17 AM IST
The Tragedy of Macbeth review: Shadows and star turns in Joel Coen’s bard noir
The Tragedy of Macbeth movie review: Joel Coen’s adaptation of William Shakespeare’s Macbeth, starring Denzel Washington and Frances McDormand, is a hyperstylised experiment by a master cinephile.
Published on Jan 14, 2022 11:38 AM IST
Human review: Shefali Shah gives a vicious performance
Human review: The latest Disney+ Hotstar series, headlined by Shefali Shah and directed by Vipul Amrutlal Shah and Mozez Singh, aptly communicates the evils of unbridled capitalism.
Published on Jan 14, 2022 09:09 AM IST
Ranjish Hi Sahi review: Amala shines in Mahesh Bhatt’s tribute to Parveen Babi
Ranjish Hi Sahi review: Amala Paul as the Babi stand-in Amna Parvez makes the series consistently watchable.
Published on Jan 13, 2022 10:10 AM IST
What Do We See When We Look at the Sky review: The world is magical
What Do We See When We Look at the Sky movie review: Alexandre Koberidze’s contemplative but warm film with magic-realist touches is now streaming on Mubi.
Published on Jan 08, 2022 01:26 PM IST
Kaun Banegi Shikharwati review: Even Naseeruddin Shah can’t save bad writing
Kaun Banegi Shikharwati review: It’s bewildering to see such a poorly developed screenplay get bankrolled and attract names like Lara Dutta Bhupathi and Soha Ali Khan.
Published on Jan 07, 2022 10:12 AM IST
Devarsi Ghosh
Best Indian films of 2021: Karnan and Sherni to The Great Indian Kitchen
The minutiae of oppressive structures, such as patriarchy, caste system, or institutionalised political corruption took centre stage in many of the best Indian films.
Published on Dec 31, 2021 07:06 AM IST
Devarsi Ghosh
Don’t Look Up review: Leo, J-Law in a superb satire on climate change
Don’t Look Up movie review: Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence's film is a hilarious and horrifying allegory of how humanity will always choose ignorance over the uncomfortable truth.
Updated on Dec 24, 2021 05:00 PM IST
Devarsi Ghosh
Minnal Murali review: Kerala delivers India’s first great superhero movie
Minnal Murali movie review: Basil Joseph's latest film, starring Tovino Thomas in the lead, has finally cracked the superhero formula for India.
Published on Dec 24, 2021 07:12 AM IST
Devarsi Ghosh
What The Matrix Resurrections is telling us: There is no hope for humanity
Lana Wachowski's The Matrix Resurrections combines the ideas of the preceding trilogy and concludes that humans are better off not facing what's real.
Updated on Dec 24, 2021 02:56 PM IST
Devarsi Ghosh
The Whistleblower review: Bad writing spoils Vyapam scam-based SonyLIV series
The Whistleblower review: SonyLIV released a new series this Friday, based on the Vyapam scam but it could not come close to the streamer's another scam-inspired marvel.
Updated on Dec 17, 2021 08:01 PM IST
Devarsi Ghosh
West Side Story review: Spielberg’s take is conservative with a few draws
West Side Story review: Steven Spielberg’s adaptation of the musical stars Ansel Elgort and Rachel Zegler as Tony and Maria.
Updated on Dec 11, 2021 01:40 PM IST
Devarsi Ghosh
Qatil Haseenaon Ke Naam review: A toast to murderous beauties
Qatil Haseenaon Ke Naam review: Meenu Gaur and Farjad Nabi's new Zindagi series is oozing with style, heartache and violence.
Updated on Dec 13, 2021 01:50 PM IST
Devarsi Ghosh
Azor: Sinister look at the culture of silence that lets evil thrive
Azor, currently streaming on MUBI, follows a Swiss banker investigating his partner’s disappearance in Argentina during the Dirty War.
Updated on Dec 05, 2021 08:45 AM IST
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