Debanjan Dhar
Outlook
Most Divergent Takes
- Dorothy (2026)3.0 vs TRM 6.7-3.7
- Cocktail 2 (2026)2.0 vs TRM 4.9-2.9
- Toxic: A Fairy Tale for Grown-ups (2026)2.0 vs TRM 4.1-2.1
- Last Man in Tower (2026)5.0 vs TRM 6.1-1.1
- Satluj (2026)8.0 vs TRM 7.2+0.8
Last Man in Tower
2026 · Outlook
Ben Rekhi's Last Man In Tower presents a frustratingly defanged adaptation that fails to sharpen the moral stakes inherent in its source material, despite strong performances from Manoj Bajpayee and Divya Dutta.
Mirzapur: The Movie
2026 · Outlook
Director Gurmmeet Singh takes us to an earlier, wishful point in the franchise's timeline, preceding major character deaths, when a certain alliance still seemed possible.
Dorothy
2026 · Outlook
Karthik Subbaraj's Dorothy would like to believe that it has the kind of bravery that can singlehandedly cut wide open the possibilities of what mainstream Indian cinema can utter and traverse. Yet, it keeps chafing against its noble intentions. Subbaraj's choice can be questioned, especially how he positions trans agency, with a grating familiar impulse to interlace transness with divinity that inadvertently creates difference instead of embedding the trans community within the mundane.
Toxic: A Fairy Tale for Grown-ups
2026 · Outlook · Aug 2026
It's a great pity then Mohandas' voice gets sanded under the crushing, loud antics of this blood-soaked saga around men, guns and guilt. However, Ujwal Kulkarni's scattershot, frenzied edit constantly drains both poignance and any sustained mood.
Satluj
2026 · Outlook · Jul 2026
Honey Trehan's long-awaited, trenchant political drama casts a deep, wide net into the fear and paranoia Punjab's police struck in its people in the garb of counter-insurgency operations. It's a vicious cycle of violence that was inaugurated by the 1984 anti-Sikh pogrom.
Cocktail 2
2026 · Outlook · Jun 2026
In Homi Adajania's Cocktail 2, Shahid Kapoor's loyal, nice Kunal falls into the snare his long-term partner, Diya (Rashmika Mandanna) sets. She gets paranoid about his infidelity which is telegraphed in a distasteful montage designed to be comic. The couple dutifully sticks to boundaries while Ally blasts in as a gale through the tameness, force of habit which Diya and Kunal's relationship had sloughed into.