Santanu Das
Hindustan Times
Balan - The Boy
2026 · Hindustan Times
The defining image in Malayalam film director Chidambaram's Balan The Boy comes in the first half, when mother and son find a moment of respite after a lot of running around. It is a declaration. No one is welcome here in their chosen space, and if some outside force tries to break this peace, there will be consequences.
Shelter
2026 · Hindustan Times
Jason Statham gets one of the meatiest parts of his career in Shelter, the new action thriller from Ric Roman Waugh. Shelter gives him all the chops to deliver in the slick and handsomely styled set pieces.
"Wuthering Heights"
2026 · Hindustan Times
The new adaptation, directed by Academy Award-winner Emerald Fennell, demands obedience. In doing so, it commits the error not only of discarding the gigantic obligation of adaptation but also of making an utter mess of it.
Sabar Bonda
2025 · Hindustan Times
A deeply moving study of gay love in rural India, exploring the complexity of identity within conservative social and religious frameworks.
The Voice of Hind Rajab
2025 · Hindustan Times
This is a film intended to be discomfiting and emotionally devastating. Here, the results have a crushing impact.
Bawaal
2023 · Hindustan Times
Here's a mainstream Bollywood romance purposefully contextualising the unimaginable horrors of the World War II and the Holocaust to fit into the narrative of a failing marriage. There's no way to digest a film like Bawaal, and that it exists today, in all its singular insensitivity.