Ludo Review: Anurag Basu Loses the Game and the Plot in His New Film

Ludo Review: Anurag Basu Loses the Game and the Plot in His New Film

Anurag Basu’s Ludo is a film about life and death that wants to be meaningful and meaningless at the same time. It translates the futility of finding logic in unpredictability and the method in the madness by way of four different genres. It might come across as the filmmaker’s most structured outing, but it is his most chaotic film.
Joji Review: This Fahadh Faasil Macbeth Movie is Unlike Any Other

Joji Review: This Fahadh Faasil Macbeth Movie is Unlike Any Other

Joji, Dileesh Pothan’s Malayalam-language Macbeth adaptation, is not a historical epic or a gangster movie. It is set in a leafy rubber estate in Kerala’s Kottayam. But what makes the film different is not just the setting but also Fahadh Faasil’s interpretation of Macbeth as a mousy schemer instead of a tormented warrior-type.