Pankaj Tripathi: Gracing Aliases
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Pankaj Tripathi: Gracing Aliases

Pankaj Tripathi has appeared in seven films in 2017 alone, playing disparate roles that stand testament to his versatility. And, yet Bollywood’s most gifted performer this year is unlikely to feature in roundtables or win awards.
Stree Review: A New World Where Men Live in Fear of Women
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Stree Review: A New World Where Men Live in Fear of Women

In Amar Kaushik’s Stree, gender roles are reversed: Men are forced to comply with society’s impractical rules and police their behaviour for no fault of their own. The film uses its supernatural spirit to imagine a safer world for women, but fails to eventually carry it through.
The World Needs More Newtons
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The World Needs More Newtons

At a time when most of us have been conditioned to complain about the dismal state of the country, Rajkummar Rao’s Newton succeeds in doing the impossible: Making idealism aspirational again.
Ludo Review: Anurag Basu Loses the Game and the Plot in His New Film
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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.