🍿 Ulajh (2024) – ★★☆☆☆
Had the makings of a good movie but falls apart. Pity – could have been good.
Movies
These are the movies we have seen recently.
🍿 Accused (2026) – ★★☆☆☆
Serviceable made for tv drama held together by the ever awesome konkona sensharma.
🍿 Ikkis (2026) – ★★★★☆
Even with inconsistent editing, Ikkis is the anti-war war movie we need today. I watched this only coz of Sriram Raghavan behind the camera and it didn’t disappoint. No jingoism of any kind, and represents Pakistanis as humans with feelings – it’s a surprise that a deeply emphatic movie about people on both sides can get made in India today. The performances are all first rate but bookended by Dharmendra’s bittersweet and endearing last performance. I did not expect an Indian movie to take a tone like this movie did about India Pakistan.
🍿 Fall (2022) – ★★☆☆☆
The movie has some legit vertigo inducing scenes. But it runs out of steam so quickly with horrendous acting to boot. Wish it was better – there was a decent movie in there somewhere.
🍿 Gladiator (2000) – ★★★★★
Watched it again with kid after like decade(s) so I had mostly forgotten a lot of story. What a sweeping epic and I forgot how fucking good Joaquin Phoenix. They simply don’t make movies like these anymore.
🍿 The Fable (2025) – ★☆☆☆☆
Omg I really tried hard over 3 sittings to get through this and only managed 40 mins. Whatever the fuck this crap was.
A well made court procedural that took us by surprise that makes a good point about law vs justice.
🍿 Speed (1994) – ★★★★☆
Fun campy masala mix that we rewatched again after it first came out. R enjoyed it and I honestly did not remember the movie at all!
🍿 Tere Ishk Mein (2025) – ★☆☆☆☆
Jesus this was horrible. And level of absolute nonsense, complete lack of logic and even hilarity at end was something. Wow.