hindi recommendations
Halal Love Story
The Malayalam film industry seems to specialize in heartwarming slice of life movies, films that help us understand the culture, the surroundings, and most of all people groups with whom we are not...
Favorite Hindi Movies of 2021
Haseen Dillruba was a quirky pulp fiction-style murder mystery. Great acting by Vikrant Massey as a naïve everyman who marries a beautiful but high maintenance Taapsee Pannu. When well-built and...
Haseen Dillruba
Pulp Fiction – An approach to storytelling that is fast-paced, a little trashy, with lurid details and overblown emotions, and characters who are not what they seem. ‘Haseen Dillruba’ is set in a...
SIR
SIR, winner of the Best Film at the 2018 New York Indian Film Festival, is the debut feature film of Rohena Gera, who has written, directed, and produced it. The film explores class divides in...
Gully Boy
Set in Mumbai’s multi-religious, multi-ethnic Dharavi Slum, Gully Boy is the journey of Murad, a young Muslim man nearing the end of college. Warned that dreaming of a better life will...
Udta Punjab Review
'Udta Punjab' is a story of how drugs are quietly destroying the future of many Indian young people. Director and co-writer Abhishek Chaubey uses his film as a wakeup call for those that are...
malayalam recommendations
Sarvam Thaala Mayam
Best of Tamil 2019 Written and directed by Rajiv Menon, with A.R. Rahman serving as music director, SARVAM THAALA MAYAM is a tribute to South Indian Carnatic music as seen through the...
Favorite Malayalam 2021
The Great Indian Kitchen a family drama centering around a young newly married couple told from the woman’s point of view. All is going well until mother-in-law must go to her daughter’s home and...
telugu recommendations
Favorite Telugu Movies 2021
Naandhi is a real-life situation that does do get much attention in cinema. Surya is a young software engineer who is looking forward to repaying his parents for their sacrifices and marrying his...
tamil recommendations
Baahubali: The Beginning
Director/Screenwriter S.S. Rajamouli's epic tale begins as a villager rescues a tiny baby from the raging waters of a spectacular waterfall. The boy is raised by a surrogate mother and is given the...
MAANAADU
Hollywood has given us the concept of the time-loop movie. An example would be ‘Groundhog Day’ where the same day was lived over and over again allowing the hero to change or improve an event each...
