Bollywood Film Reviews 2020 - ALL MOVIES/FILMS

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Gulabo Sitabo movie review: Amitabh Bachchan and Ayushmann Khurrana make this dramedy look far better than it is

Mirza (Amitabh Bachchan) and Baankey (Ayushmann Khurrana) play neighbours constantly at loggerheads in Gulabo Sitabo, which we pretty much gathered in the trailer itself. The former plays the landlord of his wife's ancestral, rundown mansion while the latter and his family are one of his tenants.

As the world is changing around us from the immediate aftermath of the coronavirus pandemic and the ensuing lockdown, cinema, or at least its medium, too, is undergoing a sea change. We've now entered the era where movies of big stars like Amitabh Bachchan and Ayushmann Khurrana are seeing the light of day directly on OTT platforms, owing to pack of theatrical options. But, is their film, Gulabo Sitabo, a product of its times or a fortuitous way out given the situation? Does the first outing of these two marvellous actors, ingeniously cast opposite each other, turn out to be the cracking casting coup it's meant to be or an opportunity wasted? Well, the answer to the first question sadly leans toward the latter end. However, that's substantially compensated by the answer to the second query, which is a out-an-out casting

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Bhonsle movie review: Manoj Bajpayee is BRILLIANT in this hard-hitting drama that hits too close to home

Bhonsle is set around the incensed anti-North-Indian-immigrant wave in Maharashtra, and revolves around the elderly, terminally ill eponymous Maharashtian constable, forced out of his job, and how he first becomes entangled, and later, finds himself at the centre of his "indigenous brethren vs North-Indian immigrants" battle in his locality, being fuelled by vested political interests

It's not always that hardcore indie filmmakers (no, Anurag Kashyap, Sriram Raghavan, Vishal Bhardwaj don't fall under this category given the mainstream stature of their films despite their artistic leanings) direct their work with such dexterity that the final product can effortlessly gel with the sensibilities of hardcore commercial movie-buffs regardless the box-office performance of their movies, that is, if they're fortunate enough to get a theatrical release. Saeed Akhtar Mirza, Govind Nihalani and Shyam Benegal are the only ones that come to mind, and all three have long left their heydays behind in the 90s itself. More than two decades later, Devashish Makhija, is showing he has what it takes to fill that void, with his last release, Ajji, and his new venture, the Manoj Bajpayee starrer, Bhonsle, which has just been made available on the Sony Liv's newly revamped OTT platform.