Devarsi Ghosh, Author at Arré

Minari Review: Family is the Answer To Life’s Curveballs in This Awards Season Favourite

Lee Isaac Chung’s Minari is a poignant portrait of a Korean immigrant family trying to live the American dream in the Reagan years. It is a tapestry of tender and touching vignettes, drawn from the filmmaker’s memories of his childhood spent in Arkansas, where the film has also been shot. These vignettes work not just as a portal to a different time, but also a different way of life.

Devarsi Ghosh July 27, 2016

Pop Culture

Zack Snyder’s Justice League Review: A Superhero Epic With Lots of Style, Some Substance

Zack Snyder’s Justice League goes into a runtime of four hours two minutes. Is it worth the hype and your time? Hell yeah.

Devarsi Ghosh June 25, 2016

Pop Culture

Irul Review: A Thriller That Wonders What Makes Writers And Criminals Tick

Coincidences, contrivances, and corpses pile up in Naseef Yusuf Izuddin’s 90-minute locked-room mystery Irul with a three-member cast. What keeps matters fresh and edge-of-your-seat are the splendid performances and assured filmmaking.

Devarsi Ghosh May 27, 2016

Pop Culture

Godzilla Vs. Kong Review: The Fourth MonsterVerse Film is the Best in the Series

Godzilla vs. Kong begins with the monster ape held captive by the benevolent Monarch, a government agency tasked with handling titan-related affairs. Elsewhere, Godzilla attacks the offices of APEX, a technology corporation which is up to no good. Humans cannot figure out why Godzilla has gone rogue after being the nice guy in previous films.

Devarsi Ghosh May 24, 2016

Pop Culture

The Disciple Review: A Rare Story about A Devoted Failure

Chaitanya Tamhane’s The Disciple, now out on Netflix, is set in the world of Hindustani classical music. The setting is incidental. It just as well could have been a story of athletes, painters, or poets. In this festival hit, Tamhane tells us the story of a young talent who realises with painful slowness that some people are simply not meant for greatness of any kind.

Devarsi Ghosh May 23, 2016

Pop Culture

Radhe Review: A Passionately Moronic Action Movie that Suffers From Too Much Salman Khan

What comes in the way of Radhe being both a competent action movie and a perfect Eidi for the ardent Bhai fan? It suffers from being subservient to Salman Khan’s persona, the extent of whose mouldy and moth-eaten condition in 2021 is palpable from the makers’ efforts to drive home his eternal virility and machismo in every awkward scene he appears in with his 28-year-old heroine Disha Patani.

Devarsi Ghosh May 3, 2016

Bollywood

The Big Bull Review: This Harshad Mehta Story Feels Like a Wikipedia Entry Made More Dull by Abhishek Bachchan

Most biopics are pedestrian visual accounts of Wikipedia pages of their subjects. The Big Bull is no different. It unfolds as a series of events that have to be ticked off a list and has no insights to offer. Abhishek Bachchan’s lazy and uninspired performance makes matters worse.

Devarsi Ghosh May 2, 2016

Pop Culture

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.

Devarsi Ghosh April 7, 2016

Bollywood

Pagglait Review: Sanya Malhotra’s Superb Lead Performance Deserves A Better Movie

Netflix’s Pagglait follows the transformational journey of Sanya Malhotra’s Sandhya after the death of her husband. It could have been a genuinely sombre, emotional, and sensitive movie had director Umesh Bist abandoned all the caricatures who make up the film’s huge ensemble cast and just focused on Sandhya.

Devarsi Ghosh April 5, 2016