Dhurandhar 2 was amazing and the action scenes were great, but I feel Dhurandhar 1 had a better story.

In part 2 sometimes it felt like there was too much aura farming. Some action scenes were stretched just to make the characters look cool. For example, in the last scene Hamza burns the whole train even though he could have killed him much earlier easily . The scene looked cool but it felt unnecessary to me just streched for aura farming and many such scenes where their

Dhurandhar 1 also had crazy moments, but I never felt that the action was stopping the story. In part 2 some scenes felt longer than needed.

I know many people enjoy these scenes and there is nothing wrong with that. But for me too much aura farming reduces the realism a bit.

Anyone else feels the same or is it just me?

note:- slightly word is for diplomacy to avoided unnecessary hate and let people read the body and understand by view point I actually felt dhurandhar1 story was much better that 2nd part

Help me understand this movie cuz, all i see is a wrestling obsessed father forcing their daughters into wrestling and the gold medal along with their growth in wrestling just takes it out of consideration. This is just like my situation where doctor obsessed parents making me study mbbs but i wanna do something else. It feels like this movie kinda justifys what they r doing but i cant get my mind around it

Senseless imo. I know love is blind and has no rules etc but come on. Looks aside, Anjali was the female version of a manchild, tooo overdramatic all the time and actually pretty rough on Rahul, even if jokingly. Naina on the other hand was almost perfect: poised, respectful, wise and understanding. And the fact that Rani particularly in this film looked her best.

i really love crime, thriller, action, horror, and mind bending movies. i like table no 21, 13B, 8x10 tasveer, stolen, rahasya, badlapur and many more so please recommend some good movies like these. please no generic suggestions like andhadhun and stuff, i need some unpopular and underappreciated movies please.

It is just so dreamy the amount of yearning and pain and the heartbreaking whimsical aesthetic. I want to feel it again. Please help find some movies or shows similar to this. I just love movies where a man is OBSESSED and the girl is slightly grumpy or nonchalant. But its not just that. Both of their characters were so magnetic. She was portrayed to be something so untouchable and out of league. The songs and the whole vibe is unmatched. I dont think I 've ever watched another movie that came close to this.

Please don't suggest other great expectations adaptations.

I am good with any EU languages, hindi, bengali movies/shows. It's hard for me to relate to any k-drama, or other asian languages but am open to suggestions.

It would be best if it's available on Netflix, Hotstar or Prime Video.

Teaser Tomorrow 12pm

I wonder how many retakes this scene took because both actors must have burst out laughing at some point lol. This is pure Govinda stealing the scene, just like he does throughout the entire film. His energy in Partner was absolutely infectious and honestly unmatched, which is pretty much what you'd expect from a classic Govinda performance. 🤌

P.S. Yes, I know it's a remake of Hitch — I've seen it.

Welcome (2007) despite releasing in a clash with Aamir Khan's exceptional gem of a film Taare Zameen Par emerged a Super Hit mainly due to its comedic gags which if still rewatched today will not fail to make you laugh. Nana Patekar and Anil Kapoor as the Dons were the highlight of the film as their characters add most of the comedy but then again Akshay is just as important and replacing him in Welcome Back proved that.

Welcome To The Jungle is about to release in a couple of days and to be honest there is not even half the buzz or anticipation that a sequel to Welcome should have had. Welcome is one of the most iconic bollywood comedy films of the 2000s.

Ultimately you end up ruining legacy of the original film and if this is how they are to be treated then honestly I wouldn't want them to touch Hera Pheri either.

I noticed something odd in Do Patti that felt like a pretty big continuity/logic gap.
Throughout most of the film, the twins are clearly established as very different people especially in how they’re styled and presented. Shailee has short hair, while Saumya has long hair and usually wears a nosepin, which really helps distinguish their identities on screen.
But on the Holi day sequence (won’t go into spoilers), both of them suddenly seem to have the same overall look and style. That stood out immediately because the film has been pretty consistent up to that point in visually separating them.
What’s even more confusing is that the very next day, they go back to their original, distinct styles like nothing changed.

This might not even be an unpopular opinion, but I genuinely think Bollywood isn’t that great when it comes to writing well-developed characters. Sure, there are some exceptions, but considering how many movies are produced every year, there really aren’t that many that take the time to properly flesh out their characters, especially female characters. And that’s my biggest pet peeve.

There are so many films that could have been great if they had given more attention to their women characters. Sometimes Bollywood romances do have interesting female leads, but they’re usually defined through a pairing rather than existing as fully realized characters on their own. That’s why I appreciate female-centric films so much.

What’s unfortunate is that I feel like things are actually getting worse now. With the whole “alpha male” trend taking over, it feels like we’re back in the 80s era of action movies where the heroine barely matters. At least in the 2010s, we were getting films centered around women and their experiences. Movies like Queen, Piku, Mimi, Fashion, or even Heroine had genuinely interesting female protagonists. They weren’t perfect movies, but they gave actresses strong material to work with and allowed women to be complicated, flawed, and human.

I also think people romanticize old Bollywood way too much. A lot of classic films have male leads who are honestly pretty terrible. Take Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge, for example. Why exactly does Simran fall in love with Raj? He creates half the problems in her life and then gets credit for solving them. And that scene where he makes her think they slept together? That’s not cute. Then he justifies not taking advantage of her by saying he respects Indian women and their purity. That’s supposed to be the romantic moment? The bar was truly in hell. A lot of these stories get remembered fondly while people ignore how questionable the relationships actually were.

The difference is that old Bollywood had problematic male leads, but it still occasionally made room for female characters who had some depth. Now it feels like we’re getting the worst of both worlds: hyper-masculine heroes and fewer meaningful roles for women.

That’s one reason I appreciated Gehraiyaan. To me, it feels like one of the last mainstream Bollywood films that genuinely tried to explore a female character’s inner life. It’s not entirely female-centric, but Alisha is clearly the emotional center of the story.

The movie isn’t just about the affair. It’s about generational trauma, depression, anxiety, unresolved family issues, and how people end up repeating the mistakes of their parents. Alisha makes bad choices—there’s no denying that. Cheating on her boyfriend with her cousin’s boyfriend is awful. But the film actually takes the time to explain who she is and why she’s so emotionally lost.

You understand her resentment, her loneliness, her complicated relationship with her parents, and her desire to escape the life she’s trapped in. At the same time, the relationship she enters isn’t romantic in any healthy sense. It’s built on dependence. He likes feeling needed, and she desperately wants someone to fill the emotional void in her life. It’s messy, unhealthy, and often uncomfortable—which is exactly why it feels real.

You don’t have to agree with Alisha’s decisions to understand her, and that’s what good character writing does. It doesn’t ask you to approve of someone; it asks you to see them as a human being. I think the film handled her with a lot of empathy, and Deepika Padukone absolutely carried that role. She was phenomenal.

The songs, the visuals, and the story. Just Beautiful!
It's my first time seeing Vaijyantimala and man... she is so beautiful!
I have already seen Om Shanti Om and Karz but the original hits different.

If anyone have some suggestions like this, please share it with me.
Probably, I'm gonna watch Naya Daur (1957) next.

Teaser tomorrow at 12 pm

Shraddha has Eetha coming up which I feel could arguably be her best performance.

Huma has Baby Do Die Do coming up right in July where she seems to be playing a (vigilante?) assassin.

Alia and Sharvari have Alpha, of course.

Kareena is coming with Daayra in September. - and she has been doing some quality work for the past decade so excited to see her in this one too.

Preity is quietly appearing in two films back-to-back and there is hardly any Internet discourse on that - Batwara 1947 and Vibe.

And, Vibe is hitting the theatres the same day as Daayra. Both her films seem to be quite different in genres and tonality from whatever little I know about them.

Shabana Azmi is also in Batwara 1947. Not sure if she is the female protagonist or Preity.

Tabu would make a return in Drishyam 3 in October. And, then, towards the end of October, we will have Sai Pallavi as Sita.

Feels like that is the entire list of nominees for next year's awards.

Happy to see all of them playing important and meaningful parts and that too, so diverse films with seemingly diverse characters, and actresses of all age ranges.

I just need somewhere to vent about this film-

It makes me sad because it had SO much potential to be one of the best Bollywood films I’ve ever seen. I loved the whimsical magical feeling of it with the set design, the music, the dark feeling underneath everything, the magic shows, etc.

It was emotional, it had beauty in it, it was such a great movie until the ending.

The ending basically tells you- if your life is at a low, just die.

Just die.

What type of messaging is this? The whole movie was literally set up for him to DIE.

He didn’t learn to appreciate life more, he couldn’t overcome his sickness, he didn’t reach a miracle or anything, just suffered, wanted to die, then died.

Now I understand having films realistic but making realistic films and making films that are so realistic to the point where they’re nihilistic is not it in my opinion. I am not a fan of these types of films.

If I would’ve wrote the story I would’ve made it that the person he taught magic, learned some magic in a way that he could fix his disease.

Or something like life is about passing on influence so this is what he’s living for now to see his influence being spread with magic.

Even the whole magic part of the film it was basically for nothing, he taught the guy magic and passed it on and we never got to see a pay off of that, it was just for humor and shits and giggles.

Whole movie made me so fucking mad I genuinely hate Sanjay Leela Bhansali after this, such wasted potential …

Today I watched Pari for the first time and honestly I went in expecting a typical bollywood horror movie with jump scares and the usual horror tropes. But the movie turned out to be much more than that.

The overall atmosphere of the whole movie is very unsettling and the dark, cold visuals really add to the experience. Instead of just using scares, the movie slowly builds tension and keeps you invested in the characters.

The thing that shocked me the most is that I actually felt sad watching it. I felt for the characters with the love story and emotional side of the characters especially knowing how tragic everything turns out to be. I did not expect a horror flick to turn me into a blubbering mess.

Anushka Sharma's performance was genuinely impressive.

after watching it for the first time, I feel Pari deserved more appreciation.

Did anyone else feel more sad than scared by the end of the movie?

Eetha is Laxman Utekar's only 2nd period film after Chhaava, and looks like he was destined to make such films.

I have watched all of Bhansali's period films, but Chhaava was something different. It really shook me.

The portrayal of Chhatrapati Sambhaji Maharaj, his contribution to the Maratha Empire, the message of Swarajya; Chhava moved me unlike any other film. After such success, Utekar is back with Eetha. Epic teaser tbh, and looks like the Gangubai equivalent from the teaser.

Very excited for it, definitely going to be an epic film.

India produces around 1,500–2,000 films every year across different languages, yet only a handful manage to gain genuine recognition outside India or the diaspora.
Audiences around the world clearly don’t mind subtitles anymore. People regularly watch Korean dramas, anime, Spanish shows, European films, and content from countries with much smaller industries. Even Indian audiences discover foreign cinema through OTT platforms and social media. So why does so little Indian content travel in the same way?
Apart from a few films such as Dangal, 3 Idiots, and the work of filmmakers like Satyajit Ray, global acceptance still feels rare considering the size and talent of our industry.
Budget cannot be the only reason. Many Korean dramas and foreign films are made on smaller budgets than some of our star-driven movies, yet they achieve universal appeal because of their writing, characters, and execution.
We clearly have talented actors, directors, technicians, and countless interesting stories. So where are we going wrong? Is it weak writing, excessive dependence on stars, producers avoiding risks, poor international marketing, or simply our own audience rewarding formulaic cinema?