Movie Reviews 2020

Dil Bechara Cast: Sushant Singh Rajput Sanjana Sanghi Saswata Chatterjee Swastika Mukherjee Saif Ali Khan ‘Dil Bechara’ is the Hindi film adaptation of John Green’s popular 2012 novel, 'The Fault in Our Stars'. In fact, the book’s Hollywood adaptation with the same name in 2016 met with much critical acclaim. ‘Dil Bechara’ sets itself in Jamshedpur and introduces us to the Basu family. Kizie Basu (Sanjana Sanghi) suffers from thyroid cancer, which has now affected her lungs, requiring her to be on oxygen support almost all the time. With rock solid support from her parents, Kizie takes life as it comes, even taking the bleak, daily multiple hospital visits in her stride. But what she craves for, is a normal life like any girl her age – with regular problems like boyfriends, crushes et al. Instead what she ends up doing is attend funerals of people she doesn't know, to feel a connection of the inevitable that lies ahead of her. She meets Immanuel Rajkumar Junior or Manny (Su

Gumnaami (2019) Cast: Prosenjit Chatterjee. Anirban Bhattarcharya. Tanusree Chakraborty. The film is based on the Mukherjee Commission Hearings. The film shows the three theories trying to explain the death or disappearance of Subhash Chandra Bose. The film starts with Subhash Chandra Bose at the Congress Conference. A courageous Subhash disagrees. A very well researched docu-drama movie that soars off wonderfully, flies smoothly but lands hastily with a jarring note. Based on the Mukherjee Commission investigation into the mystery of Netaji's death and the theories suggested around it, the movie shows the historical events in flashback as the two counsels in the Commission argue about them. The propounder of the Gumnaami theory is Chandrachur Dhar (Anirban Bhattacharya) who puts forward his arguments before the commission with evidence. Netaji is played superbly by Prosenjit, who blends into the physicality and majestic aspects of the Heroic Freedom fighter with ease and is also