Also: Reviews of 'Mandala Murders', 'Sarzameen' and 'Rangeen'. Here are this week's top reads from The Reel.
Mohit Suri has done it again with Saiyaara – delivered a brooding, dark-ish film about young lovers who meet and part and meet again to the tune of brilliant songs. As Devarsi Ghosh points out in his incisive analysis of the film’s box office success, “Saiyaara has broken the myths that nepo-debutants are doomed to fail theatrically – Ahaan Panday is Chunky Panday’s nephew – and that it’s the age of action-based films and Stree-like horror comedies. Saiyaara has confirmed that young audiences still want love stories – but black, without cream and sugar.”
Vinod Kapri’s Pyre follows an ageing couple in a remote mountain village. Padam and Tulsi live by themselves – their son moved out years ago – and have reached that stage of their lives where they love to hate each other.
Before Psycho the film came Psycho the book. How do they stack up against each other?
In Bhutan, a mock election to introduce democracy to a monarchy intersects with a monk who wants guns.
In Sarzameen, an Army officer and his wife have to grapple with the possibility that their son might be a terrorist.
Mandala Murders sees detectives in hot pursuit of a centuries-old secret society.
In Rangeen, a principled journalist becomes a sex worker after his wife cheats on him.
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