Vardanatorinator

Favorite films

  • Children of Heaven
  • The Godfather
  • Iruvar
  • Dreams

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  • Rocky

    ★★★★

  • Tourist Family

    ★★★

  • Lights in the Dusk

    ★★★★

  • Uttama Villain

    ★★★½

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Rocky

1976

★★★★ Watched

The classic underdog story. What I didn't see coming was the writer's name being stallone and having Good character traits and development

Tourist Family

2025

★★★ Watched

There are two ways one can approach a movie. One is trying to experiment, where it has higher chances of failing. The other is being formulaic, knowing what it's strengths and weaknesses are, and playing to it's strengths. This movie does just that. It knows what it is. And does a great execution for all the seen and done feel-good tropes. Basically Jis Joy padam but with a stronger execution. So it achieves what it wants. Made me feel real…

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All We Imagine as Light

2024

★★★★★ Liked Watched

It's been 12 hours since I've watched this movie, and writing this review. The city of Bangalore, just like the city of Mumbai in this movie, has come to be a time-eating villain or a friendly distraction - it's effect being me, a cinephile would be over the euphoria of watching a good movie in probably an hour or so, because by that time life hits in this city.

Life did hit. But this movie didn't leave me. It's been…

Vasthuhara

1991

★★★★ Liked Watched

It has all the problems of a bureaucrat looking at the migration. Which is the whole point too. It's a monologue, a beautiful one at it. You see through the humanist lens. You sympathise. But then you still don't feel enough. And when Damayanti in her very limited dialogue shows strongly how it is for the suffering, you see how detached you are, even though you literally walk with them, trying to be dispossessed.

This definitely vouches a re-watch, but (except for the love angle which I felt needless) a strong view into such a strong issue, relevant even now