Yash

I see life in frames, I hear it in scripts, I live it in scenes. and…….I rarely review films. Never rate ‘em.

Favorite films

  • Bicycle Thieves
  • Barfi!
  • 12 Angry Men
  • Whiplash

All
  • Kaagaz Ke Phool

  • Sinners

  • Barfi!

  • Tere Naam

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Kaagaz Ke Phool

1959

Liked Rewatched

They mocked it when it dropped.
Too dark, too ahead, too real.
They wanted fantasy. He gave them his autopsy.

S.D. Burman’s music doesn’t play. It bleeds.
“Waqt ne kiya kya haseen sitam”—if you’ve never sat alone at 2AM, chain-smoking heartbreaks while this song plays in the background, you haven’t really watched the film. Meena Kumari was luminous, tragic, divine—all at once. A muse painted with sorrow.

Guru Dutt made art imitate life, but life—oh life had bigger balls.

But…

Sinners

2025

Liked Watched

THAT. ONE. SEQUENCE.

If music had sex with time and gave birth to a fever dream. that’s what I witnessed. 

Coogler took a shot of moonshine, lit a match, put the roof on fire and said “watch this.” – I did. and got me burned.
 
LUDWIG GÖRANSSON. ABSOLUTE LEGEND! 🙌👏

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Barfi!

2012

Liked Rewatched

I’ll always hold onto this film under a falling lamppost.

Up until now, I haven’t seen a film that comes close to Barfi! How could I possibly write about another film until something truly extraordinary comes along. For me, Barfi! remains the pinnacle. unmatched. Unrivalled. 

Still the best film i have ever seen.

Tere Naam

2003

Liked Rewatched

The first movie in I watched theatre.

I was only 4 years old. My father and his friends were off to watch a movie and somehow they decided to bring me along. No popcorns for the kid. I was too young for that luxury!

Had no clue what was going on in film. The story? Lost on me. The dialogues? Completely over my head. The love? No idea. None of it made sense to me. But two things. Just two…