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daksh
Movie Buff
# Film Ratings: 127
Member Since: 14 Mar 2025

Recent Ratings

60 70%
Edge of Tomorrow (2014) - Rated 01 Nov 2025
65 79%
Monsters, Inc. (2001) - Rated 01 Nov 2025
35 15%
Honeymoon Travels Pvt. Ltd. (2007) - Rated 01 Nov 2025
Some fun moments, some places where things come together nicely. This is a very unimpressive and mediocre film for the most part, it has fun ideas it tries out at times but that doesn't cover up the lack of anything appreciable in the rest. I had a good time though :)
50 46%
3 Idiots (2009) - Rated 22 Oct 2025
65 79%
Bhumika: The Role (1977) - Rated 22 Oct 2025
Absolute amazing performance from Smita Patil, easily one of my favourite performances in Indian Film overall. The other characters served well but no one chararcter got enough screentime, the movie kept juggling them and I feel this weakened every other performance. Nonetheless, the message is well crafted, a bit overlong but the individual beats are all done perfectly. I think Bhumika serves as a blueprint for any movies within the same domain of storytelling.
65 79%
Do Bigha Zamin (1953) - Rated 22 Oct 2025
The print I watched on youtube was pretty, audio well maintained too. Hard to talk about a film so foundational and not get many things wrong but here's what I appreciated, the women have agency, people act on their motives even as one-dimensional characters. I appreciate the characters as faces of larger groups and tendencies and this movie serves that well, the performances are otherwise lacklustre (Balraj Sahni was amazing however). They didn't undercut the message by a happy ending either.
50 46%
Aavesham (2024) - Rated 13 Oct 2025
It takes the masala formula in a fairly standard format but it's elevated immensely by FaFa's performance, it's a joy to see him work everywhere I've seen him but this movie's a standout maximalist performance even for him. The movie does drag out in the middle, I think the editing could work to shave off half an hour or more without detracting from the movie.
45 36%
Creed (2015) - Rated 08 Oct 2025
95 95%
One Battle After Another (2025) - Rated 06 Oct 2025
The characterization was so well done, so many of the roles here could and would have been caricatures or utterly normal under anyone else's hands but PTA preserves both the sense of the heroics of extraordinaire while still maintaining his characters' humanity. I am floored every time by his work and this is my first in a theatre so maybe that biases me to make this my favourite. And of course, it's beautifully shot and acted and directed throughout, the sound mixing is very fun in some ways.
88 92%
Ankur (1974) - Rated 02 Oct 2025
This disturbed me so horribly, unbearable to watch at some points. Such a small, detestable man as the centre-piece of the movie. It's all depicted pretty well, I don't know if I found a lot of the technicals very impressive but the messaging and the allegories are so powerful. I think of this as a very strong piece on the abolishment or curtailing of landowners being a social need, something which has in part been achieved already.