“Simply because it’s an adult film, a woman walks around with a shirt captioned ‘orgasm’. Men walk around with underwear that bear the image of a banana. It’s a mark of deep sexual repression in our society that the theatre resounded with laughter at these silly references.”
Author: Sudhir Srinivasan
Diya: A dull pamphlet film that argues against abortion
“Having an aborted foetus turning ghost is quite something. Perhaps not too far away in the distant, dark future, we will probably have embryos and zygotes turning ghosts too.”
Truth or Dare: Dull, sterile imagining of a fun premise
“It’s almost as if noone behind its making realised that any efforts to solemnify this inherently mad material, would only be futile.”
Mercury: A worthy experiment with some memorable stretches of filmmaking
Towards the end, the actual version of Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata takes centrestage. It’s quite appropriate not just because one of the characters is a self-confessed Beethoven fan, but because the story in a sense is actually Moonlight Sonata.
Fleshing out a horror diet
“I’d rather do comedy. I’ve gone through depression, and all that… Now, I just want to be funny and silly, and make people laugh.”