Sudhir Srinivasan

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.”

Ready Player One: A digital visual feast designed to please the geek in you

“Eventually, he’s shown to buy that reality is somehow more preferable, because well, that’s the right thing to say, right? I never truly bought that he bought that. It’s probably got to do something with the film’s reluctance to really delve into the topic, save for these occasional self-righteous detours which I suppose were deemed morally necessary.”

The Naachiyaar problem

“When a character, having been denied rightful justice, resorts to brutality in the name of vigilante justice, it’s a situation to mourn, not one to celebrate.”