Sardar Udham

This was not selected for the Best Foreign Film category of the Academy Awards with one of the jurors noting that it projects "hatred towards the British" so that's how you know it's good. Admittedly never been a fan of biopics, nor do I care much for period pieces, and…

reibureibu

Shoojit Sircar, unsurprisingly, avoids the filmy tropes of the genre & unlike most other bollywood movies, doesn't play the melodramatic & jingoistic tune, instead offers a meditative, nuanced look at a revolutionary's life with his trademark pensiveness. It's one of those…

Nakul

Shoojit Sircar ranking Best of 2021 Inquilab Zindabad. Shakespeare famously said "what's in a name" And Shoojit Sircar applied that in this film in a profound way. Sardar Udham Singh is a classic example of misleading people as a mainstream film with promotion and…

Prateek Sharma

A good hindi film is a rare commodity. Commodity simply because, that is what films in hindi cinema have been brought down to. They're objects, products some that don't even justify their existence as that. There's also celebration of mediocrity, which are sold to you as…

Sanjeet Singh

Shoojit Sircar delivers a poised biopic that gets meticulously detailed and powerfully expressed in a deeply haunting. The non linear layered narrative, impressive production design, brilliant cinematography and seamless editing, combine to create a terrific atmosphere,…

Michael James

The most glaring problem with biographical cinema in general, and particularly biographical cinema in India, has been the filmmaker's awe of the subject to the extent that entire films function around single characters thwarting them into a vacuum due to the lack of focus…

Ashwani Kumar

My journey through Indian cinema continues, and we are still in the revolution and the country's war against the British Empire, but this time, things are less outlandish and more serious in this biopic about one of the revolutionary sparks that ignited what would…

Rafael "Mister Movie" Jovine

More than 100 years later, India is yet to receive an official apology from British Government for Jallianwala Bagh MassacreI can only imagine what Shaheed Sardar Udham Singh might've gone through on the night of Jallianwala Bagh Massacre. The horror that man has seen in…

The Wandering Soul ❤️‍🔥

That third act, devastated me. What a nerve chilling, brilliantly directed, cinematographed cinema. Vicky Kaushal has never disappointed and this might be his career best performance. Looking at the build of the film it doesn't feel like a normal bollywood, it feels like…

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