The last good movie you have watched - Page 2

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Mimi

Dhak dhak

Laapata ladies

nope, not a single movie. Last I watched was Kalki

Hindi movies you may like (not sure if all are still streamed)

Mrs (with Sanya Malhotra) - if you don't know the original - ZEE 5

The Storyteller (with Paresh Rawal) - Disney-Hotstar (orJio-Hotstar now)

The Mehta Boys (with Boman Irani) - Amazon Prime

Superboys of Malegaon (a Reema Kagti movie) - Amazon Prime

Be Happy (with Abhishek) - Amazon Prime

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Came across Kaafir on Dia Mirza’s Insta and thought the premise sounded intriguing, inspired by the real story of a Pakistani woman wrongly imprisoned in India. So I gave it a watch, thinking maybe, just maybe, they'd depict her story with some honesty or even inform the poor woman they were making a movie about her life.

The movie kicks off with the usual, a dramatically over-the-top terrorist attack scene (because of course we need that for context). Now, you’d think a story like this would focus on the inhumanity of the system, but trust Indian propaganda to twist even the darkest truths into a nationalist fairytale. The brutality in the prison? Sure, it’s there, but who’s the face of it? A Muslim police officer who rapes her while she’s in custody. Quite subtle.

Her family back in Pakistan is painted in the worst possible light. Because why waste an opportunity to show a brown woman getting zero support from her own people? Then once she’s released, it’s the Pakistani government that refuses to let her daughter (born from the rape) into the country. And who saves the day? A noble, idealistic Indian journalist, who basically plays messiah throughout.

That’s today’s Indian cinema for you. It’s not the starkids, who get blamed all the time for the downfall of cinema, they’re too inconsequential.

The Battle of Algiers (1966)