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Dec 31, 20203 min read

Million Dollar Baby is Clint Eastwood's best movie!

The 2005 Oscars were swept by #MillionDollarBaby. It won not only Best Picture but also Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor,...

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Dec 27, 20203 min read

The Imitation Game - Benedict Cumberbatch is brilliant in this melancholic thriller!

I had just written highly about Norwegian Director #MortenTyldum (https://www.ashoksfive.com/post/defending-jacob-is-a-classy-thriller-th...

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Dec 26, 20203 min read

Torbaaz - Some politics, Some cricket and very poor structuring makes for a terrible product!

What's worse than watching the Indian cricket team succumb to 36 not out in Australia? Watching #SanjayDutt bowling to the Afghan refugee...

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Dec 12, 20202 min read

The Firm - Go by the book or Film ?

Every few months, I find myself debating when was the last time the movie based on a book turned out to be better than the book itself. I...

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Dec 11, 20203 min read

Bhaag Beanie Bhaag - Mrs Maisel meets Runaway Bride in a Swara Bhasker show!

Do you recollect when the Diwali firecracker that you proudly show off to your neighbours fizzles out and does not burst at all ? As you...

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Dec 4, 20203 min read

Zero Dark Thirty - The End justifies all means high voltage thriller

A film that tracks almost documentary-style the ten-year hunt for #OsamaBinLaden. A film that demonstrates the single-minded focus behind...

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Nov 28, 20203 min read

Serious Men - A poignant satire on contemporary India; NAwauddin Siddiqui is brilliant!

Caste versus Class. When #ManuJoseph won the #Hindu best fiction award for his work #SeriousMen in 2010, people acclaimed it as a...

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Nov 25, 20202 min read

Vikrithi - Fact is stranger than Fiction and Malayalam cinema revels in it!

I am convinced that Malayalam film makes are obsessed with converting true life incidents into films. From #OruCBIDiaryKuruppu to...

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Nov 22, 20203 min read

Ludo - Interesting premise but a tad too long and bloated out of proportion

#AnuragBasu. #Pritam. The game of Ludo. Black and White as Karma and Divine retribution. Yellow. Red. Green. Blue. An explosion of...

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Nov 16, 20202 min read

Margin Call - Financial meltdown of 2008 turned into a riveting drama

#MarginCall is an intense gripping saga of the events over 36 hours at an investment bank in Manhattan just preluding the financial...

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Nov 14, 20203 min read

The Queens Gambit is all chess, clothes and battling the demon within!

“Its an entire world of just 64 squares. I feel safe in it. I can control it, I can dominate it and its predictable. So, if I get hurt, I...

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Oct 26, 20202 min read

Dallas Buyers Club - Mathew McConaughey is brilliant in this badass story on medical activism!

I must confess that I sat through #DallasBuyersClub on #NetflixIndia without realizing that the Marlboro man lookalike playing the...

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Oct 17, 20202 min read

Da 5 Bloods - Black Lives Matter !

“You don’t just watch a Spike Lee movie. You’re part of it” says Alissa Wilkinson. Time for a classic Lee joint. ASHOK’s FIVE reviews...

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Oct 10, 20202 min read

Bad Boy Billionaires - When greed leads to downfall!

“Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. There is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more a man has, the more he...

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Sep 14, 20204 min read

The Social Dilemma - You can run but you cant hide !

“When do you read your social media posts – before peeing in the morning or while peeing? There are no other choices”. I did push my...

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Sep 14, 20202 min read

Crashing - A millennial comedy with razor sharp British wit that is funny, filthy and sad !

#PhoebeWallerBridge is perhaps the best screenplay writer of our times. If you loved #Fleabag (https://www.ashoksfive.com/post/fleabag-ph...

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Aug 22, 20203 min read

Beyond the Boundary - An idea whose time has come and where credit is long overdue!

Today its time to move away from the usual and move to a genre that’s yet to find its moorings in India – the sports documentary. ASHOK’s...

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Aug 14, 20203 min read

Gunjan Saxena - The Kargil Girl is a realistic story of a young woman's triumph against all odds

“Just watched #GunjanSaxena. What a film. Cried my eyes out and laughed out loud. Entire team take a bow. Outstanding” is what...

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Aug 8, 20202 min read

Raat Akeli Hai - And Nawazuddin Siddiqui is back in top form!

“In a perfect whodunnit the identity of the murderer should not be easily guessed at the outset, although looking back there will have...