To square the moral circle “Dream Girl” is a movie that works really well in the first half, however by the second half it can be best described as “patchy”. Ayushaman Khurana has developed a knack of delving into odd stories with esoteric plot-lines. Badhai Ho and now Dream Girl are just that, interesting plot …
During the rewatch, my mind wandered into exploring two questions about the human condition – What is attachment? And What is human motivation? For exploring attachment, we can look at the relationship between ‘Joe’ and ‘Joi.’ The fact that ‘Joe’ is himself a replicant (‘K’), his attachment with a completely virtual creation (‘Joi’) is enlightening. …
We will be soon moving into a frenzy of celebrations, the biggest, the largest of all, largest on the whole of the earth so to say — Diwali. Diwali is to welcome Shri Ram back to Ayodhya, at least that’s what we are told. Today I see no such thing. Diwali is broadly speaking a …