Indian cinema is one of the world's most prolific, spanning the masala spectacle of Bollywood to the quieter regional traditions of Bengali and Malayalam film. RRR and Sholay alone show the range on offer here, from mythic action on an epic scale to the kind of crowd-pleasing energy that defined 1970s Hindi cinema. See what Macca made of it all below.
Rating: 3.0★
By the time 3 Idiots arrived in Indian cinemas in December 2009, Bollywood had been producing crowd-pleasing comedies with social conscience for decades, but rarely had the two ingredients come together quite so explosively at the box office. The film grossed well over three billion rupees on its original
Rating: 1.5★
Sri Lanka's film industry has spent much of the past decade quietly building a reputation for thoughtful, socially conscious drama, and Prasanna Vithanage has been one of its most persistent advocates. His earlier work, including With You, Without You (2012) and Oba Nathuwa Oba Ekka (2012), earned him
Rating: 3.5★
There are films you watch and films you experience, and A River Called Titas (1973) sits very firmly in the second category. Based on the celebrated Bengali novel Titas Ekti Nadir Naam by Adwaita Malla Barman, the film is set in the river delta region of what is now Bangladesh,
Rating: 4.0★
The First World War has occupied British cinema for over a century, from the silent era newsreels shot a few miles behind the actual front line to the mud-soaked poetry of films like Paths of Glory and Oh! What a Lovely War. It is a conflict that refuses to
Genre Drama
★½ — A Throw of Dice (1929)
Genre Action
★★½ — Need for Speed (2014)
Genre Action
★★★★½ — RRR (2022)
Genre Drama
★★ — The Padma Boatman (1993)
Genre Action
★★★★½ — Sholay (1975)
Genre Action
★★★ — Dredd (2012)
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