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FCG Rating for the film Tu Hai Meri Kiran: 40/100
Tu Hai Meri Kiran

Romance, Thriller (Hindi)

When love becomes an obsession, the line between devotion and danger begins to blur.

Cast: Zaheer Iqbal, Sonakshi Sinha, Ankit Gupta, Sherlin Seth, Zarina Wahab, Purnendu Bhattacharya
Director: Karan Rawal


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Arnab Banerjee | Indpendent Film Critic writing for The Daily Eye

OBSESSION FAILS TO FLY

Sat, October 24 2026

A science-fiction thriller about obsessive love that struggles to transform an intriguing premise into a compelling cinematic experience.

Obsessive love, with its unsettling mix of desire, delusion, and possessiveness, has long provided fertile ground for cinema. The idea of a man consumed by an all-encompassing fixation on a woman, and the havoc such an obsession wreaks on her life, can make for a compelling psychological thriller. But obsession, however disturbing or intense, cannot by itself sustain a two-hour film. Without a credible storyline, a tightly constructed screenplay and characters who behave in ways that make psychological sense, even the most intriguing premise risks becoming an exercise in narrative excess. Karan Rawal’s Tu Hai Meri Kiran, now in cinemas, borrows its title from the song of the same name in Yash Chopra’s Darr (1993), the blockbuster that turned a deranged stalker’s obsessive pursuit of a woman into one of Hindi cinema’s most memorable explorations of pathological love. Rawal’s film attempts to give this familiar theme an inventive twist by introducing a science-fiction element: a mysterious telephone connection between two people living a decade apart. Unfortunately, what promises to be an absorbing psychological thriller never quite manages to get off the ground.

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Sana Farzeen | India Today

Sonakshi-Zaheer's thriller gets lost in its own obsession

Sat, October 24 2026

Kiran and Samar connect across a decade through a mysterious flip phone. Their unusual bond turns disturbing as Samar's affection becomes obsessive.

If Shah Rukh Khan’s Darr taught us anything, it’s that a man who refuses to take no for an answer is a BIG red flag. Tu Hai Meri Kiran takes that obsession, throws in a time-travelling phone and stretches it across a decade. Sounds interesting, right? It is, until the film gets so busy juggling time, love and obsession that it forgets to make sense. Starring Sonakshi Sinha and Zaheer Iqbal, the film connects two strangers from 2016 and 2026 through an old flip phone. Samar (Zaheer) and Kiran (Sonakshi) strike up an unusual connection, and you expect them to solve a mystery, change their destinies or perhaps prevent something terrible from happening. Instead, things take a detour when Samar decides that talking to Kiran isn’t enough. He wants her.. and he wants her at any cost.

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Rohit Khilnani | Bollywood Hungama writing for The Film World

A well-crafted psychological thriller that offers more than its trailer promises

Sat, October 24 2026

The trailer of Tu Hai Meri Kiran suggests a psychological thriller about obsession: a woman pushing back against a man who refuses to let go, but the film turns out to be far more than its trailer implies. In fact, the film’s biggest strength is how much it holds back before revealing what it really has in store for the audience. I went in expecting one kind of thriller, but what unfolded on screen was a genuine surprise. The makers deserve credit for not giving away too much in the trailer. It’s a lesson other filmmakers could take note of. Directed well, shot effectively and edited sharply, the film gets several essentials of a psychological thriller right. The sound design deserves special mention, adding to the tension and keeping you immersed in the unfolding drama. There is also a time-travel element to the story, but I wouldn’t want to reveal more and spoil the experience. It’s best to walk into the cinema knowing as little as possible.

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FCG Rating for the film Gajab Raat: 50/100
Gajab Raat

Thriller, Crime (Hindi)

A corrupt, troubled cop's night spirals out of control when a reluctant act of mercy toward an injured girl pulls him into a deadly web of crime.

Cast: Manoj Bajpayee, Nushrratt Bharuccha, Saqib Saleem, Divya Dutta, Kiku Sharda, Shraddha Das, Rajiv Gupta, Akshay Oberoi
Director: Ritesh Shah
Writer: Neeraj Pandey, Ritesh Shah


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Sukanya Verma | rediff.com

Manoj Bajpayee Saves The Day

Sat, October 24 2026

Manoj Bajpayee has the fluctuating mood graph of his character down path whether hustling away his quick-witted energy in good faith or greed. It's a tricky terrain but few understand balance like this man.

Conscience awakens, corruption collapses and justice is served over the course of a night in Ritesh Shah’s Gajab Raat. Co-written by him and Producer Neeraj Pandey, Shah’s directorial debut captures flawed characters and grim realities through social structures and sardonic eyes leaving Manoj Bajpayee to hold the fort. There’s no cinematic style or technical wizardry to be found in Shah’s storytelling. Dialogues are his strong suit and he uses peppery exchanges to fire up drama on OTT screen. Inspired by the Neeraj Pandey school of corridor strolls, the screenplay engages in prolonged scenes of walking and talking on phone and in person at hotels and hospitals.

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Anuj Kumar | The Hindu

Manoj Bajpayee lights up a night to remember

Sat, October 24 2026

With an electric ensemble and a gripping plot, director Ritesh Shah turns a routine police investigation into a breathless arena of institutional warfare

A corrupt yet efficient cop is a lethal paradox but a rare breed in Hindi cinema. Most films give us clean heroes or cartoonish villains in uniform, even though our police stations have plenty of specimens like Ajay Nivrit (Manoj Bajpayee). Few Indian filmmakers understand the inner workings of our law enforcement agencies as well as Neeraj Pandey. He operates in a fertile space where raw reality meets gripping fiction. In Gajab Raat, the writer-producer collaborates with director Ritesh Shah to look beyond cinematic stereotypes and show the power of an investigating officer if he decides to follow procedure. Originally titled Ghooskhor Pandat, which sparked controversy, the makers shifted the title to the generic Gajab Raat, pulling the character out of a specific identity to address broader institutional corruption. A chameleon, Ajay, regardless of surname, is a quintessential Delhi cop who could have spent his formative years in Darbhanga, Kochi, or Pathankot. He doesn’t compromise on law; he negotiates to mould it according to his interests. Together with his immediate boss, SHO Rana (Rajiv Gupta), he manipulates the system to nurture his farmhouse dreams. One night, even before the dust settles after a raid in a cheap hotel, the dynamic moves from a lucrative extortion plan to a dark, high-stakes national security crisis.

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Upma Singh | Navbharat Times

एक रात की इस कहानी में 'गजब' सिर्फ मनोज बाजपेयी, देखने लायक है, पर प्‍लॉट ट्व‍िस्‍ट्स बेअसर

Sat, October 24 2026

‘स्पेशल 26’ जैसी यादगार फिल्म देने वाली नीरज पांडे, मनोज बाजपेयी और दिव्या दत्ता की तिकड़ी अरसे बाद किसी फिल्म में साथ आए, तो उसके भी स्पेशल होने की उम्मीद जगती है। लेकिन इस मामले में उनकी नई फिल्म ‘गजब रात’ ऐसा कोई ‘गजब’ कारनामा नहीं कर पाती। एक रात की इस कहानी में ‘गजब’ सिर्फ मनोज बाजपेयी हैं, जो कमजोर प्‍लॉट ट्विस्ट के बावजूद अपनी एक्‍ट‍िंग के बूते इसे देखने लायक बनाते हैं। फिल्‍म OTT प्‍लेटफॉर्म ‘नेटफ्ल‍िक्‍स’ पर रिलीज हो गई है। यह वही फिल्‍म है, जिसका नाम पहले ‘घूसखोर पंडत’ था और इसी साल फरवरी में इस पर खूब विवाद हुआ था। बाद में सुप्रीम कोर्ट के निर्देश के बाद मेकर्स ने इसका नाम बदला और अब ‘गजब रात’ टाइटल के साथ इसे रिलीज किया है।

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FCG Rating for the film Udta Teer: 51/100
Udta Teer

Comedy, Action (Hindi)

An amnesiac Pakistani spy wakes up believing he is a patriotic Indian counter-terrorism officer.

Cast: Ayushmann Khurrana, Sara Ali Khan, Rahul Bose, Supriya Pilgaonkar, Brijendra Kala, Ram Kapoor, Mukul Dev, Suhail Nayyar, Sandeep Anand, Gulshan Grover
Director: Aakash Kaushik
Writer: Aakash Kaushik


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Anuj Kumar | The Hindu

Ayushmann Khurrana is on target in this spy misadventure

Sat, October 24 2026

Writer-director Aakash Kaushik conjures a cross-border spy comedy that promises to punch above its weight but ultimately settles for low-hanging fruit.

A Pakistani spy loses his memory and unwittingly starts working for Indian intelligence. Sometimes, a single-sentence logline is enough to trigger an urge to watch a film. Writer Aakash Kaushik, making his directorial debut with an espionage satire, nails that hook. Memory is perhaps a spy’s biggest asset. He assumes a new identity, but what happens if the operative sheds his original personality altogether? It opens floodgates for creative possibilities. When Bilal Ahmad (Ayushmann Khurrana), a Pakistani mole who has infiltrated an Indian security agency, loses recollection of his true role in a sudden blast, the script flips the spy action genre on its head.

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Anmol Jamwal | Tried & Refused Productions

Far from a bullseye

Sat, October 24 2026

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Ajay Brahmatmaj | CineMahaul (YouTube)

Sat, October 24 2026

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Pehla Pyaar Doosri Baar

Romance, Comedy, Drama (Hindi)

Three friends attend their school reunion and enter into different relationships, discovering the trials, tribulations, allure, and absurdities of love.

Cast: Alisha Chopra, Sparsh Walia, Sakshi Vaidya, Kunal Vaid, Sargun Kaur Luthra, Tushar Chhibber
Director: Anuj Saini
Writer: Luv Ranjan, Anuj Saini, Jehan Handa


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Ajay Brahmatmaj | CineMahaul (YouTube)

Sat, October 24 2026

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Rahul Desai | The Hollywood Reporter India

Another Proud Monument to ‘Pyaar Ka Punchnama’

Fri, October 23 2026

The dated romcom revolves around three North Indian flatmates who set out to woo their high-school crushes at a glossy reunion

It’s tempting to blindly like any Hindi film that dares to not be a violent actioner, a superstar-driven mass entertainer, a propaganda historical, a political thriller, a biopic or a mythological drama. Romcoms are suddenly as rare and desirable as spines; love stories — even the bad ones — are novel again. But romcoms like Pehla Pyaar Doosri Baar remind you why they went extinct. The newcomers-who-are-not-ready-but-star-in-a-designer-North-Indian-comedy template is a throwback to the early 2010s, when Luv Ranjan’s Pyaar Ka Punchnama set the ball rolling and triggered a wave of genre fatigue. Ranjan co-writes and produces here, which partly explains why the movie behaves like an ex who refuses to move on.

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FCG Rating for the film Little Thomas: 53/100
Little Thomas

Drama, Comedy (Hindi)

Seven-year-old Thomas and his family navigate life's highs and lows in 1990s Goa, echoing the style of Malgudi Days and Ruskin Bond.

Cast: Gulshan Devaiah, Rasika Dugal, Hridansh Parekh, Hridansh Gokani
Director: Kaushal Oza
Writer: Kaushal Oza


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Udita Jhunjhunwala | Mint writing for Scroll.in

Tender humour as a boy tries deals with grown-up problems

Sat, October 24 2026

Kaushal Oza’s film stars Hridansh Parekh, Gulshan Devaiah and Rasika Dugal.

Thomas Miranda (Hridansh Parekh) has two pressing concerns: where do babies come from, and how can he get a baby brother? When he was six, he wanted a zoo; now at seven, he is convinced that he needs a sibling. His attempt to find answers lead him to a priest, his kindly neighbour Mrs Braganza (Mahabanoo Mody-Kotwal) and conversations with his two friends: Nigel, who has an insatiable appetite, and Murthy, a science enthusiast. Thomas’s parents Desmond (Gulshan Devaiah) and Jessie (Rasika Dugal) run a bakery, but business is slow. Jessie teaches piano, but dwindling interest among children in learning music threatens her livelihood. Desmond and Jessie’s disagreements are shaped by everyday pressures, though Thomas, naturally, sees things in much simpler terms.

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Renuka Vyavahare | The Times of India

A tender Ode to Simpler Times and Childhood

Sat, October 24 2026

A gentle slice-of-life tale about growing up and holding on to wonder.

When he witnesses his parents fighting over the everyday struggles of middle-class life—expenses, responsibilities and survival, seven-year-old Thomas Miranda (Hridansh Parekh) realises that life isn’t always sunshine and rainbows. Yet, in his innocent logic, he believes that a little brother could bring the family closer and make them happier. But with their finances crumbling, his parents – piano teacher Jesse (Rasika Dugal) and baker Desmond (Gulshan Devaiah) are too preoccupied with keeping their household afloat to think about expanding their family or rekindling their romance. At the heart of director Kaushal Oza’s tender tale is a child who wants to believe in miracles but must eventually confront reality. Set in the sleepy neighbourhood of Fontainhas in 1990s Goa, the film unfolds like a gentle childhood lullaby, evoking a time when life moved at a slower pace and childhood was unburdened by the noise of the world.

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Sana Farzeen | India Today

Cute moments, little depth in Rasika-Gulshan Devaiah's film

Sat, October 24 2026

Little Thomas follows a seven-year-old trying to reunite his feuding parents and gain a baby brother. Its charming performances and 1990s Goa setting cannot fully overcome an underdeveloped screenplay.

There is a scene in Little Thomas where Gulshan Devaiah’s character tries to place a figurine of a couple on top of a multi-tiered cake. The cake comes crashing down. He eventually realises that the figurine was too heavy. And there, in a nutshell, lies the problem with Kaushal Oza’s film. The story topples under the weight of its own cuteness, forgetting that an adorable child can only take you so far. You need a good story and a tight screenplay to keep the audience invested, too.

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Doosra

Drama (Hindi)

The 2002 NatWest Final was more than a cricketing victory for India. It was a moment when a nation found its voice, and a young girl found the courage to speak her truth.

Cast: Plabita Borthakur, Ankur Vikal, Samidha Guru, Twisha Joshi, Krishna Gokani
Director: Abhinay Deo
Writer: Agnello Oswin Das, Matt Graham, Zak Shaikh


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Upma Singh | Navbharat Times

आइडिया मजेदार, पर असर कम! वुमन एंपावरमेंट पर हावी सौरव गांगुली का करिश्माई क्रिकेट

Sat, October 24 2026

भारत में क्रिकेट सिर्फ एक खेल नहीं है, बल्कि वो जोश, जुनून, और जज्बा है जो हर जाति-धर्म, ऊंच-नीच से परे, हर तबके के दिल में एक सा धड़कता है। फील्ड पर एक पल में हार को जीत में बदल देने वाला यह करामाती खेल तमाम युवाओं की आंखों में सपने बोता है। क्रिकेट के इसी असर की बानगी है फिल्म ‘दूसरा’। फिल्म में क्रिकेट के मैदान पर मिली एक ऐतिहासिक जीत को घुटन भरी जिंदगी जी रही एक लड़की की आजादी से दिलचस्प अंदाज में जोड़ा गया है, लेकिन लड़की की कहानी पर कहीं न कहीं क्रिकेट का करिश्मा भारी पड़ जाता है। प्‍लॉट साल 1991 से 2002 तक दरम्यान का है। यहां दो कहानियां एक साथ चलती हैं। एक तरफ प्रिंस ऑफ कोलकाता सौरव गांगुली भारतीय क्रिकेट की पुरानी छवि तोड़कर कामयाबी की नई इबारतें लिख रहे थे, तो दूसरी ओर राजस्थान के एक रूढ़िवादी परिवार की बगावती बच्ची तारा (प्लाबिता बोरठाकुर) सौरव दादा की हर जीत में अपनी कामयाबी देख रही थी।

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Rahul Desai | The Hollywood Reporter India

A Distant Marriage Between Fiction and Nonfiction

Fri, October 23 2026

The docudrama forcibly seeks parallels between the life of a small-town girl in the 1990s and the rise of Indian cricket under captain Sourav Ganguly

A small-town girl, Tara (Plabita Borthakur), grows up in a patriarchal and regressive household in 1990s Rajasthan. She wants to break free; she is different from the rest. Like millions of Indians, she finds inspiration in the clutter-breaking career of a cricketer. So we see Tara’s coming-of-age journey intercut with the story of Sourav Ganguly transforming a meek Indian cricket team into a combative force. Doosra, directed by Abhinay Deo, is a docudrama that plays out like a fragile film-school idea inflated into a feature-length production. At its best, it feels like one of those patriotic World Cup commercials with farfetched allegories and corny copywriting. The entire cricket-as-a-metaphor-for-life analogy is well past its sell-by date.

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418

Horror, Thriller (Telugu)

Set in a medical college in a dread-stricken village, the film confronts the science behind superstitions, the superstitions in science, and an anomaly that neither can explain.

Cast: Chaithra J Achar, Charan Lakkaraju, Preethi Pagadala, Ramesh Indira, Shashank Patil, Shree Vaishnav, Shrikanth Ganesh, Surya Raj, Kota Jayaram, Bank Basha
Director: Kiran Nadagouda
Writer: Kiran Nadagouda


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Janani K | India Today

Jump scares over genuine terror in Prashanth Neel-backed horror film

Sat, October 24 2026

Director Kirtan Nadagouda's 418, backed by KGF and Salaar fame Prashanth Neel, is a horror thriller with a message about mental health. With a predictable storyline, the film relies heavily on jump scares and sound design to unsettle the audience.

Indian cinema has often diluted the horror genre by blending it with comedy, making genuinely frightening films a rarity. And even among those that attempt pure horror, finding one that delivers consistent scares is no easy task. 418, backed by KGF and Salaar filmmaker Prashanth Neel, made headlines after the Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC) reportedly found it too scary. After several delays, the film has finally arrived in theatres. Does it live up to the hype? Let’s find out.

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Chaar Yaar

Drama (Hindi)

A story of four middle-class boys, their dreams, setbacks and friendship being their armour. A fateful decision leads them to take a step that changes the course of their lives trapping them between gangsters and cops. What once held them together slowly tears their bond. With their armour shattered, their enemies close in and fate serves up a bill for their crimes.

Cast: Prayrak Mehta, Saqib Ayub, Purav Jha, Naman Jain, Sai Tamhankar, Sikandar Kher, Dibyendu Bhattacharya, Rajesh Tailang, Chunky Panday, Nassar


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Sana Farzeen | India Today

Purav Jha-Sai Tamhankar's cool crime drama forgets to have fun

Sat, October 24 2026

Four cash-strapped friends turn to car theft as Inspector Sumati Bhalerao closes in. Their chase loses momentum amid an overextended screenplay and crowded subplots.

Four friends, empty pockets and a talent for turning every good day into a disaster. Chaar Yaar looks like a cool, young crime caper about hustling your way to the top. There are stolen cars, dangerous gangsters, messy friendships and a cop on their trail. The boys have the jugaad, the attitude and the ambition. They believe their story is an RGV-style drama, but what they don’t have is a screenplay that knows when to stop.

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Suchin Mehrotra | The Hollywood Reporter India

Sprawling ensemble, repetitive plotting and lacklustre heists

Sat, October 24 2026

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Rahul Desai | The Hollywood Reporter India

A Bloated Crime Drama That Skids Off The Track

Fri, October 23 2026

The busy 8-episode series revolves around four talkative friends and their template-riddled descent into the Mumbai underworld

Somewhere between passive-viewing content and algorithmic entertainment, there is a field. Shows like Chaar Yaar (“Four Friends”) will meet you there. It is not bad. It is not good. It is arguably something worse: middling and overlong. The 8-episode crime drama takes a stacked cast full of watchable performers and flattens them into a distracted underworld tale that keeps chasing its own tail. Watching the series is strange because most scenes look fine at an individual level: the acting, writing, staging, banter. But they don’t make sense as an aggregative experience, pulling us in multiple directions like a shopkeeper trying to exhaust his stock on a lazy customer.

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Titans

Fantasy, Comedy, Thriller (Malayalam)

Small-time gangster Antony Yakuza teams up with young programmer Anwar to pull off a major heist, with mysterious driver Rejimon joining them. But Rejimon is not who he seems, and their simple crime soon turns into a strange, unpredictable journey where reality itself begins to blur.

Cast: Jayasurya, Vinayakan, Adam Sabiq, Baby Jean, Bhagath Manuel, Sunny Wayne, Indrans, Manikandan Achari, Suresh Krishna, Nihal Nizam
Director: Prince Joy
Writer: James Sebastian


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Vignesh Madhu | The New Indian Express

Occasionally fun, but lost in fantasy

Sat, October 24 2026

Jayasurya and Vinayakan's fantasy entertainer, Titans, has its moments of humour and impressive technical craft, but an undercooked screenplay keeps it from realising its potential

Jayasurya playing a loser is fun. We have seen him ace that part in the Aadu franchise. Antony Yakuza in Titans is cut from almost the same cloth as Shaji Pappan, just more cutthroat. Antony is a small-time thug in Peter’s (Baby Jean) gang, boasting that he was once the right-hand man of Peter’s late father. But now Antony has become a liability to the gang, constantly sneered at and mocked, and rightly so. In his introduction scene, as two gangs are caught in a Mexican standoff, Antony is seen in the last row with a tiny pistol, which he ends up misfiring. The sneering continues.

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S. R. Praveen | The Hindu

Jayasurya-starrer fails to utilise a promising concept blending humour and fantasy

Fri, October 23 2026

One of the film’s few positives is that some of the fantasy elements are seamlessly weaved into the story of a man aspiring to be a big-time gangster, that they almost seem believable

Quite a few unusual writing choices can be seen in Prince Joy’s Titans, especially with how it treats its protagonist Antony Yakuza (Jayasurya), a small-time outlaw. Although the hangover of Jayasurya’s Shaji Pappan character from Aadu is very much visible in Antony, he is perhaps one of the most unheroic lead characters in a movie of this kind. In every situation, he is expected to either fail or do the wrong thing and he keeps up with that expectation much of the time. The other interesting approach is in how writer James Sebastian portrays the done-to-death fight between good and evil, going behind the mechanics of how both sides operate, with Lucifer getting a glitzy corporate office and the other side in a location that is a stark contrast. Much of this might have looked great at a conceptual level, but it does not translate that well onto the screen.

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Sumo Didi

Drama (Hindi)

Hetal, a talented wrestler, discovers sumo by chance, but her road to improvement is very steep. Unwilling to give up her dream, she goes to Japan and endures rigorous training. A unique Indian sumo girl movie!

Cast: Shriyam Bhagnani, Chaitanya Sharma, Nitesh Pandey, Anubha Fatehpuria
Director: Jayant Rohatgi
Writer: Nikhil Sachan


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Deepak Dua | Independent Film Journalist & Critic writing for Cineyatra

करने और पाने चली ‘सुमो दीदी’

Fri, October 23 2026

कर पाओगी…? हर उस लड़की से, जिसने कुछ नया, कुछ अनोखा, कुछ बड़ा करने का सोचा तो उसके परिवार का, समाज का, दुनिया का, हमारा, आपका पहला सवाल यही तो होता है-कर पाओगी…? हेतल दवे से भी यही पूछा गया था। हेतल दवे को तो जानते हैं न आप? नहीं…! अच्छा, सुमो कुश्ती तो आपको पता ही होगी। वही जापानी कुश्ती जिसमें बहुत मोटे-मोटे पहलवान आपस में भिड़ते हैं। भारत में तो यह लोकप्रिय ही नहीं है। लेकिन यह जान कर आप हैरान हो सकते हैं कि भारत की पहली और इकलौती महिला सुमो प्लेयर का नाम है हेतल दवे जिन्होंने बरसों पहले इस खेल में भारत का नाम चमकाया था। यह फिल्म ‘सुमो दीदी’ (Sumo Didi) उन्हीं हेतल दवे की कहानी दिखाती है। हेतल को उसके मोटापे के चलते बहुत कुछ सहना, सुनना पड़ता है। खुद उसके अपने परिवार के लोग भी उसे जताते-सुनाते रहते हैं। हेतल जूडो खेलती है। एक दिन जापान से आए एक नामी सुमो खिलाड़ी से मिलने के बाद वह भी सुमो प्लेयर बनने का ठान लेती है। पिता उसके साथ हैं लेकिन मां नहीं। आखिर मां कहती हैं-एक साल ले लो, कामयाब नहीं हुईं तो उसके बाद शादी। हेतल जुट जाती है, लड़ती है, भिड़ती है, पहले दूसरों से, फिर खुद से और आखिर…!

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Rahul Desai | The Hollywood Reporter India

When The Subject Does the Heavy-Lifting

Fri, October 23 2026

The biopic of India’s first female sumo wrestler Hetal Dave features a solid lead performance that elevates a predictable template.

No matter how safe and formulaic many biopics choose to be, sometimes it’s the subject alone that does the heavy-lifting. This is quite literal in Sumo Didi, a Hindi film inspired by the life of Hetal Dave, India’s first female professional sumo wrestler. The underdog checklist already exists: an unmarried girl mocked for her weight; a middle-class background; a notoriously patriarchal society; a supportive father; an apathetic federation; a passion as rare and mismatched as a bobsleigh racing team from Jamaica in Cool Runnings; and a sport that weaponises the body-shaming stigmas that infect most cultures. When life itself offers a winning theme — with all social and narrative bases covered — then all ‘fiction’ has to do is show up. The trick is to trust reality, not accessorise it.

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Hope

Science Fiction, Mystery, Action (Korean)

In the remote South Korean village of Hope Harbor, police chief Bum-seok and officer Sung-ae are called to investigate a mysterious creature wreaking havoc on the community. But all is not as it seems, and perceptions can be misleading. What begins as ignorance plants the seed of disaster, escalating through human conflict into a tragedy of cosmic proportions.

Cast: Hwang Jung-min, Zo In-sung, Hoyeon, Alicia Vikander, Michael Fassbender, Taylor Russell, Cameron Britton, Lee Sang-hee, Um Mun-suk, Im Hyun-sik
Director: Na Hong-jin
Writer: Na Hong-jin


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Debanjan Dhar | Outlook

Na Hong-jin’s Madcap Alien Attack Movie Perfects The Art of Chase Spectacle

Fri, October 23 2026

Starring Hoyeon and Hwang Jung-Min, Na’s latest creature flick arrives a decade after The Wailing, a mix of preposterous delights

A decade after South Korean auteur Na Hong-jin took the world by storm with horror hit The Wailing, he returns with a demented monster movie. Hope premiered in Cannes Competition earlier this year, an audacious, eyebrow-raising outlier choice. Expectations are naturally immense. At its best, Hope is a thrilling demonstration of dynamite action filmmaking. But it’s also scraggly, unwieldy and prone to flat characterisation. Your experience will vary dramatically on certain expectations. As a big-scale apocalyptic outing, Hope is ambitious, frustrating, misjudged and yet genuinely surprising. That it can flit between so many things is in itself a total departure from the dead-eyed generic drudgery that hogs popular Hollywood blockbusters.

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Nobody Wants This S03

Comedy, Drama (English)

An agnostic sex podcaster and a newly single rabbi fall in love, but can their relationship survive their wildly different lives and meddling families?

Cast: Kristen Bell, Adam Brody, Justine Lupe, Timothy Simons


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Sonal Pandya | Times Now

Kristen Bell-Adam Brody’s Romance Finds New Sparks In Netflix Series

Fri, October 23 2026

Created by Erin Foster, the romance series moves Joanne (Kristen Bell) and Noah (Adam Brody)'s relationship to the next stage, leading to lovely moments of togetherness.

It’s time to say mazel tov! Kristen Bell’s Joanne and Adam Brody’s Noah are now living together, and the former decides to take the next big steps in her conversion to Judaism. The Netflix rom-com had a shaky second season where the couple questioned their relationship status, but now, their bond is stronger than ever. Based on creator Erin Foster’s real-life experiences, Nobody Wants This Season 3 also explores the connection between Joanne and Noah’s siblings, Sasha (Timothy Simons) and Morgan (Justine Lupe). From family interferences to sibling tiffs, the new instalment has plenty of fun and chaotic sequences.

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