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Mumbai Diaries (2021– )

Unnecessary drama-Season 2

[4/10 · 6 May 2024]

Season 1 dealt with the 26/11 attacks in the background. Amid the over the top dramatic reactions there still was a believability factor.

But season 2 is just your day to day minutiae in an ER department. Too much focus on the emotions and mental state of health providers instead of the emergency. Everybody seems to be distracted with their issues resulting in wrong dignoses. The repetitive nature of these emotional outbursts by the patients and doctors starts to get on your nerves. I started fast forwarding through many of these scenes as it was getting boring. With no real life crisis to fall back on, there was an obvious manufacture of circumstances which looked fake. In absence of true content the acting, dialogue delivery and scenes have a deliberate drag, to prolong the length the series. Though this wouldn't feature on the top of my watchlist I would still add it to the bottom of my list.

Colors (I) (2009)

Yawnfest !!! 😴😑

[3/10 · 21 March 2024]

Dileep appears in the movie 1 hour after it starts, in a 2 hour movie; until than we have to make do with the boring antics of the rest of the cast. Even after he shows up, Dileep didn't have much to do in the movie, its like he agreed to do the movie as a favor. Dileep's strength is his comedy timing, you take that away and the movie flatlines especially when tries to be the macho, romantic type. Roma tried her best to act cute and all but didn't make a mark in the movie. Funny content is non existent. The story didn't have much to keep the audience interested. I am not surprised with the average 3* rating. You can safely avoid this movie as you won't be missing much.

The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc (1999)

A one time watch !!!

[5/10 · 19 March 2024]

Joan of Arc as portrayed in the film seems to be a self-proclaimed messenger of God, over zealous in her beliefs. She came across as an obsessive, compulsive individual or one plagued with schizophrenia. The onscreen Joan of Arc didn't possess any kind of battle skills besides shrieking and egging people on to fight. The battle scenes are very small in scale and felt more like a skirmish between two warring towns rather than two countries. Milla Jovovich did a commendable job playing an unbalanced Joan of Arc. However, due to such extreme eccentricities, as an audience you never fall in love with the character or empathize with her, inspite of her tragic death. There lies the reason why the movie didn't do too well at the box office. But it's a movie worth watching once.