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Published in The Broken Refrigerator

·May 13

‘Nevertheless’…Dares to be different with a bold start, yet ends up circling around the central conflict without any resolve.

Spoilers Ahead… I think I’m at that age and point in life now, where I no longer enjoy the scintillating, fluttering, see-saw romances and instead, look forward to watching non-dramatic, warm, stable relationships, where couples actually talk out their problems rather than staying misunderstood. …

Nevertheless

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‘Nevertheless’…Dares to be different with a bold start, yet ends up circling around the central…
‘Nevertheless’…Dares to be different with a bold start, yet ends up circling around the central…

Published in The Broken Refrigerator

·Mar 5

‘Why I Dress Up For Love’…A wonderfully nuanced depiction of an influencer, in a warm, radiant rom-com.

Also known in romaji as ‘Kikazaru Koi ni wa Riyuu ga Atte’. — Spoilers Ahead… The rise of social media has brought along with it a new character archetype — the influencer. In many ways this archetype can be put in the same category as the ‘actor’ archetype — vain, full of oneself, obsessed with their looks, fashionable, focused, thick-skinned (to counter the…

Why I Dress Up For Love

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‘Why I Dress Up For Love’…A wonderfully nuanced depiction of an influencer, in a warm, radiant…
‘Why I Dress Up For Love’…A wonderfully nuanced depiction of an influencer, in a warm, radiant…

Published in The Broken Refrigerator

·Feb 13

‘Kill It’…A grounded & all-out brilliant action thriller.

Spoilers Ahead… There is just a different kind of joy to watching a well-written, well-executed, well-acted, action thriller unfold. It’s a sort of a high, and after watching the terrific Kill It, it’s definitely taking it’s time to sober me down. From the afar, Kill It is just like any…

Kill It

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‘Kill It’…A grounded & all-out brilliant action thriller.
‘Kill It’…A grounded & all-out brilliant action thriller.

Published in The Broken Refrigerator

·Feb 1

Bullet Point Review: At a Distance, Spring is Green

Spoilers Ahead… Early episodes of At a Distance, Spring is Green falls very much along the lines of Cheese in the Trap, with a rich, popular student hiding his true self behind a façade of generosity and his sudden interest in a sullen but misunderstood senior, charging the story forward…

Korean Dramas

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Bullet Point Review: At a Distance, Spring is Green
Bullet Point Review: At a Distance, Spring is Green

Published in The Broken Refrigerator

·Jan 16

‘Navarasa’…A pretty decent anthology with a few standout episodes, but overall tepid and suffers from the need to explain itself.

Spoilers Ahead… Since Netflix’s foray into Indian waters in 2016, it has heavily invested in anthologies (Lust Stories, Ghost Stories, Ajeeb Daastaans, Paava Kadhaigal to name a few), and it isn’t difficult to see why. The idea in itself is thrilling — assembling an array of writers, directors, cinematographers, actors…

Navarasa

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‘Navarasa’…A pretty decent anthology with a few standout episodes, but overall tepid and suffers…
‘Navarasa’…A pretty decent anthology with a few standout episodes, but overall tepid and suffers…

Jan 12

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You just encapsulated the post-lockdown confusion accurately, and I wish I could have highlighted…

You just encapsulated the post-lockdown confusion accurately, and I wish I could have highlighted the whole essay, because this is me.

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You just encapsulated the post-lockdown confusion accurately, and I wish I could have highlighted the whole essay, because this is me.

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Published in The Broken Refrigerator

·Jan 7

Bullet Point Review: Only Murders in the Building

Mild Spoilers Ahead… I like Selena Gomez, I like murder mysteries and I like New York City. So inherently, I knew I was going to like Only Murders in the Building. Even so, the show was a pleasant surprise. It was funny, engaging, heart-warming and wholesome; the last two words…

Only Murders

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Bullet Point Review: Only Murders in the Building
Bullet Point Review: Only Murders in the Building

Published in The Broken Refrigerator

·Jan 3

‘Squid Game’…Turns the death game genre on its head, to present a story that's more about the environment of the game than the game itself.

Spoilers Ahead… In the 2017 Malayalam film Take Off, there’s a striking dialogue uttered by an Indian nurse when she finds out that the Indian government plans to evacuate her and her colleagues out of Tikrit, Iraq, after the city falls hostage to the ISIS. The nurse refuses to leave…

Squid Game

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‘Squid Game’…Turns the death game genre on its head, to present a story that's more about the…
‘Squid Game’…Turns the death game genre on its head, to present a story that's more about the…

Published in The Broken Refrigerator

·Dec 27, 2021

Bullet Point Review: Oh My Boss! Love Not Included

Also translated as ‘Oh My Boss! Love is a Separate Volume’, ‘Oh My Boss! Love is a Bonus Book’ or in romaji as Oh! My Boss! Koi wa Bessatsu De’. — Spoilers Ahead… Oh My Boss! Love Not Included is simplistic. The goals are achievable, the messages, straightforward and the characters, uncomplicated. It is formulaic no doubt, yet irresistible. Or maybe, that’s how it looked to me, as I watched this show during a turbulent period of my life. …

Japanese Drama

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Bullet Point Review: Oh My Boss! Love Not Included
Bullet Point Review: Oh My Boss! Love Not Included

Published in The Broken Refrigerator

·Dec 22, 2021

‘Love Alarm’…Super cool concept makes for an entertaining first season but dull characters turn season two into a snooze fest.

This review is for both Season 1 & 2. — Spoilers Ahead… I am not hesitant to say that I am not (yet) on board with the idea of K-dramas having multiple seasons. A crucial aspect of my attraction towards them, I have always loved K-dramas’ concept of a finite runtime. It lets me watch a variety of stories and…

Love Alarm

5 min read

‘Love Alarm’…Super cool concept makes for an entertaining first season but dull characters turn…
‘Love Alarm’…Super cool concept makes for an entertaining first season but dull characters turn…
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