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Ishita Sengupta

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Ishita Sengupta is a critic, columnist, and podcaster based out of India. She writes on films and shows at the juncture of gender and pop culture.

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André is an Idiot (2025) 92% “André is an Idiot is a fascinating character study that takes nonfiction and uses it not to confront but escape life, and by doing so opens up the possibilities of the form itself.” – OTTplay Jan 30, 2025 Full Review Twinless (2025) 95% “Twinless, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, is Sweeney’s sophomore directorial outing but the assuredness on display is one for the ages.” – OTTplay Jan 30, 2025 Full Review Cactus Pears (2025) 100% “Sabar Bonda opens as a quiet portrait of grief — the first scene takes place at a hospital, loud muffled cries score more than one scene— and the inclination only hardens as the premise starts taking shape.” – OTTplay Jan 30, 2025 Full Review Sorry, Baby (2025) 95% “Eva Victor, the American comedian who garnered fame by posting funny videos on Twitter, makes her directorial debut with Sorry, Baby, a startling feature imbued with a clarity of voice that hits one like a block of ice. ” – OTTplay Jan 30, 2025 Full Review Singham Again (2024) 33% “Watching a Hindi film cop drama today can be an exercise in suspicion. There is always jingoism lurking in the wings. In Singham Again, it takes centre-stage but it is accompanied by such dullness that the bigotry becomes the lesser evil.” – OTTplay Nov 27, 2024 Full Review Vijay 69 (2024) 60% “Vijay 69 is so keen to convey its central hackneyed message that even the grass in the frame is obliged to perform. ” – OTTplay Nov 27, 2024 Full Review I Want to Talk (2024) 70% “Shorn of metaphor and allusion (well, not completely), I Want to Talk is about the grime and gift of living. It is a prosaic portrayal of what it takes to live and how much it takes out of us to survive.” – OTTplay Nov 27, 2024 Full Review All We Imagine as Light (2024) 100% “It is that rare film whose every frame affirms the gift of the medium of its choosing as the glorious soundscape grazes against the burnished visuals and the gap between them allows for dialogues and interpretations to flow, and for us to breathe.” – OTTplay Nov 27, 2024 Full Review Sector 36 (2024) 47% “Based on the high-profile Nithari killings, Sector 36 is less about identifying the perpetrators and more about an investigation into what led — and leads — to the perpetuation of such crimes. ” – OTTplay Oct 12, 2024 Full Review Binny and Family (2024) “Binny and Family is an unexpectedly profound film that treats characters as people instead of burdening them with the need for messaging. None of them is good or bad. They are just young and old. ” – OTTplay Oct 12, 2024 Full Review CTRL (2024) 44% “With CTRL, Motwane invites us to witness the fragility of digital privacy and needles our trained fingers through a premise that unfolds entirely on laptop and phone screens. ” – OTTplay Oct 12, 2024 Full Review Vicky Vidya Ka Woh Wala Video (2024) 10% “Raaj Shaandilya takes all the tropes that are working right now, and stitches together a strange mismatched story that ends so far from where it began, that its origin seems like a fever dream.” – OTTplay Oct 12, 2024 Full Review Jigra (2024) 69% “Jigra tracks the distance a sister will cover to protect her sibling, and in the process lends a distinct femininity to the idea of heroism by revealing its roots to be knee-jerk desperation and not choreographed combat.” – OTTplay Oct 12, 2024 Full Review The Buckingham Murders (2023) 79% “The Buckingham Murders unfolds not just as a metaphor for what is happening in India today but as an exposition of what the happenings in India are doing to the people elsewhere.” – OTTplay Sep 14, 2024 Full Review Vedaa (2024) 44% “Written by Aseem Arora, Vedaa constantly feels like two films in one; the one it intended to be, and the other, what it unfolds as. ” – OTTplay Aug 19, 2024 Full Review Khel Khel Mein (2024) 78% “Khel Khel Mein swings so much that every time you feel it will take a misstep or make a commentary, it commits to neither and settles for laughs. ” – OTTplay Aug 19, 2024 Full Review Stree 2 (2024) 57% “Stree 2 is both a fan service and a creative exercise, it is both a reiteration and an invention. It is a convincing foray into the multiverse and equally robust as a distinct film. ” – OTTplay Aug 19, 2024 Full Review Phir Aayi Hasseen Dillruba (2024) 38% “Phir Aayi Hasseen Dillruba is a pale reprisal in comparison, that hovers over the fences instead of swinging for them. It inherits the framework of the original but robs off the soul, reducing the outing to a clumsy guessing exercise with no heart.” – OTTplay Aug 19, 2024 Full Review Ulajh (2024) 33% “Directed by Sudhanshu Saria, Ulajh conjures very little tension to sustain interest. It does not help that apart from wasting its potential, the film also squanders the terrific actors it assembled. ” – OTTplay Aug 19, 2024 Full Review Bad Newz (2024) 27% “What is Bad Newz when it's not evoking Mohabbatein, Kabir Singh and Duplicate? It's a tedious watch about two men fighting over a pregnant girl while she is relegated to the margins. ” – OTTplay Aug 19, 2024 Full Review Sarfira (2024) 42% “Sudha Kongara’s Sarfira is the Hindi adaptation of Soorarai Pottru, the hugely successful 2020 Tamil film she directed. Several actors from the original reprise their roles and the screenplay is almost scene-to-scene identical. Even the flaws are repeated” – OTTplay Aug 19, 2024 Full Review Wild Wild Punjab (2024) 31% “Wild Wild Punjab is a film in which men are busy doing exactly two things: talking about killing themselves or drinking alcohol. No one works and no one cares. ” – OTTplay Aug 19, 2024 Full Review Hamare Baarah (2024) “FOR a film based on a Muslim family and so suffused with the language, music and people from the community, Hamare Baarah has not one Muslim person in the direction or writing team. It is not an accidental but deliberate exclusion.” – OTTplay Jul 8, 2024 Full Review Kill (2023) 89% “Kill is bloody, gruesome and unlike any other Hindi film in the realm. The rarity is claimed and earned during the runtime when the familiar setting is revealed to be a setup and the premise turns out to be something else.” – OTTplay Jul 8, 2024 Full Review Sharmajee Ki Beti (2024) 73% “Sharmajee Ki Beti has all the problems that films revolving around women share and none of the astuteness they demand. The central female characters as designed messengers who are cherry picked to drive an overwrought message home.” – OTTplay Jul 8, 2024 Full Review
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