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Shikhar Verma

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Biography:

Co-founded the independent platform High On Films so that Independent film from across the world could get the love they deserve. Has a keen eye for everything art related and is constantly involved in spreading it around. Films are first love. A dream, a reality, and an illusion - all wrapped in one.

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The Royal Hotel (2023) 89% 4/5 “The filmmaker runs a tight ship; all her elements build up to some of the most believably tense moments you’d see in a lean thriller like this one. ” – High on Films Apr 10, 2025 Full Review The Encampments (2025) 94% 3.5/5 ““The Encampments” is also a potent documentary that takes a look at the struggle to be on the right side of history in a world that is aggressively trying to curb “free speech.” ” – High on Films Apr 2, 2025 Full Review Wake Up (2023) 71% 1.5/5 ““Wake Up” is just a dull, cynical slasher that is entirely toothless and hollow.” – High on Films Mar 28, 2025 Full Review The Stress Is Killing Me (2024) 67% 2/5 “Carroll is unable to create even a single moment beyond the interesting premise that gives life to any of these badly stitched sketches. They are flattened out to such an extent that there is no cohesion left in the narrative whatsoever.” – High on Films Mar 27, 2025 Full Review The Ballad of Straw-Hat Sam (2024) 3/5 “The partly animated film which uses badly drawn stick figures on an adventure does not follow genre conventions or conventions of its own making. The result is a cute, 45-minute-long trip that has all the making of a future cult classic. ” – High on Films Mar 24, 2025 Full Review Ash (2025) 73% 1.5/5 “[Ash is a] potent example of a hollow sci-fi spectacle that tries to coast by on borrowed chills, but never does.” – High on Films Mar 20, 2025 Full Review Throuple (2024) 3/5 “[It is] Micheal’s journey of truly understanding who he is and what he desires, giving us a joyous, albeit undercooked enterprise that is as much about queer identity as it is about the complexity of modern relationships.” – High on Films Mar 20, 2025 Full Review Hood Witch (2023) 64% 2/5 “Social media as a modern way to illicit and force the old ways is such an interesting plot thread. However, [it is] only introduced into the narrative and never explored properly.  ” – High on Films Mar 17, 2025 Full Review Dark Night of the Soul (2024) 2/5 “The final act is so predictably juvenile and lazily conceived, that you wish this was a short film, tightly packed with interesting ideas, rather than whatever this final product eventually becomes.” – High on Films Mar 14, 2025 Full Review A Fistful of Karma 1.5/5 “The film is so freewheeling that with every passing minute it just becomes more and more uninteresting. ” – High on Films Mar 10, 2025 Full Review Shooting Heroin (2019) 55% 1.5/5 “It is a film so confused between being a story that throws you into a whirlwind of emotional turmoil and a faith-based melodrama, that all it manages to become is a brooding, self-serious addiction thriller that is easily forgettable. ” – High on Films Mar 9, 2025 Full Review Addy Daddy (2024) 2.5/5 “In wanting to blur the lines between reality and imagination, the film hopes into a third act that deliberately pushes an unnecessary sci-fi twist into this tale, leaving Addy’s character feeling underdeveloped despite a standout turn by Lexi Simonsen.” – High on Films Mar 8, 2025 Full Review Samson (2023) 3/5 “While some of the choices that the filmmaker makes threaten to derail the narrative, the genre-shifting turns are always surprising and dare I say cathartic in ways that you might not expect.” – High on Films Mar 5, 2025 Full Review Breakup Season (2024) 94% 3/5 “Breakup Season is a gentle, moving holiday movie that takes a look at why certain relationships just don’t work. ” – High on Films Mar 4, 2025 Full Review Grace Point (2023) 2.5/5 ““Grace Point” is a run-of-the-mill thriller that only works as an allegory for addiction. ” – High on Films Feb 28, 2025 Full Review A Sloth Story (2024) 75% 2.5/5 ““A Sloth Story” which gleefully and secretly also works as a tale of Latinx representation, features the loveable animals as the lead in a zany, albeit conventional take on bridging the gaps between the traditional and the modern. ” – High on Films Feb 27, 2025 Full Review Rule Breakers (2025) 84% 2/5 “There’s not a single shred of rule-breaking, or reinventing narrative conveniences in this tired, by-the-numbers underdog tale that is only sparingly inspiring. ” – High on Films Feb 26, 2025 Full Review Under the Burning Sun (2025) 2.5/5 “It's a promising start for a filmmaker because it is a film that has something to say even though it is not completely successful in saying it. ” – High on Films Feb 26, 2025 Full Review Twinless (2025) 95% 3.5/5 “With Dylan O’Brien’s fascinating dual turn, “Twinless” becomes a darkly comical look at co-dependency. One that is constantly surprising, for it holds the ability to be funny, tragic, and moving – sometimes even in the same breath. ” – High on Films Feb 10, 2025 Full Review Didn't Die (2025) 63% 2/5 “The tonal inconsistency runs deep – so much so that the central performances – including a dedicated Kiran Deol – are also hampered. ” – High on Films Jan 29, 2025 Full Review Life After (2025) 100% 3.5/5 “The idea of making the extremely political personal, while being involved directly in the narrative is what makes “Life After” so unique.” – High on Films Jan 28, 2025 Full Review Brides (2025) 83% 2/5 “Director Nadia Fall, who insists that her story is not able the radicalization of youth – never makes the big decision feels palpable. ” – High on Films Jan 26, 2025 Full Review Celebration (2024) 91% 3/5 “As a directorial debut, there is some powerful imagery that Bruno Ankovic is able to conjure up. Dragging us into the root of what leads to right-wing extremism is a reason alone for Celebration to be seen. ” – High on Films Jan 13, 2025 Full Review Better Man (2024) 88% 2.5/5 “The gimmick sounds preposterous and downright insensitive, but it somehow works because the kind of chaotic life the musician has had quietly replicates that of a monkey who is meant to entertain.” – High on Films Jan 10, 2025 Full Review King Saud (2024) 0.5/5 “What we get is a haphazardly staged B-movie that doesn’t even qualify as ‘so bad that it’s good.” – High on Films Dec 23, 2024 Full Review
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