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This movie is about the events leading up to a dark time for RAW, the Indian intelligence agency which had established a strong and credible network of agents and spies in Pakistan, which was able to gain sufficient evidence about Pakistan's attempts to make a nuclear weapon in the late 1970s, only for it to come crashing down as the then prime minister Morarji Desai informed Zia ul Haq about how the nation's spies had credible information about Pakistan's nuclear programme. This lead to a complete crack down of Indian agents and spies in Pakistan, an event that took the Indian agencies decades to get over. Siddharth Malhotra plays the role of one of the spies in Pakistan who is tasked with finding out the location of Pakistan's nuclear programme. He has a backstory where he is the son of an ex Indian officer who killed himself as he had committed treason. This angle is never explored nor explained in the movie, and the only significance it has is when the protagonist w

  Netflix had been suggesting me  to watch this movie  that had an ensemble cast of top actors like Daniel Craig, Chris Evans, Ana de Armas, etc.,  for a while, and it was the release of the second movie that my sister had already watched that triggered me into watching it. It is a classic "whodunit murder" kind of movie, and although the murderer is seemingly revealed at the beginning, the characters slowly reveal interactions with the victim that makes all of them appear as suspects. A surprise twist at the end and an effort put into ensuring that the story is water tight makes for a goo watch.

I am a lifelong fan of Chiranjeevi's movies. The fandom started in the early 90s with the movie Gang Leader , and continued till the mid 2000s. I started to watch movies from other languages and industries at that point of time, and Chiranjeevi's increased push into the world of politics made me lose interest in his movies. All that changed when his 150th movie, Khaidi number 150 was released. I watched it on the day it released. The movie was uninspiring though, with the actor reprising some of his tropes that took him to the top, which felt jaded and out of place in a newer context and generation. The worst part of the movie was the character of Kajal Aggarwal , who was in the movie to only be the love interest of Chiranjeevi , despite being half his age,  and dance next to him. His next movies,  Sye Raa Narasimha Reddy  and Acharya  had a better approaches and did not portray any love interest of Chiranjeevi, but the overall tone of the characters where they are shown as fl

"Mumbai Mafia: Police vs Underworld" is a documentary that intends to depict the clashes between the Mumbai underworld and the Mumbai police in the 90s and 2000s. I expected it to be a multipart series about how the police identified their targets, made plans on how to nab them, and how it descended into a scenario where a shootout took place. However, it turned out to be a one and a half hour long video that spoke about the ascent of the cops, and how the façade  of heroism came crashing down as allegations of fake encounters and blackmail started to emerge, with the hammer falling through an interview with vogue (or time, I do not recall) magazine, where one of the cops who is later accused of blackmail makes insensitive statements about the gangsters in an interview that later gets published. Even though the plot did not follow what I was hoping to see, it is a good take on an angle that is not visible to those who were always in awe of these heroes who were glamourized by

One look at the poster of the Akkineni Nagarjuna starrer, The Ghost, where a group of people clad in suits seem to be begging for forgiveness in front of the protagonist, whose stature seems as tall as Big Ben which is in the background, seems to suggest that it is a movie about an ex special ops guy who seems to be on a vengeful mission. It was released the same day as the Chiranjeevi and Salman Khan starrer, Godfather, but disappeared from theaters like the name of the movie. The main issue with the movie is that there is no consistency or single theme that the movie wanted to explore. Nagarjuna plays the role of an Interpol field agent in Dubai, who has anger management issues because of mental trauma that he suffered as a child. Following a botched rescue mission, he resigns from his job, breaks up with his fellow agent, who also happens to be his girlfriend, and apparently decides to wipe out the underworld from Dubai as a free agent. The viewer also finds out that the protagoni