Saibal Chatterjee
A writer and film critic. He has been critiquing films and writing on Indian and world cinema since the late 1980s for a variety of publications and media platforms. His movie reviews have appeared on ndtv.com for more than 15 years. He has served on numerous festival juries and selection committees, besides being a member of the now-defunct Film Certification Appellate Tribunal. He authored an autobiography of filmmaker-lyricist Gulzar and edited Encyclopedia Britannica's volume on Hindi cinema, besides writing scripts for several documentary films.
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The Drama Review: Zendaya Gives Career-Best Performance In Watchable Film
Review: The Drama takes a genre that has seen varied and multifarious interpretations over the decades
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Boong Review: The BAFTA Winner Is A Well-Crafted Mirror Of Strife-Torn Manipur
Boong Review: The film is not to be missed for it articulates truths that matter.
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The Kerala Story 2 Goes Beyond Review: The Film Is Insufferably Screechy
The Kerala Story 2 Goes Beyond Review: What it does is demonstrate how not to do propaganda. If there is anything that it goes beyond, it is muckraking
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Kennedy Review: Rahul Bhat In His Best Act, Anurag Kashyap Not Quite
Kennedy Review: The film slips up a bit with regard to the political realities that it alludes to in that it does not dive deep enough.
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O'Romeo Review: Shahid Kapoor Film Is Vivid, Visceral And Visually Varied
Review: O'Romeo employs and mixes genre principles in ways that elevate even a standard vengeance saga to a level that is well above the ordinary
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Mayasabha Review: Rahi Anil Barve's Film Is No Less Original Than Debut Tumbbad
Review: Mayasabha is the film that you must vote for with your feet. Help it go the distance
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Mardaani 3 Review: Rani Mukerji And Mallika Prasad Shine In A Sharp Crime Thriller
Review: Rani Mukerji delivers a power-packed, unblemished star turn that should rank among the finest of her 30-year acting career
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Border 2 Review: Sunny Deol's War Film Lies Between Dhurandhar And Ikkis
Review: Border 2 has come at a time when Hindi movies embrace jingoism with all their might
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Taskaree The Smuggler's Web Review: Emraan Hashmi Show Starts Off Strong, Let Down By Plot Twists
Review: Emraan Hashmi makes his character unfailingly relatable by tapping into his steely ordinariness
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Parasakthi Review: Sivakarthikeyan Gives It His All
Review: Sreeleela, in her first Tamil film, plays the male protagonist's romantic interest and not much else
