Musings of a film lover

Rocket Boys-Streaming on SonyLiv 8 episodes of sheer brilliance and class!!(not without the negatives ofcourse) Based on the lives of India's science,space research and nuclear programme geniuses and connoisseurs Homi J Bhabha and Vikram Sarabhai and the contributions of APJ Abdul Kalam, Rocket Boys is a brilliany created series. The period ambience,the narrative,the authentic look,the performances. Everything nailed to the T. Just wish,really really wish the makers had stayed away from the OTT fixation and pre-requisite of using foul language and profanities.Otherwise it would have been right up there,a world class piece of work.Atleast an inspirational and motivational story such as this deserves to be watched accross all age groups. The use of gaalis comes as a real jolt in the otherwise brilliant show. Jim Sarbh as Homi J Bhabha is brilliant to say the least.Played with perfect ease and panache. Ishwak Singh,after the sincere turn in Pataal Lok,is absolutely fantast...

The Great Indian Murder-Hotstar Original Series From fab to drab to drag,The Great Indian Murder is so inconsistant in it's story telling.Co produced by Ajay Devgan and directed by Tigmanshu Dhulia,it is based on the story Six Suspects by Vikas Swarup. Vicky Rai,an unscrupulous,ruthless son of a politician is shot dead at his own party and the CBI is called in to investigate,aided by the crime branch. Starting off with two crisp and intriguing episodes,it starts losing grip and direction from 3rd episode onwards and for a better part of the 9 episodes it remains that ways. The back stories of the characters and suspects to establish the motive are so lengthy,detailed and widespread that it blocks you out from the actual case and breaks the link.One literally forgets that it is a murder investigation going on and who got killed. Politics,corruption,naxals,tribals,split personalities,sex offences,revenge. Adding too many elements and not being able to handle them with tau...