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Haseen Dillruba (2021)
Kabir Singh, but without the nice locations
A summary of part of the plot:
Husband neglects wife.
Wife cheats on husband.
Husband tries to murder wife. Repeatedly.
Wife is chill with it, because after all she was the one that messed up.
They patch up.
A soulful romantic song composed by Amit Trivedi plays in the background.
You know, typical married life hijinks lol.
If you like reading / watching mysteries, the fact that they only find the victim's hand at the beginning and can't ID the rest of the body should tell you something. It's very easy to see the twist ending long before the credits roll.
The mockery of feminism is also a little nauseating. Over the course of the movie, Taapsee goes from "aap tal lo pakode" to loving the guy who keeps trying to murder her because "wo ishq hi kya, jo paagalpan ki hadd se na guzre". Quite a fall for the star of Pink.
My takeaways from the movie:
1. Don't neglect your hot wife who's honestly probably too good for you
2. Don't cheat on your husband
3. If you're a policeman trying to solve a strange murder case and your prime suspect keeps citing a mystery author, read his damn books
VERDICT:
Basically, watch this if only if you feel like rewatching Kabir Singh. If you're in the mood for a thriller, rewatch Drishyam or Andhadhun instead. (Actually, even if you feel like rewatching Kabir SIngh, why not just rewatch Kabir Singh instead? Delhi >>>>> Jwalapur)
Army of the Dead (2021)
A very OK movie
It would've worked better if it had been a comedy or had more action. The drama and human relationship aspects really don't work here. (Neither does the plot, for that matter.)
Rurôni Kenshin: Meiji kenkaku romantan (2012)
Doesn't feel like a movie
The cinematography is excellent, but the story feels like a TV series compressed into 2.5 hours. It jumps from story beat to story beat with no narrative cohesion.
Roohi (2021)
One-time watch
The main problem is that the whole story is told from the male leads' perspective, but 10 minutes before the ending the movie suddenly remembers that it was supposed to be a feminist story. (Jahnvi Kapoor being a terrible actor doesn't help things at all.)
Still, I found the beginning and middle pretty funny.. (Although half of the humour was just the characters mispronouncing English words. It's a movie which aspires to be feminist but expects you to laugh at the lower classes simply because they're lower class.)