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Stillwater [2021] - Movie Review

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A father landed in an unfamiliar country, surrounded by unfamiliar faces & culture, to give her daughter & himself a second chance! by Bodhisattya Pal Stillwater promised to be a thriller with tenseful hunt for clues, violent revenges & emotional flashbacks. Matt Damon was perfect to be a large, strong & violent father looking for the real culprit for whom his little girl is suffering in a foreign jail. But nothing like that happened; the movie followed a different approach! Stillwater is actually a real gentle movie where Damon is a 'yes ma'am' type calm American father with an eagle tatoo on his arm & an unusual job to do for which he is not 'trustworthy'! And this thing srprised me! Stillwater doesn't consist of any chase sequence, any thrilling fight, any masterful court room scenes; its different; it actually consists of a process to survive in a foreign land, to love someone from all the heart, to make ownself a better human from a ...

Malik [2021] Review:

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"Can anyone from this coast kill him?" Bodhisattya Pal 16/07/2021 Malik is an epic political gangster drama written & directed by ๐Œ๐š๐ก๐ž๐ฌ๐ก ๐๐š๐ซ๐š๐ฒ๐š๐ง๐š๐ง and consists of some of the finest actors from Malayalam film industry; It's hard to describe Malik but it is certainly ambitious, elegant & technically brilliant. With his third directorial, Narayanan's evolution & maturity is evident. I always adore his works; from the patriotic ๐“๐š๐ค๐ž ๐จ๐Ÿ๐Ÿ [๐Ÿ๐ŸŽ๐Ÿ๐Ÿ•] & experimental ๐‚ ๐” ๐’๐จ๐จ๐ง [๐Ÿ๐ŸŽ๐Ÿ๐ŸŽ], his command over filmmaking was quite clear. But this was a challenging project. To keep all these genius star cast composed in a broad spectrum work like this, a technically sound director is essential and Mahesh was apt. Another talking point is ๐’๐š๐ง๐ฎ ๐•๐š๐ซ๐ ๐ก๐ž๐ฌ๐ž's extra ordinary cinematography; it was precisely well balanced in some parts and breathtaking in other parts. It demands a separate post to describe the brilliance of the sta...