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Ishita Sengupta

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Ishita Sengupta is a critic, columnist, and podcaster based out of India. She writes on films and shows at the juncture of gender and pop culture.

Reviews

Movies TV Shows
War 2 (2025) 30% EDIT “The narrative gallops from Spain to Rome, Dubai to New Delhi, Switzerland to Germany. It is not so much a requirement as a flex. ” – OTTplay Aug 18, 2025 Full Review Saiyaara (2025) 63% EDIT “With Saiyaara, Mohit Suri captures the feeling of sinking in love through the musicality of a heartbreak, and it has been a while since a Hindi film let itself fall. ” – OTTplay Aug 18, 2025 Full Review Dhadak 2 (2025) 63% EDIT “Dhadak 2 borrows its beats from Pariyerum Perumal but vibrates with its own music. It is a tender task, situated between adapting and creating, performing and inhabiting, miming and mining. ” – OTTplay Aug 18, 2025 Full Review Zero Se Restart (2024) EDIT “In this documentary on the making of Vidhu Vinod Chopra's 12th Fail, Jaskunwar Kohli distils the ambiguity of creation rather than the disorder of production, lending his debut film a poignant purism. ” – OTTplay Aug 18, 2025 Full Review Metro... In Dino (2025) 69% EDIT “A spiritual sequel to Life in a... Metro, Basu’s latest has similar vibes but differs in spirit. If the 2007 film was concerned with the loneliness of citied existence then Metro... In Dino is about the cities we carry within ourselves.” – OTTplay Aug 18, 2025 Full Review Sitaare Zameen Par (2025) 65% EDIT “Much like Khan’s performance, where if looked closely one can notice a thought arriving at his brain, RS Prasanna’s film is dunked in bluntness. Everything is text, even the subtext. ” – OTTplay Aug 18, 2025 Full Review Second Chance (2024) EDIT “Subhadra Mahajan’s feature is as much about finding light at the end of the tunnel as it is about scouring light in the tunnel. ” – OTTplay Aug 18, 2025 Full Review Stolen (2023) 88% EDIT “Karan Tejpal's Stolen is a rare film about class that unfolds with its ear close to the ground. One that resists making empty statements by checking its privilege as part of the critique. ” – OTTplay Aug 18, 2025 Full Review Sister Midnight (2024) 98% EDIT “In a creatively barren phase for Hindi cinema, Sister Midnight is a rare spark. Defying market norms and genre traps, it reaffirms the joy of watching films and reiterates the medium's potency. ” – OTTplay Aug 18, 2025 Full Review Costao (2025) EDIT “Costao stumbles in execution, its wry narrative obstructs the compelling nature of the story. Nawazuddin Siddiqui, despite being a fine choice on paper, never quite inhabits the character on screen. ” – OTTplay Aug 18, 2025 Full Review Raid 2 (2025) 33% EDIT “The apolitical stance of Raj Kumar Gupta's Raid 2 backfires on the commentary it tries to make; its cautious intent and framing shrink the story’s broad scope into the smallness of a single act. ” – OTTplay Aug 18, 2025 Full Review Jewel Thief - The Heist Begins (2025) 5% EDIT “Jewel Thief could have been Ocean's Eleven, but sticks to being an unauthorised sequel of Race. I am not sure about anyone else, but Abbas-Mustan would not approve of this. ” – OTTplay Aug 18, 2025 Full Review Phule (2025) 70% EDIT “Phule unfolds with the dullness of a history lesson, shrinking the expansiveness of their achievements to cherry-picked incidents and reducing the eventfulness of their lives to mere events. ” – OTTplay Aug 18, 2025 Full Review Kesari Chapter 2: The Untold Story of Jallianwala Bagh (2025) 39% EDIT “Kesari Chapter 2 is a revival of old-school politics where the antagonism against the British, the original outsider, confirms the communal unity of India. ” – OTTplay Aug 18, 2025 Full Review Logout (2024) EDIT “Logout looks at the addiction of social media through the lens of a parasocial relationship — where the fragile fame of content creators is turned around to focus on those who are influenced. ” – OTTplay Aug 18, 2025 Full Review Chhorii 2 (2025) EDIT “Chhorii 2 is so obvious in its badness that it makes dismissing it a lesser problem. The real horror? A third part in the works — and Nushrratt Bharuccha's painfully grating return. ” – OTTplay Aug 18, 2025 Full Review Jaat (2025) 36% EDIT “Jaat features Sunny Deol doing the usual Sunny Deol things. He uproots things from the ground, refers to a woman probably younger than him as “Amma”, and spells out the weight of his hand to random strangers.” – OTTplay Aug 18, 2025 Full Review Sikandar (2025) 5% EDIT “Watching a Salman Khan film today has come to resemble an act of parental bias as if he were an irate child and the rest of us exist to humour him. ” – OTTplay Aug 18, 2025 Full Review Be Happy (2025) 50% EDIT “Be Happy claims to spotlight dance but does so dishonestly, ultimately playing like a promotional reel for several reality shows Remo D'Souza judges while reducing its serious themes to a footnote. ” – OTTplay Aug 18, 2025 Full Review The Diplomat (2025) 47% EDIT “The Diplomat is the second consecutive film after Vedaa (2024) where John Abraham saves a girl. It’s not an unusual premise, but the film works because its heroism is less self-involved than usual. ” – OTTplay Aug 18, 2025 Full Review Nadaaniyan (2025) 12% EDIT “Shauna Gautam’s debut feature Nadaaniyan's leads are so dull that even in a ranking of Hindi cinema’s most forgettable protagonists, Pia (Khushi Kapoor) and Arjun (Ibrahim Ali Khan) wouldn’t qualify. ” – OTTplay Aug 18, 2025 Full Review Superboys of Malegaon (2024) 87% EDIT “Reema Kagti’s Superboys of Malegaon is blatant in its love for the movies, obvious in its messaging and overt in its homage. The tenderness is so apparent that there is little space for scrutiny. ” – OTTplay Aug 18, 2025 Full Review Mrs. (2023) 86% EDIT “If Mrs stands on its own feet, it is because an actor like Sanya Malhotra has its back. ” – OTTplay Aug 18, 2025 Full Review Dhoom Dhaam (2025) 56% EDIT “Dhoom Dhaam proves through its existence that the OTT platforms have become more of a dumping ground for middling films that have nowhere else to go or, in the spirit of the film, run. ” – OTTplay Aug 18, 2025 Full Review The Mehta Boys (2024) 100% EDIT “The Mehta Boys would have been a better film had it recognised the ingrained potential of its premise. Instead of looking inward, Irani’s debut keeps training its lens on the outside. ” – OTTplay Aug 18, 2025 Full Review
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