SYNCCINEMA

Krishna and his Leela – Cheesy Conversations, racy screenplay and upbeat music are the saving grace for this highly progressive, cliched and bloated relationship (drama) comedy.       *This movie is available on Netflix. Picture Credits - Netflix Krishna and his Leela  is unlike any other new-age rom-com in terms of the cinematic styling which foray’s at least into its presentation. It’s a  drama-free zone . Yes, literally. We get a dialogue in the movie which says that there’s a thin line between drama and comedy. This movie, at surface level, is exactly on that line, but overall is inclining towards comedy, it’s better to call it  satire.  Krishna, who is torn apart from his now and ex-girlfriend has to face the circumstances of being the apple of discord. The storyline is cliched. The treatment gets further obvious and repetitive. The relationship dynamics are so meticulously timed and sequenced that we start feeling the  vairagya  (detachment), as an audience, tow

Penguin - Though novel in set up and thrill factors,  Penguin  shockingly loses all its spine chilling intensity to poor writing and execution.     *The movie is available on Prime Video. Pictures Credit - Prime Video Thrillers broadly have a pair of precious cards at play. The mood/setting and unpredictable cosmo.  Penguin  scores great in the mood with its top-notch technical standards and screenplay (to some extent). What makes  Penguin  an overall middling sore thumb is its inadequate attention or half-hearted approach towards unpredictability. This problem, though it arises at a considerably smaller portion of the film, affects the film’s reception. The first half is excellent. We get an interesting before-after screenplay, the  mother  angle of circumstances, Keerthy Suresh’s saving performance, and the most important of all, the abstract canvas on which it builds its thrill factor. The  Charlie Chaplin  psycho, a 1000 sq.km deep-dark forest where the levels