Observations and Reflections
The last thing I expected from Zoya Akhtar’s The Archies was commentary on the current state of Indian politics. But cleverly hidden between the lines of what at a surface level seems like a whimsical romcom intended to launch a prestigious line of nepo babies is a story about the struggles of being a minority in a country that is driven by the capitalistic greed of certain businessmen.
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What’s with these boring war films in the past few weeks? Following in the footsteps of Ridley Scott’s Napoleon is Meghna Gulzar’s Sam Bahadur. Despite being a film about one of the most prolific military leaders in India’s recent history, the movie fails to feature even a single well-structured battle, let alone the war that defined the future of the entire Indian subcontinent.
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