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       The Kashmir Files is one of those low-budget films which usually get ignored at the box office and gain more popularity on their subsequent OTT/home video releases. However, the tremendously positive response to the film made me book my ticket and experience this dark, tragic masterpiece about the plight of Kashmiri Pandits, on the big screen. And it was absolutely worth it. I might have seen a lot of realistic violent films, but I wasn't prepared for the shocking violence and distressing moments this film had to offer. In fact, a lot of it caught me off-guard, and even the fellow viewers could be heard getting shocked at several moments. The makers haven't held back and it reflects. This is a mature film, and hence the A (18) rating seems justified. One more good thing here is that there are no typical song-and-dance numbers, and the entire duration is just focused on the storytelling. In fact, I never felt like it was watching a 170 minute long film; it all ...

  The last time director SS Rajamouli managed to wow the audience was in 2017 with the film Baahubali: The Conclusion. It took him 5 long years for him to conceptualise his next film RRR, shoot and bring it to the silver screen. Pulling off a multi-starrer with Jr NTR and Ram Charan in the lead roles might seem an accomplishment in itself. But Rajamouli manages to deliver even when it comes to the story. RRR is set in the 1920s and revolves around the lives of two revolutionaries - Alluri Seetharama Raju who waged an armed campaign against the British and Komaram Bheem a tribal from the Gond tribe who fought against atrocities heaped on his people. There is no historical evidence to show that the two ever met or fought together but Rajamouli reimagines history and weaves a story around their meeting. RRR runs on a relatively simple premise. There's 'fire' - an angry, young police officer Ramaraju (Ram Charan) who is both revered and feared by the British. He has done their ...