“Exactly,” said Alok. “Some funerals are the only honest films we get.”
But it was the user reviews on CineNasha that he couldn’t stop refreshing. b.a. pass reviews
Alok Sharma had been a film critic for eleven years, and in that time, he had developed a strict rule: never read the user reviews before writing his own. But B.A. Pass was different. “Exactly,” said Alok
Alok stared at the screen for five minutes. The film was a small, grey-skied indie about
The film was a small, grey-skied indie about a scholarship boy from Jhansi who moves to Delhi for college and slowly gets ground down by the system—ragging, loan sharks, a cynical girlfriend, and finally a quiet, devastating betrayal by his own professor. It had no item song, no hero’s arc. The protagonist, Deepak, ended the film not with a gunshot, but by simply disappearing into a crowd at Nizamuddin station, his degree never used.
User: Priya_dreamz “Depressing. I watch movies to escape my life, not to see a boy fail his econometrics paper. Also, the heroine’s lipstick kept changing in the hostel scene. Unprofessional.”