Lifestyle Asia (India)

Kshitij Rawat Lifestyle Asia (India) Apr 11, 2026 At first glance, the premise of the movie looks intriguing. It is a crime drama with a revenge plot and the return of Shahid in Vishal Bhardwaj’s films: all the things I like. However, these elements never find their synergy in O’Romeo. Go to Full Review O' Romeo (2026) 46% - -

Kshitij Rawat Lifestyle Asia (India) Dec 23, 2025 While it starts sluggish and even a little dull, Raat Akeli Hai: The Bansal Murders quickly finds its stride, and by the end, it proves to be almost as good as the original. Go to Full Review Raat Akeli Hai: The Bansal Murders (2025) 80% - -

Kshitij Rawat Lifestyle Asia (India) Sep 26, 2025 Ghaywan demonstrates again that he is not merely a filmmaker. He is our conscience. Yes, it is depressing. But that is because it holds up a mirror to a country whose indifference and hostility towards its most marginalised citizens is all too real. Go to Full Review Homebound (2025) 97% - -

Kshitij Rawat Lifestyle Asia (India) Jul 11, 2025 Rajkummar Rao performs well. But it is more muscle memory than anything else. He’s good nearly by default, not because the script presents him with anything interesting to work with. Go to Full Review Maalik (2025) 23% - -

Kshitij Rawat Lifestyle Asia (India) Jun 27, 2025 Maa slips from haunting to hokey so often, it’s hard to tell whether you’re watching a tale of generational injustice or a supernatural soap opera made by people who binge-watched Tumbbad and The Nun in the same weekend. Go to Full Review Maa (2025) 14% - -

Kshitij Rawat Lifestyle Asia (India) Jun 21, 2025 Anchored by a heartbreakingly earnest performance from Alfie Williams as Spike, and featuring a haunting turn from Jodie Comer, the film trades in apocalyptic bombast for quiet dread — until, of course, it doesn’t. Go to Full Review 28 Years Later (2025) 88% - -

Kshitij Rawat Lifestyle Asia (India) Jun 9, 2025 There are entire sequences that are shot only so the audience can leer at them [female characters]. The sexualisation is so constant that it almost feels like a theme. Go to Full Review Housefull 5 (2025) 13% - -

Kshitij Rawat Lifestyle Asia (India) May 23, 2025 Watching Kesari Veer feels like getting yelled at by a very patriotic uncle who’s just discovered drone shots and CGI flames. The dialogue sounds like it was written by an AI chatbot that was trained only on Indian WhatsApp forwards. Go to Full Review Kesari Veer (2025) - - - -

Kshitij Rawat Lifestyle Asia (India) May 19, 2025 Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning tries to end things with a bang (several, actually) but somewhere between, it nearly drowns in its own ambition. Still, there is a thrill in the spectacle, and a surprising melancholy undercurrent that sticks. Go to Full Review Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning (2025) 80% - -

Kshitij Rawat Lifestyle Asia (India) May 1, 2025 ...for every good line, there are five grim monologues and a noisy background music insisting that something dramatic just happened. Spoiler: it didn’t. Go to Full Review Raid 2 (2025) 29% - -

Kshitij Rawat Lifestyle Asia (India) Apr 26, 2025 Mohanlal is as usual brilliant, but the star of the movie is Prakash Varma, who plays George with a chilling, almost reptilian calmness that somehow feels even more terrifying than full-blown rage. Go to Full Review Thudarum (2025) - - - -

Kshitij Rawat Lifestyle Asia (India) Apr 22, 2025 This film doesn’t hurry; it simmers. It leans into the atmosphere, into the silence. I don’t think it would be an exaggeration to say that Sinners is the best movie of 2025 so far. Go to Full Review Sinners (2025) 97% - -

Kshitij Rawat Lifestyle Asia (India) Apr 18, 2025 The film oversimplifies and overexplains as if we’re toddlers. It evocative at times. But it is not revolutionary cinema. Not even close. Go to Full Review Kesari Chapter 2: The Untold Story of Jallianwala Bagh (2025) 35% - -

Kshitij Rawat Lifestyle Asia (India) Mar 31, 2025 Sikandar is not a bad movie by Indian blockbuster standards. But, well, it is pretty bad. Go to Full Review Sikandar (2025) 6% - -

Kshitij Rawat Lifestyle Asia (India) Mar 27, 2025 Nowhere near as nuanced and layered as Lucifer, L2: Empuraan is still a much better action-thriller than what we usually get in India. The political messaging is quite brave even for a Malayalam film and just subtle enough to miss many small minds. Go to Full Review Empuraan - Lucifer 2 (2025) - - - -

Kshitij Rawat Lifestyle Asia (India) Mar 24, 2025 On paper, it presents itself as a crime thriller about a pastor guarding a meteorite in a small town in Finland, but in reality, it is a strange, existential fever dream wrapped in black comedy and snow. Go to Full Review Little Siberia (2025) - - - -

Kshitij Rawat Lifestyle Asia (India) Mar 17, 2025 ...the story stumbles between poignant and painfully generic as if the writers couldn’t decide if they wanted to make an existential think piece or a robot-smashing blockbuster. So they just… kind of did both. Badly. Go to Full Review The Electric State (2025) 14% - -

Kshitij Rawat Lifestyle Asia (India) Feb 14, 2025 Akshaye Khanna’s portrayal of Aurangzeb is a silver lining, though. I like the restrained menace he brought to the role. But that’s all. Chhaava is a hard movie to recommend. Go to Full Review Chhaava (2025) 29% - -

Kshitij Rawat Lifestyle Asia (India) Jan 31, 2025 I will be honest — I was expecting another dumb big action-thriller starring a superhuman cop. You know, the kind we’ve seen Bollywood churn out over and over again. But Deva was a pleasant surprise. Go to Full Review Deva (2025) 46% - -

Kshitij Rawat Lifestyle Asia (India) Dec 22, 2024 UI comes across less like a film and more like some kind of chaotic fever dream that you got after a pretty heavy night of drinking. Go to Full Review UI (2024) - - - -