Even as people begin to wonder when will the theaters reopen, streaming services are continuously releasing previously produced movies. One of the more recent addition is Aditi Rao Hydari starrer Sufiyum Sujatayum, which is streaming on Amazon Prime Video. It is a Malayalam-language film written and directed by Naranipuzha Shanavas.
The Indian Express film critic Shubhra Gupta wrote about the movie in her two star review, "There was potential here. In the way the third party to this romance, the Dubai-based Raveendran (Jayasurya) is unwillingly thrust into the mix, and his uneasy relationship with Sujatha. In the way the head of the sufi sect calls out the pig-headedness of the girl’s father, saying ‘religion is a personal thing’ when the former issues a threat. ‘Don’t start a love jihad’, he says."
She added, "This element of ‘love jihad’, an overused, misused term, which should never have been used in conjunction, if dealt with in detail, could have made this a solid film. But it’s almost like a throwaway phrase, and almost two hours are spent on a scantily-written plot which wastes too much time on the star-crossed lovers exchanging looks and notes without saying much. It doesn’t help that the lovely Hydari doesn’t really fill her part. For someone who doesn’t have spoken dialogue, the body language needs to be strong: Hydari has a few nice moments, but she is limited in the rest of it."
Manoj Bajpayee starrer Bhosle, which made waves on several film festivals in India and around the world, is now streaming on SonyLIV. The film has Bajpayee playing the role of Ganpat Bhonsle, a 60-year-old freshly-retired cop.
Shubhra gave the film two-and-a-half stars and wrote, "After a point, the yelling and shouting becomes repetitive, and the ugliness both on faces and in spaces, necessary but a little too deliberate, begins to grate. But the performances hold. And all through, the human Ganpat keeps us with him, and the film. Bajpayee, one of the few Indian actors who uses silence to such effect, has been on a roll for the last few years, raising the bar with each performance. The last time he internalised a role as much was in the 2017 film Gali Guleiyan, directed by Dipesh Jain. Here he is even better, each crease in his worn face showing a man whose stoicism comes from hard experience, who has seen everything there is to see, and yet is capable of deep empathy. Bhonsle gives us an actor on the top of his game."
The film is directed by Devashish Makhija and also stars Ipshita Chakraborty, Virat Vaibhav and Abhishek Banerjee. Makhija has penned the film along with Mirat Trivedi and Sharanya Rajgopal.
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Aditi Rao Hydari, Dev Mohan and Jayasurya starrer Sufiyum Sujatayum is an Malayal languange film directed by Naranipuzha Shanavas. The Indian Express film critic gave the the film two stars. She wrote, "There was potential here. In the way the third party to this romance, the Dubai-based Raveendran (Jayasurya) is unwillingly thrust into the mix, and his uneasy relationship with Sujatha. In the way the head of the sufi sect calls out the pig-headedness of the girl’s father, saying ‘religion is a personal thing’ when the former issues a threat. ‘Don’t start a love jihad’, he says."