Alok loved it. He called it “a necessary knife to the chest of aspirational cinema.”
“Cancel my review of the action film,” he said. “I want to write a follow-up. On the reviews of B.A. Pass .”
He scrolled deeper. A review from Sweety_18 : “Hero’s glasses are same as my ex-boyfriend. Could not focus. 2 stars.” Another from Rajneesh_tiger : “Interval ke baad kuch nahi hota. Waste of 200 rupees. Should have watched Pushpa reloaded.” b.a. pass reviews
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.”
He closed his laptop, walked to the window, and looked down at the street. A chai stall. A man folding newspapers. A girl in a faded college sweatshirt waiting for a bus that was twenty minutes late. Alok loved it
And then, tucked between a one-star rant about “too much realism” and a five-star review titled “Masterpiece for depressed people only,” Alok found a long, plain-text review signed by a single initial: D.
But it was the user reviews on CineNasha that he couldn’t stop refreshing. On the reviews of B
“Exactly,” said Alok. “Some funerals are the only honest films we get.”