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#PicksAndPiques #JohnsonThomas #FilmMovieDocumentaryOTTReviews #internationalfilmfestivalcircuit Title: #TheArchies Cast: #AgastyaNanda #KhushiKapoor #SuhanaKhan #AditiDot #LukeKenny #VinayPathak #AliMerchant #KamalSidhu #TaraSharma #VedangSharma #MihirAhuja #YuvrajMenda #KoelPurie #DelnaazIrani #KulpreetYadav Director: #ZoyaAkhtar Rating: * * 1/2 Runtime: 143 mins #OTTMovie #Netflix #GraphicIndia #TigerBaby #Everyone #Everybody #Followers @followers @everyone @everybody #NikosAndritsakis #ArchieComics
Nostalgia inducing, retro driven US comic book adaptation transposed to a desi anglo-Indian set-up in a 1960’s North Indian Riverdale, this film has little going for it other than the skillful camerawork, art direction, production design and locales. The debutante actors don’t have the performance ease to make this look convincing. The music is peppy but forgettable. Agastya appears to be a chip off the Bachchan block but has a long way to go before he can make it big while Khushi looks a lot like Sridevi and that might be her biggest and only draw so far. Imminently forgettable, bordering on tedious, this one is hard to sit through…

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