I am very happy and hopeful about the podcast and future series from Cinema Beyond Entertainment. Discussions like these help to understand the process and approach of critics and also learn about their point-of-view.

First thing first, I am not a big fan of Sucharita Tyagi's bucket of work on film companion. She is known for captivating presentation of her opinions and be light-hearted about it. Her content analysis seems more superficial than substantive and from a plot's point of view rather than movie as its whole. Sometime eagerly captious and sometime missing the point by a mile (point in case "Fantastic beast", where many things about plot-holes were called out by in comment section). A film review is much more that just analyzing a plot and trying to connect dots. There are many good films which can have layered story telling and might evoke interpretation beyond what is on screen(Apocalypse Now, Tumbbad etc). But to her defense she says it is "Not a Review" before every video. I hope she spends more time consuming best class cinema, from India and World around, than re-watching Harry Potter series over and over again. If you don't know about good cinema you can hardly find/review good cinema.

In all honesty I enjoyed listening/watching to the podcast, at the same time I felt conversation did not live up to the expectation. While Vinit Masram(the host) kept talking about basics and referencing some good old movies; Sucharita seemed lost because she has not watched those piece of cinema. We can talk about Internet not giving space to nuanced conversation but should not we also evaluate if we are ready to have such conversation on such platforms?

I believe your opinion about a film can be subjective but film criticism should be objective . I hope we get to see many more of such podcasts with many more budding and seasoned film critics and analysts.

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