Bombay Talkies

A reason this movie annual, chronicling Mumbai cinema during 2004 and 2005, exists is fairly similar to why film reviews do. At a basic level, movie reviews are manuals to the movies. The reason they appear in mainline publications across the globe and ought to, often at the inevitable cost of rubbing many the wrong way, is that they are one of the best-read, accessible and possibly the only honest space to discuss the most mass-oriented pop-cultural product.