B.a. Pass Reviews Link [HD]

“Exactly,” said Alok. “Some funerals are the only honest films we get.”

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. 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.” “Exactly,” said Alok

Alok Sharma had been a film critic for eleven years, and in that time, he had developed a strict rule: never read the user reviews before writing his own. But B.A. Pass was different. I watch movies to escape my life, not

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. He called it “a necessary knife to the chest of aspirational cinema.”

User: OldDelhiMan “Reminded me of my son. He also got a B.A. pass course. Now he drives Ola. Realistic but painful. One star less because no subtitles for Hindi dialect.”