Monica O My Darling
On: Netflix
Dir: Vasan Bala
Cast: Rajkummar Rao, Huma Qureshi
Rating: 3.5/5

Yup there’s a ‘film-buff’ film. And this is it—a movie that’s too much about movies. Meaning, you watch, parallelly, looking out for references, homages to other pix. And which also makes such flicks worth a rewatch.

Maybe you wanna add to its Wikipedia/IMDb list, as you go name-spotting ‘Nasir Hussain’ on the pick-up tempo/truck; ‘my cousin Vinny’ on a phone call; Bates Motel (from Psycho) to check-in to—Captain Zatack (from Hum) being referred to somewhere, or a riff from the Satya soundtrack, for a moment in the background score, elsewhere.