Prateek Vats

Best Bollywood Films 2020: Monkey chasers, a woman in the sky and a wife for whom one slap was one too many

Here are my picks of the best among the Hindi releases of 2020, from Thappad to Gunjan Saxena, Eeb Allay Ooo! and Raat Akeli Hai.

In Eeb Allay Ooo!, Prateek Vats uses monkeys as metaphor to satirise blind faith and superstition in modern India

Ten years ago, Delhi-6 had an imaginary 'kaala bandar' as a symbol of communal bias. But in Prateek Vats' Eeb Allay Ooo!, monkeys pose a very real and urgent threat to society.

Eeb Allay Ooo! movie review: Prateek Vats’ feature length fiction debut is truly representative of Delhi

Eeb Allay Ooo! thrives due to the strength of its central performance and the restrained grandeur of its ideas.

A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings: An unsettling portrait of Manohar Aich, India’s most famous bodybuilder

This film on the ‘Pocket Hercules’ Manohar Aich won a special jury award at the National Film Awards. Aich was the second Indian to win the Mr Universe title

National Film Awards 2018 winners call Ram Nath Kovind presenting only 11 honours 'infuriating'

Director NR Nanjunde Gowda, whose film Hebbettu Ramakka was named best Kannada film, said the President's decision was breaking convention.