Monkey Man Film Review (and why Netflix dropped it...) 

I admire Dev Patel’s passion behind the camera and emotionally charged performance in front of the camera. The action was fun at times but a little shaky and choppy more often than I would’ve wanted. The movie also dragged a lot for me in the middle. I liked it and enjoyed my time, but I think it is being a little overhyped. Thats just me though. Great review!

Thank you for such a thorough review. I do not comment often but I was suprised by the fact that you are almost a million short of the followers you deserve :-). Thanks once again and keep up the good work!

Honestly really loved it, you can tell it was a labor of love and was great as a debut

People are tripping this is one of the best movies made this year

I can definitely see people wanting to tread lightly around India during an election year. It doesn't take much, just look at what Paatal Lok went through after its release. Too funny that out of 276 subscribers suddenly many turn out to be very passionate Modi supporters.

As I understand it, Netflix was one of the last holdouts against censorship in India but even they caved. This film is content being what it is basically a giant middle finger to the BJP while it only would have gotten them more in hot water with the government. I'm sure they were afraid of government action against them in what is possibly want to be biggest potential markets in the world. Cowardly but understandable. I still don't like it though. India deserves this film.

@16:00 Monkey Paw??? Really?

Modi's approval ratings r at all time high

I am always fasinated when foriegners do a commentary on Indian politics by listening to the echo chambers they want to believe in,(both right and left). Calling BJP/RSS extremist is akin to calling the Republican party during Regan era an extremist group, and nearly 45% of Indians who vote for them as uneducated masses who need to be taught about their own politics. If you dig a little bit deeper you will come to understand such things have a history and precedent, and while The ruling party can't be called a liberal party, it is certainly not dictatorial, it just that social and political understanding of such concept like nationalism varies so rapidly between west and rest i.e, colonizers and colonies that they are unable to understand that natioosm was the plank on which many colonized countries got their independence, when Indians say a party is nationalist party it is not meant as an insult, rather it meant to indicate that the party focus more on National level politics like hawk on defence, economy, foreign relations and infrastructure. Moreover Indian society is still in the early stages of development, it took America more than 200 years to reach where it is today India's experiment with democracy is not even 100 years old and It have still to process the trauma of partition and loot of colonization, which have made its masses savage with higher propensity of mass violence. what west media will not tell you is that there have been major riots and terrorist attack in nearly every year since the independence of India, and those events have seen a drastic reduction ( not elimination post 2010) , and since most of of that is during BJP rule people give them credit for the same, The govt have also done major drive in cutting redtapism and providing access to banking and digital payments to almost every Indians, there are achievements in defense and in the sector of economy. I can go on , but what I mean is that the issue highlighted by media in the west are not the real issue with BJP Manipur and electoral bonds , censorship while an issue is not how west perceives it to be. So please either stay silent or do your research before airing out your uninformed opinion about India and its democracy. Similarly the term Hindu nationalist is being thrown like it is equal to german Nazism, when more so than not these two concepts are independent in Indian context, and while a minority(a very vocal minority) but minority do believe in such lunacy, no one seriously thinks them as extremist in traditional sense of the word. Also the author of the post convinently forgets to mention that this kind of movie making where you are directly demonising an ideology is a textbook definition of propoganda, Patel chose to use symbols associated with a political party in power, and then decided to release movie before General elections. The point of the movie could have been made w/o demonising a particular party , and hence suggestions are made to make appropriate changes(we don't know what changes, if they are unjust I one could argue that is just throttling free specch, but if it is just asking to remove such ancillary refrences I would say it is more than justified). Also those warriors are not transgender, hijras are mostly intersex people, though trans people sometimes also find community with them.

But modi is doing great things for the country Infrastructure ,security and business model is greatly improved Also there is no better alternative to us than him rt now Movie was good but it lacked nuanced when it came to political commentary!

Netflix didn’t drop it what a clown title. Jordan Peele ensured it didn’t go to Netflix. Maybe do some research first.

The thing is besides the religious fanaticism, the BJP has done great with respect to infrastructure, poverty reduction, development, making technology easily available, military advancements, and foreign policy, so Modi will most likely be back for a third term, but the relgious fanaticism is definitely there and problematic and I wish it wasn't because it would benefit India, also terrorism is almost non existent now in India, we had 0 attacks for 8 years until a couple of weeks a go where there was a bomb blast in a cafe with ISIS links