B.a. Pass Reviews [PREMIUM]

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.”

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.

User: FilmBuff_2099 “Brilliant cinematography. However, I watched it with my father who has a B.A. pass and he cried. Then he asked me if I think he’s a failure. So thanks for that, movie.” b.a. pass reviews

The film was a small, grey-skied indie about a scholarship boy from Jhansi who moves to Delhi for college and slowly gets ground down by the system—ragging, loan sharks, a cynical girlfriend, and finally a quiet, devastating betrayal by his own professor. It had no item song, no hero’s arc. The protagonist, Deepak, ended the film not with a gunshot, but by simply disappearing into a crowd at Nizamuddin station, his degree never used.

Alok stared at the screen for five minutes. User: Priya_dreamz “Depressing

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.

“Cancel my review of the action film,” he said. “I want to write a follow-up. On the reviews of B.A. Pass .” Unprofessional

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