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Shikhar Verma

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Biography:

Co-founded the independent platform High On Films so that Independent film from across the world could get the love they deserve. Has a keen eye for everything art related and is constantly involved in spreading it around. Films are first love. A dream, a reality, and an illusion - all wrapped in one.

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Crumb Catcher (2023) 88% 3/5 EDIT “[Crumb Catcher] is a tense but wildly uneven reworking of the home-invasion subgenre – a social horror that derives thrills from the idea of being over-exposed to the unforeseeable nightmares that find their way to our doorsteps.” – High on Films Apr 18, 2026 Full Review By His Hand (2025) 2.5/5 EDIT “For a debut, Taylor Paur shows great promise. Instead of making this a thriller that matches the relentlessness of pursuit with intensity, he opts for a grounded, character-driven approach that is laudable and ambitious in itself.” – High on Films Apr 18, 2026 Full Review Ballistic (2025) 60% 2/5 EDIT “[Ballistic] becomes a look at misplaced grief and anger, only to be subjugated by a tone that leans toward being a convoluted thriller about revenge” – High on Films Apr 16, 2026 Full Review Slowburn Shoot: An Indie Wrestling Story (2026) 3/5 EDIT “Since [Slowburn Shoot: An Indie Wrestling Story ] is a grassroots-level exploration of the actual sporting event, the first-hand experience is more personal, intimate, rewarding, and emotionally moving than you might expect. ” – High on Films Apr 14, 2026 Full Review Holy Days (2026) 63% 2/5 EDIT “The problem starts with how conventional everything feels and how the journey of self-actualisation and a crisis of faith feels stamped on, rather than organically developed.” – High on Films Mar 23, 2026 Full Review The Pornographer (1999) 60% 2.5/5 EDIT “[The Pornographer is] a surprisingly revelatory take on the male loneliness epidemic” – High on Films Mar 11, 2026 Full Review NFT: Cursed Images (2026) 1.5/5 EDIT “[NFT: Cursed Images] squanders the potential of the premise on half-baked thrills that are so predictably timed and poorly spread across a tight runtime of seventy-four minutes that you are left with only vapid scenes that leave you frustrated. ” – High on Films Mar 7, 2026 Full Review All Is Fine In '89 (2024) 2.5/5 EDIT “[All is Fine in '89] is a tonally messy 80s throwback that works as a bleak reworking of John Hughes’ cinema” – High on Films Mar 2, 2026 Full Review White with Fear (2024) 89% 3/5 EDIT “A deep-dive into how race-based division has shaped the dictatorship playbook for years.” – High on Films Feb 28, 2026 Full Review Artfully United (2025) 2/5 EDIT “[Artfully United is] an inspiring but expositionary art-doc that doesn’t leave an impact. ” – High on Films Feb 28, 2026 Full Review Homecoming: The Tokyo Series (2026) 3.5/5 EDIT “[Homecoming: The Tokyo Series] doubles down as a snapshot of the ever-so-fascinating Japanese culture” – High on Films Feb 22, 2026 Full Review I Know Exactly How You Die (2026) 2/5 EDIT “ "I Know Exactly How You Die" is an intriguing meta-horror that literally loses the plot.” – High on Films Feb 17, 2026 Full Review Mockbuster (2025) 3/5 EDIT “This is a film that is as much about the existential dread of creating something as it is about the trials, tribulations, and eventually, the joys of making your first feature.” – High on Films Feb 7, 2026 Full Review White Man Walking (2025) 3/5 EDIT “[White Man Walking] wishes to say that the path to understanding comes from talking and listening to different perspectives, no matter how vile or uninformed they are. ” – High on Films Feb 5, 2026 Full Review The Musical (2026) 59% 2/5 EDIT “The wonky execution and unsure satirical leanings never truly make [The Musical] stick the landing. ” – High on Films Jan 30, 2026 Full Review Night Nurse (2026) 76% 2.5/5 EDIT “[Night Nurse] is a wildly uneven but inadvertently seductive thriller that cuts through broad metaphors of power dynamics, co-dependency, and caregiving. ” – High on Films Jan 29, 2026 Full Review Big Girls Don't Cry (2026) 100% 3/5 EDIT “Schneideman’s vision of girlhood, despite the familiarity, feels like a sensitively rendered snapshot of a teenager traversing through the uncomfortable lanes of discovering herself. ” – High on Films Jan 29, 2026 Full Review Tafiti: Across the Desert (2025) 2.5/5 EDIT “[Tafiti - Across the Desert] is a classic adventure with pint-sized life lessons that the kiddies would enjoy. However, their accompanying parents might find its lack of rhythms and surprises a tad tough to sit through. ” – High on Films Jan 27, 2026 Full Review The Bad Patriots (2024) 3/5 EDIT “[The Bad Patriots] is a documentary that is only able to reason out why a balanced world without biases is what we need right now. ” – High on Films Jan 25, 2026 Full Review Smile... The Worst Is Yet to Come (2026) 2.5/5 EDIT “ "Smile…The Worst is Yet to Come," which follows the midlife crisis of a perfectly imperfect LA-based couple, conjures up these relatable anxieties of being in your 40s and finally realizing that life is slowly slipping away from you. ” – High on Films Jan 20, 2026 Full Review The Mannequin (2025) 70% 2/5 EDIT “The rushed feeling ruins the entire enterprise and makes "The Manequin" a barely realized supernatural slasher that can only be used as a part of John Berardo’s portfolio reel to showcase his talent in scene blocking and staging. ” – High on Films Jan 19, 2026 Full Review Happy Patel: Khatarnak Jasoos (2026) 45% 2/5 EDIT “The jokes aren’t laugh-out-loud-funny because there is a constant undercurrent of self-awareness that either slices the joke in half or lets it go on for a little too long for it to land in the traditional sense.” – High on Films Jan 19, 2026 Full Review Stalkers (2025) 80% 2.5/5 EDIT “"Stalkers" works intermittently because of how it weaves in the themes of obsession and the insecurities that people carry within them. ” – High on Films Jan 1, 2026 Full Review The American Southwest (2025) 100% 3/5 EDIT “[Ben Masters] laces the narrative with history to help us figure out that human selfishness will only render these natural resources dry, but it will be us who will suffer the consequences of our actions, while nature keeps growing back. ” – High on Films Dec 22, 2025 Full Review The Kiss of a Vampire (2025) 0.5/5 EDIT “You need to have a special kind of talent to make the so-bad-that-its-good work, and Richard Douglas Jensen’s "The Kiss of a Vampire," with its self-serious erotic tonality and zero sense of filmmaking bite, strays so far away from it.” – High on Films Dec 10, 2025 Full Review
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