No, this isn’t Anurag Kashyap. Echoed my mind, few minutes into Raman Raghav 2.0. Stylized, gory and equally pointless in parts – the film takes us back to some of those ordinary to terrible Ram Gopal Varma products. Not A Love Story, anyone? Raman Raghav 2.0, for starters, is about […]
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Hamsalekha – The man who reinvented Kannada film music…
Growing up listening to Hamsalekha’s eclectic music is one. Discovering Kannada film music through Hamsalekha is another. I belong to the second category. Not a native Kannadiga, I was introduced to the illustrious and much-underrated Kannada film music by friends and film aficionados. There was one constant factor in majority of […]
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Dhanak – Two endearing children, an eventful journey and plenty of smiles!
If Nagesh Kukunoor’s latest venture Dhanak were to be categorized, it belongs to the ‘fairy tale’ genre as opposed to the road movie one. Fairy tale is a genre that kids fancy. Kids believe in them and parents long for one in their lives. Dhanak could precisely be a version of one […]
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Udta Punjab’s soundtrack has melody, variety and oodles of style!
Every person and his dog has an opinion about Udta Punjab. The moral police, the NGOs all are queuing up Indian courts with PILs. A lot of human beings are offended for godawful reasons. The censor print leaked but we are happily grabbing our tickets and samosas to check – aakhir […]
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Te3n – Strange concoction of good drama and bland suspense!
Ribhu Dasgupta’s Te3n – One instance where the genre turns out to be a film’s liability. At times, an endearingly honest story of an old man dealing with a loss that he was responsible for, the film’s dramatic scenes do strike a chord. Right when the writers (Suresh Nair, Bijesh […]
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How ‘Parineeta’ evolved in Bollywood from 1953 to 2005…
June 10 – Marks the anniversary of Pradeep Sarkar’s sparkling directorial debut with Vinod Chopra Productions’ Parineeta. With an unconventional title and a debutante female actor playing the title role, the film was a risky proposition on papers. Sarkar had his belief in place and the producers laughed all their way […]