2018 was a gratifying year of well-made, smaller budget films that had intriguing stories to say. While the big ticket festival films crashed like nine pins, these little gems with path-breaking content made everyone sit up and take notice. Here’s a list of the ten best films from the year […]
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The 10 Best Male Actors of 2018 Who Were Phenomenal in Lead Roles!
It was quite a happening year for men in Hindi cinema. The industry saw the emergence of Vicky Kaushal to the mainstream with multiple memorable performances. Varun Dhawan shed his usual superstar trappings and emerged victorious in two nuanced films. Shah Rukh Khan was the life of Zero whereas Ranbir Kapoor […]
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The 10 Best Female Actors of 2018 Who Sparkled in Lead Roles!
A stereotypical phrase surfaces at the end of every year! That the year belonged to no one else but women in the cinema industry. As for 2018, I would beg to differ. One of the least exciting years for female actors in terms of variety and substance, the year saw […]
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The 10 Best Male Actors of 2018 Who Excelled in Supporting Roles!
2018 was a year when Hindi cinema’s male actors outshone their female counterparts with considerable ease. For a fact, it was a tough task compiling this list of 10 best supporting actors. The performers who are listed in the ‘Special Mentions’ section, to set it straight, are barely inferior to […]
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The 10 Best Female Actors of 2018 Who Dazzled in Supporting Roles!
The lines have begun to blur between lead and supporting acts in contemporary films. Anyhow, in 2018, Hindi cinema saw a series of female actors turning in bravura performances in small but significant parts. Here goes the list, in reverse order: 10. Anita Date (Tumbaad) Playing more of a catalytic […]
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“Simmba” … Ranveer Singh is mad fun in this basic Rohit Shetty potboiler!
Hindi film enthusiasts, by now, must have understood Rohit Shetty’s universe of cinema. The man who doesn’t claim to take the art of filmmaking seriously is an amusing entity because his films (or rather schemes) are lapped up easily by the paying public. Amid all the garish colours, tacky storylines […]
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The 10 Best Hindi Film Soundtracks of 2018…
If I look back as a spectator to Hindi film music in 2018, all I can see are rehashed versions of yesteryear hits. Almost every chart-topping song of the year were inferior remixes. Have our composers lost their ability to produce original music. Certainly not! As if they emerged from […]
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Missed the year’s best Hindi film songs? Presenting the Top 25 from 2018…
Bollywood’s music scene sees a yearly change. And 2018, alarmingly, has been about of the outage of remixed numbers. While some of them were integrated to be representative of the era they belong to (‘Ruk Ruk Ruk’ from Helicopter Eela), others stemmed out of the production houses’ act of playing safe. […]
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“Zero” is a sweeping fairy tale that requires frequent rescuing by its winsome leading man!
Let me start this on a potently negative rant. What’s with Hindi cinema and its obsession to glamourize disability? As social media refers to it in a mini-offensive fashion, the industry over-sells disability porn. In Aanand L. Rai’s Zero, Shah Rukh Khan plays a loud, adorable and somehow super-rich man […]
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‘Mary Poppins Returns’ review – practically perfect, all over again
Mary Poppins is special. Besides being one of the most admirable Disney characters, Mary has also made our childhoods vivid. Name a child who wouldn’t like the magical nanny who entered paintings and flew mid-air with that umbrella of hers. When I watched the ‘60s classic sometime in the ‘90s, […]