2019 was not exactly a happy year for Hindi films as far as their quality versus returns ratio is concerned. Several of the films in this list, despite their merits, failed to do well at the box office. Our audiences have lapped up several films with disturbing expository tendencies. The […]
The 10 Best Leading Female Actors of 2019…
2019, unfortunately, was not the best of years for female actors. If some films failed to explore their possibilities by basic mistakes such as wrong casting, there were others which refused to let their female artists soar beyond levels of ordinariness. Here’s the list of the finest and the more […]
The 10 Best Leading Male Actors of 2019…
A competitive and promising year for male actors, 2019 saw numerous superstars play safe and, at times, fall flat on their faces despite obvious box office returns. While dependable names such as Akshaye Khanna marked their returns, the flavours of the season Ayushmann Khurrana, Ranveer Singh and Nawazuddin Siddiqui upped […]
The 10 Best Female Supporting Actors of 2019…
Not a very favourable year for female supporting actors, 2019 was a mixed bag in terms of variety and impact. This phenomenon was also visible in the roles essayed by female actors in leading roles too. The question is whether our writers and filmmakers are falling short of designing nuanced […]
The 10 Best Male Supporting Actors of 2019…
2019 was a spectacular year for male actors. As far as supporting parts are concerned, numerous films such as Gully Boy, Chhichhore and Article 15 contained multiple characters making helluva marks for themselves. Below are some of the finest actors in the category from the year gone by, in reverse […]
“Good Newwz”… A lively comedy with a hollow emotional side!
Director Raj Mehta’s weirdly spelt film Good Newwz opens with a two-minute in-film advertisement starring its leading man. No, I am not referring to the one that throws a hilarious sanitary napkin versus cigarette parallel which the entire nation has mugged up by now. A top salesman at a showroom […]
The 25 Best Hindi Film Songs of 2019…
Every year, we scroll through year-end music lists and raise a common complaint, “This year has been so bad, musically,” While that might be true to a great extent due to the heavy inflow of tasteless remixes, one can’t also deny how there have been a good number of songs […]
“Dabangg 3” is a mind-numbing bore!
First and foremost, I would appeal to the present generation of ‘woke’ viewers to be a little kind to what is popularly known as the ‘masala’ genre. The ethos of Hindi cinema, in various ways, is firmly bound on such potboilers from the yore out of which a good number […]
‘Mardaani 2’ review – Rani Mukerji’s thriller plays royally to the gallery
2014’s Mardaani was one rare film for Hindi cinema. Possibly for the first time, Bollywood saw a woman cop nail a criminal from his den, throw punchlines that resembled, “Saare Mumbai ke policewalon ko ch**ya banake bhaga hai, saala” and then go home to have dinner with her sweet little […]
“Panipat”… An impersonal yet partly bearable war epic!
I never understood why people hail Ashutosh Gowariker as the pioneer of war films. Jodhaa Akbar worked more as a sublime romance despite its brief war portions. Lagaan and Khelen Hum Jee Jaan Sey had broader canvasses. I would rather call him as someone who could examine his characters’ emotional […]