“Luka Chuppi”… A generic social comedy which is lame and hypocritical!
Commercial Hindi cinema has its weird ways of functioning. All it needs is a trend to follow and a poster…
Tusshar Sasi
“Sonchiriya”… A glorious ‘Indian western’ with a gentle emotional core!
Indian cinema is devoid of equivalents to what they call westerns in Hollywood. Bandits are a thing of past and…
Oscar 2019 Winners: The Complete List
The biggest motion picture awards in the world have just been announced! Here goes the nominees and the winners of…
“Anandi Gopal”… A dignified portrait of an unusual family in the 1800s!
It is nineteenth-century British India and a moderate Hindu family from Kalyan, Maharashtra is discussing an alliance for their 9-year-old…
“Total Dhamaal” offers nothing, not even guilty pleasure…
It is with a wondrous glint in my eyes that I look at the prototypical small-town or rural film lover….
The matchless mystique of Khayyam’s music!
There is endless chatter about living legends from all fields of art. Then I wonder whether we talk enough about…
“Gully Boy”… A musical ode to Mumbai ghettos and reluctant dreamers!
They say Zoya Akhtar’s films are about the pertinent pains of the rich and high flying. What a lot of…
“Kumbalangi Nights”… A sharply observed film that marks a sublime directorial debut!
The opening sequence of first-time director Madhu C Narayanan’s Kumbalangi Nights is set in a boys’ hostel. You see a…
“Ek Ladki Ko Dekha Toh Aisa Laga” says a self-conscious yet warm hello to change!
“Why would anyone like a story like this?”, quips Balbir Chaudhary (Anil Kapoor) upon hearing the plot of the play…
“Mary Queen of Scots” might be forcefully woke but is refreshing in parts!
Director Josie Rourke’s Mary Queen of Scots presents to us the curious case of making a period film in the…
