“Manikarnika”… A nationalistic spectacle that is more Baahubali and less Rani Laxmi Bai…
“Rani kidhar hai…” “Tumhari tadap mein… TADAP (loud)” “SHUT UP…… (loud)” Dialogue writer Prasoon Joshi’s rhyme game in Manikarnika is…
“Thackeray”… An exquisitely photographed biopic that chooses to play safe!
What do you make out of a biopic film that is designed simply to reassert the public image of its…
“Uri: The Surgical Strike”… The action packs a punch, the central plot not so much!
India is at a juncture where a filmmaker like JP Dutta finds no plot for a classic war film. There…
“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…
“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…
“Kedarnath”… When the love story is a bigger catastrophe than the actual one!
Abhishek Kapoor’s Kedarnath begins with a circular shot. Staged at what looks like the entrance to the famous pilgrim town…
“Thugs of Hindostan”… A cinematic blunder of top order which is several decades too late!
Two of India’s biggest actor-stars, a wide release timed around the nation’s biggest festival and the numero uno production house…
“Mard Ko Dard Nahi Hota”… A whacky tribute to potboilers from the VHS era!
It is a real deal when a filmmaker turns out a bigger pop culture enthusiast than all his audience members…
“Badhaai Ho” is a triumphant blend of middle-class values and progressive ideas!
When Malayalam filmmaker T. K. Rajeev Kumar explored the stigmatized subject of geriatric pregnancy in his 1994 film Pavithram, he…
“Namaste England” is monotonous and pointless, much like its characters!
It is intriguing to observe how mediocre writers create tertiary characters. Those with a singular trait to flaunt and sans…
