“Badla”… A fairly engaging thriller that fails in character design!
Sujoy Ghosh’s latest film Badla reminds us that the talented filmmaker’s fascination for the thriller genre is not over yet….
“Bhasmasur”… A slow-burn Indie that gets its atmospherics just right!
Director Nishil Sheth’s debut feature film is titled Bhasmasur. A demon from Hindu mythology, Bhasmasur is known to have asked…
“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…
“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…
“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….
“Gully Boy”… A musical ode to Mumbai ghettos and reluctant dreamers!
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They say Zoya Akhtar’s films are about the pertinent pains of the rich and high flying. What a lot of…
“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…
“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…
