The biggest win from Ashwiny Iyer Tiwari’s Panga is Adi, the school-going son of ex-National Kabaddi team captain Jaya (Kangana Ranaut) and her diabetic-sweet husband Prashant (Jassie Gill). Played with tremendous flair by the winsome Yagya Bhasin, the young actor makes us wish how the film was entirely visualized through […]
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“Tanhaji”… More fantasy, less history but entertaining nevertheless!
When life gives you lemons, make lemonade. Likewise, when Bollywood gives you historical dramas, subtract the history out of it. In both cases, the benefit is yours. Director Om Raut’s Tanhaji: The Unsung Hero is based on the valorous life of Maratha king Shivaji Bhonsle’s loyal military chief Tanaji Malusare. […]
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“Chhapaak”… A sensitive, responsible take on acid attack and its aftermath!
The new decade has just kicked off and it sets me thinking. How did the regular Hindi film heroine behave or appear at the beginning of the millennium? Their eyelashes fluttered, their flowing hair swayed in the direction of the wind, their makeup was compact and the danced like fairies. […]
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‘1917’ review – Sam Mendes’s war drama is a giant cinematic achievement
Immersive is the word for director Sam Mendes’s war epic 1917. Set in the traumatizing period of World War I, the film chronicles the journey of two infantrymen, William Schofield (George MacKay) and Tom Blake (Dean-Charles Chapman), who set out to convey a critical message to a troop stationed in […]
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25 Terrific Hindi Films From The Decade Gone By!
The 2010s called for a major narrative change as far as Hindi cinema is concerned. Besides having a good number of small, content-based films finding major box office acceptance, the decade also witnessed the paying public reject mediocrity to an unseen extent. The decade saw the emergence of a series […]
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30 World Cinema Titles from 2019 That Must Not Be Missed
2019 was a year of sensational cinema from all corners of the world. If there was a visible fascination for period sagas set amongst European aristocrats, Hollywood stars and vocalists, the year also saw numerous films dealing with war and PTSD. Surrealist subjects continued to serve its niche fan cluster […]
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The 10 Best Hindi Films of 2019…
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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]