Posted on 30 April 2008
For all those who haven’t seen this movie due to lack of interest/bad reviews/ time kahan milta hai/ main office main bahut busy hoon, its time to reschedule your thinking of orthodox perspectives, leave your brain behind your PC and enjoy this movie. Ask me why? We have seen the likes of this many times [...]
Tags: Tashan
Posted on 13 April 2008
I hadn’t been to a movie theatre since mid February and was beginning to get withdrawal symptoms. I am so glad that I ended this sabbatical with Shaurya. For once I happily overlooked that the story is a straight lift of “A Few Good Men” and thoroughly enjoyed the drama adapted to the Indian context.
The [...]
Tags: Shaurya
Posted on 26 March 2008
Rajaatesh Nayar’s (son of executive producer K.K. Nayyar) directorial debut Sirf touts the tagline, “life looks greener on the other side”, showing that most people are not content with what they have and wanting what others have since that is what always seems to look better.
The film portrays the life of four couples paired up [...]
Tags: Ankur Khanna, Baba Azmi, God Tussi Great Ho, Kay Kay Menon, Manisha Koirala, Mehbooba, Nauheed Cyrusi, Parveen Dabbas, Rajaatesh Nayar, Ranvir Shorey, Rituparna Sengupta, Shibani Kashyap, Sirf, Sohail Sen, Sonali Kulkarni
Posted on 19 February 2008
After just about tolerating all the semi comical and amateurish stuff on television I had been expectantly waiting for a long time for an Indian movie maker to do justice to a historical/period movie. Jodhaa Akbar was a trifle disappointing but not a total disaster either. In today’s times when the attention span of the [...]
Tags: Jodhaa Akbar
Posted on 11 February 2008
This one is strictly for Multiplex movie types who are still caught between the erstwhile art and the nouvaeu experimental cinema. I admire Rajat Kapoor for having attempting this at all. But, but, but (Oh my buts, no pun intended) the movie begins and ends from nowhere to nowhere. Well that’s the feel I got. [...]
Tags: Mithya
Posted on 21 January 2008
The master of cliché Raj Kumar Santoshi makes a valiant effort to break out from the masala mode and all but falls flat on his face. My eternal complaint to Bollywood regarding good and original stories remains firmly in place. Here, our man, cashes in on the Jessica Lal episode and has tried to interpolate [...]
Tags: Halla Bol
Posted on 16 January 2008
Mind-blowing, amazing and intense are some of the words used to describe Aamir Khan’s directorial film Taare Zameen Par. Before watching it I read about several stars who were so overcome with emotion that they cried. While watching it and after, I was right among them. If you have even an iota of humanity or [...]
Tags: Aamir Khan, Darsheel Safary, Taare Zameen Par
Posted on 09 January 2008
The story of the movie Sunday is a comedy, action-packed, suspenseful murder mystery which has to be solved by a corrupt cop and it involves a taxi driver who is a crook.
A dead body found floating in a lake… Unexplained scratch marks on her neck… Supari killers out to kill her… A taxi driver who [...]
Tags: Ajay Devgan, Arshad Warsi, Ayesha Takia, Irfan Khan, Mukesh Tiwari, Sunday
Posted on 09 January 2008
Ashfaque (Ajay Devgan), the small town boy, aspiring to become a film star, joins a street theater group run by a reformed dacoit Siddhu (Pankaj Kapur) who uses theater to bring about mass awakening. Ashfaque works hard and gives it all he has to learn to become a creative actor.
His work pays off and he [...]
Tags: Ajay Devgan, Boney Kapoor, Halla Bol, Jackie Shroff, Neeraj Vora, Pahlaj Nihalani, Pankaj Kapoor, Ranjit Kapoor, Ruby Bhatia, Sayali Bhagat, Sridevi, Tusshar Kapoor, Vidya Balan
Posted on 09 January 2008
What do a thief from Bombay, a rapper “Don”, a Thai Sardar and a massage girl from Bangkok all have in common? They are all characters in “a film that is the same but different”, which Mukta Searchlight Films calls Bombay To Bangkok. It is touted as having comedy, suspense, action, emotions, romance and dance [...]
Tags: Bombay to Bangkok, Lena, Naseeruddin Shah, Rajeshwari Sachdeo, Shreyas Talpade, Vijay Maurya, Vikram Inamdar, Yatin Karekar