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Imagine The Purple Haze

Saturday 10 October '09

A Film About Jimi Hendrix 2-Disc Special Edition Big Home Video Rs 599 Imagine: John Lennon Deluxe Edition Big Home Video Rs 599
Acid Factory

Friday 9 October '09

A group of men regain consciousness in a vast shed with no memory of how they got there. They don’t remember a thing.
Coppola Overflows

Saturday 3 October '09

And to think The Godfather almost didn’t get made. Paramount had the rights cheap and was willing to turn Mario Puzo’s bestseller...
Do Knot Disturb

Friday 2 October '09

Govinda is well past his sell-by date. This is immediately evident when he first appears on screen, plunging headlong into a situation.
Wake Up Sid

Friday 2 October '09

Siddharth Mehra is a good-looking, rich lay-about. He drives his father’s expensive cars, flashes plastic at designer stores, and works very hard at partying.
Sight to behold

Friday 25 September '09

Bilal is three, and he can see. So can his younger brother Hamza. His parents Shamim and Jharna are blind....
What’s Your Raashee

Friday 25 September '09

Yogesh Patel has ten days to check out twelve potential candidates, each representing a ‘raashee’: Makar or Meen? Capricorn or Pisces?
Time after time

Saturday 19 September '09

Phir kabhi Moser Baer; Rs 99.
Wanted

Friday 18 September '09

Salman Khan has still got the best bod in the business, on splendid display in the blood-spattered climax. Aamir’s eight packs are not a patch.
Dil Bole Hadippa

Friday 18 September '09

To actually enjoy ‘Dil Bole Hadippa’, you have to be able to believe that Rani Mukerjee can pass off as a turbaned, bearded and mustachioed young Sardar.
Fear factor

Saturday 12 September '09

This is a classic Japanese horror movie, not as well known as The Ring, but it packs even more punch....
Iranian idyll

Saturday 12 September '09

Blind ten-year-old Khorshid sees by listening to the sounds around him. By using his hands as antennae....
Ruslaan

Friday 11 September '09

Bombs ripping through Mumbai local trains and bloodied bodies piled by the tracks is an all-too familiar sight by now in films. `Ruslaan’ tries to go beyond that.
Vadaa Raha

Friday 11 September '09

If you can deal with a morose Deol, who’s only slightly better than an ultra-bright Deol, and a chirpy chatterbox of a co-star, ‘Vadaa Raha’ can be sat through.
Aamras

Friday 11 September '09

The good thing about `Aamras’ is that it gives us young adults who are not cloyingly saccharine all the time, but the story-telling and the plot points are interesting only intermittently.
Baabarr

Friday 11 September '09

A couple of acts are stand-outs. Om Puri comes up with a crackerjack performance of a policeman with highly developed survival instincts.
In the hot seat

Saturday 5 September '09

They were the unlikeliest of adversaries, but their jousting, in the most famous TV encounters ever, made history....
Fox

Friday 4 September '09

‘Fox’ is an unlikely name for a Bollywood thriller, and for a spell, it is intriguing enough.
Three-- Love, Lies, Betrayal

Friday 4 September '09

The only saving grace in 'Three' is Nausheen, who looks like there might be an actress under the pancake.
Aagey Se Right

Friday 4 September '09

‘Aagey Se Right’ opens with a rookie cop losing his gun. He then expends the rest of the film’s running time trying to get it back.
Mohandas

Friday 4 September '09

Having your identity stolen is like having your whole life stripped away. That’s what happens to Mohandas, resident of a small village in Madhya Pradesh.
Chintuji

Friday 4 September '09

Ranjit Kapoor’s debut feature ‘Chintuji’ is faction: part fiction, part fact, borrowing incidents liberally from Rishi Kapoor’s life, and tacking them on to the character.
Save these Scenes

Saturday 15 August '09

These indie films, which left theatres before you could say multiplex, are worth a watch
Couple of Pretty Disasters

Saturday 15 August '09

Genelia D’Souza, Prachi Desai, Amrita Rao, Anupam Kher All marriages are not made in heaven. They are contracted on earth, between warring families and irritable spouses who used to be loving lovers.
One Late, Patchy Monsoon

Saturday 15 August '09

Bose, Nandita Das, Linus Roache, Jennifer Ehle In the 1930s India, the British are in an increasingly precarious position.
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