Saturday 15 August '09
Vishal Bhardwaj makes a first half that is so good that it is near-flawless. Charlie lisps. Guddu stammers. To create identical twins with a distinctive speech impediment is a master stroke.Saturday 8 August '09
You might be familiar with the sound and fury of Kurosawa, but how about The Quiet Duel and his last hurrah Madadayo?Saturday
8 August '09A young lad, coerced into studying a subject he hates only because he is petrified of his father, ends his life. His classmates, all of whom face the same problem, take the fight to court.Saturday
8 August '09A film unit goes deep into a jungle for a shoot where people start dying in mysterious, violent ways. Ram Gopal Varma takes this one-line premise, and makes a two-hour movie.Saturday
1 August '09Rewind to some charming Leela Naidu movies this weekendSaturday
1 August '09Jai and Meera are a very today couple. They noodle around in London, figuring out if they are, like, together.Saturday
29 August '09MJ at his best, before the boys, the scandal and the slow descent into loneliness....Friday
28 August '09Rural India features in Hindi cinema so seldom now, that any film taking you into the heartland bears taking note of.Friday
28 August '09Before you start point fingers at the producers, they have us know that this is an official remake of 'Death At A Funeral’, right in the opening credits.Friday
28 August '09It is a morning in Mumbai. A call-centre owner is readying himself for yet another night in a new girl’s bed.Friday
28 August '09A group of friends stumble upon a couple of steel trunks in a forest. They bring the locked boxes back home, and discover a huge stash of cash.Friday
28 August '09Jat boy Vir, learning to be a sous chef, has a single-point agenda : to prong as many willing women as he can.Friday
28 August '09Quick Gun Redux, while randomly scattering a few chuckles, doesn’t crack us up the way the original did. Dr Rajendra Prasad makes a lovely looking QG, but takes his character too seriously.Friday
21 August '09Shadow is a film with such an improbable plot that you give up all expectations of logic, and wait helplessly for it to pass.Friday
21 August '09The strength of the beautifully shot `Sikandar’ is that it travels right into the heart of the troubled valley.Friday
14 August '09This could have been a decent bag of laughs. Instead, it is one of those you sit through hoping, fruitlessly, for respite.Friday
14 August '09Rahul Bose as the conflicted handyman, who is torn between his English master and loyalty to his people, stands out.Friday
14 August '09Vishal Bharadwaj makes a first half that’s so good that it’s near flawless. To create identical twins with a distinctive speech impediment is a master-stroke.Friday
7 August '09‘Chal Chalein’ gives us youngsters, who sue the parents and the state, and come out trumps, thanks to sympathetic lawyer.Friday
7 August '09If only Satish Kaushik had retained more of the honesty of the original, ‘Tere Sang’ would have been a revolutionary Hindi film.Friday
7 August '09Only a few scenes succeed in startling you. And you spend the rest of the time wondering where the director who gave us 'Raat' and 'Bhoot'.Saturday
1 August '09Flashback to a couple of weeks. Vinod Kambli, former test cricketer, current occupant of hot seat on India’s newest reality show, clutching a large cross...Friday
31 July '09Imtiaz Ali’s new film shuttles between the two time zones, ‘aaj’ and `kal’, and his twin-set of lovers, as they ricochet between cities and conviction.Friday
24 July '09This is an NRI ‘Meet The Parents’: a Gujju Patel vs a Punjabi Bhalla, doing the in-laws thing in America.Friday
24 July '09‘Luck’, which is based entirely on the premise of it brimming over with edge-of-the-seat action, tips us over a couple of times-- at best. The rest is spent building up to a climax.
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