Saturday 11 July '09
How does an actor who delivers a cracking performance in one film switch to become a totally different person in another, both out the same day?Saturday 11 July '09
Sankat City is Mumbai, maximum city filtered and distilled via its minimum people.Friday
10 July '09How does an actor who delivers a cracking performance in one film switch to become a totally different person in another, both out the same day?Friday
10 July '09`Shortkut’ suffers from director Neeraj Vora’s customary inability to infuse any newness or subtlety into a plot that could easily have gone the other way.Friday
10 July '09This parade of pariahs criss-crosses paths and wits over a few days, and delivers unto us a film that is laugh-out-loud funny.Friday
3 July '09Ellie now getting ready for parenthood, saber-tooth tiger Diego scared of losing his edge, acorn-loving squirrel Scrat finding romance in Scratte.Friday
3 July '09‘Kambakkht Ishq’ aims at those who think from the groin, and hits the target unerringly.Friday
26 June '09Our hero in Mauritius in order to shoot a few other fellows, on the orders of a bad guy back in India. Why, no one knows.Friday
26 June '09Kabir Khan’s ‘New York’ is about three friends impacted by the fallout of 9/11: it was not just the twin towers which were destroyed; a whole way of life died too.Friday
19 June '09Who makes these films? And who watches them? There were just two other people in the theatre, who left half way.Friday
19 June '09Suhani wants to break into the tough world of music videos, without having to give ‘private’ auditions to sleazy choreographers.Friday
19 June '09The quartet in ‘Paying Guests’—Shreyas, Jaaved, Ashish and Vatsal—don’t have matinee idol looks, nor are their digs destined to be quite so posh.Saturday
13 June '09‘Zor Laga Ke Haiya’ is about a bunch of ecologically aware kids trying a save a tree in their compound.Saturday
13 June '09The only good thing that came out of the film industry strike was the sporadic release of the kind of film which almost never manages to reach mainstream theatres.Saturday
13 June '09Idioms are not the only thing that get mangled in this tale of crime, passion and reincarnation.Saturday
13 June '09Old school producer Vashu makes sure that sonnyboy Jackky does all a father will do for his son, and then takes out some insurance: in ‘Kal Kissne Dekha’.Friday
5 June '09Another left-over morsel from the cans, ‘Team, The Force’ is the kind of film someone made with Team B when they couldn’t afford Team A.Friday
5 June '09How does a self-respecting actor, struggling to make it big in the movies, end up becoming a paid-for toy boy?Friday
5 June '09For once, a kiddie film that doesn’t make you cringe. This part live, part animated tale of Sankat Mochan Hanuman has the kind of verve mostly missing from children’s films in India.Friday
5 June '09'Star Trek' works both as a nostalgia trip for those that remember, and a fun, on-the-run sci-fi flick for those that are Trekkie virgins.Friday
29 May '09Till the prolonged stand-off in the film fraternity continues, such flicks as ‘Yeh Pal Ho Na Ho... Kal’ will come and go, inducing massive migraines.Friday
22 May '09The two grandkids and Bruno the dog are Nani's faithful companions as she goes about cracking the case of a missing little girl.Friday
22 May '09‘Mohabattan Sachiyan’ differs in only one significant aspect: this one is in Punjabi, with only a smattering of Hindi and Urdu thrown in.Friday
22 May '09It’s coming out spills open a can of worms, confronting us with the kind of dreadful cinema we used to make back then.Sunday
24 May '09Lata Mangeshkar unspools — from an uncredited singer on Mahal’s 78 rpm record to the go-to songstress for three generations of filmmakers
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