Friday 22 May '09
The 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 filmmakersFriday
22 May '09Our movies have moved on, but the ‘angry young man’ defined two decades of Hindi cinemaFriday
15 May '09An unwed mother facing all odds to bring her baby into the world : that, in a nutshell, is the story of ‘Suno Na, Ek Nanhi Awaaz’.Friday
15 May '09‘99’, directed by the duo who gave us the delightful NRI rom com ‘Flavours’ is not half as funny as it makes itself out to be. And that’s sad.Friday
17 April '09A sorrowing tea-planter writes love letters to his no-longer-present-wife, and his no- longer-peaceful-town.Friday
17 April '09For every star, there are a million unfortunates who hang about the studios in Mumbai, hoping for their big break.Friday
17 April '09'Dashavtar’ revolves around, let’s see, a vial of deadly virus stolen from a US lab where Govind Ramasamy works.Friday
10 April '09‘Coffee House’ is one long rant, done as simplistically as possible. It gives us TV actor Sakshi Tanwar in her first screen role, and Ashutosh Rana yet another chance to show his exemplary Hindi skills.Friday
10 April '09A couple of months ago, Arshad Warsi starred in a film called ‘Kisse Pyar Karoon’. That film boasted of a hare-brained plot and ham-handed actors, and you wondered if Mr Warsi could descend lower.Friday
10 April '09A school film usually has the same ingredients. A bunch of school kids, some good, some bad, the rest indifferent. A bunch of teachers, ditto. And situations which lead to flashpoints and resolutions.Friday
10 April '09Another of those join-the-spy-service-and-see-the-world films, which Hollywood keeps coming back to.Friday
10 April '09Yorkshire schoolteacher Mr Ratcliffe, newly smitten by the Communist credo, takes himself and his family to live in Germany.Friday
3 April '09Kukunoor uses the lush green of the Canadian countryside to give us one of the most picturesque films we’ve seen in a while.Friday
20 March '09We all know how it will all end, right from the time 'Aloo Chaat’ opens. Watch it if you like your comedy loud, obvious and heavily underscored.Friday
20 March '09Menon’s centering of fringe characters is a welcome thing, and some of the acting, especially by Naseer and Arjun, fits in.Friday
20 March '09What happens when you think you swing both ways? Tread a `tedha medha’ path, with trepidation, that’s what.Friday
20 March '09This is a fine ensemble. The little boy, played unfalteringly by Mohammad Samad, is a heartbreaker.Friday
13 March '09Jai (Fardeen) is a cop pretending to be a motor mechanic. Veeru (Kunal) is a car thief with delusions of grandeur.Friday
13 March '09Sooni Taraporevala, long-time associate of Mira Nair, and experienced script-writer, has come up with a marvellous first feature.Friday
13 March '09‘Gulal’ tells the story of an India struggling to come to terms with its contemporary identity and complicated histories. And Kashyap nearly pulls it off.Friday
6 March '09So many issues make for confusion and incoherence. And an opportunity to bung in as many stereotypical Americans and NRIs as the script could accommodate.Friday
6 March '09Paresh is the producer, who is about to hang himself in the first shot. You wish he had.
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