17 May 2008

Emraan Hashmi’s patent look - bad boy stubble, floppy mop, and dark jackets - remains the same even as his films change.

10 May 2008

If you are of a certain age, and a Hindi film fan, you’re sure to remember Jimmy Jimmy Jimmy, aja , aja, aja, Mithun Chakraborty’s...

A ghost and a boy: that’s what Bhootnath is about. It would have been a cracker of a ‘family entertainer’ if debutant director Vivek Sharma...

09 Mar 2008

Very briefly, right in the beginning, with stark black-and-white scenes of a terrorist plot being hatched, it looks as if Ghai is on to a good thing.

17 Feb 2008

In a standout scene, Jodhaa Bai and Jalal-ud-din-Akbar are sitting across each other. She’s written something she wants her husband to read.

10 Feb 2008

More movie-within-a-movie. It may be a coincidence that both Mithya and Superstar release on the same day, back-grounding the film industry and a star aspirant...

Struggling actor, trying to hack it in Mumbai. Sneaking into film sets. Getting to hold glasses of congealing chai for directors who have no time for him.

03 Feb 2008

If you take all those tired jokes featuring meek husbands and nagging wives your inbox is infested with, and place them end-to-end...

27 Jan 2008

In Sundays line-up are three of Hindi cinema’s finest when it comes to comic timing, Irrfan Khan, Arshad Warsi and Vrajesh Hirjee.

20 Jan 2008

If your plot is completely cuckoo, then your treatment has to be spot on. Nagesh Kukunoor setting a fast-talking Mumbai ka chhora loose upon Bangkok massage parlours...