Jobless, hopeless actor Raju steals a superb script from sincere, hardworking writer Shekhar.
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 '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?
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 , 3 July '09
Ellie 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 '09
Our 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 '09
Kabir 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 '09
Who makes these films? And who watches them? There were just two other people in the theatre, who left half way.
Friday , 19 June '09
Suhani wants to break into the tough world of music videos, without having to give ‘private’ auditions to sleazy choreographers.
Friday , 19 June '09
The 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 '09
The 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 '09
Idioms are not the only thing that get mangled in this tale of crime, passion and reincarnation.
Saturday , 13 June '09
Old 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 '09
Another 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 '09
How does a self-respecting actor, struggling to make it big in the movies, end up becoming a paid-for toy boy?
Friday , 5 June '09
For 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.