
Friday , 13 November '09
An airplane heading back to Mumbai is where they meet again, six years down the line, only to land smack in the middle of the worst floods that Mumbai has witnessed.
Friday , 13 November '09
A twelve year old wishes with all his might that he becomes big. A shooting star passes by overhead, and presto, miserable Mickey becomes a six-footer.
Friday , 6 November '09
'Jail’ is grim, gritty and stark, and, despite a saggy middle, very watchable.
Friday , 6 November '09
When Prem and Jenny are not going la, la, la, they are circling around the l word—he loves her, she knows not that she loves him.
Friday , 30 October '09
With his latest film, Vipul Amrutlal Shah goes back to familiar territory : Punjabi ‘munda’ in London town, all set to conquer the world.
Friday , 30 October '09
‘Aladdin’ proves just one thing: Indian filmmakers should stay strictly away from the fantasy genre.
Friday , 23 October '09
By rights, ‘Fruit and Nut’ should have been Comedy Central. After all, Boman can be a complete fruitcake, and a bigger nut than Cyrus is hard to find.
Friday , 16 October '09
Everything about `Blue’ promises to be a crackerjack underwater adventure, but it’s hard to keep your eyes open while it’s on.Friday , 16 October '09
When a film try bravely to go down the uncharted path of post-marriage blues, like in ‘Main Aur Mrs Khanna’, it flounders.
Friday , 16 October '09
Rohit Shetty discovered his winning formula with ‘Golmaal’, kept it up with last year’s Diwali hit, ‘Golmaal Returns’, and is back with ‘All The Best'.
Friday , 9 October '09
A group of men regain consciousness in a vast shed with no memory of how they got there. They don’t remember a thing.
Friday , 2 October '09
Siddharth Mehra is a good-looking, rich lay-about. He drives his father’s expensive cars, flashes plastic at designer stores, and works very hard at partying.
Friday , 2 October '09
Govinda is well past his sell-by date. This is immediately evident when he first appears on screen, plunging headlong into a situation.
Friday , 25 September '09
Yogesh Patel has ten days to check out twelve potential candidates, each representing a ‘raashee’: Makar or Meen? Capricorn or Pisces?
Friday , 18 September '09
To actually enjoy ‘Dil Bole Hadippa’, you have to be able to believe that Rani Mukerjee can pass off as a turbaned, bearded and mustachioed young Sardar.
Friday , 18 September '09
Salman Khan has still got the best bod in the business, on splendid display in the blood-spattered climax. Aamir’s eight packs are not a patch.
Friday , 11 September '09
Bombs ripping through Mumbai local trains and bloodied bodies piled by the tracks is an all-too familiar sight by now in films. `Ruslaan’ tries to go beyond that.
Friday , 11 September '09
If you can deal with a morose Deol, who’s only slightly better than an ultra-bright Deol, and a chirpy chatterbox of a co-star, ‘Vadaa Raha’ can be sat through.
Friday , 11 September '09
The good thing about `Aamras’ is that it gives us young adults who are not cloyingly saccharine all the time, but the story-telling and the plot points are interesting only intermittently.