
Friday , 4 September '09
‘Fox’ is an unlikely name for a Bollywood thriller, and for a spell, it is intriguing enough.
Friday , 4 September '09
The only saving grace in 'Three' is Nausheen, who looks like there might be an actress under the pancake.
Friday , 4 September '09
‘Aagey Se Right’ opens with a rookie cop losing his gun. He then expends the rest of the film’s running time trying to get it back.
Friday , 4 September '09
Having your identity stolen is like having your whole life stripped away. That’s what happens to Mohandas, resident of a small village in Madhya Pradesh.
Friday , 4 September '09
Ranjit Kapoor’s debut feature ‘Chintuji’ is faction: part fiction, part fact, borrowing incidents liberally from Rishi Kapoor’s life, and tacking them on to the character.
Friday , 28 August '09
Rural India features in Hindi cinema so seldom now, that any film taking you into the heartland bears taking note of.
Friday , 28 August '09
It is a morning in Mumbai. A call-centre owner is readying himself for yet another night in a new girl’s bed.
Friday , 28 August '09
Before you start point fingers at the producers, they have us know that this is an official remake of 'Death At A Funeral’, right in the opening credits.
Friday , 28 August '09
A group of friends stumble upon a couple of steel trunks in a forest. They bring the locked boxes back home, and discover a huge stash of cash.
Friday , 28 August '09
Jat boy Vir, learning to be a sous chef, has a single-point agenda : to prong as many willing women as he can.
Friday , 28 August '09
Quick Gun Redux, while randomly scattering a few chuckles, doesn’t crack us up the way the original did. Dr Rajendra Prasad makes a lovely looking QG, but takes his character too seriously.
Friday , 21 August '09
The strength of the beautifully shot `Sikandar’ is that it travels right into the heart of the troubled valley.
Friday , 21 August '09
Shadow is a film with such an improbable plot that you give up all expectations of logic, and wait helplessly for it to pass.
Friday , 14 August '09
Rahul Bose as the conflicted handyman, who is torn between his English master and loyalty to his people, stands out.
Friday , 14 August '09
This could have been a decent bag of laughs. Instead, it is one of those you sit through hoping, fruitlessly, for respite.
Friday , 14 August '09
Vishal Bharadwaj makes a first half that’s so good that it’s near flawless. To create identical twins with a distinctive speech impediment is a master-stroke.
Friday , 7 August '09
‘Chal Chalein’ gives us youngsters, who sue the parents and the state, and come out trumps, thanks to sympathetic lawyer.
Friday , 7 August '09
If only Satish Kaushik had retained more of the honesty of the original, ‘Tere Sang’ would have been a revolutionary Hindi film.
Friday , 7 August '09
Only a few scenes succeed in startling you. And you spend the rest of the time wondering where the director who gave us 'Raat' and 'Bhoot'.