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’.
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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.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
'Star Trek' works both as a nostalgia trip for those that remember, and a fun, on-the-run sci-fi flick for those that are Trekkie virgins.
Friday , 29 May '09
Till the prolonged stand-off in the film fraternity continues, such flicks as ‘Yeh Pal Ho Na Ho... Kal’ will come and go, inducing massive migraines.
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 '09
It’s coming out spills open a can of worms, confronting us with the kind of dreadful cinema we used to make back then.
Friday , 15 May '09
An 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 '09
A sorrowing tea-planter writes love letters to his no-longer-present-wife, and his no- longer-peaceful-town.
Friday , 17 April '09
For every star, there are a million unfortunates who hang about the studios in Mumbai, hoping for their big break.
Friday , 10 April '09
A 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 '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 '09
A 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 '09
Yorkshire schoolteacher Mr Ratcliffe, newly smitten by the Communist credo, takes himself and his family to live in Germany.
Friday , 3 April '09
Kukunoor 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 '09
We 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 '09
Menon’s centering of fringe characters is a welcome thing, and some of the acting, especially by Naseer and Arjun, fits in.