306 entries

Category: Films

A Jolly Good Show

JOLLY LLB. Director: Subhash Kapoor. Players: Boman Irani, Arshad Warsi, Saurabh Shukla, Amrita Rao. Music: Krsna. Hindi with English Sub-titles. Theatrical Release FOX Star Productions.At a time when India’s legal-system is under a lot of flak, Jolly LLB is like another well-deserved kick in its pants. Hats off ...

Drama King Confessional

NAUTANKI SALAA!  Director:  Rohan Sippy.  Players:  Ayushmann Khurrana, Kunal Roy Kapoor, Pooja Salvi, Gaelyn Mendonca.  Music: Mikey McCleary.  Hindi with Eng. Sub-titles.  Theatrical Release (T Series).The last time that Hindi filmmakers successfully superimposed the broad and bold stroke language of a stage drama onto successful movie comedies was perhaps ...

Tiger Beat

HIMMATWALA. Director: Sajid Khan. Players: Ajay Devgn, Tamanna Bhatia, Paresh Rawal, Zarina Wahab, Mahesh Manjrekar. Music: Bhappi Lahiri and Sajid-Wajid Theatrical release (UTV)Director Sajid Khan had considerable box office success with Hey Babyy (2007), Housefull (2010) and Housefull 2 (2012). Like anywhere on this planet, three in a row ...

Total Recall

THE ATTACKS OF 26/11. Director: Ramgopal Varma. Players: Nana Patekar, Atul Kulkarni, Sanjeev Jaiswal. Hindi and Urdu (with Eng. sub-titles). Theatrical Release (Eros). Parental advisory: Extreme violence and gore The terrorist attacks on Mumbai on January 26, 2008, or “26/11” in India, have long since entered global ignominy ...

Raging Home Fires

KAI PO CHE! Director: Abhishek Kapoor. Players: Raj Kumar Yadav, Amit Sadh, Sushant Singh Rajput, Amrita Puri. Music: Amit Trivedi. English and Gujarati (with Eng. Sub-titles). Theatrical Release (UTV).Floating new story ideas with a lesser known cast is a huge task for any film market. In Hindi movies, new ...

A Special Formula

SPECIAL 26. Director: Neeraj Pandey    Players: Akshay Kumar, Anupam Kher,   Manoj Bajpai, Jimmy Shergil, Divya Dutta, Rajesh Sharma, Kajal Aggarwal  Music:M M Kreem Theatrical Release: Viacom  There is reason to cheer! Continuing the trend of good storytelling set in 2012 with Barfi, Paan Singh Tomar, Vicky Donor, Kahani, Gangs ...

Love Ka Murder

MURDER 3. Director: Vishesh Bhatt. Players: Ranjeet Hooda, Aditi Rao Hydari, Sara Loren. Music: Pritam Chakraborty. Theatrical release: Fox Star. Some films deserve to be seen in a theater, the silver screen illuminating every inflection of the actors’ expressions, highlighting the mastery of the wizards who create a fictional ...

Boys, Interrupted

DAVID.  Director:  Bejoy Nambiar.  Players:  Neil Nitin Mukesh, Vikram, Vinay Virmani, Tabu, Nasser, Lara Dutta, Isha Sharvani, Rohini Hattangadi, Monica Dogra.    Music: Mikey McCleary.  Theatrical Release (Reliance). In a new movie season replete with inexplicable or mundane sounding movie titles (Murder 3, Special 26), a title like David at ...

Maybe It's the Hearing Who Are Impaired

Vidyut Latay has directed a documentary titled "Beyond Silence" which is a movie about the hidden voices of the hearing impaired. 

A Noir Tale

TALAASH. Director: Reema Kagti. Players: Aamir Khan, Rani Mukherji, Kareena Kapoor. Theatrical release: Reliance Entertainment, Excel Entertainment and Aamir Khan Productions.A bird’s eye shot of the splayed, lifeless body of Tehmur (Nawazuddin Siddiqui) is an important shot in this film. Tehmur, a lowly factotum of Mumbai’s red ...
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