Films release, tickets are bought, and then you wonder if you should have carried a bunch of rotten tomatoes (not the website, silly! The real stuff) to fling at the screen. Well, why punish the theatre’s cleaning staff when you…
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Review: Khap
Film: Khap (U/A) Director: Ajai Sinha Cast: Sarrtaj, Uvika Chaudhary, Mohnish Behl, Anooradha Patel, Om Puri, Govind Namdeo, Manoj Pahwa and others Rating: *1/2 There are films that shake you up and force you to realise that by virtue of…
Oscars 2011: Best Actress
The leading ladies this year are beautiful, strong and have their films riding on their shoulders. Each one brings alive a distinctive character in an equally distinct story. While the films may revolve around these ladies, they fit into the…
Review: Singham is funnier than Golmaal, and not in a good way
Film: Singham (U/A) Director: Rohit Shetty Cast: Ajay Devgn, Kajal Aggarwal, Prakash Raj, Sonali Kulkarni Rating: ** Being a Goan, I often hear about the corrupt politicians inGoaand their bizarre ego-triggered actions. I often hear about the “white” tourists and the…
Reasons why I Love Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides
No Elizabeth Swann. Therefore no Keira Knightley Loads of Jack Sparrow The shirtless missionary. Dude, he’s cute! Jack Sparrow. Wait, I said that already Ian McShane as the deadly Blackbeard Rush ‘trying’ to be British. Epic. Penelope Cruz It’s a…
Haapus- Paisa Vasool
Disclaimer: The writer is biased. Yes, Haapus opens with a full-on Malvani dialogue. Yeah, it won my heart there. And Haapus, the mango itself narrates the story of Anna Gurav, a kundali reading patriarch and his family. Each member is…
Raavan: Black, White and Gray
Ramayan has been telling generations after generations about the triumph of good over evil. History is written by the winner, and we forget that between black and white there is always gray. Raavan is an attempt to bring out this…
Stranger Than Fiction, Closer To Reality
When I was a kid, I believed that the life we lead was actually someone else’s dream. The bad things would all end when they woke up and that none of the bad things were real. As a child, someone…
Move over Lucy, LSD has been hijacked by Indians
First with Khosla Ka Ghosla, Dibakar Banerjee introduced us to a typical middle-class Delhi family and their dreams, then he gave us Lucky, the Punjabi con artist who takes us through the different strata of Delhi society and now, he…
Pies, an abusive husband, a good doctor… A well baked story!
Of late I have been hooked to Castle, the TV series starring Natahn Fillion and I have been gushing to all and sundry about what a cutie pie he is. So I was steered toward this movie about pies which…