Film Review

By admin • July 17th, 2010

Starring: Ali Zafar, Pradhuman Singh, Sugandha Garg and Piyush Mishra Director: Abhishek Sharma Rating: ***1/2 There are some films that are winners right from the time their very first promo is unleashed and Tere Bin Laden is one such film! Since the time many months back the hilarious promo of this Abhishek Sharma debut directorial [...]

By Subhash K Jha Starring: Riteish Deshmukh, Jacqueline Fernandez, Ruslaan Mumtaz, Vishal Malhotra Written & Directed by Milap Jhaveri Rating: ** ½ They don’t make ‘em like they used to. Those wholesome take-home-to-Mama type of chicks.And they don’t make such innocent yeh-kahan-aa-gaye-hum rom-coms either. So naturally, or not so naturally, writer-turned- director Milap Zaveri gets [...]

Starring: Rahul Bose, Raima Sen, Chigusa Takaku, Moushumi Chatterjee Written & Directed: Aparna Sen Rating: ** The final lap in this lyrical but contrived tale of unfufilled love shows two women coming together after the tragic death of the man they both loved. One, the Japanese wife of the title, the other a silent widow [...]

By Subhash K Jha Starring: Vivek Oberoi, 3 Mayas, Assorted Guns & Gadgets Directed: Kookie Gulati Rating: ** Look what the cool cat dragged in! It’s not a bird (though he does fly across the sky). It’s not a plane (though many of those in many shapes and sizes are seen hovering in the film’s [...]

Film Review: Sadiyaan By Subhash K Jha Starring: Rishi Kapoor, Hema Malini, Rekha, Introducing Luv Sinha and Ferena Wazeir Directed by: Raj Kanwar Rating: *** It is deliciously ironical that during the week that our tennis queen Sania Mirza announced she would marry in Pakistan, comes this film where the young desi pair threatens to [...]

Film Review: The Great Indian Butterfly Starring: Aamir Bashir, Sandhya Mridul, Barry John and Koel Purie Director: Sarthak Dasgupta Rating: **1/2 The Great Indian Butterfly narrates the tale of a young urban couple Krish (Aamir Bashir) and Meera (Sandhya Mridul). Forgetting their hectic lives, both Krish and Meera set out on their long impending vacation [...]

Film Review: Tum Milo Toh Sahi By Subhash K Jha Starring: Nana Patekar, Dimple Kapadia, Vidya Malvade, Rehan Khan, Anjana Sukhani Directed by: Kabir Sadanand Rating: ** ½ Just for the pleasure of watching Nana Patekar and Dimple Kapadia together, this quaint and sincere look at love across three generations is well worth a dekko. [...]

Starring: Arshad Warsi, Dia Mirza Directed: Kabir Kaushik Rating: ** ½ The sheer delight of watching Arshad Warsi play the lead rather the supremely selfassured sidekick gives this otherwise-pale rom-com a cutting edge. Arshad in his own words plays a guy, who van see dead people. Wish he could see dead plots too. The screenplay [...]

Starring: Rohit Roy, Rituparna Sengupta, Suchitra Krishnamoorthy and Gulshan Grover Director: Karan Razdan Rating: ** High flying businessman and casanova Karan Mittal (Rohit Roy) sees Mitali (Rituparna) at a fashion show and flips for her. He strikes a friendship with her. Very aggressive in his approach, he tries to take her to bed in a [...]

By Subhash K Jha Starring: Boman Irani, Minissha Lamba, Sammir Dattani Directed: Shyam Benegal Rating: *** Drawn from the innermost recesses of its extraordinarily versatile profound and prolific creator’s mind, somewhat like the water that emerges from Boman Irani’s well at the end of this delicately-drawn satire on babu-giri and redtapism, Well Done Abba is [...]

Starring:Aditya Narayan, Shweta Agrawal, Shubh Joshi and Rahul Dev Director: Vikram Bhatt Rating: *** Aman (Aditya) proposes to Kaaya (Shweta) but soon after that, the same night while going to drop her they meet with a car accident. While luckily both escape unhurt, Kaaya’s parents request Aman’s parents to forget their daughter. They reveal to [...]

By Joginder Tuteja Cast: Anshuman Jha, Shruti, Raj Kumar Yadav, Neha Chauhan, Arya Devdutta, Herry Tangri, Amit Sial Director: Dibakar Banerjee Rating: *** The million dollar question making the rounds is – Does “Love Sex Aur Dhokha” have a story?’ The answer is yes. In fact, there are three stories, each of them being shown [...]

By Subhash K Jha Starring: Aanaahad, Sushant Singh, Farouq Shaikh, Shraddha Das, Saurabh Shukla Directed: Sanjay Puran Singh Chauhan Rating: *** Combining sports and politics is not an easy thing to do. But then it’s not that difficult either considering the two are inextricably intertwined specially in the Asian sub-continent where Pakistani cricketers are forbidden [...]

By Subhash K Jha Starring: Sunny Deol, Irrfan Khan, Konkona Sen-Sharma, Esha Koppiker Directed: Neerraj Pathak Rating: *** Don’t breathe. Don’t dare even blink. And please forget that visit to the loo. Damn, even the bag of popcorn will be forgotten on your clenched lap. Right Yaaa Wrong is the surprise shocker of the year. [...]

Starring: Purab Kohli, Arjan Bajwa, Sameer Kochhar, Ayaaz Khan, Mrinalini Sharma and introducing Amruta Patki Director: Shawn Arranha Rating: *** The film revolves around six friends Om (Purab), Abhi (Sameer), Jaideep (Arjan), Imran (Ayaaz), Jyotika (Mrinalini) and Gunita (Amruta). When they were teenagers, a Christmas Party night changed it all for them and their individual [...]

Starring: Introducing Rahul Aggarwal, Narayani Shastri, Paresh Rawal, Ravi Kissen and Om Puri Director: Rahul Aggarwal Rating: ** Na Ghar Ke Na Ghat Ke narrates the tale of village simpleton Devaki Nandan Tripathi (Rahul) who comes to big bad Mumbai to try his luck. A newly married Devaki and his wife (Narayani) end up facing [...]

Starring: Tanushree Dutta, Udita Goswami, Shaad Randhawa, Sachin Khedekar and Murli Sharma Director: Rajesh Ranshinge Rating: ** Anushka (Tanushree Dutta) is charged with the murder of her husband, Ravi (Sachin Khedekar), and sister-in-law, Nishita (Preeti). Anushka is sent to a mental asylum but the fact is that she is possessed by the spirit of the [...]

Starring: Abhay Deol, Tannishtha Chatterjee, Mohammed Faizal and Satish Kaushik Director: Dev Benegal Rating: *1/2 Road, Movie is about the journey of Vishnu (Abhay Deol) who travels miles in a very old truck which often breaks down along the way. Driving through the desert state of Rajasthan, he first befriends a young boy (Mohammed Faizal) [...]

By Subhash K Jha Starring: Ajay Devgan, Konkona Sen Sharma, Paresh Rawal Directed: Ashwini Dheer Rating: ** ½ Be Ajay Devgan and Konkona Sen Sharma’s guest. Paresh Rawaail makes the first bonafide guest appearance in our cinema. And what pest this guest is! So many films about the guest as an intruder. But this one [...]

By Subhash K Jha Starring: Mrunmayee Lagoo, Milind Gunajee, Kitu Gidwani, Neena Gupta, Kanlwajeet Singh Directed: Raja Unnithan Rating: ** ½ A rebellious teenage daughter Kavita of a traumatized couple doesn’t know what to do with her life. So she takes off on a journey away from home with a lonely neglected but brave middleaged [...]

By Subhash K Jha Starring: Master Shams, Master Salman, Master Fayyaz, Master Jaffar, Baby Almas, and a host of brilliant walk- on actors Directed: Irfan Kamal Rating: **** He’s 12, and homeless. And he refuses to adopt the swaggering amorality of his friends on the street. They call him Municipal Ghatkopar because that’s the address [...]

By Subhash K Jha Starring: Farhan Akhtar, Deepika Padukone Directed: Vijay Lalvani Rating: *** Desolation is a distant cousin to suburban seclusion. And from the isolation of the Modern Indian Man is born the Great Cosmopolitan Fable of the man who knows no succour from seclusion. Karthik Calling Karthik is an interesting if flawed fable [...]

By: Sumesh Vasishth Cast: Amitabh Bachchan, Ben Kingsley, R. Madhavan, Dhruv Ganesh, Shraddha Kapoor, Siddharth Kher, Vaibhav Talwar, Saira Mohan, Raima Sen Music Director: Salim Merchant, Sulaiman Merchant Story/ Screenplay/ Dialogue: Leena Yadav, Shiv Kumar Subramaniam Producer: Ambika A Hinduja Director: Leena Yadav There is a probability puzzle called ‘Monty Hall Problem’ which I’ll try [...]

By Subhash K Jha Starring: Tabu, Ayub Khan, Vatsal Seth, Sharman Joshi Directed: Kedar Shindre Rating: * It’s the other film this week Click that’s meant to be a horror flick. But Toh Baat Pakki is a bigger horror than anything this week, or in any recent week. To think that the divine Tabu stars [...]

By Subhash K Jha Starring: Shreyas Talpade, Sadaa, Sneha Ullal Directed: Sangeeth Sivan Rating: ** If you can accept Shreyas Talpade as a womanizing glam photographer who clicks with the ladies, so to speak, and Sneha Ullal (remember her as Salman Khan’s under-age lover-girl in Lucky) then the underlining them of love- on-the-prowl in afterlife [...]

Cast: Shah Rukh Khan, Kajol, Jimmy Shergill, Zarina Wahab Director: Karan Johar Rating:**** Questions of religious and national identity, of the sense of right and wrong, of combating a certain isolation that comes with a behavioural disorder. But what triumphs over all the complexities unfolding in a tumultuous post 9/11 America is Rizwan Khan and [...]

Starring: Siddharth, Aditya Pancholi, Padmapriya,Vidya Malvade, Ankur Vikal and Anupam Kher Director: Chandan Arora Rating: *** Its December 1992 and curfew time in Malvani, Mumbai’s north western suburb when Suryakant Sarang aka Surya (Siddharth) arrives back in Mumbai from an out of town trip. Communal riots have broken out in the area mostly dominated by [...]

By Subhash K Jha Cast: Om Puri, Shreyas Talpade, Gulshan Grover, Amrita Bedi Directed: Vishal Bhandari Rating: ** ½ A long-delayed film but one that comes with its own baggage of silent merit, The Hangman hinges on a rather heart-wrenching irony. A noble hangman Shiva (Om Puri) must finally execute the son on whom hinges [...]

By Subhash K Jha Starring: Nandu Madhav, Vibhawari Despande Written & Directed: Paresh Mokashi Rating: *** ½ This is the one that went all the way to Oscar-land and came back empty-handed. So whose loss is it anyway? Writer-director Paresh Mokashi’s tender-sweet film about the founding-father of Indian cinema Dadasaheb’s Phalke’s struggle to make the [...]

Starring: Naseeruddin Shah, Vidya Balan, Arshad Warsi and Salman Shahid Director: Abhishek Chaubey Rating: ***1/2 Two crooks on the run, Khaalujaan (Naseer) and Babban (Arshad) arrive at beautiful widow Krishna’s (Vidya Balan) doorstep. They tell her they were late hubby’s good friends at one point of time. The duo has actually run away from their [...]

By: Sumesh Vasishth Cast: Saif Ali Khan, Kareena Kapoor, Vivek Oberoi, Dia Mirza, Kirron Kher, Om Puri Background Score & Music: Salim Merchant, Sulaiman Merchant Director: Rensil D’Silva Wake up Yash Raj & Co. and smell the coffee. Your very own blue-eyed boy Karan Johar and his men are now beating you at your own [...]

By Subhash K Jha Starring: Ranbir Kapoor, Katrina Kaif Directed: Rajkumar Santoshi Rating: *** If you’ve ever wondered what on earth is on-screen chemistry here’s your one-stop all-purpose encyclopaedia on celluloid magic. Fasten your ‘see’-it belts, as veteran filmmaker Rajkumar Santoshi sheds all his Lajja, pulls out all stops to do a wacky goofy edgeless [...]

By: Sumesh Sharma Cast: Neil Nitin Mukesh, Mugdha Godse, Manoj Bajpai, Arya Babbar, Chetan Pandit, Rahul Singh, Kaveri Jha Music Directors: Shamir Tandon, Sharib Sabri and Toshi Sabri Director: Madhur Bhandarkar Rating: *** Corrupt cops, dingy and over cramped cells, inedible food, lecherous inmates and an all-pervasive bhai waiting to turn you into his sharp-shooter; [...]

Starring: Salman Khan, Ajay Devgan, Asin and Om Puri Director: Vipul Amrutlal Shah Rating: *** Arjun (Ajay) and Manu (Salman) are childhood buddies living in a Punjab village. Arjun passionately loves music and dreams of becoming a musical sensation like Michael Jackson and perform at London’s Wembley Stadium but his family hates music as it [...]