Film Review: Atithi Tum Kab Jaoge
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 takes the creak. And yes [...]
Film Review: Hello Zindagi
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 woman to Goa where [...]
Film Review: Thanks Maa
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 where he was dumped [...]
Film Review: Karthik Calling Karthik
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 of the damned. The protagonist [...]
Film Review: Teen Patti
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 to fit into Bollywood’s report card [...]
Movie Trailer:- Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief
Trailer of Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief
Director: Chris Columbus
Cast: Logan Lerman, Brandon T. Jackson, , Alexandra Daddario, Jake Abel, Sean Bean, Pierce Brosnan, Steve Coogan, Rosario Dawson, Melina Kanakaredes, Catherine Keener, Kevin McKidd, Joe Pantoliano, Uma Thurman, Julian Richings, Bonita Friedericy
Film Review: Toh Baat Pakki
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 in it makes the blood [...]
Film Review: Click
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 is chilling in [...]
Film Review: My Name is Khan
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 his essential goodness [...]
Film Review: Striker
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 Muslims.
Surya is stopped [...]
























