Reviewed Dangal
Jan 31, 2018 03:44 PM
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#Dangal: Few minutes into Dangal, Aamir Khan disappears . And we meet Mahavir Singh Phogat, a former national wrestling champion, who wants to have a son who can fulfil his unfulfilled desire of winning an international gold medal in wrestling . The dream tends to get crushed as his wife deliver...Read more
Reviewed Naam Shabana
Apr 01, 2017 12:48 AM
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Did you watch Kuldeep Yadav plotting the wicket of Peter Handscomb in the last Test against Australia. The wrist spinner fooled the batsman into believing that he is going to bowl a wrong’un whereas he actually bowled a chinaman that went through the gates of Handscomb dislodging the stumps. Wri...Read more
Reviewed Trapped
Mar 19, 2017 11:14 AM
1792 Views
#Trapped: There are high-rises around. There are millions of people around. Yet no one can hear your voice or may be no one wants to. Have you ever experienced that loneliness, the feeling of being left out, the helplessness of not being able to reach out? Have you ever spoken to the mirror in f...Read more
Reviewed Befikre
Dec 10, 2016 09:56 AM
1376 Views
The Horney err the Delhi boy meets the Parisan girl of Indian origin, they passionately locked lips, dared bare their animal instinct, unleashed themselves on each other and got onto the bed .They fell in lust and kept on repeating it. Our boy, with any girl he could lay his hands on. And the co...Read more
Reviewed Dear Zindagi
Nov 26, 2016 10:37 AM
1460 Views
#DearZindegi: Half an hour into Dear Zindegi, there is a scene where Kaira and her friends are jogging in a park and a love struck couple bump into Kaira. She reacts hysterically. One moment you wonder why and the next minute you realize that’s how probably anyone fighting a battle within would ...Read more
Reviewed Akira
Sep 03, 2016 04:14 PM
55598 Views
#Akira: First things first. I watched Murugadoss’s Ghajni in 2009 and I still wonder how it became such a huge hit. When I watched his second hindi film Holiday- A soldier is never off duty, it seemed to me that probably he had handed over his job to some soldier and gone on holiday for most par...Read more
Reviewed Udta Punjab
Jun 18, 2016 11:22 AM
699 Views
There are many telling scenes in UdtaPunjab, starting from the opening one. But it is the last one which is the most poignant.
The nameless hockey player from Bihar who had come to the land of five rivers with a hope to earn her livelihood as a migrant worker and accidentally gets entangled i...Read more
Reviewed Te3n
Jun 10, 2016 02:48 PM
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Set in Sujoy Ghosh’s Kolkata TE3N is a reflection of the city, its languid pace, its myriad mood, its fixation on hanging on to the past and its determination to stand up for justice . In an age where Whodunit are quick paced and sleek, TE3N, which is based on South Korean film Montage, surprisi...Read more
Reviewed Azhar
May 14, 2016 11:36 AM
1484 Views
#Azhar: There can’t be a better story than the life of a fallen superstar to be adapted into a bollywood entertainer. And if the protagonist happens to be a sporting icon, whose debut was sensational, rise was meteoric, life was flamboyant, full of rumor and glamour and fall from grace was catas...Read more
Reviewed Fan
Apr 16, 2016 07:15 PM
1963 Views
The word has been derived from “Fanatic”, meaning filled with or expressing excessive zeal.
That is what Gaurav indicates when in the opening scene his voiceover announces “Connection bhi na kamala ki cheez hai, baas ho geya to ho geya”. From there on it is a different relationship, an altoge...Read more
Reviewed Aligarh
Feb 27, 2016 12:13 PM
1757 Views
#Aligarh: Timing, they say, is everything. There couldn’t have been a better time to release Aligarh. The Supreme Court has just referred the petition seeking decriminalization of section 377 to a five member panel. There is a raging debate going on in the country about Individual freedom being ...Read more
Reviewed Neerja
Feb 20, 2016 11:13 AM
1643 Views
“ Zindagi Badi honi Chahiye Lambi nehi” said her screen idol Rajesh Khanna in Anand. Neerja Bhanot’s lived only for 22 years and 363 days and then she became a legend. Youngest to receive Ashok Chakra, India’s highest peace time gallantry award, probably among a handful few to receive awards fro...Read more
Reviewed Fitoor
Feb 12, 2016 06:04 PM
1686 Views
“Take nothing on its Looks, Take everything on evidence. There’s no better rule” - Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
The greatness of Charles Dickens’ one of the most celebrated novel “Great Expectations” lies in its narrative flow, in its ability to present different literary genre, in its...Read more
Reviewed Airlift
Jan 23, 2016 12:49 PM
2134 Views
There are two kinds of people in the world, one who get bogged down by adversary and find an escape route . And then there is another tribe, who when pressed against the wall, rise like phoenix from the ashes. Adversity brings the best out of them. They are the ones who stand testimony to the ...Read more
Reviewed Bajirao Mastani
Dec 19, 2015 11:32 AM
8901 Views
BajiraoMastani: With arguably the longest disclaimer in the history of hindi cinema, Sanjay Leela Bhansali makes it pretty clear at the beginning that his magnum opus is not a factual representation of the life of 18th century Maratha warrior Peshwa Bajirao Balaji Bhat(1700-1740), rather it is b...Read more
Reviewed Tamasha
Nov 28, 2015 11:21 AM
5112 Views
There is a race out there, a race that has no meaning, yet every damn folk is part of it. Millions are caught in the rut, living a pretentious life, a life that is fast losing its inherent meaning. In a robotic, corporatized world, where you get judged by the minute, there is an inner self that ...Read more
Reviewed Titli
Oct 31, 2015 07:14 PM
5008 Views
#Titli: There exists two India. One that is suave, progressive, an India that is surrounded by malls & multiplexes, that drives Mercedes, which talks about digitalization, enjoys the benefits of economic liberalization, promotes or at least pretends to endorse feminism. And then there is another...Read more
Reviewed Talvar
Oct 02, 2015 10:39 AM
4292 Views
#Talvar: It s not easy to make a film on a real life case that has been under constant public scrutiny. It is even more difficult when a book has been written and a film has already been made on it. It becomes all the more tricky in an age when all pervading media has “cracked” the case severa...Read more
Reviewed Calendar Girls
Sep 25, 2015 08:08 PM
4082 Views
#CalendarGirls: Once upon a time there was a director named Madhur Bhandarkar, who showed promise, made few genuinely good films, flattered to deceive for a while till he became a victim of “Ram Gopal Verma” syndrome.
Thus started the obsession of showing a mirror to society, through some a...Read more
