Of shades and colours

If there is one scene in ’showman’ Subhash Ghai’s Black and White that underlines his ulterior motive, then that scene, I think, comes just before the excruciat...read more

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Bloody Musical

'Sweeney Todd:The Demon Barber of Fleet Street' immediately introduces its hero in a breathless credit sequence: I mean Blood-Blood trickling through the damp s...read more

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Royal Trip

If there was one sequence in Jodhaa Akbar that singles out what I think of it then that would have to be the swordfight sequence between the two eponymous leads...read more

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Ranveer,Vinay aur Kaun?

Forget Johnny Gaddar, Manorama Six Feet Under and Ek Chalis ki last local Rajat Kapoor's Mithya IS the coming of age of the individual Bollywood film.A film tha...read more

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Ho-Hum Bol

Rajkumar Santoshi's Halla Bol could have been a blast but instead its just a missed opportunity and an ode to mediocrity.Halla Bol certainly has lofty ambitions...read more

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2007:THE YEAR IN FILM

*DISCLAIMER:The following review is based entirely on personal experience and BOX OFFICE success(or failure) has no bearing upon it. *So, here I go.Honestly spe...read more

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Bollywood se pehle

Khoya Khoya Chand

• is perhaps one of the few feminine films we see today.It is about a fragile girl's trials and tribulations.It is about how she breaks down am...read more
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Pulp Friction!

Johnny Gaddar has been mischaracterized as a thriller much too often for my liking.It quite simply isnt one.It isnt a who dunnit or why dunnit?(you know answers...read more

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Aaja snore kar le!

There is not a lot to talk about Aaja nachle save that it is similar to Juliette Binoch's Chocolat interspersed with potholes in the script.The problem really i...read more

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Welcome to Bhansalipur!

Sanjay Leela Bhansali's Saawariya essentially serves a nihilistic notion of romance that is quite the contrary to the usual romances serving the notion of love ...read more

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70's homage? I dont think so...

Farah Khan's interests have always been rather more superficial in terms of're-igniting' the genre(and it is by no means clear that the word'genre' can be used ...read more

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Laaga yashraj par ek aur daag!

The opening austere shots of Benares draw a parallel between the sacred and the voice that in a while we will soon get to identify as Rani Mukerji's.This segues...read more

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Of Kafka-esque huffs and puffs

There will usually be two reactions when you end up seeing Anurag Kashyap's No Smoking 1.It was wicked! I cannot beleive I just saw that in Hindi 2.What on eart...read more

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Jab we (almost) met

Imtiaz Ali take a bow!… personally believe that Imtiaz Ali is at present one of the two best screen writers in the industry(Anurag Kashyap being the other).All ...read more

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A maze half built

Bhool Bhulaiya is the fourth time Madhu Mattom’s written story has been adpated to the big screen.Helmed by Priyadarshan this is a unique attempt at mixing horr...read more

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THIS THAT AND MORE

They say it is fruitless dwelling on the past, but a couple of days back on seeing Eklavya-the royal guard on DVD I was confronted with the thoughts of what rea...read more

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When a hollywood plot meets bollywood cliches

How you even begin to explain what’s wrong about a film, that does nothing right to begin with? The one, the only, the real problem with Ta Ra Rum Pum is that t...read more

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Infantile comedy!

Talking of Heyy Babyy the first question that comes to mind is Why do the most beautiful always see fashion where everyone else sees silliness? What was Vidya B...read more

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