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The ensemble star-cast consisting of Kay Kay, Rajat Kapoor, Vinay Pathak, Sonali Kulkarni, Sandhya Mridul, Simone Singh, Prashant Narayanan etc., drew me to a nearby multiplex to watch Via D… Read More

In 2005-06, Neill Dela Llana and Ian Gamazon produced and directed a political thriller / travelogue ‘Cavite’ on a miniscule budget, a two-man crew comprised of themselves, a gue… Read More

The era of simple story telling is finally back in Bollywood. Oh! How we missed all this while. Film making is essentially about telling a story and Jaane tu… hits bulls eye here… Read More

Actually when I made my itinerary I didn't include Macau. I was supposed to go to Hong Kong from Bangkok. The flight from Bangkok to Hong Kong was costing me $375+ and I found a ridiculously… Read More

The loose translation of the above Urdu couplet by legendary poet Momin Khan would be: All your life you lived in non-Muslim ways. In your old age, how can you become a Muslim? For me this c… Read More

RGV is amongst the finest storytellers Bollywood has produced, no two opinions on that but I guess there has been an overkill of underworld films from RGV himself, everyone’s seen that… Read More

'Rewind' which had a successful premiere at the Locarno International Film Festival is probably the world's first short film that’s truly reverse. Unlike a Memento or Irreversible, 'Re… Read More

Please put your hands together to felicitate the one and only Apoorva Lakhia for making the worst film of the year so far – Mission Istanbul. This one's a Turkey if there ever was one… Read More

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While a ‘Sex and the City’ and ‘The Devil wears Prada’ has the element of fashion and eccentricity ooze from every corner, a film like ‘Gia’ had powerful… Read More

Drona and Kidnap are big film in all respects - big stars, big canvas, big expenditure, big ad spend, big expectations. Sadly, they are a big, big, big letdown as well and people are already… Read More

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One man makes all the difference - Naseeruddin Shah. To breathe life into such a simplistically written character is indeed a challenge, and Shah does exceedingly well and actually with his… Read More

I saw ‘Rock On’ a couple of days back. After I came out of the theater, I went back to all the things portrayed in the movie, and thought it was a very influential movie signifyi… Read More

The great debate between science and superstition continues, but RGV’s ‘Phoonk’ tilts in favour of superstition, civilised society may frown at superstition and blind belie… Read More

‘Kathanayakudu’ is a remake of the hit Malayalam film ‘Katha Parayambol’ a modern take on the Krishna-Sudama story, with an obvious twist. It could have been a simple… Read More

Post 2006 train bomb blasts in Mumbai, there was a newspaper headline – ‘Mumbai Ripped Apart’. The same day, another national daily carried the same news, but with a differ… Read More

The promise that Ranbir Kapoor displayed in Saawariya, his debut venture, has been duly fulfilled in this breezy, urbane tale of love and longing, set against a come-of-age backdrop of 21st… Read More

Off late, the Hindi Cinema is all about making big bucks. Get a star worth crores, a director who’s had a hit or two, location shoot in the exotic foreign locales; go far out to the ma… Read More

‘Yeh Bambai hai. Yahan par sabke paas script hai. Doodhwale se leker Bhansali tak’. This is a line that a peon rudely tells Ranvir Shorey when he goes to sell his girlfriend&rsqu&hell…Read More

After my last post here, where I had written about the ‘Top 10 Asian Films – Action’ by Samuel L Jackson, a few of my friends told me to try and write my favourite Top 10 F… Read More

It's always nice when someone you respect shares your opinion. So I was pleased to read Samuel L Jackson's list of his Top 10 Classic Asian Films. Jackson, of course, knows a thing or two ab… Read More

I often have trouble getting friends to commit to a destination, price, or time off for a trip! If I waited to find friends for trips, I'd be staying home way too much! I decided years ago n… Read More

Bollywood has never had a background in realism. It consisted of escapist musicals with common storylines of ‘good vs evil’ and ‘boy meets girl’. The films were gener… Read More