Indian weddings, as you are well aware, loves Bollywood and Bollywood loves weddings. So a Bollywood film about a videographer who shoots weddings seems quite the perfect match. Question is, can a story of the life and times of a small-town man armed with a camera, a charming smile, and a pronounced head of hair [...]
Chhodo Kal Ki Baatein
In 1993, when Groundhog Day starring Bill Murray released, it was acclaimed as an instant classic. The essential idea – of a person stuck in a time loop till he understands and improves his spiritual self – has inspired many take offs internationally, the most recent being an indie sci-fi version Shuffle that releases this [...]
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Housefull 2
Sajid Khan has already declared (at every opportunity he’s had) across all media that he doesn’t care what critics have to say about his film. That this is a film for the audiences. That they will make it a hit, the likes of which the actors involved have never seen before. If cinema to you [...]
Blood Money
Blood Money is generic mash up of Mahesh Bhatt’s productions, cannibalizing from his own films. You will find the essence of Jannat’s theme and South African setting here, songs that you can’t help but visualize Emraan Hashmi in, and a dire, meaningless need to titillate. Kunal and his wife Arzoo are handed a dreamy lifestyle [...]
Agent Vinod
Agent Vinod, the hotly anticipated film, in the making for what seems eternity is finally here. But once you take in the colossal canvas – traversing the globe, suffused with countless action set pieces – coupled with its run time of over two and a half hours, you will immediately understand why it took so [...]
Chaurahen
There’s an intensity of ideas in Chaurahen, director Rajshree Ojha’s follow up release to Aisha (though this one was shot well before), that should’ve added up into a rhythmic, beautiful lyric – much like the stories of Nirmal Verma on which Chaurahen is based – but their presentations fall short and you’re left with an [...]
Kahaani
Kahaani’s promotions – the teaser with its fluid soul seizing images of Kolkata, that crafty poster of a pregnant Vidya Balan in a Durga avatar, and a simple but fantastic choice of title – were intriguing enough to make anyone want to watch the film. Because they rarely live up to the promise, I’ve always [...]
Paan Singh Tomar
Paan Singh Tomar is the compelling story of an army man who was the steeplechase National record holder and went on to represent India at the Asian Games in Tokyo before personal circumstances forced him to quit and become a dacoit (though he would insist calling himself a baaghi). It has every ingredient to be [...]
London Paris New York
London Paris New York spans (as you might’ve guessed) 3 cities, spread over 7 years during which the protagonists meet for all of 72 hours. Unconventionally it relies solely on two characters (hardly a line is exchanged with anyone else), but at the end of it, LPNY is a conventional film for the genre with [...]
Will You Marry Me?
What is this burning need for comedy in Bollywood, no matter how serious a film turns out to be in the end? Yes, audiences relate to humor but over time it has become a bit of an obligation to coerce comedy – mostly of the asinine variety – into the pre-interval section. Rare is the [...]
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