May 182012
 
Movie Review : Department a disappointment

STAR CAST: AMITABH BACHCHAN SANJAY DUTT RANA DAGGUBATI DIRECTION RAM GOPAL VARMA MUSIC: DHARAM SANDEEP Department Earlier we published viewers review and now here is Department movie review by our movie critic. Creativity and old age are mutually exclusive they say, as creativity involves the production of novel, useful products that are historically new and [...]

May 112012
 
Movie Review : Ishaqzaade

If we in India don’t yet have a Society For Prevention Of Cruelty To Actresses, we bloody well should. There is much to admire in Habib Faisal’s new film, but each lovingly crafted nuance is reduced to window-dressing as this alarmingly regressive film first creates a memorably great heroine character, and then misogynistically puts her [...]

May 112012
 
Movie Review : Dark Shadows

Film: Dark Shadows Director: Tim Burton Cast: Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, Michelle Pfeiffer, Eva Green, Bella Heathcote, Jonny Lee Miller, Chloë Moretz, Gulliver McGrath Rating: *** That Barnabas Collins is an 18th century bloodsucking freak who literally returns from beyond the grave after 190 years is of little import to his descendant and head [...]

May 112012
 
Movie Review : The Forest

Film: The Forest Director: Ashvin Kumar Cast: Nandana Sen, Jaaved Jaffery, Ankur Vikal, Saleem Ali Zaidi, Tarun Kumar Rating: ** To describe The Forest in a line, it’d be safe to say it is an 86-minute campaign for the Save The Tiger (and all that lives in the jungles) initiative. The treatment as an ecological [...]

May 112012
 
Movie Review : Dangerous Ishhq

Before the release of Dangerous Ishhq, I had heard that the film is about past life regression. After having watched the film I can confirm that it is indeed about past life regression. I can also confirm that the regression here is not confined to past life. It is also a regression into an era [...]

May 052012
 
Movie Review : Fatso is a natural, sweet and tangy

Cast: Ranvir Shorey, Gul Panag, Purab Kohli and Neil Bhoopalam Director: Rajat Kapoor Some fine actors, who know how to look at home even when placed in outlandish circumstances, carry this quaint tale of love, death, separation, resurrection and reparation to the level of a fairly engaging comedy. Films about near-death and after-life have a [...]

May 042012
 
Movie Review : Jannat 2

All through ‘Jannat 2’, it seems as if Nicolas Cage’s ‘Lord of War’ is present somewhere in the background. The film revolves around the hitherto unexplored-in-Bollywood territory of arms trafficking, and doesn’t qualify as anything but absolutely average. Emraan Hashmi is seen as Sonu Dilli KKC, i.e., Kutti Kameeni Cheez, and is as tepid in [...]