The drama of passionSaturday, May 18, 2013,09:21:19 AM
It’s 1962 Moscow. A young Soviet army soldier, handsome in formal dress uniform, peers into the camera and smiles engagingly as he poses against a sparkling black limo.....
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Laugh at the walking deadSunday, May 12, 2013,06:11:51 PM
Finally. Zombies! It’s about time the general Indian population was alerted about the possibility of a post-apocalyptic world, where the dead walk and feast upon the living and bring them into their fold. I should admit that I’m a huge fan of the ....
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Student of the yearSunday, May 12, 2013,06:11:51 PM
Class 9. You’re fat. You’re insecure. You think you can dance. But you trip and fall. A lot. The mirror is your best friend. Time stands still when you’re in front of it. The reflection is your world. Only when you look away does time fast forward to the present, and you feel like a fool. ....
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Caste AwaySunday, May 12, 2013,06:11:51 PM
Don’t go by the title of the film; it is deliberately misleading. Kokanastha is not jingoistic as is impressed upon by the Brahmin supremacist title and the film’s poster depicting a khaki shorts-clad, lathiwielding RSS superman Khedekar. ....
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Four Shorts, One Great FilmSunday, May 05, 2013,09:09:59 AM
Amitabh Bachchan is in Bombay Talkies. Katrina Kaif is in it too. So are Randeep Hooda, Saqib Saleem, Ranvir Shorey, and Nawazuddin Siddiqui. And yet the promotion of the film is done on the strength of the directors’ names alone: Karan Johar, Dibakar Banerjee, Zoya Akhtar, and Anurag Kashyap.....
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Scoot out of the theatreSunday, May 05, 2013,09:09:59 AM
A scene from Shootout at Wadala released on the internet even before the film opened in theaters. In it, Manya Surve and his gang sit at a restaurant table and dissect the word ‘b****c**d’: it’s universality, moods, and interpretation across cultures. This is a very Tarantino-esque aside and it....
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Retro CocktailSunday, April 28, 2013,06:48:31 PM
An alcoholic rockstar rarely in control of his actions, a culturally-rooted girl who sings at bars and aspires to be Lata. An innocent resolve to guide that snowballs into a torrid affair. Love. Addiction. Tears. Karma. Sacrifice. Music. Music, above all else. This, in a nutshell, is Aashiqui 2: freshly....
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Another grim taleSunday, April 28, 2013,06:48:24 PM
The mocking title says it all. Based on the best-selling novel by Columbian author Santiago Gamboa — Perder Es Cuestión De Método, director Sergio Cabrera uses the genre and the racy narrative of the detective thriller to effectively satirise about a corrupt violence-ridden society where....
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It's witches with hitches Sunday, April 21, 2013,08:41:37 AM
Producers Ekta Kapoor and Vishal Bhardwaj’s take on Mukul Sharma’s short story is bit of a genre bender. Ek Thi Daayan strays from the conventional, formulaic, horror. Best to read the film, then, as a drama consisting spooky elements, with suspense and songs thrown in for good measure.....
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Flawed but FunnySunday, April 14, 2013,09:28:00 AM
Director Rohan Sippy remakes the French film Après Vous and upgrades it for Bollywood, ushering in smart choices and changes. Gone is the Paris-restaurantwaiter setup and replaced with the Bombay-theater-actor world. And while the level of humour remains intact, some of the....
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Some Brawn, No BrainSunday, April 14, 2013,09:28:00 AM
In the high-octane but tacky intro, Commando Karanvir Singh (Vidyut Jamwal) is taken prisoner by the Chinese on the pretext of being a spy and put through a year of torture. In the meantime, the political muscle in India decides to disown the soldier because it is now a game of international machinations.....
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Read between the linesSunday, April 07, 2013,09:33:38 AM
You’re led to believe there’s only a small difference, one of a letter. Sai Paranjpye’s Chashme Buddoor comes a ‘u’, David Dhawan’s reinterpretation, with an ‘a’. With both films (re-) releasing on the same day, who knows, you might even walk into the wrong screening. To prevent such a thing....
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Killing him softlySaturday, April 06, 2013,08:54:01 AM
Nothing can go wrong, the protagonist assures his girlfriend but how things can go horribly wrong just within quick, short minutes to be replayed forever is what Revanche is all about. In the hands of someone less sensitive, this bleak tale of ....
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Takes Himmat to endure thisSunday, March 31, 2013,11:07:15 AM
Even though somewhere on the poster it says “the 80s are back”, the real tagline of Himmatwala is “A Sajid Khan Entertainer”. It seems even Khan has relented that his piece of work does not deserve to be called a film.....
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Apt politics of humourSunday, March 31, 2013,11:07:15 AM
When Sachin Khedekar and Mahesh Manjrekar come together, they make immediate news — and very often, jingling box office history too. This time they come together as proverbial political opponents — minister versus bureaucrats ....
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Joe Bole So NihalFriday, March 29, 2013,08:21:52 AM
This summer’s formula juggernaut rolls on with the next movie releasing today, GI Joe: Retaliation. I’m not sure if kids in India play with GI Joe dolls (ha!) any more, but they were 20 years ago and I wonder if those in their 30s are up for some nostalgia. ....
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Friendship BluesSunday, March 24, 2013,08:31:03 AM
Remake of the Tamil (and Telugu, Malayalam, and Kannada) Naadodigal, Rangrezz is an old-fashioned, lower-middle class tale that homogenises themes of friendship, love, loyalty, and the great chasm between parents and children when it comes to the former’s marriage. ....
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Quintessential TarantinoFriday, March 22, 2013,07:29:42 AM
It’s no secret that Quentin Tarantino’s work is mostly derivative. From Blaxploitation themes in Jackie Brown to the not-so-subtle grindhouse/Japanese action elements of Kill Bill, QT has never held back from taking an idea (or a shot composition or a piece of music, anything really) and making it his....
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It is important to pay attention early on in Aurangzeb as it kicks off with Rishi Kapoor’s voiceover. He introduces his “business” as a top cop and the roll of characters that are to play a part in this complex, intelligent plot that holds the promise of a taut thriller about power and money. At a thematic....
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