Category: Hindi

If you look at films like Rockstar and Highway, there is this longing for freedom beyond the conventional right and wrong. Those movies had protagonists who wanted to feel the positive side of not being strangled by orthodox mindsets. The good side of Tamasha is that Imtiaz Ali takes away the tragic angle of those… Continue reading Tamasha

Prem Ratan Dhan Payo is one more reason for you to wonder whether we are back in the 90’s. The other two being the cricket all stars tournament and Lalu Prasad Yadav’s victory in elections. Outdated content is the one simple description that I can give to this Salman Khan starrer. Sooraj Barjatya and his… Continue reading Prem Ratan Dhan Payo

Shaandaar has some really good moments of humor that will really make you laugh out loud and the main reason why that happens is the oozing chemistry of three actors; Shahid Kapoor, Alia Bhatt and Pankaj Kapoor. Unfortunately, Vikas Bahl who gave us that gem named Queen, decides to follow an Aneez Bazmi style in… Continue reading Shaandaar

If you have seen the movie Seven Days, you will know that there is enough scope to be creative if someone is trying to remake it. But when it comes to Jazbaa, the comeback movie of beauty queen Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, there is this desperation from the side of director Sanjay Gupta to plant the… Continue reading Jazbaa

When you compare it with the recent movies of director Prabhudheva, the amount of misogyny in the content of Singh is Bling is really low and the only main attraction of this slapstick comedy would be that achievement. For the first time in my life I saw “story and screenplay” credit being given to a… Continue reading Singh is Bling

You may laugh out loud at some key moments of the film, but still at the end of it all Talvar kind of leaves you in a dilemma about the incapability of our judicial system. Almost everything that is available about the infamous Noida dual murder case gets mentioned in the new Meghna Gulzar movie… Continue reading Talvar

Thought it would be something similar to Shuddh Desi Romance but it ended up somewhere similar to Nikhil Adwani’s own Kal Ho Na Ho (a wannabe KHNH). Katti Batti would have worked on an emotional level if the first 75% of the runtime had that grace to keep us excited. But with a non linear… Continue reading Katti Batti

Well the only actor in the movie Hero who might have felt that I have made a mark for myself in the film would be Vivan Bhatena who portrayed the role of the negative guy with a good on screen charm. The Jackie Shroff version of Hero is one movie you will feel like a… Continue reading Hero