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Movie review: Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Huma Qureishi steal the show in 'Shorts'
While all the films didn’t work for me, it’s nice to see people actually trying to make films that are different, to see actors who can act and don’t tom-tom the fact that they didn’t wear makeup.
Movie Review: Cancel the apocalypse, 'Pacific Rim' is here
Pacific Rim is one of the few movies this year that delivers exactly what it has promised – chills, frills and loads of thrills.
It's time for the Annual Bollywood Circle Jerk, aka the IIFAs
When Bollywood wants to find out what people-they-usually-don’t-give-much-of-a-crap about are doing with their lives, they ask some poor sponsor to spend millions on an award show.
Movie Review: Man of Steel has the best Superman ever, but is no fun
Man of Steel thrives on the philosophy of self-serious popcorn flicks: ‘Weee! Who cares about character development when we get to DESTROY THINGS!’
Movie Review: 'After Earth' is not as bad as they’re all saying it is
Go with no expectations, and you may even come out liking the film.
Mothers and sisters, rejoice: Rice to Riches is here
Indians cooking homestyle Indian food instead of struggling with pizza- now that's a radical concept for a cooking show. Rice to Riches promises to be a different kind of cooking show. Except it seems only women can be home cooks in India.
DID Supermoms shows you the real Indian bahu
Out of all the trash programmes that you see on Indian reality television and entertainment TV which show women in the most regressive manner possible, this is the one show which stands apart.
Movie Review: The Hangover III is best watched when drunk
The problem with Hangover III is there’s not enough action in the film for an action flick, and for a comedy, there’s not enough comedy.
Movie Review: The Great Gatsby is the most Bollywood of Baz Luhrmann's films
The great American dream is an integral part of America. It’s ‘great’ in that it symbolises not truth, but hope when the truth is disillusioning; it symbolises not facts, but ideals when facts are unnerving; it symbolises not likelihood, but promise when likelihood is all but bleak.
Star Trek Into Darkness is a perfectly adequate popcorn film
Star Trek Into Darkness is a perfectly adequate summer blockbuster film. It is impeccably tailored to please both the Trekkies and the non-geeks, genre lovers as well as the average moviegoer.
Movie Review: Why Shootout at Wadala is a new low in Hindi cinema
While Indian cinema celebrates its 100th year with a cinematic offering in the best traditions of Indian movies with Bombay Talkies, the same weekend saw the release of another film — the Sanjay Gupta-directed Shootout at Wadala – which amply demonstrates the depths which our cinema can also sink to.
Movie review: Mud is a film with heart, a hunk and a lovable teenager
Here are five reasons why you should watch Mud.
Movie Review: Iron Man 3 is both a hit and a miss
Iron Man 3 is a fun but bumpy ride, and having come after The Avengers, which is possibly the most perfect summer blockbuster film ever, you can’t help but feel slightly dissatisfied.
Witches have every reason to be upset about Ek thi Daayan
What Wiccan priestess Ipsita Roy Chakravarti should have put her foot down about is how her ilk could be done in by someone as charmless and psychologically troubled as Bobo the Baffler.
Movie review: The Croods is fun in a family pack
It's like a mash-up of Journey to the Center of the Earth and Ice Age, and you'll love the joyride that The Croods take. Who'd have thought Nicholas Cage as a Neanderthal daddy could be so much fun?
Movie Review: Oblivion digs a black hole for itself
Despite an impressive cast, Tom Cruise's latest attempt to squash bad guys is confused and soulless.
Movie review: Watch Nautanki Saala for the gags, not the script
An excellent soundtrack and solid performances by Ayushmann Khurrana and Kunaal Roy Kapoor make the film worth a watch.
The six no-balls of the IPL Opening Ceremony
When the IPL opening ceremony began the young woman flying over the crowds on helium balloons looked like she had got the hardship posting. By the end you realised she had the best gig - she could make a quick escape.
Movie Review: Nobody can save G.I. Joe Retaliation from itself
It's got big stars and it's a Hollywood action movie. How bad could G.I. Joe: Redemption be? Let's put it this way. If you gave a pencil to a monkey, it probably would have written a better script.
Movie Review: Django Unchained is an out-and-out masala potboiler
Django Unchained is as close as Tarantino’s ever going to come to Bollywood, unless he casts Salman Khan himself in his next. But it is unlike any Tarantino film before and yet it’s classic Tarantino.
Manto's review of PC Barua's Zindagi
this is the only film review Manto ever wrote. The film is called Zindagi and it stars Saigal singing some of his biggest hits, 'So ja rajkumari' and 'Main kya janu kya jadu hai'.
Masterchef Kitchen Ke Superstar marries Chitrahaar and sob stories
Masterchef Kitchen Ke Superstar has everything - sad stories, filmi songs, a who's the most handsome judge poll, bright sets. Everything except enough cooking and food.
Oscar Awards: No more just an American film awards show
Hardly any of the films were straight-forward "American" this year at the Oscars.
Top ten nightmares from the Filmfare awards
From vanishing hosts to Michael Jackson noses to white tuxes, the Filmfare awards gave Rajyasree Sen plenty of reasons to be have nightmares galore. Here are her top ten.
Downton Abbey: Why the bonnets 'n waistcoats period works
Producers in the UK, and BBC in particular, have always been obliging and impeccable in their delivery of the Period drama duly injected with romance, intrigue, conspiracies, village politics and the oft-mandatory bloody murder.
Movie Review: Midnight's Children is a stunning mess
For the brave attempt and the fabulous ensemble cast, the movie warrants a singular visit to the theaters, but unlike the novel or the momentous date it is built on, the movie won’t be making it to the history books.
Emotional Atyachaar is trash TV at its best
If we suspect our partners, we should check their cars. That's what Rajyasree Sen learned from watching the new season of Emotional Atyachaar.
The SRK example: Why Indian Muslims can't criticise India
Like children who need a pacifier, the Muslim offering opinion on prejudice must hold out this lollipop to Indians whose natural view of him is coloured by his religion.
Mostly, we hardly meet: Kiron Kher is brutally frank about Anupam
In a 'marriage of opposites' Kiron Kher talks about her choices and life with Anupam Kher. She doesn't mince words and tells it like it is - the up and down of marriage, growing apart, rivalry, all of it.
Beware Inkaar: How NOT to do a film about sexual harassment
If ever there was a worse advertisement for women who’ve broken through the glass ceiling, it is Sudhir Mishra’s Inkaar. It's a sad day when Karan Johar and Abbas-Mustan depict women better than Sudhir Mishra.