Movie Review : Maatr
Maatr Cast: Raveena Tandon, Anurag Arora Director: Ashtar Sayed When a top politician refers to Raveena Tandon’s character and says, “Aurat hai... kya kar legi (She’s a woman... what can she do?),” we know he will soon have to eat his words. After...
Movie Review : Noor
Noor Director: Sunhil Sippy Cast: Sonakshi Sinha, Purab Kohli, Kanan Gill Sonakshi Sinha’s Noor is the story of a young journalist who covers small stories but aspires to bring “real stories” to the light. It is an adaptation of Saba Kazmi’s critically...
Begum Jaan : Too laud to handle!
Begum Jaan opens on a strong note. In present day Delhi, some thugs are ruthlessly violating a woman. But in one altering moment they are shamed instead. Writer-director SrijitMukherji makes a point about how women have had to harness the...
Movie Review: Mirza Juuliet
Mirza Juuliet Cast: Darshan Kumaar, Pia Bajpai and Chandan Roy Sanyal Director: Rajesh Ram Singh More than midway into the turbulent take on the destiny of star-crossed lovers on the run, the Uttar Pradesh ki Juliet aka Julie, who has been...
Movie Review : Naam Shabana
Naam Shabana Director: Shivam Nair Cast: Taapsee Pannu, Akshay Kumar, Anupam Kher, Manoj Bajpayee With Naam Shabana, director Neeraj Pandey passes the baton to Shivam Nair for the spinoff of his earlier flick Baby. While Neeraj has written the story, he...
Movie Review : Phillauri
Phillauri Director:Anshai Lal Cast: Anushka Sharma, Diljit Dosanjh, Surah Sharma, Mehreen Peerzada Phillauri, the second production venture of Anushka Sharma, hits screens on Friday. With a “friendly ghost” aka Anushka in the film, it is a fresh take on love stories. Anshai...
Badrinath Ki Dulhania : Alia steals the show again!
Badrinath Ki Dulhania begins as a cute sweet love story between a Jhansi boy and a Kota girl, but the director understands the current tide of films that celebrate powerful, liberated women, so it transforms into a progressive story before...
Movie Review : Jolly LLB 2
Jolly LLB 2 Cast: Akshay Kumar, Annu Kapoor, Huma Qureshi, Saurabh Shukla Director: Subhash Kapoor There is a real world outside Bollywood courtrooms where a common man can’t differentiate between a corrupt judicial system and a fraudulent police administration. And this...
Movie Review: Baghtos Kay… Mujra Kar!
Baghtos Kay… Mujra Kar! Director: Hemant Dhome Cast: Jitendra Joshi, Aniket Vishwasrao, Akshay Tanksale, Hemant Dhome, Ashwini Kalsekar, Vikram Gokhale A fort in ruins, a proud village at its foothills and politics over its development -- all under the common emblem of...
Movie Review : Dangal
Dangal Cast: Aamir Khan, Sakshi Tanwar, Fatima Sana Shaikh, Girish Kulkarni, Aparshakti Khurrana, Sanya Malhotra Director: Nitesh Tiwari The 2010 Commonwealth Games are years away. Geeta Phogat (Zaira Wasim, Fatima Sana Shaikh) has just returned to Balali, her village in Haryana, after months...
Movie Review: Rock On 2
Rock On 2 Cast: Farhan Akhtar, Arjun Rampal, Shraddha Kapoor Director: Shujaat Saudagar Eight years after Rock On went on to win hearts and awards, its sequel, Rock On 2, which is a far better film than what its trailers suggest, could follow...
Movie Review : Mirzya
Mirzya Cast: Harshvardhan Kapoor, Saiyami Kher, Anuj Choudhary Director: Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra “Et tu, Brute! (You too, Brutus),” says a would-be-bride’s drunk father. But the woman is far from reconciling and a silent war brews between them. Neither is the winner and the...
Movie Review : MS Dhoni The Untold Story
MS Dhoni The Untold Story Cast: Sushant Singh Rajput, Disha Patani, Kiara Advani Director: Neeraj Pandey When India is reeling at 114 for 3 against Sri Lanka in the cricket world cup final of 2011, a man decides to take charge of...
Movie Review : Banjo
Banjo Direction: Ravi Jadhav Actors: Riteish Deshmukh, Nargis Fakhri, Aditya Kumar, Dharmesh Yelande, Ram Menon Somewhere inside Banjo is a sweet, spirited film about a band of slumdog musicians. You can see it in the innovative way in which director Ravi Jadhav...
Movie Review : Parched
Parched Direction: Leena Yadav Actors: Radhika Apte, Tannishtha Chatterjee, Adil Hussain, Surveen Chawla The best thing about Parched is that it dispels any notions you might have about rural Indian women being prudes. Rani, Lajjo and Bijli are raunchier than most...
Movie Review : Wah Taj
Wah Taj Director: Ajit Sinha Cast: Shreyas Talpade, Manjari Phadnis A social worker will spot a huge bindi and wear well-pleated sarees, politicians are all about giving fire to chaos till they can use it to their own benefit, cops don’t...
Movie Review : Raaz Reboot
Raaz Reboot Cast: Emraan Hashmi, Kriti Kharbanda, Gaurav Arora Director: Vikram Bhatt You think only human beings face morality crisis? Well, ghosts too have emotions and respect the unsaid social mores. At least, the non-judgmental one in director Vikram Bhatt’s Raaz...
Movie Review : Pink
Pink Cast: Taapsee Pannu, Kirti Kulhari, Andrea Tariang, Amitabh Bachchan, Angad Bedi Director: Aniruddha Roy Chowdhury Two cars are moving in two different directions. Each has three passengers - the first one has girls and the second is being driven by boys....
Movie Review : Baar Baar Dekho review
Baar Baar Dekho Cast: Sidharth Malhotra, Katrina Kaif Director: Nitya Mehra You wake up and realise that it’s going be the last day of your life. You look back at it and regret the moments you missed in search of a...
Movie Review : Freaky Ali
Freaky Ali Director: Sohail Khan Cast: Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Amy Jackson, Arbaaz Khan, Seema Biswas, Jas Arora, Nikitan Dheer In the game of golf, albatross is a score where the player sinks his ball into the cup ‘three strokes below the par’...
Movie Review: Akira
Akira Cast: Sonakshi Sinha, Anurag Kashyap, Konkona Sensharma Director: AR Murugadoss Director AR Murugadoss’ third film after Ghajini and Holiday is an attempt to establish Akira as the new Shiva, the excellent student protagonist in Ram Gopal Varma’s 1989 film. But a lousy...
