Among the south girls making their debut in Bollywood, the spotlight has been on Asin and her Ghajani.
The way the media has been going ga-ga over her has given the impression that she is going to be the next big star in Mumbai’s tinsel town.
But, before Asin makes a splash on Christmas [...]
Cast: Vinay Pathak, Neha Dhupia, Ranvir Shorey, Sarita Joshi and Gaurav GeraDirector: Shashant SinghRating: ***
There’s something to be said about this sensitive slice-of-life cinema. And it’s this. You really can’t keep a good man down.Returning to the ambit of the dull working-class protagonist that he almost patented in “Bheja Fry”, Vinay Pathak delivers yet another [...]
Director: Tarun MansukhaniCast: Abhishek Bachchan, John Abraham, Priyanka Chopra, Kirron Kher, Boman IraniRating: **1/2
Get this straight. Abhishek Bachchan and John Abraham are not gay. They are just happy pretending to be bed partners. In the endeavour, they pull out all stops and get into the gay zone with a gusto that stumps all moralists.There are [...]
Director: Saurabh KabraCast: Sanjay Dutt, Urmila Matondkar, Arjun Rampal, Malaika Arora, Ashish Chowdhary, Neha OberoiRating: **
You have to salute the Sanjay Dutt-Urmila Matondkar dinner on the dock in the second-half of this socially relevant in parts, emotionally elevating morality tale where Sanjay’s gloriously goofy and endearing character proposes to the object of his adoration.The sequence [...]
Cast: Sonu Sood, Eesha Koppikhar, Alok Nath, Smita Jaykar, Vishal MalhotraDirector: Kaushik GhatakRating: * 1/2
Nobility as a quality in cinema seems almost the hallmark of Sooraj Barjatya’s cinema. Specially during these times of stress cynicism and violence, any film that doesn’t belch out venomous fumes is worthy of applause.But wait. Before we cheer “Ek Vivaah… [...]
Cast: Ajay Devgan, Kareena Kapoor, Tusshar Kapoor, Anjana Sukhani, Arshad Warsi, Amrita Arora, Shreyas Talpade and Celina JaitleyDirector: Rohit ShettyRating: *
The sequel to the successful “Golmaal” is filled with in-house jokes - for instance when Ajay Devgan weaves the titles of his films into the dialogues. Or the hilarious takeoff by that talented Ashwini Kalsekar [...]
Director: Madhur BhandarkarCast: Priyanka Chopra, Kangana Ranaut, Mugdha Godse, Samir Soni, Arjan BajwaRating: ****
Somewhere in the second-half of the heartrending evocation of the tragedy that underscores the glamour of the fashion world, all dialogues cease, as Madhur Bhandarkar, in his inimitable style, records Priyanka Chopra’s character’s descent into hell.It’s as though the music and the [...]
Film: “Heroes”Director: Samir KarnikCast: Sunny Deol, Bobby Deol, Salman Khan, Preity Zinta, Mithun Chakraborty, Dino Morea, Sohail Khan, Vatsal ShethRating: ****
Not since Rakeysh Mehra’s “Rang De Basanti” have we seen a film so inspiring. Portions of “Heroes” are pure genius, sparkling with the unshed tears of a mother whose child dies before she can hold [...]
Film: “Roadside Romeo” (animation)Director: Jugal HansrajCast: Voices of Kareena Kapoor, Saif Ali Khan, Javed JaffreyRating: **
‘Oh Romeo Romeo, wherefore art thou?’ Forget Shakespeare and all his spin-offs. “Roadside Romeo” is the coolest wham. What’s it about? Well, it’s a bout of a pout and a bit of a kick, a whacky romance between two savvy [...]
Film: “Shoot On Sight”Cast: Naseeruddin Shah, Om Puri, Greta Scacchi, Gulshan Grover, Mikaal ZulfikarDirector: Jagmohan Mundhra; Rating: ***
“Shoot On Sight” works as a wake-up call for those slumbering in their bourgeois belief that terrorism is as far away from home as Osama Bin Laden is from the US.It’s a frightening piece of fiction laced with [...]