Cast: Aamir Khan, Asin Thottumkal, Pradeep Rawat, Jiah Khan and othersDirector: A.R. MurugadossRating: **1/2
“Ghajini” is a simple and straightforward revenge story, but Aamir Khan’s bravura performance makes it an extraordinary watch. The film brings back the popular theme of the ’80s and early ’90s - revenge, romance, action and thrill with a nice touch of [...]
Cast: Shah Rukh Khan, Anushka Sharma, Vinay PathakDirector: Aditya ChopraRating: *** 1/2
No larger than life character or lavish sets, over-the-board acting or trademark merchandise - Aditya Chopra’s latest offering “Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi” is an extraordinary love story of an ordinary man and thoroughly entertains the audience.After the record breaking hit “Dilwale Dulhania Le [...]
Director: Dibakar BanerjeeCast: Abhay Deol, Paresh Rawal, Neetu ChandraRating: ***
This is one helluva film about a lucky thief named Lucky who nonchalantly enters Delhi’s well-to-do homes, picks up television sets and sound systems, and walks out in broad daylight.“Oye Lucky…” is a sly, shimmering mirror of a dysfunctional society always craving for more… not knowing [...]
Cast: Mandira Bedi, Eijaz Khan, Anupam Kher, Mahesh Manjrekar and Anil KumbleDirector: Chandrakant KulkarniRating: ***
What do you say about a comedy that brings cricketer Anil Kumble on screen only to go down with hiccups?Every time cricket fan Meera Achrekar (Mandira Bedi) remembers her favourite cricketer, Kumble bursts into hefty hiccups. Just goes to show, you [...]
Cast: Naseeruddin Shah, Paresh Rwal, Neha Dhupia, Boman Irani, Tara Sharma, Om PuriDirector: Shivam NairRating: ***
“Maharathi” is based on Paresh Rawal’s Gujarati play of the same name. The play, a thriller, has been running for the last 21 years and has already had 700 shows so far.Though Rawal himself is the director of the play, [...]
Cast: Irrfan Khan, Soha Ali Khan, Rahul Bose, Rahul Khanna, Konkana Sen Sharma, Payal RohatgiDirector: Anil SeniorRating: **
This happens in many urban homes. But to say that extra-marital affair is only an urban phenomenon is wrong. Anyway, “Dil Kabaddi” is about two young urban couples whose conjugal lives have gone a bit awry and they [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Cast: Salman Khan, Anil Kapoor, Zayed Khan, Katrina KaifDirector: Subhash GhaiRating: ***
Subhash Ghai’s loveliest film in years has a symphonic texture, feel and movement to it. From the opening shots of Katrina Kaif labouring lusciously over the cello to the montage towards the end when Boman Irani, playing a zany surgeon, hops skips and jumps [...]