Blood Feud: Rating: Two Stars Remaking a 2010 Telugu film has its share of problems–mainly the dated subject and old-fashioned style of filmmaking. Deva Katta had also directed the original,…
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Law vs Justice: Rating: Two stars It is barely a few months that the #MeToo storm hit India, and the backlash begins– to use the word writer Susan Faludi employed…
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Lonely Hearts Club: Rating: Three stars The novelty in Raaj Shaandilyaa’s film is that Dream Girl is a man. Otherwise, the idea of lonely men confiding in a woman’s voice…
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Losers’ Game: Rating: Three stars As a those-were-the-days trip, Nitesh Tiwari’s Chhichhore has its moments of youthful exuberance—though the sight of a bunch of boys in their briefs running about…
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Women United: Mainstream Bollywood movies tend either glamorize the hooker, or use the character to generate melodrama. In the cinema of the past, she was either waiting for the noble…
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Epic Bore: Rating: Two stars It would be a challenge to encapsulate the plot of Saaho in a couple of lines, because it wouldn’t stretch that long. The Sujeeth film,…
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Rocket Science For Dummies Rating: *** When there are budget problems in the Mars Orbiter Mission undertaken by an ISRO scientist on a dare — because a NASA snob said it…
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Trigger Unhappy: Rating: *** Delhi police could not have got a better PR job if they had actually commissioned Batla House. However, in the best stranger-than-fiction mode, Nikkhil Advani’s film is…
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Land Of Half Lives: News footage coming out of Kashmir is full of violence, and soldiers watching over an uneasy calm that could blow up in their faces if…
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Bihari Blues: Rating: * 1/2 Only in a crazily patriarchal and lawless society like Bihar could the system of ‘pakadwa shaadi’ even exist, under which eligible men are kidnapped and…